Outset Profiles

Candida Gertler

Co-Director and Trustee

Candida Gertler co-founded Outset Contemporary Art Fund with Yana Peel in June 2003. After studying law and journalism in Germany and Switzerland, she worked in journalism and PR until 1992. Candida moved to London in 1993 and studied Modern and Contemporary Art at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. She gained experience within the arena of contemporary art by overseeing Contemporary Art Events for the charitable organisation BFAMI (British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel), since 1997. Along with her trusteeship of the fund, she is a member of the Tate International Council.

Yana Peel

Co-Director and Trustee

Yana Peel co-founded Outset with Candida Gertler in June 2003. After studying Sciences and Russian at McGill University in Canada, she moved to London in 1997 to pursue post-graduate work at the London School of Economics. From 1998 until 2003 she worked in sales and trading at investment bank Goldman Sachs, most recently as an Executive Director within the Equities Division. Yana is a member of the NSPCC Therapeutic Board, advisor to the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, a member of the Tate International Council, and on the board of trustees for the third Moscow Biennial. She is also a co-founder of Intelligence Squared Asia.

Nick Aikens

Associate Director

Nick Aikens joined Outset in May 2009. He graduated form the Courtauld Institute in 2004 and was gallery director at Allsopp Contemporary from 2005 - 08. Nick has also curated independent exhibitions and contributed to a number of publications on emerging artists. In June 2010 he gained an MA in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, specialising in contemporary art and politics.

Chantal Wong

Development Director

Chantal Wong joined Outset as Director of Development in September 2009. She received her BA in History of Art from Concordia University, Montreal and worked as a fundraiser at Asia Art Archive based in Hong Kong from 2006-2009. She is currently conducting her MA in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths.

Kerstin Traube

Co-Director of Outset Munich

Kerstin Traube has been involved with Outset as a patron since the fund's inception. After studying to become a psychotherapist in London and founding Fresh Start, a counselling scheme based on art therapy programmes, she moved to Munich in 2005, starting Outset Munich in 2006 as a registered charity.

Kathleen Wildfeuer

Co-Director of Outset Munich

Kathleen Wildfeuer was born in Canada and during the 1980s worked in fashion and photography in Paris. She is now living in Munich and joined Outset Munich in 2006.

Vered Gadish

Director of Outset Israel

Vered Gadish founded Outset Israel in September 2008. Vered was a curator of Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS Ltd, and has worked at MoMA and the Guggenheim in New York, as well as the Tel Aviv branch of Christie's. Vered holds a masters degree in Art Management from New York University and a BA in Arts History from Tel Aviv University. Currently she works as a consultant with International and Israeli private collectors and is involved in a corporate art fund investing in international contemporary art.