Subtle and deliberate, Richard Wright's wall drawings are characterized by an enduring elegance. The designs hover between op art, minimalism and the psychedelic with a modern touch, responding directly to contemporary culture and, more literally, to the architcture of the situation at hand. For his Dutch debut at the Van Abbemuseum, Anja Dorn spoke with Wright about tricky paradoxes, frescoes and other fascinations.

The role of the designer is in peril. Designers are increasingly threatened with becoming the proletariat of the creative industry, silently carrying out whatever the client dictates. Daniël van der Velden sees only one solution: research and development. The designer must completely throw himself into his own personal, independent production of knowledge. Today, if there is something that needs to be designed, it is the designer himself.

The supernatural is not really a subject one can pin down. It’s more about checking its periphery, testing its boundaries, trying to understand what it is that fascinates some artists. David Lillington investigated the phenomenon and spoke to a number of artists about their interest in ghosts, magic and spells.

In 2003 she won Beck’s Futures, but in the Netherlands Rosalind Nashashibi is still relatively unknown. An interview with the acclaimed artist about her interest in filming as a way to creep up on reality.