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Interview with the Founders of Inga Books - A Chicago-Based Art Book Store

Being a vessel for everyone else, publishing and connecting books to readers and readers to books, and creating a public of people around the community, is a truly rewarding aspect of what we do.

Interview with Nigerian Artist Fidelis Joseph

For me, the way I sort of tied everything together, something that unifies everything for me is that I am this person that is not settled.

I am this person that still feels displaced in a way. That has been my experience even back home in Nigeria. I didn't feel settled.

Interview with Copenhagen-based Artist Liu ShiYuan and Kristian Mondrup

Globalization is not a cultural phenomenon, but an economic one, a policy and microeconomic relationship. After 30 years — now 50 years — we are more and more global, but we don’t have cultural exchange, there is only economic exchange. Only money is communicated.

Interview with German Artist Kristina Berning

One thing that I really don’t like is that in Germany there are many applications where you have to say what you are going to do if you get the award or residency. This is totally absurd for artists who work more in the process.

Interview with a Young Ambitious Artist

I don’t think whenever art is linked with commerce then it’s bad or wrong. I don’t know when such a prejudice was formed. I think people probably don’t understand there has been a long-time connection between artist and entrepreneur, art and business. It’s a historical practice.

Interview with an Anonymous Artist

I’m afraid to talk about art with other people, especially with those young artists from Western countries. They feel like they are having a fun time, and art should be fun. But I don’t think I have a common language with them because they live in a fully developed society where art is supported, but we don’t have that kind of system at all.

Interview with Curator Carola Uehlken

Working as a curator in Germany means I need to have three jobs at the same time. That’s super exhausting, and people are becoming more and more depressive about this.

Interview with Musician Dagobert

I mean, all those plans and dreams and goals you have in your life, of course, they are making the direction which you follow, but it doesn’t have anything to do with your everyday life.

In conversation with Kenneth: Riding an Electric Motorcycle Back to Stuttgart from Shanghai

Some police when they see me in a small village, they will be like, “Oh, ohhhh, woooowww, passport.” Then they go away with the passport and call their boss for two hours. And then they give the passport back and say, “You are good. Have a safe travel.”

In Conversation with Curator and Berlin Art Prize Founding Member Zoë Miller

When you look at things that are going on in all of the States, or basically New York - that’s the most important part for art in the States. You see things that have so many pop-art references that just would not be ok here. People would think that’s too pop, too superficial.

Interview with Berlin-based Artist Lena Von Gödeke

I was totally stupid to think that you can just be an artist, and it’s about the thoughts and ideal and whatever. It should be like that, but it’s not. Because you have to earn money, and you have to have contacts. That’s nothing new I’m telling you… but it was new for me.

Interview with Chinese Artist Liu Xinyi

I’m definitely practicing self-censorship every day. Being cautious about what to say and what to do has long been a part of the Chinese culture and lifestyle.