Isa Genzken
The art student was shocked. The carefully prepared presentation collapsed under a surprisingly simple if not quite obvious question the…
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Sci-Fi Historicism
Ed Ruscha’s objective inventory of life in Southern California is wholly determined by the road, the highway and freeway, as…
Shadows on the Façade
Maurizio Cattelan: I want to start with something you said to Mery Nonha regarding your film Shadows on The Façade…
Andro Wekua
Andro wekua’s work combines a seductive and terrifying sense of composition, which seems to be walking in its sleep, with…
Mika Rottenberg
The female body, in all its potential fantastic proportions, obsesses Mika Rottenberg. Her eccentric videos have featured body builders, dancers,…
Giulio Paolini
Andrea Bellini: Let’s start at the beginning. Is there a real beginning? What are the moments and the intuitions that…
Sci-Fi Historicism
What is a character? It is, first of all, a letter, and secondly, an aggregate of letters, a representation of…
Clemens von Wedemeyer
Clemens von Wedemeyer makes films. Which is not to say that he makes cinema. He does frequently work with cinematic…
Marina Abramovic, Vanessa Beecroft and Shirin Neshat
I invited three cult women artists to reflect on nationality, what it means to be an outsider, a woman and…
Mario Garcia Torres
This summer, on the island of Syros, Greece, the Mexican artist Mario Garcia Torres breathed new life into the idea…
Peter Coffin
Maurizio Cattelan: Hello Peter. I’m glad we have this opportunity to talk. I am interested in knowing how you think…
Live from Los Angeles
It doesn’t come as news that the Los Angeles art scene is growing fast. It’s evident in the sheer quantity…
Next to Performance
In a recent conversation, the French dancer and choreographer Jérôme Bel articulated a distinction between the ‘fine arts artist,’ or…
Yvonne Rainer / Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien and Yvonne Rainer — friends for over 20 years — have been invited by Flash Art to sit…
Marcin Maciejowski
Kraków-based artist Marcin Maciejowski is a man of few words. It’s no surprise then that his paintings have an economy…
The Frankfurt Project
It seems to be the case today that conceptual programs for institutional exhibitions are increasingly driven by the dictates of…