• © Kadar Brock. Image: Nicholas Calcott
    © Kadar Brock. Image: Nicholas Calcott
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Kadar Brock, talking about the subject matter of his paintings, his time-based process of adding and taking away from the canvas, as well as about his newest exploration into textile weaving. 
  • © Ben Tong. Image: Tyler Matthew Oyer
    © Ben Tong. Image: Tyler Matthew Oyer
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Ben Tong, talking on his  previous experience in photography, revealing the ways to  expand the space-time dimension, as well as and explaining how lightness and darkness coexist in his paintings.

     

  • © Tariku Shiferaw. Image: Christopher Garcia Valle
    © Tariku Shiferaw. Image: Christopher Garcia Valle
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Tariku Shiferaw, speaking about the split of his cultural identification, the boundary between abstraction and figuration, as well as revealing the connotation of Black and Blue in his artworks. 
  • © Dana James. Image: courtesy of the artist and Bode
    © Dana James. Image: courtesy of the artist and Bode
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Dana James, speaking about her “vocabulary” of materials, explaining how neon signs inspired her recent show, as well as revealing her plans to incorporate sculptural elements into her art practice. 
  • © Senzeni Marasela. Image: courtesy of Kalashnikovv Gallery. Photo: by Thys Dullaart
    © Senzeni Marasela. Image: courtesy of Kalashnikovv Gallery. Photo: by Thys Dullaart
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Senzeni Marasela, speaking about her first gallery show in Europe, explaining the crucial role of the red color in her art practice, as well as commenting on dramatic periods of South African history. 
  • © Darin Cooper's studio. Image: Josh Shaw, Modern Masterpiece Photography
    © Darin Cooper's studio. Image: Josh Shaw, Modern Masterpiece Photography
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Darin Cooper, speaking about his shift from photoghraphy to painting, his inspiration by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, as well as explaining the difference between New York and London art scene. 
  • © Raelis Vasquez. Image: Sara Sahores, 2023.
    © Raelis Vasquez. Image: Sara Sahores, 2023.
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Raelis Vasquez, explaining how immigration has shaped his creative path, speaking on the Dominican Republic as the primary source of his imspiration, as well as revealing his future plans of exploring ceramics as a new medium.   
  • © Jerrel Gibbs' Studio. Image: Joe Hyde, 2023.
    © Jerrel Gibbs' Studio. Image: Joe Hyde, 2023.
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Jerrell Gibbs, revealing how his work landed in the U.S. Capitol, discussing the representation of Black men in a new context, as well as speaking on his first acquaintance with Matisse’s works and its influence on his art practice. 
  • © Tonia Nneji's studio. Image: Courtesy of the artist.
    © Tonia Nneji's studio. Image: Courtesy of the artist.
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Tonia Nneji, speaking about the influence of Dutch Baroque painters on her art practice, explaining the roles of fabrics within religious societies in Nigeria, as well as revealing the symbolism of white colour in her works
  • © Shaina McCoy's studio. Image: Courtesy of the artist.
    © Shaina McCoy's studio. Image: Courtesy of the artist.
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Shaina McCoy, speaking about her passion for family history, his inspiration by Mary Cassatt and Egon Schiele, as well as introducing us to the Minneapolis creative scene. 
  • © Kiriakos Tompolidis' Studio. Image: Kiriakos Tompolidis, 2023.
    © Kiriakos Tompolidis' Studio. Image: Kiriakos Tompolidis, 2023.
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists and curators, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Kiriakos Tompolidis, speaking about how Egon Schiele has influenced his art practice, analyzing the topics of memory and immigration in his paintings, as well as explaining how he works with collage and tapestry. 
  • © Dexter Wimberly. Image: Cameron Peaglar
    © Dexter Wimberly. Image: Cameron Peaglar
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists and curators, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Dexter Wimberly, speaking about the beginnings of his curatorial practice, the profound impact of Japan, as well as analyzing the continuously developing role of the curator in the art world. 
  • © Anico Mostert's studio. Image: Kent Andreasen
    © Anico Mostert's studio. Image: Kent Andreasen
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Anico Mostert, speaking about the crucial role of color in her practice, explaining the origins of semi-abstracted faceless figures on the canvas, as well as sharing the experience of her first residency program in Mexico City
  • © Demetrius Wilson. Image: Demetrius Wilson
    © Demetrius Wilson. Image: Demetrius Wilson
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Demetrius Wilson, speaking about a docu on Jean-Michel Basquiat, that has initiated his artistic journey, explaining the differences between New York and Boston art scenes, and revealing how the new surrounding has transformed his art. 
  • © Cinthia Sifa Mulanga. Image: Earl Garth Abrahams, 2022
    © Cinthia Sifa Mulanga. Image: Earl Garth Abrahams, 2022
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Cinthia Mulanga, speaking about the ever-changing beauty standards imposed on women and explaining why domestic spaces became predominant in her work.
  • © Debra Cartwright. Image: Elizabeth von Stubendorff, 2023
    © Debra Cartwright. Image: Elizabeth von Stubendorff, 2023
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Debra Cartwright, speaking about American history and healthcare system, guiding us through art history - from traditional Venetian painting to Cezanne, and explaining how Beyonce and 80s funk assist her in the art practice
  • © Maria Seitz. Image: Ronja Paffrath, 2022
    © Maria Seitz. Image: Ronja Paffrath, 2022
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Maria Seitz, speaking about the meditative contemplative aspect of the drawing and explaining why she has turned to exploring the wild field of color in the urban spaces
  • © Daniel Schaal. Image: Lars Schwander
    © Daniel Schaal. Image: Lars Schwander
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Daniel Schaal, speaking about Claude Debussy as his inspirartion source, explaining why imperfection and irritation are crucially important for artists, and revealing why he perceives sounds and colors as an inseparable unity
  • © Portrait Image of Agnes Waruguru; Image: Fleur Beerthuis
    © Portrait Image of Agnes Waruguru; Image: Fleur Beerthuis
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Agnes Waruguru, a contemporary Kenyan artist who shares her thoughts on the connection between place, identity, and mark making from her residency in the Netherlands. 
  • © Corrine Slade portrait by Thanassis Gatos
    © Corrine Slade portrait by Thanassis Gatos
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Corrine Slade, a contemporary artist who gives us insight into the meaning of warmth, the importance of drawing, and treading the line between abstraction and representation.
  • © Mostaff Muchawaya's Studio. Image: Mostaff Muchawaya
    © Mostaff Muchawaya's Studio. Image: Mostaff Muchawaya
    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Mostaff Muchawaya, speaking about his childhood on a tobacco farmSouth African Ubuntu philosophy, and explaining why he tries to portray memory. 
  • © Bonolo Kavula. Image: SMAC Gallery
    © Bonolo Kavula. Image: SMAC Gallery

    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Bonolo Kavula, speaking about her printmaking experience, the use of shweshwe  fabric, and explaining why her art has turned into a kind of a personal therapy. 

  • © Veronica Fernandez' studio. Image: Veronica Fernandez
    © Veronica Fernandez' studio. Image: Veronica Fernandez

    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Veronica Fernandez, speaking about the relationship between people and spaces, reflecting on her family's past and revealing her key inspiration sources

  • © Ambrose Murray. Image: Celeste Burns
    © Ambrose Murray. Image: Celeste Burns

    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Ambrose Rhapsody Murray speaking about colonial violence and spirituality, explaining how she integrates archival photographs in her art, and why she is inspired by the color purple

     

  • © Portrait image by Brett Rubin, courtesy of Io Makandal
    © Portrait image by Brett Rubin, courtesy of Io Makandal

    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Io Makandal whose practice has a focus in feminist and environmental embodiments of process, entropy, urban ecology, and hybrid environments during a time of environmental shift.

  • © Layo Bright Studio. Image: Balazs Szeti
    © Layo Bright Studio. Image: Balazs Szeti

    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Layo Bright speaking about migration and perception, explaining how she integrates a headdress ‘gele and ‘Ghana must go bag’ in her art, revealing the most extraordinary project she is dreaming of, as well as talking about the potential of NFTs to disrupt the art market. 

  • © Kemar Wynter Studio, Image: Kyle Hobratschk
    © Kemar Wynter Studio, Image: Kyle Hobratschk

    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Kemar Wynter who speaks about his cultural identity, and mark making through his love of food, writing and the power of engaging audiences by the way of labor.

  • © Stacey Gillian Abe Studio
    © Stacey Gillian Abe Studio

    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Stacey Gillian Abe who speaks about identity and gender, how she delved back into painting, and why Stacey Abe is inspired by the aspect of indigo blue.

  • © Alina Sokolova Studio
    © Alina Sokolova Studio

    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Alina Sokolova who speaks about the choreography in our daily movements, about dance and actual events like the dancing plague, and why she refers to TikTok in times of a pandemic.

  • © Chris Watts Studio, NYC
    © Chris Watts Studio, NYC

    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore In Conversation With Chris Watts | Episode 5 who speaks about the black figure, police violence, piles of magazines and the delicates of silk. 

  • © Yolanda Mazwana Studio, Image: Botswele Bogotlane
    © Yolanda Mazwana Studio, Image: Botswele Bogotlane

    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore the fourth episode in which Yolanda Mazwana talks about thoughts after midnight, about her influences of Gustav Klimt and surrealism, the characters in her works, and about undiagnosed problems and mental health in our societies.

  • In Conversation With Buhlebezwe Siwani | Episode 3

    Interview with Buhlebezwe Siwani, Bode Projects
    © Buhlebezwe Siwani, Isana libuyele kunina, 2015, C-print on cotton paper, 112 × 74 cm, Image: Courtesy of the artist and Madragoa, Lisbon
    © Buhlebezwe Siwani, Isana libuyele kunina, 2015, C-print on cotton paper, 112 × 74 cm, Image: Courtesy of the artist and Madragoa, Lisbon

    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore the third episode in which Buhlebezwe Siwani talks about current projects, her relation to Western performance art, her two homes in Amsterdam and South Africa, and the influence of Xhosa culture and its language in her works.

  • In Conversation With Patrick Alston | Episode 2

    Interview with Patrick Alston, Bode Projects
    @ Patrick Alston Studio, Image: EBAR Photo
    @ Patrick Alston Studio, Image: EBAR Photo

    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore the second episode in which Patrick Alston speaks about the relation between color and gesture, abstract art as a specific language, art historical influences, and the psychology of color.

  • In Conversation With Riley Holloway | Episode 1

    Interview Riley Holloway, Bode Projects
    © Riley Holloway Westside Studio, Image: Artist's archive
    © Riley Holloway Westside Studio, Image: Artist's archive

    In Conversation With is a digital interview series which aims to present artists in their studio, talking about their practice. Explore the first episode in which Riley Holloway speaks about his painting technique, about the role of family and community, and his experience and expectations in exhibiting abroad.