Outsider Visions
Raw art that exists in extremis, at the very edges of culture and beyond — this could be one definition…
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Takashi Murakami
Andrea Bellini: When you curated the show “Superflat” at MOCA in Los Angeles, you wrote that the world in the…
Into Me/Out of Me
When Marina Abramovic was in the early stages of planning her “Seven Easy Pieces,” the re-staging of seven seminal performances…
Gedi Sibony
Philippe Vergne: You conceive environments made out of what could be perceived as detritus, leftovers… or material “without qualities.” It…
Anselm Reyle
Anselm Reyle picks up the languages of modern abstraction like objets trouvés. He draws purposefully on the last century’s fund…
Curatorial Schools
In the past few years, contemporary art has overtaken all the characteristics of an entertainment industry. Within the art system,…
Into Me/Out of Me
In the year 2000, an exhibition was planned for New York’s P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center that was initially supposed to…
Sterling Ruby
Since his first public solo outings about three years ago, Sterling Ruby’s combinations of performance-video, occultish drawings and collages, organic…
Michaël Borremans
Michaël Borremans’ star is rising steadily. The artist first made a name for himself with drawings of very detailed stage…
Mircea Cantor
Alessandro Rabottini: What is this little map on one wall of your studio? It’s a drawing, a sort of web…
Victor Man
Victor Man’s painting is not what is but rather all that might be. It is a space of possibilities, in…
Gabo
Deep in the heart of East London’s docklands there’s a bespectacled Italian man with only one name: Gabo. It’s a…
Vanessa Beecroft
Neville Wakefield: I’ve always understood the iconic aspect of your performances to be serial and anti-narrative. Certain aspects have changed…
Nathalie Djurberg
Ali Subotnick: What are you afraid of? Nathalie Djurberg: I’m afraid of almost everything; maybe I’m less scared now…
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
For Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster 2005 was a sabbatical year. Her calendar was emptied of exhibitions and public projects. The first show…
Peter Fischli and David Weiss
In July we traveled to Zurich to talk to Fischli and Weiss about their forthcoming retrospectives at the Zurich Kunsthaus,…