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Rita Evan’s Vita:
I work by building up a complex circuitry using simple elements of colour, shape, and movement and also variations of sound and light to suggest underlying relationships, expansive, rich surfaces and structure. I’m interested in the moment where we move from a recognised world into a dream world and the hypnotic concentrated state of making. [...] Read on... -
Christoph Schlingensief’s Vita:
Christoph Schlingensief (24 October 1960, Oberhausen – 21 August 2010, Berlin) was a German film and theatre director, actor, artist, and author. Initially working as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later began staging productions for renowned theatres and festivals, which often were accompanied by public controversies. In the final years before his death, he also worked for opera houses, and established himself as an artist. In [...] Read on... -
Melanie Russell’s Vita:
Melanie Russell (b.1977) lives and works in London. Through painting, drawing, collage and cardboard construction her current work develops an ongoing interest in visual perception where foregrounds and backgrounds hold an ambiguous relationship to create certain levels of flatness. She simplifies subject matter into shapes, flat fields of colour and areas of mark making, pushing [...] Read on... -
Caroline McCarthy’s Vita:
Crisps, toilet-paper, plastic bags, supermarket packaging, rubbish and furniture are some of the raw materials used by Caroline McCarthy in considering notions of value and taste inherent in the surface of everyday objects, images and modes of display. Positioned in response to a culture of mass production, where every kind of experience, fantasy or sense [...] Read on... -
FREE DEParTment’s Vita:
FREE DEParTment is a loose association of artists, writers, designers and researchers without a fixed location. FREE DEParTment is a self-organised, semi-fictional institution that operates within larger art/culture projects, but avoids complete integration and maintains its capacity for free acting-thinking. In spring 2010 FREE DEParTment approached artist Sissu Tarka to participate in and report from [...] Read on... -
Fritz Haeg’s Vita:
Fritz Haeg is based in a geodesic dome in the hills of Los Angeles. His work has included edible gardens, public dances, educational environments, animals homes, domestic gatherings, urban parades, temporary encampments, documentary videos, publications, exhibitions and occasionally buildings for people. Projects include Sundown Schoolhouse – an itinerant educational program; Edible Estates – replacing domestic [...] Read on... -
Sissu Tarka’s Vita:
Sissu Tarka is an artist and researcher (London, Tokyo) whose individual and collaborative work is organised around the question of what strategies and minimal interventions one takes in relation to everyday systems, subsumed in narratives of agency and activism. Out of her practice which includes models, drawing, text material and fictional institutions, recent investigations connect [...] Read on... -
Aliki Panagiotopoulou’s Vita:
Aliki Panagiotopoulou is an artist working across disciplines to explore notions of otherness. Her work is a combination of chronicle, confession, interpretation and invention of the world. Through the use of drawing, painting, sculpture and language, she creates conditions through which the viewer is initiated into a secret reality that is familiar yet ineffable. Her [...] Read on... -
Pedro Lasch’s Vita:
Pedro Lasch was born and raised in Mexico City. Since 1994, he divides his time between Durham (NC), where he teaches art, art theory, and visual studies at Duke University, and New York (NY), where he leads on-going projects with immigrant communities and art collectives, such as 16 Beaver Group. His solo exhibitions include Open Routines/Rutinas Abiertas (Queens Museum of [...] Read on... -
Marijn van Kreij’s Vita:
Marijn van Kreij (Middelrode, 1978) lives and works in Amsterdam. Van Kreij uses a range of media, including drawing, sculpture and video. Central to his practice is an idiosyncratic process of appropriation, repetition and copy, made manifest through various devices, including the staging of ready-mades. Van Kreij’s pieces often borrow lyrics from pop songs or re-visit [...] Read on... -
Sophie Hope’s Vita:
Through her work, Sophie tries to inspect the uncertain relationships between art and society. This involves establishing how to declare her politics through her practice, rethinking what it means to be paid to be critical and devising tactics to challenge notions of authorship. Since co-founding the curatorial partnership B+B in 2000, Sophie has gone on to pursue her independent practice, with [...] Read on... -
Maayan Amir’s Vita:
Maayan Amir, artist and independent curator. She holds and MFA in cinema from Tel-Aviv University. She is teaching curatorial studies at Sapir Academic College and Technion and in other academic institute. Throughout 2011, she has been a guest resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. She edited a book about Israeli documentary cinema which was published on 2008. [...] Read on... -
Ruti Sela’s Vita:
Ruti Sela, artist that studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and at the Film Department of the Tel Aviv University and teaches at the Haifa University , Avni Institute of Art and Design and at the Midrasha Art School. Throughout 2011, she has been a guest resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. She [...] Read on... -
Jedsada Tangtrakulwong’s Vita:
Since 2005, site-specific installation has become a main focus of Jedsada’s work. Most of his installations integrate with the architectural structures in the space; the works inspire viewers to start noticing the unique qualities of architectural structure in the space and initiate them to explore and appreciate the beauty of architectural details in other buildings. [...] Read on... -
Céline Condorelli’s Vita:
Celine Condorelli works with art and architecture, combining a number of approaches from developing structures for ‘supporting’ (the work of others, forms of political imaginary, existing and fictional realities) to broader enquiries into forms of commonality and discursive sites, resulting in projects merging exhibitions, politics, fiction, display, public space, sound, writing, and whatever else feels [...] Read on... -
Christian Jankowski’s Vita:
Christian Jankowski’s video productions, films, photographs and installations explore the relationship between the artist, the institutions of art, the media and society. With his dry sense of humour, he investigates the art business and questions the roles of politics, entertainment and global business strategies beyond their cliches and conventions. Jankowski’s work gently disarms his audience, [...] Read on... -
Klára Orosz’s Vita:
Klára Orosz’s work focuses on the process and the result of the viewer’s involvement and engagement with the objects and the space. Her practice deals with functional and sculptural installations, which transforms the traditional gallery space into an interactive scenery that constantly tests and pushes the boundaries between object and contemplator. The main aim of [...] Read on... -
Adam Knight’s Vita:
Adam Knight’s work examines the potential for asynchronicity between proximities of form and content with the work of art. These emerge through images being somewhere between words and objects, sounds and solidified things, simultaneously covered-up and revealed. The question and answer scenario is exposed through symmetrical and asymmetrical ways of working. Read on... -
Michiel Ceuler’s Vita:
The paintings of Michiel Ceulers embody the seductive messiness of unexpected coupling. In his Love Birds series Ceulers literally grafts two unlikely paintings onto one another, leaving evidence of his seemingly insouciant matchmaking. His Corner Pieces join paintings at 90-degree angles, creating new wholes and demanding a different type of viewer interaction. The diversity of [...] Read on... -
Sabine Hagmann’s Vita:
Sabine Hagmann is an artist based in Zürich/Switzerland. She has been teaching in different Art Colleges in Switzerland and abroad and is currently head of the Foundation Course at the F+F Schule für Kunst und Mediendesign in Zurich. Her practice deals with the relations to the other, beyond the self. It starts from acknowledging different [...] Read on... -
Johannes Maier’s Vita:
Johannes Maier’s work documents events in which he collaborates with people and institutions such as interpreters at the European Commission and a newsroom picture editor at the BBC. The focus of Maier’s work, intentionally positioned at the boundaries of art, documentary and media, is a critical engagement with televisual forms. His work has been shown [...] Read on... -
John Reardon’s Vita:
John Reardon works collaboratively and generatively through a kind of ‘barn raising’ or ‘community building’ where each project produces outcomes, publicity, and further projects that vary from one to the other in form and content but which use a common collaborative approach around an idea, a proposal, an event despite how speculative or at times [...] Read on...