Interviews
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Silvia Ziranek – interview: ‘I enjoy appearance, colour, shape and form – and I love dressing up’
The artist discusses her approach to objects and performance, to writing and performing, and to language, the absurdity in life – and the colour pink
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Maria Pasenau – interview: ‘I made all these works through the prism of anxiety, devils and stress’
The young Norwegian photographer talks about fear, red devils, graveyards and reinvesting photography with a sense of truth
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Julie Cockburn – interview: ‘My work is about telling the truth, but in a really circuitous way’
At the opening of her latest show, Telling it Slant at Flowers Gallery, Cockburn talks about happy accidents, the labour that goes into her work and the simple joy of circles
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Alexander Tovborg – interview: ‘If you jump, you don’t necessarily come back down’
The Danish artist mixes his paint with holy water. Here, he talks religion, irony and bringing mystery back into art
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Esther Pearl Watson – interview: ‘I really search out moments of awkward humour’
The Los Angeles-based painter presents an offbeat world that reflects on a distinctly American kind of idealism
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Roger Palmer – interview: ‘I have always treated photography as a form of drawing’
Following an exhibition based on Robinson Crusoe and a new book of photographs of South Africa’s disused railway lines, Palmer’s latest projects are on Irish independence and Russia’s Kronstadt Mutiny. He explains how he chooses his subjects
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Rachel Howard – interview: ‘I like to contradict myself, trip myself up’
The artist talks about her interest in madness and the edge of things and the five large-scale paintings in her show l’Appel du Vide, which opens this month at Blain Southern in New York
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Nicoline van Harskamp – interview: ‘Once you start thinking about names as language, people get very upset or very excited’
Van Harskamp is a woman obsessed by language. Here she talks about people’s names, what she calls “linguistic biographies” and how languages evolve as people from different places speak them
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Sammy Baloji – interview: ‘I’m not interested in colonialism as a thing of the past, but in the continuation of that system’
The Brussels-based Congolese artist talks about the past and present of colonialism and mineral extraction in the context of his recent exhibition at Salzburg’s Stadtgalerie Museumspavillon, Salzburg Summer Academy
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Sohrab Hura – interview: ‘The only thing I can take responsibility for is my own relationship with the world’
The photographer talks about his new book, Coast, and his aim of sucking viewers in with a narrative and then taking them to a point of incoherence so that they look at things anew
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Michael Landy – interview: ‘The projects no longer exist, but they are mapped on to the Australian psyche’
The sociologically inclined Landy is creating an exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Kaldor Public Art Projects. He discusses the challenges of reviving archival ghosts, his enduring fascination with artistic failures, and Kaldor’s doggedness in realising his ambitious scheme
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Bertille Bak – interview: ‘The world of art is a territory capable of giving space to artists who care about humanity’
At the Merz Foundation in Turin, on the occasion of its third art prize, Bertille Bak reflects on a Romany community living on the periphery in Paris
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Leila Heller – interview: ‘The Upper East Side is hot again and I love being back’
Gallerist Leila Heller talks about showing Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980s, after meeting them in New York clubs, promoting artists from the Middle East, her current show curated by Warhol’s muse – and why she has just…
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France-Lise McGurn – interview: ‘I think I’ve got a certain aesthetic that’s rooted in 1990s Glasgow’
McGurn talks about motherhood, sleeplessness and strangeness in Glasgow, Berlin and Ibiza, and how they have fed into the work for her new exhibition at Tate Britain
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Leo Warner – interview: ‘If you put the technology first, you can end up with very hollow artwork’
Warner, design director of multimedia visual artists and impresarios 59 Productions talks about collaborative creativity, working across global as well as technical boundaries, sources of inspiration and how technology should always be subservient to the story
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Botanic: National Amalgamation Project
Iranian artist Maryam Najd talks about her exhibition at the Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology in Beijing and why she chose to embark on a project researching the national flowers of the world
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Hans Ulrich Obrist – interview: ‘This is an unusual Calder show because it is about ideas. We see him in a new light’
A major Alexander Calder exhibition at Centro Botín in Santander reveals about 80 of the great American artist’s unrealised projects. Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator of the show, discusses these little-known collaborative works, which highlight Calder’s interest in the world around…
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Koen Vanmechelen – interview: ‘Now everyone is talking about diversity, but that is just a hashtag diversity’
In a joint venture with the Belgian city of Genk, the artist Koen Vanmechelen has built a €22m ecological park that presents art as an instigator of community development
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Tess Jaray – interview: ‘Ways of being an artist have massively expanded’
Jaray looks back at a career that has spanned more than 60 years and talks about the influence on her of American painting in the 50s and 60s, the importance of architecture and teaching at the Slade
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Francesc Ruiz – interview: ‘In the realm of drawing, a place of fantasy and abstraction, nearly anything goes’
The artist talks about his alternative porn installation, House of Fun, now on at Norway’s Momentum, launching a porn studies institute and having sex with insects
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Alvaro Barrington – interview: ‘When you look at my paintings, you’re encountering parts of my identity’
The New York-based painter talks about the artists he steals from, integrating his lived experience into art – and being the first artist asked to design a float for the Notting Hill Carnival
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Callum Hüseyin – interview: ‘Music has the power to shock people in a way that statistics might not’
Taking as inspiration the stories of scientists, donors and patients and creating a breathtakingly beautiful – and, as yet, unfinished – piece of music, Hüseyin is collaborating with the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to fundraise…
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Andrea Luka Zimmerman – interview: ‘This is how I work in films, it’s really a layering, like an archaeological dig’
Luka Zimmerman talks about her interest in people on the margins, her collaborative process, and that fine line between reality and fiction, explored in her latest film, Here for Life
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Nikhil Chopra – interview: ‘I try to hold a mirror up to the world and capture what is being reflected’
Nikhil Chopra, the 2019-2020 artist in residence at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, talks about his live performance there later this year, and about wanting to give the artist as much importance as a scientist, a journalist or a…
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