Category: Interview
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Risham Syed – interview: ‘It’s an inward-looking invitation to contemplation’
Syed talks about Each Tiny Drop, her intervention in a city park, as part of Manchester International Festival 2023, that she hopes will help to build communities around a body of water
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Ryan Gander – interview: ‘The stuff outside in the world is way better than anything you’ll find in any museum’
The artist explains why he is giving away free coins at the Manchester International Festival and how he hopes to capture the attention of the 99% of people who aren’t interested in contemporary art
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Tino Sehgal – interview: ‘It’s an invitation to think about skill and what it means in the body and in space’
The enigmatic and publicity-averse artist discusses his new work for Manchester International Festival 2023, gamesmanship, the ‘craft’ skills of cycling, football and musicianship, and how the pandemic has changed human interaction
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George Gittoes – interview: ‘The spirit of art cannot be suppressed by the barbarity of war’
The Australian artist has been visiting war zones for 50 years and he and his wife travelled to Kyiv the week after Russia’s invasion. He explains his need to go there to work with Ukrainian artists, paint murals on destroyed…
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Tom Wood – interview: ‘I started doing portraits of these kids hanging around on drugs, or whatever, and some of their parents. It was really tough’
For 50 years, Wood has been out on the streets taking intimate, informal, often quirky, photographs of people. As his first major retrospective takes place at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, he talks about his career and how he…
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Paul Smith – interview: ‘I’d often look up and ask the boss, “Mr Picasso, would you like that?”’
To mark the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death, the Musée National Picasso, Paris, commissioned a re-presentation of its extensive collection and invited the designer Paul Smith to be its artistic director. Studio International caught up with him at the resulting…
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Dominic Harris – interview: ‘I’m trying to empower the viewer to assume a larger force within the artworks’
At his latest exhibition, Feeding Consciousness, at the Halcyon Gallery, the British artist discussed his inspirations and the artistic processes behind the interactive digital artworks on show
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Amy Sillman – interview: ‘We’re in this sticky place between despair and vitality all the time’
On the occasion of her latest exhibition at Thomas Dane’s Naples gallery, the ever-probing Sillman considers her enduring fascination with process, impatience with beauty, and why humour is the key to life
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Maki Na Kamura – interview: ‘People in the presence of my work can project their memories of all kinds of genres of bygone paintings’
The Berlin-based Japanese painter touches on her interest in patterns of structures and texture, a knowing circumvention of figuration and the magic of painting
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Christina Seilern – interview: ‘Doing a project is like writing a book … sometimes you have to trust the story and not the author’
Having set up Studio Seilern Architects in 2006, Christina Seilern has been quietly building a solid body of elegant, spatially ambitious buildings and is now garnering the industry accolades she deserves. She talks about storytelling, sexism, slow regeneration and prioritising…
