Tirdad Zolghadr

This oral history, with insights from the publication’s editors and contributors, delves into its mission to shape perspectives on the Middle East

Various Venues

How can cultural institutions best respond to political crises?

Various venues, Istanbul, Turkey

Heinrich Heine, emails, art and friendship

Sometimes no art is better than more art

Keeping fit, autonomy, disappointment and art criticism

Are there no limits to the art world's expertise?

The ‘hand-bra’ technique as a metaphor for rhetorical self-reflexivity in the arts

Educating the educators, ivory tower activism and an enlightening visit to the zoo

What criteria do we use to judge art? During the opening of the 4th Berlin Biennial in March, Thomas Demand, Mark Godfrey, Jörg Heiser, Jennifer Higgie, Adrian Searle, Polly Staple and Tirdad Zolghadr gathered on a Saturday afternoon in frieze’s Berlin office to informally discuss, over cheese and strawberries, this very question

Directed for the first time by two women, María de Corral and Rosa Martínez, this year's exhibition includes 70 participating countries and 30 collatoral events