Episode 20: Barbara Hammer: Pioneer of Lesbian and Queer Cinema
Louky Keijsers Koning
Director of the Estate of Barbara Hammer
In honor of LGBTQ+ Pride, we're focusing on queer creators. This week we speak with Louky Keijsers Koning @loukykk, director of the estate of Barbara Hammer @barbarahammer1.
Barbara is a feminist filmmaker and pioneer of queer cinema who made over 90 moving image works as well as performances, installations, photographs, collages and drawings over a 45-year career. Regarded as the first lesbian art filmmaker, her works playfully and relentlessly challenged accepted norms and taboos of queerness, blazing the trail for generations of lesbian and queer artists.
We hope you enjoy this episode celebrating Barbara's life and multifaceted work. You can learn more about her work and grant program sponsored by her estate at BarbaraHammer.com and see her work on view at AMP Gallery in Provincetown.
About Louky:
Louky Keijsers Koning, AAA* of Keijsers Koning Appraisals offers art appraisal services for the purposes of charitable donation and gift tax; martial and equitable distribution, estate tax liability and insurance, including damage & loss. Her practice specializes in Post-War, Contemporary and Emerging Art.
A Dutch native, Louky Keijsers Koning has been active in the New York’s contemporary art world since the early-2000s. She started out as an independent curator, continued to manage several contemporary art galleries before starting the multi-media art gallery LMAKgallery in 2005 of which she was the co-owner until 2019. Through the gallery, she was able to place artists’ works in various private and public collections such as the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Contemporary Museum of Photography, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Rhode Island Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, El Museo del Barrio, and the Kadist Art Foundation to name a few. At the moment she is excited to direct her focus entirely on her appraisal business, where she provides divers appraisal services, while she will continue to advice her collectors about art acquisitions and sales.
Louky Keijsers Koning completed the Certificate of Appraisal Studies at NYU in 2014 and is a certified member of the Appraisers Association of America (AAA). She is Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), compliant through March 2022. She holds an M.A. in Art History and an M.A. in Art Management from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
* Certified member of Appraisers Association of America
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