INTERVIEWS | ARTICLES
A selection of interviews and articles from artists and collaborations featured on the platform, in the gallery and in the art magazine
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Space52 announces their exhibition Everything Ι touch turns into me.EVAGORIA DAPOLA | ARTICULATE PPROMOTE | MAY 2024
Rooting from a deep understanding of relational aesthetics and phenomenological, sociological, performative and physical understandings of gesture, this exhibition frames a long research on gesture as a means of knowing the world. Curated by Evagoria Dapola. read more |
An examination of how Cocteau continues to influence contemporary art and culturePRFORARTISTS | ARTICULATE PARTNERS | MAY 2024
Chloë Cassens is the representative of the Severin Wunderman Collection, the largest in the world of works by iconoclastic French artist Jean Cocteau. We have had a talk to Chloë about her examination of how Cocteau continues to influence contemporary art and culture. read more |
ConnectedMatter Announces Their Open Call “We run together through the virtual quarries”CONNECTEDMATTER | ARTICULATE PARTNERS | APR 2024
ConnectedMatter is pleased to invite submissions of new media, video, XR art, installations and performances that explore the themes of mining, extraction, and their links to the digital world. The theme's interpretation is open and can be metaphorical. read more |
Oceana Rain Stuart's Intimate Exploration of the Human Condition Transcends Time and Space.MONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 39 | APR 2024
Central to Stuart's artistic practice is a deep fascination with interpersonal relationships. Her sculptures act as conduits through which she explores themes of vulnerability and authenticity, encouraging viewers to confront their own humanity. read more |
Exploring Artistic Drive and Vision. An Artist's Journey with Danish Artist Niklas Gjersøe.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 39 | APR 2024
We have had a talk to the Danish sound-artist Niklas Gjersøe about his documentation of what already exists, fuelled by a constant influx of ideas - emphasizing a deep fascination with the intricacies of our world. A body of work, backed-up by continuous research. read more |
Getting to the moment when the masks start to disintegrate ... and the truth of the personality starts to shine through.CAROLINE PROGNER ABRAHAO | ARTICULATE 39 | APR 2024
Birgit Kleber's portraits capture the intensity of dialogue between her and her subjects, the mutual stare and eye contact, the intimate setting, the proximity, the tension. She is a master of close-up portraits, creating skillfully the illusion that the subject is looking directly into the eyes of the viewer. read more |
Exploring Identity, Emotion, and Humanity Through the Lens of the Brazilian artist Wilame Lima.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 39 | APR 2024
To the Brazilian artist Wilame Lima, every form of expression is imbued with ourselves, especially those that pretend to be neutral. We have had a talk to him about his latest project Emergir ou Submergir (Emerge or Submerge). Wilame likes organic materials. And we have had a talk with him about his artistic take. read more |
Beyond the Binary: Exploring Layers of Intimacy in Lina Hashim’s ‘Odalisque’ PerformanceELIA-ROSA GUIROUS-AMASSE | ARTICULATE 39 | APR 2024
While the Orientalist perspective traditionally depicted the odalisque as a passive chambermaid, Lina Hashim's assertiveness and outspoken nature offer a striking contrast to such objectified portrayals of Muslim women and the stereotypical expectations of female artists. This is from her latest performance at Toaster Festival. read more |
The Iranian artist Raoof Haghighi is Exploring the Depths of Human Nature through ArtMONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 39 | APR 2024
At the core of Haghighi's artistic drive lies a profound curiosity about the intricacies of human nature and the world around us. It is this insatiable thirst for understanding that fuels his creative endeavors, propelling him to delve deeper into the realms of emotion, perception, and experience. read more |
Exploring the Interdisciplinary Artistry of American artist Steven Seidenberg, merging mundane with profoundARTICULATE | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | MAR 2024
In the realm where art intersects philosophy and poetry, Steven Seidenberg stands as a luminary, navigating the complex terrain of visual expression with intellectual rigor and poetic finesse. Seidenberg has carved a niche for himself as an artist whose work transcends conventional boundaries. read more |
Unveiling Jerry McLaughlin: Navigating the Depths of Personal Expression Through a Fusion of Mediums and TensionCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | MAR 2024
McLaughlin's artistic journey is characterized by a relentless pursuit of self-discovery and intellectual freedom. McLaughlin emphasizes the tension between various elements in his work, from physical textures to smooth surfaces, geometric shapes to organic forms, and the interplay of light and shadow. read more |
A Journey into the Profound Beauty of the Mundane with David Morales H. We've had a talk to Morales upon what shapes this particular journey.MONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 38 | JAN 2024
Colombian artist David Morales H., has carved a unique artistic niche that transcends the ordinary, inviting viewers into the profound beauty inherent in the mundane. In a recent interview, Morales shared insights into the thoughtful considerations that shape his creative process. Read more |
Unveiling the Artistic Odyssey of Danish Ceramic Sculptor Torben Mersholm, who’s weaving narratives of depth and introspection through his clay creationsMONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 38 | JAN 2024
In the world of ceramic sculpture, Mersholm stands as a luminary, weaving narratives of depth and introspection through his clay creations. Mersholm's artistic journey is a testament to the transformative power of passion, inspiration, and the tactile beauty of his chosen medium. read more |
Danny Scholtze solidifies ideas and intuition through his artistic practice, offering the opportunity to detach from prevailing meanings and identities.NORA BENZ | ARTICULATE 38 | JAN 2024
Besides drawing, Scholtze works with sculpture and video. It is a fantastic blend of both, traditional and digital media that combined with his intuitive approach to creating, result in open characters that feel unique and do not only look beautiful, but are als very vulnerable. read more |
Exploring the Artistic Realm of Susanne Butcher, where emotions and experiences converge on canvas and in stoneware sculpturesCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 38 | JAN 2024
The artistic vocabulary of the Danish artist Susanne Butcher, stems from a profound interest in human interactions and the exploration of ordinary yet essential aspects of life. Rejecting conventional norms, she forges her own path, seeking firsthand experiences over prescribed theories. read more |
At the door with no knocker - a performance by Iranian artist Madihe Gharibi, at Claiming Space, Bergen - Norway.JOACHIM AAGAARD FRIIS | ARTICULATE 38 | DEC 2023
Aagaard Friis participated in the second performance of Claiming Space by Iranian artist Madihe Gharibi, unfolding on one of the seven stunning hilltops of Bergen. Her practice is working in-between writing, performance, and installation, and it often takes up themes such as belonging and genealogy as well as political affects. read more |
Niklas Gjersøe is Embracing Aesthetic Awareness in Our Dynamic Everyday Lives. 4WALLS UNIFIED - A site-specific sonic journal from Vejle, Denmark.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | NOV 2023
The Danish soundscape artist Niklas Gjersøe reveals his abstract video and sound universe 4WALLS UNIFIED, which is based on four selected places with special value and significance for the surrounding communities. Exhibited at Vejle Art Museum, the process invites to talk about how we use space and collaborate. read more |
Christofilogiannis' tribute installation dedicated to Charalampos Goumas — an homage to the Greek ceramistCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | OCT 2023
We've had a talk to Dionisis Christofilogiannis about how The Army of Goumas serves as a symbolic representation of the anthropocene era, reflecting the martial nature of human existence and its environmental consequences. read more |
Capturing the Essence of Modern Life and Nature: The Contrastful Artistry of Iranian Minimalist Photographer Nazanin DavariMONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 37 | OCT 2023
Nazanin Davari's work is a testament to the power of photography as a medium for capturing the world's myriad facets. Her unique perspective, creative process, and commitment to continuous learning make her a rising star in the world of minimalist photography. read more |
Robert Euwe: Embracing Human Subjectivity and Contrasting Perspectives Through Flowers and Marble.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 37 | OCT 2023
Paintings and sculptures indeed offer contrasting experiences to the viewer, each with its own distinct characteristics. While paintings convey artistic expression through colors, textures, and brushstrokes, sculptures hold a special allure with their tangible, three-dimensional presence within a physical space. read more |
Capturing the Essence of Equine Harmony. The Transformative Journey of Spanish Artist Haidé Costa and Her Binomios ProjectMONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 37 | OCT 2023
Showcasing the relationship between humans and horses, "Binomios" raises questions of human condition and our connection with the natural world. It challenges to reflect on how both humans and animals oscillate between states of domestication and the illusion of freedom. read more |
Teresa Brutcher is Capturing and Illuminating the Complexities of the Human Spirit through Vivid Artistry and Symbolic NarrativesMONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 37 | OCT 2023
Brutcher's artist statement serves as a window into her creative soul. Brutcher's fascination with its intricate beauty and the wealth of information it holds. She adeptly employs vivid light, intense darks, and bold colors, to convey the complexity of human emotions. read more |
With a keen eye for the art hidden in everyday things, Hans Panschar explores the essence of humankind through the creation of tactile objectsNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE 37 | OCT 2023
Generating his artistic drive from deep inside, Panschar is strongly dedicated to craftsmanship and the love for telling his own story with things and materials. As a tactile contact is crucial for his working process, Panschar primarily works with wood, concrete and iron. read more |
Digital Street Art in an Augmented Reality - combining physical and virtual elements in a promising playground for contemporary digital art, displayed at DEMO-.JOACHIM AAGAARD FRIIS | ARTICULATE 37 | AUG 2023
The virtual city. AR combines physical and virtual elements. But can site-specific art be created through screens? The AR exhibition DEMO- in Frankfurt attempts to explore how the medium can be used in public spaces. read more |
Space Gallery in Kolding is announcing its upcoming group exhibition, Beyond Imagination, this August. The exhibition will show the unique works of five talents.RONALD HOFMAN | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | AUG 2023
In the concept of Redefining the Bounderies of Artistic Expression, Space Gallery is inviting for an unforgettable art experience at their new group exhibition Beyond Imagination. read more |
Ulli Zerzer’s abstract, organically formed ceramicart emerges from a meaningful tension between improvisation and systematics, resulting in uniquely aesthetic.NORA BENZ | ARTICULATE 36 | JULY 2023
By creating a meaningful tension between systematics and improvisation, Ulli Zerzer creates clay objects that want to be understood as a mirror of the professional impartiality of her approach to the matter. read more |
The Brazilian artist Daniel Melim is Exploring the Intersection of Art, Activism, and Urban ExpressionLAURA RAGO | ARTICULATE 36 | JULY 2023
Exploring the artistic journey of Brazilian urban artist and activist Daniel Melim, focusing on the intersection of his work with the socio-political and cultural context of his upbringing in São Bernardo do Campo. read more |
The artistic journey of Alex Garant - the development of a unique language characterized by a doubling illusion.MONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 36 | JULY 2023
Growing up in an artistic environment led Garant to commit herself to art full-time later in life. Drawing inspiration from patterns and symmetry, Garant developed a unique visual language. read more |
The Russian artist Sergey Nehaev is Exploring the World Through Therapeutic Collage ArtMONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 36 | JULY 2023
Sergey Nehaev, a self-taught artist, finds solace and inspiration in the realm of collage art. For him, collage is a form of art therapy that allows him to process life's experiences with humor and irony. read more |
The Danish artist Nour Fog is Exploring Care, Gender, and the Origins of Life through ArtCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 36 | JULY 2023
Nour discusses their thoughts on the challenging times we live in, their non-binary identity, and the significance of breaking societal norms in art. Nour's works offer a space of opportunity for self-reflection and navigate the artistic process amidst interruptions. read more |
We have had a talk with the Danish artist Marie Thams about what people do to words - and what words do to peopleCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | JUN 2023
Thams examines the term ‘chairperson’ versus ‘chairman’ and addresses the way the gendered word follows a linguistic tradition that contributes to the perpetuation of particular notions of gender and the distribution of roles and influence in society. read more |
The works of Georgian artist Lana Jokhadze reflects the difficult feelings - the intense, radically incompatible objects.MONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | JUN 2023
Sometimes it is difficult for a person to explain feelings in words, the intense, radically incompatible objects. The works of Georgian artist Lana Jokhadze reflect those feelings, the corresponding words of which cannot be found. read more |
To Rikke Laursen, her ambitions, desire and willingness to investigate drives her forward, expanding her artistic vocabulary.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 35 | APR 2023
We have had a talk with the talented Danish ceramic artist Rikke Laursen about her process and progress, keeping her with a sharp discipline to always improve. Laursen works on the edge, taking clay to its highest potential. read more |
Bodies, bodies, bodies – bodily empowerment and birth making with the German-Ukrainian artist Alina Gross |
The artistic vocabulary of Christian Verginer orbits around the relationship between man and natureCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 35 | APR 2023
In some of his sculptures, Verginer expresses the man - nature relationship as a mere synonym of friendship, while in other sculptures the relationship is synonymous with conflict or extraneous correlation. read more |
An interview with the American artist Megan Elizabeth Read about her alternate realities, her magical reliefs and pauses from the chaos of contemporary lifeCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 35 | APR 2023
The work of Read is often dreamlike in nature, giving the viewer a glimpse into stark but calm, contemplative worlds. She tries to use the work as an avenue for reduced noise in a chaotic time and an opportunity to slow down, to take a pause. To breathe. read more |
Nina Barnini’s digital collages are like mediative visual poetry that give birth to new beauty and meaning, creating metaphorsNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE 35 | APR 2023
Barnini is driven by beauty, intuition, sensitivity and soul. For her, the process of collaging is a way to connect with her soul. Thus, creating collages gives her the opportunity to express what is otherwise invisible and hidden within herself. read more |
The intention of Danish artist Lene Winther, is to both preserve and abolish the original form and function of things through constant exchangesMONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 35 | APR 2023
Winther works in different medias. Consistently, the works are made from ceramics and textiles, which are often put together with found recycled materials and everyday objects. The individual parts are modelled and reshaped to then form part of a new and exploratory construction. read more |
The American artist Drew Merritt and his mural Genesis for the Beaumont Mural Festival 2023ARTXIV | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | APRIL 2023
ARTXIV presents the American artist Drew Merritt and his latest mural Genesis, at the Beaumont Mural Festival in early March 2023 - A four day festival of live art extravaganza with muralists from across the world. A festival to expand the public art scene. read more |
With AI, the Danish artist DVK emphazises the thought process and the artistic visual experience for the viewerMONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | MARCH 2023
We have had a talk with the Danish artist DVK about his creative process, prior to his ongoing show in Paris 100% AI *there is no such thing as 100% AI. DVK’s creativity and artwork spans from illustration, graphic design, print, a wide knowledge of working with AI and mixed mediums. read more |
Margarita Howis dissolves borders and questions the traditional notion of home, while shaping the sense of unityCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | FEB 2023
We have had a talk to Russian artist Margarita Howis, about her project Colors for Climate and upon her artistic vocabulary, developed through experimentation of different styles, mediums, and techniques to discover the right way to convey the message of the project best. read more |
The Mexican artist Lilia Luján absolutely enjoys all of her work, lacking particular preference of media or material.MONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | JAN 2023
Luján works on the basis of specific projects and thematic collections. To Luján, this helps to structure the creative process, to optimize the artistic production, to focus and identify more clearly the interesting channels of exhibition, promotion and sale. Read more |
Christensen-Ernst realizes the ecology of culture with the recyclist 'visual peels of vegetables' she applies to her canvasEVRIM ALTUG | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | JAN 2023
Bente Christensen-Ernst, who will exhibit her works at Gallery Siyah Beyaz, Ankara for the first time since her first solo exhibition 40 years ago, is using colors and forms through the filter of her experience and memory along with her imagination. Read more |
The desire to create something from nothing has always taken part of the journey of Italian/Danish artist Marchesi.MONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 34 | JAN 2023
Spending a day sketching and not maturing a concept far enough, can be frustrating and leave a feeling of not having done anything for the today. But there is nothing worse for Marchesi than starting a painting on a half backed idea and struggle with it from the start. Read more |
In the art of Elin Engelsen, the element of water shows how we can combine nature and childishness - to be playful.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE 34 | JAN 2023
Engelsen’s art shines a light on the surface and depth of our world, which we see through the way we interact with water, the ripples, and waves around us, and how we ourselves interact with the powerful forces of nature, stating the awareness of disconnection. Read more |
Iranian Beigi usually works in sets of collections, since he believes to create a greater impact on his audienceMONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 34 | JAN 2023
Ideas are formed in the artists’ mind according to experiences or events in their society or in the whole world. Like other artists, Ali Beigi is not exempt from this phenomenon, though the research and analysis of philosophers and great writers also are significant to him. Read more |
An interview with Hawaiian artist June Stratton, reflecting upon her blend of oil paint and handmade casting moldsCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 34 I JAN 2023
We've had a talk to June Stratton upon her creative drive, her artistic language and her current setup. Stratton has added a third dimension to her work, which consists of handmade casting molds created from plant life, specimens, and various possessions she's collected. Read more |
The American artist Mary C Carroll is enchanted by the woods, noticing all the life that happens within a forest interior.MONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 34 I JAN 2023
Carroll works in small sets of work that are alike in media, content and size, specifically for an exhibition requiring a small body of work. Carroll finds that she has a difficult time clinging to a particular means of working for years on end. Read more |
Urban art top names create 19 new artistic interventions for the 1st edition of Osona Artimur Festival, curated by B-Murals.B-MURALS | ARTICULATE PROMOTE I DEC 2022
Zoer, Ana Barriga, Satone, Eloise Gillow, Daniel Muñoz, Isaac Cordal among other urban art top names create 19 new artistic interventions for the 1st edition of Osona Artimur Festival, curated by B-Murals in the countryside of Barcelona, Spain. Read more |
Art, activism and psychotherapy - An interview with the Swedish, Copenhagen based artist Kajsa GullbergMILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE 33 I OCT 2022
Artist, feminist and activist Kajsa Gullberg does not shy away from artistic field work where she uses her own body to map human experiences. We've had a talk with her about her latest book release The House of Mirrors (2020). Read more |
The celebrated artist Mikael B makes long-awaited return home to Denmark for his third solo show: The evolution of everythingMONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 33 I OCT 2022
We've had a talk to Mikael B about his home-coming to Denmark later this month and his creative drive serving as a base for his solo show The Evolution of Everything, opening in Copenhagen on October 21st. Read more |
The idea behind Spanish artist Roberto Lopez Martin’s work is that the world is more fluid and relative than we understand it as today.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE 33 I OCT 2022
Martin focuses on the development happening in childhood and the toys we have used and are using today. The art is a mixture of cute and gross, and has wholesome vibes with slightly unnerving sculptures. Read more |
The motivation of Giowanella, is related to expressing personal matters, questioning situations that bothers her or that affects society in general |
The creative drive of the Venezuelan artist Lesly Chacon, is generated by impulses of ideas, allowing her to continue creating and developing her pictorial work.MONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 33 I OCT 2022
Chacon paints with oil on canvas, due to its perseverance in history and time. The works of Chacon emerge from the thought of a particular idea or theme, leading to the image she feels like capturing and pre-study. Read more |
The sixth edition of the Contextual Muralism Festival of Oviedo brings together four artists, carrying out their works - October 10 to 16 2022PAREES | ARTICULATE PROMOTE I SEP 2022
Parees is committed to contextual muralism involving the public through the so-called "mediation processes", in which associations and experts on the different topics take an active part to help artists in their approaches. Read more |
The new art book of the Norwegian artist Elin Engelsen, draws its readers and spectators into the dreamy weightless universe that characterize the artist.BRITTA LINDSTRØM | ARTICULATE PROMOTE I SEP 2022
With this book, Elin Engelsen marks herself as one of the strong female contemporary artists of our time. Her works are perceived as poetic and almost spiritual, and are often described by reviewers as magical realism. Read more |
The Spanish creative duo NastPlas explores in a conceptual background the limits between reality and abstraction through an ascending and constant process of investigation and artistic experimentation.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 32 | JUL 2022
Digital art allow NastPlas to explore different ways to express themselves and create almost anything they imagine; although the process is complicated since it requires skills and technical knowledge. It is a constant, complex and laborious learning process. read more |
The creative drive of Danish artist Julie Celina is generated by an omnipresent urge to express herself visually. Easily inspired Celina taught herself to find inspiration in the good and bad, the pretty and the ugly.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 32 | JUL 2022
The works of Celina are mostly well prepared and configured. Most of her experimentations are carried out in her sketchbook. Oftentimes, Celina mix up a lot of photographs on her computer to create a collage, serving as a reference for future paintings. read more |
Ali Zolghadri’s simplistic fine art photography serves as an excellent reminder that a minimal view in the midst of everyday’s hustle and bustle is an ideal way to avoid visual turmoil and achieve peace of mindNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE 32 | JUL 2022
For Iranian photographer Ali Zolghadri, simplicity is the key element of his work. He finds most of his subjects in Tehran and always tries to include concept and content in the images he creates. Thereby, revealing clean, minimalistic line images - the multiple facets of Tehran. read more |
The Danish water color and ink artist Ole Aakjær reclaims his childhood fascination and playfulness, where ornate ink work comes into playOLE AAKJAER & CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 32 | JUL 2022
Aakjær is fascinated by the boundlessness of art. In an age of worldwide nationalism and claustrophobic concepts of normality, art is the little crooked light that flutters in the dark. To Aakjær it is here that diversity thrives, and originality, political incorrectness and the sound of originality are appreciated and cultivated. Read more |
Troufa is in urge to know herself and to improve as a human being. Her drive generates from the desire to understand the purpose of life and society in generalCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 32 | JUL 2022
In the autobiographical work of Cristina Troufa, she performs the model of her own work, and so in addition to being a conceptual or emotional self-portrait, it is also a physical self-portrait. However, even when she was not the model of her works, she consider that the photographs were already self-portraits. Read more |
ART IN A DAY – An interview with artist Sophie Dupont ahead of Copenhagen’s brand-new folk festival for performance art. Taking place this JulyMILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | JUN 2022
ART IN A DAY – Copenhagen’s new annual art festival focusing on performance art is what the name suggests – 24 hours packed with art in different locations around the city. The ambitious project is organized for the first time this year on June 24 and includes performances by renowned international and Nordic artists. Read more |
Whereas some artists use art in order to abstract life, Anne Risum tries to imitate it in her paintings in order to reflect colors and experiences. Articulate paid the Danish artist a visit in her studio in Ry.NORA BENZ | STUDIO VISITS | AUG 2022
Risum paints color paintings based on a color photo. In her process she wants to re-create the colors she sees in a photo. Re-creating these colors, finding the right color-mix, is always a journey, one she really enjoys. Read more |
In her current exhibition The Breath of Leviathan, Douet works on subjects on the verge of disappearing, that are threatened by economic, societal or environmental changes.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | MAJ 2022
The French photographer Joséphine Douet’s work explores the notions of sacred and savage in the relationship between man, death and nature. She mainly works on the agony of threatened worlds. Read more |
Sara Goli’s minimalist photographs offer us an intriguing view on the city scapes around us and draw our eyes’ attention to details that would otherwise remain unseenNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE #31 | APR 2022
Being a self-taught photographer with an affinity for technology, Goli describes the creation of images as the product of her mind. Most of the time, she develops her ideas when walking through a city or specific location. Read more |
The preferred media of Plant is steel. Steel functions as an extension of his thoughts, through whom he has the most intimate relationship with and knowledge of.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #31 | APR 2022
The creative drive of Frank Plant is cultivated through hard work. Plant thinks of his creativity as an athlete would think of their body. It’s a sport you constantly have to work with and maintain, to keep it in shape. Read more |
Everything comes down to the line - the most basic form of any drawing. Parmson traces edges, outline shapes and borders between shadow and light.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #31 | APR 2022
To Parmson, drawing has been her way of creating pockets of familiarity, of tracing her place in the world. The interiors she creates resemble her Home, they serve as anchor points that allows her to stay grounded. Read more |
Cloud castles, beach houses, and blue skies – Danish artist Mette Nørregaard’s reflective landscapes invite us to slow down, turn our gaze inward and connectMILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #31 | APR 2022
Nørregaard prefers simple compositions and mainly works with pre-thought ideas. As a result, a major part of her creative process is unseen and takes place in her mind long before a brush stroke is made on canvas. Read more |
Peter Zelei creates from 3 primary sources. Firstly the exploration of his own being as a kind of therapy. Secondly, attention. The third factor is finance.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #31 | APR 2022
The work of Zelei are both pre-thought creations, while some of them emerge on their own. Zelei has a notebook, in which he writes down most of the ideas that occur to him during his daily life. Read more |
In this month's Studio Visits, Nora Benz has been visiting the Danish Visual Artist Lars Worm in his Studio at KH7 Artspace, placed in Aarhus.NORA BENZ | STUDIO VISITS | MAR 2022
Using simple and natural materials, Worm creates art that reflect a gentle sense of nonchalance, joyfulness as well as lightheartedness while simultaneously leaving the viewer behind with an uncanny feeling. Read more |
This year CPH:DOX has established an exceptional collaboration with SMK, where there will be art talks, performances and creative workshopsKAWAUCHI & HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | MAR 2022
Art and film are also the focus of our NEW:VISION competition program, which explores the borderland between art and documentary. Here CPH:DOX will present 10 different interactive works. Read more |
Sparre explores the nature of BioArt through organic and artificial materials, touching upon the complex dynamic between micro and macro cosmosesNORA BENZ | STUDIO VISITS | FEB 2022
Circle of Control is actually a concept to be used in stress coaching. It is about what you can and what you can't control in your life. And what Sparre did is a circle of hair which is actually pointing out a portrait, a subject. Read more |
Visiting the Danish Multimedia Artist Simon Juhl's Workshop in Frederiksbjerg, where he experiments with the beginning and the end of art.NORA BENZ | STUDIO VISITS | JAN 2022
One of the most prevalent questions in art is about its definition, its borders, what art is, where it starts and where it ends. The creative work of Juhl shows that art is by no means limited to certain tools or specific methods. Read more |
The theme of the work of the Southern European synergetic duo DOURONE, are concerns in which they investigate, until they reach the next concern.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #30 | JAN 2022
To DOURONE, the key element in creating a good composition, is when you see the whole of a piece and there’s nothing that hurts your sight - it is like when you look at your partner and you fall in love. Read more |
Sokram, introduces you to intricate worlds, making out long lines winding themselves in different directions.MARIE M BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #30 | JAN 2022
To Sokram, painting the street is an exceptionally direct, generous, and also the most free artistic medium that exists. Another quality street art has is being democratic. A mural is free in that it is not confined to closed spaces. Read more |
The work of French SLip saturates around everyday issues and constellations that applies for most of usCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #30 | JAN 2022
SLip works on background topics. He’s triggered by colors, words he’s heard in the street or incidents happening live in front of him. After such appearances, pictures appears to him and inspires him to proceed his process. Read more |
Brazilian artist and fine art photographer Tatane Onirica invites us to face the pain and master our demonsMILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #30 | JAN 2022
Daunting emotions are at the heart of Tatane Onirica’s work, which is the result of an artistic ritual, where pain and fear are transformed into dark and poetic photographs on a journey to find inner peace. Read more |
The work of Ulla Czékus is inspired by the passion for plants. Her gaze is searching for leaves, flowers, seeds and trees of different shapes, colors and textures.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #30 | JAN 2022
Czékus explores, in her works, not only studio images of the universe of botany, but also a conversation between the indelible characteristic of time and the impermanence of human life - identical to the leaves, fruits, and seeds she’s photographing. Read more |
Nora Benz has been visiting Painter and Sculptor Ana Saraiva in her Atelier in Hamburg, to understand from where she captures her influencesNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE STUDIO VISITS | DEC 2021
When different currents, energies and influences flow together they become one and form a whole. Similarly, pieces of art are confluences of emotional, mental as well as technical fluxes reflecting the artist’s psychological and physical state. Read more |
Vulnerable lives pandemic times, and political re-imaginings. An introduction to the project Pandemic Art 1.0, by Phd Associate Professor Louise FabianLOUISE FABIAN | ARTICULATE PUBLICATION | NOV 2021
The project Pandemic Art 1.0 covers both a physical book, an e-book, and a virtual exhibition. The 38 contributing professional artists have, with the contributed artworks, reflected upon the first year and a half of the global Covid – 19 pandemic. Read more |
The architecture of public spaces as museums: The case of MOMAFAD. A project by Space 52 and Dionisis Christofilogiannis at The National Museum of Contemporary Art, AthensARIANA KALLIGA | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | DEC 2021
MOMAFAD (The Museum of Modern Art for A Day) is a project/artwork created by Greek artist Dionisis Christofilogiannis which reclaims spaces and transforms them into museums for the duration of one day. Read more |
Visiting Visual Artist Lotte Bækgaard at her studio in Hørning. Bækgaard about her sketchbooks, collaborating with other artists as well as making oneself vulnerable through one’s artworkNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE STUDIO VISITS | NOV 2021
Through different media, Bækgaard addresses intimate topics around human mentality or motherhood, and explores art as form of expression of personal experiences and struggles in a particularly insightful way. Read more |
Helen Shulkin investigates the objects of new quarter in Hamburg, in which she feels the emergence of virtual technologies that solve the crisis between philosophy and postmodernism.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | NOV 2021
To Shulkin the architecture is a challenge to the entire city of Hamburg, concentrating high-tech and destroying traditional tectonics. These houses and bridges have incredible plasticity, a combination of volumes and shapes. Read more |
The paintings of Roda are rooted in tradition, as her subjects are sourced unequivocally from our contemporary era, speaking directly to our everyday lives.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #29 | OCT 2021
Going beyond the individual, Roda's models - their very diversity represents disparate fragments of a mosaic combining to reveal an image of shared humanity, with the power to evoke the most personal of memories. Read more |
Bailey is a magical realist who rewrites art history with her quirky, whimsical and all alluring female portraits that in their dreaminess ooze silent power.MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #29 | OCT 2021
Bailey’s description of her own work is as witty, amusing, disordered and dark as her art. A bundle of juxtaposed emotions and impressions flung at you with such force that you can only stand mesmerised. Read more |
The favorite work of Brazilian Fabiano Millani is the work he hasn’t painted yet – and to estimate the best of each situation, yet unseen.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #29 | OCT 2021
The hyper realistic artist Fabiano Millani is a remarkable figure of Brazilian Contemporary Realism and Kitsch. Having problems with the administrational parts of teaching led him on a passionate path of creation. Read more |
Nalyvaiko’s computer generated 3D artworks lead us into a world with almost no restrictions but where obstacles of physical properties are overcomeNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE #29 | OCT 2021
Forgotten Sanctuary is a project which clearly reflects Nalyvaiko's architectural education. With the art works created for the project, Nalyvaiko draws attention to the massive deterioration of abandoned churches in Ukraine Read more |
Instinctively, Norwegian Fageras wants to depict what he sees with a desire of perfection, enabling him to communicate something that he cannot do with words.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #29 | OCT 2021
To Fageras, ideas sometimes come as bubbles of air from the depth of the water to the surface. Some are born out of conscious reflection over time, and yet some just appear by themselves. Read more |
Artist and architect Huiru Huang in her artistic approach of protecting the environment as well as sculpting and other forms of expressing aestheticsNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE STUDIO VISITS | OCT 2021
Huiru Huang is a good example for the confluence of architecture and art as well as a reflection of the fluid transition between the two disciplines. Huiru takes an artistic approach towards future landscape architecture. Read more |
Visual artist Anne-Sofie Overgaard is pointing out her weaving practice, the relation between weaving and time, and the female connotation of the craftNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE STUDIO VISITS | SEP 2021
Overgaard works with the powerful medium of loom and yarn to create unique pieces of art. By crossing at least two thread systems a multitude of woven pieces, from carpets to tapestries can be produced. Read more |
The work of Lisa Lach-Nielsen circulates around the female figure, and deal with themes such as identity, the search of it and the elements that shape it.MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
Lach-Nielsen’s drive is generated from her desire to create and release thoughts she has in her head. The works are thus deeply connected to the artists own mind and carry deep psychological meanings. Read more |
The main concerns of the Mexican artist Horacio Quiroz are the human condition, change, and duality in our reality expressed through the body.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The freak shows and human circuses of the 18th century displayed the rarities and what was shocking and outside the accepted norms. The art of Quiroz is also a display of the deformed, the curiosities of the human body and mind. Read more |
The artistic research of Danny Bittencourt, investigates the sharing of the sensitive as a practice, appropriating photography as a tool for personal expressionCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The work of Bittencourt is initiated from a completely emotional urge. An impulse she cannot control. Once she identifies the feeling, the creative process becomes controlling and urgent. Read more |
The work of Spanish artist García de Marina revolves around intuition and ideas, surrealism, and the world of the subconscious and dreamsCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The work of Marina is deeply irreverent with reality, seeking to transform and stamp objects with new identities, challenging the obvious, and paying attention to the greatness of everyday life. Read more |
The common thread of the work of Rafel Moreno, is the artistic expression of feelings as universal as love, sadness and the desire for freedom.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The work of Moreno is very varied, for which it seems impossible to define him as an artist. He chooses his technique according to what he wants to express. Preferably, Moreno uses waste, re- and upcycle material. Read more |
Suárez possesses an unusual mastery of capturing the rhythm, the gesture, the precise moment to freeze an image in time, while studying its dynamic potential.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #27 | APR 2021
Suárez suggests that it’s dangerous to dwell in monotony and conformism, either by the exhaustion of ideas or, even if it seems contradictory, by the rewards of success. Always ask new questions that lead you to think anew. Read more |
Klementsson confuses her audience conceptually by having men pose like women and vise versa. In doing so she argues that gender is an illusionCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #27 | APR 2021
The viewer of Klementsson's work, sees something is odd while men pose like women in a transparent iridescent skin, daring the viewer to be drawn to them despite their colourful flaws. Read more |
Judith de Leeuw (JDL) creates murals as a voice for the voiceless and uses art as a tool to draft attention for social issues, combining emotional visualizationCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #27 | APR 2021
The Dutch artist JDL is turning the dark edges of humanity and society into beauty and mutual understanding through her murals. JDL is wondering how she can contribute to a system in which she feels alienated. Read more |
The Iranian artist Mostafa Nodeh's minimalist photographs invite us to slow down and meditate on what is truly important in lifeMILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #27 | APR 2021
Nodeh is known for his captivating minimalist landscape photographs in black and white, which, inspired by conceptual photography, are strongly rooted in themes, ideas and symbolism. Read more |
The illustrations of Oliver Jones are rendered using pastel which is an important component of the works, as in describing the surface of fleshCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #27 | APR 2021
The drawings of the British artist Oliver Jones, aim to dispel a contrived imagery of flesh that is flaunted to us through media, social media and industry, and endeavors to re-advertise a more truthful version of it. Read more |
The Italian artist Veronica Barbato uses the language and dimensions of street art, keeping faith with the promises of love between sistersCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | APR 2021
The three elements that characterised the 1980's was reflux, armed struggle and heroin. This is a project telling the story of Barbato's sister, based on a letter received 5 years after her death. Read more |
To Paredes, every element counts. The result is a logbook in images, a private visual diary that reveals the naturalness of what seems secret from the outside.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | FEB 2021
Due to the pandemic, Paredes delves, through the images of isolation, each one composed of two photographs - constituting a single unit - captured in their entirety with an old Helios manual lens adapted to her digital camera. Read more |
In the Deep Forest Art Land, situated in Jutland Denmark, you will learn something new about yourself in the meeting with art and nature.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | MAR 2021
Deep Forest Art Land proceed on the theory that an interaction between art and nature can unleash our creative potential, make us more open and responsive, and thereby, make us able to engage in new challenges. Read more |
Illustrator Steven Russell Black fuses opponents, leaving his audience attracted to both fungus and clouds, chocolates and maggots.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #26 | JAN 2021
Black is an artist with an obsessive compulsion to champion the odd, fringe, or otherwise unappreciated, who generates his artistic drive, by finding beauty in unexpected places. Read more |
The art of Batista is inspired by Baroque paintings, talking aesthetics, as in earthy tones and of course the drama.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #26 | JAN 2021
When she’s working, Batista's lets her feelings emerge, portraying herself in certain poses, playing with the angles. When she scripts her art, Batista feels trapped, and as she can’t fully express herself. Read more |
Kyriacou’s sketch work are innocently sinister, with an aura of vintage look and a here-and-there political undertone.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #26 | JAN 2021
Similar to Pan’s Labyrinth, the style of Greek Kyriacou is a dark fantasy, although of course more friendly. However, the slightly cubistic, modern layers remind us of something newer. Perhaps something graphic. Read more |
As a child Volkano never wanted to grow up. Art offered him an exit that became his safehaven - his sandpitCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #26 | JAN 2021
Volkano is portraying the removal of our free mind and our impulsive joy, as we mature and adjust. To him, a painting should awake the deepest and darkest emotions, convulse the heart and get stuck there. Read more |
By combining hyperrealism, surrealistic elements and popular cultural symbols, the French duo Murmure street creates street art that appeals to the general publicJULIE JOHANNE SVENDSEN | ARTICULATE #26 | JAN 2021
Murmure street has professional and craft knowledge of graphic and urban art techniques at their disposal, which they unite in playful and poetic works that interact with the specific environment in which they are created. Read more |
The theme in the work of Russian illustrator Anton Gudim is random, yet he's mainly attracted by things that are deprived of attention and to what seem ordinary.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #25 | OCT 2020
The work of Russian illustrator Anton Gudim is first of all a way for him to establish application for his existence. Gudim is assured that most people are facing the problem of not finding their destination in this world. Read more |
The photographic work of Turkish artist Elif Yeşil Aktamiş is like an electric temple, resembling Istanbul and the clash of cultures constituting the capital.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #25 | OCT 2020
The works of Aktamiş are mostly planned and well-thought-through. Whether her work is fictional or not, every object has secretly or evidently created details, stories and descriptions to be told. Read more |
Each of the works of the dedicated Ukrainian artist Ruslan Onishchenko are elaborated from well-worn and carefully thought through ideas.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #25 | OCT 2020
Ruslan Onishchenko aka Jean RO, refers to the good as a strategy rather than impromptu. He himself feels comfortable in an imperfect world, since he’s created his own. Read more |
Anger, boredom, joy and sadness are some of the unfamiliar beauties and portraited truths in American artist Dorielle Caimi's fascinating artwork.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #25 | OCT 2020
Caimi paints publicly unfamiliar beauty. We see naked women unphotoshopped and paintings that are beautiful and filled with decorative backgrounds, symmetric motives, pleasing lightning, and colorful figures. Read more |
José Navarro twists and combines everyday objects in precise photographic realism, incorporating new elements and meanings, creating visual poetry.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #25 | OCT 2020
It is easy to see the inspiration from advertisements in the work of Spanish artist Navarro. The result is an artform that is precise, photographic, and somewhat realistic, stretching between violence, graphical and politics. Read more |
Space52's art in quarantine: theorizing an art of the present moment. Artists look at their own work as a source of imaginative re-inventionARIANA EVELYN KALLIGA | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | JUNE 2020
Quarantine is an accidental residency, writes Othonas Charalambous. Artist archives in quarantine are functionally ambiguous spaces, databases of visual images or piles of physical ephemera, out of which new work is generated. Read more |
Contrasts of light and dark, along good and evil, play an important role in the paintings of the Danish artist Hans Henrik Fischer.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #24 | JULY 2020
The main subject Fischer are children and a general theme of innocence. Innocence being lost or corrupted by growing up. Fischer's interested in questions about if we are born pure and get corrupted by outside influences, or if evil is something you're born with. Read more |
Kristoffer Ørum creates narratives that run counter to society's dominant narratives of fear and despondency.MARIE BERTHELSEN | ARTICULATE #24 | JULY 2020
According to Ørum, the societies industrially produced objects have been made with much effort, but we do not know the origins by which they get obscured. Ørum believes that paying attention to imperfection and possible misuse helps to demolish this. Read more |
To iván rodríguez, creation becomes his refuge from an ill society, promoting alienation, banality, frivolty and the deep unconscious.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #24 | JULY 2020
To Rodríguez, compositions has two sides: a series of established rules that one ought to know, to be able to break them, and the intuitive part, distributing the elements within a piece in a harmonious and balanced way. Read more |
In the work of lene kilde fragments are parts, broken off or detached. Odd incomplete pieces, traces of something once whole.MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #24 | JULY 2020
Norwegian artist Lene Kilde is an artist who works in fragments. She is a sculptor whose figurative work centers around the human and the body. Her art consists of both largescale public sculptures and life-sized pieces. Read more |
The work of jacoba niepoort is a visual diary of the interactions and experiences she has with others, nature and herself.MARIE BERTHELSEN | ARTICULATE #24 | JULY 2020
In a quite classy, and not too vivid or bold manner the work of Niepoort creates a space you want to immerse yourself into. It becomes a landscape in a landscape, an unquestionable part of urban nature. Read more |
Ole tersløse combines curiosity with homesafe images in his upcoming soloshow catch at gallery hoejbjerg & simmelsgaard in june.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | JUNE 2020
Tersløse reactivates old myths in his haunting computer-generated imagery and challenge us to ponder our own relationship to nature. We've met him in an interview upon his upcoming exhibition. Read more |
In the art of greek artist katerina kokkinaki, hermaphrodite figures direct their own lives. A biting psychological game through genders.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | MAY 2020
The personal unconscious is the creative battlefield for the Greek visual artist Katerina Kokkinaki (b. 1977). Here she tends to pick up pictures, ideas, feelings, sensations, secret thoughts, unsolved and dark relations. Read more |
In his project il cantico delle creature euro rotelli depicts animal slaugtherhouse bodies, inspired by the byzantine frescos.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | MAY 2020
Euro Rotelli has been inspired by the Byzantine frescoes showing Christians being cruelly martyred. These images remind him of today’s martyrdoms of animals in the slaughterhouses, becoming the meat on our tables. Read more |
Proudly presenting the norwegian artist terese stenhjem and her exhibition: vessel, from may 14th - august 1st 2020.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE GALLERY | MAJ 2020
Stenhjem uses imitation as a way of understanding nature. She tries to imitate, isolate and simplify nature. She’s interested in cycles, capturing meditative moments or memories from nature. Read more |
The delicious work of barbara vandendriessche is an immersion into the world off beauty, emotion and tragedy.MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #23 | APR 2020
Vandendriessche finds her inspiration in Greek tragedy, art history and romantic poetry. To her theatricality is a pre-aesthetic impulse, an expansion of reality, that awakes an emotion, by appealing to ritual instincts. Read more |
When simon hjortek's performing, creativity arises in what we associate with something uncreative and bland.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #23 | APR 2020
Hjortek keeps things hidden in his artworks, such as hiding the eyes or ears, or hiding an important object in the frame. You are not bored, you have puzzles to solve, even if it is in an institution. Read more |
The work of polish artist nespoon is somewhere in the crossfield between street art, pottery, painting and sculpture.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #23 | APR 2020
NeSpoon works with laces, since they contain a universal aesthetic code, which is deeply embedded in every culture. In every lace there's symmetry, some kind of order and harmony, which is what we instinctively seek for. Read more |
In the work of chinese artist ying wei, mathematical algorithms and eastern philo-sophy seem to have a shared goal.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #23 | APR 2020
Due to the experimental approach, Ying Wei tries to create in a cynical way similar to Dada — rejecting all traditional sculpture techniques and modes, and trying to experiment with various fractal geometric formulas by computer. Read more |
The work of pippa young is built upon the renaissance, incorporating other media, lines and texture, simulating abstraction.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #23 | APR 2020
Young’s art is a collaboration of simple, pale and strong colors. Her artistic expression is consistent across her works - typically being still pictures of pale nymphs with a christian, medieval atmosphere in a modern version. Read more |
An interview with vanesa muñoz. After 5 years observing her 3 dimensional poetry and how she uses the sculpture as a model of thought |
The duo pichiavo, since 2007 acting a single figure, has developed a unique conceptual style positioning them on the contemporary artsceneCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #22 | JAN 2020
The artistic duo PichiAvo is recognized worldwide for their ability to create relationships between art, sculptures, space and social contexts with a transgressive and modernist artistic language. Read more |
The armenian artist var sahakyan prefers to have no artistic style, nor to have any attachment to medias or materialsCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #22 | JAN 2020
Most of his work emerges on their own, as Var Sahakyan, spontaneously experiments with the tools at hand. When he seldom is in urge of choosing a subject in advance, it is a response to a current situation, like climate change. Read more |
The surreal world of italian artist alessandro sicioldr, seems to belong both in the middleages as in the renaissance.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #22 | JAN 2020
The portraits of women, or nongendered people, are de-picted with pale skin and dark hair, have a gothic feel to it, expecting the appearance of Mona Lisa with vibrant reds. Read more |
The concept of an illustration, comes to steeven salvat from things he's learned, seen or experienced.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #22 | JAN 2020
To Salvat it is key to bring life to a subject with a contrast or unexpected association. By this, he means when two subjects interact, in an unimaginable way. Read more |
Belgium-based artists katarzyna & marcin owczareks' surrealist works offer alternative ways of looking at reality.MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #22 | JAN 2020
With their animal-human-hybrid, Katarzyna and Marcin ask us to rethink what being human means and reconsider the relation between humans and other species. Read more |
Rikke jacobsen experiences the world as a rich-in-detail phenomenon, for which she naturally works with visual narratives on paper.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #21 | OCT 2019
The combination between the detailed and the abstract in her work, facilitates the possibility for Jacobsen to work with traditional techniques in a modern manner. Read more |
The drive of italian arice is directly derived from the passion of starting a concept and ending up with an unexpected construction.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #21 | OCT 2019
To Arice, the key element in creating a good composition has many assets. When he's capable of answering those questions, he is able to start his composition. Read more |
Fairy tales mix with renaissance, when russian juliana kolesova dives into her twofold portraits of mysticism.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #21 | OCT 2019
Kolesova’s art is twofold: The artwork can be divided into mystical fairy tale world and the other into a Renaissance style portrait painting. Read more |
The work of artist jorge rodriguez gerada highlights the small and taken-for-granted on a monumental scale.MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #21 | OCT 2019
Gerada is interested in narratives and people, and he does indeed work with portraits. Based on photographs of real people, sometimes of several, they all represent a story. Read more |
The art of mario sánchez nevado is explosive. With strings and veins of red and blue, it is unsettling and dramatic.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #21 | OCT 2019
The creatures in the art of Marrio Sánchez Nevado, are mythical and imagined. Blood and bodies are depicted more or less clearly, typically threatened or in distress. Read more |
Adam & adam (niklewicz) are in fact quite different: a sculptor and an illustrator. This is the narrative of the two combined.JULIE JOHANNE SVENDSEN | ARTICULATE #21 | OCT 2019
The art of Adam and Adam contribute with something – maybe it’s because magical coincidences yet happen to occur in our rational world. Read more |
The art of oriol jolonch can be quietly provoking. Primarily using b/w photographs, he incorporates pale shades to illustrate deathMARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #21 | OCT 2019
There is a sadness or perhaps thoughtfulness in the pictures of Oriol Jolonch. The artwork is for the curious, the slightly odd, and whoever likes the combination of natural elements with surrealism. Read more |
Mari Amman’s meditative works posit poetic relations between terrain, technology, water, sound and movementCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019
Mari Amman is an American artist, dedicated to visual and installation art. Her training in dance and music form her approach to processing site specific history and to embed visual and material cues in her final public works. Read more |
Glass artist karen nyholm transmits parts of her personality to her work, enabling her engagements with alter-egos and dupletsCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019
As a creator Nyholm always transfers a part of her personality to the pieces she’s working with, which has enabled her latest engagements with subjects such as alter-egos and Doppelgänger (lookalikes). Read more |
Taiwanese lo chan peng explores what lies under the surface. A search for something impossible to translate into wordsCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019
Lo Chan Peng explores the inner feelings sensed by human kind; what lies under the surface of our faces, a search for something spiritual, something holy and mysterious, something impossible to translate into words. Read more |
Alessio chierico’s works reflect his interdisciplinary background in contemporary art, design theory and media studiesMILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019
Alessio Chierico’s artistic work is highly conceptual, process based and interactive. Often presented through mixed media installations, Chierico’s works reflect his interdisciplinary background in art and media studies. Read more |
In ”project b” nicolette bénard investigates barbie’s position as an icon of beauty and asks: is it ideal beauty or false idealism?JULIE JOHANNE SVENDSEN | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019
The Dutch artist Nicolette Bénard is mainly known for her jewelry designs. Over the past year, she has turned her creative impulses towards a quite different field. Instead of pearls, coral or even lava, Read more |
Belgian multidisciplinary artist stéphane vereecken sets out to uncover a secret and invisible worldMILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019
Belgian artist Stéphane Vereecken finds his inspiration in the mysterious and the unknown. With a multidisciplinary vision, formed by his studies in several artistic subjects, he sets out to uncover a secret and invisible world. Read more |
Through 3d art, polish adam martinakis has access to a flood of artistic tools, entailing a combination of multiple artistic disciplinesMARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019
First glance at Adam Martinakis’ art is like delving into a fantasy world. His works seems inspired by an alternative reality and somewhat sci-fi. This goes hand in hand with his perception and process of developing ideas. Read more |
Absurdity is the first impression of brazilian marcos guinoza’s art, whose harmonic composition also enables a certain calmnessMARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019
Absurdity is the first impression of Brazilian Marcos Guinoza’s art. At the same time, a calmness can be found in the lowkey and harmonic composition which includes farstretched landscapes, mellow colors and openness. Read more |
Brazilian duo rachelmauricio castro use both web design and graphics in their creationsCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019
In the work of rachelmauricio castro the most common functions are broken: clear and orderly directions of reading and hierarchy of information, becoming pure aesthetic and its own content. Read more |
John reuss' meticulously executed paintings offer a journey into the subconsciousMILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019
In John Reuss' paintings, contrasts plays a substantial role and are created with complementary colors and a sophisticated blend of soft, organic forms and hard, geometric shapes, fine lines and blurry brush strokes. Read more |
Tracy goldfinch elson fuses the contemporary digital approach with classical motivesMARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019
You can easily call Goldfinch a modern artist. By the use of Instagram, she has a modern take on classical motives, where the style is baroqueish, but the photographic method and communication are contemporary. Read more |
Artivist kristian von hornsleth engage in dialogue with your consciousnessCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019
The funny thing about provocation is that it needs a receptible recipient for provocation to function at all. And that’s exactly what is continuously succeeding for von Hornsleth, when putting the homeless people on display. Read more |
French christian gastaldi is a painter who hardly use paint - a poet destroying wordsCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019
Gastaldi works with materials he finds on the streets, after having suffered the passing of time. Materials whose mundane functions do not elect them as arty material. His work is built upon humanity and the fragility that follows. Read more |
Israeli artist ronit baranga is sculpting it out with an impulse to createMARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019
Baranga’s work as an artist can be described as an impulsive stream of inspiration. Art can be a comforting experience and when in a chaotic state of mind, working on the clay creates a calming effect. Read more |
Catalan jofre oliveras is communicating the aesthetic experience through urban artMARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019
Artist Jofre Oliveras looks at the public, urban space for creating art. Although his work can be seen as playful and experimental, dealing with public space, there is a seriousness and clear intention behind it as well Read more |
An interview with gert scheerlinck, after 4 years observing his use of negative spacesCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | FEB 2019
Emptiness and negative spaces indeed are like the clever use of silence in movies. The absence of non-diegetic composition can add an extra level of “emotion”. Read more |
The work of zack zdrale is influenced by a solid academic approach to painting and illustrationCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #18 | JAN 2019
The works of Zdrale are influenced by solid academic figurative illustration and painting. Among others, the work of Mexican artist Ramón Alexander Hurtado (1989) is of great inspiration to Zdrale. Read more |
Danish/portuguise artist sall toro uses the body as a tool for transformation of spacesCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #18 | JAN 2019
The works of Sall Lam Toro explore that in betweenness of visceral and social body and all asymmetries this relationship entails, using her body as a tool for transformation of spaces. Read more |
Israeli artist kobi maman uses the binary system as a reference for compositionCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #18 | JAN 2019
A key element in creating a good composition is opposition, as opposites create contrast, and interest. A good composition must carry both of these binary opposites and let them live together - co-exist. Read more |
Iris poljan uses the lines to construct the image and the color to catch attentionCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #18 | JAN 2019
Iris Poljan depicts the aspects of everyday reality of importance to the individual. Addressing the seemingly small aspects of everyone's common life. Read more |
German artist claudia grünig uses disturbances as key priorities for her compositions.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #18 | JAN 2019
A good composition transports the image content. Disturbances of equilibrium can also contribute to a good composition and sometimes have a certain priority. Read more |
The work of lidó rico consists of a compendium between materials - concepts in dialogue.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #18 | JAN 2019
Lidó Rico generates his drive from the explicit cultural acknowledgement to have a personal expressive language characterized by using his own body as an extensive additive tool to his toolbox of creation. Read more |
the dutch photographer hendrik kerstens, and his golden ratio.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #18 | JAN 2019
In the elapse portrayed by the lens of his camera, Kerstens manages to fuse diverse periods of time. Read more |
The hungarian artist timka szöke unfolds her versatility in illustration.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE | DEC 2018
The Hungarian artist Timka Szőke unfolds her versatility in illustration. Szöke’s drive, is generated by her fashion for drawing; leaving a significant inheritance to (un)told legends and tales. Read more |
the danish artist mettemaya, and her space within a space.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #17 | OCT 2018
To Danish artist MetteMaya, creating a space within a space, to have something soft in the middle of the mess, and to mix all the different materials, is essential. Read more |
Polish dominika karc and her decomposition of the (human) body.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #17 | OCT 2018
To Polish Dominika Karc, straight lines decompose the human body in a transition of geometrics, becoming machine-like. Neo-robotics. Read more |
Taquen uses the line as differential element, in search for perfect anatomy.SUSANNA ALLENDE | ARTICULATE #17 | OCT 2018
In his work, Taquen is interested in the natural, in knowledge and in learning through personal experience and movement, in the understanding of it as being a process of change and growth. Read more |
The danish artist, carsten krogstrup and his silent mystique.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #17 | OCT 2018
The Danish visual artist Carsten Krogstrup has an inherent desire for non-specific narratives, and depicts how he experiences and interprets life, with the solemn goal to delineate how it feels to be (part of) the human species. Read more |
Uk based artist hazel reeves deals with the representasion of women in public art.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #17 I OCT 2018
The focus of Hazel Reeves increasingly falls on redressing the lack of representation of women in public art, after many years spent promoting gender equality internationally. Read more |
César escudero andaluz explores readymades and authencities, while poluting digital spaceCÉSAR ESCUDERO ANDALUZ | ARTICULATE #17 | OCT 2018
The work of César Escudero Andaluz spans image-making, sculpture, videogame, installation, networked culture, IoT, robotics, interface appropriations and media archaeology. Read more |
In his series zeitgeist, peter davis explores the changing versions of human personaPETER DAVIS | ARTICULATE #17 | OCT 2018
Painter Peter Davis aims to capture the spirit of the age. In his series of figurative paintings, Davis explores the subject of humanity and its relationship with personal technology. Read more |
The work of belgian artist valerie decleer, is an act of creating intimate connectionsVALERIE DECLEER | ARTICULATE #16 | JULI 2018
The work of Belgian artist Valerie Decleer is an act of creating intimate connections – an effort to reflect the exhaustive wandering through the labyrinth of one’s mind. Read more |
Redmer hoekstra: I've always loved aliantion and fantazising; daydreaming!CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #16 | JULY 2018
I find my inspiration riding the train or on the road, where my mind can float through the landscape and new connections between things appear. A philosophical view of the world and myself. Who am I? Read more |
Boamistura a review of the spanish activist street-art guro's, performing far from madridSUSANNA ALLENDE | ARTICULATE #16 | JULY 2018
The basis of all Boamistura’s work is the point of a constructive dialogue: sharing ideas, listening to each other and, even at the earliest stage of a proposal, be sure that all the members feel that they are on the right path Read more |
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THE WORK OF RUSSIAN IGOR & MARINA ATTEMPTS TO GIVE NEW MEANING TO FAMILIAR IMAGES.IGOR & MARINA | ARTICULATE #16 | JULI 2018
The work of Igor & Marina is characterized by a fusion of seemingly incongruous elements: past and present, figurative and abstract, traditional and avant-garde. Read more |
WHEN WITH PLATKOVSKY, RAYS OF LIGHT BOUNCING OFF THE SURFACES AND INTERSECT TO FORM AN ELUSIVE STRUCTURE IN SPACE.ADRIAN PLATKOVSKY | ARTICULATE #15 | APRIL 2018
The works of Sonny Schneider, often consists in the constellation of creatures: half human, half animal, encouraging his audience to embrace the odd and Read more |
LIBERTY IS THE LANCE OF SOFTTWIX, WHO CLAIMS NO STRANGENESS, JUST THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING HERSELF IN HER WORK.SOFTTWIX | ARTICULATE #15 | APRIL 2018
Softtwix is working as a photographer in Paris. She's devoting her energy to the completion of a personal photographic approach. Read More |
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #15 | APRIL 2018
The works of Sonny Schneider, often consists in the constellation of creatures: half human, half animal, encouraging his audience to embrace the odd and unfamiliar, with humor. Read more |
SUSANNA ALLENDE | ARTICULATE #15 | APRIL 2018
An interview with the Argentinian large-scale graffiti artist Mariela Ajras, who's murals are closely related to activism and the fight for human rights. Read more |
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #15 | APRIL 2018
The works of Zadelhoff propose a bridge between past, now and future/further. "Clare obscure (or chiaroscuro) is like the past. Our decisions, in the now, are based on experiences of the past and have influence on our future." Read more |
Belarusian artist Helen Shulkin upon Post-urbanity, revealing new strata of recent sociological, cultural and technological developments.HELEN SHULKIN & CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #15 | APRIL 2018
To Shulkin technological evolution has changed urban objects. Urban spaces have lost their previous function like postindustrial areas and should be therefore be defined as post-urban spaces and objects. Read more |
An interview by reporter Susanna Allende with Mexican urban artist STINKFISH, talking about ways to build a life from the streetsSUSANNA ALLENDE | ARTICULATE #15 | APRIL 2018
The works of STINKFISH was elaborated on the streets. The streets were the place where he liked to be, where he and his friends met. It was cheap and quick, a perfect place, open for everybody. Read more |
To Egyptian collagist and surrealist artist Abdo Hassan making art is great, while doing it for a bigger cause is betterABDO HASSAN | ARTICULATE #15 | APRIL 2018
Doing art is great but doing it for a cause is greater. I believe that every artist is a prophet, I have a message to deliver, I have causes to fight for, so I started making collages for the purpose of causes. Read more |
In dialogue with the urban wonderwoman lula goceSUSANNA ALLENDE | ARTICULATE #14 | JAN 2018
For me, art is a vital necessity, like breathing or eating, it is part of my existence and I consider it necessary to live. As part of this existence, there is the coexistence with the urban environment and the individuals that inhabit it. Read more |
Corentin Binard aka Spear, born in 1988 and based in Brussels, is a Belgian graffiti artist / painter specialized in portraits.SUSANNA ALLENDE | ARTICULATE #14 | JAN 2018
Engaged and convinced that we all can do something to change the world, Spear launched the charity project “Painted For Them” (2012). The aim of this project is to help people in need and break the prejudices. Read more |
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*vinnie* and his observation upon light. Blue is perhaps a thought.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #7 | APRIL 2016
Color is life, information, sign but above all thanks to science we all know that color is light: science is light on the truth and in some of your religions is professed that light, truth and divinity are linked: don’t you see how we constantly turn around the same concept? Read more |
Émilie moutsis proposes a subvert of symbols to move the established order.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #11 | APRIL 2017
I'm proposing a subvert of certain symbols to move the established order. As for example by reversing the ratio of masculine superiority over the feminine of our patriarchal inheritance by replacing the cross of a rosary by a vulva... Read more |
Nicolas riente's work is a denunciation tool; a spell against death and forgetfulnessCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #1 | OCTOBER 2014
PHOTOGRAPHY Dedicated to his nomadic lifestyle, Nicolas seeks to establish a dialogue with the viewer of his work, documenting the truths of this world through the lens of his camera. “A storyteller through light”, as he describes it. Read more |
Gert scheerlinck combines and relocates extensively used objects.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #3 | APRIL 2015
An interview aiming to dive the depths of artist Gert Scheerlinck and his passion for extensively used objects. By changing their context and there by reviving them, Gert Scheerlinck exposes other peoples trash, in the consideration that the objects are still useful (as other people’s treasure)... Read more |
Rahman hak-hagir | a warrior with art as his weapon.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #5 | OCTOBER 2015
It always was the privilege of comedians to illuminate the king and his court by clues and messages camouflaged behind symbols. My conceptual performative work contributes to all these anonymous jesters who served social evolution and human cohesion across history... Read more |
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The Essence of Home - An Interpretation by American artist Charlie Welch: Beyond Brick and MortarClick To Add TextCHARLIE WELCH | ARTICULATE 1 | OCTOBER 2014
At its core, a home is a space close to the heart of its owner, a cherished possession that goes beyond its architectural definition. Psychologically, the connection between an individual and their home is profound, with the strongest sense of belonging often coinciding geographically with the physical dwelling. read more |