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
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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
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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
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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?

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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.

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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
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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
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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
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Darren Almond & Jacob Kirkegaard

Interview Beyond the Arctic

Duration : 6m
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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
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James Turrell at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

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

Duration : 11m
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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
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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.

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Zaha Hadid Architects - Loa and Vesu Vases for Wiener Silver Manufactur

The Loa and Vesu Vases express a powerful dynamic through their surface complexity.

Duration : 5m
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William Kentridge: Peripheral Thinking - Yale University

In this lecture, the South African artist, William Kentridge examines possibilities for learning from the edges. He discusses the porousness of focus and describes the ways in which studio processes can be instructive for looking at universal questions. Kentridge talks specifically about his current project, Notes Towards a Model Opera, which looks at the Cultural Revolution in China and other utopian projects. Followed by a reception. Generously funded by the Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Fund.

Duration : 1h
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Around Lulu - A conversation between William Kentridge and Pierre Audi

A conversation between Willian Kentridge and opera and theatre director Pierre Audi about the cultural setting of the Weimar Republic, the time when Alban Berg wrote his opera Lulu.

Duration : 1h 7m
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William Kentridge: If We Ever Get to Heaven

If We Ever Get to Heaven is a work by the celebrated South African artist William Kentridge. The artist achieved renown with his remarkable animation films, charcoal drawings and installations composed of film, sound, music and sculptural objects.

Duration : 13m
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Imran Qureshi

From his home in Lahore, Imran Qureshi reminisces about the sounds of his father’s typewriter and the chimes of the wall clock installed in his study, which fascinated him as a boy. In retrospect, he recognises and celebrates the connection between these lasting impressions from his childhood, and his own artistic practice.

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Robert Longo| Let The Frame of Things Disjoint

Robert Longo speaks about his solo exhibition ’Let The Frame of Things Disjoint’, which was on view at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, in 2017.

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Tea with Julia | Gilbert & George

Gilbert & George invited Julia Peyton-Jones to their house in East London where they live and work. The artists conducted a tour of their studio presenting models and catalogues of two of their current exhibitions, describing how they make their pictures in addition to showing their work in progress on their latest series entitled ‘The New Normal’ as well as other projects which are underway.

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GAHEE PARK ’BETRAYAL

Under the eye of Harlem the cat, GaHee Park talks about her process and inspirations in her home and studio.

Duration : 5m
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JEAN-MICHEL OTHONIEL "DREAM ROAD" AT PERROTIN TOKYO

By naming his exhibition Yumeji, Othoniel shows his romantic vision of the world and how such simple things as flowers are keys to emotions, a dream road to fantasies and imagination.

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JR -TEHACHAPI- AT PERROTIN PARIS

In October 2019, JR received permission to work in a maximum-security prison located in Tehachapi, California. Initially, JR photographed the men, one by one, from above, and they told their story in front of a camera.

Duration : 6m
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GEORGES MATHIEU AT PERROTIN HONG KONG

The late French artist Georges Mathieu was exhibited in Hong Kong for the first time. In this engrossing video, Georges Mathieu committee chairman, Edouard Lombard, introduces the artist’s legacy as the founder of Lyrical Abstraction.

Duration : 5m
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Johan Creten — En Quarantaine

For this short experimental film, Johan Creten worked together with the Dutch filmmaker Gerrit Schreurs. Living under lockdown in Paris during the month of April 2020, the artist reflected on a very intense period living as a young artist during another pandemic. In the summer of 1991, Johan

Duration : 7m
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JESPER JUST "CORPORÉALITÉS" AT PERROTIN NEW YORK

Jesper Just introducing his exhibition during its installation

Duration : 6m
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CHEN FEI -REUNION- AT PERROTIN NEW YORK

Chen Fei introducing his work during the installation of his exhibition

Duration : 4m
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CLAIRE TABOURET "SIBLINGS" AT PERROTIN SEOUL

French artist Claire Tabouret introduces her new series of portraits, displayed in her solo exhibition ’Siblings’ at Perrotin Seoul

Duration : 5m
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Catherine Petitgas

A year spent in Mexico City introduced Catherine Petitgas to such stalwarts as Francis Alÿs and Gabriel Orozco.

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Jill Kraus

‘When you live in a New York apartment, it’s hard to collect sculpture,’ says Jill Kraus. So, in 2001, she and her husband Peter Kraus headed north to find a property suitable for the art they most wanted to support. Fast-forward 18 years, and there are now 18 large-scale artworks dotted around the Kraus’s land

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Janet Laurence Speaks Out

In her installation the Australian artist analyzes the interaction of life forms und the environment as well as the influence of man on threatened habitats. In a conversation with journalist Max Dax she discusses the role that art can play in raising awareness for climate issues.

Duration : 8m
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Markus Hoffmann Speaks Out

The German artist gained international success with his installations that express issues of humans and their relation to the environment, displaying both their limitations and capabilities. On the occasion of ArtCOP21 Markus Hoffman talks to Max Dax about the role of the artist in regard to the accomplishment of sociopolitical tasks like climate change.

Duration : 7m
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Sophia Pompery Speaks Out

In her works, Sophia Pompéry directs the gaze at seemingly everyday things and makes the special visible. The candle flame that casts no shadow; the water applied to floorboards that reflects a window shape, two popcorn flakes that seem to be equal in shape. Her conceptual work oscillates between installation, photography and video.

Duration : 8m
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Julius von Bismarck Speaks Out

With his photographs, videos and installations Julius von Bismarck examines, sometimes in a provocative way, the reception of the urban space. In this interview with journalist Max Dax he discusses the possibility of an exchange of ideas between artists and politicians, and if this could be helpful to raise awareness for climate change.

Duration : 7m
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Anne Katrine Dolven Speaks Out

Recurring themes in Katrine’s production are the representation of natural forces and their resonance with human sensibilities. Her work alternates between the monumental and the minimal, the universal and the intimate. Interpersonal relations and interactions are central to her practice, and many of her performance-based works involve collaborations with other people.

Duration : 11m
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Ulrike Haage Speaks Out

During her tours and her international projects, the composer and sound artist finds herself often confronted with ecological issues. On the occasion of ArtCOP21 she talks with Max Dax about her music and her personal engagement in climate protection.

Duration : 8m
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Olaf Holzapfel Speaks Out

In his multifaceted artistic work, Olaf Holzapfel deals with a wide variety of materials, ranging from straw to digitally produced drawings.

Duration : 8m
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Fundació Mies van der Rohe: Presentation

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe was set up in 1983 by the Barcelona City Hall with the initial purpose of reconstructing the German Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich for the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition.

Duration : 5m
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European Identity: Nantes

Interview to Guineé Potin Architectes in Nantes, France.

Duration : 7m
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European Identity: Lisbon

Interview to Bak Gordon Arquitectos in Lisbon, Portugal.

Duration : 11m
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European Identity: Barcelona

Interview to Barozzi Veiga Arquitectos in Barcelona, Spain.

Duration : 9m
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European Identity: Berlin

Interview to J. MAYER H. and Partners in Berlin, Germany.

Duration : 10m
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European Identity: Tallin

Interview to Kavakava Architects in Tallin, Estonia.

Duration : 9m
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European Identity: Ljubljana

Interview to OFIS Arhitekti in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Duration : 10m
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European Identity: London

Interview to 6a architects in London, UK.

Duration : 13m
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European Identity: Copenhagen

Interview to BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Duration : 11m
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European Identity: Rotterdam

Interview to KAAN Architecten in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Duration : 12m
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European Identity: Trondheim

Interview to TYIN - Tegnestue Architects in Trondheim, Norway.

Duration : 7m
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European Identity: Helsinki

Interview to OOPEAA - Office for Peripheral Architecture in Helsinki, Finland.

Duration : 5m
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European Identity: Bucarest

Interview to ADN Birou de Arhitectura in Bucarest, Romania.

Duration : 12m
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European Identity: Amsterdam

Interview to NL Architects in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Duration : 14m
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Anupama Kundoo- Nothing is Fixed

“Before humans there was an architecture that life itself creates.” Meet the renowned Indian architect Anupama Kundoo who in this short video reflects about an architect called time: “There is an incredible order created by nature.”

Duration : 4m
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Anna Heringer - The Walls Are Dancing

It is much more than just a building. It’s a social space. It really has an impact on the society, on the community”, says German architect Anna Heringer about her recently finished Anandaloy-center in Bangladesh. “With this building everything comes together.”

Duration : 8m
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Vandkunsten Architects- Love of Wood

“It’s a living material, and so are we.” In this short video, two architects from the influential and prizewinning Danish architecture firm, Vandkunsten Architects, talk about the merits of wood as a building material – from its climate-friendly qualities to its soothing effect.

Duration : 3m
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Anupama Kundoo- Taking Time To Rethink

“I feel that a lot of the problems we have in today’s world have come because of that wrong notion that time is money. No, time is the only resource we have when we are alive. What else do we have?” asks the renowned Indian architect Anupama Kundoo in this video.

Duration : 5m
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Peter Eisenman- Field of Otherness

“Architecture, I believe, is necessary to mark collective memory.” One of the leading contemporary American architects, Peter Eisenman, here shares the thoughts that went into building the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, and how he sought to transform a feeling of “being lost in space in time” into the memorial.

Duration : 9m
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Terunobu Fujimori- A Feeling of Freedom

Meet Terunobu Fujimori, one of Japan’s most influential architects, who has enchanted the world with his playful, often elevated buildings made of natural materials such as wood, earth and stone. In this short video, Fujimori talks about his original interpretations of a traditional Japanese building – his iconic raised tea houses.

Duration : 6m
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Tatiana Bilbao- Architecture and Nature

How can the built environment work with nature instead of against it? Watch the award-winning Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao offer her take on this, emphasizing the enriching dialogue between nature and architecture, which we must be very cautious to preserve.

Duration : 7m
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Junya Ishigami- Creating Nature with Time

“If things created by humans should function next to natural things, the passing of time is necessary. Only the passage of time will bring forward the kind of landscape I want to create,” says the renowned Japanese architect Junya Ishigami. Learn about his award-winning project, the poetic landscape ‘Water Garden’, in this short video.

Duration : 3m
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Zaid Shawwa

Shawwa studied Engineering at the University of Jordan, and did his MBA at the American University in Dubai. His love and interest in art started at an early age, mainly working on portraits and landscapes in a classic form and using monochromatic shades of mainly charcoal as a medium. His paintings are mostly based on real moments in life, intensively sketched and studied to create an image that reflects a feeling rather than an act.

Duration : 2m
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Leila Heller Gallery presents Soraya Sharghi

Soraya Sharghi is an Iranian artist living and working in New York City. Sharghi creates works in diverse media, such as painting and sculpture. Her artistic aim is to create new myth and narratives using the ancient mythology including persian mythology, revolving around power. She does not see her process as emulating the scenery of these tales, but instead molds them to serve her purpose and creates extraordinary or supernatural beings.

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Adel Abdessemed | Mon Enfant

Adel Abdessemed discusses “Mon enfant”, a sculpture inspired by the best-known photograph taken during the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

Duration : 3m
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Enoc Perez | Interiors

Enoc Perez discusses the influence of Jean-Luc Godard on his "Casa Malaparte" paintings, and revisits his “Mollino/Insides” exhibition through a cinematic perspective.

Duration : 3m
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Haim Steinbach | Framing

Haim Steinbach explores the relationship between his aesthetic language and the film medium, unveiling the cinematic references in his exhibition "lemon yellow" at Lia Rumma Gallery in Naples.

Duration : 5m
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Max Hollein | The MET

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Director, Max Hollein, reflects on the challenges, opportunities and multiple roles of the Museum both as a local and global institution.

Duration : 4m
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Erwin Wurm & Elise Mougin | One Minute in Taipei

Duration : 3m
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Rashid Johnson | The Hikers

Rashid Johnson discusses social injustice in “The Hikers”, a film addressing the artist’s recurring themes of escapism, and the black body in space.

Duration : 4m
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Sigalit Landau | Salt Years

Sigalit Landau reflects on memory, climate change, and her lifetime artistic relationship with the Dead Sea.

Duration : 2m
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Shifting Vision

Check this dedicated channel for Shifting Vision which examines how current social, political, and ecological issues influence our perception of the arts.

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Adel Abdessemed | Hope

Adel Abdessemed reflects on issues of identity and dislocation through “Hope”, a work inspired by contemporary global migrations. Courtesy Shifting Vision

Duration : 3m
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Abstract: The Art of Design | Christoph Niemann: Illustration

From New Yorker covers to Instagram sketches, illustrator Christoph Niemann plays with abstraction and interactivity and questions authenticity.

Duration : 46m
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Abstract: The Art of Design | Tinker Hatfield: Footwear Design

Tinker Hatfield’s background in architecture and athletics sparked his game-changing shoe designs for Nike, including the iconic Air Jordan series.

Duration : 41m
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Abstract: The Art of Design | Es Devlin: Stage Design

Stage designer Es Devlin crafts evocative sets for concerts, operas, plays and runway shows using light, film, sculpture and even rain.

Duration : 42m
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Abstract: The Art of Design | Bjarke Ingels: Architecture

Architect Bjarke Ingels unites function, fantasy and sustainability in “pragmatic utopian” designs like a clean power plant topped with a ski slope.

Duration : 44m
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Abstract: The Art of Design | Paula Scher: Graphic Design

Graphic designer Paula Scher paints with words, developing the visual language of iconic brands and institutions around the world.

Duration : 40m
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Abstract: The Art of Design | Platon: Photography

Platon’s fearless portraits capture the souls of world leaders and ordinary people. A shoot with Gen. Colin Powell provides a window into his process.

Duration : 43m
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Abstract: The Art of Design | Ilse Crawford: Interior Design

Interior designer Ilse Crawford creates spaces and objects that engage the senses and promote well-being, from high-end hotels to Ikea furniture.

Duration : 41m
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Kara Walker

Kara Walker has shown her silhouetted depictions of plantation life in most of the world’s leading institutions. Her monumental sculptures have made the headlines from New York to London. Now, Kunstmuseum Basel is revealing a lesser-known aspect of Walker’s prolific creative output: her drawings. ‘Kara Walker: A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be’ gathers over 600 drawings executed over the last twenty-eight years. Check more on Art Basel Channel

Duration : 5m
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Victoria Sin

’Indifferent Idols.’ ’Kiss My Genders.’ ’DO DISTURB.’ Over the past few years, the work of multimedia artist Victoria Sin – a staple of London’s queer club culture – has appeared in group exhibitions with a notably defiant slant in Taipei, London, and Paris, as well as during the Venice Biennale and Art Basel Hong Kong. Through films and performances that constitute a kind of double drag, Sin highlights viewers’ expectations and fantasies, then proceeds to slyly – and completely – dismantle them. Check more on Art Basel Channel

Duration : 5m
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Judy Chicago-The Birth Project

‘Humankind is represented by mankind … Fake news!’, said Judy Chicago, laughing, when she met Art Basel’s video team at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami. Most of the artist’s forty-year-long career has been spent debunking that myth. For the Birth Project (1980-85), Chicago turned her eye to what she saw as a major blind spot in art history: the representation of birth. Working with 150 volunteer needleworkers spread around the United States, she produced 85 needlepoint and textile works picturing women pregnant or giving birth, caught between joy and excruciating pain.

Duration : 5m
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Gabriel Chaile

Gabriel Chaile has made a name for himself as a sophisticated synthesist of ancient and modern traditions. The 34-year-old artist from Tucumán, in northwest Argentina, employs references ranging from Pre-Columbian cultures to Conceptualism in often-usable sculptures involving bricks, eggs, and other found objects.

Duration : 4m
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Wong Ping

Wong Ping’s faux-naif, candy-colored animations have taken the artworld by storm. Simultaneously unsettling and laugh-out-loud funny, they present an absurdist version of Hong Kong’s urban life beset by isolation, frustration, and simmering desires. Wong shared the thinking process behind his practice while on a tour of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery in Sha Tin, Hong Kong.

Duration : 3m
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Kiran Nadar

To call Kiran Nadar an animating force behind India’s art market would be an understatement. An internationally ranked bridge player, Nadar brings a winner’s mindset to her collecting and has been known to chase a desired artwork for decades.

Duration : 4m
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Isaac Julien | Lessons of the Hour

In collaboration with the Edinburgh Art Festival, Isaac Julien, and the Scottish National Galleries, Shifting Vision created a bespoke film which premiered on July 29 in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Following in the footsteps of abolitionist and freedom fighter Frederick Douglass throughout the city of Edinburgh, the film brings to life Isaac Julien’s visionary ten-screen installation ’Lessons of the Hour’ through the insights of the artist.

Duration : 17m
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Solitario- Behind the scene

The artist expose her work process and talk about her attention behind the sculpture ’Solitario’.

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The art market speaks a kind of Esperanto by Ireen Zielonka

Ireen Zielonka is an artist, born 1981 in Berlin, Germany. Currently, she lives and works in Berlin. There is hardly a drawing of Zielonka’s in which no philosophical thought is the starting point for an allegorical representation. Her work posits the interactions between society and the individual and the unelected arrested being with conventions, traditions, and origins. Reflection, inquiry, and pursuit of knowledge are mandatory as the scouts to act confidently and maturely, she adds.

Duration : 6m
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The whole art world has changed dramatically by Ann Noël

Born in Plymouth, England, in 1944, has lived and worked in Berlin since 1980. Her wide-ranging talents as a painter, graphic designer, printmaker, photographer, and performance artist bear witness to a rare combination of creative ingenuity, bold experimentation, and up-to-date technical skills. In addition, she has had the good fortune to know and work with some of the more interesting artists of our time. Her work has been exhibited internationally and includes recent projects at the Biennales in Venice, Liverpool, and Lodz, Poland. She is also the author of six artist’s books published by Rainer Verlag in Berlin.

Duration : 7m
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Where are the emotions? by David Krippendorff

David Krippendorff is a German artist, video- and experimental film maker.Born in Berlin, he grew up in Rome (Italy) and studied art at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin (Germany), where he graduated with a masters degree in 1997. His works, films and videos have been shown internationally, a.o. at New Museum (New York), ICA (London), Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg), Museum on the Seam (Jerusalem). He has participated in four Biennials (Prague, Poznan, Tel Aviv, Asunción). He lives and works in Berlin.

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Art has long since lost mystery and pretense by Dagmara Genda

Dagmara Genda, born in Koszalin, Poland in 1981 specializes in drawing, collage, and installation. She focused on the poetics of snow. She has exhibited internationally and attended residencies in the United States, Canada, China, and the United Kingdom.

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Artists should have complete freedom producing Art by Per Christian Brown

Per Christian Brown is an ultra-contemporary artist. Per Christian Brown is a norwegian male artist born in 1976. Per Christian Brown is most frequently exhibited in Norway, but also had exhibitions in Germany, United Kingdom and elsewhere. Brown has at least 10 solo shows and 30 group shows over the last 16 years (for more information, see biography).

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Contemporary art is like many parallel worlds by Danica Dakić

Danica Dakić (born 1962) in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian artist and university professor. She works primarily with video art, installation and photography. Her works have been widely exhibited, including at documenta 12 (2007) and at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), where she represented Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dakić lives and works in Düsseldorf, Weimar, and Sarajevo.

Duration : 3m
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Let Art be the Game by Henrik Stromberg

Henrik Strömberg (1970, Schweden) lives and works in Berlin. He works with the idea of metamorphosis, decay, and the transformation of materials; sculptural objects, and their photographic documentation, as well as the deconstruction and transformation of the photographic image itself.

Duration : 15s
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I love art from different historical styles and periods by Vitaly Komar

Vitaly Komar was born in Moscow in 1943, graduated from the Stroganov School of Art and Design in 1967, and has been living in New York since 1978. He was one of the founders of the Sots Art movement (Soviet Pop/Conceptual Art). Vitaly Komar worked in collaboration with Alex Melamid from 1973 to 2003. Their collaborative work started in the 1960s in Moscow, where they, rather than following the dictates of Socialist realism, they rather commented on power and popular culture using a wide range of media.

Duration : 35s
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What Don’t You Understand About Art? by Mladen Miljanovic

Born in Zenica (Yugoslavia) in 1981, completed the secondary school in Doboj. After the secondary school he attended the Reserve Officer Military School. In 2002 he enrolled at the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka department of painting. Beside his artistic practice and research, he is teaching New Media Art at The Academy of Arts, University of Banja Luka.

Duration : 4m
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What Do I Not Understand in Contemporary Art Today? by Arnold Dreyblatt

Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City, 1953) is an American media artist and composer. He has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984. In 2007, Dreyblatt was elected to lifetime membership in the visual arts section at the German Academy of Art (Akademie der Künste, Berlin). He is currently a Professor of Media Art at the Muthesius Academy of Art and Design in Kiel, Germany. Dreyblatt studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier and media art with Woody and Steina Vasulka.

Duration : 1m
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Say what you wanna say! by Ingrid Book & Carina Hedén

1Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén trained as artists in Oslo and Lund, respectively, and have collaborated since 1987. Narrative, place, and reality have been important themes in their projects, as primarily conveyed through photos, videos, installations, and texts. Using an investigative and dialogical method, they typically examine various cultural and social phenomena that have often been overlooked. In conjunction with the “Temporary Utopias” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2003, Book & Hedén displayed a series of photographs from marginal areas in Oslo.

Duration : 3m
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Why do people forget to see art works? by Junko Wada

Born in Tokyo, in 1955, Junko Wada is a performance artist, dancer, and action painter. She studied painting at Musashino University of Art and had two solo exhibitions at Kamakura Gallery in Tokyo in 1982 and 1983. Her interest in performance art intensified and she started to develop a personal style of dance, replacing screen and brush with body and stage. She has since collaborated with some of the world’s leading composers, and since 1999, has lived and worked in Berlin.

Duration : 1m
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I dislike when someone is doing art only for commercial reasons by Zlatko Kopljar

The artistic practice of Zlatko Kopljar (b. 1962, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is driven by a relentless questioning of the role of the artist in contemporary society. His work moreover, draws on collective and personal memory of the traumatic events of the twentieth century and probes their lingering aftermath.

Duration : 1m
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Misunderstanding and prejudice in Contemporary Art by Elana Katz

Elana Katz is a conceptual artist working primarily in the medium of performance art. Katz’s work confronts cultural conventions, critically examines the complexity that lies within contradictions and thus aims to create an experience of unlearning the assumed. She has exhibited/ performed at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium (2011), Diehl CUBE Berlin (2013), P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York (2013), Stacion Center for Contemporary Art, Pristina (2014), Kunstwechsel, Aachen (2015), DNA Berlin (2015), and ROCKELMANN& Berlin (2016). She studied in New York at the Parsons School of Design and earned a Meisterschülerin title from the Berlin University of the Arts (Class of Katharina Sieverding). Katz has been based in Berlin since 2008.

Duration : 1m
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Art lets the individual go beyond the animal state by Klaus Killisch

Klaus Killisch studied painting at the Art Academy in East-Berlin from 1981-1986. His work has been represented in many exhibitions of German Art including the Biennale in Venice, Sezon Museum of Art in Tokyo, Folkwang Museum in Essen, New National Gallery in Berlin, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig. Killisch lives in Berlin.

Duration : 57s
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Delusion of Grandeur by Sinisa Radulovic

Siniša Radulović was born 1983 in Podgorica, Montenegro. She graduated at Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, Montenegro, department of painting. She had an MFA degree (post-graduate studies) at Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, Montenegro. Siniša Radulović is the winner of the 2017 "Milčik” - Young Visual Artists Award, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts-ICA in Cetinje, Montenegro. Trained as a painter, Siniša Radulovic is a multimedia-artist who produces videos and collages.

Duration : 2m
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Contemporary Art lacks humor and empathy by Moritz Frei

Moritz Frei was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1978. Raised there as well as in Hanover, Syracuse, and Berlin, he trained as a photographer in Berlin from 2000 to 2003. From 2004 to 2010, he studied fine arts at the HGB - Academy for Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig with Peter Piller. In 2010/11 he directed the art space, Benjamin Richard, in Leipzig (with Erik Weiser ). In 2016 Frei founded the publishing house “berlin art books”. In 2019, his withdrawal from the 26th Leipzig Annual Exhibition caused a nationwide media sensation and a controversial debate.Moritz Frei lives and works in Berlin.

Duration : 1m
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It is vital that it be a correct misunderstanding by Yuri Albert

Yuri Albert is one of the most important exponents of the second generation of the Moscow Conceptualists. Excluded from the state culture industry in the 1970s and 1980s, from the official infrastructure of museums and galleries, but also from the discourses of aesthetics and art criticism, the artists themselves were forced to take on the task of presenting, commenting on, and reflecting theoretically on their activities. Marked by the historical experience of self-organization in the late Soviet milieu, Albert arrived at his critical and, at the same time, (self-)ironic reflections on the art system.

Duration : 1m
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When I do not understand something, I use an understanding machine by Victor Skersis

Viktor studied at the Moscow State Polygraphic Institute (1973-1977).[2] The institute forced him to withdraw two weeks before he was to graduate. Areas of interest include analytical conceptualism, meta-conceptualism. An active member of the Moscow art scene since 1975, Skersis works independently and in co-authorship with other artists. He was a member of "The Nest" (with Gennady Donskoi and Mikhail Roshal’), 1975–79, "SZ" (with Vadim Zakharov), 1980–84, 1989–90, "Cupid" (with Yuri Albert and Andrei Filippov), "Edelweiss" and “Tsar of the Hill” (Yuri Albert, Paruir Davtyan, and Andrei Filippov), and others.

Duration : 1m
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The world should get more serious about artworks by Hans Peter Kuhn

The artist and composer was born in Kiel (DE), and lives and works in Berlin (DE) and Amino/Kyoto (JP). He started his artistic career as early as the age of 6 when he performed in the theatre class of his school. Being 14 years old he initiated his first Rock’n’ Roll band and in 1975 he started his professional career at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in Berlin (now Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz).

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Ayman Baalbaki talks about Janus Gate

Ayman Baalbaki’s monumental installation titled Janus Gate for the Lebanese Pavilion at the 59th Venice Bienniale until 27th November 2022: “My starting point was Beirut, which I see as a city rich in what Michel Foucault refers to as ‘other spaces.’ Along the model of the word ‘Lebanonization,’ meant to describe the fragmentation of a state, ‘Beirutization’ defines places troubled by barricades and borders – in other words, to speak of the urban dismemberment of a city and its fragmentation into discrete islands.” Video courtesy of DAF Beirut - Platinum sponsor of the Lebanese Pavilion

Duration : 19m
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Simone Leigh in the U.S. Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale of Art

The sculptural work of the Golden-Lion-winning artist Simone Leigh explores ideas about history, race, gender, labor and monuments at the 59th Venice Biennale.

Duration : 3m
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Studio Visit with Elmgreen & Dragset

Berlin-based artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset speak about their collaborative practice as well as their particular interest in the AIDS epidemic and its continued relevance today.

Duration : 4m
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Studio Visit with Otobong Nkanga

During her residency at Gropius Bau in Berlin, Otobong Nkanga reflects on the relationship between body and landscape, as well as on what matters the most in her art practice.

Duration : 4m
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Studio Visit with Tomás Saraceno

Tomás Saraceno’s studio in Berlin contains a floor devoted to his spiders, who inspire his acoustic art installations and form the basis of his ’Arachnophilia’ project.

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Julius von Bismarck Conceived Connections

During his practical research in Locarno, Switzerland, Julius von Bismarck reflects on nature and natural settings as the ideal site for artistic and scientific reflection.

Duration : 3m
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Studio Visit with Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir speaks about her art practice and the creation of ‘Keep Frozen: The Documentary’ which chronicles the lives of dockworkers in a Reykjavik harbor.

Duration : 3m
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Studio Visit with Olaf Breuning

Functioning as both an archive of past work and a place for new creative explorations, Olaf Breuning’s Upstate New York studio provides a haven for contemplation.

Duration : 2m
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Studio Visit with Katarina Janeckova Walshe

Katarina Janeckova Walshe transforms personal issues and doubts into art. In her South Texas studio, she reveals her creative process and how it connects to life and motherhood.

Duration : 3m
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Studio Visit with Roey Victoria Heifetz

Roey Victoria Heifetz shows her studio while discussing her artistic process and a new body of work produced for the exhibition ’Figuratively Speaking’ at Tacheles in Berlin.

Duration : 2m
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Peaches: ‘Whose Jizz Is This?’ at Kunstverein Hamburg

In celebration of Peaches’ 20-year stage anniversary, the Kunstverein in Hamburg and the Summer Festival at Kampnagel presented the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition.

Duration : 5m
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Studio Visit with Douglas Gordon

With Douglas Gordon, nothing is wasted or without purpose: a collection of seven footballs and an assortment of weaponry all have a place in his studio and art practice.

Duration : 3m
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Studio Visit with Ed Atkins

On the occasion of his exhibition ’Old Food’ at Berlin’s Gropius Bau, Ed Atkins speaks about his creative process and walks the viewer through the art pieces in the show.

Duration : 2m
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In Residence: James Ostrer’s ’Post Apoca-Lips’

James Ostrer’s art analyses sexuality and the body in socio-political contexts. During his studio residency at Melior Place, he speaks about his exhibition ’Post Apoca-Lips.’

Duration : 4m
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