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Inside the Artist’s Studio | Sandrine Wymann

by Georgia Kotretsos | Apr 26, 2013

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Sandrine Wymann

by Georgia Kotretsos | Apr 26, 2013

Georgia Kotretsos interviews Sandrine Wymann, curator and director of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, a contemporary art center in France.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | George Georgakopoulos

by Georgia Kotretsos | Mar 29, 2013

Inside the Artist’s Studio | George Georgakopoulos

by Georgia Kotretsos | Mar 29, 2013

Columnist Georgia Kotretsos interviews “art hub creator” George Georgakopoulos, posing questions about his long-running curatorial projects and Greece’s contemporary art scene.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Adelheid Mers (Part 2)

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Adelheid Mers (Part 2)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 31, 2013

Part two of Georgia Kotretsos’s interview with Chicago–based artist, writer, editor, professor, and curator Adelheid Mers.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Adelheid Mers (Part 1)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 29, 2013

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Adelheid Mers (Part 1)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 29, 2013

Georgia Kotretsos chats with Chicago–based artist, writer, editor, professor, and curator Adelheid Mers.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 31, 2012

Inside the Artist’s Studio | ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 31, 2012

Georgia Kotretsos interviews the founders of the ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, artists Achilleas Kentonis and Maria Papacharalambous.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Tumelo Mosaka (Part 2)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 7, 2012

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Tumelo Mosaka (Part 2)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 7, 2012

Part 2 of Georgia Kotretsos’ conversation with curator Tumelo Mosaka, in which he discusses his upcoming curatorial project “Blind Field” at the Krannert Museum.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Tumelo Mosaka (Part 1)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Nov 30, 2012

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Tumelo Mosaka (Part 1)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Nov 30, 2012

Part 1 of Georgia Kotretsos’ conversation with Tumelo Mosaka, curator of contemporary art at the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign, IL.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Shannon Fitzgerald

by Georgia Kotretsos | Aug 31, 2012

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Shannon Fitzgerald

by Georgia Kotretsos | Aug 31, 2012

Georgia Kotretsos talks to the new executive director of the Rochester Art Center in Rochester, Minnesota.

Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Leeza Ahmady (Part 2)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Aug 3, 2012

Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Leeza Ahmady (Part 2)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Aug 3, 2012

Part 2 of Georgia Kotretsos’ interview with independent curator Leeza Ahmady, the director of Asian Contemporary Art Week in New York.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Carol Becker

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jun 29, 2012

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Carol Becker

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jun 29, 2012

Georgia Kotretsos talks to Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University’s School of the Arts, about art education and the process of building great art schools.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Workshop at Deree, the American College of Greece

by Georgia Kotretsos | May 31, 2012

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Workshop at Deree, the American College of Greece

by Georgia Kotretsos | May 31, 2012

Georgia Kotretsos reports on the 2012 Arts Festival at the School of Fine and Performing Arts at the American College of Greece.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Leeza Ahmady (Part 1)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Apr 27, 2012

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Leeza Ahmady (Part 1)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Apr 27, 2012

Georgia Kotretsos talks with independent curator and arts administrator Leeza Ahmady, the director of Asian Contemporary Art Week in New York.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy

by Georgia Kotretsos | Mar 30, 2012

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy

by Georgia Kotretsos | Mar 30, 2012

The Curator of Contemporary Art at Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) talks about the state of contemporary Latin American Art and the role of art institutions today.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Nato Thompson

by Georgia Kotretsos | Mar 2, 2012

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Nato Thompson

by Georgia Kotretsos | Mar 2, 2012

Georgia Kotretsos talks with Creative Time curator Nato Thompson about the new book “Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011.”

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Abdellah Karroum

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 27, 2012

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Abdellah Karroum

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 27, 2012

Georgia Kotretsos talks to Abdellah Karroum, an independent curator who founded L’appartement 22, the first experimental art space in Rabat, Morocco.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Paul C. Ha

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 23, 2011

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Paul C. Ha

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 23, 2011

The new director of MIT’s List Visual Arts Center reflects on his longstanding relationships with artists and the significance of the studio visit.

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Inside the Artist’s Studio |Storm Janse van Rensburg

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 2, 2011

Inside the Artist’s Studio |Storm Janse van Rensburg

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 2, 2011

Storm Janse van Rensburg is a South African curator and Senior Curator of the Goodman Gallery group currently based in Cape Town (CT), South Africa. Van Rensburg began his …

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Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou

by Georgia Kotretsos | Oct 28, 2011

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou

by Georgia Kotretsos | Oct 28, 2011

Jenny Marketou was born and raised in Athens, Greece and educated in the United States. She lives and works in New York. Marketou earned a BFA from the Corcoran School …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Terike Haapoja

by Georgia Kotretsos | Sep 6, 2011

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Terike Haapoja

by Georgia Kotretsos | Sep 6, 2011

Terike Haapoja is a Finnish visual artist based in Helsinki. She has a Master’s degree from the Theater Academy of Finland (Department of Performance Art and Theory) and from the …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Siemon Allen

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 29, 2011

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Siemon Allen

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 29, 2011

Siemon Allen is a South African artist who currently lives and works in the United States. He received his MFA from Natal Technikon (now Durban Institute of Technology) and was …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Serkan Özkaya

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 1, 2011

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Serkan Özkaya

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 1, 2011

Serkan Özkaya is a contemporary conceptual artist based in Istanbul, Turkey, and New York City. His work deals with topics of appropriation and reproduction and it typically operates outside of …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Gregory Sholette

by Georgia Kotretsos | May 27, 2011

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Gregory Sholette

by Georgia Kotretsos | May 27, 2011

Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, and founding member of Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980-1988), and REPOhistory (1989-2000). A graduate of The Cooper Union (BFA 1979), The University …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Juozas Cernius

by Georgia Kotretsos | May 17, 2011

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Juozas Cernius

by Georgia Kotretsos | May 17, 2011

Juozas Cernius is a Canadian visual artist based in Toronto. He has received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004) and his BFA from Concordia …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Artemis Potamianou

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 31, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Artemis Potamianou

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 31, 2010

Artemis Potamianou is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece. She attained a BFA Degree from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 1997 and an MFA from the Staffordshire …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jan-Henri Booyens

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 3, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jan-Henri Booyens

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 3, 2010

Jan-Henri Booyens is a South African artist based in Pretoria, South Africa. Jan holds a BFA in painting from the Durban Institute of Technology, in KwaZulu Natal. Since 2000, he …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Pesce Khete

by Georgia Kotretsos | Oct 29, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Pesce Khete

by Georgia Kotretsos | Oct 29, 2010

Pesce Khete is an Italian painter based primarily in Rome, Italy. He has studied at the Classical Studies Department at the Liceo Ginnasio Torquato Tasso, later on at the Istituto …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: The Studio Reader and the SAIC Summer Studio

by Georgia Kotretsos | Aug 27, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: The Studio Reader and the SAIC Summer Studio

by Georgia Kotretsos | Aug 27, 2010

The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists is the kind of book an artist would eat up in a single sitting. It is about the STUDIO — the spaces …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: N. Bernard Viljoen and the Twilight Children

by Georgia Kotretsos | Aug 7, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: N. Bernard Viljoen and the Twilight Children

by Georgia Kotretsos | Aug 7, 2010

N. Bernard Viljoen is a South African architect based in Johannesburg. He was raised on a farm in the Free State outside the quaint South African town, Parys. He graduated as …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Paul Zografakis Part 2

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 5, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Paul Zografakis Part 2

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 5, 2010

This is the second half of the discussion I had with Paul Zografakis’ at Gyzi, Athens and the continuation of Friday’s post. He opened his studio to me and I …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Paul Zografakis

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 2, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Paul Zografakis

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 2, 2010

Paul Zografakis is a Greek-American artist who was born and raised in St. Louis, MO and based in Athens, Greece since 2007. Paul arrived in Athens on a Fulbright Scholarship …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Loul Samater

by Georgia Kotretsos | May 28, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Loul Samater

by Georgia Kotretsos | May 28, 2010

Loul Samater is a Somali artist born and raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, but currently based in Beaufort, South Carolina. She came to the U.S. in 1994 to complete the …

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jason Bailer Losh

by Georgia Kotretsos | Apr 30, 2010

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jason Bailer Losh

by Georgia Kotretsos | Apr 30, 2010

Jason Bailer Losh is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in the midwestern town of Denison, IA. Denison is also the birthplace of actress Donna …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Rachel Moore

by Georgia Kotretsos | Mar 26, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Rachel Moore

by Georgia Kotretsos | Mar 26, 2010

Rachel Moore is an American artist and currently a Fulbright Fellow at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds a BFA from Alfred University and an MFA from the …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Christa Holka

by Georgia Kotretsos | Feb 26, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Christa Holka

by Georgia Kotretsos | Feb 26, 2010

Christa Holka is an American photographer based in London. She holds an MA in Fine Arts from the Central St. Martins College of Art & Design in London, a BFA …

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Remembering artist and friend Flo McGarrell

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 29, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Remembering artist and friend Flo McGarrell

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 29, 2010

Flores McGarrell I lost my voice. Incredibly frustrating because I have a lot I need to say right now. I just make ridiculous squeaking sounds. […] I think I should …