Artist interview
Nairy Baghramian: ‘Dissent is part of society, it is a healthy freedom’
The Iranian-born, Berlin-based artist, whose work is currently on show at the discusses the beauty that lies in “in-between spaces”, and the relationship between art and democracy
Chila Kumari Singh Burman: ‘I’ve always rebelled against being told what to do’
The self-described “Punjabi Scouser” artist’s colourful neon works raise a smile, but with themes of feminism, racism and colonialism there is a serious intent to her art
Narcissister’s new show expands on her subversive brand of magic
The artist’s project at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn is her first large-scale performance commission since 2012
Anya Gallaccio: the artist casting trees in bronze, planting an orchard, and letting her art rot
Dissolution, uncertainty and paradox are the stock in trade of the British artist, whose latest works include trees as a metaphor for those living with HIV/Aids and casting chalk caves with a 3D printer
Edra Soto: ‘This kind of architecture lives in the background’
The Puerto Rico-born, Chicago-based artist’s new Public Art Fund project brings the domestic architecture of her childhood home to Central Park
‘Art saved my life in many, many ways’: vanessa german on channelling magic in her new Chicago exhibition
The artist’s show at the University of Chicago was informed by her experience teaching a class on historically marginalised forms of learning
June Clark: the Toronto-based US artist exploring the American flag and its many meanings
The New York-born artist, who has lived in Canada for more than half a century, explains how she bypassed sexism in the 1970s to teach herself photography, and why she will always be connected to the US
Martha Jungwirth: the Austrian painter looking to Goya and the horrors of Australian bushfires
The octogenarian artist has quietly persevered with her often non-figurative painting—which she insists is not abstract—inspired by everything from domestic appliances to the terrors of Europe’s African colonisation
Yooyun Yang: "I am drawn to moments where familiarity and novelty collide"
Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today
Woo Hannah: "Fabric is good for expressing weird but beautiful things"
Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today
siren eun young jung: "I believe in art that is able to visualise those erased by society"
Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today
The Rice Brewing Sisters Club: "We use what we call 'auntie wisdoms'"
Meet the collective which has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today
Minouk Lim: "I focus on the ritualistic aspect of making"
Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today
Eusung Lee: "The allure of sculpture lies in the embodiment of presence"
Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today
Sojung Jun: "I find it intriguing to deal with history or time"
Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today
Jesse Chun: "Language is an incredibly intricate and powerful thing"
Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today
Mika Rottenberg: ‘Giant things are often triggered by tiny reactions’
The “silly but serious” artist’s experiences at the world’s largest particle accelerator at Cern have helped to shape her expansive retrospective at Museum Tinguely
'Half of my collection is about cats': Sylvie Fleury reveals her love of feline art
The Geneva-based artist known for her pop culture references cannot get enough of glitzy 1970s American cars and 1980s fashion
‘I’m just reflecting the times. I’m not an activist’: artist Monira Al Qadiri on her complicated relationship with fossil fuel, a recurring theme of her work
The Kuwaiti-born artist, now living in Germany, has an exhibition at Kunsthaus Baselland during Art Basel that includes large-scale works referencing oil production and consumption
Carsten Höller: ‘We have been very successful in eliminating the unpredictable'
The artist is working with an MIT scientist to help Fondation Beyeler visitors learn the art of flying—in their dreams, at least
Alvaro Barrington: the artist bringing carnival and the Caribbean to Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries
With his new London commission, the Venezuela-born painter is exploring the UK’s impact around the globe with a sweeping installation partly inspired by his grandmother’s plastic sofa coverings
‘It is a conversation you’re having with your loom’: Melissa Cody on her lifelong relationship with weaving
The artist's bright, deeply personal textile works are on show at MoMA PS1 in New York
Steve McQueen: the Oscar-winner who still sees himself first and foremost as an artist
In his new commission for Dia Beacon, the British artist and director has focused on the trauma of African enslavement and the creation of a Black Atlantic culture with a screenless composition of light, colour and sound
‘Once you know the history, you see it everywhere’: Nona Faustine on uncovering New York’s uncomfortable past
At the Brooklyn Museum, the American photographer’s self-portraits reveal the city’s links to colonialism and slavery that were largely erased
‘It’s a dream for an artist to be able to do this’: Walton Ford on creating a lion's den at the Morgan Library & Museum
The artist’s show includes a menagerie of recently gifted sketches, large-scale watercolours and selections from the permanent collection
‘The experience of giving birth is so abstract and intense’: Loie Hollowell on the challenge of painting pregnancy
The artist’s survey at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum tracks the formal language she developed to depict an essential process in life—one that, historically, has been rarely depicted
A brush with... Kapwani Kiwanga
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from residencies in Paris to the jazz legend Sun Ra
Podcast | A brush with... Michael Raedecker
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the New Romantics of the 1980s to a 1992 edition of Documenta
A brush with... Alex Katz
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from artist Paul Cezanne to jazz maestro Charlie Parker
Glenn Ligon: 'The idea of coal dust being elevated into the space of art was something that interested me'
As his series of text paintings make their debut in Hong Kong, the US artist discusses his decades-long meditation on the words of James Baldwin