Interviews
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Osman Yousefzada – interview: ‘Opening doors for other people is key to what I do’
He has dressed Beyoncé, wrapped Selfridges in Birmingham in a giant canvas, had a solo show at the V&A and written a memoir about his childhood as the son of immigrant parents. Here, he discusses his multidisciplinary approach to work…
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Luca Massimo Barbero – interview: ‘Fontana is a pioneer of conceptual art not just sculpture, a poetic response to more mental experimentation’
As the second in a trilogy of exhibitions dedicated to Lucio Fontana takes place at Hauser & Wirth New York, Luca Massimo Barbero, who curated it in collaboration with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, explains why the artist is so important…
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Sabine Marcelis – interview: ‘I love to play with light’
The Dutch designer talks about her installation at the Vitra Schaudepot, which shines a fresh light on the collection of the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, and explains how her passion for sport and nature has informed her work
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Jim Eyre – interview: ‘I don’t think we are seen as starchitects. It’s not a particularly good label, really’
Jim Eyre discusses working with – and creating – landmark structures, Battersea Power Station’s reinvention, how to avoid being starchitects and the steady growth, collaborative model he and his founding partner, Chris Wilkinson, established
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Vanessa Baird – interview: ‘I don’t think art can rescue anything’
As two shows of her thrilling, carnivalesque drawings open in the UK, the Oslo-based artist talks about personal upheaval and the role of art in society
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John Riddy – interview: ‘I don’t want to make an ordinary print. I want every print in the show to be exceptional’
Riddy talks about his work over the years and his new show at Frith Street Gallery in London, which features nine landscape photographs made over two years, capturing a single scene in Norfolk across the seasons
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Grafton Architects: ‘A building is a collection of experiences. It’s not an abstract thing’
Designing a new building for the LSE, Grafton’s founders, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, were inspired by Georgian architect John Soane’s mastery of light in the building opposite. They talk about this and a shared social and spatial sensibility, revealed…
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Hans Ulrich Obrist and Peter Pakesch – interview: ‘The work of Atta Kwami emanates hope, particularly in these difficult times’
The artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries and the director of the Maria Lassnig Foundation explain the significance of the Maria Lassnig Award for mid-career artists, and discuss the work of the 2021 recipient, the late Atta Kwami
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Kate Groobey – interview: ‘The drip, for me, is pure joy and a kind of thrill’
The artist talks about bringing her paintings to life through performance, diverse cultural and linguistic influences, and – the subject of her current show – the concept of a ‘female stallion’
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Dindga McCannon – interview: ‘Not having money never stopped me creating what I wanted’
With a 50-year career as an artist and teacher, Dindga McCannon is widely celebrated in the US’s black activist, feminist and fibre art communities. As her first European solo show opens in London, she talks about the importance of passion,…
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Bernar Venet – interview: ‘My dream is not to make big sculpture, but sculptures that are new, radical, different’
As his solo show opens at Waddington Custot in London, the man dubbed France’s ‘greatest living sculptor’ talks about curiosity, popularity and the quest for reinvention
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Ian Cheng – interview: ‘What’s the worst possible dad I could be? Maybe a dad who conflates his work with his kid and tries to make them the same thing’
The American artist Ian Cheng explores parenthood and agency in an imagined future that sees humans and AI living in symbiosis
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Museu.xyz – interview: ‘All shows in the physical world should also be in the metaverse’
A museum that exists entirely in the metaverse is generating new opportunities for Brazilian artists
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Melissa McGill – interview: ‘One of my main influences is water’
The multimedia artist reveals how a two-year stay in Venice shaped her career and why water features so often in her works, and explains her use of traditions and personal reflections to bring people together to address climate change
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Mariana Castillo Deball – interview: ‘History belongs to everyone’
Castillo Deball discusses her interest in history and how artefacts and their re-creations are viewed, and talks about Roman Rubbish, her installation at the London Mithraeum Bloomberg Space, which takes as its starting point the 14,000 artefacts discovered at the…
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Monika Fabijanska – interview: ‘I wanted Women at War to explain a war that has been going on in Ukraine in silence for eight years’
The curator explains why, for her show at the Fridman Gallery in New York, she chose female artists to narrate the story of the war, and to widen the theme to draw in people with no prior interest in the…
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Nick Merriman – interview: ‘Removing as many barriers as possible to participation is what our mission should be about
London’s Horniman Museum has just been awarded one of the art world’s biggest prizes. Nick Merriman, the museum’s director, says its winning formula involves a passion for the environment and a determination to reach a more diverse audience
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Céline Condorelli – interview: ‘The histories of work are really opened up in my work so that things are voiced and expanded’
The architecturally trained artist talks about her new show at Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery, and looking at the constructed nature of labour and leisure, as well as value
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Mahmoud Khaled – interview: ‘It’s a memorial dedicated to the people who cannot sleep’
As he exhibits two large-scale works in London, the Egyptian artist talks about creating museums, heteronormative male privilege – and Hugh Hefner’s bed
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AA Bronson – interview: ‘Suddenly, we were artists’
The pioneering artist, publisher and member of the groundbreaking trio General Idea talks about artists’ books, communes and posterity, the retrospective of the group now on at the National Gallery of Canada and ‘the book of a lifetime’ that accompanies…
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Jacquiline Creswell – interview: ‘When I first sited art in Salisbury Cathedral, I was accused of turning it into a theme park’
When Creswell joined Salisbury Cathedral as arts curator, she was verbally and physically abused. As she explains, it was her first challenge, but not her last. Here, she talks about bringing world-class art to the cathedral in her 12 years…
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Rachael Louise Bailey – interview: ‘It’s good to work with something that stirs you’
From the synthetic detritus of the oyster industry washed up on the Kent coast and the organic softness of sheep’s fleece, Bailey conjures up fascinating work. She explains what motivates her and how she became obsessed by these two very…
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Abbas Akhavan – interview: ‘I like the propelled intensity towards accomplishing something’
The artist discusses his site-specific responses, often inspired by residencies, and the processes he uses to generate the most interesting work in that context
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Amie Siegel – interview: ‘There’s a lot of information underneath the information’
The American artist discusses her new film work, Bloodlines, a masterful exploration of class, ownership and time glimpsed through the movement of George Stubbs’s paintings
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