Sarah's career can best be described as a bold
Sarah Belden is an art curator, advisor, and dealer. Sarah's career Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf can best be described as a bold. Sarah, at the beginning of her twenties left her teaching job.
Director of a renowned contemporary art gallery in Chelsea, NYC to move to Berlin and establish her own gallery, Curators without Borders.
platform for experimentation in curatorial design.
In order to fund the gallery, Sarah secured a financial Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf supporter -- a prominent collector from NYC -- and regularly curated exhibitions that were both elegant and sophisticated.
and cutting-edge even by Berlin's uber-conceptual standards. Sarah was the curator of shows that showcased young artists.
They have since been able to go to be praised by the press.
Invisible Invincible is one of Sarah's most controversial exhibits. Sarah included a Polish artist Agnieszka Karant's work -- an actual bird which was saved from a zoo.
He was taught to say, "I am not bird," which led him to Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf question his own existence. Kurant was later asked by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to design The
End of Signature, a digital interactive art installation projected on the facade of the museum which the Guggenheim later acquired to add to its permanent collection.
The gallery was reluctant to experiment with unknown Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf artists and let them explore new methods. This led to a less interesting program.
They are easier to sell than traditional white cube galleries. This made Sarah's job as a dealer more difficult, but it also cement Sarah's position in the market.
Berlin art scene as a young curator and galleryist.
Sarah also displayed Daniel Knorr (Romania's representative at the 51st Venice Biennale), and two young Canadians in Curators Without Borders
artists such as Jeremy Shaw and Michel de Broin, who received the prestigious Sobey Art Award and have since shown at major galleries and museums
For example, for instance, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Sarah organized a live performance called Opening and Closing by David Levine, a cross-disciplinarian artist. Levine
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SB: As you know I had to shut down my gallery in Berlin in 2008 after the crash, just like many others. However, there was a silver lining to all of this, however.
The ability to move into Spain together with my husband (we were previously in a long term relationship) I was able to settle in Madrid together with my husband. After he had finished his Ph.D.
He was offered a job in the University of Okayama Japan Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf Halo Leaf and that is why we moved to Japan in 2011. My son was able start nursery school in Japan only after that.
I was able to return to full-time work.
In that moment I felt an urgency to return to the art world. I have always had a desire to curate, work creatively alongside artists, and continually discover.
Studio visits with new talent That's what I love to do. It's one of my favorites.
I also needed to make a living, of course I also had all this international experience, so my goal was to make use of my connections and make use of my past
Experience with building an efficient business model that I have the ability to run my business from Japan or any other location. In retrospect, with the pandemic, and also the
I have discovered this new standard to be remote working and WFH very helpful.