INTERVIEWS | ARTICLES
A selection of interviews and articles from artists and collaborations featured on the platform, in the gallery and in the art magazine
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.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 demons |