Akiel Gallina is a Creative and Cultural Producer working between Berlin and Frankfurt — freelancing for Art Basel (creative direction and production on Meet the Artists, Meet the Collector, and Inner Worlds, in collaboration with Nowness), Highsnobiety, and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. He also co-founded Soft Launch, a creative studio for arts and culture, as well as Loose Ends, a nomadic curatorial exhibition project.

In this episode we talk about quitting a secure job the night before he was supposed to start, crying before his first shoot at Highsnobiety, and figuring production out by winging it. We get into the difference between being a creative producer and a cultural producer, how Art Basel happened, and what it's like bringing fashion-world visual language into the art world. We also talk about the Justice concert documentary that ...