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…
Klaus Biesenbach
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…
Political Minimalism
During the 8th Istanbul Biennial in 2003 artist collective Xurban exhibited what appears to be a minimalist, untreated, rusty metal…
Into Me/Out of Me
I am sitting on the bank of the River Ganges and I am stuffing everything I see into my head……
Pipilotti Rist
Klaus Biesenbach: The first all-surround Pipilotti experience I had was when I visited the Chisenhale Gallery in London in 1996.…
The Trading Floor
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 264, January – February 2009. Following an invitation from Flash Art, Klaus Biesenbach,…
Roman Ondák
Klaus Biesenbach: Let’s start with your piece Measuring the Universe (2007) that we recently presented at MoMA. Does it start…
Black Paintings
We stand in solidarity with all black communities around the world. In the past years, Flash Art has been inviting various artists, thinkers and writers to rewrite or rethink the idea of blackness. Our “Editors Choice” does not aim to dictate an exhaustive or comprehensive list of writings but is an act of solidarity, which aims to contribute to the distribution of art thinking on blackness, and a way in which we can support the movement. Good reading!
Jeremy Shaw
Klaus Biesenbach: Your visual arts career is your second successful profession. Why did you decide to not pursue your promising…
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky: I would like to start this alphabet with the letter B as the prologue. Bonsai. Why? Because you…
An Intimately, Duplicitously Reflexive Experience
Klaus Biesenbach: What is your working process? Do you start with text and then the image comes? Or do you have…