Interviews

The National Pavilion UAE for the 59th Venice Biennale presents Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim: Between Sunrise and Sunset, an installation of human-sized, abstract, and organic sculptural forms inspired by the environment of Khor Fakkan, Ibrahim’s hometown in the Al Hajar Mountains on the east coast of Sharjah. Ibrahim chose Maya Allison, Chief Curator and Executive Director of NYU Abu Dhabi as the curator of the pavilion. In September 2020 Ibrahim opened a solo exhibition Memory Drum at Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai and had a conversation with Maya Allison about his practice. The 59th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2022 will open to the public between 23 April - 27 November 2022.

Ahead of the opening of the Venice Biennale, cultural consultant and author András Szántó spoke with the curator Cecilia Alemani, on Zoom, about the ideas and process behind the exhibition and how it relates to our moment.

For his first exhibition in a UK institution, Creuzet has filled the upstairs gallery in Camden Arts Centre with a dense installation incorporating music, video, poetry and sculpture. Creuzet’s distinctive sculptural language often repurposes found materials; relics of detritus washed ashore by oceans or the unrelenting progress of history.

My Art Guides talks to artist Shezad Dawood about his experiences on a residency at Fogo Island Arts where an exhibition of his work, 'Between Land & Sea', is on display until 17 April 2022.

Italian artist Elena Mazzi opens her first exhibition in Switzerland this week, ‘I do not desire, I...

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Turin is full of hidden and wonderful art places. Among the lesser-known and familiar places is the Fruit...

What I recommend seeing in the city is the Botanical Garden (which is part of Valentino park), the Fruit...

September saw the start of Vetrina, a cycle of contemporary art exhibitions hosted by Vino Vero Venezia, organized in collaboration with Lightbox and curated by Mara Sartore.
The curator interviewed the first guest artist Marie Denis to chat about her artistic practice and her incredible site-specific work "Spathes" created specifically for the Wine Club's showcase. 

Having curated the exhibition "American Art 1961-2001" at Palazzo Strozzi, in Florence and the innovative exhibition "PANORAMA | Procida" (September 2 –5, 2021), Vincenzo De Bellis (Curator and Associate Director of Programmes, Visual Arts of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis), spent his summer in Italy, dedicated to these two major projects. During our stay in Procida, we had lunch together and discussed his long-standing commitment to art and culture.

Introducing the guide we have guest artist Anish Kapoor whose exhibition solo show is currently on view at Lisson Gallery, Bell Street and whose major retrospective at Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice is due to open in 2022.

On the occasion of the exhibition "Breath Ghosts Blind" at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Artistic Director of miart Nicola Ricciardi interviewed Maurizio Cattelan to explore the behind the scenes of his new project.

Melissa McGill created an unprecedented public art work in the form of a regatta with 52 traditional sailboats in Venice’s waterways between May and September 2019, presented in parallel with the 58th Venice Biennale. We interviewed the artist, the curator Chiara Spangaro and project manager Marcella Ferrari ahead of the celebratory sail in the lagoon on Sunday for the release of the volume Red Regatta by Melissa McGill in collaboration with Associazione Vela al Terzo Venezia and in advance of the exhibition Melissa McGill: In Venice at Mazzoleni in London, to open next week.

Inspired by the works of Carla Lonzi, Io dico Io - I say I arises from the need to speak, and speak in the first person, to affirm one's own subjectivity, composing a single multitude, a multiplicity of selves that resonate with consonances and dissonances.
An interview with curators Lara Conte, Paola Ugolini and Cecilia Canziani.

The pandemic has delayed our architectural design process and drastically altered the way we communicate...

For the occasion of his solo exhibition at Palazzo Fava, Bologna we interviewed artist Nicola Samorì to learn more about his art and practice.

The Applied Arts Pavilion Special Project at Biennale Architettura 2021 is organised thanks to the collaboration between La Biennale di Venezia and V&A London. We interviewed curators Dr Christopher Turner and Dr Ella Kilgallon and architect Shahed Saleem to find out more about 'Three British Mosques'.

Winner of the Italian Council project (2019), "Pneuma" investigates the stigma related to mental illness in different geographical contexts. As the end of the project approaches, the artist takes stock of this one-year-long path, from its origin to all the in-progress collaborations and the readaptations due to the pandemic.

For Kara Chin’s first solo presentation for VITRINE, London, the artist has been working to create a series of sculptures and installations to be installed in the long windows of the gallery in Bermondsey. In this Q&A with Alessandro Vincentelli, Chin describes some of the ideas inspiring these works, the use of salt dough to make sculpture, and coping during extended lockdown.