Interviews
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Ann Gallagher – interview: ‘Hélio Oiticica’s work was outstanding in terms of its radicality’
As the first survey of Oiticica in London in 15 years goes on show at the Lisson Gallery, its curator, Ann Gallagher, talks about the Brazilian artist’s vibrant, sensual works
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Goran Trbuljak – interview: ‘It is a kind of painting – a painting that was created by refraining from painting’
The conceptual artist and film-maker explains why seeing Neil Armstrong walk on the moon had such a strong influence on him, why he is so reluctant to define his work as painting – and why he once spent his Sundays…
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Beatrice Merz – interview: ‘The purpose of the project is to contribute to the traditions of Sicily and southern Italy’
Led by Fondazione Merz, a new arts centre in Palermo hopes to engage local people with contemporary art, while retaining strong links to the capital’s history
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Pedro Cabrita Reis – interview: ‘Through all these years, I’ve always done what I wanted. I intend to stay like that’
In the run up to his exhibition in Venice during the 59th Biennale, the internationally renowned Portuguese artist talks about the museum he keeps in his mind, and why he will never be pinned down to a particular form of…
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Mahesh Baliga – interview: ‘Collected sorrow becomes my work. My work is autobiographical’
As his first solo show outside India takes place at David Zwirner in London, Baliga explains why pain and suffering, both his and that of others, are at the root of all his paintings
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Hulda Guzmán – interview: ‘I feel a little bad for the rest of the natural world, that it can’t laugh’
The Dominican artist Hulda Guzmán talks about the things that inspire her, her father’s influence – and not taking life too seriously
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Ali Cherri – interview: ‘You cannot un-write violence. I am interested in these hidden wounds’
Cherri has tackled a subject that museums would prefer not to bring to public attention – what happens when an artwork is vandalised. Growing up in Lebanon during the civil war, he says, has given him personal experience of dealing…
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Ming Smith – interview: ‘Photography’s the only thing I know’
As Pippy Houldsworth Gallery exhibits her first UK solo show, the pioneering American photographer talks through some of her key images
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Ingrid Pollard – interview: ‘I like to concentrate on that vast history of the world as it has been photographed since 1835’
Pollard first came to prominence as a key figure of the black British art movement of the 1980s. Now, a solo show at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes looks back over her 40-year career
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Libby Heaney – interview: ‘The point of the work is to destabilise you’
The physicist and artist talks about using her scientific knowledge in her art, how technology can be used to bring people together and form new expressions of collective identity, and her latest work Ent-, now on show in Berlin
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Jasmina Cibic – interview: ‘I’m drawn towards the political psychology and unconsciousness of states’
Cibic talks about the ideas, people and moments in history that inspire her artistic practice dealing with nation-building and soft power
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Vlatka Horvat – interview: ‘I’m interested in trying to get beyond the boundaries of the image’
During the lockdown last year, Horvat decided to go on daily walks around her east London neighbourhood. She explains how the photographs she took turned into a new project, now on show at PEER London
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Joan Semmel – interview: ‘I was simply not excluding those who did not conform to any preconceived notions of beauty’
With a retrospective at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts covering 60 years of work, from her early abstracts to her nude self-portraits, Semmel looks back at her career and explains why she chooses to paint her own body…
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Chechu Álava – interview: ‘We painters are like relay runners who pass the baton to each other to continue the race’
Álava explains how her passion for art history and her interest in gender issues blend together in her work, how she honours the memory of previously forgotten women by presenting them with love and, by doing so, hopes to provide…
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Cauleen Smith – interview: ‘I don’t know if optimism is needed so much as vigilance’
The artist on what it was like to have her lockdown Instagram posts on Covid shown on the vast screens at Piccadilly Circus, having her film about New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina shown in Edinburgh, and her…
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Katya Kvasova – interview: ‘People say that whatever someone paints or draws is always a self-portrait. That’s true’
The artist talks about her interest in hands, her artistic training, and her method of layering graphite powder and translucent colour on to the canvas, allowing the light to eat the image
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Coral Woodbury – interview: “The work I’m doing is approaching death, making peace with death’
Woodbury talks about her solo show at HackelBury Fine Art and what led her to use old books to redraw the history of art and make the invisible visible
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Joy Labinjo – interview: ‘When people speak of multicultural London, it’s something you can really see in Brixton’
For her first public commission at Brixton underground station, the young London-based artist reflects on the importance of the hair salon in her own life, as well as within black British female culture more widely
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Christiane Baumgartner – interview: ‘A good piece of work should not bore you; each time you look at it, there should be something else to discover’
Baumgartner talks about being brought up in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall and how that has shaped her work, why she has moved from depicting urban life to focusing on nature, and discusses her new body…
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John Abell – interview: ‘I see my work as a type of devotional art’
The artist talks about Welsh mythology, poets and nationalism, moving between linocut and painting, and his latest work at the Arusha Gallery in Edinburgh
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Nika Neelova – interview: ‘Everything in the world around us is constantly undoing and you can just grasp a moment of it’
The artist talks about how her multilingual upbringing may have shaped her thoughts and her work, her interest in the flow of time through objects, and why her latest show involves silted-up pipes
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Emeka Ogboh – interview: ‘I want listeners to be transported to Lagos. I want them to feel what it is like to be in those spaces’
As his latest show, at the Gropius Bau in Berlin, explores his Igbo heritage, Ogboh explains why he was drawn to work with sound and how his practice has evolved
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Jacqueline de Jong – interview: ‘I never compromise, no way. I could never do it. Not even today’
With the opening of her first major UK solo show in her 60-year career, De Jong talks about her time as part of the revolutionary Situationist International movement, her ever-changing style and her empathy for what is happening in the…
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Catsou Roberts – interview: ‘It is our duty to the NHS to elicit the production of remarkable artwork’
Roberts, the director of Vital Arts, which commissions projects for five London hospitals, talks about the range of artists and work involved and the transformative power of art on the wellbeing of patients and staff
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