Interviews
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Katie Birkwood – interview: ‘The bodies of society’s disadvantaged, the poor and people of colour, were most likely to be used and abused without consent’
The Royal College of Physicians’ exhibition of anatomical illustrations, from medieval times to the present day, reveals the intersecting histories of medicine, art and politics, explains Under the Skin’s curator, Katie Birkwood
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Barby Asante – interview: ‘There was real pleasure running through the declarations – we’re trying to influence’
With Declaration of Independence at the Baltic, Asante makes space for womxn of colour to relate narratives and reflect on the nature of independence
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Sara Piccinini – interview: ‘We don’t want to give an idea of completeness with this exhibition, that’s not our goal’
In 2007, the formidable art collection of Achille Maramotti, the man behind the Max Mara fashion house, was opened to the public. Sara Piccinini, senior coordinator of the collection, talks about the history of the collection, and the thinking behind…
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Julianne Swartz interview – ‘Joy is also talking about sorrow and despair, so we will know what joy is’
Swartz talks about Joy, Still, her site-specific sound installation at Grace Farms, and how the multi-use centre in Connecticut, designed by the Japanese-based firm Sanaa, became her instrument
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Erwin Wurm – interview: ‘I’m horrified about our environment, about our future’
The Austrian sculptor, famed for sheathing social commentary in comic forms, talks about absurdity, handicraft, the mass media and the future
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Htein Lin – interview: ‘I wanted to show that I could also continue to create while in jail’
Htein Lin was imprisoned for challenging the military dictatorship in Myanmar. Here, he talks about his time in jail and his sculptural installation A Show of Hands, a testament to former political prisoners, now on show at the Albright-Knox Art…
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Nari Ward – interview: ‘I wouldn’t be the artist I am now if I hadn’t moved to Harlem’
We the People, Nari Ward’s latest exhibition, at New Museum, New York, underlines the critical role the city has played in his career. Here, he discusses the importance of Harlem, the neighbourhood that continues to inform his work
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Nguyen Trinh Thi – interview: ‘I want to unpick the way we look at things’
The Vietnamese film-maker talks about documenting female spirits, regional journalism and the ecological destruction of Vietnam’s heartlands
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Eva van Tongeren – interview: ‘When Thomas writes about his crime so beautifully, the crime is disguised by beauty’
Corresponding with a jailed paedophile led Van Tongeren to collaborate with him to make a film. She discusses their relationship and the moral and ethical implications of working with someone who has committed such a heinous crime
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Phil Collins – interview: the artist who brought a statue of Engels from Ukraine to Manchester
The artist talks about his latest exhibition, Ceremony, which documents the statue’s journey, and explains why Engels has such relevance in contemporary Britain
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Daria Martin – interview: ‘Most people can relate to the feeling of being in exile’
The 2018 Jarman Award-winner talks about Franz Kafka, mirror-touch synaesthesia and her film Tonight the World, which involved curating her grandmother’s dreams
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Betty Yu: ‘Wherever you are, there are folks fighting for their lives’
New York-based artist Betty Yu talks about the gentrification of her neighbourhood in Brooklyn and what galleries can do to help
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Ceal Floyer
Ceal Floyer’s subversion of everyday objects continues her meditation on materiality in private and public space
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Jorge Pardo: ‘There’s a lot of No in conceptual art. I’m interested in Yes and More’
Pardo and his team have transformed a tired French hotel in Arles into a work of art, designing and making a million handmade tiles, almost every piece of furniture and hundreds of his signature light fittings
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Christine Ay Tjoe: ‘I will always treat every medium as paper and pencil’
For her first solo exhibition in London, the Indonesian artist presents a group of intricately layered paintings and drawings that call on the contrasting environments of her home city of Bandung
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Gustavo Pérez Monzón: ‘Interests, obsessions and people keep appearing in my life’
The Cuban artist discusses his return to production, a fascination with the systems of arcane sciences and why teaching and practice are born of the same spirit of enquiry
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Brent Wadden: ‘I love a good happy accident. The mistakes end up being integral to each piece’
The artist talks about Sympathetic Resonance, his new show at Pace, why he refers to his weaving as painting, and trawling websites daily in search of secondhand yarn
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Martin Creed: ‘You’re at the mercy of these feelings you don’t have any control over’
Creed spoke to us at the opening of his new show, Toast, which includes a dancing sock, a painting that moves in and out of the room and a troupe of singers, along with new drawings, videos, paintings, textiles and…
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Christo: ‘Art is useless’
Famed for wrapping massive structures, great bodies of water and chunks of coastline as well as monumental sculptures built from oil drums, Christo, who collaborated with his wife Jeanne-Claude until her death in 2009 – and still talks about her…
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Funda Gül Özcan: ‘I was like a sponge to soak up their tears’
Özcan talks about her recent installation at a bar in Graz, extraterrestrials, the Kosovo war, artworks that function like pop songs and why men confide in her
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Julie Greve: ‘I don’t like shooting models. They are taught so quickly to pose’
The recent art-school graduate, who was selected to photograph this season’s campaign for standout British fashion label JW Anderson, discusses her approach to commercial projects and the importance of forming a rapport with her subjects
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Pepe López: ‘When it comes to exile, we keep all memories in the same place in the heart’
The Venezuelan artist recounts packing a life into a suitcase, the potency of objects in evoking the past, and the will to overcome loss through transformation
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Andreas Lolis: ‘I’m not working with marble, I’m conversing with it’
Lolis talks about why he uses marble to sculpt bin bags, wooden crates and other mundane items, in reference to homelessness, the refugee crisis and Greece’s changing society
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Artes Mundi 8 Prize and Exhibition
The artists shortlisted for Artes Mundi 8 aim to stir our consciences on everything from abuse of the Earth’s resources to the creep of surveillance and the steel industry’s impact. We talk to two of them, Anna Boghiguian and Otobong…
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