Video Interviews
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Roger Hiorns – interview: ‘It isn’t enough to put an artwork in the world. You have to think about redesigning the world around the artwork’
Roger Hiorns explains his methods of exploration and excavation, and why he believes art is not so much about making objects as about designing behaviour
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Jiang Dahai: ‘There are universal values shared among artists and scholars around the world’
The Chinese-born artist unfolds his search for abstraction in all art, his pursuit of musicality and why all art should be judged by the same standards regardless of nationality
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György Jovánovics: ‘A relief shows a dynamic promise, which is more than what one can see at first glance’
The Hungarian neo-avant-garde relief artist unravels his enduring interest in the abstract possibilities of drapery, his belief that reliefs should be afforded the status of a fine art in their own right, and the difficulties of staying connected to contemporary…
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Tim Benson: ‘I wanted my work to have more meaning’
The artist talks about storytelling through portraiture, and the human face of Ebola
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John Akomfrah – interview: ‘The question of discourse is absolutely central’
The artist explains the inspirations for his new split-screen film, Auto da Fé, and talks about the importance of the Black Audio Film Collective, of which he was a founding member
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Nicolás Herrera: ‘this mural is about life’
Studio International travelled to Cuenca, Ecuador, to talk to Nicolás Herrera about his new work, El Jardín de las Mujeres, or The Garden of Women, a sculptural mural at La Casa de la Provincia, where it is permanently installed. It…
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Cecilia Brunson: ‘In the case of Willys de Castro, it’s also a perceptual and mental game’
The Latin American art dealer explains the ethos of her Bermondsey gallery and the importance of the Brazilian neo-concrete artist, Willys de Castro
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Toby Ziegler: ‘In half an hour, you can undo an entire month’s work’
Toby Ziegler explains his processes of painting and sanding, and using Google’s reverse image search to create works with layers of geological exploration
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Joey Holder: ‘I’d like to see a lot more collaboration between the sciences and the arts’
The artist shows Studio International around her ‘futuristic medical room’ installation and explains how what, at first, might seem like science fiction, is pretty much science fact
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Michelangelo Pistoletto: ‘The mirror is always part of one unique mirror. There is only one mirror that is fragmented in various moments and places’
In the startlingly altered states of Blenheim Palace, the multifarious Michelangelo Pistoletto spoke to Studio International about the history of time as captured in his Mirror Paintings, his rejection of the concept of a signature style, and the conviction that…
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Zhao Zhao: ‘You cannot separate art from politics’
A prominent member of the post-1980s generation of Chinese artists and a former assistant of Ai Wewei, the Beijing artist talks about his visually stunning, anti-authoritarian and provocative work. Lilly Wei talked to the artist in his Beijing studio in…
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Conrad Shawcross: ‘It’s created a skin for the surface of this building’
The artist explains his use of the moiré effect in designing an optical cloak for a tall industrial building on the Greenwich Peninsula in south-east London
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Cyril de Commarque: ‘I believe in a new renaissance of thinking’
The French artist has converted a grain barge into an artwork to sail the Thames, blasting out a soundtrack of revolution and hosting conferences with leading thinkers on philosophy, economics and nanotechnology. He welcomed Studio International on board
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Paul Carter: ‘There’s an invitation that only takes you so far’
Entering the gallery, visitors enter a new world – a liminal space, with an empty lift, piss-stained walls, and a municipal blue hotel sign on a cracked concrete wall. The artist explains his interest in civic architecture as social sculpture…
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Xu Yong – interview: ‘Negatives act as witness’
Twenty-five years after Tiananmen Square, the Beijing-based photographer took the brave decision to publish his images of the event in negative form. Here, he talks about his work
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Cui Xiuwen: Light
Cui Xiuwen is a conceptual artist best known internationally as a video film-maker and photographer. A creator of progressive and provocative work, she began her career as a painter and has recently returned to making paintings and sculpture, exploring contemporary…
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Francesca Pasquali: ‘I have a contemporary view of art, so I want to draw materials from the world around me’
The Bolognese artist uses everyday materials and plastics to replicate natural folds and textures in a manner akin to the ideas of arte povera. Currently in London for two exhibitions, she speaks to Studio International about her inspirations and aspirations
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Jennifer Wen Ma – interview: ‘Throughout history, humans have been trying to break into or out of a paradise or utopia’
The artist talks about her new installation, Molar, at Cass Sculpture Foundation, created as a place of reflection on a disintegrating utopia
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Claire Shea: ‘We were really keen to look at an expanded definition of sculpture’
Studio International spoke to the foundation’s curatorial director, Claire Shea, about the concepts behind its first international group exhibition, comparing the differing landscape aesthetics and exploring the wider socio-political context in which the artists are working.
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Rana Begum: ‘I love using readymade materials in the work’
Studio International visited Rana Begum in her studio in north-east London to talk to her about her creative process, and the works she has prepared for her first solo UK exhibition at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art
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Cory Arcangel – interview: ‘Making art is just basically dowsing’
The Brooklyn-based artist talks about his latest show at the Lisson Gallery in London, billed as ‘a technological exploration of obsession and obsolescence’
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Elizabeth Price: ‘I’m interested in music and the voice because it brings a very different sensual and emotional register to the work’
Studio International visited Elizabeth Price in her studio in south-east London to talk to her about her work A Restoration, made for the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
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Charles Richardson – interview: ‘There must be some sort of desire in me to hold onto something’
The artist talks about his show at Exeter Phoenix, collaborating with local artists, the importance of music in his work, and whether the physical informs the virtual, or the other way around
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Bosco Sodi: ‘I like the freedom of letting the mind and soul go on a journey with the work’
Bosco Sodi talks about the two processes in his work: the one where he is in control and the one where he lets go and waits for the surprise of the outcome
