Director

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Director

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GALLERI SUSANNE OTTESEN

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Full time position, 37 hours per week.Start January 2025The role:Galleri Susanne Ottesen is seeking an ambitious, highly organized, and collaborative individual to join our dynamic team as Director.As a key representative of Galleri Susanne Ottesen you will assume a pivotal role in the daily running of the gallery with a focus on operations, while also assuming artwork and client registration; administration; communications strategy (internal and external); data management; exhibition, fair and events production; sales; and artist liaison duties. As a Director, you will also be contributing to the strategic development of the gallery and its programme.To succeed in this role, you will have 5+ years of commercial gallery experience and existing connections within the Danish and wider Nordic art industry. It would be a benefit to have an established international network. You excel working independently but also embrace collaborative working. You thrive in fast-paced environments where prioritisation, delegation and communication play a key role. You demonstrate exceptional communication skills and are able to respond swiftly and appropriately to artist, client, and colleague enquiries. You are not daunted by detail-oriented administrative tasks, such as registration of artworks or management of a client database – you must have a flair for systems and data-handling – and you excel in time management while maintaining a bird’s eye view of the gallery’s activity.In-depth collaboration with colleagues (internal and external), artists and clients will be crucial, and you are an efficient project manager, moving agilely between detail-oriented tasks during busy periods of exhibition preparation and future plans for long-term growth. You have genuine enthusiasm for the functioning of a commercial gallery and interest in growing within such a fast-paced environment. Part of your role is to manage our online presence, which means you will have to understand how to work strategically with outreach and promotion on SoMe and our website, using SEO to enhance our visibility and are curious and open to learning new database systems, CMS and software.As Director, you will gain unparalleled access to our diverse network and comprehensive knowledge of the inner workings of a modern art gallery in swift development.About us:We are a commercial (sales-led) contemporary art gallery representing 25 artists and Estates, both Danish and international. We offer a dynamic and ever-changing workplace with a small, close-knit team of passionate people. We operate within a tight network of artists, clients and art world colleagues where relationship building is key. After over 40 years in the business, the gallery is a cornerstone of the Danish art world and Susanne a major figure within it (she is also a founding member of CHART Art Fair, which we participate in each year).Key Responsibilities:

• Daily operations of the gallery (Incl. Artwork shipping and customs paperwork; exhibition and display production; building management; point person for technicians)
• Extending communications strategies (Incl. SEO)
• Registration of artworks and back-end management
• Liaising with clients, artists, and art world collaborators, and data management thereof
• Exhibition production
• Supporting bookkeeping and other internal financial practices in regards to artwork registration, anti-money laundering checks, due diligence and sales.

Your attributes:Essential

• 5+ years of experience in a commercial art gallery
• Established art industry network
• Fluency in English, verbal and written
• Fluency in Microsoft Office Suite (we work on Windows/Mac); CMS systems (we work with ArtButler, WordPress, Mailchimp, WooCommerce); Adobe Package (we work with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and SketchUp
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Structured and organised – you find joy in building and maintaining systems
• Leadership and organisational skills, relationship management skills
• External communications experience
• Confident writer and copy-writer
• Ready to work extended hours and travel in relation to openings, art fairs and external exhibitions
• A positive, energetic, team player who thrives in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. You should enmbrace multi-tasking and be an adaptable person, excited by creative problem solving. We work in very close proximity with one another and some days are noisy and hectic!

Desirable

• Interest in contemporary art!
• Understand & speak danish

The position is full time, 37 hours per week. Additional work hours in relation to previews, openings, art fairs and events in the gallery are to be expected. The role may include a limited amount of travel. Salary commensurate with experience.Galleri for nutidig kunst i Københavns centrum. Galleriet har to fuldtidsansatte, samt to studerende på deltid. Galleriet åbnede i 1984 og har ligget i Gothersgade i sin nuværende form siden 1989. 16 kunstnere er repræsenteret – danske og internationale.

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Wed, 23 Oct 2024 22:11:51 GMT

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