The winner of the 2016 Turner Prize discusses skeuomorphism, skins and soup - from issue 155

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

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

From the Vatican to the Venice Biennale: the limits to symbolic acts of altruism

How taste and preferences change

Artists respond to migration in Africa

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

A brief history of the GIF

Oulipo and the re-release of Raymond Queneau’s 1947 Exercises in Style

A new film reconstructs Félix Guattari’s unproduced sci-fi script

An artist-led guided tour of corruption in the Czech Republic

The texture of Rosenfeld’s work is woven from often seemingly disparate times, places and registers of culture

What do drones see? And how can we see them?

The surreal, oddly familiar world of Nicole Eisenman

Artist Gary Panter draws and discusses the books that have influenced him

From eroticism to transcendence, the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Andy Warhol has many surprising overlaps. Ara H. Merjian traces the affinities and contradictions between an unlikely pair

The Kosovar artist’s biographical narratives and loaded artefacts

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

Gianfranco Baruchello’s long career encompasses painting, sculpture and film as well as farming and psychoanalysis

Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

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

‘Hilma af Klint – A Pioneer of Abstraction’ was “not simply the tale of an extraordinary woman, but a study in how art history has been traditionally written”

A collaboration that began with a castle in the Carpathians

Utopian Modernism, children’s toys and art in the public realm

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

A number of recent exhibitions and artist projects have utilized the architecture of the television studio. How does this tendency relate to TV’s shifting significance as a cultural form?

With references to Brian Eno, M.R. James and the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop, the pair create an eerie ‘audio essay’ charting a walk from Felixstowe to Sutton Hoo

CCA, Glasgow, & Stills, Edinburgh, UK

The shifting landscape of contemporary art in Beijing