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Kong Ning: ‘Being a witness mentally scarred me’

Multidisciplinary artist and environmental activist Kong Ning is based in Beijing. Born in Heilongjiang province in 1958, she studied law, but, deeply disturbed by the inequities of China’s judicial system and a fierce opponent of the death penalty, she decided…
Frank Stella: The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection

Focusing on the rich seam of Stella’s prints, this show gives an insight into the remarkable collaboration between Stella and Tyler, in which anything was possible
Paul de Monchaux: Ten Columns

In only his second solo show, the 82-year-old artist explores the potential of the column as a site for improvisation and movement
Peggy Franck: With no hands. Like a sea

For her first exhibition at Arcade gallery in London, Peggy Franck has installed her paintings, photography and printed carpets, creating a layered installation like a stage set
George Ridgway: interview

George Ridgway graduated last year from the Glasgow School of Art. His work traverses painting and installation with an intuitive ease as he subtly translates music, movement and the forces of the natural world into paint
Kate Fahey: interview

Kate Fahey is concerned with slowing down how we interact with images. In the age of Google, where our consumption of the visual divorces us from context and meaning, Fahey seeks to reappropriate photographs that have become lost or degraded…
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016

Since 1949 New Contemporaries has hand-picked graduate and emerging artists to present them to the public as the rising stars of the art world. Studio International visited the touring exhibition on its opening night at the Institute of Contemporary Arts…
Seungjo Jeong: interview

South Korean artist Seungjo Jeong creates pared-back canvases that explore the relationship between viewer and artist through the almost abstract evocation of objects
Robert Rauschenberg

This exhibition, the first full-scale retrospective of Rauschenberg’s work since his death in 2008, takes us on a tour of a singly irrepressible spirit whose work knew no boundaries
Roman Ondák: The Source of Art is in the Life of a People

In a show lasting 100 days and symbolising 100 years, the celebrated conceptual artist Roman Ondák explores ideas around history and the passage of time, as well as revealing hidden messages
John Currin

In five new works at Sadie Coles HQ, the controversial American painter clothes the history of art in vulgarity
Art Basel in Miami Beach 2016

Palpable relief that the sky was not falling in freed this year’s 78,000 fairgoers to act out Tom McKinley’s masterful triptych titled Complex Human Desires
Fabienne Verdier: ‘I am an intrepid woman, a bit of a rebel maybe’

Verdier explains her unique method of vertical painting, using a handmade brush with a large reserve of paint, capable of expressing her seemingly unstoppable flow of energy
Roger Hiorns – interview: ‘It isn’t enough to put an artwork in the world. You have to think about redesigning the world around the artwork’

Roger Hiorns explains his methods of exploration and excavation, and why he believes art is not so much about making objects as about designing behaviour
Jason Martin

The new minimalism at which Martin has arrived is obvious in the oil paintings on show here, and his series of silver cast works takes his fascination with the properties of accumulated paint and its sculptural potential to a new…
Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Love, Loss, and the Cycle of Life

Despite the vast differences in the style and intention of their work, this exhibition attempts to show how Munch’s imagery entered Johns’s psyche and then lay dormant for years, only to resurface transformed
Sophie Jung: ‘I don’t trust language’

The performance artist talks about Chinese encyclopaedias, the Austrian feminist playwright Elfriede Jelinek, and her family of actors
City Sculpture Projects 1972

Two of the 14 original sculptures are accompanied by other work from that time, alongside maquettes and models, and documentation from a special edition of Studio International produced to accompany the 1972 project
Anselm Kiefer: Walhalla

Anselm Kiefer weaves myth and the modern era into a characteristically apocalyptic show. But is it all doom and gloom?
Karen Russo: ‘I’ve always liked the idea of making films that were somehow outside of time’

The artist talks about her two most recent films, Haus Atlantis and TET-Stadt, which centre on the buildings and ideas of the German expressionist architect and Nazi sympathiser Bernhard Hoetger
Franciszka Themerson: Lines and Thoughts

This exhibition reveals Themerson’s ability to conjure life and emotion out of a single line in her drawings, or convey a whole interior landscape through her rich, densely worked paintings
David Kohn: ‘In trying to broaden what architecture could be, it feels like there is room to breathe’

From a house extension modelled on a fox, to a new quad for an Oxford college, to a hotel in the air, Kohn has tackled them all, with – as he explains – a little help from some very strong-minded…
Pat Steir

This dramatic selection of the American artist’s painting from 1990-2011 marks her first London show for 26 years
Emma Elliott: ‘Being human is the most important thing. Just being human and not fighting’

The Passion For Freedom ambassador talks about her current project, which brings together the stigmata of the crucifixion and the Holocaust, seeking to create a dialogue of unity and reconciliation within a fractured society