A Miami Philanthropist Takes Turn as Artist, Activating Cultural Memory via Ephemera
“I could comfortably say that I look at 10,000 or more objects before I find one that I bid on,” Dennis Scholl said, describing the amount of work he’d put into his ephemera-based art practice. “The objects have to feel authentic without being generic. They have to appeal to everyone, not just me.”
For an exhibition at HUA International’s Berlin space debuting his artistic practice, the documentary filmmaker and philanthropist Dennis Scholl spent years trawling through auctions, memorabilia websites, and estate sales to compile a trove of ephemera he has used to create windows into a collective memory and shared past.
