Watch: “Bootstrap an Art Career: A how to guide” by Kenny Schachter at Eugster || Belgrade

News

We are grateful to have hosted Kenny Schachter for his lecture Bootstrap an Art Career: A How To Guide at Eugster || Belgrade.
The full recording of the talk is now available to watch on YouTube and can be accessed via the link below:

Kenny Schachter at Eugster || Belgrade – Bootstrap an Art Career: A how to guide

The lecture took place during Parallel Lines and Other Stories, a solo exhibition by Djordje Ozbolt, on view from September 19 – December 6, 2025.

Kenny Schachter (b. 1961) is a New York–based curator, writer, artist, collector, and educator with over 30 years of experience in contemporary art. He teaches in the graduate department at the University of Zurich and holds professorships at the School of Visual Arts and New York University. Schachter has lectured internationally and received a Rockefeller-supported grant in Mexico. He regularly writes for ArtNet and has contributed to publications on Paul Thek, Zaha Hadid, Vito Acconci, and Sigmar Polke/Gerhard Richter. In recent years, he presented Slow Food (2023) at The NFT Gallery, New York, curated Keep Hope Alive (2023–2024) at the Francisco Carolinum Museum, Austria, showcased his sculptures in I Object! (2024) at the Pacific Design Center Gallery, Los Angeles, and participated in Phone Face (2024) at Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne. Earlier highlights include Retrospective (2018) at Joel Mesler’s Rental Gallery, New York, Trading Places (2018) at Simon Lee Gallery, London, a solo exhibition at Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles (2019), and projects at Blum & Poe, Tokyo (2017), and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (2016)…His writings include The NFT Book: Everything You Need to Know about the Art and Collecting of Non-Fungible Tokens (2023), Tracey Emin: Detail of Love (2020),Art becomes Architecture becomes Art (2006), Jasper Who? (2003)…as well as numerous articles for The New York Times, Frieze, Artforum, ArtNet, etc.