Anish Kapoor: ‘Just because a thing is big, it doesn’t mean it’s of any interest or even good’

Anish Kapoor discussed his decades-long sculptural practice in connection with a Hayward Gallery retrospective in London, reflecting on how his work challenges conventional ideas of the object and its relationship to architecture and the viewer’s body. The exhibition opens with All of Nothing (2026), a massive inflatable that nearly fills a 6m-high gallery, designed to create a physically constraining encounter that can only be fully perceived from the mezzanine. Kapoor’s career milestones cited include representing Great Britain at the 1990 Venice Biennale, winning the Turner Prize in 1991, becoming a Royal Academician in 1999, and being knighted in 2013. The article also notes major works and projects including Cloud Gate (2006), a 110-ton stainless-steel public sculpture in Chicago, and the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

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