How's My Dealing? 2.0

Art Platform NYC

December 31, 2016

Art Platform NYC http://www.artplatformnyc.com is a very good international art scam. It formerly went by Art Approach NYC and is now opening a branch in Washington DC, http://www.artplatformdc.com They have a rather professional website, with lots of talented artists and art shows around the world. They contact you by email to say they have been following your work and would like to represent you. They offer various packages, differing in price range and the amount of work they will do to represent you. They offer exhibitions, presence on their website and copies of, high-resolution, coffee-table size art books with your…

VIDA

By: anonymous

December 29, 2016

I got this email a few days ago. I called them to find out more. Yesterday I got a phone call from a women named Alice somewhere in Illinois (HQ are in SF). It sounded all too good…! So I did some more digging and found this article: https://theartistsjd.com/vida-tos/ Not only is the article informative but it is worth reading the the comments left by artists.

Tanja Grunert

By: anonymous

December 29, 2016

from Artnews – Art and Law Art Dealer Ordered to Pay $500 a Day to Artist The artist claims the gallery chopped off 10 inches from his painting. Eileen Kinsella, December 28, 2016 UPDATE: The attorney for the plaintiff informed artnet News that Grunert paid the judgment in full following the court order. A judge ordered Manhattan dealer Tanja Grunert and her eponymous gallery to pay an artist the sum of $500 a day after failing to comply with an order handed down in earlier this year. The judge in the case, Lewis A. Kaplan, ruled in an order filed on…

Artifact Gallery

By: anonymous

December 18, 2016

Any experience here? artifact gallery artifactnyc.net they recommend this awful site: http://www.arterynyc.com/arterist This is the content of the email I received ARTIFACT covers essential exhibition expenses related to the following: 1. Exhibition room (3.7×5.5 m / 12’x18′), it’s maintenance and attendance during a three-week solo exhibition; 2. Gallery assistance in co-ordination of the exhibition, installation and de-installation; 3. Art storage for artwork kept on consignment; 4. Opening reception, including wine and a bartender for a 2-hour reception; 5. Printing of color invitations to the opening reception; 6. Distribution of invitations; 7. Our sales commission is 40%. 8. $100,000.00 (one hundred…

Redux Contemporary Art Center

By: anonymous

December 16, 2016

Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC I applied to their call for exhibition proposals through Slideroom in June 2015 and paid a $40 entry fee with my submission. Artists were supposed to be notified of jury results by July 31, 2015. After hearing nothing from them, I emailed Redux in September 2015 regarding the status of my application and Stacy Huggins, the director responded informing me that jurying was still in progress and they would have results “very soon.” Again, I waited and I heard nothing from them. I wrote back to Stacy at Redux in December of 2015 and…

STATION 16 GALLERY

By: anonymous

December 16, 2016

This gallery based in Montreal under the name of STATION 16 GALLERY, returned this Klor piece totally damaged, rotten with Knocks, it is so damaged that we can simply trash it. It was delivered in a rusty truck barely wrapped… https://www.123klan.com/blogs/news/shame-on-station16-gallery

Raw Artists

By: anonymous

December 16, 2016

Pay-to-play, all the way for this art-fair scam. Artists are required to sell 20 tickets at $15-$20 each to show their work. Any unsold tickets are the responsibility of the artist to pay for if they want their work shown. These shindigs usually include live music (bands who are lured into participating with the same ticket-selling scheme). So RAW offers a club (or other venue) owner free entertainment for the use of their venue for this “event”. The venues can charge a cover, and charge as they normally would for drinks, etc. and keep the profits, so they love the…

Gabriel Fine Arts

By: anonymous

December 16, 2016

http://gabrielfineart.co.uk £180 + 30% commission for 4-5 works. (Prices for June 2015)

Galería Gaudí

By: anonymous

December 16, 2016

Galería Gaudí in Madrid -they offered to exhibit 5 works in Singapore for €1,400 with 40% commission. Work was to be exhibited in a hotel, (which I hear is fairly common in Singapore) but unlikely to attract uninvited guests

Vogue magazine

By: anonymous

December 16, 2016

Vogue magazine in the U.K. contacted me saying they wanted to feature my paintings in an interior design pull out. Of course I was delighted until I found out they were actually trying to sell me a small tacky advertising spot.

I know so may lawsuit is in process....

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Excellance art Gallery in Mirabella, Spain

OFFICIAL STATEMENT – EXCELLENCE ART GALLERY From Excellence Art Gallery, we wish to publicly respond to a series of false, unfounded, and clearly defamatory statements circulated by profiles operating under the name “ANONIMUS.” First of all, we consider it necessary to provide context regarding the origin of these publications. These are anonymous profiles that, for months, have been acting repeatedly across different platforms, using multiple identities. This behavior—based on the systematic dissemination of unsubstantiated accusations—lacks credibility and...

Giuseppe Carnevale and Excellence Art Gallery, the worst I've come across. Very unprofessional, fake promises, rookie methods and very overpriced....

Residency Arquetopia

Oh wow!! I am in Puebla now and left half way through my residency for many of the same reasons. Fortunately I found a fabulous airbnb, at my own expense of course. I love Puebla, but all that you said is so true!...

Holy Art Gallery?

Is the owner that absolute disgusting cheetos eating dressed like homeless I met in their Dalston gallery?...

Arcade Project, M. Charlene Stevens

Rewritten for clarity: I can confirm the comments regarding Charlene. I will add that she sabotages deadlines. She makes herself the center of attention as everyone begs her to do her work and she deliberately turns it in at the last minute. The team then has to work all night to prepare her work printer or the website. She has cheated the artists she''s endorsed out of press in this way....

Studio Visit Magazine

I was in an earlier publication, and was pleased with the look of it. I see people saying "pay to play", and I guess this is the case, kind of a vanity publication? I thought I would apply a second time, the juror seemed interesting. I got in, paid for a 2 page spread. I followed what was required for images and expected them to be printed as I sent them with the background showing...

PAKS Gallery, Vienna/other locations

Thank you for your opinions. I received the same invitation. My web host classified it as scam....

LemoArt Gallery

My experience with Ludvig Rage ist 100% positive. I have been collaborating with them, they promoted my work and thanks to them I have met many gallery owners and collectors and sold many of my works. I don't understand people like you, spreading lies. It's a shame! Thanks Ludvig Rage for all the support and effort!!!...

Contemporary Art Curator (Magazine)

I sent them all of my best art and my Biography and after I emailed everything to them I have not heard form them, so they are probably selling my art. So they steal art. I hope that they are caught....

I’m an experienced artist. If a gallery considers you as an investment it is typical to have commission taken but THAT is ALL. The lack of transparency on their socials is concerning- sure, beautiful art photographed but where are the photographs of the fairs and their people representing you? Championing you? If you’re paying these massive fees on top of commission consider 1) what kind of placement this buys you in a fair. Where is...

I didn’t want to write this review but I feel the obligation to warn the artistic community about the problematic business practices of Ludvig Rage Club and its leadership. I will not go much into the details, but I want to clearly state that my experience matches the pattern of business practices described in the below negative reviews regarding misleading claims and unprofessional conduct. I paid for a publication/event service with a clear deadline, which they...

The Other Art Fair, London UK

Hommm. Mixed thoughts here but tbh that’s the way it is at every art fair. They are all a huge risk due to time and costs. They are a lot of effort but unfortunately like a musician having to do free gigs to get noticed and on the map, art fairs are there for the same reason. Very very few go completely sell out and make a big. profit...

Galeria Azur Madrid

You don’t need to be famous to sell your art, you just need the right opportunities. And to put it infront of art lovers. Many artists get scammed and warning others of possible scams is very helpful. If you don’t want to take that warning in consideration thats up to you. But don’t berate someone for trying to help other artists not loose hard earned money. That’s just my take as a 25 year...

Context art gallery, Venice. AKA Marco Patrizio

About Fulle Galeria - unfortunately, it seems to be a well calculated scam. They contacted me from their official page asking to participate in "the water and the wind remember our name' exhibition in Patagonia. Once I paid the fee they disappeared completely and never returned any of my emails, messages, comments, even deleted my comment on one of their posts asking for an answer. Recently they made a post on IG recommending everyone to...

Lichtundfire in NYC

Lichtundfire is a pay to display gallery. I met Priska C. Juschka at her gallery at around the time of Covid and she proceeded to email me. $900 up front plus a cut from sales and unfortunately no guarantee of major marketing/ visits from critics etc. I’m not a fan of this kind of business construct and will never participate in a business dealing as such. Prompted by my curiosity...

Rebecca Hossack Galleries

I wish I listened to people 10 years ago who warned me about her. She will take you for a ride, not to be trusted....

Lichtundfire is a pay to display gallery. Your paying for your work to display and for them to operate. Long ago Priska Juschka’s partner was charged with fraud and an artist took him to court (artist won the case). At the time they operated under a different name and their partnership dismantled as well as the gallery. Ms. Juschka is now operating solo with Lichtundfite....

Giuseppe contacted me by Instagram and started to harass me when I refused his offer....

Divulgarti group

It is a "COOK BOOK STORE" Oh my God!!...

Check on google street view: it is a cook book store :D !! OMG! Thank you guys for this website! I almost paid to them !!...

chris is worse but i think he is gone now from the holy art. probably they kick him out...

Let me tell you, from personal experience from the 3 owners the fat one is the worst. His name is Angelo Tsekouras and he is a greedy rude and unintelligent person....

They were collecting a group of artists together to advertise on the NYC subway, which I felt was the type of coverage I would pay for, and the price felt cheap for something big like that. Arranging for subway ads is a pain in the butt, and being bundled with other artists to make it affordable was actually something I had on my “what-if?” list. I work in advertising and I’ve made ads for nonprofit...

Flyer art gallery! Scam!

I was invited to an exhibition, so I searched and found it, that’s why I decided to refrain. Thank you for sharing the information....

A thousand dollars, plus 40% of my work? I don't think so. You don't need that much money. Take the thousand (which even that is ridiculous) or take a cut of the sale, I won't give you both....

UAE Art Collector / Global Art Awards / Global Art Agency

This year they even didn’t bother themselves with publishing the so called “finalists” and “winners” of “Sakura art prize”. It really looks like scam and I’m so grateful to every artist who posted their experience with this muddy organisation....

everywhere is this case, there are only pay-to-play galleries, art fair, biannale organizers, and bad-taste juries, I am deelply disappointed with this trash time of art nowadays....

Trying to get my art,back from Floriano Massera from Flyer Art Gallery. He says a courier will contact me. No news from a courier. I can easily arrange a pick up myself from the Netherlands to Rome, but he refuses. This man even said someone is interested in my art to try and silence me for a while. I just want my paintings back to me. Do not collaborate with this man. He makes fake...

Scam. Floriano is an asshole...

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