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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MONIRA AL QADIRI
Monira Al Qadiri (b. 1983) is a Kuwaiti visual artist born in Senegal and educated in Japan. Spanning sculpture, installation, film, and performance, Al Qadiri’s multifaceted practice is based on research into the cultural histories of the Gulf region. Her interpretation of the Gulf’s so-called “petro-culture” is manifested through speculative scenarios that take inspiration from science fiction, autobiography, traditional practices, and pop culture, resulting in uncanny and covertly subversive works that destabilize mythologies of statecraft and modernization as well as traditional notions of gender. Tracing the delicate ecologies threate...
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ARJEN
Arjen lives and works in the Netherlands. He is a self-taught artist who studied violin and became a professor at the Conservatory of Utrecht. Simultaneously Arjen kept painting and sketching while searching for his own visual language. He is drawn to the work of earlier modern painters like Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, as well as the ethnographic sources that inspired them. Arjen’s paintings are filled with surreal and often absurd imagery, which depict a turbulent assortment of feelings, emotions, and personalities. He searches for the fundamental principles behind different styles, as a method of pictorial analysis to then employ in...
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HARITA ASUMANI
Harita Asumani (b. 1992 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is a visual artist currently based in Italy. She graduated with a degree in Stage and Costume Design from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia. Although she did not pursue a professional career in this field, she strongly identifies with the principles of stage design. In 2017, Harita participated in the Cité Internationale des Arts residency in Paris. In 2022, Harita was nominated for the BAZA Award and participated in a group exhibition featuring all nominees at the Sofia City Art Gallery. Harita has also shown her support for the LGBT+ community and Sofia Pride through her participation...
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BIJANKA BACIC
Bijanka Bacic (b. 1997) is an Australian artist currently based in London. She obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the National Art School in Australia in 2018 and subsequently completed her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Arts, UK, in 2023.
Bijanka has exhibited extensively both within Australia and Internationally, including a group show with OHSH Projects London and a solo show at the CICA Museum South Korea. She has been a finalist in numerous art prizes and awards, such as the Fish Ghost Award, VAO UK and International Emerging Award, Cambridge Studio Gallery Portrait Prize, and Clifton Art Prize.
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MARCELLA BARCELÓ
Marcella Barceló (b. 1992 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain) is a painter and draughtswoman. She spent her childhood between the Balearic Islands and Paris. In 2015, she graduated from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, earning the Prix du Dessin Contemporain the same year.
Barceló’s creative process is intuitive and unrestrained, as she paints and draws without prior sketches, freely blending colors and mediums – oil, acrylic, nail polish, glitter – bypassing academic technical constraints and conceptual discourses. She blends autofiction, fairy tales, mythological narratives, and ecofeminist ideas. Adolescent silhouettes mingle with ...
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JULIA BELIAEVA
Julia Beliaeva (b. 1988 in the Haisyn Vinnytsia region, Ukraine) graduated from the Kyiv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Art and Design, named after Mykhailo Boychuk. Using the latest technologies (3D scanning, 3D modeling, 3D printing, and virtual reality), she turns to rethinking tradition and traditional media in an ever-changing virtualized world. She is interested in how technology affects us and our consciousness, as well as how the new technology can make sense and update traditional media. In particular, Julia works a lot with porcelain, which allows her to reflect on the heritage and lost traditions through a combination...
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ARMIN BOEHM
Armin Boehm (b. 1972 in Aachen, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. He is known for his vibrant and surreal depictions of hedonistic urban life. Both cryptic and unfathomable, grotesque and nightmarish, his dystopian paintings invite viewers into an eerie yet somehow familiar underworld. Populated by fragmented characters – real and imagined – these visions delve into the psyche and the unconscious, reflecting the turmoil of dreams and repressed fears. Boehm's approach extends beyond traditional painting techniques. He incorporates collages with patches of fabric, creating a second skin that adds depth and texture to his work. This method ...
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JINGGE DONG
Jingge Dong (b. 1989 in Beijing) lives and works in Venice. He holds a Master's degree from the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice and an MFA from the Chinese National Academy of Arts.
Dong's art explores the interplay of Eastern and Western cultures, merging Chinese symbols with Western techniques. His work delves into the complexities of cultural identity, reflecting his journey of integration and personal exploration. Dong's works invite viewers to contemplate their own sense of self within an interconnected world. Through his unique artistic vision, he challenges traditional boundaries and fosters a dialogue that transcends geograph...
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JOHANNA DUMET
Johanna Dumet (b. 1991 in Guéret, France) graduated in Fashion Design from La Calade, Marseille, France in 2011. Before starting her fashion design studies, she studied Applied Arts at the Baccalauréat (STI) in La Souterraine, France. Dumet lives and works in Berlin.
Dumet paints with oil on canvas; she also uses other techniques such as gouache-painted paper glued to the canvas. She is known for painting impulsively, with a strong sense of flow, and without constraint. The result is a sublime, captivating use of colour and abstract form that continually interplays with figuration. Rather than focusing purely on detail, Dumet creates ...
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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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ISA GENZKEN
Isa Genzken (b. 1948 in Bad Oldesloe, Germany) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Berlin. She studied fine arts, art history, and philosophy in Hamburg, Berlin, and Cologne before completing her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1977.
Her work draws upon everyday material culture, including design, consumer goods, the media, architecture, and urban environments. Widely recognized for her significant, pioneering contribution to sculpture, her prodigious oeuvre also includes paintings, collages, drawings, films, and photographs, and frequently incorporates seemingly disparate materials and imagery to create charact...
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TUE GREENFORT
Tue Greenfort (b. 1973 in Holbaek, Denmark) lives and works in Horbelev, Denmark.
Tue Greenfort’s interdisciplinary practice deals with issues such as the public and private realms, nature, and culture. Interweaving these subjects with the language of art he formulates a multi-faceted critique of today's dominant economical and scientific production. Intrigued by the dynamics in the natural world, Greenfort’s work often evolves around ecology and its history, including the environment, social relations, and human subjectivity.
The roots of his practice lie in the art movements of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Land Art and research...
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ESRA GÜLMEN
Esra Gülmen (b. 1986 in Istanbul) lives and works in Berlin. Gülmen has developed a playful, ironic practice by carving out and revealing “embedded notions” of social codes, and with it, torpedoing any vestige of the ideal in contemporary art. Text, image, and form operate democratically in Gülmen’s practice, which moves between painting and sculpture, translating the rawness of her reflections in an attempt to move as close as possible to “the Real.” Challenging oppressive forms, the fetishism of meaning, and the burden of reference, Gülmen calls on us to revisit our pieties regarding art and its functions.
Gülmen had her first inst...
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XENIA HAUSNER
Xenia Hausner (b. 1951 in Vienna, Austria) lives and works in Vienna and Berlin. She studied stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. From 1977 to 1992 she was a successful set designer for international theatre and opera productions. In 1992 Hausner began focusing exclusively on her painting practice. She is also a founding member of Women Without Borders.
Hausner‘s work has been shown in numerous museum solo and group exhibitions, such as at Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria (2023); Galleri Würth, Hagan, Norway (2023); Art Contemporani, CC Andratx, Spain (2022); Franz Gertsc...
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ROBERT JANITZ
Robert Janitz (b. 1962 in Alsfeld, Germany) lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico. He studied Ethnology, Comparative Religion, Indology, and Art History at the Philipps University in Marburg, Germany.
Robert Janitz is known for his large abstract paintings for which he uses oil in combination with wax and flour on a monochrome background.
His works have been shown in many international solo and group exhibitions, amongst others in San Carlo, Cremona, Italy; Diego Rivera Museum Anahuacalli, Mexico City, Mexico; the Sevil Dolmaci Gallery in Istanbul, Turkey; the Canada Gallery, New York City, USA; KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, Germany; ...
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GRACE LYNNE HAYNES
Grace Lynne Haynes (b. 1992 in the U.S.) is a visual artist and illustrator based in Newark, NJ. In 2017, she graduated from the ArtCenter College of Design with a BFA. Haynes is currently pursuing her MFA at the Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Grace Lynne Haynes investigates the relationship between painting, drawing, and storytelling through her usage of materials such as pastel, pigment, and chalk to communicate elaborate fictional narratives of her own creations. Haynes incorporates an unconventional approach to drawing material and surface by applying pastel and pure pigment on primed paper. She explores how the process of world-...
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MARIA MAVROPOULOU
Maria Mavropoulou (b. 1989) lives and works in Athens, Greece. She holds a Master’s in Fine Arts and a BA from the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Mavropoulou is a visual artist using mainly photography, while her work expands to new forms of photographic images, such as VR and screen-captured images, GAN, and AI-generated images. Her work and research focus on the new realities created by connectible devices and the contradictions between the physical and the virtual spaces that we inhabit, addressing issues of technological mediation. By using the most novel technology available to her, she creates work that reflects on the new ways im...
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JULIETTE MINCHIN
Juliette Minchin (b. 1992) lives in Paris, where she developed her sculpture, installation, video, and drawing practice. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in scenography and Beaux-Arts de Paris, where she stages her work using materials, light, smell, and sound.
“The use of natural materials (plaster, earth, wax or liquid) gives her sculptures an undeniably organic dimension, whose surface is close in its appearance of the skin. The repetition of the same gesture and the random evolution of the material gives them a processual aspect. Environmental and immersive, they finally include the viewer by ...
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ANSELM REYLE
Anselm Reyle (b. 1970 in Tübingen, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. Since 2009 the artist has held a position as a professor of Painting/Drawing at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg.
Anselm Reyle’s best-known works include his foil and stripe paintings as well as his sculptures. The characteristic of his artistic work is the use of various found objects that have been removed from their original function, altered visually, and recontextualized. Remnants of consumer society, discarded materials, symbols of urbanity, and industrial change play a centra...
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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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HENNING STRASSBURGER
Henning Strassburger (b. 1983 in Meissen, Germany) explores the intersection of identity, mass media, and self-representation in the digital age. Known primarily for his colorful paintings, he has recently added figuration to his abstract practice. Strassburger’s works blend autobiographical elements with pop culture references, examining how identity is shaped by social media and consumer culture.
At the heart of his practice is Alphakenny, an alter ego representing a fictionalized version of the artist grappling with artistic and social expectations. This figure navigates the tensions between personal identity and self-promotion, en...
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JOANA VASCONCELOS
Joana Vasconcelos (b. 1971) is a Portuguese visual artist with a career spanning nearly 30 years and a huge variety of media. Recognised for her monumental sculptures and immersive installations, she decontextualises everyday objects and updates the arts and crafts concept for the 21st century, establishing a dialogue between the private sphere and public space, popular heritage, and high culture. With humor and irony, she questions the status of women, consumer society, and collective identity.
International acclaim arrived in 2005 with The Bride at the first Venice Biennale curated by women, where she has returned three times to dat...
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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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ERWIN WURM
Erwin Wurm (b. 1954 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria) lives and works in Vienna. His oeuvre comprises sculptures, photography, video, performance, and painting. His works often involve everyday objects such as cars, houses, clothing, luxury bags, and food products, with which he ironically comments on consumerism and capitalist mass production. Wurm gained widespread popularity in the 1990s with his “One Minute Sculptures”. Museum pedestals are displayed and left devoid of any work, so that the audience can take the place of the sculpture for one minute, according to the artist’s whimsical instructions. With this ironic yet radical gesture, Wu...
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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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DAVID ZINK YI
David Zink Yi (b. 1973 in Lima, Peru) lives and works in Berlin. He explores the body as a site of identity, memory, and transformation, engaging with a wide range of media in the process. From video and sculpture to ceramics, sound, and performance, his art reflects his complex heritage. As a descendant of Indigenous Peruvians, as well as Chinese, Italian, and German immigrants, his own body – situated at the intersection of diverse cultural identities – becomes a focal point in his practice. Zink Yi’s earliest works focused on self-reflection, using the camera to develop a form of self-ethnography. This approach later evolved into a prot...
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ALLISON ZUCKERMAN
Allison Zuckerman (b. 1990 in Philadelphia, US) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute Chicago in 2015. The content of her paintings draws equally from the annals of art history and the imagery of net culture, with a special focus on the representation of women by male authors. Composed of collaged elements torn from previous work, which are then painted over, Zuckerman’s pictures are filled with colourful figures and fragments, packed to the point of almost total saturation, creating endless pictorial connections between otherwise disparate cultural symbols and motifs.
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