Interview with Chinese Artist Tan Tian

I think I would only be able to be a commentator here, making artworks to comment about things. This is not really meaningful to me. But going back and become a force of resistance, that would be more meaningful. Sounds so much like a leftist, hahaha.

Interview with French Artist Francois

I like art. I make art. I like to exhibit. I want to exhibit. But I don’t like the art game and I don’t want to play the game.

Interview with Icelandic Artist Egill

All artists are honest in wanting to be an artist, but they have different ideas about it.

In Conversation with Artist and Director of ZK/U Berlin, Matthias

The chance of working in your job in Germany as an artist is like 2%. Making a living by selling art or becoming maybe a curator is only 2%. All the other 98% they do something entirely different.

Interview with New York-bases Chinese Media Artist, Frank

Back in China, in order to make money, I made many industrial public sculptures. We call it “Veggie Sculpture”, because artists make those kinds of sculpture to earn money and then buy veggies and food.

Interview with Berlin-based British Artist Erin

There is UDK, the art school in Berlin. They have a HUGE party every year, and I had a really weird feeling there. There’s just thousands of young, good-looking hipsters or young creatives, thousands and thousands of them.

Interview with Shanghai-based Artist Lehua Zhang

Artists progress really slowly. They do exhibition one after another. Some young artists would come out, and some others would disappear when they can no longer handle it.

Interview with Shanghai-based Gallery Assistant Hung Le

At least now it’s not like before, as if Chinese people can’t understand Chinese contemporary art, and it’s collected by foreign buyers only as a cultural phenomenon.

Interview with Berlin-based Austrian Artist Eva

Like the political situation everywhere in Europe is very worrisome. I think it’s very complicated. I don't feel comfortable living in a place where I have the feeling that everything is fine when it’s not.

Interview with German Artist Daniel Beerstecher

I learn that I will never finish learning, there is no end. I have to see what life brings me, and I think this is an endless process.

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I think I would only be able to be a commentator here, making artworks to comment about things. This is not really meaningful to me. But going back and become a force of resistance, that would be more meaningful. Sounds so much like a leftist, hahaha.

I like art. I make art. I like to exhibit. I want to exhibit. But I don’t like the art game and I don’t want to play the game.

All artists are honest in wanting to be an artist, but they have different ideas about it.

The chance of working in your job in Germany as an artist is like 2%. Making a living by selling art or becoming maybe a curator is only 2%. All the other 98% they do something entirely different.

Back in China, in order to make money, I made many industrial public sculptures. We call it “Veggie Sculpture”, because artists make those kinds of sculpture to earn money and then buy veggies and food.

There is UDK, the art school in Berlin. They have a HUGE party every year, and I had a really weird feeling there. There’s just thousands of young, good-looking hipsters or young creatives, thousands and thousands of them.

Artists progress really slowly. They do exhibition one after another. Some young artists would come out, and some others would disappear when they can no longer handle it.

At least now it’s not like before, as if Chinese people can’t understand Chinese contemporary art, and it’s collected by foreign buyers only as a cultural phenomenon.

Like the political situation everywhere in Europe is very worrisome. I think it’s very complicated. I don't feel comfortable living in a place where I have the feeling that everything is fine when it’s not.

I learn that I will never finish learning, there is no end. I have to see what life brings me, and I think this is an endless process.