Art Basel Miami Beach | Interview with Ingvild Goetz

The redoubtable Ingvild Goetz has been collecting for more than 40 years. Her private collection, housed in a Herzog & de Meuron-designed glass pavilion in Munich includes more than 3,500 works and an extensive mix of Arte Povera.

Do you believe this year marks the revenge of the Europeans?
I really don’t understand why American collectors don’t attend the fairs when the market is down. They disappear, and yet a lot of them still have money. You just don’t have this at the European art fairs. When you are true collectors, you may lose money but you don’t care if the art market goes up or down.

What was your impression of the collectors’ preview?
There is not a greedy sensibility anymore. I don’t like to chase art —