Interviews
with artists and curators
How does an exhibition arise? What kinds of ideas and thoughts go into creating it? How does the dialog between exhibition organizer and artist develop? How do artists themselves talk about their work?
Our interviews offer a glimpse behind the scenes. We talk to the curators responsible for working out the concept of an exhibition, who reveal interesting details and background information; and to the artists, who offer personal insights into their work. Hatje Cantz makes art accessible.
Armin Mueller-Stahl
2019-03-23
Interview with Armin Mueller-Stahl
The actor, artist, and East-West traveler Armin Mueller-Stahl talks to the Handelsblatt about the fall of the Berlin Wall thirty years ago, the state of the republic, and moments full of freedom. More »
Jean Molitor
2018-12-16
Interview with Jean Molitor
From Bremen to Burundi, the photographer Jean Molitor’s goal is to create an archive of modern global architecture. To satisfy his Bauhaus enthusiasm, he’ll risk being arrested from time to time. More »
Yan Wang Preston
2018-09-06
Interview with Yan Wang Preston
An old tree in the midst of a modern city is transplanted at great expense. This happens daily in China’s metropolises. The photographer Yan Wang Preston talked to Spiegel Online about her photography project and the tree business.
Leonhard Hurzlmeier
2018-08-21
Interview with Leonhard Hurzlmeier
Leonhard Hurzlmeier’s colorful oil paintings depict archetypal images of women involved in everyday life. He spoke with curator and editor Christian Ganzenberg about portraits of women in art history and about the difference of painting women and men. More »
Matthias Steinkraus
2018-05-22
Interview with Matthias Steinkraus
For his long-term study, Matthias Steinkraus spent six years, from 2010 to 2016, documenting the apartment block on the Kottbusser Tor, a large crossroads in Berlin, and the legendary 24-hour pub Rote Rose, or “red rose.” In an interview with Leona Koldehoff, he talks about the background of his work. More »
Daniel Sannwald
2018-02-19
Interview with Daniel Sannwald
London based artist-come-photographer, Daniel Sannwald has released his book entitled, Spektrum, showing the best works of recent years. He spoke to Felicity Carter at Forbes Magazine about his start off in the industry, his aesthetics and inspirations. More »
Ola Kolehmainen
2018-01-14
Interview with Ola Kolehmainen
Ola Kolehmainen spent three years traveling through Europe, photographing sacred places. He told Spiegel Online about the tricks he used to light the enormous interiors—and why the guards at Hagia Sophia are like siblings to him.
Gianluca Galtrucco
2017-09-27
Interview with Gianluca Galtrucco
Like no other city in the world, Los Angeles encourages the observer to play with illusions—and to be played with in turn. Photographer Gianluca Galtrucco works with this quality and discovers comedic and dramatic images throughout the city that blur the boundary between reality and artifice. The result are mysterious photographs that challenge the observer.
In our interview with Consulting Editor for Photography Art Books Nadine Barth, he talks about what inspires him and how his new book For Your Consideration came into being. More »
Volker Staab
2017-08-30
Interview with Volker Staab
Volker Staab makes room for art: the Berlin-based architect helps water flow through walls, loves installations beneath staircases, and hates the tyranny of industrial norms. Above all, Staab is known for his museum buildings, from Nuremberg to Ahrenshoop, as well as for the sensitive way he embeds the buildings in their often historical surroundings.
For the Tagesspiegel, Björn Rosen and Susanne Kippenberger conducted a long interview with the star architect, which was the newspaper’s lead story on Sunday, August 13, 2017. More »
Maxime Ballesteros
2017-07-04
Interview with Maxime Ballesteros
Celebrated French photographer Maxime Ballesteros is known for capturing the primal themes that haunt our daily existence. Hees lens sees a version of life that cannot see, or perhaps have become numbt to. Raw emotion, revealed through flesh, leather, stockings and heels. Pictures of death and decay, freedom and exploration.
For the French fashion magazine L'Officiel our consulting editor for Photography Art Books Nadine Barth talked with Ballesteros about his work. Please find here the complete interview. More »
Latif Al Ani
2017-06-20
Interview with Latif Al Ani
Latif Al Ani was one of the first photographers in Iraq. He had an active career for more than twenty years, starting in the early 1950s. Al Ani presented the vivid Iraqi culture in its abundance and complexity: besides documenting the westernized everyday life, the political culture and industry, he also captured images of Iraq from the air for the Iraq Petroleum Company.
This interview took place in Baghdad, where he still lives, over several conversations in January and February 2015. More »
Kemang Wa Lehulere
2017-05-26
Interview with Kemang Wa Lehulere
“In his wall drawings, collages, and complex performances, he revisits his own history and the pain of his society by creating poignant images that are never literal or explanatory, but are instead a territory to be traversed, understood, and revealed,” writes
Victoria Noorthoorn, the directors of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, describing Kemang Wa Lehulere’s art.
In spring of 2017, Kemang Wa Lehulere presented his first institutional solo exhibition in Germany at the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle in Berlin. Together with the curator Britta Färber Kemang Wa Lehulere talks about his source of inspiration. More »
