Adam Pendleton discusses his work within the context of his exhibition “Who We Are” at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin. Pendleton’s first exhibition with the gallery includes the latest examples of his spray-painted and silkscreened canvases, works on Mylar, System of Display, and video portraits, as well as a monumental wall intervention. The new work, much of which incorporates language from the composer Julius Eastman, demonstrates Pendleton’s layered, archival approach to creation as he inquires into the relationship between representation and abstraction, history, and notions of “blackness”.

Howardena Pindell’s first solo exhibition in the UK includes abstract paintings and collages drawn from two distinct periods in the artist’s career: large-scale spray paintings from the early 1970s and smaller wall-mounted three-dimensional works completed since 2007.

In this video, Pindell responds to seeing her work installed at Victoria Miro’s Mayfair gallery. The exhibition continues through July 27, 2019.

Chris Levine works with light to create expanded states of perception and awareness. At his London studio, Levine explains how a childhood fascination with holography informed his future career, and traces how his personal struggles eventually led to his unusual approach to portraiture—including his portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in Lightness of Being, 2004.

Daniel Arsham takes a near-scientific approach to art in order to transform ordinary objects—cameras, cassette tapes, mobile phones—into archaeological discoveries from a future, dystopian world. In this studio visit, the artist tracks his development from early forays in photography and painting to a formative collaboration with Merce Cunningham, through to his work today and his vision of the world in 3019.

Artist Jonas Wood reflects on his move to Los Angeles, the importance of the Hammer Museum, and his singular approach to creating art. Wood and his wife, artist and studio mate Shio Kusaka, have donated their works Shio Butterfly Still Life (2019) and (Line 65) (2017) as part of Artists for the Hammer Museum—a collection of pieces given by over forty leading contemporary artists to help establish a new Artist Fund at the Hammer Museum. This fund directly supports the museum’s pioneering exhibition program and work with emerging artists. The full collection of donated works will be offered across Sotheby's Evening and Day Auctions of Contemporary Art on May 16–17 in New York.

On New Year’s Day, 2018, Chantal Joffe set herself the challenge of working on a self-portrait every day for the coming year. This daily practice has resulted in a series of characteristically unflinching works. On the opening of her solo presentation at Victoria Miro in London, the artist walks through her studio and process.

This body of work will be on view at Victoria Miro from 11 April to 18 May, 2019.

Whose stories do tattoos tell?

In 2018, at the height of the Black Panther motion picture excitement, Doreen Garner hosts Invisible Man Tattoo, a pop-up tattoo shop in Brooklyn's Recess art space. A noted sculptor and licensed tattoo artist, Garner swaps sculpture for skin, and inks iconic Black American heroes and imagery on those who identify as being of the African Diaspora.

Doreen Garner (b. 1986, Philadelphia, PA, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/artist/doreen-garner/

Does the past have a sound? Celebrated for his material-oriented practice, Kevin Beasley juxtaposes sound, silence, and sculpture to examine the legacy of cotton in the American South. Set to the beat of his improvised drumming, the film shows Beasley at work in his Queens studio finishing his multipart exhibition, “A view of a landscape,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art—his most ambitious work to date.

Kevin Beasley (b. 1985, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA) lives and works in Queens, New York. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/artist/kevin-beasley/

Artist Sean Raspet discusses his interest in the chemical structure of flavors, scents, and how molecular analysis presents new ways of thinking about art objects and their relationship to audiences.

This video is part of Swiss Institute’s “SI: VISIONS” video series, in collaboration with UBS.

Artist Christina Forrer discusses her process of using online videos of fights with animals and people, as well as scenes of everyday conflict from life, as inspiration in her weavings.

This video is part of Swiss Institute’s “SI: VISIONS” video series, in collaboration with UBS.