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  • Jake Chapman: ‘Show me a Hitler and I’ll draw on it’

    Having unveiled the sinister Sturm und Drang at Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, Oslo, one half of artistic duo the Chapman Brothers discusses the merits of artistic thievery, the definition of beauty, and Adolf Hitler

  • Rafaël Rozendaal: ‘I see the same intensification of reality in Mondrian and Mickey Mouse’

    The artist, who now has hundreds of websites to his name, talks about using the internet as his canvas, uploading our minds, and why he makes moving images that have no beginning or end

  • Rachel Maclean: ‘I’m taking and contributing to the weird recycled ecosystem of the internet’

    The artist talks about taking her inspiration from YouTube and LolCats to Britney Spears and Scottishness to explore gender, class and nationality, and explains how she transforms herself to play every role and model in her videos

  • BGL: ‘In our installation, people play with money, and we like this game’

    Canadian art collective BGL makes art that is playful and provocative, parodying everyday objects to comment on our material passions and obsessions with consumerism. Studio International spoke to them at the 56th Venice Biennale

  • Max Mara Art Prize for Women: Corin Sworn

    Corin Sworn, the fifth winner of the biannual Max Mara Art Prize for Women, has taken the 16th-century Italian commedia dell’arte as the theme for her exhibition about mistaken identity

  • Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971

    The message of Yoko Ono’s art has always been world peace. In her performances, installations and books, she invites the audience’s active involvement to make them understand her art not only on an intellectual, but also a visceral level

  • Shirazeh Houshiary: Smell of First Snow

    By playing cunning games with light and perspective, Houshiary has found ways to make her sculptures come physically alive, but it is the paintings in this exhibition that are the most intriguing

  • Graham Fagen: ‘Come into the garden and forget about the war’ – Venice Biennale 2015

    Glasgow-based artist Graham Fagen, who is representing Scotland for the 56th Venice Biennale, has mixed Robbie Burns with Reggae in a homage to his homeland and Jamaican culture. He talks to Studio International about his work

  • Catlin Art Prize 2015

    Eight of the UK’s most promising arts graduates are picked each year to show at the Catlin Art Prize exhibition. Studio International went along to talk to the 2015 finalists and see their work, including that of the overall winner,…

  • Brown & Son: Art That Makes Itself

    Father and son Paul and Daniel Brown work together as Brown & Son, ‘Purveyors of digital images since 1968’, using computers to make art. They talked to Studio International about their collaboration and their first joint exhibition, at Watermans Art…

  • Listening to the Lines

    Through the work of eight international artists and architects who explore the versatile but universal perception of line, this exhibition invites viewers to explore the many configurations of that simple, fundamental motif

  • All the World’s Futures: the 56th Venice Biennale

    Under the African curator Okwui Enwezor, the 56th Venice Biennale attempts to bring together our disorganised world, reflected in the diversity of works on display, and to embrace our pasts, presents and futures

  • Klaus Staudt: interview

    A leading practitioner of concrete-constructivist art for some 50 years, Klaus Staudt was also part of the pan-European New Tendencies movement, composed of distinct voices researching similar concerns in an almost laboratory-like context

  • Sleepless: The Bed in History and Contemporary Art

    This tightly curated and fascinating exhibition brings together nearly 200 pieces featuring beds used in birth, sex, illness and death, from a first-century advert for a brothel in Pompeii to a Tracey Emin four-poster

  • The Two Roberts: Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde

    ‘The two Roberts’, as they were known, became a sensation, feted by London galleries, but then they faded from prominence and both died early. The thrill of this exhibition is that it brings their legacy back to life

  • Frieze New York 2015

    Buzz bubbled to the surface at Frieze New York’s fourth outing, where there were discoveries and delights to be had among the 190-plus galleries, and the attendance was stellar. Meanwhile, Art Miami’s New York debut, which included more than 100…

  • Watch This! Revelations in Media Art

    Interactive and sound art installations, sculptures and animations, experimental film and video art pieces, and video games celebrate the creative exchange between art and technology that pushes the boundaries of both

  • Fiona Tan

    Fiona Tan explores domestic environments through video and installation across two parallel exhibitions at Frith Street Gallery in London. The works displayed show Tan’s desire to archive and document space in an attempt to bring order to a tumultuous contemporary…

  • Shannon Yee: ‘It’s one step better than walking in somebody else’s shoes’

    After a life-threatening brain infection, artist Shannon Yee found herself in hospital paralysed down one side and with part of her skull removed. She explains that her latest work, Reassembled, Slightly Askew, is an attempt to make sense of her…

  • Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness

    American photographer Christopher Williams uses his first UK retrospective to illustrate how comfortable we have made ourselves in a synthetic, commercial world

  • Ahmet Ogut: Happy Together: Collaborators Collaborating

    Directing a chatshow featuring a host of friends and former collaborators, Kurdish artist Ahmet Öğüt reminds us of the one thing about contemporary art that people forget: it’s supposed to be fun

  • I’m Here But You’ve Gone

    A number of artists have each spent 10 months researching fragrances before devising one of their own. It is an interesting idea, but it also raises the question of copyright law and whether perfume can be considered art

  • Michal Rovner: ‘I don’t want to tell a story, I’m looking for something underneath the story’

    The Israeli artist discusses the work in her current exhibition Panorama, life split between New York and Israel, her use of modern technology to present her work, and how the gap between reality and what the news presents to us…

  • Theaster Gates: ‘How do you get people to see things that to them are invisible?’

    In his latest exhibition at London’s White Cube Gallery, Artes Mundi prize-winner and social practice artist Theaster Gates assesses the multiple definitions of assembly, from the political and the artistic to the working-class