Category: Interview
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Langlands & Bell – video interview: ‘We like to be catapulted into the unknown; we like a challenge’
For their new show at Birmingham’s Ikon gallery, Langlands & Bell have turned their shared gaze on to the giants of the technological age – among them Google, Amazon, Alibaba and Facebook – and the structures they have created as…
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Alexandra Kokoli and Basia Śliwińska: ‘As long as ‘home’ remains confining … it will continue to loom large in art practices informed and committed to feminism’
Curators Kokoli and Śliwińska and artists Małgorzata Markiewicz and Su Richardson talk about the exhibition Home Strike at I’étrangère in London
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Su Richardson: interview
Su Richardson talks about her crocheted works, made in the 1970s, and also more recently constructed body parts “indicating bitter fantasies”
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Małgorzata Markiewicz: interview
Krakow-based artist Małgorzata Markiewicz talks about her video The Resistance Kitchen (2017), responding to the policies from the current rightwing Polish government that violate women’s rights
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Cary Leibowitz: ‘I hate my aesthetic. I wish I was delicate and elegant and smart and earth-shattering’
For his first major retrospective, the undersung American artist fills the ICA Philadelphia with more than 300 works that span a 30-year career. Leibowitz discusses how he established himself as an artist in the 1980s and 90s, and the origins…
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Alge Julija Kavaliauskaitė: ‘There is something about glass that I am continually drawn to’
Kavaliauskaitė, originally from Lithuania but now living in Finland, talks about art and alchemy, haunted mansions, her latest exhibition and why she was drawn to live in Nuutajärvi, a village famous for its glass-blowing
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Anthony McCall: ‘The sculptural aspect of a piece occurs only at the moment of projection’
The pioneer of immersive, sculptural light installations explains his process and procedures, interests in performance, film and architecture, and his new exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield
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Sam Stewart: ‘From a psychological perspective, working in someone’s home is a loaded experience’
For his first solo exhibition, artist-designer Sam Stewart transforms an unoccupied space within a New York townhouse by imagining the life of its mythical occupant
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Claudia Wieser: ’I know there is the danger of beauty in my work, or a danger that it becomes purely decorative’
Ahead of the opening of her current show at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, Berlin-based artist Claudia Wieser discusses her references from 1970s TV to Greek plays, and the danger of making work that is too beautiful
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Evelyn Hankins: ‘Mark Bradford’s project directly challenges the idea of a single or objective transcription of history’
Hankins, senior curator at the Hirshhorn museum, explains how a collaboration with Mark Bradford led to the artist’s monumental cyclorama Pickett’s Charge, and why the subject, the 1883 Battle of Gettysburg, still resonates today in the US
