The first issue of 2020 introduces Visual Artists Irelands’s new discursive programme, ‘VAN Chats’, which aims to further emphasise our publishing activities through a series of public talks and events. Following a screening event at Project Arts Centre organised by VAI, Lívia Páldi interviews artist Kader Attia about his research and practice. Also in this issue, Joanne Laws interviews Kunstverein Braunschweig curator Raoul Klooke. This issue features three festivals profiles. Offering a glimpse of the international scene, Logan Sisley reviews the Singapore Biennale 2019. In the Irish context, Hilary Morley reviews Galway’s TULCA Festival of Visual Arts 2019 and we also hear from some of the artists developing new work for the 39th EVA International as part of the biennale’s Platform Commissions. In other feature articles, Susan Thomson profiles the work of the Belfast art collective Array at Jerwood Arts, London; Aidan Kelly Murphy interviews Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll about Berlin Opticians Gallery.
