Interviews

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An interview with Michèle Bernstein, novelist and founding member of the Situationist International

BY Gavin Everall |

Q: What do you like the look of?
A: People’s faces when they are very surprised.

Artist Karin Sander and social scientist Harald Welzer have known each other since Welzer exhibited Sander’s works as a gallerist in Hanover in the 1990s. In his most recent book Selbst denken. Eine Anleitung zum Widerstand (Thinking for Ourselves: a Manual for Resistance, 2013), Welzer calls for a move away from the ideology of economic growth, in light of world­­‑wide economic crises, calling instead for intelligent concepts for a ‘culture of reduction’. Intelligent reduction is exactly what Sander’s art engages with time and again. This conversation between Sander and Welzer, moderated by Jörg Heiser, includes a conceptual intervention by Sander.

Gallerist, collector, curator and director René Block talks to artist Maria Eichhorn about ambition in art, the unexplored diversity of Fluxus and the importance of music in a career spanning 50 years

BY Maria Eichhorn |

Choreographer William Forsythe speaks to Astrid Kaminski about ‘wrong’ kinds of comedy, philosophy in dance and brief bouts of weightlessness

BY Astrid Kaminski |

An interview between curator Virginie Bobin and artists Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson discussing music, the public and private, national identity, mobility and humour.

BY Virginie Bobin |

Q: What is art for?
A: To escape.

Studio pottery, anti-art, John Fahey and compost

BY Tom Morton |

David Levine, whose work embraces theatre, performance and video, discusses acting and identity

BY Dan Fox |

John M Armleder and Mai-Thu Perret discuss art making, Switzerland, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and rowing

BY Mai-Thu Perret |

What could you imagine doing if you didn’t do what you do? 

I can’t imagine doing anything other than making art.

BY Lara Almarcegui |

Meret Oppenheim would have celebrated her 100th birthday in October this year. The centenary has prompted a major retrospective in Vienna which will travel to Berlin, and this conversation between former curator of Kunsthaus Zurich Bice Curiger and her successor Cathérine Hug

BY Bice Curiger |

The Academy of the Arts of the World in Cologne aims to encourage ‘productive dissent’

BY Timotheus Vermeulen |

In this series, frieze d/e asks artists to discuss their affinities to another person’s work. Here, Sibylle Berg shares her enthusiasm for the Finnish video artist Heta Multanen

BY Jan Kedves |

Massimiliano Gioni discusses his plans for the 55th Venice Biennale, ‘The Encyclopaedic Palace’

BY Barbara Casavecchia |

On the occasion of his retrospective in Karlsruhe, Werner Büttner talks to Jan Verwoert and Jörg Heiser about polemics and punchlines in more than three decades of work

BY Jan Verwoert |

Motion-capture choreography, street fights, Looney Tunes and ‘hybrid cinema’

BY Kari Rittenbach |

Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas talks to Kathy Noble about creating with clay, sculpture-as-film and team-work

BY Kathy Noble |

From his Conceptual art of the 1960s to his recent computer-generated works, Victor Burgin has consistently explored the virtual nature of images and words. He talked with writer and curator David Campany

BY David Campany |

Artist Matthieu Laurette, critic Vivian Sky Rehberg and the prolific curator, collector and dealer Seth Siegelaub, who died in 2013 aged 71, discuss the legacy of Conceptual art, the origins of curating and how art history is made

BY Vivian Sky Rehberg |