Category: Interview
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Abbas Akhavan – interview: ‘I like the propelled intensity towards accomplishing something’
The artist discusses his site-specific responses, often inspired by residencies, and the processes he uses to generate the most interesting work in that context
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Niamh O’Malley: Gather – Venice Biennale 2022
O’Malley says she wants her Irish Pavilion installation to be a welcoming space, for visitors to ‘feel the power and the height and weight of things’
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Amie Siegel – interview: ‘There’s a lot of information underneath the information’
The American artist discusses her new film work, Bloodlines, a masterful exploration of class, ownership and time glimpsed through the movement of George Stubbs’s paintings
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Ann Gallagher – interview: ‘Hélio Oiticica’s work was outstanding in terms of its radicality’
As the first survey of Oiticica in London in 15 years goes on show at the Lisson Gallery, its curator, Ann Gallagher, talks about the Brazilian artist’s vibrant, sensual works
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Jonathas de Andrade: With the Heart Coming Out of the Mouth – Venice Biennale 2022
Giant ears, a massive inflatable heart and a disembodied head – De Andrade explains why he has filled the Brazilian Pavilion with an odd assortment of body parts
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Goran Trbuljak – interview: ‘It is a kind of painting – a painting that was created by refraining from painting’
The conceptual artist and film-maker explains why seeing Neil Armstrong walk on the moon had such a strong influence on him, why he is so reluctant to define his work as painting – and why he once spent his Sundays…
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Beatrice Merz – interview: ‘The purpose of the project is to contribute to the traditions of Sicily and southern Italy’
Led by Fondazione Merz, a new arts centre in Palermo hopes to engage local people with contemporary art, while retaining strong links to the capital’s history
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Sigurður Guðjónsson: Perpetual Motion – Venice Biennale 2022
In the darkness of the Icelandic Pavilion, Sigurður Guðjónsson talks about his monumental video work – a visceral experience, its scale and form resonant with its architectural setting and enhanced by a primal soundtrack
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Pedro Cabrita Reis – interview: ‘Through all these years, I’ve always done what I wanted. I intend to stay like that’
In the run up to his exhibition in Venice during the 59th Biennale, the internationally renowned Portuguese artist talks about the museum he keeps in his mind, and why he will never be pinned down to a particular form of…
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Mahesh Baliga – interview: ‘Collected sorrow becomes my work. My work is autobiographical’
As his first solo show outside India takes place at David Zwirner in London, Baliga explains why pain and suffering, both his and that of others, are at the root of all his paintings
