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 →
The people who are interested in my work - they're quite far-out.
What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'
As we get better at things, we need less people to produce the things we really need, but what do we do with the rest of the people? They have to be... →
For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be a relief. What's... →
I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to... →
I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I am against its... →
Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to... →
Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can... →
My work comes out of a deep psychological place, so it's not like I'm Object Man at home. Theoretically, I'm not against objects, but... →
On a very, very basic level, I'm definitely pro market because with the market comes the idea of the individual and the idea of specialisation... →
Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300... →
We package everything as a product so we can derive income from it. Then we can occupy ourselves with higher-order psychological lifestyle things.... →
Tino Sehgal (/ˈsiːɡəl/; German: [ˈzeːgaːl]; born 1976) is a British–German artist, based in Berlin. He describes his work as "constructed situations".