Projects
HOME 2020
A New Therapy 2020
The Dean Collection
Gordon Parks: Selections from the Dean Collection
Cooper Gallery, Harvard 2019Sotheby’s Contemporary Curated
2018DREAMWEAVERS 2019 — UTA Artist Space
No Commission: Miami 2018
No Commission: Miami 2017
No Commission: Berlin 2017
No Commission: Shanghai 2017
No Commission: London 2016
No Commission: Bronx 2016
LaToya Ruby Frazier, 6th Moscow Biennale 2015
Art of Empire 2015
Edge of Chaos 2015
BLACK EYE 2014 — Website
Kehinde Wiley, World Stage Jamaica 2013
Kehinde Wiley, Puma 2010
Concept NV is an art consultancy & curatorial agency founded by Nicola Vassell.
Mission
We create dynamic concepts that tell stories of life through art and provde the mechanisms to execute them. Our singular vision connects the traditional and experimental art worlds with the wider cultural sphere. We offer unique synergies between stakeholders to generate maximum cultural impact. We help our collaborators navigate the complex global art community, transforming knowledge and access into ideas and opportunities.
Curatorial Projects & Exhibition Management
Concept NV provides curatorial and exhibition management expertise, specializing in art projects focused on cultural phenomena.
Art Advisory Services
We offer strategic counsel on the development of art collections.
Private Sales
We facilitate private sales by brokering purchase and sales opportunities with discretion.
Collections Management
We administer long-term logistical support of collections through database/archival management, transportation, storage, insurance and loan facilitation.
Other Collaboration
We offer collaborative opportunities with and insights into the art ecosystem.Press
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Rewarding Experiments, Strong Relationships, and Luck
11/24/2020
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Observer
Arts Power 50
6/26/2019
The Cut
3/5/2019
W Magazine
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Hollywood Reporter
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The Cut
artnet
Rewarding Experiments, Strong Relationships, and Luck
11/24/2020
artnet
25 Inspiring Women in the Art World
10/15/2020
Observer
Arts Power 50
6/26/2019
The Cut
The Art Stars of Entre Nous
3/5/2019
W Magazine
Watch Carrie Mae Weems and Terence Nance in Conversation: On Blackness
3/29/2019
Garage Magazine
Arthur Jafa and Ming Smith Get Real in Swizz Beatz's New Video Series
3/22/2019
The New York Times Style Magazine
A New Interview Series, Featuring Swizz Beatz
2/15/2019
Whitewall
Nicola Vassell Takes Us To “Dreamweavers” at UTA Artist Space
2/15/2019
Hollywood Reporter
Inside Swizz Beatz's Art Show With Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Pharrell Williams
2/14/2019
Observer
Meet the Curator Working With Swizz Beatz to Showcase the ‘Black Renaissance’ Happening in Art
2/13/2019
The New York Times
How Swizz Beatz bridged the worls of Hip-Hop and Contemporary Art
1/30/2019
Hollywood Reporter
Swizz Beatz Partners With UTA Artist Space to Present New Show Highlighting "Black Renaissance" Works (Exclusive)
5/6/2014
The Cut
Inside the Exhibit du Jour: Black Eye
HOME
2020HOME, a virtual presentation developed for The Flag Art Foundation as part of their ongoing series of Instagram exhibitions in which artists, friends and collaborators organize thematic shows as digital visual essays during CoVid lock down. Each features an eclectic range of artworks and objects brought together without the restrictions of time or place.
HOME, “explores concepts of one’s habitation. I imagine it as a sense of place in magnitudes, similar to powers of ten— along trajectories of family, food, physical structure, ecological expanse, beingness in the world and oneness with it. The idea travels along histories of art, style, form and media to emphasize that notions of home endure. Belonging is for everyone.” Nicola Vassell
Home
By Ilka Scobie (composed for this presentation)
When we speak of home,
metaphors careen from square footage
to familial longing
From real estate envy
to yearning for a room of one’s own.
In a settler’s nation,
cities rise upon stolen lands,
Home-less-ness equates
those without shelter as less than
those for whom a key unlocks
some safe place.
Home, like love can be elusive
Expensive, exhausting,
exhilarating, existential,
Home as habitat, haven
Nomad’s respite
Nest builder’s retreat
Where we go to isolate
During sleep, so nightmares can turn to dreams.
A New Therapy
2020‘A New Therapy’, a dialogue between Nicola Vassell and Rashid Johnson published in ‘Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary: The Commissions Book’ (Sternberg Press, 2020), a vivid documentation of TBA21’s commissioning practice and the ethos of the foundation over the last 18 years. The conversation takes a deep dive into works by Rashid that are in TBA21’s collection. We talk about how he feels as an artist right now and remedies for the future.
“This anthology of TBA21’s work over the past two decades is a guide book for the foundation’s future”— Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Chairwoman, TBA21 The Commissions Book, “reviews the processes and conditions which have led us to engage with certain political and social urgencies and environmental concerns. It hopefully presents a new understanding for what it means to collect produce and safeguard contemporary art.”— Daniela Zyman, co-editor and Chief Curator, TBA21
