Isaac Julien is a filmmaker and artist. He curated the current exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, ‘Derek Jarman: Brutal Beauty’ (23 February – 13 April 2008), which features his new film Derek. His film installation Fantôme Afrique (2005) is also on show at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara until 11 May 2008.
Born in 1972, Ján Mancuska is a conceptual artist who explores the materiality of language and film. Here he interviews Jirí Kovanda about his pioneering work of the 1970s – an encounter between two generations of artists
Matthew Brannon is an artist based in New York. His work is included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial (6 March – 1 June), and a comprehensive monograph of his work, To say the very least, will be published in May 2008 by the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, with a text by Philip Monk.
Enrico David is an artist based in London. In 2008 his work will be included in a survey of Italian art and design of the last 40 years at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Jeffrey Vallance is an artist, writer, curator, explorer, paranormal researcher, Visiting Assistant Professor in New Genres at UCLA and Special Correspondent for Fortean Times. He lives in Los Angeles.
The first major retrospective of Canadian artist Stan Douglas opens this September in Stuttgart. He talks about history and landscape, puzzles and storytelling
Damián Ortega’s exhibition ‘Nine Types of Terrain’ is at White Cube, London until 8 September 2007. He is also nominated for the National Gallery Prize for Young Art, on show at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin from 14 September – 4 November 2007. He lives and works in Berlin.
