Recipient of the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award In Memoriam Known for stacking lengths of wood into structures that resemble pyramids, stairways, and towers, Jackie Ferrara (1929–2025) imbued the sleek forms of Minimalism with an aura of ancient mystery.
Archaeology of the Self: A Conversation with Mark Manders
Few artists have constructed worlds as singular, cohesive, and quietly radical as those of Mark Manders. For more than three decades, he has been adding to what he calls his “self-portrait as a building”—not a metaphor, but a monumental, ever-expanding structure composed of sculpture, language, and thought.
Tentacular Thinking: A Conversation with Nicola Turner
Nicola Turner’s practice is profoundly ecological. She works with waste material—mainly raw, untreated wool—and reuses it wherever possible. The wool is often sourced from where she lives or where she has been invited to work and/or exhibit, and she employs it, in combination with horsehair, wood, metal, and other recycled materials, to make large-scale, site-responsive forms
Detrás del germen del mal: Una Conversación con Gabriel Baggio
Gabriel Baggio, licenciado en Artes Visuales por la Universidad Nacional de las Artes—donde también es profesor—y director de la Licenciatura en Prácticas Artísticas Contemporáneas de la Universidad Nacional de San Martín, hace una lectura del mundo que habitamos desde el lenguaje performático como herramienta para poner al cuerpo en el centro de la actividad creativa,
From the Underworld to the Sky: A Conversation with Joan Danziger
Though Joan Danziger’s imagery gestures toward Surrealism, her sculpture resists classification. Her visual language is distinctly her own, drawn from observation, dreams, and the intuitive relationship between matter and fantasy. Over the course of more than 60 years, she has constructed not just forms, but an entire cosmology, one in which imagination serves as the
Vulnerability Hangover: A Conversation with Thomas Houseago
There are moments in art when the creative act feels inseparable from survival, a source of sustenance as much as vision. An acute tension between fracture and form, between vulnerability and vigor, runs through the work of Thomas Houseago.
Sensory Curiosity: A Conversation with Julia Padilla
Buenos Aires-based Julia Padilla uses sculpture, installation, and performance to rethink the transformative potential of life and matter. Constantly exploring new territories, she sets the organic in dialogue with the artificial, juxtaposing unconscious creativity with reason to produce subtly unsettling hybrid forms that question traditional perspectives on the body, space, and perception while imagining new ways
Failure as Methodology: A Conversation with Andrew Gannon
Edinburgh-based Andrew Gannon—along with 2025 Turner Prize winner Nnena Kalu, Daisy Lafarge, and Jo Longhurst, the three other artists currently featured in “We Contain Multitudes” at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) in Scotland—makes work from a position of disability, in his case a congenital limb difference.
Intérprete del espacio cotidiano: Una Conversación con Daniel Basso
Daniel Basso, nacido en Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, cursa estudios de pintura en la Escuela Superior de Artes Visuales Martín Malharro de su ciudad. Desde 2002, desarrolla una obra que él mismo calificada como “una interpretación del espacio en función de fenómenos formales que provienen de la observación de entornos urbanos y domésticos,” utilizando
Maneuvering the Consequences: A Conversation with Alison Hiltner
Recipient Of The 2024 Innovator Award Minneapolis-based Alison Hiltner expertly merges science fiction, technology, and the human experience into multimedia, experiential installations that embrace curiosity and a deep sense of wonder. Touch, time, and a keen sense of the absurd feature heavily in her works, provoking unusual connections and insights.
