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Downtown Dealers, Independent’s conversation series uniting New York art dealers across generations, continues with a new podcast episode exploring the transatlantic dynamics of gallery practice. After launching Galeria Wschód in Warsaw and the time-shared space ECHO in Cologne, Piotr Drewko expanded to New York in 2023 with a curated program of exhibitions and video projects. Silke Lindner, meanwhile, relocated from Berlin at the start of her career and went on to found her eponymous Tribeca gallery in 2022. They join Independent’s founder Elizabeth Dee for a candid conversation about navigating the art world from Europe to the “beautiful chaos and amazing competition” of New York. 

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Downtown Dealers Podcast: Piotr Drewko and Silke Lindner - Features - Independent Art Fair

Piotr Drewko (b. 1987) is the founder and director of Galeria Wschód, a contemporary art gallery operated since 2017 in Warsaw with an experimental space in New York and a shared gallery space turned curatorial concept called ECHO Cologne.

Downtown Dealers Podcast: Piotr Drewko and Silke Lindner - Features - Independent Art Fair

Silke Lindner opened its space in the fall of 2022 in TriBeCa, New York. The gallery currently represents six artists (Nina Hartmann, Sylvie Hayes-Wallace, Emma Kohlmann, Gozié Ojini, Lyric Shen and Amg Ziqi Zhang) and has debuted U.S. solo shows with Barbara Wesołowska (London), Eva Gold (London), Tomás Díaz Cedeño (Mexico City) and Irina Lotarevich (Vienna).