Studio Visit

In this explosive Season 1 finale of Studio Visit , the tables turn as co-host Dr. Omar Kholeif steps into the hot seat, becoming the ultimate subject of enquiry. Moving through spaces of intense vulnerability, displacement, and institutional critique, Kholeif lays bare the raw mechanics of an artistic life—from the painful labor of world-making and the constant shift and drift of identity contort...

Chris Hugh Mackenzie is one of the most striking painters of his generation. He visions the site of painting as one of transcultural enquiry, fashioning luminous cartographies that are filled with myriad forms of symbolism and communal memory. He describes his intention as a wish to evoke the same feelings as those of “souvenirs or postcards”—pictures that play between intentions of real...

In this summer special, artist and creative producer, Levin Haegele takes us out of the studio to the Cornwall countryside on an aural exploration with the artist, Hannah Brown . Returning to sites that are cocooned both by memory and nature, this episode explores the relationship between the site of the studio and the exploratory spaces that artists often return to. A key focus for Brown, a paint...

Charan Singh is an award-winning artist and researcher who uses lens based media to explore the performative aesthetics of portraiture and self-portraiture. In particular, they are concerned with "the promise of beauty" looked at from outside of the Euro-American lens of visual culture. Informed by nearly two decades working in not-for-profit (NGO-type) organizations in India, their art seeks to r...

Sunil Gupta MBE (b. 1953) is an Indian-born, Canadian-artist who uses photography to explore themes of sexual identity, migration, race, and the imagined constitution of the family. Born in New Delhi, for over five decades, Gupta has developed pioneering approaches to lens-based media and image culture. In this #StudioVisit special, co-hosts Levin Haegele and Omar Kholeif enter the home and studio...

In Episode 3: Professor Omar Kholeif aka Doctor O 's Birthday Special , Studio Visit co-creator travels solo to South-West London to visit artist Jai Chuhan in her home studio. The penetrating smell of oil paint summons them in, through, and across orbitals of feeling. In this textured world, they traverse worlds of lustrous color, elongated bodies constituting womanist worlds, via speculative car...

Raffaela Naldi Rossano is an internationally recognized artist primarily based in Naples and around the Mediterranean. Her creative practice is rooted in her studies in psychology—both Jungian and Gestalt Theory. Exploring the limits of desire, memory and ancestral forms of transmission, Naldi creates multimedia installations, which integrate sculpture, moving image, sound, collective action, poet...

Season 1 of Studio Visit takes you behind-the-scenes and breeze block walls of artist studios in London, widely considered Europe's artist capital. In the Pilot, Levin Haegele and Omar Kholeif visit artist, Celia Hempton . In this intimate convening, the listener falls head first into Hempton's universe: in the silence, standing still; from the studio, we free-wheel down the motorway and bear witn...