Category: Interview
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Sámi Pavilion (Nordic Countries), Venice Biennale 2022
Sámi artists Anders Sunna, Máret Ánne Sara and Pauliina Feodoroff have transformed the Nordic Pavilion to highlight the continuing struggle against colonialism, discrimination and land possession faced by Europe’s only Indigenous people
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Dindga McCannon – interview: ‘Not having money never stopped me creating what I wanted’
With a 50-year career as an artist and teacher, Dindga McCannon is widely celebrated in the US’s black activist, feminist and fibre art communities. As her first European solo show opens in London, she talks about the importance of passion,…
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Bernar Venet – interview: ‘My dream is not to make big sculpture, but sculptures that are new, radical, different’
As his solo show opens at Waddington Custot in London, the man dubbed France’s ‘greatest living sculptor’ talks about curiosity, popularity and the quest for reinvention
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Ian Cheng – interview: ‘What’s the worst possible dad I could be? Maybe a dad who conflates his work with his kid and tries to make them the same thing’
The American artist Ian Cheng explores parenthood and agency in an imagined future that sees humans and AI living in symbiosis
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Permindar Kaur – interview: ‘It’s hard to get a balance in the work: an equal amount of threat and an equal amount of softness’
The sculptor talks to us about her playful use of the domestic realm to explore feelings of belonging and cultural identity
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Museu.xyz – interview: ‘All shows in the physical world should also be in the metaverse’
A museum that exists entirely in the metaverse is generating new opportunities for Brazilian artists
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Melissa McGill – interview: ‘One of my main influences is water’
The multimedia artist reveals how a two-year stay in Venice shaped her career and why water features so often in her works, and explains her use of traditions and personal reflections to bring people together to address climate change
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Mariana Castillo Deball – interview: ‘History belongs to everyone’
Castillo Deball discusses her interest in history and how artefacts and their re-creations are viewed, and talks about Roman Rubbish, her installation at the London Mithraeum Bloomberg Space, which takes as its starting point the 14,000 artefacts discovered at the…
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Monika Fabijanska – interview: ‘I wanted Women at War to explain a war that has been going on in Ukraine in silence for eight years’
The curator explains why, for her show at the Fridman Gallery in New York, she chose female artists to narrate the story of the war, and to widen the theme to draw in people with no prior interest in the…
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Nick Merriman – interview: ‘Removing as many barriers as possible to participation is what our mission should be about
London’s Horniman Museum has just been awarded one of the art world’s biggest prizes. Nick Merriman, the museum’s director, says its winning formula involves a passion for the environment and a determination to reach a more diverse audience
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