Dresden-based Stefanie Hollerbach is interested in materials and materiality, as well as paradoxes. After initially training as a wood sculptor, she went on to study with Alicja Kwade at the Dresden University of Fine Arts. Hollerbach’s works deal with the world of things, particularly ordinary, often overlooked details.
Object Lessons: Melissa Stern
I begin with the germ of an idea—a color, an object, a gesture. From that small beginning, a piece develops. I often make process drawings of a sculpture, but I never know what or who it’s going to be.
Field of Experimentation: A Conversation with Sofía Salazar Rosales
Sofía Salazar Rosales, a sculptor and installation artist who lives in Amsterdam, explores a range of unexpected forms and materials, many of them referring to her Ecuadorian roots. She’s known for her “material-poetic” practice, often infused with sociopolitical content.
Ecophilia: A Conversation with Garret Kane
Garret Kane, an interdisciplinary sculptor, animator, and writer currently working in Brooklyn, New York, uses storytelling, myth-making, and character-building to create fictional worlds (complete with android-like beings) that fuse the organic and the technological.
La cerámica manda: Una Conversación con Santiago Lena
Santiago Lena, nacido en Puerto Madryn, se define como artista ceramista, una especialidad que lo lleva a explorar diversas técnicas y utilidades que le da a sus obras.
Phyllida Barlow: Sculpture 1963–2023
Barlow’s work is rooted in relationships—the relationship of the viewer to the object, and the object’s relationship to the viewer. Those relationships are, of course, mutable, as audiences navigate in, around, and through the spaces occupied by her sculptures and installations.
Vessels for Emotion: A Conversation with Heike Kabisch
Heike Kabisch’s work explores themes of “vulnerability, transformation and the complexities of the human condition.” In “Memories in deep creeks,” her current solo exhibition at ChertLüdde in Berlin, Germany, she turns to the mysterious ocean and its secret depths, with organic and anthropomorphic forms that map connections and distinctions.
Michelle Lopez and Ester Partegàs
SAN FRANCISCO Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Both artists describe engaging in a direct dialogue with materials, without preconceived ideas of the outcome. Lopez has talked about the pleasure she derives from the experiences engendered by such directness—the physicality of exerting force, finding form through interaction.
Stepping Into Who I Am: A Conversation with Nick Cave
Nick Cave’s recent work is forging new directions, merging art, nature, and self into vehicles for loving, meaningful connections. “Amalgams and Graphts,” his current exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery’s new Tribeca location, debuts two bodies of work that challenge viewers to open themselves to love, emotion, and connection.
Richard Shaw and Reniel Del Rosario
SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA Marin Museum of Contemporary Art As described by Natasha Boas, co-curator with MOCA director Jodi Roberts, part of the impulse behind the exhibition was the “idea of artistic transmission and influence across generations.” The show also investigates how the tangled messes of our everyday lives can engender transcendent art.
