Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking..

I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and va….

I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situa….

I believe that access to electricity and light can radically improve people‚ lives..

Ive walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand ….

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality..

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city..

Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives..

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin..

Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory..

I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not ….

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability..

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality..

Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility..

I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people..

Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of the….

There are 1.3 billion people today who have no access to electricity. Many of them rely on kerosene lanterns for light, but kerosene is both expensiv….

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates..

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, ….

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art pu….

For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple..