For TLmag36: All Is Landscape, guest editor, Bas Smets, invited author and activist, Kathelin Gray, to write about her experience and connections to the Biosphere 2, an experimental and ambitious project about the earth and climate change.
Francis Kéré was named the 2022 Pritzker Prize winner, a much deserved recognition for this talented architect. For our S/S 2018 issue: TLmag29: Africas, design journalist Norman Kietzmann wrote a piece about Kéré Architecture.
For TLmag35, Vera Sacchetti wrote about the innovative vision of architect, Mariana Popescu, who is pushing forward the possibilities of creating lightweight architectural structures using limited concrete and 3D industrial printing technologies.
As part of the United Nations ‘Year of Glass 2022’ initiative, the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, UK, presents an exploratory exhibition about glassmaking in all its states of matter. Exhibition curator, Clare O’Dowd, spoke with TLmag about what makes this medium so unique.
Anders Herwald Ruhwald on what drew him to the work of Swedish modernist ceramicist, Carl-Harry Stålhane, and how his current exhibition, “Ruhwald vs. Stålhane”, explores this relationship through clay and glazing. The exhibition, curated by Love Jönsson, is on view at the Rian Design Museum through April 24th.
In the Spring of 2020, at the height of global lockdowns, Marc Fuestel interviewed Kenya Hara about one of his new projects: High Resolution Tour. With its subtle images and thoughtful, personal texts, High Resolution Tour was just the thing the world needed to be absorbed by and reflect upon – putting forward essential questions about reconsidering how and why we travel.
For contemporary artist Pernille Braun, the process of glassmaking and the material itself, holds a sense of wonder and freedom, which allows her to create her distinctive sculptures. She presents a selection of new work at Puls Gallery through March 12, 2022.
Equal parts artist and activist, Cian Dayrit sat down with TLmag to explain why his art – usually in the form of embroidered textiles – fights against all forms of oppression across the globe and becomes a place of hope where social justice can survive and thrive.
Studio Wieki Somers (Wieki Somers and Dylan van den Berg) were invited to curate the design section of The Roaring Twenties, an exhibition which explores parallel themes between the 1920s and 2020s in Design, Art and Fashion.
Through an engaging body of work that includes murals, video, research and design, Rebeca Méndez, faces up to climate emergency and shows us how the migration of a bird connects deeply to the health of the environment.
Meet the new generation of African creatives taking the continent’s textile culture into the future. Helen Jennings reports.
Between February 7- 25, in a performance/pop up project in London, Anton Alvarez will experiment with grinding down clay sculptures made in a previous exhibition to make new work with the remaining materials using his Extruder machine.