INTERVIEWS | ARTICLES
A selection of interviews and articles from artists and collaborations featured on the platform, in the gallery and in the art magazine
Pandemic Art 1.0 is a retrospective upon the first year of the pandemic situation, showcasing the projects of nearly 40 professional artists. Explore the virtual exhibition, opening on November 30thARTICULATE | ARTICULATE PUBLICATION | NOV 2021
The artists of Pandemic Art 1.0, reflect upon the global initiatives and their consequences. The publication both manifests itself in a book release as well as a virtual exhibition, launching in November 2021. Book release |
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 |
The work of Lisa Lach-Nielsen circulates around the female figure, and deal with themes such as identity, the search of it and the elements that shape it.MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
Lach-Nielsen’s drive is generated from her desire to create and release thoughts she has in her head. The works are thus deeply connected to the artists own mind and carry deep psychological meanings. Read more |
The main concerns of the Mexican artist Horacio Quiroz are the human condition, change, and duality in our reality expressed through the body.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The freak shows and human circuses of the 18th century displayed the rarities and what was shocking and outside the accepted norms. The art of Quiroz is also a display of the deformed, the curiosities of the human body and mind. Read more Læs mere |
The artistic research of Danny Bittencourt, investigates the sharing of the sensitive as a practice, appropriating photography as a tool for personal expressionCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The work of Bittencourt is initiated from a completely emotional urge. An impulse she cannot control. Once she identifies the feeling, the creative process becomes controlling and urgent. Read more |
The work of Spanish artist García de Marina revolves around intuition and ideas, surrealism, and the world of the subconscious and dreamsCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The work of Marina is deeply irreverent with reality, seeking to transform and stamp objects with new identities, challenging the obvious, and paying attention to the greatness of everyday life. Read more |
The common thread of the work of Rafel Moreno, is the artistic expression of feelings as universal as love, sadness and the desire for freedom.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The work of Moreno is very varied, for which it seems impossible to define him as an artist. He chooses his technique according to what he wants to express. Preferably, Moreno uses waste, re- and upcycle material. Read more |
Suárez possesses an unusual mastery of capturing the rhythm, the gesture, the precise moment to freeze an image in time, while studying its dynamic potential.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #27 | APR 2021
Suárez suggests that it’s dangerous to dwell in monotony and conformism, either by the exhaustion of ideas or, even if it seems contradictory, by the rewards of success. Always ask new questions that lead you to think anew. Read more |
Klementsson confuses her audience conceptually by having men pose like women and vise versa. In doing so she argues that gender is an illusionCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #27 | APR 2021
The viewer of Klementsson's work, sees something is odd while men pose like women in a transparent iridescent skin, daring the viewer to be drawn to them despite their colourful flaws. Read more |
Judith de Leeuw (JDL) creates murals as a voice for the voiceless and uses art as a tool to draft attention for social issues, combining emotional visualizationCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #27 | APR 2021
The Dutch artist JDL is turning the dark edges of humanity and society into beauty and mutual understanding through her murals. JDL is wondering how she can contribute to a system in which she feels alienated. Read more |
The Iranian artist Mostafa Nodeh's minimalist photographs invite us to slow down and meditate on what is truly important in lifeMILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #27 | APR 2021
Nodeh is known for his captivating minimalist landscape photographs in black and white, which, inspired by conceptual photography, are strongly rooted in themes, ideas and symbolism. Read more |
The illustrations of Oliver Jones are rendered using pastel which is an important component of the works, as in describing the surface of fleshCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #27 | APR 2021
The drawings of the British artist Oliver Jones, aim to dispel a contrived imagery of flesh that is flaunted to us through media, social media and industry, and endeavors to re-advertise a more truthful version of it. Read more |
The Italian artist Veronica Barbato uses the language and dimensions of street art, keeping faith with the promises of love between sistersCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | APR 2021
The three elements that characterised the 1980's was reflux, armed struggle and heroin. This is a project telling the story of Barbato's sister, based on a letter received 5 years after her death. Read more |
To Paredes, every element counts. The result is a logbook in images, a private visual diary that reveals the naturalness of what seems secret from the outside.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | FEB 2021
Due to the pandemic, Paredes delves, through the images of isolation, each one composed of two photographs - constituting a single unit - captured in their entirety with an old Helios manual lens adapted to her digital camera. Read more |
In the Deep Forest Art Land, situated in Jutland Denmark, you will learn something new about yourself in the meeting with art and nature. |
Illustrator Steven Russell Black fuses opponents, leaving his audience attracted to both fungus and clouds, chocolates and maggots.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #26 | JAN 2021
Black is an artist with an obsessive compulsion to champion the odd, fringe, or otherwise unappreciated, who generates his artistic drive, by finding beauty in unexpected places. Read more Læs mere |
The art of Batista is inspired by Baroque paintings, talking aesthetics, as in earthy tones and of course the drama.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #26 | JAN 2021
When she’s working, Batista's lets her feelings emerge, portraying herself in certain poses, playing with the angles. When she scripts her art, Batista feels trapped, and as she can’t fully express herself. Read more Læs mere |
Kyriacou’s sketch work are innocently sinister, with an aura of vintage look and a here-and-there political undertone.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #26 | JAN 2021
Similar to Pan’s Labyrinth, the style of Greek Kyriacou is a dark fantasy, although of course more friendly. However, the slightly cubistic, modern layers remind us of something newer. Perhaps something graphic. Read more Læs mere |
As a child Volkano never wanted to grow up. Art offered him an exit that became his safehaven - his sandpitCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #26 | JAN 2021
Volkano is portraying the removal of our free mind and our impulsive joy, as we mature and adjust. To him, a painting should awake the deepest and darkest emotions, convulse the heart and get stuck there. Read more Læs mere |
By combining hyperrealism, surrealistic elements and popular cultural symbols, the French duo Murmure street creates street art that appeals to the general publicJULIE JOHANNE SVENDSEN | ARTICULATE #26 | JAN 2021
Murmure street has professional and craft knowledge of graphic and urban art techniques at their disposal, which they unite in playful and poetic works that interact with the specific environment in which they are created. Read more Læs mere |
The theme in the work of Russian illustrator Anton Gudim is random, yet he's mainly attracted by things that are deprived of attention and to what seem ordinary. |
The photographic work of Turkish artist Elif Yeşil Aktamiş is like an electric temple, resembling Istanbul and the clash of cultures constituting the capital. |
Each of the works of the dedicated Ukrainian artist Ruslan Onishchenko are elaborated from well-worn and carefully thought through ideas. |
Anger, boredom, joy and sadness are some of the unfamiliar beauties and portraited truths in American artist Dorielle Caimi's fascinating artwork. |
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