Interviews
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Harland Miller: ‘Brevity is no strength of mine’
The writer and artist discusses Berlin, Bowie and alter egos, his show with Blain Southern, and why he won’t use 10 words when 20 will do
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Dóra Maurer: ‘My work has been based on change, shifting, traces, temporality’
As a new exhibition surveys her 50-years career, the Hungarian artist talks about colour, maths and geometry – and why she doesn’t like finished work
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Almuth Tebbenhoff: ‘I’m wrestling with ideas that are way out of my control’
The sculptor talks about the perpetual puzzle of the cosmos and its vastness, eternity and the meaning of life – all themes running through her work, no matter what its scale
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Anthony McCall: ‘I wondered if it would be possible to make a film that existed only at the moment of projection’
The artist, a key figure in the avant-garde London Film-makers’ Co-operative in the 1970s, discusses his current exhibition at a 15th-century gothic palace in Barcelona
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Katie Paterson: ‘As a child, I used to practise daydreaming’
With her largest UK show to date currently on at the Lowry, the artist talks about the relationship with heavenly bodies and the wider cosmos, her graveyard of stars and sending her work into space
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Stephen Prina: ‘The exhibition was really about considering whether I could embark on an autobiographical project that I would deem acceptable’
The post-conceptual artist talks about his hometown, studying with John Baldessari at California Institute of the Arts, and a missed encounter with John Cage
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David Claerbout: ‘I sculpt in duration’
The artist talks about duration, place and history in his practice, and how he sees his way of working as archaeological research rather than a production process
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Martine Syms: ‘I am interested in the idea of the gulf between your lived experience and its representation’
The Los Angeles-based artist talks about semiotics, funkadelic Afrofuturism, and how to create a 90-minute feature-length film out of 180 30-second clips
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Gillian Wearing: ‘I don’t have any typical practice. Every project is different’
The artist talks about the ideas behind her latest film project, A Room With Your Views, which brings together footage from around the world and will be premiered at Brighton Festival
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Sara Greenberger Rafferty: ‘What is more essential than how one faces the day?’
The multimedia artist talks about constructing the self through the language of clothing
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Jules de Balincourt: ‘I can’t be painting bouquets of flowers and pretend that everything is wonderful. That doesn’t interest me’
The painter’s uncanny worlds reflect the post-9/11 zeitgeist with a beguiling charm. The world is a fragile, unsettling place, he says, and it’s difficult not to respond to that
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Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk: ‘Material dictates the way you relate to the fact you describe’
The Russian immigrant artists talk about the difference between art education in the former Soviet Union and in the United States and the importance of using materials as expressive means in their work
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François Morellet: ‘Art is frivolous even when it takes itself seriously’
Two exhibitions by François Morellet, at London’s Mayor Gallery and Annely Juda Fine Art, mark the 90th birthday of one of the leading figures of postwar European art, who once described himself as the ‘monstrous son of Mondrian and Picabia’
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Lucy Jones: ‘My work is not slick and I struggle to resolve my paintings’
The artist talks about her recent return to making portraits of others, and explains what she sees as a balancing act between the tools that go to make up the language of a painting
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Todd Oldham: ‘I wasn’t very fashionable, so it was to our advantage that our designs sat as a separate thing’
The New York-based designer talks about designing $10,000 dresses, his aversion to using animal materials, and his experiences of the New York fashion scene in the 1990s
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Arnaldo Pomodoro: ‘Sculpture is the appropriation of one’s own space within the wider space in which we live and move’
As Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro has his first London exhibition for more than 50 years, he talks about his work and the influences that have shaped it
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Philip Pearlstein: ‘I decided I didn’t want to express other artists’ ideas any longer. I wanted to paint what was in front of me’
The American artist has pursued an independent path for more than 60 years. Here, he talks about his life and career, from his time in Italy during the second world war and his student days with Andy Warhol to his…
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Comix Creatrix: 100 women making comics
This is a groundbreaking exhibition of female comics artists, from Hogarth’s contemporary Mary Darly to the modern day. Below, Sarah Lightman, Nicola Streeten and Rachael House talk to us about their work
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Kelly Chorpening: ‘The whole relationship between image and object or building for me has been a kind of theme for a really long time’
Studio International visited Horatio Junior gallery in southeast London to talk to the American artist about her exhibition, Immaterial Statements, and the things that influence her practice
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Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky
This exhibition introduces visitors to the talents and turmoil of the Russian arts scene from 1867 to 1914 with some exquisite loans from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Emily Spicer spoke to Dr Rosalind Blakesley, curator of Russia and…
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Heidi Kilpeläinen: ‘In a way, I suppose I’m making my reading of the world through tapping into different mediums’
The London-based Finnish artist talks about her multidisciplinary practice and her recent residencies in London and Helsinki
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Mark Wallinger: ‘Even the ugliest mark, with symmetry, gains some kind of élan’
After months of psychoanalysis, the Turner Prize-winning artist reveals something of his inner self in his debut solo show at Hauser & Wirth. The id, the ego and the superego are all vying for attention and begging interpretation
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Nico Vascellari: ‘I’m not interested in the rules or breaking them. I am just interested in creating my own work’
The artist talks about how touring in a band influenced his work, despising morality in art, how we are all like fossils, with memories buried in our DNA – and why he wants his work to make people feel uncomfortable
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Sergio Caballero: ‘I’m interested in the creative process. I couldn’t care less about the final work’
The Spanish artist, composer, film-maker and director of Barcelona’s Sónar Festival talks about his quirky interest in taxidermy and the paranormal, his unorthodox film-making process, and why he’s averse to popular culture
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