Misunderstandings

Banks Violette

Misunderstandings is a series about art, understanding, and its opposite. Presented by Krzysztof Honowski, Misunderstandings probes the productive potential of miscommunication. What began as two books of in-depth conversations is now a podcast series. This inaugural episode features artist Banks Violette. A pioneer of new gothic art in early 2000s New York, Banks experienced a meteoric rise, including a seminal show at the Whitney Museum. Having stepped away from showing art for nearly a decade, he's now back, and after a major retrospective at BPS22, Charleroi, he began 2026 with Wish You Were Here. This was a multi-storey installation in collaboration with Stephen O'Malley at Tick Tack in Antwerp, Belgium. And it is in the basement of Tick Tack that this conversation was recorded. Misunderstandings is produced by Christopher Gerberding for Temporary Room, his nomadic curatorial project. A new edition of Misunderstandings, combining both books by Krzysztof Honowski's conversations, with Mi You, Felicita, Clare Molloy, and Bishop Black, among others,  is available to purchase here: https://www.temporaryroom.org/publications Banks Violette at Tick Tack: https://ticktack.be/exhibitions/wish-you-were-here Krzysztof Honowski's Homepage: https://www.honowski.com/