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Artist Hayley Barker: I Want Beauty to Continue

”What I have to say doesn’t need to be screamed or yelled.” We met California-based artist Hayley Barker while working on a print...

Writer Nino Haratischwili: I Need Distance to Write

Georgian-born German writer Nino Haratischwili reflects on the role of language and memory in her work, tracing her journey from a childhood in Tbilisi...

How Remedios Varo painted the mysteries beyond language

María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga known as Remedios Varo (1908-1963) was born in northern Spain and grew up in a...

Artist Louis Fratino on how painting reveals the beauty of everyday life

Louis Fratino (b. 1993) was born in Annapolis, Maryland. He received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 2015...

Remedios Varo: The Painter of Magic | Louisiana Channel

We asked three artists and two writers to tell us about their inspiration from the Spanish-Mexican painter Remedios Varo (1908-1963) and her surrealist universe,...

Artist Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel: Art in Advance of the Catastrophe

“The more you train your awareness muscle, the more aware you are.” French artist Colonel Thierry Geoffroy turns urgent global crises into art that...

Nina Beier on why art should speak for itself

Nina Beier (b. 1975, Aarhus, Denmark) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark and Berlin, Germany. Beier has presented solo exhibitions at ARoS, Denmark (2026);...

Kae Tempest on how fiction transforms our wounds

Kae Tempest (born 1985 in London) is a writer, poet, playwright, and recording artist known for his genre-crossing body of work. His achievements include...

Writer Kae Tempest: Novels Are Empathy Machines

British writer, poet and performer Kae Tempest sits down for an in depth stage conversation about the craft of fiction, the emotional stakes of...