Apropos Pòdcast GRAF - The Collector is Present x Barcelona Gallery Weekend

The Collector is Present is back for another year, the programme resulting from the collaboration between collectors and gallerists of Barcelona Gallery Weekend, who during the weekend of May 8th - 11th, develop a joint project in the galleries.

Continuing the annual collaboration between GRAF and Barcelona Gallery Weekend, we have taken this opportunity to start the GRAF Apropos podcast. With an exquisite moderation, Andrea Gumes, with long experience in radio and communication, has accompanied the conversation between our four guests: the gallerist Laura González Palacios Director Chiquita Room, the collector Cristina Arribas, the curator and collector expert in digital art Tales Tomassini, and Jorge Bravo, in charge of ethall gallery.


"When you start thinking about your collection, I think that's the moment when you can, perhaps, call yourself a collector. You stop collecting to decorate, but to create meaning".
— Tales Tommasini, collector

"There is a vocation to encourage collecting beyond economics. Bringing it to a more personal, close and accessible tone responds to my own need to bring art down to a more earthly level".
— Laura Gonzalez Palacios, Director of Chiquita Room

"It's good the collector who is informed, but also who knows how to listen. And what he usually looks for when he starts a relationship with you is to get to know the artists better".
— Jorge Bravo, Director of ethall

“I think that a collection, in the end, is not so much a quantitative as a qualitative issue, there has to be a project behind it”.
— Cristina Arribas, collector


APROPOS are contents made about something that happens in our artistic context, and the Apropos Podcast is the radio version, in this first edition dedicated to The Collector is Present.

Watch the conversation on YouTube: Apropos podcast GRAF
Listen it on Spotify: Apropos podcast GRAF

Graphic design: ODD
Music: Aalbers
With the collaboration of Matías Rossi