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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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ROSALIE WERTHEFRONGEL
Rosalie Werthefrongel (b. 1993 in Friedberg, Germany) has been studying Painting and Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich since 2019. In Thomas Eggerer’s class she will complete her studies with a diploma in Fine Arts in 2026.
From 2019 to 2023, she studied in Karin Kneffel’s class. She then received an Erasmus+ scholarship for Painting and Animation under Judith Eisler at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 2023 to 2024. Afterwards, she completed a guest semester with Cornelius Völker at the Kunstakademie Münster. Since 2024, she has continued her painting studies with Thomas Eggerer at the Academy of Fine Arts Muni...
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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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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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