Valerie Green Work from her oeuvre. “Recently, rather than taking photographs you deal with the materiality of photography, whether it’s the symbols on rolls of film or material (Sintra) on which photos are commonly mounted. Can you talk a bit about your relationship to photography and exploring the non-image side of it? You seem to […]

Florian Hecker Work from Event, Stream, Object. ”Event, Stream, Object” is a sound installation by German artist Florian Hecker (born in 1975, he currently lives in Vienna), produced by MMK with funds from the MMK’s partners, that has now been acquired for the museum’s collection. Presented in the current exhibition ”Radical Conceptual“ (February 19 – […]

Stefano Calligaro Work from his oeuvre. “The nature of Stefano Calligaro’s practice can be seen as a minimal intent to describe the construction of an artwork through layers of gestures as collecting displacing and remodeling materials, images and meanings. The works and their subtle presence in the space are tracing a constellation of references in constant […]

Iman Issa Work from Triptychs (and others). “Issa’s Triptych series (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6) from 2009, is a group of six beautiful wall installations comprised of photography, video objects and texts. They are images of places she collected in New York and restaged; settings that occurred through a personal psychological process in order to reveal personal associations. […]

Aaron Finnis Work from his oeuvre. “… Aaron’s installations explore concepts of reality, illusion, perception, and deception using the dissonance between the tape sculptures’ similarity in appearance and their assumption of real form through light. Aaron creates art that could be interpreted as a confidence trick: The viewer is deceived by the value of hollow objects […]

Chris Engman Work from his oeuvre. “We often say, photographs “capture” time. But to capture something is not to understand it, because in the act of capture the thing is changed. Family albums, travel photographs- what they do with time is give it boundaries. They make memory possible by giving it shape. They describe an […]

Paul Destieu Work from his oeuvre. “(RE)MAKE Tutorial ” is a multimedia piece entirely based on popular, free and available web found elements : a software for image retouching, an online music listening platform, and a picture found on internet. … This work appears as a “work in progress”, an accidental proposition, similar to a tutorial through […]

Stills from Daisy Chain video installation The Wreck of the Dumaru video installation and Orbit, 2 video installation Jennifer Steinkamp “My artwork uses computer animation to craft immersive interactive projection installations. Three dimensional computer graphics are the basis of my animation; animations that take full advantage of the computer’s ability to create motion and points […]

United Visual Artists The Creators Project: How did UVA first begin its splendid attacks on our senses? Matt Clark: We met in the world of designing for live performance. Working as individual freelancers, we worked on a couple of projects together and thought, “Why don’t we start up our own thing?” I guess our original […]

Nils Nova Work from his oeuvre. “…is a devotee to painting, although his artistic talent is not limited to this genre. Nova paints, above all abstract, makes Videos, takes photographs and creates large scale wall or room based installations. He juggles with the tools of almost all the media available to an artist today, avoiding […]