Category: Interview
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Jakob Kudsk Steensen – interview: ‘There’s so much that we forget in the virtual’
Ahead of an enormous new installation in Berlin’s fabled nightclub Berghain, the Danish artist talks virtual reality, field work and the importance of wetlands
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Brett Rogers – interview: ‘When I was a student, the Photographers’ Gallery was one of my favourite places to visit’
The director of the Photographers’ Gallery talks about her own love of photography and how the organisation is celebrating its 50th-anniversary programme alongside ambitious plans for the future
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Cathie Pilkington – interview: ‘It’s great to have a title that makes people think’
The artist talks about the importance of democracy in her practice, how she feels she sits – or doesn’t! – within the patriarchal tradition, and how she has a resistance to finalising a work and defining where it begins and…
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Mark Leckey – interview: ‘There’s this strange new limitless and elastic space that we are now inhabiting on a daily basis’
Leckey shares his circuitous journey to art-world success, his passion for music, film and outsider culture, and the powerful way our online lives are shaping how we feel and even how we sound
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Nicholas Pope: ‘We artists can speak and everyone can understand in their own way what we’re speaking about’
To coincide with three major shows of his work, Nicholas Pope speaks about his successes, travels, tribulations and breakthroughs – and, in everything, his joy in making and thinking shines through
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Tesfaye Urgessa – interview: ‘Young people don’t need to have a geographical boundary. They belong where the dream is’
Tesfaye Urgessa talks about his latest exhibition, breaking down borders and what home means to him
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Michael Armitage – interview: ‘Not having a cultural hierarchy is liberating’
As his show, Paradise Edict, opens at the Royal Academy in London, Michael Armitage talks about the pandemic, painting, politics and his dual Kenyan-UK heritage
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Kate Atkin – interview: ‘I think about life and death all the time’
On the eve of Floating Heads, a new show at Xxijra Hii in London, Atkin talks about her exotic and fantastic pencil drawings, her new micro sculptures, and how a random Polaroid spawned her whole drawing practice
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Rachel Kneebone – interview: ‘My work is concerned with our visceral life, with movement and the experience of inhabiting the body’
Sculptor Rachel Kneebone talks about her forthcoming exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the new direction her work is taking
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Sutapa Biswas – interview: ‘I felt questioning established systems of knowledge and power was as vital as breathing’
Sutapa Biswas talks about her lifelong quest to decolonialise British art history, and about her two forthcoming exhibitions
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