Women‘s Work is Never Done – Barcelona Manifesta 15v

Women‘s Work is Never Done – Barcelona Manifesta 15v

Choosing from her vast oeuvre, often focusing on female labour and representation celebrating unsung heroines from diverse cultures and socioeconomic histories, here I ask her about the Barcelona Manifesta 15 in 2024.  Over the course of two years Schnitger created a...
RISE! – Lara Schnitger

RISE! – Lara Schnitger

Lara Schnitger and I first spent great times together in the mid-nineties in New York which involved a generous amount of partying, Lara dazzling with her great sense of style. I opened UP&CO September 1996 – some six months after Anton Kern opened his gallery –...
FREEDOM FOR ART – Erinna König

FREEDOM FOR ART – Erinna König

1969, Düsseldorf Art Academy: a student demonstration with Joseph Beuys in the front row. Erinna König‘s pastel-coloured floral banner bears a message in bright red Japanese lettering: ‘Freedom for Art’ it demands, linguistically encrypted. At first glance, the...
Countermeasures – Jane and Louise Wilson

Countermeasures – Jane and Louise Wilson

Born in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) in 1967, the sisters combine video, photography, and sound in conceptual investigations of visibility and invisibility in relation to power structures. Their work came to international prominence through projects for which they...