Hanna, Lina, Tania and Jessie, aka the Dead Darlings Collective, got together in Amsterdam to record a conversation about things to come! We talk about our origins, the ideas baked into the work we do, and we introduce Darling Killers, the podcast where artists are interrogated about an artwork they killed. This work will subsequently be available on our website, where anyone can bid for it at our monthly “resurrauction”. Follow, subscribe, stay tuned!

Darling Killers is a podcast where we interrogate artists about a specific artwork they killed during the artistic process. Something with personal meaning to the artist yet no commercial price tag; something they would not otherwise exhibit or sell. This project is an offshoot of Dead Darlings, a collective that explores notions of value through anonymous, subversive live auction events. In the podcast, we single out individual artists who plead guilty of killing a darling, we poke and prod to find out the circumstances, search for the motive and eventually, we strive to redeem the artwork in question through an online “resurrauction”. In a brave and generous act of letting-go, our artist releases this special, unique and ambiguous piece for a symbolic starting price giving the opportunity to all our listeners to bid for the artwork under the spotlight and bring a precious dead darling back to life.

With the online purchase of such a darling, you support the artist, allow Darling Killers to keep asking the hard questions, and expand your art collection with something truly exceptional. Something that might have never otherwise seen the light of day.