Berlin-based Monika Grzymala listens to line, orchestrating its shifting intimations into space, plane, landscape, performance, and sculpture. Her Raumzeichnung (Space Drawing) works—which she defines as thought guided by the hand—always push boundaries, reconsidering how we define artworks and their parameters.
Lines Between: A Conversation with Indriķis Ģelzis
Intricate connecting lines flow through Indriķis Ģelzis’s sculptures, installations, and drawings. The Riga-based artist grew up in the post-Soviet moment, the son and grandson of prominent architects who helped to shape Latvia’s built environment, so it’s not surprising that his work harnesses line and geometry not only to organize form, but also to convey information, both concrete and abstract.
Places Are Not Empty: A Conversation with Maksud Ali Mondal
Maksud Ali Mondal is interested in the transformation of organic matter. His research- and process-based sculptures such as Synthesized Forest (2024), You Are What You Eat (2023), and Autonomous Habitat (2022) do not so much grow as decay, following the disintegrative processes of nature.
Wild Eye: Art and Nature on the North Yorkshire Coast
Can contemporary art heighten our awareness of the natural world, bringing the beauty and jeopardy of what surrounds us into sharper focus? The curators of the recently completed Wild Eye coastal art and nature trail in North Yorkshire, England, believe so.
Freedom Is Never Really Free: A Conversation with Ai Weiwei
To say that “Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei,” the artist’s current retrospective at the Seattle Art Museum, is timely would be an understatement.
Continentes de experiencias sensibles: Una Conversación con Federico Roldán Vukonich
Nacido en Paraná, Entre Ríos, el joven escultor Federico Roldán Vukonich es Licenciado en Artes Visuales por la Universidad Nacional de las Artes de Buenos Aires, y complementó su formación con programas, clínicas y talleres junto a diversos artistas del ámbito nacional.
Twisting Reality: A Conversation with Erwin Wurm
Every time Erwin Wurm produces a sculpture from a real object—cars, shoes, pieces of clothing—he creates something strange and wonderful, inviting us to consider different possibilities for the ordinary and familiar.
Resistances: A Conversation with Louise Gibson
Louise Gibson makes monumental sculpture from salvaged materials, pairing crushed and twisted metal with reclaimed fabrics. Her current exhibition “Beachheads,” at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop where she has been a resident artist, took around nine months to create and developed in parallel with her third child.
Albert Paley: Humanizing Space
Recipient of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award It is a good time to position the work of Albert Paley within the Modernist canon, and not only because for decades he has been understood internationally to be one of the most important artists whose workis centered on metal.
Formed in the Act: A Conversation with Courtney Smith and Iván Navarro
Can art activate intuitive, collective problem-solving? The collaborative projects of Iván Navarro and Courtney Smith, working together as Konantü, seek to answer that question, spanning media, disciplines, and contexts while honoring their roots in sculpture. Each artist brings a particular set of skills to this dynamic partnership.
