Something Curated’s Best Interviews So Far This Year

Whether it’s artists, filmmakers, gallerists, musicians, chefs, or authors, Something Curated is always aiming to bring you illuminating and often-times wide-ranging conversations with those at the cutting edge of the arts and culture.

Here’s a selection of our favourites from 2025 so far. And we can promise you can look forward to many more to come.

The Sacred and the Feminist: In Conversation with Indonesian Artist Citra Sasmita

On 30 January 2025, Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita will unveil her first solo exhibition in the UK, Into Eternal Land, at The Curve, Barbican. Bringing together diverse media—from embroidery to scent—Sasmita will transform the 90-metre-long gallery into a sprawling landscape that connects cultures, histories, and cosmologies. Building on her interdisciplinary practice, Into Eternal Land challenges … Continue reading

Photographer Melissa Schriek on Female Friendship and the Privilege of Boredom

“I have a lot of photos with chins touching,” said Melissa Schriek over the phone from her Amsterdam home. We were going through some of the photographs from her last book, Ode: an exploration of the dynamics of female friendship. “I like that it’s almost a mouth,” she said, “It’s also very intimate when your … Continue reading

The Art of New Season Extra Virgin Olive Oil

A conversation about olive oil: the process, the quality, an idyllic rural pocket of the western Peloponnese, and creating a brand without intending to do so – Tom Woodgate and Juli Laki are behind Honest Toil, the company they founded 15 years ago; today it’s one of the most dynamic, well-known premium olive oils in Europe. … Continue reading

Why Wafaa Bilal Is Sending a Bust of Saddam Hussein Into Orbit

On the occasion of Wafaa Bilal’s major new survey exhibition, Indulge Me, now open at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and on view until 19 October 2025, Something Curated’s Keshav Anand sat down with the artist to learn more about his life and work. Bilal’s singular practice, provocative and deeply personal, straddles performance, technology, … Continue reading

With No Signs of Slowing Down, Kim Yun Shin Reflects on 70 Years of Making Art

Kim Yun Shin has spent 70 years building a resonant artistic language that bridges sculpture, painting, and printmaking. Her deeply meditative practice explores the fundamental interplay between addition and division—concepts that guide her process and help frame her lifelong engagement with nature, material, and time. Following the presentation of her work at the 60th

Humour, History, and Intimacy in the Work of Dada Khanyisa

“Storytelling has always been part of my practice,” multi-disciplinary artist Dada Khanyisa shares with Something Curated’s Keshav Anand. “I was developing these characters during my time working in animation, and then I had a friend who had a BA in Fine Art who I was talking with. I was captivated, stimulated, by the things he … Continue reading

Boutheina Ben Salem on Tunisian Cuisine: The Shape of Memory, Instinct, and Reclaiming Narratives

The first thing that Boutheina Ben Salem remembers cooking was makrouna, Tunisia’s cherished pasta dish. She wanted to surprise her mother, who was returning from a trip. As her mother stepped into the house, she recognised by the aroma that the sauce was missing bay leaf. Ben Salem was sent outside to clear her nose … Continue reading

Xiaoqiao on Slow Cinema, Anish Kapoor, and Her Debut EP ‘Weltschmerz’

Out on 9 April, the London-based harpist and singer-songwriter Xiaoqiao emerges with her anticipated debut, Weltschmerz, a reverie of memory and introspection. Layering celestial harp melodies and spectral harmonies, her work draws from ancient philosophy and contemporary sonics alike. The project’s lead single, Lethe, unfurls as a hypnotic lament, meditating on oblivion, accompanied by a … Continue reading

A Pitch-Perfect Portrait of the Millennial Creative Class: In Conversation with ‘Perfection’ Author Vincenzo Latronico

The opening pages of Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection are lavished with an itemised description of a chic apartment complete with Scandinavian furniture, a geometric berber rug, lush monstera plants and past issues of Monocle and the New Yorker stacked neatly.  Originally written and published in Italian as Le Perfezioni in 2022, Perfection is a slim novel … Continue reading

“The Future Is in Clay”: A Conversation with Contemporary Italian Artist Giuseppe Penone

Born in 1947 in a small Piedmont village, Giuseppe Penone might be Italy’s most important contemporary artist working today. A key member of the Arte Povera movement, Penone started out with a group of young Italian artists spearheaded by curator and critic Germano Celant who in the late 1960s sought to critique consumerism and industrialism … Continue reading

An Interview With Filmmaker Beatrice Minger: the Story of Eileen Gray’s E.1027 House by the Sea

If to some people E.1027 might sound like a bug to be avoided or an additive in food, architecture fans will smile in recognition. This is the name of the house in France’s Côte d’Azur designed by lovers Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici in the late twenties.  The house, its architects and its legacy is … Continue reading

Decolonising Darwin: Sāmoan-Japanese Artist Yuki Kihara on Queerness in Nature

“Growing up in Catholic schools often limited my exposure to broader historical perspectives, particularly the Indigenous Pacific worldview that is frequently overlooked. My personal journey towards decolonisation continues as I explore various archives that challenge my understanding of the world around us,” Yuki Kihara tells Something Curated’s Keshav Anand, discussing her new show, Darwin in … Continue reading

Anousha Payne’s ‘Murmurations’ Breathes New Life Into a 500-Year-Old Turkish Bathhouse

Set within the vaulted, echoing chambers of a 13th-century Byzantine cistern beneath Zeyrek Çinili Hamam, Murmurations marks the first in a new series of exhibitions hosted at this historic site in Istanbul. London-based artist Anousha Payne, whose hybrid sculptural forms weave together myth and memory, presents a body of work shaped by her study of … Continue reading

In Conversation with Nicole Wermers

For over two decades, London-based German artist Nicole Wermers has honed a singular sculptural practice that navigates the intersection of design, architecture, and the social politics of space. Known for her precise juxtapositions of found and fabricated forms, Wermers explores the structures that shape urban life and the hierarchies that govern bodily presence within them. … Continue reading

Why French Conceptual Artist Bernar Venet Is Selling Paintings He’s Never Seen

“I had this idea – I wanted to stage an exhibition after my death. Five years later: Bernar Venet: New Works. He’s dead, but there’s new work. And then I thought, actually, I’m in too much of a hurry!” French artist Bernar Venet is laughing but the idea is completely serious. With the help of … Continue reading

“I Can’t Afford to be Boring”: A Conversation with Novelist Katharina Volckmer

Born in Germany but writing in English, Katharina Volckmer is one of a handful of female contemporary writers (another being Missouri Williams) who still loves to antagonise the reader and shatter a few taboos along the way. Her first novella The Appointment—published by Fitzcarraldo in 2020 and recently brought to the stage by Call My … Continue reading

Header image: A still taken from E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea courtesy of © Rise And Shine World Sales.