Est. New York, 2003  ·  Leila Antakly  ·  A ninunina production
Over 1,000 interviews  ·  Since 2003

Curious about
their work,
not the moment.

Leila Antakly has spent over twenty years in conversation with artists, musicians, designers, filmmakers, and thinkers all over the world who are making work that matters. These are the conversations.

Artwork: Violeta Galera  ·  ninunina.com

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ARTIST STYLIANOS SCHICHO

He draws figures that turn their backs. He circles them with thick coal lines — their territory staked out, the viewer delivered. And in 2020, Austrian artist Stylianos Schicho began to feel something deeply strange: his paintings were starting to look like the news. A conversation on blindspots, the lighthouse keeper, and why the owl can never close its wings.

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ARTIST SARA ÖDMAN

She grew up between Swedish prairies and the ocean, in a family where art was simply how you expressed yourself. After a decade in Paris, time in Beijing, and years directing for luxury brands, Sara Ödman quit her art director role and returned to the one thing that had always been true: the empty canvas, and the energy that rises the moment she starts to fill it.

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