Category: Interview
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Ruimteveldwerk: ‘It is more like an understatement that creates an experiment than an artwork’
A social experiment investigating themes of being offline, privacy, and silence in the city brings about surprising results in Bruge’s Saint Trudo almshouses as part of this year’s triennial
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Joana Vasconcelos: I’m Your Mirror
Joana Vasconcelos has filled the Guggenheim Bilbao with work from the past 20 years. She talks about craft, the importance (or otherwise) of scale, and how she seeks to expose and explode the myths and realities around female experience
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John Powers: ‘Abstraction isn’t a technology or technique, it’s more an ethos (striving to be a virtue)’
Responding to the history of the city of Bruges, John Powers’ 15-metre-tall steel tower was constructed in situ for this year’s triennial and references long-neck swans and a medieval beheading
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Katharina Sieverding: ‘I also make fake news’
Part of the collateral programme of this year’s Manifesta Biennial in Palermo is a career-spanning solo exhibition by the Czech-born, German artist. Here, Sieverding talks selfies, fascism and fake news
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Samaneh Moafi of Forensic Architecture: ‘We are taking something that is already composed and pulling it apart, deconstructing it’
Forensic Architecture has never designed a building. Instead, it acts as an architectural detective agency to expose human rights abuses. Samaneh Moafi, one of its project leaders, talks about art prizes, the innovative potential of multidisciplinary collaboration and the role…
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Alex Mirutziu: ‘I’m interested in error, misunderstanding, correction’
The Romanian artist talks about his latest exhibition, examining the life and work of Iris Murdoch, and discusses the biomechanics of writing, necrophilia and the novelist’s teddy bear
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Baldwin and Guggisberg: ‘If you’re not in a white cube it forces you to take into consideration the reality that’s around you’
Having just installed 10, mostly blown-glass pieces around Canterbury Cathedral for their exhibition Under an Equal Sky, Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg talk about these new works and the resonance between their historic setting and their chosen issues of migration,…
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True Colours: Helen Beard, Sadie Laska and Boo Saville
True Colours, curated by Damien Hirst for his Newport Street Gallery in London, shows works by Helen Beard, Sadie Laska and Boo Saville. We talked to the three artists about the works they have in the show
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Boo Saville: interview
Boo Saville’s fields of colour shimmer, each massive painting drawing you in and, once you are up close, their surfaces seem to conjure immersive spaces, as though the air has suddenly been coloured and there is space to fall in.…
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Sadie Laska: interview
New York-based Sadie Laska, who is both a painter and a drummer, brings her improvisation skills into her wall-based works, using collage, small objects and brushed colour in flight. Each work embraces the tactility of materials and the motion of…
