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VOICES ON ART - The VAN HORN Gallery Podcast
hosted by Daniela Steinfeld
Talking, thinking, musing,

18/09/2026

My latest Book Pick: Verschwende Deine Jugend — Waste Your Youth — by Jürgen Teipel.

This one is personal.

I was part of this scene in Düsseldorf and I know every single protagonist in this book, including Jürgen himself. So for me, reading it is not about looking back at some legendary moment in German punk and New Wave history. It is about remembering a particular attitude.

Düsseldorf at the time was a strange and fertile mix of music, art, fashion, clubs and people who simply did their own thing. There were no career strategies, no personal brands, no social media telling you what everyone else was doing.

You made something because you wanted it to exist.

That DIY spirit, the individuality, the crossover between music and the art scene — this is what still feels relevant to me today.

And maybe that’s what I like most about the book: it captures a time when youth culture didn’t follow culture. It created it.

Verschwende Deine Jugend by Jürgen Teipel.
My new Book Pick for VOICES ON ART.

published in Germany by Suhrkamp Verlag

11/09/2026

Walter Gehlen, co-Founder and Director of Art Düsseldorf in conversation with Daniela Steinfeld in the new „Voices On Art“ Podcast

In episode 105 of „Voices On Art“, Walter Gehlen reflects on how the right partners, the right story and the right timing are crucial for entrepreneurial success.

We talk about Walter’s personal way, his DIY mindset, but also about the development of Art Düsseldorf, entrepreneurship, galleries and collectors, data and AI.

We both believe, while technology being a great helper, art still needs people in a room together.

VOICES ON ART #105 | Walter Gehlen — Learning by Doing

Now on YouTube @ vanhorngallery and all podcast platforms.

28/08/2026

NEW Voices On Art #105 Walter Gehlen |Founder & Director of Art Düsseldorf

„Learning by Doing“

Art. Art history. Psychiatry. Economics. Professional cooking. Consulting. And then: an art fair.
Walter Gehlen’s path to co-founding and directing Art Düsseldorf was anything but straight.

We talk about learning by doing, staying open to different paths and how seemingly unrelated experiences can become useful much later. About finding your own solutions instead of following existing models — and what it takes to build and constantly rethink an art fair.

Plus AI, data and new technologies — and why, despite all of that, art is about the real experience and still needs people in a room together.
A conversation about curiosity, DIY thinking and not needing to know exactly where things will lead.

My book recommendation for this episode is Verschwende Deine Jugend / Waste Your Youth by Jürgen Teipel. In Germany originally published by Suhrkamp Verlag 2001. There might be an English translation available through Suhrkamp.

I think it’s one of the most important, and interesting, books about the special culture of punk and new wave in Germany in the late 70’s, early 80’s. It’s also part of my personal story. As always you can listen to it at the end of the talk.
 Now on YouTube @ vanhorngallery and all podcast platforms.

Portrait photo Achim Hehn
 

25/08/2026

Voices On Art, Episode 104
with collector Andra Lauffs-Wegner

In this episode of Voices On Art, Andra Lauffs-Wegner and Daniela Steinfeld discuss intuition, passion, artists, galleries, curating, cultural responsibility, why the best decisions often come without a master plan, and why buying art can be one of the most direct ways to support cultural production.

This conversation is about the personal relationship we build with artworks - and how art can shape an entire life.

This episode is in german. It is available wherever you get your podcast and on our YouTube channel vanhorngallery (for other languages use the subtitle tools.)
  -A

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13/08/2026

This episode’s Book Pick is John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Again a book I read several times, the first time when I was about 15.

The novel, set in the Salinas Valley, tells the story of two families over several generations, experiencing love and rivalry, ambition and betrayal, power and inheritance.

Inspired by the story of Cain and Abel, Steinbeck follows men and women whose lives are shaped by the weight previous generations have left behind and what they make of this. There is the question of choice: how much are we determined by where we come from, and how much freedom do we have to develop into our independence selves?

Written more than 70 years ago, East of Eden feels very current. We live in a time of political polarization, powerful family dynasties and inherited influence. Steinbeck reminds us that our background may shape us, but it does not necessarily define us. What matters are the decisions we make.

That might be worth remembering when we think about today becoming tomorrow: knowledge, experience and good judgment must be learned, they cannot be inherited.

A great book to read—or reread—right now.

The cover art is of the first edition published by Viking Press in 1952

06/08/2026

VOICES ON ART Episode 104
Every collection has a beginning.

For Andra Lauffs-Wegner, it wasn’t just the artworks that mattered—it was the people. From Paul Wember to Joseph Beuys, the artists and personalities she met shaped the way she looks at art to this day.

Listen 👂 or watch 👀 the full conversation on our YouTube channel vanhorngallery and any platform where you get your podcasts

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28/07/2026

🌻NEW Voices On Art, Episode 104
Collecting on Her Own Terms | Andra Lauffs-Wegner
What makes someone dedicate decades to collecting contemporary art?

In this episode of Voices On Art, collector Andra Lauffs-Wegner talks about growing up with art, buying with emotion rather than investment in mind, and how a private collection gradually became the public exhibition space KAT-A in Rhöndorf, Germany.

We discuss intuition, passion, artists, galleries, curating, cultural responsibility, why the best decisions often come without a master plan, and why buying art can be one of the most direct ways to support cultural production.

This conversation is less about the art market than about the personal relationship we build with artworks - and how art can shape an entire life.

This new episode is in german. It is available wherever you get your podcast and on our YouTube channel vanhorngallery (for other languages use the subtitle tools.)

-A Portrait photo by Sabrina Rothe

23/07/2026

Darren Flook was since his teenage years rather a Fan, than the Frontman. He started making art, because he loved art and never lost the heart of being a fan and admirer of great art. He wants to hear other peoples voices and create a platform for that

This is episode 103 of Voices On Art with Darren Flook
Gallerist, curator and writer, London

Darren talks about how art being his escape, his way into the art world and the true value of art, beyond its market value.

In this deeply personal conversation
Darren speaks openly about addiction, getting sober, changing the way he sees art, life, and himself.

Darren Flook

03/06/2026

Book pick: Siddharta by Hermann Hesse - a book about growth and becoming yourself

When listening again to this Voices On Art Episode with Darren Flook, I had to think about a book that was written more than 100 years ago by Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse.
Siddharta, here in the 1974 version, published by Suhrkamp
I read it as a teenager of 12/13 years and it was really life changing for me. An eye opener on the potentials of being human.
Siddharta is spiritual tale placed in ancient India, but ultimately it’s a novel about growth, transformation and becoming yourself. The main character goes through ambition, pleasure, success, loss and even fatherhood before realizing that real wisdom cannot be taught — it has to be lived - which makes the book still so relevant today.
In the foreword it says:
„This legend of a young person breaking free from family and social conventions to lead an independent life reflects the realisation that consciousness cannot be passed on through teachings, but can only be acquired through one’s own experience.
In this work, Hesse sought to explore what lies at the source of all denominations, what transcends all national differences, and what can be believed by every ethnic group and every individual.“

Those are the common human things we need more than ever today.
It’s a great read and an universal novel.
Enjoy.-

# HermannHesse

28/05/2026

Voices On Art with Darren Flook

„The possibility that something could happen“
Darren Flook on failure and success in the art world and his own life

In episode 103 of „Voices On Art“
gallerist, curator and writer Darren Flook talks about how art became his way of escape, his way into the art world and the true value of art, beyond its market value.

In this deeply personal conversation
Darren speaks openly about addiction, getting sober, changing the way he sees art, life, and himself.

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