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Leila Heller Gallery presents Soraya Sharghi

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.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Enoc Perez | Interiors

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
Maturity Level : all

Max Hollein | The MET

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
Maturity Level : all

Erwin Wurm & Elise Mougin | One Minute in Taipei

Erwin Wurm & Elise Mougin | One Minute in Taipei

Erwin Wurm and Elise Mougin discuss the exhibition “One Minute in Taipei” and how COVID-19 has influenced the artist’s creative process.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Rashid Johnson | The Hikers

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
Maturity Level : all

Sigalit Landau | Salt Years

Sigalit Landau | Salt Years

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

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Shifting Vision

Shifting Vision

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

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Adel Abdessemed | Hope

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
Maturity Level : all

Abstract: The Art of Design | Christoph Niemann: Illustration

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
Maturity Level : all

Abstract: The Art of Design | Tinker Hatfield: Footwear Design

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
Maturity Level : all

Abstract: The Art of Design | Es Devlin: Stage Design

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
Maturity Level : all

Abstract: The Art of Design | Bjarke Ingels: Architecture

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
Maturity Level : all

Abstract: The Art of Design | Paula Scher: Graphic Design

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
Maturity Level : all

Abstract: The Art of Design | Platon: Photography

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
Maturity Level : all

Abstract: The Art of Design | Ilse Crawford: Interior Design

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
Maturity Level : all

Kara Walker

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
Maturity Level : all

Victoria Sin

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
Maturity Level : all

Judy Chicago-The Birth Project

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
Maturity Level : all

Gabriel Chaile

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
Maturity Level : all

Wong Ping

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
Maturity Level : all

Kiran Nadar

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
Maturity Level : all

Isaac Julien | Lessons of the Hour

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
Maturity Level : all

Solitario- Behind the scene

Solitario- Behind the scene

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

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

The art market speaks a kind of Esperanto by Ireen Zielonka

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
Maturity Level : all