Interviews

A new show at the Japan Society in New York reflects a career’s research into the emergence of the Japanese avant-garde

The artist discusses her new show at The Hepworth Wakefield: ‘Ceramics for me is so personal: it’s so painful to produce sometimes’

Q: What do you wish you knew? A: I wish I understood the working of the cosmos in relation to us here on Earth

In the lead-up to his solo show at The Met Breuer, Oliver Beer talks to Jennifer Higgie about the artists, writers and composers who have shaped his thinking 

The artist talks about butterflies, the politicization of artefacts and the lost cultural history of his Kosovar home city

As an exhibition of works selected by the Spanish author opens in London, he discusses realism, ambiguity and why he doesn’t want to be a ‘curator’

The artist’s films at Camden Arts Centre evoke anxiety in the face of world events and the tenderness of collective living

With a show opening at Hollybush Gardens tomorrow, the artist discusses her career addressing social and political issues through performance
 

The Athens-based artist discusses how desire figures in her new film, the relationship between writing and images and the influence her home city has on her practice

The radical filmmaker, teacher and writer talks essentialism in identity politics and why her films are neither documentary nor fiction

Q: What do you wish you knew? A: How to build a time machine

On view at Skarstedt’s London gallery, US artist Sue Williams’s latest body of work reflects a battle against ‘hating everything’ 

A new film by Josh Appignanesi shot entirely on VHS, creates a portrait of novelist Chloe Aridjis and surrealist Leonora Carrington

The legendary sculptor and performance artist talks liquid sculpture, the politics of dance and the liberating qualities of nylon hosiery

Q: What do you like the look of? A: ‘Looks aren't everything.’

‘Mentorship? I don’t think I even knew what the word meant!’

The legendary Tokyo-based architect reflects on his first UK building, which opens to the public on Saturday

The artist and musician talks humour, tragedy and his exhibition, ‘Shitty Heartbreaker’, at Overgaden, Copenhagen

With a forthcoming solo show at Tiwani Contemporary, London, the artist discusses Niger-Delta food traditions, ‘disaster narratives’ and environmental challenges

The winner of the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2018 discusses her MoMA retrospective, Germany’s political future, and her love of jokes