INTERVIEWS | ARTICLES
A selection of interviews and articles from artists and collaborations featured on the platform, in the gallery and in the art magazine
To Rikke Laursen, her ambitions, desire and willingness to investigate drives her forward, expanding her artistic vocabulary.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 35 | APR 2023
We have had a talk with the talented Danish ceramic artist Rikke Laursen about her process and progress, keeping her with a sharp discipline to always improve. Laursen works on the edge, taking clay to its highest potential. read more |
Bodies, bodies, bodies – bodily empowerment and birth making with the German-Ukrainian artist Alina Gross |
The artistic vocabulary of Christian Verginer orbits around the relationship between man and natureCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 35 | APR 2023
In some of his sculptures, Verginer expresses the man - nature relationship as a mere synonym of friendship, while in other sculptures the relationship is synonymous with conflict or extraneous correlation. read more |
An interview with the American artist Megan Elizabeth Read about her alternate realities, her magical reliefs and pauses from the chaos of contemporary lifeCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 35 | APR 2023
The work of Read is often dreamlike in nature, giving the viewer a glimpse into stark but calm, contemplative worlds. She tries to use the work as an avenue for reduced noise in a chaotic time and an opportunity to slow down, to take a pause. To breathe. read more |
Nina Barnini’s digital collages are like mediative visual poetry that give birth to new beauty and meaning, creating metaphorsNORA BENZ | ARTICULATE 35 | APR 2023
Barnini is driven by beauty, intuition, sensitivity and soul. For her, the process of collaging is a way to connect with her soul. Thus, creating collages gives her the opportunity to express what is otherwise invisible and hidden within herself. read more |
The intention of Danish artist Lene Winther, is to both preserve and abolish the original form and function of things through constant exchangesMONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 35 | APR 2023
Winther works in different medias. Consistently, the works are made from ceramics and textiles, which are often put together with found recycled materials and everyday objects. The individual parts are modelled and reshaped to then form part of a new and exploratory construction. read more |
The American artist Drew Merritt and his mural Genesis for the Beaumont Mural Festival 2023ARTXIV | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | APRIL 2023
ARTXIV presents the American artist Drew Merritt and his latest mural Genesis, at the Beaumont Mural Festival in early March 2023 - A four day festival of live art extravaganza with muralists from across the world. A festival to expand the public art scene. read more |
With AI, the Danish artist DVK emphazises the thought process and the artistic visual experience for the viewerMONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | MARCH 2023
We have had a talk with the Danish artist DVK about his creative process, prior to his ongoing show in Paris 100% AI *there is no such thing as 100% AI. DVK’s creativity and artwork spans from illustration, graphic design, print, a wide knowledge of working with AI and mixed mediums. read more |
Margarita Howis dissolves borders and questions the traditional notion of home, while shaping the sense of unityCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | FEB 2023
We have had a talk to Russian artist Margarita Howis, about her project Colors for Climate and upon her artistic vocabulary, developed through experimentation of different styles, mediums, and techniques to discover the right way to convey the message of the project best. read more |
The Mexican artist Lilia Luján absolutely enjoys all of her work, lacking particular preference of media or material.MONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | JAN 2023
Luján works on the basis of specific projects and thematic collections. To Luján, this helps to structure the creative process, to optimize the artistic production, to focus and identify more clearly the interesting channels of exhibition, promotion and sale. Read more |
Christensen-Ernst realizes the ecology of culture with the recyclist 'visual peels of vegetables' she applies to her canvasEVRIM ALTUG | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | JAN 2023
Bente Christensen-Ernst, who will exhibit her works at Gallery Siyah Beyaz, Ankara for the first time since her first solo exhibition 40 years ago, is using colors and forms through the filter of her experience and memory along with her imagination. Read more |
The desire to create something from nothing has always taken part of the journey of Italian/Danish artist Marchesi.MONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 34 | JAN 2023
Spending a day sketching and not maturing a concept far enough, can be frustrating and leave a feeling of not having done anything for the today. But there is nothing worse for Marchesi than starting a painting on a half backed idea and struggle with it from the start. Read more |
In the art of Elin Engelsen, the element of water shows how we can combine nature and childishness - to be playful.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE 34 | JAN 2023
Engelsen’s art shines a light on the surface and depth of our world, which we see through the way we interact with water, the ripples, and waves around us, and how we ourselves interact with the powerful forces of nature, stating the awareness of disconnection. Read more |
Iranian Beigi usually works in sets of collections, since he believes to create a greater impact on his audienceMONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 34 | JAN 2023
Ideas are formed in the artists’ mind according to experiences or events in their society or in the whole world. Like other artists, Ali Beigi is not exempt from this phenomenon, though the research and analysis of philosophers and great writers also are significant to him. Read more |
An interview with Hawaiian artist June Stratton, reflecting upon her blend of oil paint and handmade casting moldsCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE 34 I JAN 2023
We've had a talk to June Stratton upon her creative drive, her artistic language and her current setup. Stratton has added a third dimension to her work, which consists of handmade casting molds created from plant life, specimens, and various possessions she's collected. Read more |
The American artist Mary C Carroll is enchanted by the woods, noticing all the life that happens within a forest interior.MONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 34 I JAN 2023
Carroll works in small sets of work that are alike in media, content and size, specifically for an exhibition requiring a small body of work. Carroll finds that she has a difficult time clinging to a particular means of working for years on end. Read more |
Urban art top names create 19 new artistic interventions for the 1st edition of Osona Artimur Festival, curated by B-Murals.B-MURALS | ARTICULATE PROMOTE I DEC 2022
Zoer, Ana Barriga, Satone, Eloise Gillow, Daniel Muñoz, Isaac Cordal among other urban art top names create 19 new artistic interventions for the 1st edition of Osona Artimur Festival, curated by B-Murals in the countryside of Barcelona, Spain. Read more |
Art, activism and psychotherapy - An interview with the Swedish, Copenhagen based artist Kajsa GullbergMILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE 33 I OCT 2022
Artist, feminist and activist Kajsa Gullberg does not shy away from artistic field work where she uses her own body to map human experiences. We've had a talk with her about her latest book release The House of Mirrors (2020). Read more |
The celebrated artist Mikael B makes long-awaited return home to Denmark for his third solo show: The evolution of everythingMONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 33 I OCT 2022
We've had a talk to Mikael B about his home-coming to Denmark later this month and his creative drive serving as a base for his solo show The Evolution of Everything, opening in Copenhagen on October 21st. Read more |
The idea behind Spanish artist Roberto Lopez Martin’s work is that the world is more fluid and relative than we understand it as today.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE 33 I OCT 2022
Martin focuses on the development happening in childhood and the toys we have used and are using today. The art is a mixture of cute and gross, and has wholesome vibes with slightly unnerving sculptures. Read more |
The motivation of Giowanella, is related to expressing personal matters, questioning situations that bothers her or that affects society in general |
The creative drive of the Venezuelan artist Lesly Chacon, is generated by impulses of ideas, allowing her to continue creating and developing her pictorial work.MONA LISA ABRAMOVICH | ARTICULATE 33 I OCT 2022
Chacon paints with oil on canvas, due to its perseverance in history and time. The works of Chacon emerge from the thought of a particular idea or theme, leading to the image she feels like capturing and pre-study. Read more |
The sixth edition of the Contextual Muralism Festival of Oviedo brings together four artists, carrying out their works - October 10 to 16 2022PAREES | ARTICULATE PROMOTE I SEP 2022
Parees is committed to contextual muralism involving the public through the so-called "mediation processes", in which associations and experts on the different topics take an active part to help artists in their approaches. Read more |
The new art book of the Norwegian artist Elin Engelsen, draws its readers and spectators into the dreamy weightless universe that characterize the artist.BRITTA LINDSTRØM | ARTICULATE PROMOTE I SEP 2022
With this book, Elin Engelsen marks herself as one of the strong female contemporary artists of our time. Her works are perceived as poetic and almost spiritual, and are often described by reviewers as magical realism. Read more |
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. |