NEWish STUFF
My MUU Kirjottaa / MUU Writes' report on travelling with the artists on the E75 Art Bus, an Oulu2026 European Capital of Culture project was published today (4 September 2026) on Artists' Association MUU's website. (Click image to access the text.)
I had a wonderful discussion with Béatrice Balcou about her artistic practice. Key aspects of her performances and sculptures
have been distilled in the q/a piece that appears in print in Sculpture Magazine's September/October 2026 issue.
'Helsinki Dispatch', my brief survey of the arts scene in Finland's capital region has gone live on "Shower of Kunst." (Click image to access SoK post or access pdf version in Writing: Miscellaneous Periodicals / Publications.)
Sculpture Magazine has published my review of Anton Alvarez's "The Colour of Gravity" on show at Helsinki Contemporary until 30 August 2026. (Click image to access the review.)
My exhibition text for "Roland Persson: The Magical Moment of Silence," showing at Nässjö Konsthall, Sweden, is now available (click image to read it in Swedish or English). A guide to the works in the exhibition is also included. You are also welcome to scroll down to the cover image of the May/June 2025 edition of Sculpture Magazine to access my interview with the artist.
Sculpture Magazine has published “Taking Risks: A Conversation with Axel Straschnoy” on its website. In the interview we discuss “Axel Straschnoy: We believe and accept that these beings exist,” his 2025 Fine Arts Academy of Finland Prize exhibition at the Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), as well the development and background of some of his earlier projects (click the image to access the interview).
The interpretative guide to Zhanna Kadyrova's exhibition "The Ground Shifts Beneath Our Feet" at The Ukrainian Museum in New York City (20 June – 6 September 2026) includes the essay "The Landscape Of Our Time" by Paula Toppila, Executive Director and Curator of IHME Helsinki re the artist's presentation of "The Forest," her 2025 IHME Helsinki Commission, and my interview, "Direct Experience: A Conversation with Zhanna Kadyrova," which was published in the March/April 2026 issue of Sculpture Magazine. The guide is now available on The Ukrainian Museum's website (click image to access the guide.)
#63 ETER: 1 minute autohypnosis sound compilation. Released June 2026. Posted online August 2026. (Click image to access.)
In this edition of Community Voices, John Gayer & Juan Ortiz-Apuy continue the conversation initiated by Ortis-Apuy's exhibition "Coming to Grips" at YYZ Artists Outlet in Toronto. To watch this discussion on the ISC's YouTube Channel simply click on the image. To read the interview that appeared in Sculpture Magazine, use this link; https://sculpturemagazine.art/the-agency-of-things-a-conversation-with-juan-ortiz-apuy/
Last August, I was able to sit down and talk with Ukrainian artists Zhanna Kadyrova, while she and a number of technicians were in the final stages of installing "Metsä/The Forest," her 2025 IHME Helsinki Commission. The interview has just been published in Sculpture Magazine's March/April 2026 issue. Kadyrova is also representing Ukraine at this year's La Biennale de Venezia in Italy (click image to access text)..
Sculpture Magazine has published my review of Antti Oikarinen's "Introspective" online https://sculpturemagazine.art/antti-oikarinen/) on 25 February 2026 and in May/June print edition. (Click on the image to access the text.)
My interview with Juan Ortiz-Apuy about "Coming to Grips," his exhibition showing until 6 December 2025 at YYZ Artists Outlet in Toronto, is now available on Sculpture Magazine / sculpturemagazine.art (click image to access text). Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy Juan Ortiz-Apuy.
The November/December 2025 issue of Sculpture Magazine includes my interview "Disparate Realities: A Conversation with Monira Al Qadiri." (Clicking on the cover image takes you to the interview.)
My review of Tobias Bradford's "Health and Safety" at Sinne, was published online on 8 August 2025 (https://sculpturemagazine.art/tobias-bradford/) and in Sculpture Magazine's November/December 2025 print edition. (Click image to access text.) Installation view of the exhibition with To be held in place, 2025, mixed media and animatronic sculpture. Photo: Ahmed Alalousi, Courtesy Sinne
The September-October 2025 issue of The Visual Artists News Sheet (VAN) includes my interview with Clíodhna Timoney during her HIAP residency in Helsinki.
(Click the image to access the interview.)
My interview with Swedish artist Roland Persson is in the May/June 2025 issue of Sculpture Magazine. (Click image to read the full text.) Cover image: "Animal from the Dream House" (2023), courtesy Ostrobothnian Museum in Vaasa, Finland/photo: Noora Lehtovuori. Persson's current shows: "The Magical Moment of Silence" at Nässjö Konsthall, Nässjö, Sweden (13 June – 29 August 2026) and "Trouble Will Find Me" at Rejmyre Art Lab, in Rejmyre, Sweden (6 June - 1 November 2026).
