Especially for the ever-busy, visually overloaded 21st-century person, a wonderful invention has been perfected in recent years: the podcast. After a long day of notifications, ads and other hubbub, there's nothing more beneficial than doing laundry with a good story on your head, taking that long train ride home or finishing your cardio workouts at the gym. And the great thing is: it's free too! We put together a list of podcasts that are particularly suitable for art lovers. Close your eyes and just listen!
1. KUNST IS LANG (en het leven is kort)
KUNST IS LANG (en het leven is kort) is a podcast about contemporary visual art, made under the guise of: 'There is a lot of art, but life is too short not to concern yourself with it'. The interview program is from online art magazine Mister Motley in which presenter and program maker Luuk Heezen has an extensive conversation with an artist every week about his latest work, sources of inspiration and motivations. With depth, but without complicated jargon. Guests were, for example, Claudy Jongstra, L.A. Raeven, Marc Bijl and Gabriel Lester.
Can be listened to via the podcast app and Spotify.
2. YOUNG COLLECTORS PODCAST
In series 1, Young Collectors Circle founder Nienke van der Wal shows that buying art is not reserved for the happy few by taking you to special collections of very normal collectors. From buying old masters with your student grant to digital art that actually seems impossible to collect; and from friends building a collection together to young families where all opinions count
In series 2, art critic, curator and writer Hans den Hartog Jager enters the studio with artists to talk about what it means to be an artist, what an artist actually does all day and what an artist studio looks like. A new episode is released every two weeks.
Can be listened to via the podcast app, Spotify and Anchor.
3. Kunsthart
Which artwork makes your heart beat faster? This is the question Ko van 't Hek (of the duo Kunst Kijken with Ko & Kho) asks his guests in Kunsthart. With museum directors to rappers and everyone in between, he talks about what touches them so much in that one work of art.
Can be listened to via the podcast app and Spotify.
4. Kunst Perspectief
Perspectief is a podcast created by Blikopeners, the youngest employees of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Each episode they offer a different look at art and the art world. By means of interviews with artists, conversations with exhibition makers and especially by showing how they view it. The topics vary from Instagram & museums, how to keep a museum exciting as a director and experiences of art students at the art academy.
You can listen to it via the podcast app and Spotify.
5. Radio Kijk
Art is a basic need according to makers Jobbe (OneDayArtist) and Mo (Het Houten Huis). In the podcast Radio Kijk, which they made during the first lockdown, you could still look at art without a museum. They invited guests to choose a work of art that they would look at for longer… and talk about. For the Art & Culture Foundation (Groningen & Drenthe) they made a series of podcasts about creativity in education.
The episodes can be listened back via the podcast app, Soundcloud and Spotify.
This article was updated on October 20, 2021.
Please note: this article has been translated using Google Translate.