Interviews

If you could live with only one piece of art what would it be? This is an impossible question

An interview with the pioneering teacher and cybernetic artist to coincide with his first UK retrospective

What is your favourite title of an art work? I can’t think of a good one

Boris Groys in conversation with Brian Dillon

Janette Laverrière on politics, being a woman, utility, mirrors and her collaborations with artist Nairy Baghramian

Franz Ackermann is an artist living and working in Berlin and Karlsruhe in Germany. He is currently participating in the Tate Triennial in London and will have a solo show at Kunstmuseum Bonn in December 2009.

Q. What do you wish you knew? A. How to spell would be useful

The Glaswegian novelist and artist answers questions about his approach to art, life and literature

What do you like the look of? My son’s beauty sleep

Richard Serra talks about the evolution of his ideas and his plans for the future

The artist lives and works in Istanbul and Berlin

For 20 years, Wolfgang Tillmans’s photography has been a sustained meditation on observation, perception and translation

Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa talks about his interest in the interaction between people, everyday objects and their environments

What could you imagine doing if you didn’t do what you do? I would be a biologist, a kindergarten teacher or a policewoman

The artist will be exhibiting new work at Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, in the spring of 2009

British artist Sarah Jones about photography, film, memory, roses, psychoanalysis, women and hair

An interview with Rob Janoff, designer of the Apple logo

What should change? The weather in Brussels

Isaac Julien is a filmmaker and artist. He curated the current exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, ‘Derek Jarman: Brutal Beauty’ (23 February – 13 April 2008), which features his new film Derek. His film installation Fantôme Afrique (2005) is also on show at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara until 11 May 2008.

Born in 1972, Ján Mancuska is a conceptual artist who explores the materiality of language and film. Here he interviews Jirí Kovanda about his pioneering work of the 1970s – an encounter between two generations of artists