Interviews
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Henrike Naumann: ‘I really see fascism in the furniture’
Naumann’s careful recreations of 1990s living spaces explore how sudden social and economic change led to the rise of the far right in Germany and Austria
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Damien Coulthard: Songlines XXX, Adnyamathanha Yarta – ‘It’s exciting when you feel a connection with ancestral lands’
To mark its 30th anniversary, Rebecca Hossack Gallery is showing the Australian artist Damien Coulthard. Here, he talks about painting the creation stories of his people, the Adnyamathanha
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Pierre Le-Tan: The Collection of Monsieur X
The French artist and illustrator explains his love of collecting, his collaboration with Patrick Modiano and why he stopped working for magazines
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Phoebe Unwin: Field
Unwin describes the role of memory in the 10 oil paintings of this solo show and explains why she resists being aligned with any specific group or movement
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Stephen Farthing on The Miracle Paintings
Farthing explains how his Miracle paintings, now on show at Salisbury Cathedral, came from a conversation he had with a Coptic priest in Cairo
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Vanessa Brazeau: ‘We’ve begun to defer to technology to tell us how to think and behave’
Performance artist Vanessa Brazeau devises absurd exercise routines and fitness apps in order to connect the act of movement to the way we think and make decisions
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Birgitta Hosea: Erasure at Hanmi Gallery Seoul
‘I was always drawing with my mother, and making things with my mother,’ says the artist
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Banu Cennetoğlu: The List
Istanbul-based artist Banu Cennetoğlu talks about the List, a documentation of refugees known to have died trying to reach Europe, now on show at the Liverpool Biennial, her recent film at the Chisenhale that spanned more than 128 hours, and…
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Loie Hollowell – interview
Loie Hollowell talks about her latest exhibition at Pace Gallery, London, her first solo show in the UK, and how trying for a baby has influenced her work
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Lily Lanfermeijer: Lost in Depiction
The Dutch sculptor Lily Lanfermeijer discusses tableware, colonial histories and the passing of patterns between continents
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Aaditi Joshi: ‘I want to be closer to plastic and express its beautiful side’
You may view plastic as rubbish, but for Mumbai artist Aaditi Joshi it is ‘as precious as a gem’. She even covers her body in it to make art. Here, she talks about why she chose it as her medium…
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Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt
As the V&A this week opens an exhibition that celebrates groundbreaking innovations in video game design, its curator, Marie Foulston, discusses the medium’s radical development over the past 20 years, and why now is the right time for a show…
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Mary Kuper: ‘Where you have greater language diversity in the world, you also have greater biodiversity’
The artist and illustrator talks about her current exhibition, Language Shift, the Endangered Poetry Project, her etymological alphabet, and why each language is so important to its culture
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Tamsyn Challenger: Free the Pussy!
The artist-curator Tamsyn Challenger talks about Free the Pussy!, the exhibition she has curated to showcase works made in response to Pussy Riot’s arrest in 2012, and the more general need for women to speak out, take control and reclaim…
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Simon English: Smile Please
The London-based artist Simon English talks about chance, addiction and the wilful act of drawing
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Rajyashri Goody: Eat With Great Delight
Goody, herself of Dalit heritage, talks about discrimination in India against the Dalits and how, in her first solo exhibition, she is using photographs of her family and turning Dalit literature into recipes, to highlight the significant and complex relationship…
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Alison Wilding and Florence Peake in conversation
With Wilding’s show Right Here and Out There and Peake’s RITE on concurrently at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, the artists talk about their practice
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Tamara Henderson – interview: ‘You could say the maquettes were the hypnotherapy I did at Gatwick airport’
Tamara Henderson discusses the transmigration of the soul, the transformative properties of clay, and using art as a way of mourning
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Thierry Oussou: ‘I would like the discourse that I am developing in my work to educate people – to make them think differently’
The Benin-born artist Thierry Oussou reflects on his artistic practice, the need for repatriation of cultural objects, and art and culture in Africa more generally
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Tania Kovats and Kimathi Donkor discuss drawing practice and education
After the pop-up symposium Lines of Thought at Trinity Buoy Wharf, the new partner for what was formerly the Jerwood Drawing Prize, practitioners and educators Tania Kovats and Kimathi Donkor talked about drawing in education and practice today
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Jacob Hashimoto: ‘The history of art is full of cultural appropriators. I’m one, too’
The artist talks about The Eclipse, an installation comprising thousands of paper kites, and Never Comes Tomorrow, which references cosmology and history and is covered in hundreds of political stickers
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Ardan Özmenoğlu: ‘For me, repetition is the only way that you can reach perfection’
The Turkish artist known for her distinctive works with Post-it notes talks about how she turns them into 3D paintings, her love of repetition, political humour, and her latest project, to turn a soap factory into an art space
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Leonor Antunes: ‘I’m interested in ancient ways of doing things’
The sculptor talks about learning traditional crafts, the Smithsons’ Solar Pavilion, creating an exhibition for Mexico, and how her work resembles choreography
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Henry Skerritt and Margo Smith talk about the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection
With more than 1,900 works, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia is the largest collection of Indigenous art in the US. Here, Margo Smith, the director, and Henry Skerritt, the curator, talk about the museum and…
