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 situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.

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 put a little more thought into it than that.

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

Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

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

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 situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.

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.