“Sometimes they come and sit with me on the sofa,” Silke Nowak tells us. We are discussing possible locations for the photo shoot after our studio visit. Nowak’s two bunnies…[read on]
The defining feature of Via Lewandowsky’s practice is not a material or a theme but an attitude—a nearly palpable, restless curiosity. It is also what makes his work so difficult to pin down…[read on]
Chloé Lee’s studio is located in a calm residential street on the top floor of an apartment building, and it overlooks a tree-lined courtyard. Despite it being a rather cool early April day…[read on]
When, during our studio visit, Nadine Fecht asks “how can we co-exist together?” she speaks to the tension between the multitude and the individual…[read on]
The sign above the studio entrance reads “Video Inn,” written in all caps and now coloured by an 80s patina. There, we meet painter Elif Saydam, sitting on the steps of the former video…[read on]
When I visited Christine Sun Kim’s studio, there was a large charcoal drawing on the wall that read “Why my Hearing Parents Sign”, above a pie chart she…[read on]
“No credible scientists would ever build anything like this because it would ruin their careers,” boasts Klara Hobza, smirking at the artistic endeavor standing before her,…[read on]
Swiss artist Olaf Breuning spent 16 years developing his practice in New York City before moving Upstate to find a measure of solitude in his work environment. Functioning…[read on]
There are few contemporary artists whose practices travel the same imaginative distance as Charles Avery. Initially a ten-year project, now a lifetime…[read on]
Along one wall and spanning a corner of her studio, Birte Bosse stages small-scale exhibitions in order to visualize interactions between works,…[read on]
On Nir Hod’s block you can still get a feeling for some aspects of old Manhattan, and the inside of his studio is no different. Barely visible in…[read on]