Advisory Board 2015-16
LUTZ BECKER
Artist, filmmaker, curator, London
Originally from Berlin and currently living and working in London, Lutz Becker is director/producer of political and art documentaries including Double Headed Eagle, Lion of Judah and Vita Futurista, as well as TV productions such as Nuremberg in History. His own video works are strongly influenced by musique concrete and electronic music that explores synthetic tonalities and sound structures. His work has been shown internationally, most recently at the first Kiev Biennale in 2012 with the video installation The Scream. Due to his expertise in Russian Constructivism and Italian Futurism, he has collaborated on exhibitions with Tate Modern, the State Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, among others. Lutz is currently preparing the reconstruction of Sergei Eisenstein’s film Que viva Mexico.
Artist, filmmaker, curator, London
Originally from Berlin and currently living and working in London, Lutz Becker is director/producer of political and art documentaries including Double Headed Eagle, Lion of Judah and Vita Futurista, as well as TV productions such as Nuremberg in History. His own video works are strongly influenced by musique concrete and electronic music that explores synthetic tonalities and sound structures. His work has been shown internationally, most recently at the first Kiev Biennale in 2012 with the video installation The Scream. Due to his expertise in Russian Constructivism and Italian Futurism, he has collaborated on exhibitions with Tate Modern, the State Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, among others. Lutz is currently preparing the reconstruction of Sergei Eisenstein’s film Que viva Mexico.
Raman Frey
Entrepreneur, writer, San Francisco
Raman Frey is the founder of Good People Dinners, a supper club that fosters community, trust and friendship through food, drink and conversation. He was the co-founder of Frey Norris Gallery, a “micro-multinational” art gallery in San Francisco, in operation from 2002 to 2012. He served in the Arts Member Lead Forum of the Commonwealth Club, co-founded Epicenter Arts and served on the board of The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from 2008 to 2013. More recently Raman worked in a variety of marketing, strategy and sales positions across a range of technology companies. Raman is currently co-authoring the business book Bigger Pie: Rise Above the Zero Sum Game with his friend Arjun dev Arora, founder of ReTargeter. Raman expresses his thoughts on art, family, community and technology regularly on his blog.
Entrepreneur, writer, San Francisco
Raman Frey is the founder of Good People Dinners, a supper club that fosters community, trust and friendship through food, drink and conversation. He was the co-founder of Frey Norris Gallery, a “micro-multinational” art gallery in San Francisco, in operation from 2002 to 2012. He served in the Arts Member Lead Forum of the Commonwealth Club, co-founded Epicenter Arts and served on the board of The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from 2008 to 2013. More recently Raman worked in a variety of marketing, strategy and sales positions across a range of technology companies. Raman is currently co-authoring the business book Bigger Pie: Rise Above the Zero Sum Game with his friend Arjun dev Arora, founder of ReTargeter. Raman expresses his thoughts on art, family, community and technology regularly on his blog.
Dr. Gaby Hartel
Arts journalist, curator, translator, Berlin
Berlin-based Gaby Hartel works at the intersection of the visual arts, literature, sound art and science. She is a scholar, essayist, curator, cultural journalist and award-winning broadcaster and has written extensively for international publications including Centre Pompidou’s New Media Department. Gaby is a renowned Beckett scholar and an associate member of the Beckett International Foundation, Reading (UK). Currently, she is translating Beckett’s unpublished German Diaries into German. Gaby has taught in Germany and abroad. As a curator, she has worked on exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Wien, ZKM Karlsruhe, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Akademie der Künste in Berlin, among others. Currently, she is a curator for sound art in PAN: Perspectives on Nature at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, a pilot project for new approaches to science museums.
Arts journalist, curator, translator, Berlin
Berlin-based Gaby Hartel works at the intersection of the visual arts, literature, sound art and science. She is a scholar, essayist, curator, cultural journalist and award-winning broadcaster and has written extensively for international publications including Centre Pompidou’s New Media Department. Gaby is a renowned Beckett scholar and an associate member of the Beckett International Foundation, Reading (UK). Currently, she is translating Beckett’s unpublished German Diaries into German. Gaby has taught in Germany and abroad. As a curator, she has worked on exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Wien, ZKM Karlsruhe, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Akademie der Künste in Berlin, among others. Currently, she is a curator for sound art in PAN: Perspectives on Nature at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, a pilot project for new approaches to science museums.
Michael Heim
Architect, designer, Berlin
Michael Heim studied architecture in Dresden, Barcelona and at the Technical University in Berlin. For five years he held a leading design position at Studio Daniel Libeskind (Berlin/Bern/New York) and was responsible for several international projects, including the courtyard roof of the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Since the 90’s Michael has dedicated his practice to experimental design concepts and, as designer and curator, realized a number of installations and art exhibitions. His approach engages with fundamental questions on the efficiency of spatial design in everyday use, particularly the appropriation of space using flexible design. In 2006 he co-founded the architectural practice Heim Balp Architekten and has since executed projects throughout Europe. Currently, he is building a cultural center in Berlin-Wedding, which will house two art collections and a temporary exhibition space.
Architect, designer, Berlin
Michael Heim studied architecture in Dresden, Barcelona and at the Technical University in Berlin. For five years he held a leading design position at Studio Daniel Libeskind (Berlin/Bern/New York) and was responsible for several international projects, including the courtyard roof of the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Since the 90’s Michael has dedicated his practice to experimental design concepts and, as designer and curator, realized a number of installations and art exhibitions. His approach engages with fundamental questions on the efficiency of spatial design in everyday use, particularly the appropriation of space using flexible design. In 2006 he co-founded the architectural practice Heim Balp Architekten and has since executed projects throughout Europe. Currently, he is building a cultural center in Berlin-Wedding, which will house two art collections and a temporary exhibition space.
Dr. Konstantinos Katsikopoulos
Scientist, arts enthusiast, Berlin
Konstantinos Katsikopoulos studied cognitive psychology and applied mathematics and obtained a Ph.D. in operations research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was a visiting assistant professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the Max Planck Institute, he has an associate professorship and serves as the deputy director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition. Konstantinos works on the integration of standard decision theory with the simple rules of thumb that people use and pursues relevant applications in economics, management and health. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Judgment and Decision Making.
Scientist, arts enthusiast, Berlin
Konstantinos Katsikopoulos studied cognitive psychology and applied mathematics and obtained a Ph.D. in operations research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was a visiting assistant professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the Max Planck Institute, he has an associate professorship and serves as the deputy director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition. Konstantinos works on the integration of standard decision theory with the simple rules of thumb that people use and pursues relevant applications in economics, management and health. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Judgment and Decision Making.
Dorka Keehn
Artist, art consultant, arts commissioner, San Francisco
Dorka Keehn is an award-winning artist and the principal of Keehn On Art, a public art advisory. She serves as chair of the Visual Arts Committee for San Francisco’s Public Art Program. Additionally, she is a member of the Arts Commission’s Civic Design Review Committee, which evaluates city-owned architecture, streets and landscape design. In 2014 Dorka completed her second collaboration with artist Brian Goggin on a permanent artwork, Caruso’s Dream, for the new residential highrise AVA 55 Ninth Street, San Francisco. Their previous collaboration The Language of the Birds, the first solar powered public sculpture, was voted one of the best public artworks in the U.S. by Americans for the Arts. Dorka also led the fundraising effort for The Bay Lights, a light installation by artist Leo Villareal for the Bay Bridge, which was unveiled in 2013.
Artist, art consultant, arts commissioner, San Francisco
Dorka Keehn is an award-winning artist and the principal of Keehn On Art, a public art advisory. She serves as chair of the Visual Arts Committee for San Francisco’s Public Art Program. Additionally, she is a member of the Arts Commission’s Civic Design Review Committee, which evaluates city-owned architecture, streets and landscape design. In 2014 Dorka completed her second collaboration with artist Brian Goggin on a permanent artwork, Caruso’s Dream, for the new residential highrise AVA 55 Ninth Street, San Francisco. Their previous collaboration The Language of the Birds, the first solar powered public sculpture, was voted one of the best public artworks in the U.S. by Americans for the Arts. Dorka also led the fundraising effort for The Bay Lights, a light installation by artist Leo Villareal for the Bay Bridge, which was unveiled in 2013.
Ann Lydecker Bunge
Art advisor, marketing strategist, entrepreneur New York
Ann Lydecker Bunge is currently Pall Mall Art Advisors’ vice president, a role to which she brings over 20 years of expertise in sales, business development and client services. A graduate of both Simmons College, Boston and New York University, Ann has worked for Sotheby’s, Artnet and Artinfo/Louise Blouin Media. She founded Metropolitan Art Advisors and previously held the position of Worldwide Director of Sales for Cirkers Fine Art Storage and Logistics in Manhattan. Ann speaks and writes articles on many aspects of the art market and art collecting. She is on the Advisory Board of Lighthouse Guild and Artists Talk on Art and is a member of MoMA PS1 Contemporary Council and the Art Investment Council. She is also a member of Appraisers Association of America, ArtTable and Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners.
Art advisor, marketing strategist, entrepreneur New York
Ann Lydecker Bunge is currently Pall Mall Art Advisors’ vice president, a role to which she brings over 20 years of expertise in sales, business development and client services. A graduate of both Simmons College, Boston and New York University, Ann has worked for Sotheby’s, Artnet and Artinfo/Louise Blouin Media. She founded Metropolitan Art Advisors and previously held the position of Worldwide Director of Sales for Cirkers Fine Art Storage and Logistics in Manhattan. Ann speaks and writes articles on many aspects of the art market and art collecting. She is on the Advisory Board of Lighthouse Guild and Artists Talk on Art and is a member of MoMA PS1 Contemporary Council and the Art Investment Council. She is also a member of Appraisers Association of America, ArtTable and Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners.
Oliver Triebel
Business consultant, entrepreneur, Berlin
Oliver Triebel is executive director of LEAD, a non-profit think tank that offers leadership development and training programs to people from all sectors engaged in civil society activities. Oliver also holds an a position as adjunct professor of practice at the Central European University in Budapest. As a former partner of McKinsey & Company, he brings experience in consulting to diverse organizations in various stages of their development. He believes that cross-sectoral collaboration in all forms will become one of the main capabilities leaders need when sustainably solving the major problems of our society.
Business consultant, entrepreneur, Berlin
Oliver Triebel is executive director of LEAD, a non-profit think tank that offers leadership development and training programs to people from all sectors engaged in civil society activities. Oliver also holds an a position as adjunct professor of practice at the Central European University in Budapest. As a former partner of McKinsey & Company, he brings experience in consulting to diverse organizations in various stages of their development. He believes that cross-sectoral collaboration in all forms will become one of the main capabilities leaders need when sustainably solving the major problems of our society.
Marjorie Welish
Artist, critic, writer, New York
Marjorie Welish has exhibited extensively, including at the Denison University Museum, Ohio and at the Miami University Art Museum. She has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships from, among others, the Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, the Fifth Floor Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Marjorie has been artist-in-residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship in art. Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish compiles papers devoted to her writing and art, given at a conference at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. She is the author of Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 and has written for various magazines including Art Monthly and Bomb magazine.
Artist, critic, writer, New York
Marjorie Welish has exhibited extensively, including at the Denison University Museum, Ohio and at the Miami University Art Museum. She has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships from, among others, the Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, the Fifth Floor Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Marjorie has been artist-in-residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship in art. Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish compiles papers devoted to her writing and art, given at a conference at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. She is the author of Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 and has written for various magazines including Art Monthly and Bomb magazine.