Tag: Joseph Beuys
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Dialogue with Joseph Beuys
Alongside work by Beuys, six contemporary Japanese artists respond to an artist who saw no boundary between society and art, viewing them as interrelated
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Mike Parr – interview: ‘I was a performance artist with one arm. The problem of visibility, the visual, was loaded completely differently’
One of Australia’s most influential artists, Parr talks about his extreme performance art, how the death of his brother has affected his work, and why Joseph Beuys’s drawings have been a constant touchstone
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Joseph Beuys: 40 Years of Drawing
Two concurrent exhibitions of Beuys’ work consider his drawings, the first spanning 40 years of his output and the second, curated by Antony Gormley, which explores the strong relationship the latter has developed with the German artist’s work
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Nam June Paik
The inventiveness and curiosity of Nam June Paik is what shines through in this show of visionary work from throughout his career
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Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger
This exhibition of artwork from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, looks at how the country’s great famine in the mid-19th century still resonates today
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Vera Möller: ‘My father thought going to art school was like wanting to become a communist’
The German-born artist explains why she first studied biology rather than art, how her scientific background informs her work, her love of the Great Barrier Reef, and why she is moving away from painting painstaking details of imaginary species
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Art into Society – Society into Art: Seven German Artists
By revisiting a key exhibition of German artists from 1974, the ICA reflects on art, its relationship to capitalism, and its potential to incite reform
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Reflections on the Self: From Dürer to Struth
This exhibition explores the genre of the self-portrait, looking at the ways in which more than 50 artists from the 1400s onwards have sought to visualise the self
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The Nakeds
Egon Schiele’s iconic drawings are a starting point for this extensive group show at Drawing Room, titled The Nakeds. The exhibition looks at the extent of Schiele’s influence on contemporary artists, while placing a finger on current issues of feminism,…
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Richard Demarco interview: ‘The art world, like the Edinburgh festival itself, is in danger of being identified with the world of entertainment and leisure’
Richard Demarco has organised exhibitions and theatre events for the Edinburgh festival since 1963. He talks about his memories of the very first festival in 1947, bringing Joseph Beuys to Scotland, his own work as an artist and the Demarco…
