Kutlug Ataman
When my parents, decades ago, had our Super-8 home movies professionally transferred onto VHS tapes, a mishap resulted in the…
Magazine Articles
Becky Beasley
A certain discrepancy exists at the heart of Becky Beasley’s work. Between the dark humbleness of her sculptures and gelatin…
Guy Ben-Ner
Maurizio Cattelan: I will start with a quote: in a review of your show a year ago in Artforum you…
Bruce Nauman
Confronted by Bruce Nauman’s work, the viewer becomes psychologically disturbed.The artist’s efforts to turn an idea into an artwork, to…
Turning the Wheel
The international exhibition of the 53rd Venice Biennale, “Making Worlds,” opens on the 7th June under the directorship of Daniel…
Gintaras Didžiapetris
Deliberately eschewing a few key methods of dissemination synonymous with the communication of contemporary art and the promotion of an…
Craft
First comes the artwork and then the artist, or that’s how it was in antiquity. Today, however, the system presumes…
Dan Graham: Being and nothingness
Originally published in Flash Art no. 265, March–April 2009. Violaine Boutet de Monvel: Shall we start with your exhibition “Beyond”…
What is to Be Done?
Polish art, I believe, operates in cycles — a bit like mania and depression in psychosis. And now is the…
Artur Żmijewski
Valentina Sansone: You attended the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts during the ’90s together with Katarzyna Kozyra and Paweł Althamer.…
Emre Hüner
Some of us have an unquenchable thirst for fantastic realism, thinking the most sensitive readings of today can be traced from…
Clemens von Wedemeyer
The curve at the Barbican Art Centre has been painted dark to host Clemens von Wedemeyer’s new multi-layered piece The…
Olivia Plender
Robert Stasinski: In 1958 the BBC first aired the TV series Monitor, which focused on the arts and culture. You…
Chris Burden
Valentina Sansone: In 1971 you presented a performance that consisted of being shot (Shoot). Later on you claimed that you…
Ferran Adrià
Nine o’clock in the morning and I meet Ferran Adrià inside the Sagrada Familia. He tells me that he loves…
Biennial Manifesto
“A twenty-first-century biennial will utilize calculated uncertainty and conscious incompleteness to produce a catalyst for invigorating change whilst always producing…