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.
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.
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.
Cuando la luz pinta: Una Conversación con Juan Ignacio Cabruja
Licenciado en Bellas Artes de la UNR en la ciudad de Rosario, donde nació, y cursando una Maestría en teoría y estéticas de las artes electrónicas en UNTREF, Juan Ignacio Cabruja trabaja con la luz como materia prima, indagando cómo opera y afecta el espacio que habitamos tanto con su presencia como en su ausencia.
Here Is Elsewhere: A Conversation with Johan Muyle
Belgian artist Johan Muyle found his voice 40 years ago with La Modification (1984), an aptly named assemblage sculpture that borrows its title from Michel Butor’s celebrated 1957 novel. Consisting of a recliner attached to ropes and nooses, with a crate suspended between bicycle wheels placed behind, the entire ensemble evokes an instrument of torture or execution.
Disruptor of Objects: A Conversation with Bharti Kher
Transformation—both material and metaphysical—lies at the heart of Bharti Kher’s career-long project to deconstruct the details of everyday life and rearrange them into more honest, if brutal truths. Like the literary masters of metamorphosis Ovid and Kafka, she moves between certainty and uncertainty in order to construct parables of contemporary life and of the body.
