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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STEPHAN BALKENHOL
Stephan Balkenhol (b. 1957 in Fritzlar, Germany) is one of the most renowned German sculptors of our time and famous for his coloured wood sculptures, as well as drawings and prints.
Balkenhol’s public bronze sculptures, some of which are of monumental dimensions, often entail an element of surprise, appearing in unusual places. Back in the early 1980s, Balkenhol resolutely turned his back on prevailing trends to embrace figuration. Working at the intersection between a minimalist and a concrete visual language as well as the rise of the Neue Wilde, he has made the human figure and fundamental questions around human existence the cons...
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JOHANNA DUMET
Johanna Dumet (b. 1991 in Guéret, France) brings a contemporary pulse to the traditional still life. Her expressive canvases transform familiar subjects—meals, flowers, fruit—into vivid, emotionally charged compositions. Working intuitively with oil, gouache, and collage, Dumet captures not just objects, but the atmosphere surrounding them: a gathering just dispersed, the echo of conversation, the quiet after a celebration.
Color plays a central role in Dumet’s work. Her palette leans toward the bold and unexpected, spontaneity and structure. Tables are set and cleared, wildflowers are framed and multiplied, and objects—sometimes humb...
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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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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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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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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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