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Advice to the Young from Yayoi Kusama

Advice to the Young from Yayoi Kusama

What piece of advice would one of the world’s most iconic contemporary artists pass on? Japanese Yayoi Kusama here turns the tables and argues that advice should not come from other people: I am not an art teacher to you. Spread your ideas all over the world. Kusama encourages artists to trust their own creativity, explore themselves and discover their own path in life: A true direction will come from overcoming adversity.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Marina Abramović

Advice to the Young from Marina Abramović

Follow your intuition. Have courage. Do what you imagine. And always be completely present in the moment. Marina Abramović on what it really means to be an artist: A great artist has to be ready to fail. Meet the charismatic performance artist Marina Abramović in this interview on what it means to be an artist, waking up each morning with an urge to be creative.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Patti Smith

Advice to the Young from Patti Smith

Build a good name, rock poet Patti Smith advises the young. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work and protect your work. The American singer, poet and photographer Patti Smith is a living punk rock legend. In this video she gives powerful advice to the young: “Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Fred Tomaselli

Advice to the Young from Fred Tomaselli

You might as well be true to what you want to do and not turn art into another day job. Watch Fred Tomaselli, a master of psychedelic artwork, advise artists to create their own art world instead of waiting for the established art scene to discover them. Don’t expect any material awards for what you do, and don’t try to adapt to a surrounding trend: If you’re doing something counter to the zeitgeist, that’s probably a good idea – you’re probably on the right path. If you’re doing what everybody else is doing – so what?

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Joe Hamilton: Trouble in Utopia

Joe Hamilton: Trouble in Utopia

Joe Hamilton makes use of technology and found material to create intricate compositions. His recent work questions our established notions of the natural environment within a society that is becoming increasingly networked.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Li Jin’s Feast

Li Jin’s Feast

Li Jin’s idiosyncratic painting manner is founded in superlative brushwork, and based in a key tenet of Chinese painting: in rendering a subject, such as a dish of food or quirky figure, accuracy depends on close observation and understanding, not a direct copying of the subject’s outer likeness.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Master Cui’s Riddle

Master Cui’s Riddle

Cui Zhenkuan belongs to an older generation of ink painters who received rigorous traditional training. Innovating within that tradition, he has produced a powerful body of landscapes relevant to the present.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Wang Dongling’s Lines of Performance

Wang Dongling’s Lines of Performance

While Wang Dongling is China’s top traditional-style calligrapher, he is also the artist who has most successfully explored calligraphy’s radical possibilities, to the point of forging a new branch of ink painting based on the abstract possibilities of the calligraphic line.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Darren Almond & Jacob Kirkegaard

Darren Almond & Jacob Kirkegaard

Interview Beyond the Arctic

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Bill Viola: Cameras are Keepers of the Souls

Bill Viola: Cameras are Keepers of the Souls

American Bill Viola is a pioneer in video art. In this interview, Viola talks about his development as an artist and his most important breakthroughs. Viola now sees the cameras as keepers of the soul, he explains. The medium holds onto life, a kind of understanding of feelings, keeping them alive.

Duration : 28m
Maturity Level : all

James Turrell at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

James Turrell at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

James Turrell and Richard Andrews talk about James Turrell’s work and his exhibition.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Taryn Simon at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Taryn Simon at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Continuing a collaboration that began three years ago between the acclaimed American artist Taryn Simon and the Garage Museum in Moscow, for the first time in her career Simon will also be working live to develop a new piece over the duration of the exhibition, providing audiences with unprecedented access to her singular research processes.

Duration : 1h 8m
Maturity Level : all

PROOF

PROOF

Featuring works by Francisco Goya (1746-1828), Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) and Robert Longo (1953-) Proof offers insight into the singularity of vision through which artists can reflect social, cultural, and political complexities of their times.

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all

AES + F (The Feast of Trimalchio) at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

AES + F (The Feast of Trimalchio) at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Andrey Kovalev meets one of the most renowned Russian art groups practicing in the field of contemporary art. AES+F. The title of the collective, founded in 1987, was formed from the initials of its members: architects Tatyana Arzamasova and Lev Evzovic, designer Evgeny Svyatsky and photographer Vladimir Fridges who joined the group in 1995.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art - Sign Lenguage

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art - Sign Lenguage

Just like theatre begins with the cloakroom, a museum experience begins long before the visitor enters the exhibition. To make museums more open and friendly to hearing-impaired visitors Garage launches a short course of Russian Sign Language for museum staff.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Jerry Gorovoy talks about Louise Bourgeois at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Jerry Gorovoy talks about Louise Bourgeois at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art presents the first comprehensive survey of Louise Bourgeois’ work in Moscow as part of the special program of the 6th Moscow Biennale. Structures of Existence: The Cells focuses on the extraordinary series of sculptural environments Bourgeois created in the last two decades of her life.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Frances Morris talks about Louise Bourgeois at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Frances Morris talks about Louise Bourgeois at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Louise Bourgeois was the first artist to take on Tate Modern’s great Turbine Hall and when the new museum opened in May 2000 Bourgeois giant spider Maman and her three house-size towers I do, I undo, I redo were the first works of art to greet the museum’s thousands of visitors. Frances Morris, Director of Collection, International Art at Tate, commissioned the work as the first in the now-famous series of Unilever installations and worked with the artist and her team to realize this landmark site-specific project.

Duration : 1h 17m
Maturity Level : all

Amei Wallach talks about Louise Bourgeois at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Amei Wallach talks about Louise Bourgeois at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

On the eve of launching regular screenings of the documentary Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine (2008), Amei Wallach, the film’s co-director and co-producer, will give a talk about her work with Bourgeois during filming, describing backstage moments which reveal the inner world of the artist.

Duration : 27m
Maturity Level : all

Tomas Saraceno: The Anthropocene Project

Tomas Saraceno: The Anthropocene Project

Articulated in the quarters of the earth sciences, the Anthropocene has brought geological matters and imaginaries to the critical attention of social scientists. Rocks, strata, tectonics and other geological beings and processes saturate the discourses around and about the Anthropocene. This panel aims at expanding the theoretical scope on the Anthropocene by attuning to air, breathe, volatility, atmospheres and suspension as modes of attending to the more-than-solid ecologies of the Anthropocene.

Duration : 16m
Maturity Level : all

Tomas Saraceno: Breaking the Wall Between Earth and Sky

Tomas Saraceno: Breaking the Wall Between Earth and Sky

Throughout history, humanity has rehearsed with lighter-than-air vehicles aiming for a different way to move through and with the air, only with the power of the sun. Presented here are various attempts of human aerosolar flights, undertaken by people whose types of relationship to the atmosphere and the planet have become marginalised, and increasingly rendered invisible under the hegemony of the fossil fuels regime.

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Just Air for Making Art: Tomàs Saraceno

Just Air for Making Art: Tomàs Saraceno

How do you recognize a true artist? He creates an entire universe that is unique and powerful. He dreams and turns his dreams into tangible objects that make you dream. Among the abundant projects of uneven quality realized on the occasion of Paris’s COP21 climate conference, under the ultra mediatized patronage of the United Nations, I saw two works by two substantial artists who are both, each in his own genre, international contemporary art stars.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Zaha Hadid Architects - About Us

Zaha Hadid Architects - About Us

Zaha Hadid and her architects create transformative cultural, corporate, residential and other spaces that work in synchronicity with their surroundings. They realized 950 projects in 44 countries.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

About Zaha Hadid - Catapult13

About Zaha Hadid - Catapult13

Zaha Mohammad Hadid was a British Iraqi architect from Baghdad, Iraq. The Guardian of London described her as The Queen of the curve. Zaha was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. She received also the UK’s most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

William Kentridge: Listening to the Image - The University of Chicago

William Kentridge: Listening to the Image - The University of Chicago

William Kentridge talks about the practice and theory of making meaning in the studio, through an exploration of the relationship of sound and image.

Duration : 1h 29m
Maturity Level : all