Michael Diers, Lars Blunck, Hans Ulrich Obrist

Das Interview (The Interview)
Formen und Foren des Künstlergesprächs
VOLUME 206

Does the Interview Free Art Criticism from Critique and Interpreters from Interpretation?

This insightful collection of essays investigates the artist interview from various perspectives, exploring its potential and pitfalls by examining its traditions and functions as well as its formats, status, and modes: Does the interview replace criticism in art criticism and relieve art history of the burden of interpretation? Or is it a helpful, even necessary instrument in the field of art discourse?

The discussion covers artistic strategies from Andy Warhol to Anri Sala which use the interview as a dispositive.

With contributions from Oskar Bätschmann, Lars Blunck, Matteo Burioni, Hubertus Butin, Michael Diers, Julia Gelshorn, Isabelle Graw, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Peter Schneemann, Gregor Stemmrich, and Philip Ursprung.

Michael Diers (b. 1950 in Werl) is one of Germany’s foremost art historians and professors. As an author and editor, he has published extensively on the history and theory of art and the image, as well as on political iconography. He is a co-editor of the Aby Warburg’s collected writings.

Lars Blunck (b. 1970 in Flensburg) is Professor of Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg.

Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968 in Weinfelden, Switzerland) is a curator and art critic. Since 2016 he has been the artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery in London.