Hot Coffee with an Artist

Series of conversations by Nina Mdivani

In these short conversations Nina Mdivani, Tbilisi-born and New York-based writer, curator and gallerist touches on topics of importance for the artists she encounters across the globe. They discuss coffee places, upcoming shows as well as what’s the crux of their artistic processes.

Q&A with a Turkish-American artist Tulu Bayar

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Hot coffee with New York-based curators Andi Soós and Isi Litke

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Hot coffee with Yerevan-based artist Davit Kochunts and curator Nairi Khatchadourian

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Hot coffee with Tbilisi-based Georgian artist Tamar Nadiradze

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Hot Coffee with Tbilisi-based Georgian artist Lia Bagrationi

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A cup of coffee with Newburgh-based American artist Daniel Giordano

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A cup of coffee with New York-based artist Brenda Goodman

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A cup of coffee with Berlin-based artist Sebastian Maas

Sebastian Maas, Berlin-based artist, studied through the system of German art schools and has absorbed lessons of old masters, now reinventing, and revisiting them in surprising and striking ways.

A cup of coffee with Kyiv-based Ukrainian artist Oleksiy Sai

Oleksiy Sai: To draw attention to Ukraine. Not just to our war - we need a place both on the world map and in the minds of people. We need to reclaim our status as a country and our status as a culture.

A cup of coffee with New York-based French-Black artist Marc Andre

Marc Andre is emerging New York-based artist. Born in Toulouse, France and transplanted to New York Andre is still more connected to the tribal ceremonies he has observed in Benin and Equatorial Guinea when visiting Africa with his mother as a child.

A cup of coffee with New York-based Mexican artist Brandon Tellez

In his upcoming exhibition Candyland, Brandon Tellez uses lucid, almost hallucinogenic colors to transport viewers to verdant lands reminiscent of a paradise and a candy store.

A cup of coffee with Georgian artist Rusudan Khizanishvili in Berlin

Rusudan Khizanishvili is a contemporary Georgian artist who uses her exceptional sense of color and plasticity to engage with the acute problems of spirituality, duality of human nature, a schism between instinctual and intellectual modes of life.

A quick coffee with New Orleans-based Lawrence “LAW” Parker III

LAW’s loose acrylic and gold leaf mimics the golden light of “spring leaning into summer,” the time when revivals used to take place in LAW’s childhood. Abstract iterations of beige, mauve, turquoise, black and carmine create precarious symphonies of color.