Pawel Althamer: Common Task
The importance of the Warsaw housing estate of Bródno can hardly be overestimated in Pawel Althamer’s practice. Long-time residence of…
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Camouflage
Sometimes the unexpected has to be looked for between the lines; something comes your way and nothing is anymore what…
Amie Dicke
Anat Ebgi: Your installation at Herengracht 401, Claustrophobic, involved the belongings of Claus Victor Bock, a German Jew who hid…
Sriwhana Spong
Danae Mossman: Can you describe the ideas driving your practice currently, and what form they may take? Sriwhana Spong: I’ve…
Agnieszka Brzezanska
You are not interested in the medium as such. (Actually I am.) In interviews you often emphasize that a painting…
A Not So Sad September
“How can anything ever present itself truly to us since its synthesis is never completed?” Says Maurice Merleau-Ponty, via Umberto…
Jonathan Baldock
The Harlequin (2009). Francesco Scasciamacchia: In the Commedia dell’ arte, professional players acted with masks. In your work the mask…
Bernhard Willhelm
They call him “wacko,” “weirdo” or the “nutty designer” but in real life he’s an observer, a reader and a…
The Shanghai Style
Many of today’s Shanghai-based artists claim inspiration from lao Shanghai (old Shanghai), referring specifically to the early twentieth century when…
Shirin Neshat
Lina Bertucci: As a visual artist, is your approach to filmmaking different from a traditional filmmaker’s? Shirin Neshat: From the…
Julia Stoschek
For three years Julia Stoschek has presented her private collection of video and media-based art to the general public in…
Nicholas Byrne
Heather Flow: Studio Voltaire presented your first solo show in 2008 entitled “Divider.” The exhibition featured a series of paintings…
Daniel Pitín
Gerald Matt & Katarzyna Uszynska: Your interest in movies is quite clear in many of your works. What can still…
Blinky Palermo
Blinky Palermo is a near-mythical figure in postwar art, partly because of his biography, partly because of his pioneering art,…
Lars Laumann
Aimee Walleston: The video Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana (2006) is very accomplished, and it’s your first video piece…
Jesse Aron Green
Sonia Campagnola: The video installation you showed at this year’s Whitney Biennial, Ärztliche Zimmergymnastik, was inspired by German physician Moritz…