Romy Campe and Frank Neidig in conversation with artist Johanna Reich

Johanna Reich works at the interface between digital and analog visual worlds. Many of her works are created on the basis of several years of research, in which the artist investigates and changes gaps in history, complex backgrounds of coding such as the opaque influence of databases on the development of algorithms and the resulting image production. Again and again, she makes visible the process of artistic work as an interdisciplinary activity. She explores the boundaries of real, virtual, and painterly imagery, and in minimalist video performances draws the viewer's attention to the impact that the merging of the net world and the real world has on our everyday lives. In terms of content, her work revolves around presence and absence, dematerialisation and disappearance, the visible and the invisible: who are we and what shapes our identity? What makes a person? What traces do we leave behind in the place where we live?

Romy Campe is an artist and the founder of Kunstleben Berlin, the art magazine in Berlin. Currently, about 800 art venues post their events on Kunstleben Berlin. This puts Romy at the intersection of visibility and the art market, and she knows the issues that keep galleries, collectors and artists busy.

Since 2022, Romy has been working intensively on how NFTs and digital tradability of art can change the art market. Together with the company License.ROCKs, she founded kunstleben.ART.

Kunstleben.ART is the first eCommerce and NFT marketplace for art, completely aligned with the art market and based in Berlin.

Frank Neidig is a fund and portfolio manager, curator, art collector of classical art and now also of NFT art, founder of the Flux Collective and speaker at numerous events such as the "𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙒𝙚𝙚𝙠" on the topic of "Believe the hype - NFTs or the art of rethinking the market".

The talk will be held in German