Art-Beats was founded in 2020 by Nikolai Kleist Burkal, an independent media platform for writing, features, and editorial discussion on contemporary art: what’s happening, who’s making it, and why any of it matters.
The starting point was curiosity. Moving through art scenes across Europe and Asia, galleries, studios, fairs, and private openings, the conversations happening in those rooms were often the most illuminating part. Exchanges between artists, collectors, and curators that were frank, exploratory, and genuinely engaging, but rarely documented. Art-Beats grew from a desire to bring more of that texture into the open, for anyone interested in understanding the world through culture and the people shaping it.
The platform launched just as the pandemic reshaped how art was made, seen, and discussed globally. That context gave Art-Beats an early focus on what persists when the physical art world goes quiet, and what returns when it reopens.
What we cover: contemporary art, art events, art fairs, and the European and Asian art scenes, with occasional detours into adjacent cultures like wine and creative practice that inform how we see.
– Nikolai Kleist Burkal,
Art-Beats Founder
