It’s hard to pick our favorite interviews of the year, but here are a few of the artists, photographers, sculptors, designers, and art entrepreneurs who shared their creative worlds with Artspace this year.
Sarah Sze – ‘I’m interested in the idea that an image can have this quality of being alive in the making, or alive in the dying.’
Sarah Sze, 2023 - photographed by Nir Arieli
To knowSarah Sze’s work in depth you sometimes have to drop down
Wangechi Mutu – ‘Art is not a place or a play, it’s what’s in the mind that has endless possibilities.’
Wangechi Mutu photographed by Khadija Farah
How should we frame art? In her Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series monograph, Kenyan-born Wangechi Mutu pushes back against the notions that art is just painting, or that art is simply the stuff that belongs in a museum.
Charles-Antoine Bodson – The entrepreneur has put his heart into skateboard art with the help of Ai Weiwei, Paul McCarthy, and now the Andy Warhol and Peter Brant Foundations
Since founding THE SKATEROOM in 2014, the Brussels-based CEO has raised nearly two million dollars for social projects to create a brighter future for disadvantaged youth.
Mandy El-Sayegh – ‘The cuts have already been made by life. I’m just selecting those cut things and clustering them.’
Mandy El-Sayegh in her studio - photograph by Abtin Eshraghi, courtesy the artist
Mandy El-Sayegh’s collages feature newsprint, advertisements, aerial maps, anatomy books, and her father’s calligraphy, alongside hand-painted elements and non-traditional materials such as latex.
Harland Miller – ‘I’ve been thinking a lot lately about whether it’s OK to play with the idea of not thinking about what I’m doing; to allow the subconscious to take over and riff on the ideas suggested by the title.’
Harland Miller - Detail from Hz So Good, 2022
‘I started out as a print maker – more of a bootlegger really – which is less heroic, but not lacking in excitement, and far away from the dusty portfolios of print dealers.’
Over the past fifty years, Italian architect, artist, and designer Gaetano Pesce has led a career of contradictions, changing his mind as it suits him – as some have said ‘to the point of complete incoherence’.
