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Six decades of avoiding being categorized

Discussing the myths and realities of the Cologne art scene – a roundtable with Renate Goldmann, Hannes Loichinger, Marcel Odenbach, Susanne Titz and Gregory H. Williams. With photographs by Wilhelm Schürmann and Andrea Stappert

Alexandra Bircken uses found objects and lost materials to create wildly associative and unruly sculptures

Tom Morton examines the feints and swerves, coded allusions and insider intimacies in almost three decades of work by Michael Krebber

Prints, paper, scissors

The artist’s found industrial materials serve as material supporters of meaning

Living, working and going on strike

Katharina Grosse pushes painting towards architecture and the way we navigate spaces

Animating archives in the ‘queer archaeology’ of Berlin-based duo Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz

Film as social experiment, and learning how to communicate without speaking

At a time of revolution in digital technologies, when making extraordinary images has never been technically easier, painting persists. Jennifer Higgie asked eight artists to share their thoughts on the whys and wherefores of figurative painting

With 'one foot in this world and one in another', Mark Leckey's works have a limitless capacity for association

Narratives of scent and material decay

Forensic listening and juridical speaking

Visibility, identity and black people on Mars – Kerry James Marshall in conversation with Ellen Mara De Wachter

On the occasion of a major touring retrospective that marks four decades of the artist’s work, Michael Famighetti considers the changing American landscape in the photographs of Robert Adams

Shepherds and colonialism, appropriation and the Romantic tradition

How Paul Elliman responds to the spaces, objects, words and sounds that surround him

Conflict, communion and making human presence resonate in the landscape

The paintings, drawings and animations of Tala Madani