Tino Sehgal (/ˈsiːɡəl/; German: [ˈzeːgaːl]; born 1976) is a British–German artist, based in Berlin. He describes his work as "constructed situations". Read full biography of Tino Sehgal →
As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is so cool, I can transform the earth... →
I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look at things... →
My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire... →
One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if... →
The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write... →
Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.
A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other.... →
Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal. I think dance, for example... →
In preindustrial times, the idea of creating something was more related to your personality. Personality was something that you constructed; it's... →
I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.
Attention is the material I work with.
I am for fetishisation! All of us have our favourite things, and they speak to us.
I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.
Tino Sehgal (/ˈsiːɡəl/; German: [ˈzeːgaːl]; born 1976) is a British–German artist, based in Berlin. He describes his work as "constructed situations".