Interview with Théo-Mario Coppola conducted by Bige Örer – Paris, France (30 November 2024)
This interview was given by Théo-Mario Coppola to Bige Örer on 30 November 2024 in Paris, France in the framework of Walking & Talking, a series of ongoing filmed interviews with curators from around the world and published on 25 March 2025 by the recently founded academic journal in curatorial studies The Curatorial in New York, The United States of America. In this interview, Théo-Mario Coppola discusses accountability, commoning and political involvement in a highly sensitive geopolitical context through an urban itinerary through the streets of Paris, starting from the rue du Liban (Lebanon Street) and ending on the rue de Palestine (Palestine Street). The interview ends with a reading of ‘My Mother Says This Would Have Never Happened If We Stayed in Palestine’, a poem by Medjulene B. Shomali, a queer Palestinian poet and Assistant Professor of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, The United States of America.
The English, full version of the interview is accessible on The Curatorial here.
Interview with Théo-Mario Coppola | Artarea – Tbilisi, Georgia (18 May 2019)
This interview was given by Théo-Mario Coppola to Artarea, Georgia's leading arts and culture TV channel, on 18 May 2019 in Tbilisi, Georgia, as part of a press partnership with the Tbilisi Art Fair (TAF), the commissioner of the 2019 edition of the HOTEL EUROPA series.
In this interview, Théo-Mario Coppola talks about HOTEL EUROPA: THEIR PAST, YOUR PRESENT, OUR FUTURE, HOTEL EUROPA’s third edition, collective, pan-European and trans-European solidarity and active curatorial support for the Georgian art scene, in an effort to foster strong ties between different art scenes, generations of art practitioners and disciplines.
HOTEL EUROPA: THEIR PAST, YOUR PRESENT, OUR FUTURE is the first large-scale, curated, international edition of a series to bring together such a diverse range of art practitioners from Georgia, the wider Caucasus region, continental Europe and beyond Georgia.
The full English version of the interview is accessible on Artarea's Facebook page here.
Interview with Théo-Mario Coppola | written correspondence (May-June 2021)
This interview was given by Théo-Mario Coppola to Vanessa Morisset for ZéroDeux, one of the leading art magazines in France, by written correspondence in May and June 2021, published in issue n°97 of ZéroDeux in autumn 2021 and published successively on the art magazine's website. In this interview, Théo-Mario Coppola talks about HOUSE OF COMMONS, their curatorial project for the eleventh edition of the MOMENTUM biennale, their relationship to words and ideas, more specifically to the notion of the commons, and also discusses key figures for their curatorial practice, such as Catherine David and Iftikhar Dadi. With HOUSE OF COMMONS, for the first time, the notion of the commons has been made a central work focus for a high-profile edition of a biennale.
The full, original English version of the interview is accessible on ZéroDeux’s website here. A French version of the interview is accessible on ZéroDeux’s website here.