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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Çiğdem Aky
Çiğdem Aky (b. 1989 in Munich, Germany) lives and works in Munich. In 2013, Aky graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where she studied painting and graphic art. Aky continued her studies in painting and graphic design at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, graduating in 2016. In her work, Aky focuses on shape, colour, and light, creating abstract work, devoid of any figurative associations. Aky explores painting as science, an experiment, where she combines geometric structures with gestural elements.
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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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AMANDA BALDWIN
Amanda Baldwin (b. in Seattle, WA, US), lives and works in Queens, NY. She received an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA from the University of Washington, Seattle. Working with traditional modes of depiction, such as landscape painting and still life, Amanda Baldwin starts by separating and considering each individual element within a composition. She approaches these objects, from vases to mountains to melons and their shifted palettes with the intent to morph them into some kind of abstracted facsimile of themselves. By straddling representation and abstraction within each piece she breaks down the familiar and present...
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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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Anna Bogouchevskaia
Anna Bogouchevskaia (born 1966 in Moscow, Russia) lives and works in Berlin. Her sculptural works move at the intersection between figuration and abstraction.
Bogouchevskaia grew up in a family of sculptors, which made her an early part of Moscow’s artistic elite. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the artist relocated to Berlin.
Her artistic practice increasingly turned toward natural phenomena, such as the element of water in its various states and forms of appearance.
In Bogouchevskaia’s artistic approach, the condition of constant transformation inherent to flowing water—how could it be otherwise?—is suspended, freezing a ...
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MONICA BONVICINI
Monica Bonvicini (b. 1965 in Venice, Italy) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She studied in Berlin and at Cal Arts, Valencia, CA. From 2003 – 2017, she was Professor for Performative Arts, Spatial Strategies, and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. Beginning in October 2017 she assumed the Professorship for Sculpture at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany. Bonvicini has earned several awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (1999), the National Gallery Prize for Young Art, Berlin, Germany (2005), and Oskar-Kokoschka Preis, Vienna, Austria (2020).
Bonvicini started exhibi...
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LAURA BURKE
Laura Burke (b. in Portland, Oregon, US) currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her background is in printmaking, specifically large-scale screen printing, but she has since shifted her focus to drawing. In her most recent series of pastel and colored pencil drawings, Laura Burke magnifies banal moments to make them extraordinary. Each piece has a contained element to it, holding expressive and painterly marks inside a deliberate edge. Vibrant, mushy pastels contrast with saturated and precise pencil, mirroring landscapes contained within windows, vessels and flowers. The process of making each piece is meditative and unplanned. The work is buil...
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SIHAN CHEN
Sihan Chen (b. 2002 in Dalian, China) lives and works in Cologne, Germany. She is currently studying at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. The motif of the horse is purely visual in Sihan Chen’s work, which she has explored since 2022. For her, her visual practice is a form of keeping a diary in which every work records events from her private life from the time the artwork was created. On the other hand, the development of similar graphic elements – such as the sharpness of the lines and the stability of the composition – from one work to another, through the exploration of the subtle relationship between repetition and difference, const...
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Herman de Vries
Herman de Vries (b. 1931 in Alkmaar, Netherlands) lives and works in the Steigerwald region, Bavaria. He was trained as a gardener and in the 1960s worked for the Institute of Applied Biological Science in Nature in Arnheim, Netherlands. In 1959, together with other artists, he founded the group of Dutch Informalists, which in 1960 evolved into the ‘nul’ group and was associated with ZERO. At the latest since the ZERO exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2014) and with the presentation in the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Herman de Vries has attracted broad media attention after decades of consistent artistic work.
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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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ANNEMARIE FAUPEL
Annemarie Faupel (b. 1989 in Vienna, Austria) completed her bachelor‘s degree in Art and Multimedia at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich in 2014 and subsequently obtained her diploma in free painting as a master student under Karin Kneffel at the Academy of Fine Arts in 2022. During her art studies, she also
received a scholarship for two semesters at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where she successfully completed her residency. Since graduating, she has worked as a freelance artist and has participated in numerous exhibitions, including those at the Pinakothek der Moderne and KÖNIG GALERIE.
Faupel combines both intimate an...
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CONSTANTIN FREIBERGER
Constantin Freiberger (b. 2003 in Munich, Germany) is a German Wildlife photographer and filmmaker who is deeply passionate about capturing the beauty of nature and creating impactful photographs. Growing up in the countryside, he spent many hours outdoors, which sparked a deep love for nature and photography. He received his first camera as a gift on his first day of school, at the age of 6. From this day onwards, he started to document the wildlife in his family’s garden. What started as a hobby quickly turned into a strong passion, and by today has already travelled to more than 50 countries. His mission is simple but fundamental: raisi...
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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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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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KATHARINA GROSSE
Katharina Grosse (b. 1961 in Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany) lives and works in Berlin, Germany and New Zealand. Grosse held professorships at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Germany from 2000-2009 and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany from 2010-2018. For more than twenty-five years, the artist Katharina Grosse has been internationally present in the art world. Her painting maintains a position outside the categories of representation and abstraction: it operates in reality and on reality. For her, painting can precipitate everywhere and anywhere – on any surface and any object that sprayed paint can reach.
Her recent institu...
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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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JEPPE HEIN
Jeppe Hein (b. 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish artist based in Berlin. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Städel Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Jeppe Hein is widely known for his production of experiential and interactive artworks that can be positioned at the junction where art, architecture, and technical inventions intersect. Unique in their formal simplicity and notable for their frequent use of humor, his works engage in a lively dialogue with the traditions of Minimalist sculpture and Conceptual art of the 1970s. Jeppe Hein’s works often feature ...
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JONAS HÖDICKE
Jonas Hödicke (b. 1984 in Berlin, Germany) lives and works in Berlin and Ireland. From 2007 to 2014, he studied Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, under the guidance of Professors Markus Lüpertz and Siegfried Anzinger. He has been working as a professional artist for more than twenty years, during which he has developed a distinctive artistic voice that combines traditional craftsmanship with contemporary approaches. Jonas Hödicke’s inspiration comes from his immediate surroundings in his daily life and from what he sees on walks and drives around Berlin, paying tribute to its roughness with a tender eye.
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KARL HORST HÖDICKE
Karl Horst Hödicke (1938–2024) was a contemporary German artist known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings. The artist’s broad brushstrokes and specific colour palette provide his works with a sense of seeing a place through memory – specifically Berlin with its ever-changing cityscape was a central motif in his work. Having moved to Berlin in 1957, Hödicke became one of the spokespeople for a small group of impetuous young lateral thinkers who wanted to revolutionise painting. No sooner had German post-war modernism rejoined the international artistic trend towards the abstract than they revolted against this new doctrine with a revival of...
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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. Robert Janitz's unique language of abstract painting is based on a restricted vocabulary of elements: gradient backgrounds and vertical stripes that reflect a steady and methodical movement against their surfaces. The gestural traces of Janitz’s forms operate according to complementary sets of limit...
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MARIA JOANNOU
Maria Joannou (b. in Athens) is a Greek artist whose practice centers on the human body and its emotional landscape. Working in a restrained palette and a realist mode, she captures intimate moments between figures—most often women—rendered with striking clarity and quiet tension. Her paintings hover in the space between closeness and distance, portraying flesh not as idealized form but as lived, weighty presence.
Joannou’s figures are often partially clothed or nude, framed in close-up and suspended in everyday gestures. While their presence feels physical and near, her perspective resists voyeurism. There is always a threshold—...
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LENA KELLER
Lena Keller (b. in Heidelberg, Germany) lives and works near Munich. She studied fine art at Akademie der Bildenden Künste München.
Her work engages with the evolving language of landscape painting, using it as a lens to explore our current relationship with nature. Rooted in a historical genre that reflects societal change, her oil paintings respond to the present ecological moment with a sense of urgency and quiet reflection. In her practice Keller merges artificial tropes with natural depictions into a new pictorial reality. In examining the disparity between image and representation through painting a mutation, she seeks to emphas...
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ALICJA KWADE
Alicja Kwade (b. 1979 in Katowice, Poland) lives and works in Berlin. Her work investigates and questions universally accepted notions of space, time, science, and philosophy by breaking down frames of perception in her work. Kwade’s multifaceted practice spans sculpture, public installation, works on paper, videos, and photography.
Most recently, she has exhibited in the following museums, among others: Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg; Berlinische Galerie – Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin, Germany; Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA; Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, USA; Espoo Museum of Mod...
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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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JJ MANFORD
JJ Manford (b. 1983 in Boston, MA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Receiving his bachelor’s degree from Cornell in 2006, Manford went on to obtain a post-Baccalaureate certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009, graduating with his MFA from Hunter College in 2012.
JJ Manford layers oil pastel and oil stick over Flashe on burlap or linen to construct vibrantly animated paintings that explore concepts of transcendent self-discovery and collective fantasy. His main interest is interior design and the intersection of structural landscapes and human life. A salient feature of his work, Manford often includes art h...
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Caroline Mesquit
Caroline Mesquita (b. 1989 in Brest, France) lives and works in Marseille, France. Caroline Mesquita creates sculptural bodies reminiscent of humans, animals and various hybrid creatures that resemble human bodies, animals oder machines. These bodies are formed from brass and metals that have been altered, oxidized and painted, and, despite the durability of the materials used, are characterized by a lightness and playful potential that animates them—almost as if they were living puppets. She draws her inspiration from modern art, sciencie-fiction and film.
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KORA MOYA ROJO
Kora Moya Rojo (b. 1993 in Cartagena, Spain) lives and works in Mexico City. Her paintings delve into the exploration of identity, personal displacement, and belonging. Through the portrayal of sensual, natural shapes blending floral, vegetal, and culinary elements, she constructs narratives rich with divine significance and utopian aspirations. Using a vibrant palette and an amalgamation of watercolour, acrylic, and oil, Moya Rojo incorporates autobiographical, historical, architectural, and religious imagery with a rural sensibility. Initially employing digital techniques, she meticulously crafts dreamlike scenes in her canvases, which b...
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JULIAN OPIE
Julian Opie (b. 1958 in London, UK) lives and works in London, where he studied at Goldsmiths College under Michael Craig-Martin, graduating in 1983. Opie’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, animation, and digital media, focusing on themes of identity, movement, and the abstraction of the human form.
For over three decades, Opie has explored the intersection of the figurative and the abstract, becoming known for his iconic graphic portraits and stylized depictions of the human body, as well as buildings, animals and landscapes, both man-made and natural. His works distill complex human actions and figures into bol...
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REINE PARADIS
Reine Paradis (b. 1989, France) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She received a BA from the Gobelins School in Paris.
Known for her unmistakable use of color and outlandish process, Paradis’ work transmits across different mediums through the use of self-portrait photography, painting, performance, sculpture, and video. Through Paradis' immersive multimedia installations, she examines the pathway between extrinsic realities and personal fantasies. Viewers are invited to cross the border into a colorful and candidly surreal landscape where surefooted perceptions are exchanged for a new artistic currency. Additionally, the u...
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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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Nelly Schmücking
Nelly Schmücking (b. in Munich, Germany) graduated in Biology and art history and is currently living and working in Leipzig. With her scientific background, the artist is focused on animal sculpture with a modern and analytical approach. In her sculptures, Nelly Schmücking is breaking down anatomical and behavioral characteristics of animals, seeking an equivalent to the natural model rather than a naturalistic representation of it. Her semi-abstract depictions are fragmenting bodies, which are deliberately alienated by using artificial-looking materials but still appear clearly recognizable and alive. The reduction process is pointing ou...
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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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CHIHARU SHIOTA
Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972 in Osaka, Japan) is currently based in Berlin. Her university career spans several years: She studied at the Kyoto Seika University in Kyoto (Japan) from 1992 to 1996, was an exchange student at The Australian National University School of Art in Canberra (Australia) in 1993-93, and a student at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (Germany) from 1997 to 1999, and lastly at Universität der Künste Berlin (Germany) from 1999 to 2003.
Shiota’s inspiration often emerges from a personal experience or emotion which she
expands into universal human concerns such as life, death, and relationships. She has
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BOSCO SODI
Bosco Sodi (b. 1970 in Mexico City, Mexico) lives and works in New York City, USA and Oaxaca, Mexico. He is known for his richly textured, vividly colored large-scale paintings. Sodi has discovered an emotive power within the essential crudeness of the materials that he uses to execute his paintings. Focusing on material exploration, creative gesture, and the spiritual connection between the artist and his work, Sodi seeks to transcend conceptual barriers. The work itself becomes a memory and a relic, symbolizing the artist’s conversation with the raw material that brought the painting into creation. As he puts it: “Explanations about my w...
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FRANZ STEIN
Franz Stein (b. 1989 in Bayreuth, Germany) studied from 2018 to 2025 at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in the class of Gregor Hildebrandt, becoming his master student in 2023. Supported by an Erasmus+ scholarship, he spent the academic year 2023–2024 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the class of Daniel Richter.
Stein’s paintings are developed through a process of layering numerous thin coats of acrylic paint on canvas. Overlapping lines, strokes, dots, and fields—applied with oil pastel, charcoal, and spray paint—form the visual structure of his works. His compositions are characterized by fluid, gestural brushwork in bold, viv...
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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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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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DANIELLE WINGER
Danielle Winger (b. 1986 in Nevada, USA) lives and works in Indiana, USA. creates contemplative landscapes with bold brushstrokes and striking colors that evoke both physical places and emotional states. Drawing inspiration from German Romantic traditions, she approaches landscape as both subject and metaphor—where mountains become paths to transcendence, deserts embody profound solitude, and moonlit forests take on human qualities. Her deeply personal meditative spaces invite viewers to explore themes of sublimity and the divine.
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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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BERND ZIMMER
Bernd Zimmer (b. 1948 in Planegg, Germany) lives and works in Polling, Germany. Raised in Bavaria, he moved to Berlin in the early 1970s, where he enrolled at the Free University to study aesthetics, philosophy, and religious studies. A self-taught painter, after several years working in publishing and graphic design, Zimmer deepened his engagement with art under the influence of Karl Horst Hödicke, Helmut Middendorf, and Salomé, with whom he later co-founded the "Galerie am Moritzplatz" in 1977. It didn’t take long before he abandoned his studies to devote himself entirely to the visual arts. Zimmer focused on landscape painting, which po...
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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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The exhibition brings together works by international artists from the gallery program and beyond who turn their gaze outward—toward this shared living space. Samantha Harvey’s novel "Orbital" (2023) tells the story of a group of astronauts and cosmonauts orbiting the Earth aboard a space station. “The earth, from here, is like heaven. It flows with colour. A burst of hopeful colour. When we’re on that planet, we look up and think heaven is elsewhere, but here is what the astronauts and cosmonauts sometimes think: maybe all of us born to it have already died and are in an afterlife. If we must go to an improbable, hard-to-believe-in place when we die, that glassy, distant orb with its beautiful, lonely light shows could well be it.” Throughout the novel, there are moments when the astronauts pause to admire the beauty of planet Earth.
