A Millennial in the art industry: the online art market
Meet Hannah Jeudy, a young French woman who fell in love with the online art market.
To start off, tell us a little bit about yourself! Where do you come from? Please, also tell us about your academic and professional background and your interests.
I come from the center of France near Clermont-Ferrand.
I studied International Business and had the luck to travel quite a lot. I worked in an art gallery in Barcelona, in a company specialised in art market information near Lyon and my last internship was in Berlin where I assisted the art buyer of an online art shop.
Right now, I’m living in Paris and I’m doing a master in Arts management with the Burgundy School of Business. I’m more and more passionate about Art & Tech., I think, it’s pretty fascinating how much the technological area impacted the art world.
“it came from my education, my parents used to bring me to museums, and I have great memories of them telling me some poetry for example.”
So, where does your interest in art, and especially in contemporary art, come from?
Well firstly, it came from my education, my parents used to bring me to museums, and I have great memories of them telling me some poetry for example. But it also came from social medias (Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr). Internet has really democratized the art world, and for me, our generation is much more sensitive about art than the previous one. And of
course, what we see the most in social medias, it’s artworks from contemporary artists, that’s also why I’m interested into contemporary art. Contemporary artists know how to promote themselves and they create something related to our modern society so I find it
more interesting than other art periods.
“No, I don’t collect art yet as I don’t even have my own flat. But virtually, I have my online collection that will help me collecting in the future.”
Do you collect art yourself or do you aspire to become an art collector? Tell us why and how would you like to interact with art in the future?
No, I don’t collect art yet as I don’t even have my own flat. But virtually, I have my online collection that will help me collecting in the future. Yes, I will surely collect some artworks but that will be artworks mixed with my own creations that I want to keep for all my life.
Who is your favourite curator and why?
I don’t really have a favourite “museum curator”. For me, my best curators are the instagrammers Aureta Thomollari and Jordan Watts with their Instagram account @Love.watts. They created a big community of art lovers, and each day, they show us a new artist. Just by opening your Instagram account, you can visit and discover a lot of different
artist’s world, that’s really nice .
Do you go to art fairs, art museums, art foundations and/or art galleries events? What are your all-time favourite art spaces/events?
Yes, my last art fair was ART VIENNA in Leopold Museum, I really love art fairs, there are much to see and it’s quite an impressive world, you ask yourself if one day you would have the chance to be part of its community of art dealers. From now, the best museum I ever visited was Albertina Museum, it was an exhibition about photographies, Schiele and
modern painters such as Miro and Matisse.
I’m pretty sure that my future favourite space will be the 104 in Paris, a space for residencies, production and promotion for the public and artists from all over the world. They organised a lot of events and forms an unique territory for experimentation, at the crossroads of art and innovation.
Who is your favourite artist? Tell us a bit about his/her work and why you enjoy it particularly.
I really like the New York based artist Daniel Arsham, he makes architecture do things it is not supposed to do, mining everyday experience for opportunities to confuse and confound our expectations of space and form. His artworks are kind of dreamy for me and I love the colour white and the “draped effect” he masters. It is soft and the white colour let your interpret the artwork and the environment of the artist as you want to. I really like minimalist artists in general.
Who is the latest contemporary artist that you have discovered? Tell us a bit about his/her work and why you enjoy it particularly.
The latest artist that I discovered is David Uzochukwu, David is a young visual artist based in Brussels. David taught himself how to create emotional self portraits when he was only a child. His images, often somber narratives, are set in a bright universe with landscapes and silent models forming an organic ensemble.
Again his artworks are really soft and dreamy, it shows us the beauty of humans mixed with our universe. And it so relaxing to admire his photos, I just love it and I can’t really explain why. That’s what makes art so unique, I guess!
Follow Hannah on Instagram : @delicartsy
