Frank Leder is an odd character. Seemingly easy to pinpoint, yet at second glance surprisingly off-centre—it is like with a joke when you realize you have just laughed at the wrong place. One can never be quite sure.

Matias Faldbakken, born in 1973, lives and works as an artist and writer in Oslo. Son of the celebrated Norwegian author Knut Faldbakken, he published two novels,

mono.kultur is an interview magazine in full length and depth, extensive and unfiltered.
One interview per issue. Quarterly.

#8 features Wolfgang Voigt
Interview by Andrew Cannon and Kai von Rabenau
Photography by Juergen Teller
Design by Laurent Benner

Disclaimer: You might find yourself approaching some kind of fit, choking on your own laughter and chuckling away happily forever after when first encountering the disturbingly sinister and truly enchanting work of Glasgow based artist David Shrigley. You might also want to follow the advice given by the master himself: ‘Feel Free to Howl.’

We are not who we think we are; and we need stories, just to remain intact.

I love utopia, but I’m deeply frightened of complete projects.

I ask myself all the big questions, every Sunday.

We see the Earth changing, we monitor its development, and we react.

My path just seems to have gone
where others’ don’t.

I love to learn from things I can’t appreciate.

o.A.

'It is enough to say that Ricardo Bofill is one of Europe’s most famous and prolific architects of the last century. To add any more is to inevitably leave out too much.' With these words we begin the journey of our new issue mono.kultur #36 into the mind and work of Spanish architect and enfant terrible Ricardo Bofill.

‘In relation to these larger dynamics, the music is pretty irrelevant,’ says Thaemlitz during our interview, ‘these larger dynamics’ referring to the political undertones of nightlife, as safe spaces for social interaction in general and gender and sexual variance in particular.

Our new issue with the legendary war photographer James Nachtwey has been a long time in the making – two and a half years in fact –

So here it comes: mono.editionen #03 with Taryn Simon.

Edmund de Waal is a potter. His pots, plates, and vessels are the result of craft and mastership, but they are also so much more than that: they are experiments in form and function, abstractions of thoughts on silence and space, on repetition and failure, on substance and fragility, on memory contained.

Mono.Kultur is an interview-based cultural magazine established in the early 2000s, focusing on art, music, film, design, and visual culture.

Mono.Kultur #03 is an early issue of the Berlin-based interview magazine Mono.Kultur, published in 2005. Like other editions of the series,

Mono.Kultur #15 is part of the Berlin-based interview magazine Mono.Kultur, known for dedicating each issue to an extended conversation with a cultural practitioner.