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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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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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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RACHEL MONOSOV
Rachel Monosov (b. 1987 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) works in performance, photography, video, and sculpture. By delving into cultural notions of alienation, territorial belonging, and identity, she reflects a rootless present rife with broader social implications. She constructs entire worlds around her subjects, which function pursuant to their own set of laws. Her personal biography is woven throughout, loading the work with social and political concepts echoing historical events.
Monosov holds two MFAs from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium, and her BA is from Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, Israel.
Since 20...
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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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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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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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