Summer in the City
We know what you’re doing this summer! Ten international artists disclose
their plans for the hottest time of the year – exclusively for db artmag.
Where they’re going to relax, go swimming, or have a barbecue, the art
highlights they’re looking forward to most, and their own personal tip for
a fantastic summer.
Ina Weber
Where are you spending this
summer?
In Berlin.
What's your own personal art highlight?
Let's see. What I'd like to look at this summer is the
Martin Kippenberger exhibition in Dusseldorf, the Japanese color woodcuts
in the
East Asian Museum in Berlin, and
Jean Prouvé at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt.
Your tip for the summer?
Ride your bike, wear short skirts, and
grill sardines.
Olafur Eliasson
Where are you spending
this summer?
Addis-Ababa.
What's your own personal art highlight?
Addis-Ababa.
Your tip for the summer?
Addis-Ababa.
Marc Brandenburg
Where are you spending this summer?
I'll be in
New York in late August for the last weeks of the summer.
What's
your personal art highlight?
How should I know…
Your tip this summer?
Don’t let yourselves get bowled over by all
this patriotic blah-blah!
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Cai Guo-Qiang
Where
are you spending this summer?
In Berlin and
Beijing.
What's your own personal art highlight?
I really
like the wolves in the
"Head On" installation, and I'll be working very hard with the
Beijing Olympics planning committee.
Your tip for the summer?
Keep the digestive system healthy.
Daniel Pflumm
Where are you spending the
summer?
In Berlin
.
What's your personal art highlight?
Gianfranco Baruchello, among others.
Your tip this summer?
Get excited.
Miwa Yanagi
And where are you spending the
summer?
Now I am in
Taipei for a group show. Then I am going back to Kyoto to start a new
production for a coming exhibition in August.
A personal art
highlight?
I've been staying in
Kyoto every summer for years, not to see the
Gion Traditional Festival, but to work.
Do you have a tip for
the summer?
It is extremely hot in Taipei and in Kyoto too, and so
I'd love to escape to somewhere dry and relaxing in August.
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