CHRISTIAN ACHENBACH
Christian Achenbach (b. 1978, Siegen, Germany) lives and works in Berlin, where he studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin under Burkhardt Held, Daniel Richter, and Anselm Reyle from 2001 to 2006. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia, and North America.
Achenbach’s work masterfully embodies the ever-present influence of natural elements. Through paintings filled with trees, waterfalls, and hills, viewers are transported to lush, vibrant landscapes. Meanwhile, his glass sculptures evoke organic forms like coral, further blurring the line between the natural and the abstract. Using vivi...
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SVEN DRÜHL
Sven Drühl (b. 1968 in Nassau, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. He studied Fine Arts and mathematics at the University of Essen and completed a doctorate in art science at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.
By drawing on the artistic achievements of modernism and postmodernism, Drühl sees the opportunity to develop a new style, a new "metamodern" visual language. In his mostly serial paintings and sculptures, he always works conceptually, creating something innovative by reconstructing and evaluating what already exists. In doing so, he addresses a variety of topics, such as the transfer of cultural and media values, originality,...
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CAMILLA ENGSTRÖM
Camilla Engström (b. 1989 in Örebro, Sweden). Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Camilla Engström’s practice encompasses painting, drawing, and sculpture, exploring autobiographical topics through humour, surrealistic landscapes, and figurative expression. Her bucolic, metaphysical sceneries celebrate the healing properties of Mother Nature. Their trippy, hallucinogenic palette and voluptuous curving forms painted in sorbet-coloured hues channel the erotic charge of Georgia O’Keeffe, while their spiritual energy owes much to her fellow Swede, Hilma Af Klint. Commended as both “feminist and fecund”, Engström’s art offers an uplif...
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CLÉDIA FOURNIAU
Clédia Fourniau (b. 1992 in Paris, France) lives and works in Paris. She received a BA from Ensaama Olivier de Serres School of Art & Design and a BA and MFA from the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
She explores the possibilities of painting and representation, questioning the conditions of creation, perception, and reception of an image. Through a constant engagement with formal experimentation, procedural approaches, and chance, Cledia Fourniau combines various materials and supports, such as dry pigment, oil paint, mica, acrylic, resin, and more recently, watercolor, on linen canvases or colored and treated textiles. This resin, with its...
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RACHEL GARRARD
Rachel Garrad (b. 1984) lives and works in New York and Mexico. She earned a BFA and MFA at Central Saint Martins, London.
Garrard’s multifaceted practice integrates painting, sculpture, sound, installation, and video, articulating a view of reality in which the border between the physical and ephemeral is porous and ever-shifting. Her paintings are composed of natural substances, such as quartz, ash, or rock powder pigment, that she has personally collected, hand-ground, and applied to raw linen canvas through a process of fine layering translucent washes of color. The applied pigment becomes a physical register of place, a palimpses...
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FRIEDRICH KUNATH
Friedrich Kunath (b. 1974 in Chemnitz, Germany) lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. His paintings are inspired by German Romanticism and American pop culture in equal measure. Kunath studied at the University of Arts in Braunschweig but decided soon afterwards to leave Germany. His oeuvre includes not only paintings but also sculptures and installations, through which he explores recurring themes such as longing, loneliness, euphoria, and humor.
Kunath’s works have been exhibited in solo shows at various renowned institutions including Sammlung Philara in Dusseldorf, Germany, the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Germany, the Sprengel Museum ...
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AYAKO ROKKAKU
Ayako Rokkaku (b. 1982 in Chiba, Japan) lives and works between Berlin, Porto, and Tokyo. Her artistic process involves an instinctive and performative approach, as she uses her bare hands to apply acrylic paint, translating the motion of her body onto the canvas. True to her distinctive technique, she moulds figures with the tips of her fingers, whether on canvas, through glass, or in bronze.
Rokkaku’s visual language seamlessly shifts between elusive abstract formations and figurative elements, drawing inspiration from the kawaii culture (Japanese for cute) and capturing the boundless imagination of a child. Rokkaku is known for he...
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JOANA SCHNEIDER
Joana Schneider (b. 1990 in Munich, Germany) is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Right after she graduated, she received the ‘Keep an Eye Textile and Fashion Award’. Her work has been shown internationally in exhibitions and fairs such as VOLTA Basel, PAD Paris and London, PULSE Art Week Miami, Enter Art Fair Copenhagen, Masterly Milano, Fite Textile Biennale, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. She is currently living and working in the Netherlands.
Joana Schneider creates spacious installations and sculptural environments that intertwine themes from natural and fictional realms. Her work initiates a dialogue concern...
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JOHN SEAL
John Seal (b. 1971 in Seattle, USA) is a Postwar and Contemporary Artist. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Seal received his Bachelor's degree in fine art at Bard College in New York, NY, USA, and his Master's degree in fine art at the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine art in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Seal continued his education at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan Maine, USA.
John Seal’s artworks integrate objects, and experiences to question their relationship to one another and to their surroundings. His work combines disciplines such as painting, sculpture, and installation.__...
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XIYAO WANG
Xiyao Wang (b. 1992 in Chongqing, China) is an artist born in China and educated there, and then subsequently in Germany. She received a BA from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2014, and a BA and MFA from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg (2018, 2020). Xiyao Wang is a painter whose sprawling language of abstract form is forged from a dialectic between the outer expressive gestures of her body as she paints, and the resulting marks generated on her canvases. The energy of both domains – the space before the painting and that of the depicted expanse within the frame of the picture – is captured with all of the vibrancy and vigour con...
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EMILY WEINER
Emily Weiner (b. 1981 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American painter living and working in Nashville, TN. She received a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her MFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Emily Weiner’s paintings consider the art canon through a feminist and Jungian lens. By reconfiguring symbols that have been recycled throughout the history of art, her work questions how archetypal images are shared across generations – and how familiar symbols might be reordered to generate new, collective understanding. Weiner approaches each painting intuitively, and by working in many layers of paint, finds...
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ALEXANDER WERTHEIM
Alexander Wertheim (b. 1995 in Wertheim) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the University of the Arts (UDK) Berlin under Manfred Pernice. His paintings are created using spray paint on primed canvas, which are built out of vertical and horizontal lines that form loosely connected grids. The saturation of each colour depends on the particular intensity of the spray paint, with some examples more densely filled than others. Wertheim always paints in series, which he starts at the beginning of a particular month, and then completes before said month’s end. While the individual dimensions of each series may vary, slightly, they are ge...
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JORDAN WEST
Jordan West (b. 1969 in Wyoming, USA) lives and works in New Mexico. He is a self-taught artist who studied Evolutionary Social Psychology, Philosophy, and History at Hunter College in New York City. His work challenges notions of collective memory and place, using the painted medium specifically to provide an archaeology of the present, images devoid of human presence yet haunted by their conspicuous absence.
Jordan West’s work is a chronicle of the individual in the socially constructed, human-built, and natural environment; specific encounters of place, time, and personal history. He works to reduce and clarify description of plac...
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GUY YANAI
Guy Yanai (b. 1977 in Haifa, Israel) lives and works between Tel Aviv, Israel and Marseille, France.
Guy Yanai's paintings are characterized by bold colors, simplified shapes, and a flattened depth of field. In his work, the banal is reduced to geometric segments in a stripping away of references to the tangible world in favor of a visual experience that is more akin to digital imagery – drawing landscapes images from his wanderings around the globe, or French filmography scenes which he reminiscence through, for example. He often chooses everyday objects and spaces as his subjects, flattening and abstracting them in a way that seems...
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