Interviews

To mark the official collateral event Andrzej Wróblewski (1927-1957): In the First Person, we interviewed curator Ania Muszyńska. This project stems from the visionary initiative of the Starak Family Foundation.

Andrzej Wróblewski, Look Out, it Comes! Air Raid; 1955; oil, canvas; 120 × 139.5 cm; Starak Collection; Courtesy © Andrzej Wróblewski Foundation / www.andrzejwroblewski.pl

We met Venice based artist Mariateresa Sartori in her studio on the Island of Murano.

We interviewed the artist to mark his latest exhibition in Venice, 'Something is wrong' at the Tana Art Space. Pesta's latest project confronts the pervasive presence of evil in society, drawing parallels between historical narratives and contemporary crises.

We met Venice based artist Maria Morganti in her studio in Cannaregio.

We met Venice based artist Francesco Zanatta in his studio on the island of Giudecca.

We met Venice based artist Michelangelo Penso in his studio in Marghera.

We met Venice based artist Elisabetta Di Maggio in her studio in Cannaregio.

We met Venice based artist Nina Ceranic in her studio on the island of Giudecca.

We met Venice based artist Jure Kastelic in his studio in Castello.

We met Venice based artist Michele Bubacco in his studio on the island of Murano.

We met Venice based artist Matilde Sambo in her studio at the Fondazione Bevilacqua - Atelier Palazzo Carminati. 

To launch this new series of interviews we met Venice based artist Lucia Veronesi in her studio on the island of Giudecca.

To mark Artissima in Turin, we interviewed art critic and curator Jacopo Crivelli Visconti. Visconti is a curatorial advisor for the fair, as well as curator of "the human condition", a project of films and videos by artists formulated and produced in dialogue with Gallerie d’Italia – Torino, the host location.

Visconti was born in Naples, Italy and is now based in São Paulo, Brazil. His book Novas Derivas (New Drifts) was published in Portuguese by WMF Martins Fontes and in Spanish by Ediciones Metales Pesados. He ha curated many exhibitions and institutional projects, including: Com o coração saindo pela boca, Brazilian Pavilion at the 59ª Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2022) and Faz escuro mas eu canto, 34ª Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2020-2021).

Back in Basel, and now in its last week, Vitrine presents the first exhibition in Switzerland of emerging artist Ebun Sodipo, who works across performance, film, sculpture and collage, and narrates constructions of a black transfeminine self after slavery and colonialism through visual assemblages. ‘On the Edge of a Sheen Cut’ presents a new body of wall-based sculptural works in resin and mylar showing images from the artist’s visual archive. The archive is an exploration into what she describes as her own formation of personal narrative, self-possession and the aestheticisation of compositional materials that reflect ideas around transformation, desire and sexuality.

Laurent Grasso (born in 1972 in Mulhouse, France) lives and works between Paris, France and New York, New York, USA. Located at the intersection of heterogeneous temporalities, geographies, and realities, Grasso’s films, sculptures, paintings, and photographs immerse the viewer in an uncanny world of uncertainty. The artist creates mysterious atmospheres that challenge the boundaries of what we perceive and know. Anachronism and hybridity play an active role in his strategy, which entails diffracting reality in order to recompose it according to his own rules. Fascinated by the way in which various powers can affect human conscience, Grasso seeks to grasp, reveal, and materialise the invisible, from collective fears to politics to electromagnetic or paranormal phenomena. His work reveals what lies behind common perception and offers us a new perspectiveon history and reality.

Wild nature and even cultivated nature have taken center stage in my recent works. For some time now,...

On the occasion of Brussels Gallery Weekend and the 50th anniversary of Baronian, the oldest gallery in Brussels, we interviewed artist Yann Bronder. Born in 1990 in Belgium, she studied at KASK in Ghent and holds a master’s degree in Fine Arts from LUCA in Brussels. Bronder does not work in series, she works in time slots and works on several works simultaneously. Each work is an occasion for something new, for something unprecedented. As a result, Bronder’s works are not limited to one theme or one context.

On the occasion of the eighth ‘Vetrina‘, Vino Vero presents a site-specific work by Giorgia Severi, an Italian artist working on environmental and landscape issues. Her multimedia artistic research is based on archiving endangered landscapes, including natural spaces and cultural practices. “Climax #5 Venice” poses the question whether the climax, which is the condition of maximum equilibrium and growth of an ecosystem, is not perhaps at the point of involution.

In just three years, Uzbekistan has cemented its place in the Venice Biennale, with each presentation more intriguing than the last. From the initial debut in 2021 with "Mahalla — Urban Rural Living" curated by Christ&Gantenbein, the country has maintained its presence at the Arsenale, next to the Italian Pavilion. Last year's "Dixit Algorizmi — The Garden of Knowledge" was looking at the origins of algorithms and computation, curated by Space Caviar and Sheida Ghomashchi. And this year, the pavilion promises to delve deep into archives and the future of sustainable architecture with "Unbuild Together: Archaism vs. Modernity". We sat down with Gayane Umerova, the commissioner of the Uzbekistan National Pavilion in Venice, to get a behind-the-scenes look at this year's enthralling presentation.

Luna Cenere is the young choreographer who won the 2022-2023 call for new choreographies aimed at artists under 35 by La Biennale Danza with her project "Vanishing Place." The piece made its world premiere at Teatro Piccolo Arsenale during the 17th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, "Altered States," under the artistic direction of Wayne McGregor.

The mark the beginning of The Venice Glass Week and the exhibition Bohemian Glass: The Great Masters at Le Stanze Del Vetro, on the Island of San Giorgio in Venice, we interviewed curators Caterina Tognon and Sylva Petrová. The exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague and is dedicated to Bohemian glass after the Second World War, featuring the works by six major artists of contemporary glass sculpture: Václav Cigler, Vladimír Kopecký, Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, René Roubíček and Miluše Roubíčková.