“Something that bothers me with some of my students is that their works are so cold towards the viewer. I have always told the students that they have to imagine how the viewer sees something, too. You've got to put yourself in the viewer's shoes when you do something. That's important to me. It may be complicated, but it's important to me. Otherwise I find it too cold or too arrogant.”

—  Isa Genzken

2001 - 2010, Isa Genzken in conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans' (2003)

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