INTERVIEWS | ARTICLES
A selection of interviews and articles from artists and collaborations featured on the platform, in the gallery and in the art magazine
The Spanish creative duo NastPlas explores in a conceptual background the limits between reality and abstraction through an ascending and constant process of investigation and artistic experimentation.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 32 | JUL 2022
Digital art allow NastPlas to explore different ways to express themselves and create almost anything they imagine; although the process is complicated since it requires skills and technical knowledge. It is a constant, complex and laborious learning process. read more |
The creative drive of Danish artist Julie Celina is generated by an omnipresent urge to express herself visually. Easily inspired Celina taught herself to find inspiration in the good and bad, the pretty and the ugly.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 32 | JUL 2022
The works of Celina are mostly well prepared and configured. Most of her experimentations are carried out in her sketchbook. Oftentimes, Celina mix up a lot of photographs on her computer to create a collage, serving as a reference for future paintings. read more |
Ali Zolghadri’s simplistic fine art photography serves as an excellent reminder that a minimal view in the midst of everyday’s hustle and bustle is an ideal way to avoid visual turmoil and achieve peace of mindNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE 32 | JUL 2022
For Iranian photographer Ali Zolghadri, simplicity is the key element of his work. He finds most of his subjects in Tehran and always tries to include concept and content in the images he creates. Thereby, revealing clean, minimalistic line images - the multiple facets of Tehran. read more |
The Danish water color and ink artist Ole Aakjær reclaims his childhood fascination and playfulness, where ornate ink work comes into playOLE AAKJAER & CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 32 | JUL 2022
Aakjær is fascinated by the boundlessness of art. In an age of worldwide nationalism and claustrophobic concepts of normality, art is the little crooked light that flutters in the dark. To Aakjær it is here that diversity thrives, and originality, political incorrectness and the sound of originality are appreciated and cultivated. Read more |
Troufa is in urge to know herself and to improve as a human being. Her drive generates from the desire to understand the purpose of life and society in generalCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 32 | JUL 2022
In the autobiographical work of Cristina Troufa, she performs the model of her own work, and so in addition to being a conceptual or emotional self-portrait, it is also a physical self-portrait. However, even when she was not the model of her works, she consider that the photographs were already self-portraits. Read more |
ART IN A DAY – An interview with artist Sophie Dupont ahead of Copenhagen’s brand-new folk festival for performance art. Taking place this JulyMILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | JUN 2022
ART IN A DAY – Copenhagen’s new annual art festival focusing on performance art is what the name suggests – 24 hours packed with art in different locations around the city. The ambitious project is organized for the first time this year on June 24 and includes performances by renowned international and Nordic artists. Read more |
Whereas some artists use art in order to abstract life, Anne Risum tries to imitate it in her paintings in order to reflect colors and experiences. Articulate paid the Danish artist a visit in her studio in Ry.NORA BENZ | STUDIO VISITS | AUG 2022
Risum paints color paintings based on a color photo. In her process she wants to re-create the colors she sees in a photo. Re-creating these colors, finding the right color-mix, is always a journey, one she really enjoys. Read more |
In her current exhibition The Breath of Leviathan, Douet works on subjects on the verge of disappearing, that are threatened by economic, societal or environmental changes.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | MAJ 2022
The French photographer Joséphine Douet’s work explores the notions of sacred and savage in the relationship between man, death and nature. She mainly works on the agony of threatened worlds. Read more |
Sara Goli’s minimalist photographs offer us an intriguing view on the city scapes around us and draw our eyes’ attention to details that would otherwise remain unseenNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE #31 | APR 2022
Being a self-taught photographer with an affinity for technology, Goli describes the creation of images as the product of her mind. Most of the time, she develops her ideas when walking through a city or specific location. Read more |
The preferred media of Plant is steel. Steel functions as an extension of his thoughts, through whom he has the most intimate relationship with and knowledge of.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #31 | APR 2022
The creative drive of Frank Plant is cultivated through hard work. Plant thinks of his creativity as an athlete would think of their body. It’s a sport you constantly have to work with and maintain, to keep it in shape. Read more |
Everything comes down to the line - the most basic form of any drawing. Parmson traces edges, outline shapes and borders between shadow and light.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #31 | APR 2022
To Parmson, drawing has been her way of creating pockets of familiarity, of tracing her place in the world. The interiors she creates resemble her Home, they serve as anchor points that allows her to stay grounded. Read more |
Cloud castles, beach houses, and blue skies – Danish artist Mette Nørregaard’s reflective landscapes invite us to slow down, turn our gaze inward and connectMILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #31 | APR 2022
Nørregaard prefers simple compositions and mainly works with pre-thought ideas. As a result, a major part of her creative process is unseen and takes place in her mind long before a brush stroke is made on canvas. Read more |
Peter Zelei creates from 3 primary sources. Firstly the exploration of his own being as a kind of therapy. Secondly, attention. The third factor is finance.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #31 | APR 2022
The work of Zelei are both pre-thought creations, while some of them emerge on their own. Zelei has a notebook, in which he writes down most of the ideas that occur to him during his daily life. Read more |
In this month's Studio Visits, Nora Benz has been visiting the Danish Visual Artist Lars Worm in his Studio at KH7 Artspace, placed in Aarhus.NORA BENZ | STUDIO VISITS | MAR 2022
Using simple and natural materials, Worm creates art that reflect a gentle sense of nonchalance, joyfulness as well as lightheartedness while simultaneously leaving the viewer behind with an uncanny feeling. Read more |
This year CPH:DOX has established an exceptional collaboration with SMK, where there will be art talks, performances and creative workshopsKAWAUCHI & HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | MAR 2022
Art and film are also the focus of our NEW:VISION competition program, which explores the borderland between art and documentary. Here CPH:DOX will present 10 different interactive works. Read more |
Sparre explores the nature of BioArt through organic and artificial materials, touching upon the complex dynamic between micro and macro cosmosesNORA BENZ | STUDIO VISITS | FEB 2022
Circle of Control is actually a concept to be used in stress coaching. It is about what you can and what you can't control in your life. And what Sparre did is a circle of hair which is actually pointing out a portrait, a subject. Read more |
Visiting the Danish Multimedia Artist Simon Juhl's Workshop in Frederiksbjerg, where he experiments with the beginning and the end of art.NORA BENZ | STUDIO VISITS | JAN 2022
One of the most prevalent questions in art is about its definition, its borders, what art is, where it starts and where it ends. The creative work of Juhl shows that art is by no means limited to certain tools or specific methods. Read more |
The theme of the work of the Southern European synergetic duo DOURONE, are concerns in which they investigate, until they reach the next concern.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #30 | JAN 2022
To DOURONE, the key element in creating a good composition, is when you see the whole of a piece and there’s nothing that hurts your sight - it is like when you look at your partner and you fall in love. Read more |
Sokram, introduces you to intricate worlds, making out long lines winding themselves in different directions.MARIE M BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #30 | JAN 2022
To Sokram, painting the street is an exceptionally direct, generous, and also the most free artistic medium that exists. Another quality street art has is being democratic. A mural is free in that it is not confined to closed spaces. Read more |
The work of French SLip saturates around everyday issues and constellations that applies for most of usCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #30 | JAN 2022
SLip works on background topics. He’s triggered by colors, words he’s heard in the street or incidents happening live in front of him. After such appearances, pictures appears to him and inspires him to proceed his process. Read more |
Brazilian artist and fine art photographer Tatane Onirica invites us to face the pain and master our demonsMILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #30 | JAN 2022
Daunting emotions are at the heart of Tatane Onirica’s work, which is the result of an artistic ritual, where pain and fear are transformed into dark and poetic photographs on a journey to find inner peace. Read more |
The work of Ulla Czékus is inspired by the passion for plants. Her gaze is searching for leaves, flowers, seeds and trees of different shapes, colors and textures.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #30 | JAN 2022
Czékus explores, in her works, not only studio images of the universe of botany, but also a conversation between the indelible characteristic of time and the impermanence of human life - identical to the leaves, fruits, and seeds she’s photographing. Read more |
Nora Benz has been visiting Painter and Sculptor Ana Saraiva in her Atelier in Hamburg, to understand from where she captures her influencesNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE STUDIO VISITS | DEC 2021
When different currents, energies and influences flow together they become one and form a whole. Similarly, pieces of art are confluences of emotional, mental as well as technical fluxes reflecting the artist’s psychological and physical state. Read more |
Vulnerable lives pandemic times, and political re-imaginings. An introduction to the project Pandemic Art 1.0, by Phd Associate Professor Louise FabianLOUISE FABIAN | ARTICULATE PUBLICATION | NOV 2021
The project Pandemic Art 1.0 covers both a physical book, an e-book, and a virtual exhibition. The 38 contributing professional artists have, with the contributed artworks, reflected upon the first year and a half of the global Covid – 19 pandemic. Read more |
The architecture of public spaces as museums: The case of MOMAFAD. A project by Space 52 and Dionisis Christofilogiannis at The National Museum of Contemporary Art, AthensARIANA KALLIGA | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | DEC 2021
MOMAFAD (The Museum of Modern Art for A Day) is a project/artwork created by Greek artist Dionisis Christofilogiannis which reclaims spaces and transforms them into museums for the duration of one day. Read more |
Visiting Visual Artist Lotte Bækgaard ​at her studio in Hørning. Bækgaard about her sketchbooks, collaborating with other artists as well as making oneself vulnerable through one’s artworkNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE STUDIO VISITS | NOV 2021
Through different media, Bækgaard addresses intimate topics around human mentality or motherhood, and explores art as form of expression of personal experiences and struggles in a particularly insightful way. Read more |
Helen Shulkin investigates the objects of new quarter in Hamburg, in which she feels the emergence of virtual technologies that solve the crisis between philosophy and postmodernism.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | NOV 2021
To Shulkin the architecture is a challenge to the entire city of Hamburg, concentrating high-tech and destroying traditional tectonics. These houses and bridges have incredible plasticity, a combination of volumes and shapes. Read more |
The paintings of Roda are rooted in tradition, as her subjects are sourced unequivocally from our contemporary era, speaking directly to our everyday lives.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #29 | OCT 2021
Going beyond the individual, Roda's models - their very diversity represents disparate fragments of a mosaic combining to reveal an image of shared humanity, with the power to evoke the most personal of memories. Read more |
Bailey is a magical realist who rewrites art history with her quirky, whimsical and all alluring female portraits that in their dreaminess ooze silent power.MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #29 | OCT 2021
Bailey’s description of her own work is as witty, amusing, disordered and dark as her art. A bundle of juxtaposed emotions and impressions flung at you with such force that you can only stand mesmerised. Read more |
The favorite work of Brazilian Fabiano Millani is the work he hasn’t painted yet – and to estimate the best of each situation, yet unseen.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #29 | OCT 2021
The hyper realistic artist Fabiano Millani is a remarkable figure of Brazilian Contemporary Realism and Kitsch. Having problems with the administrational parts of teaching led him on a passionate path of creation. Read more |
Nalyvaiko’s computer generated 3D artworks lead us into a world with almost no restrictions but where obstacles of physical properties are overcomeNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE #29 | OCT 2021
Forgotten Sanctuary is a project which clearly reflects Nalyvaiko's architectural education. With the art works created for the project, Nalyvaiko draws attention to the massive deterioration of abandoned churches in Ukraine Read more |
Instinctively, Norwegian Fageras wants to depict what he sees with a desire of perfection, enabling him to communicate something that he cannot do with words.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #29 | OCT 2021
To Fageras, ideas sometimes come as bubbles of air from the depth of the water to the surface. Some are born out of conscious reflection over time, and yet some just appear by themselves. Read more |
Artist and architect Huiru Huang in her artistic approach of protecting the environment as well as sculpting and other forms of expressing aestheticsNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE STUDIO VISITS | OCT 2021
Huiru Huang is a good example for the confluence of architecture and art as well as a reflection of the fluid transition between the two disciplines. Huiru takes an artistic approach towards future landscape architecture. Read more |
Visual artist Anne-Sofie Overgaard is pointing out her weaving practice, the relation between weaving and time, and the female connotation of the craftNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE STUDIO VISITS | SEP 2021
Overgaard works with the powerful medium of loom and yarn to create unique pieces of art. By crossing at least two thread systems a multitude of woven pieces, from carpets to tapestries can be produced. Read more |
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