Q&As

Interview // LSD. A new gallery model for Berlin?

Berlin Art Link interview with LSD Galerie, Alexei Kostroma, No Pain No Brain

Interview by Sarah Gretsch and Anna Russ – in Berlin; Monday, Aug. 19, 2013.

Situated on Potsdamer Straße among galleries like Krome and Thomas Fischer is the bright, young face of LSD Galerie. But LSD is not like its nearby counterparts; it marks the beginning of a growing trend in galleries adopting artist-run…[read on…]

Vanishing Point. An interview with United Visual Artists (UVA)

UVA - "Vanishing Point" (2013), exhibition view at The Olympus OM-D: PHOTOGRAPHY PLAYGROUND

Interview by Sarah Gretsch – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

United Visual Artists (UVA) has been described as a practice, a collective and as an art and design studio. From installation specific to large-scale permanent works, each project is different, blurring borders between mediums, making classification impossible. Individual works bring together members from a variety of disciplines, traversing the realms of architecture, sculpture, live performance, and digital…[read on…]

FROM CUBISM TO RUBBER DUCKS

Jud Bergeron

Interview by Lori Zimmer – in Berlin; Thursday, May 02, 2013.

I first fell in love with Jud Bergeron’s work when he was making Cubist-like sculptures. They at once reminded me of Boccioni, Picasso, and Giacometti–not as a copycat, but as an addition to their school of thought. I loved their multifaceted, kaleidoscopic surfaces, but also that they came in candy colors like baby blue, which, to me, anchored them in…[read on…]

Lichtspiel. An Interview with Kite & Laslett

Kite & Laslett
by Elizabeth Stevens // Mar. 5, 2013
This Sunday is the finissage of Lichtspiel by London based duo Sebastian Kite & Will Laslett at Import Projects. Using light and sound as the primary medium, the exhibition brings together new compositions of Candescence and Orbit, two works that were previously shown at the +-0 Temporary Nightclub at Postbahnhof Berlin, as well as a new…[read on…]

BWPWAP: Interview with transmediale’s Jacob Lillemose & Kristoffer Gansing

Interview by Natasha Klimenko – in Berlin; Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013.

It’s that time again! The annual Berlin-based festival, the transmediale, is just around the corner! Focusing on presenting new media works that question the relations between technology, art, and society, the festival returns with the theme of Back When Pluto Was a Planet (BWPWAP)…[read on…]

The Notion of Home: Anat Litwin and the HomeBase Project

Brett Gustafson - "Pavillion"; HomeBase Build III

Interview by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Wednesday, Jan. 02, 2013.

The HomeBase project is an artist residency program based in Berlin, New York and Jerusalem. Siting itself in an “urban environment undergoing transitional changes” such as Pankow, the project aims to rise up to Modernism’s formative challenge of integrating art and life, utilizing the notion of ‘home’ and the domestic as a pivot to…[read on…]

Cayetano Ferrer: Las Vegas Life

Cayetano Ferrer - "Quarter Scale Grand Entrance"

Interview by Devon Caranicas – in Los Angeles; Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012.

Although currently based on the west coat, visual artist Cayetano Ferrer spent many of his formative years in Las Vegas, a metropolitan anomaly that continues to be a subject source for much of his work. Ferrer’s visual fascination with the city began as a teenager barring witness to the demolition of casinos along the…[read on…]

Towards a “Modern Self-consciousness:”
On Decadence and Death with Jan Van Oost

Jan Van Oost

Interview by Elizabeth Feder – in San Francisco; Friday, Dec. 07, 2012.

As much art arguably should, Flemish artist Jan Van Oost’s work conjures up some complex and conflicting responses. Delicate and exquisite treatment of materiality used to render images and figures of morbidity draws one in with simultaneous curiosity and revulsion. Oost is speaking from another era, drawing his inspiration from the expressive energy of 19th century Belgian symbolists like Antoine Wiertz, Léon Spilliaert and…[read on…]

Art in India, an Interview with Diana Campbell

Berlin Art Link, Creative India

Interview by Natasha Klimenko – in Berlin; Monday, Nov. 26, 2012.

Obstacles stand in the way of sculptural production in India: lack of funding, class divisions in exhibition spaces, difficulties experienced by artists in obtaining documentation to go abroad. The Creative India Foundation, established in 2010 for the purpose of supporting art, artists, and the art scene in the country, is currently developing a large-scale sculpture park… [read on…]

On the Road: Conversation with GRAYSON COX in New York

Grayson Cox – “Ergonomic Discussion Lectern”

Article by Devon Caranicas – in Berlin; Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012.

Originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, Grayson Cox draws on his printmaking background, two year sojourn in Tokyo and ergonomic design as inspiration for his sculptural and wall hanging work. Most recently, the artist’s solo The Water’s Fine at Gasser & Grunert in New York CIty embodied a more relational aesthetic through his inverted table top installation. Circular spaces of various sizes were removed from an installed wall-to-wall wooden form, forcing viewers to crouch…[read on…]