“I love people coming out of darkness” claims David Lynch and that’s exactly how he comes across on this new release. Seldom has he shown and offered so much of his person, describing his work and his working process. In autumn 2010 Brigade Commerz were able to speak to Lynch at the...

The stage design for the Lulu production of the Salzburg Festival 2010 was made by Daniel Richter. Brigade Commerz met the artist in his flat after an exhausting rehearsal day – spent him a bottle of redwine and a packet of cirgarettes – and covered a broad range of topics ranging from the...

In the run-up to the dedication of the 27 meter long mural “The Hornet” Brigade Commerz met Sarah Morris in Düsseldorf to talk about her films and paintings. The New York based artist creates a fascinating interplay between surfaces and their context which demonstrates that one cannot trust...

“Led by one blind person with a stick just walking slowly in front, that would be for me the perfect beginning to a procession”. The Battle of Orgreave is Jeremy Deller’s signature work, as he says his “stairway to heaven”. However, it forms only one part of a growing catalogue of...

Joseph Beuys’ idea of sculpture is based on listening and language, on an inner sculpture of thinking, which is inalienable for the upcoming social sculpture. At the end of modernity he develops a social concept of art, based on confidence in the creative nature of every individual human...

„Children – lolitas – democrats,“ that’s how the world looks like for Jonathan Meese. Democrats are human machines, which want to suck us dry in reality. They lure with the most pornographic and disgusting ever: with culture and the journey into the ego. In pornshops on the other hand...

In November 2008 Robert Eikmeyer and Thomas Knoefel made live recordings with Jake and Dinos Chapman in the run-up to their “Memento Moronika” show in Hanover. The theme, how could it be otherwise, the hell and its inmates. Its about Lucifer and his darksome paradise, tantalisation and...

“I don't have to know how to do a baby's hands or a bleeding guy nailed to a piece of wood. I don't need to know about any of this stuff. I can do mirror cubes. And that’s it. What a great idea…all I have to do is make sure they are interesting.” There is a democratising impulse in Robert...

“The lice, the mud, the hunger, to shit in one’s trousers” states Dix changes a dumb theoretician into a “realist”. ‘Being a soldier in the disasters of war becomes for Dix the imitatio of Christ. In the hell of drumfire, bursting grenades and bodies, at the frontlines, you loose your...

„In the art world or in art you may live ten years.” We are used to think in decades and like to speak in retrospect about fixed stars, which are supposedly only mirror balls. For the 1980s the name Martin Kippenberger stands at the firmament. No wonder that Lee Marvin’s “Wand’rin’...