Reminiscent of a great opening act, my introduction to Miuccia Prada was rather unorthodox. It happened ten years ago during the first Berlin Biennale – which I co-curated with Klaus Biesenbach and Nancy Spector. We were meandering around when we came across one of Carsten Hööller’s giant slides. She handed me her handbag and jumped straight on, that’s how we met for the first time. I spent the rest of the evening trying to find her to return her bag.
The French artist Francis Picabia said that our head is round-shaped because it allows us to change directions. So maybe there is a Picabia dimension in that. You collected artists like Damien Hirst and Carsten Höller very early. They weren’t yet famous international artists. You don’t wait for a thing to be confirmed by anyone else.
No, no, no... It has to be considered from many different points of view. One point is that politics is always something that is very serious, either you do it or you don’t do it, and to be just an opinionist – I hate that. To be an opinionist as a rich fashion designer, I think is the worst possible thing to be!
When I started in the art world in the 80s it was still very much about the west. Ever since the 80s, it was, and is, key to create more awareness for non-western art: China, India, the Middle East. I was wondering if that affected you, if in a way you had inspirations or contact zones with non-western influences?
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