Artists
A. Stoyke
The mysterious inspires me. Things that we cannot see or name. In my work I mainly deal with the mental, the invisible. I translate phenomena of the human psyche, as well as spiritual themes, into delicate abstract drawings. Each form I construct is a metaphor for a state of affairs.Topics I have worked on so far include the visualisation of nightmares, rituals of the Vodoo religion or neuronal processes of memory. Another theme that I dedicate myself to concerns the seemingly ordinary. I observe, abstract and deconstruct the apparent reality of everyday life and transcribe my work into my own aesthetic language. The attempt to understand is at the forefront of my work.
Agata Kycia
Agata Kycia’s multi-disciplinary work explores the relationship between digital technologies and material practices. Her interest in computation and craftsmanship is manifested in the fields of architecture, textiles, ceramics and most recently printmaking. Agata explores the potential of serigraphy and relief printing to create artworks that negotiate between precision of the digital and imperfections of the human hand. Her immersive, graphical compositions are constructed through agglomeration of simple, repetitive forms; often balancing on the verge of symmetry and differentiation.
Agnieszka “GRAFISK’ Węglarska
Agnieszka Węglarska is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Warsaw and Berlin.
Her independent, non-commercial projects she authors as ‘Grafisk’, her artistic persona whose all visual endeavors must obey the principle ‘Form follows Fun’. She finds posters on the streets of Berlin and designs her own versions for existing events. The resulting posters have been exhibited at major poster exhibitions around the world, e.g. Ecuador Poster Biennal, International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, Lahti Poster Triennial and more.
Alenka von Engelhardt
Alenka von Engelhardt is an Australian contemporary abstract expressionist residing in Germany. Working in oil, acrylic and mixed media, Alenka’s work consists of playful interactions of bright blocks and pops of colour against chromatics and in the form of
irregular floating shapes, loose, textured brushstrokes and wobbly lines narrating compelling abstract stories. In the early 2000s Alenka studied Fine Arts at the National Art School in Sydney, Australia. Her vision is to create beautiful paintings for cosy design-lover interiors of nice people.
Alexandra Irlacher
I deal with the discrepancy between idea and form. The evil circumstances that lead our goals ad absurdum through the mundane or convenience. I celebrate the human, the flawed. That which is born of caring. I paint these contradictory facets of our motivation.
Alice Brunello Luise
Through the lens of my camera and the treasures found in markets, I embark on a creative journey blending collage and mixed media.
My focus is on exploring themes of Identity and Intimacy, guided by the first-person singular and the forms of my pain: Endometriosis and the tapestry of inner life.
I commit to self-narration art, weaving dreams and desires into an abstract landscape to prompt contemplation on the gap between inner feelings and external reality. In this space, my artistic journey unfolds, where the interplay of inner and outer worlds creates a narrative transcending the boundaries of perception.
My focus is on exploring themes of Identity and Intimacy, guided by the first-person singular and the forms of my pain: Endometriosis and the tapestry of inner life.
I commit to self-narration art, weaving dreams and desires into an abstract landscape to prompt contemplation on the gap between inner feelings and external reality. In this space, my artistic journey unfolds, where the interplay of inner and outer worlds creates a narrative transcending the boundaries of perception.
Alvine Bautra
Alvīne Bautra (b.1990) is a Latvian contemporary painter. The portrait painting compositions embody the feeling of movement in slow motion. The artist considers movement as a metaphor of human being, the human multi-layered nature, diversity and also uncertainty. The zooming on the faces or the seemingly calm figures are never frozen because the state of peace is utopian.
In 2019 graduated from Art Academy of Latvia, MA in Painting. She enriched knowledge at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee in Germany (2014) and at Estonian Academy of Arts (2018). In 2018 she received Brederlo – von Sengbusch art prize.
In 2019 graduated from Art Academy of Latvia, MA in Painting. She enriched knowledge at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee in Germany (2014) and at Estonian Academy of Arts (2018). In 2018 she received Brederlo – von Sengbusch art prize.
Amber Cannings
Cannings lives in Berlin and her work speaks of the unfiltered life here, ranging from the humorous Dildo King signs dotted around the city to the infamous Kottbusser Tor area where she can be found painting en plein air. Cannings paints using a representational style, forming powerful snapshots of contemporary existence by melding together personal references, texts, and landscapes into distinctive painterly compositions. She draws on references from living in Spain, Wales, and whichever country she travels to, touching on aspects that make these places unique.
Amelie Degendorfer
AMELIE DEGENDORFER (*1995)
lives and works as a multidisciplinary artist in Berlin. Lots of childhood memories impact Amelie´s expressively colorful and naïvely abstracted style – depicting a certain nostalgia for the careless times of being a kid. By breaking down our complex modern world into shapes and colors only, the artist puts focus on emotional reactions to reduced sensory input. This impact of colors is a central topic, going along with the artists background in the psychiatric field. The figures mostly depict protagonists of city life in Berlin, discussing topics of feminism, techno scene, queerness and kink. For high color contrast the artist prefers a mix of oil pastel outlines on a base of acrylics. By using LED backed canvases some paintings can be turned into light installations.
Anastasia Strockova
Anastasia Strockova is Czech illustrator based in Berlin and collaborating with prominent publishers, magazines and graphic studios.
Creates conceptual illustrations intended for a wide range of projects. Collaboration with leading publishers, science laboratories, graphic and package designers, or visual styles for festivals and events. Illustrations of unique style setting trends in communication design and conceptual illustration intended for a wide range of projects. Clients (Albatros, Redbull, BASA Studio, Czechglobe, Würth elektronik, Cirkuff, NGO, Bastille, Aquila, )
Selected at Bologna Children Book Fair for illustrations to her first book, The Elephant Who Was Afraid of Heights, and published many children books since. The last one Unforgettable Events is awarded at Bologna Ragazzi Amazing Bookshelf, nominated on Golden Ribbon award and translated to 4 languages. Nowadays her focus is on books for children from age of 6, it’s full of characters and little stories, with love of action, kindness and humor.
Studied at Academy of Art Architecture and Design in Prague, attended the program Erasmus at Halle Burg University at Georg Barber (Atak) studio.
Creates conceptual illustrations intended for a wide range of projects. Collaboration with leading publishers, science laboratories, graphic and package designers, or visual styles for festivals and events. Illustrations of unique style setting trends in communication design and conceptual illustration intended for a wide range of projects. Clients (Albatros, Redbull, BASA Studio, Czechglobe, Würth elektronik, Cirkuff, NGO, Bastille, Aquila, )
Selected at Bologna Children Book Fair for illustrations to her first book, The Elephant Who Was Afraid of Heights, and published many children books since. The last one Unforgettable Events is awarded at Bologna Ragazzi Amazing Bookshelf, nominated on Golden Ribbon award and translated to 4 languages. Nowadays her focus is on books for children from age of 6, it’s full of characters and little stories, with love of action, kindness and humor.
Studied at Academy of Art Architecture and Design in Prague, attended the program Erasmus at Halle Burg University at Georg Barber (Atak) studio.
Andrés Baus
Oil painter
Andrey Kasay
Andrey Kasay is a multimedia artist based in Berlin and originally from shores of Amur river, where his neighbors were the Amur tiger and a wild dog, who taught him to draw. He’s done a bunch of exhibitions around the world and have been participate in numbers of festivals such as Pictoplasma in Berlin, Supernova Animation Festival in Denver and Art Basel in Miami.
Angela Augustin-Wittkuhn
Angela Augustin-Wittkuhn arbeitet Grafikerin und freischaffende Malerin in Hamburg. Aus der grafischen Gestaltung kommend, liegen ihr Formen, Flächen, Farbe und Typografie, die in ihren Gemälden malerisch aufgebrochen werden.
Große Freiheit bedeutet für sie, aus dem Leben gegriffene Themen collagenartig mit vielen Malspuren auf Leinwand zu inszenieren. Große Liebe beim Malen entsteht, wenn Geplantes von Intuitivem durchkreuzt wird und sie am Ende denkt, das hätte ich nicht gedacht.
Große Freiheit bedeutet für sie, aus dem Leben gegriffene Themen collagenartig mit vielen Malspuren auf Leinwand zu inszenieren. Große Liebe beim Malen entsteht, wenn Geplantes von Intuitivem durchkreuzt wird und sie am Ende denkt, das hätte ich nicht gedacht.
Ángeles Alarcón
My works are first in my head for a long time, I rarely make sketches. When I can visualise them completely, I materialise them. This transfer fascinates me, from the anxiety of making to the calm of seeing tangible what I imagine.
Anja Bartelt
My work is a playful exploration of the everyday. I draw inspiration from the ordinary moments and behaviors I observe around me, transforming them into whimsical scenes with a touch of mystery.
I like to create images that are based on the usual, but where I further can develop an enigmatic atmosphere and include slightly odd characters.Through my art, I invite viewers to discover the humor and beauty hidden within the mundane.
I like to create images that are based on the usual, but where I further can develop an enigmatic atmosphere and include slightly odd characters.Through my art, I invite viewers to discover the humor and beauty hidden within the mundane.
annaleawie
As an art therapist, I dedicate myself to working with people with disabilities. The diversity of human encounters is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for me. I am fascinated by how each person perceives the world in their own unique way. When I paint, I immerse myself in a playful world full of curiosity and imagination, almost as if I were a child again. In this process, not only do images emerge, but also stories, and through repeated layering, new narratives are constantly revealed. So, what do you perceive? And what story comes to your mind?
Annika Greschke
When I paint, I always work against my “”gute Kinderstube””.
Against ambition, hard work, conscientiousness and efficiency. Instead, I paint pictures, like with chalk on a blackboard that could be wiped away at any moment. Painting means fleetingly asserting something without having to prove it.
I like to set subtle triggers that lead to ambiguous tipping moments, both in form and content. I’m not just looking for emotional escalation on the canvas, I need a hook that, at best, confuses or amuses me. The figure, lyrics and title create meta levels, so that I don’t know whether they are quotes from me, the painted figure or a collective stereotype. The image always creates associative scope.”
Against ambition, hard work, conscientiousness and efficiency. Instead, I paint pictures, like with chalk on a blackboard that could be wiped away at any moment. Painting means fleetingly asserting something without having to prove it.
I like to set subtle triggers that lead to ambiguous tipping moments, both in form and content. I’m not just looking for emotional escalation on the canvas, I need a hook that, at best, confuses or amuses me. The figure, lyrics and title create meta levels, so that I don’t know whether they are quotes from me, the painted figure or a collective stereotype. The image always creates associative scope.”
Annika Spiegelhalter
The naked truth cannot be hidden. Not behind screens, walls and poker faces. My paintings are a glimpse into the minds and under the skin of characters. I direct the viewer’s gaze to the emotional fullness of small and large moments. Capturing movements, emotions and thoughts allows me to process my world and create clarity. The fact that my personal thoughts and meanings are not fully apparent opens up the possibility of interpretation for the viewer. This is where the subjective truth is added. The paintings create an open space for inner dialogue in the depths of an abstract world.
Antanina Slabodchykava
The artist works with painting, graphics, and installation. Using collage, pop culture images, humor, and irony, she discusses the topic of motherhood, gender identity, and social stereotypes. The heroes of the works are women and children building relationships between themselves and the world around them.
Antonije Burić
Antonije Burić (SFRY, BnH, FRY, RS ‘n’ MNE, MNE, RS, CRO) was born in 1990 in Croatia (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). After the separation he lived in Croatia for a while and moved to the city Banja Luka (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, not to be confused with the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), which soon became part of Bosnia and Hercegovina. After the second separation he moved to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia which changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro. After Montenegro separated from Serbia he lived in Montenegro and then moved to Serbia where gains bachelor and master degree at the sculpture department of Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Professor Mrđjan Bajić. For some unknown reason he travels to Weimar (Federal Republic of Germany) where he finished a MFA program at Bauhaus university, Public Art and New Artistic Strategies with Professor Danica Dakić. Now lives and creates in Berlin.
Aparina Alina
My name is Alina Aparina. I am an artist and a teacher. In my projects, I research influence of ancestors on a person and connection with one’s roots. In addition, my sphere of interests are motherhood and transformation of people’s consciousness due to traumatic events in their lives. The topic of family roots has always been important to me, but when I lost my family support, I felt especially hard how important it is to maintain this connection with my family, in order to be mentally stronger. In 2022, there was a split in my family due to the war in Ukraine.
I have Russian and Ukrainian roots. My family was divided into two parts and this had a very painful impact on my life and work. For most people who immigrated the topic of family bond is especially important. Away from home, a person experiences a wide range of feelings, but mostly it is loneliness. This spirit of self-reliance is an important skill for a person. This is exactly what I am trying to achieve through creativity. I am a highly sensitive person and a lot of what happens in the world has an imprint on my creative path. In the “Family support” project, I discuss the topic of home, the importance of connection with family roots, as well as finding self-reliance…
I’m also a mother, so motherhood plays an important role for me. My project is dedicated to mothers of special children — strong and at the same time fragile women. It is dedicated to women whose most joyful event in their lives – the birth of a child – has become the starting point of a new life, their special one, who have to defend themselves and their child daily in the modern society, whose life is clearly divided into BEFORE and AFTER, who had to go through the path of awareness and acceptance of themselves as a special mother. This project is about transformation of consciousness of women thanks to being a mother of a special child. For more deep and complex understanding of life in this special world, I’ve interviewed women whose consciousness had already gone through all stages of acceptance. I also work on a project made of ceramics. I work with oil, acrylics and inks in graphics. This year I am actively studying and trying new forms in ceramics.
I have Russian and Ukrainian roots. My family was divided into two parts and this had a very painful impact on my life and work. For most people who immigrated the topic of family bond is especially important. Away from home, a person experiences a wide range of feelings, but mostly it is loneliness. This spirit of self-reliance is an important skill for a person. This is exactly what I am trying to achieve through creativity. I am a highly sensitive person and a lot of what happens in the world has an imprint on my creative path. In the “Family support” project, I discuss the topic of home, the importance of connection with family roots, as well as finding self-reliance…
I’m also a mother, so motherhood plays an important role for me. My project is dedicated to mothers of special children — strong and at the same time fragile women. It is dedicated to women whose most joyful event in their lives – the birth of a child – has become the starting point of a new life, their special one, who have to defend themselves and their child daily in the modern society, whose life is clearly divided into BEFORE and AFTER, who had to go through the path of awareness and acceptance of themselves as a special mother. This project is about transformation of consciousness of women thanks to being a mother of a special child. For more deep and complex understanding of life in this special world, I’ve interviewed women whose consciousness had already gone through all stages of acceptance. I also work on a project made of ceramics. I work with oil, acrylics and inks in graphics. This year I am actively studying and trying new forms in ceramics.
Arthur Neznanow
Arthur Neznanow (°1989, Berlin, Germany) ranges between the fields of research, photography and installation.
His works often bear architectural references, stemming from his background in architecture and experience as an architect for many years, including owning his own architectural office. His projects are a visual reflection of his background. By employing a conceptual approach, he creates intense personal moments by utilizing his personal archive developed over the years.
The artist’s works respond to the built environment and uses everyday experiences of the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context.
His works often bear architectural references, stemming from his background in architecture and experience as an architect for many years, including owning his own architectural office. His projects are a visual reflection of his background. By employing a conceptual approach, he creates intense personal moments by utilizing his personal archive developed over the years.
The artist’s works respond to the built environment and uses everyday experiences of the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context.
Avecespeces
The main topic of my work has been the trip, the journey and the experience of the momentary encounter in movement with architectural elements on these roads. From the technical side, I am interested in forcing the capabilities of the devices and then mixing photographic concepts and techniques. In the end, the pictures look like a particular technique but in reality they are the result of an experimentation of different mechanical and digital exercises.
BATLANDS
Born and raised in Eastern Germany by Vietnamese immigrants, Nam, known as BATLANDS, emerged from a turbulent upbringing marked by scarcity and solitude. Navigating mental challenges and complex family dynamics, Nam discovered her talent for painting in her early 30s. Her art centers on nature, animals, and deities, symbolizing a fantasy world where these entities reign supreme, reflecting a desire for sanctuary from reality. Fascinated by myths and legends, she explores religions and belief systems, seeking life’s essence and creation. Her self-portraits signify a quest for identity and meaning in a world shaped by generational trauma.
BEATNIK – Beata Filipowicz
BEATNIK is visual artist Beata Filipowicz (b. 1992), based in Wrocław, Poland. Her intuitive drawings and freehand typography works on paper returns us to a child-like mental state, but explores the contexts of interpersonal relationships, tensions between desire and love, hardcore and happiness of everyday life. Current body of work and design of personal typographic diares are often reminiscent of street signage, and tells a stories about intimacy and vulnerability between the people in the Times of Tinder.
Author of the series “”Chronicle of Amorous Accidents” – 1st Prize for the Best Diploma of the Year 2017 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Scholarship of Artistic Residency at Grafikwerkstatt, Dresden, Germany, 2020); Scholarship of Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish culture in the world (Zureta project, Tokio, Japan, 2017); finalist of the 14th edition of the Hestia Artistic Journey competition (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2015). Author of individual exhibitions in Poland, including: Phenylethylamine, Transformator, Wrocław, 2023; Exam of Conscience, Fama Festival, Świnoujście, 2022; Everything OK, GallerySezon na Sztukę, Wrocław, 2022; Matrimonial Advertisements, Satyrykon, Legnica, 2018; Marriages, Szewska Pasja, Wrocław, 2017; She participated in over 50 national and international exhibitions and artistic conferences in the field of graphic art.
Author of the series “”Chronicle of Amorous Accidents” – 1st Prize for the Best Diploma of the Year 2017 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Scholarship of Artistic Residency at Grafikwerkstatt, Dresden, Germany, 2020); Scholarship of Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish culture in the world (Zureta project, Tokio, Japan, 2017); finalist of the 14th edition of the Hestia Artistic Journey competition (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2015). Author of individual exhibitions in Poland, including: Phenylethylamine, Transformator, Wrocław, 2023; Exam of Conscience, Fama Festival, Świnoujście, 2022; Everything OK, GallerySezon na Sztukę, Wrocław, 2022; Matrimonial Advertisements, Satyrykon, Legnica, 2018; Marriages, Szewska Pasja, Wrocław, 2017; She participated in over 50 national and international exhibitions and artistic conferences in the field of graphic art.
Ben Meyer
Inspired by pop culture, abstract thoughts, metaphysics & memes. Blending it all into a fusion.
Beppe Gallo
I start with the premise that I have no plans and I know nothing.
I experiment. I trust my instinct.
I photograph women because this is the subject matter that inspires me the most. Sometimes is body shapes or body parts, sometimes is portraits, sometimes is just abstract.
I am inspired by the women I photograph as well as everything and everyone around me, from design, to music, to films, to politics, to people and most definitely emotions.
At times in my head is a little chaotic and what I am trying to say is not immediately apparent, not even to myself, but for some unknown reasons my work seems to connect with certain people and that’s all I can ask for.
Beppe Gallo
I experiment. I trust my instinct.
I photograph women because this is the subject matter that inspires me the most. Sometimes is body shapes or body parts, sometimes is portraits, sometimes is just abstract.
I am inspired by the women I photograph as well as everything and everyone around me, from design, to music, to films, to politics, to people and most definitely emotions.
At times in my head is a little chaotic and what I am trying to say is not immediately apparent, not even to myself, but for some unknown reasons my work seems to connect with certain people and that’s all I can ask for.
Beppe Gallo
Burak Erkil
Linocut is still an ongoing experiment for me, I’ve been practicing the medium for more than a year. My whole process involves bridging the gap between the analog and digital worlds and questioning the means of the durational notion of carving as a personal ritual. I mostly work through digitally generated images and I’m seeking ways of displaying a new translation of an artwork as a part of the age of mechanical reproduction. My linocut reproductions symbolise a dynamic between humans and robots, raising questions about reclaiming our souls in the machine world by using old printing mediums, a fusion of traditional and modern technologies. You can think of my portraits as poems penned by a ghost in the machine, later on, carved and printed by me.
Camille Theodet
I am working on different compositions, mixing genres and ideas, to create a fragmented picture that can be read as a whole narration. My work is an attempt to deconstruct a feeling, an action, by confronting subjects, focusing on a single moment. I like to do diptych like compositions with different concepts, to create a visual analogy of the action shown, whilst keeping a certain ambiguity between the subjects and the genre.
This is a constant show of personal existential matters and concerns, and each picture is an attempt to capture the essence of an emotion, an action, an exact moment shown with its nuances.
This is a constant show of personal existential matters and concerns, and each picture is an attempt to capture the essence of an emotion, an action, an exact moment shown with its nuances.
Cati Laporte
This is my first serious approach to portrait painting, to hide my inadequacies and clumsiness, I chose to give an alibi to my characters, putting in their hands what would give them their humanity.
To do this I used AI tools which allowed me to instantly compose these improbable but earnest portraits.
These 2 paintings are the first of a series of 16 portraits of People from the world
“In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.” Edgar Degas
To do this I used AI tools which allowed me to instantly compose these improbable but earnest portraits.
These 2 paintings are the first of a series of 16 portraits of People from the world
“In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.” Edgar Degas
Celina Klohk
Engaging in a multidisciplinary approach to her work, Celina Klohk pursues ideas around phenomenology, subjectivity and unique nature of modern day anxieties. Personal memories, imagination and the ominous presence of cyber-culture come together in an iterative process to re-create mundane moments, amplifying these specific experiences and allowing them to develop into new fictional narratives. Moments of solitude contrast busy group gatherings, introspection contrasts a forgotten self.
Charlotte Hornung
Charlotte Hornung (she/her) is a visual printmaking artist living in Berlin. Bold color-shape-compositions, experimental narrative forms and manual printmaking processes old and new characterize her artistic approach. She prints with riso-, screen- or stencil-printing, both on paper and sculptural objects.
Cheluca Peralba
Born in Madrid. I’ve lived in Bonn, Brussel, London, Valencia and Madrid.
Colaboration in interiorism in Brussels and Madrid.
After investigation in pictorial and engraving techniques supported in new materials , the alchemy and his effects drift in a very emotional painting full of vibrants elements and magic beings seeming to have their own life.
After investigation in pictorial and engraving techniques supported in new materials , the alchemy and his effects drift in a very emotional painting full of vibrants elements and magic beings seeming to have their own life.
Chovin Julie
In her artistic approach, Julie Chovin navigate the theme of transformation, from the individual body to the collective, urban, and memorial landscape. She is interested in the tension between reality and imagination, using various mediums ranging from drawing and photography to objects and installations, collaborating with also with non-human living organisms.
With the series of works “”The Place to Be,”” created around the book of the same name published in 2021, she deconstructs and plays with the «arm aber sexy » image of Berlin as the capital of underground clubs, juxtaposing it with the daylight of reality.
Christel Ziegler
1989 Kunstschule Prof.Peters mit Dozent Ulrich Klieber, später Rektor der Kunsthochschule Halle
1990-1995 Vollstudium Malerei an der Akademie für Kunst und Design in Stuttgart
2006 Porträtausstellung von 150 Stuttgarter Persönlichkeiten im Rathaus in Stuttgart mit ca. 500 Besuchern bei der Vernissage. Einführung durch Herrn Oberbürgermeister Prof. Dr. Schuster.
Ich denke, ich bin im süddeutschen Raum diejenige Porträtistin, die in den letzten 20 Jahren die meisten Porträts von Prominenten verkauft hat. 2010 Galerie Kleiner Prinz in Baden-Baden 2022 große Ausstellung im Rathaus Gerlingen Neben den Porträts auch viele andere Motive und Illustration von Kinderbüchern
1990-1995 Vollstudium Malerei an der Akademie für Kunst und Design in Stuttgart
2006 Porträtausstellung von 150 Stuttgarter Persönlichkeiten im Rathaus in Stuttgart mit ca. 500 Besuchern bei der Vernissage. Einführung durch Herrn Oberbürgermeister Prof. Dr. Schuster.
Ich denke, ich bin im süddeutschen Raum diejenige Porträtistin, die in den letzten 20 Jahren die meisten Porträts von Prominenten verkauft hat. 2010 Galerie Kleiner Prinz in Baden-Baden 2022 große Ausstellung im Rathaus Gerlingen Neben den Porträts auch viele andere Motive und Illustration von Kinderbüchern
Christian “Rabe” Eickelberg
Modern folktales, a series of naive surrealism. Nothing ever stays the same but the stories happening since the beginning of humankind. With a changing obsession for psychology, shamanism, esoteric, magick and lately computer science the imagery developed in this series is unique and influenced by different cultures that pictured their stories through the centuries gone or going. While the topics mainly are driven by a strong emotion that needs to be transmuted through the process of creating art, the story delivered may be different for each viewer. Aiming to last und make the future wonder. This is rabentinte.
Christian Guhl
My work is not about beauty; beauty is boring. These pieces are about being
open to discomfort. Art needs an element of risk; only then does something
unique happen.
Clemens Gritl
German artist Clemens Gritl imagines an enigmatic, radically aggressive futuristic urban dystopia, an extension of Brutalist dogma.
Inspired by the revolutionary social visions of mid-century architecture and literature like Ballard’s High-rise and Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, Gritl’s computer models refract and redefine the “urban utopias” of the 20th century. His photo-realistic, black-and-white presentations invert the optimism of 1960s architectural photography, transforming monuments into monsters.
Technically, Gritl’s work blurs the interfaces between photography, CGI – computer generated images, CAAD – computer aided architectural design, image manipulation and digital painting. Archaic and new digital techniques of the Information Era, are woven together.
Inspired by the revolutionary social visions of mid-century architecture and literature like Ballard’s High-rise and Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, Gritl’s computer models refract and redefine the “urban utopias” of the 20th century. His photo-realistic, black-and-white presentations invert the optimism of 1960s architectural photography, transforming monuments into monsters.
Technically, Gritl’s work blurs the interfaces between photography, CGI – computer generated images, CAAD – computer aided architectural design, image manipulation and digital painting. Archaic and new digital techniques of the Information Era, are woven together.
constanze krischer
Constanze is a berlin-based makeup artist and painter.
She started painting during the pandemic in 2020 as she felt the need to create and develop her own vision of aesthetics and meaning, next to the client-based approach of makeup artistry.
At this stage her paintings often deal with different aspects of being alone and the urge to find a balance between oneself and the environment, trying to spread on canvas a feeling of calmness and solitude
At this stage her paintings often deal with different aspects of being alone and the urge to find a balance between oneself and the environment, trying to spread on canvas a feeling of calmness and solitude
Cris Cerdeira
Driven by his passion for visual creation and storytelling, Cris Cerdeira finds in photography a
means to explore his identity. His images connect his experiences with the world around him
while reflecting on the notion of travel as a catalyst for personal transformation. With a fresh eye
and a keen sensitivity for colour, Cerdeira blends elements of his cultural background with
influences he gathers from his travels, creating images that capture with aesthetic boldness the
essence of contemporary life and challenge the limits that shaped his childhood.
Cristina Ankli
Fine Arts graduate from New York Tech University. Spanish/Swiss nationality.
The paintings are done with a triple cero brush to achieve the desired detail. Walnut oil and natural pigments on canvas.
Cyrilo
I am very comfortable painting with acrylics and medium size canvases. Abstract paintings are for me a way to express with shapes and colors what I cannot put into words or perhaps what I refuse to limit to words. Other paintings have more in common with my personality traits and inspiration from the outside world. I simply paint when I feel the impulse to materialize what floats in the spiritual world.
Daniel Stern
Daniel Stern is a Berlin-based artist and performer. He has spent the last ten years touring as an acrobat and was initially drawn to working with textiles as a way to pass time backstage during shows. His current work is a series of self-portraits that continue to explore ideas about how his own body is viewed both publicly and privately and challenges the relationship between gender and materials.
Daniel Suarez
My work is based on memories and visual archives from Colombia to explore questions of cultural inheritance, sense of belonging, and landscapes of conflict. I connect my painting practice to research projects, looking for references and images that become part of the compositions. I consider painting as an act of memory, capturing remembrances, stories, and experiences to produce echoes from the past in the present. In that way, each painting holds a collection of intimacy, collective history, and imagined realities.
Daniela Spoto
I’m a Berlin based illustrator and artist, my main medium of expression is drawing.
My practice is deeply rooted in the art of drawing, encompassing a range of techniques and styles that allow me to explore and experiment with different forms of storytelling.
Through a combination of various elements and characters, I weave intricate narratives that transcend the boundaries of reality and fantasy. My work often references art history, literature, and even random elements of everyday life, as I believe that every facet of our existence holds the potential to tell a unique story. Through my drawings, I aspire to create a dialogue between the viewer and my inner world, inviting them to explore and reflect upon the complexities of the human experience.
My practice is deeply rooted in the art of drawing, encompassing a range of techniques and styles that allow me to explore and experiment with different forms of storytelling.
Through a combination of various elements and characters, I weave intricate narratives that transcend the boundaries of reality and fantasy. My work often references art history, literature, and even random elements of everyday life, as I believe that every facet of our existence holds the potential to tell a unique story. Through my drawings, I aspire to create a dialogue between the viewer and my inner world, inviting them to explore and reflect upon the complexities of the human experience.
Dayra Palacios
Dayra is a Berlin-based artist with German-Colombian roots, capturing everyday life in vibrant acrylics on wood and canvas. Since her childhood, when she discovered drawing in public transportation as a pastime, her inspirations have been found in the people and moments in Berlin’s trains and stations. Her project “Berlin ABC” combines true events and sketches of urban life into carefully composed, detailed acrylic paintings. These snapshots invite reflection and dreaming, exploring stories she has carried with her since childhood. The project’s name symbolizes the diversity of encounters in Berlin’s public transport system.
Dominica Sol
I am a plastic artist exploring the techniques of ceramics and engraving since a few years, my aesthetic is linked to the relationship of the human being and the co-inhabit with what we call nature.
Dora Banhegyi
Born and raised in Budapest, Hungary, I am a self-taught artist exploring the sacredness of solitude and the magic found within. My painting process is a journey into another dimension, where perfectionism and spontaneity coexist, allowing magic to flow from my brush. My creative journey began with self-portrait photography, capturing moments of self-discovery and introspection. Each piece reflects my belief that in solitude, we connect with the true source of inspiration and knowledge. Ultimately, we are all our own muses and should recognize ourselves as our greatest work of art.
Doumorh El-Riz
Doumorh El-Riz is an artist and spatial interaction designer. Her work bridges the gap between physical and digital realities by combining artisanal techniques with innovative digital processes. She uses various text-to-image AI tools, infusing them with her thoughts and emotions to generate digital images. In her studio, she reinterprets these purely digital images, making them tangible and physical. She integrates hand-tufted wool elements and other materials like mirrors to give the images a new dimension. The purely digital works take on new forms as they enter our physical world, becoming free-formed, three-dimensional objects.
Duxi Auersperg
Duxi Auerspergs` work revolves around observing and analysing structures of the image culture and its position and effect on the daily life of people.
Through deconstruction and reassembling Duxi points towards the ambivalence of images opposing the concept of an image as an absolute entity.
The series on display, fast food, strips down the modern society to its bare structure. Accelerated consumption, regardless if food, information, relationships or others, and violence, if not as a weaponised force, than as a violent and direct influence on a persons` mind through tools of media, consumerism and the image.
Through deconstruction and reassembling Duxi points towards the ambivalence of images opposing the concept of an image as an absolute entity.
The series on display, fast food, strips down the modern society to its bare structure. Accelerated consumption, regardless if food, information, relationships or others, and violence, if not as a weaponised force, than as a violent and direct influence on a persons` mind through tools of media, consumerism and the image.
Dylan Drennan
Dylan Drennan juxtaposes dark themes and mysterious characters with vibrant, luminous colour schemes and commanding mark-making. The hypnotic scenes he creates with each portrait are intended to take the viewer outside of their ordinary and bring them somewhere eerie and unknown.
Ekaterina Kovalenko
The inseparable connection between body and consciousness is a central theme in my work. Physical appearance is one of the universal languages capable of appealing to any human being, making it a powerful tool in my creative expression.
My projects are inspired by the changes and contradictions that exist within us, including physicality and sensuality, self-perception, taboo, and stigmatization. I create works utilizing site-specific installations across various mediums, such as ceramic, VR, and 3D.
I work both solo and in collaboration, drawing from my classical education and years of experience in the contemporary art field. My work often draws from a diverse range of inspirations, including social, ecological, and scientific perspectives, as I strive to address pressing issues caused by anthropocentrism.
My projects are inspired by the changes and contradictions that exist within us, including physicality and sensuality, self-perception, taboo, and stigmatization. I create works utilizing site-specific installations across various mediums, such as ceramic, VR, and 3D.
I work both solo and in collaboration, drawing from my classical education and years of experience in the contemporary art field. My work often draws from a diverse range of inspirations, including social, ecological, and scientific perspectives, as I strive to address pressing issues caused by anthropocentrism.
Elisabeth Bukenberger
“Looking beyond the surface”
Elisabeth Bukenberger
Living and studying in London provided me with a profound opportunity to explore and discover my identity through fashion. London’s acceptance of diverse identities allowed me to delve deeper into the nuances of appearance in relation to personal identity, particularly within the realms of fashion and beauty. While definitions of identity vary, social media has become a pivotal platform for finding and expressing our identities. We use social media daily to share our lives and connect with others. This digital space is where targeted marketing thrives, especially in fashion and beauty advertisements. Much effort is put into conceptualizing how a piece is presented, yet consumers often focus solely on the product, overlooking the artistry within.
My body of work combines photography and painting to explore themes of identity within the fashion and beauty scenes. I draw inspiration from imagery found on fashion and beauty brands’ websites, social media channels, and magazines, using these sources to inform poses, fashion, and styling. The process of defining and refining this imagery happens intuitively while I paint, often resulting in the emergence of acquaintances and people from my social circle as faces on canvas.
Through my art, I seek to uncover the unseen beauty and aesthetics in fashion and beauty photography. By paying meticulous attention to details—from shadows to expressions—I aim to capture the essence of my subjects and highlight the often-overlooked aspects of beauty in marketing. My artworks feature stronger contrasts, softer skin tones, and brighter colors, all contributing to a deeper exploration of identity and expression.
Each piece of art I create speaks to the complexity and beauty found in our identities and how we choose to express them. My goal is to encourage viewers to consider whether appearance defines who we are, the importance of first impressions, and the potential to look beyond the surface. Every artwork aims to resonate with different aspects of the viewer’s identity, fostering a deeper understanding of the human experience beyond mere appearance.
Elisabeth Bukenberger
Living and studying in London provided me with a profound opportunity to explore and discover my identity through fashion. London’s acceptance of diverse identities allowed me to delve deeper into the nuances of appearance in relation to personal identity, particularly within the realms of fashion and beauty. While definitions of identity vary, social media has become a pivotal platform for finding and expressing our identities. We use social media daily to share our lives and connect with others. This digital space is where targeted marketing thrives, especially in fashion and beauty advertisements. Much effort is put into conceptualizing how a piece is presented, yet consumers often focus solely on the product, overlooking the artistry within.
My body of work combines photography and painting to explore themes of identity within the fashion and beauty scenes. I draw inspiration from imagery found on fashion and beauty brands’ websites, social media channels, and magazines, using these sources to inform poses, fashion, and styling. The process of defining and refining this imagery happens intuitively while I paint, often resulting in the emergence of acquaintances and people from my social circle as faces on canvas.
Through my art, I seek to uncover the unseen beauty and aesthetics in fashion and beauty photography. By paying meticulous attention to details—from shadows to expressions—I aim to capture the essence of my subjects and highlight the often-overlooked aspects of beauty in marketing. My artworks feature stronger contrasts, softer skin tones, and brighter colors, all contributing to a deeper exploration of identity and expression.
Each piece of art I create speaks to the complexity and beauty found in our identities and how we choose to express them. My goal is to encourage viewers to consider whether appearance defines who we are, the importance of first impressions, and the potential to look beyond the surface. Every artwork aims to resonate with different aspects of the viewer’s identity, fostering a deeper understanding of the human experience beyond mere appearance.
Emily Thomas
Emily Thomas is a sculptor and woodworker based in Berlin. Her work delves into the themes of architecture, gentrification, and urbanisation, exploring how these elements can reflect a place’s history, society and culture.
Emily documents the structural forms, materiality, and colours of buildings with photography. Considering her academic and social research, she creates collages and drawings from her images. This process fuses together conceptual ideas with informative imagery, kickstarting sculptural designs.
Emily crafts her sculptures meticulously, calculating mathematical intricacies on paper and sketching cross-sections to explore construction methods. She builds her sculptures in the workshop, and paints in her studio.
Emily documents the structural forms, materiality, and colours of buildings with photography. Considering her academic and social research, she creates collages and drawings from her images. This process fuses together conceptual ideas with informative imagery, kickstarting sculptural designs.
Emily crafts her sculptures meticulously, calculating mathematical intricacies on paper and sketching cross-sections to explore construction methods. She builds her sculptures in the workshop, and paints in her studio.
Erika Clugston
Erika’s paintings explore the anxieties and truths of the body. With stark contrast and intense color, she paints images of rolling flesh, squished bellies and sunbathing figures. Our experiences of reality are intrinsically bound to the body—the flesh we inhabit embodies our identity and carries us through the world. A woman’s body is particularly fraught with expectations, and Erika portrays a version of this complex experience. Her work expresses the ways our reality is tied to the body, its shortcomings, and its joys.
Eszter Kerdö
“I aim to create paintings that bring happiness to people. If my work can bring a little more joy into someone’s life, I consider it a success.”
My artistic journey is defined by a simple yet profound intention: to spread happiness. As a painter, my greatest aim is to create works that bring joy and moments of happiness to viewers. In a world often marked by hustle and worries, I believe in the transformative power of art to bring glimpses of light into everyday life.
My paintings are an ode to the beauty of life, to the small joys, and to the carefree moments that make us smile. With vibrant colors and playful motifs, I aim to create an atmosphere of positivity that warms hearts and brightens spirits.
Each of my paintings is a loving invitation to be swept away by the flow of life and to pause for a moment, to recognize the beauty of the world around us. If my art can contribute even just a bit more joy to someone’s life, I consider that the greatest success of my work.
As an artist born in Hungary and now residing and working in Berlin, my creative journey has been shaped by a fusion of influences from both my upbringing and my current environment. Having pursued classical art studies, I developed a deep affinity for painting from an early age. Subsequently, my exploration led me to textile design, where I honed my skills at UDK (Universität der Künste Berlin). However, painting has always remained my true passion.
In my studio nestled in the vibrant neighborhood of Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, I find solace and inspiration to express myself through vibrant brushstrokes and powerful imagery. Each stroke is infused with intention, each canvas a reflection of my innermost thoughts and emotions. My works often exude a boldness, both in technique and message, aiming to provoke contemplation and evoke visceral responses from the viewer.
Welcome to my world of happy colors and radiant emotions, where the canvas becomes a portal into a realm full of joy and optimism.
with love XXX Eszter
My artistic journey is defined by a simple yet profound intention: to spread happiness. As a painter, my greatest aim is to create works that bring joy and moments of happiness to viewers. In a world often marked by hustle and worries, I believe in the transformative power of art to bring glimpses of light into everyday life.
My paintings are an ode to the beauty of life, to the small joys, and to the carefree moments that make us smile. With vibrant colors and playful motifs, I aim to create an atmosphere of positivity that warms hearts and brightens spirits.
Each of my paintings is a loving invitation to be swept away by the flow of life and to pause for a moment, to recognize the beauty of the world around us. If my art can contribute even just a bit more joy to someone’s life, I consider that the greatest success of my work.
As an artist born in Hungary and now residing and working in Berlin, my creative journey has been shaped by a fusion of influences from both my upbringing and my current environment. Having pursued classical art studies, I developed a deep affinity for painting from an early age. Subsequently, my exploration led me to textile design, where I honed my skills at UDK (Universität der Künste Berlin). However, painting has always remained my true passion.
In my studio nestled in the vibrant neighborhood of Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, I find solace and inspiration to express myself through vibrant brushstrokes and powerful imagery. Each stroke is infused with intention, each canvas a reflection of my innermost thoughts and emotions. My works often exude a boldness, both in technique and message, aiming to provoke contemplation and evoke visceral responses from the viewer.
Welcome to my world of happy colors and radiant emotions, where the canvas becomes a portal into a realm full of joy and optimism.
with love XXX Eszter
Fanny Harms
Hello,
I´m happy you´re here. And have a question for you:
Do you ever find yourself caught in the chaos of a world that seems increasingly divided and stressful?
So many people around the globe share this feeling. That is something that we have in common. Maybe, a starting point, that unites us.
And what if there’s another place to be?
In my work as an architect and artist, I embark on a journey to discover that place – a place for happiness and inner peace.
I believe that life can be a source of joy and peace for everyone, as long as we reconnect with ourselves and, in doing so, with the world around us, with all. Everything is a fragment of its totality. All things are interconnect.
I love to explore seemingly opposing concepts, experiment with new materials and innovative techniques to create abstract art that symbolizes transformative ideas.
My process of creation is highly meditative, and I hope that the works transport this feeling to you. The aim is not just to travel to a destination, but to leave examples that assure others they are not lost or alone like signs on our path of a better now.
I´m happy you´re here. And have a question for you:
Do you ever find yourself caught in the chaos of a world that seems increasingly divided and stressful?
So many people around the globe share this feeling. That is something that we have in common. Maybe, a starting point, that unites us.
And what if there’s another place to be?
In my work as an architect and artist, I embark on a journey to discover that place – a place for happiness and inner peace.
I believe that life can be a source of joy and peace for everyone, as long as we reconnect with ourselves and, in doing so, with the world around us, with all. Everything is a fragment of its totality. All things are interconnect.
I love to explore seemingly opposing concepts, experiment with new materials and innovative techniques to create abstract art that symbolizes transformative ideas.
My process of creation is highly meditative, and I hope that the works transport this feeling to you. The aim is not just to travel to a destination, but to leave examples that assure others they are not lost or alone like signs on our path of a better now.
FEI ALEXELI
Fei Alexeli is a contemporary digital artist. Her unique style and aesthetics are deeply rooted in her background in Architecture, which she gained from Oxford Brookes university, University of East London and a half-completed Master on Design at Wille de Kooning Academy of Rotterdam.
Hailing from Greece (where she was born in 1987) a place of intense political, social and historical scene, Alexeli has been intrigued by the theme of escapism.
Alexeli’s digital work revolves around her fascination with tropical elements such as palm trees and retro Americana, combined with cosmic imagery. Her work serves as a vehicle to transport viewers away from reality into a utopian realm. Drawing from her architectural training, Alexeli’s artworks exhibit a strong sense of structure and composition, often juxtaposed with whimsical and surreal elements.
Alexeli is currently based in Thessaloniki, Greece. Her work has been exhibited internationally, showcasing her distinct blend of architectural precision and imaginative storytelling.
Hailing from Greece (where she was born in 1987) a place of intense political, social and historical scene, Alexeli has been intrigued by the theme of escapism.
Alexeli’s digital work revolves around her fascination with tropical elements such as palm trees and retro Americana, combined with cosmic imagery. Her work serves as a vehicle to transport viewers away from reality into a utopian realm. Drawing from her architectural training, Alexeli’s artworks exhibit a strong sense of structure and composition, often juxtaposed with whimsical and surreal elements.
Alexeli is currently based in Thessaloniki, Greece. Her work has been exhibited internationally, showcasing her distinct blend of architectural precision and imaginative storytelling.
Felipe Fredes
My works are meditations on the mystery of life and the inner certainty that life has
no transcendental purpose. My art is an alchemy that transforms my anxiety and
fear of disappearing into a golden mirror.
As an artist and active neuroscientist, I am constantly exploring and experimenting
with diverse materials and techniques. I have a special connection with brain
electron microscopy images. The electron microscope is an instrument by which
scientists investigate the very small world we cannot observe with traditional light
microscopy. Electron microscopy negatives of brain tissue are one of my main
working materials. I continue to experiment with these negatives, for instance,
combining silver gelatin printing, oil, pastels, and metal in my art practice. To me,
these electron microscopy images represent the moment of death but looked from
the inside. Although there is a long process that the brain tissue must undergo to
obtain these images, the brain is fixated on precisely when the animal dies. Thus, the
resulting image contains this moment and embodies the essence of life: the constant
self-production and change.
My images stare at us asking what will we do with this time we have alive?
FiLo
I see in the showcase of my sculptures the starting point of a conversation about belonging and exclusion, where extraordinary elements clash against recycled everyday use materials. The Monsters are a reflection about contemporary society. My reasoning addresses to the dual sense of social affiliation and exclusion that humans face every moment of their existence.
The Monsters: deformed acrobats balancing on their disproportionate limbs. Ridiculous, voluptuous and scary, they seduce and repulse in their (dis) human ambivalence. They are freaks of the XXI century, whims of society that express a desire of escape, but affirm the contrary.
Florence Obrecht
Portraiture is central to my work. It’s the fruit of an encounter between a person and an unconditional love of classical painting, folk and popular arts, and sometimes a singular medium.
I offer my models a staging idea (pose, costume, make-up) that they, in turn, will inhabit with their own universe.
The photographic session is quick and the painting time long.
Through painting, I try to find a presence.
I offer my models a staging idea (pose, costume, make-up) that they, in turn, will inhabit with their own universe.
The photographic session is quick and the painting time long.
Through painting, I try to find a presence.
Florian Japp
In my work, I seek a balance between chaos and order, between spontaneity and control. My art revolves around colors, shapes and structures that do not represent a direct object. I experiment with different techniques to create emotional and aesthetic expressions. Energy and movement are important elements in painting. I try to avoid a narrative reading in order to invite viewers to find their own interpretation. It is less about a clear message and more about a direct experience.
In meinem Schaffen suche ich die Balance zwischen Chaos und Ordnung, zwischen Spontaneität und Kontrolle. Meine Kunst dreht sich um Farben, Formen und Strukturen, die keinen direkten Gegenstand repräsentieren. Ich experimentiere mit verschiedenen Techniken, um emotionale und ästhetische Ausdrücke zu erzeugen. Energie und Bewegung sind wichtige Elemente beim Malen. Eine narrative Lesart versuche ich zu vermeiden, um Betrachter einzuladen, die eigene Interpretation zu finden. Es geht weniger um eine klare Botschaft als vielmehr um eine direkte Erfahrung.
In meinem Schaffen suche ich die Balance zwischen Chaos und Ordnung, zwischen Spontaneität und Kontrolle. Meine Kunst dreht sich um Farben, Formen und Strukturen, die keinen direkten Gegenstand repräsentieren. Ich experimentiere mit verschiedenen Techniken, um emotionale und ästhetische Ausdrücke zu erzeugen. Energie und Bewegung sind wichtige Elemente beim Malen. Eine narrative Lesart versuche ich zu vermeiden, um Betrachter einzuladen, die eigene Interpretation zu finden. Es geht weniger um eine klare Botschaft als vielmehr um eine direkte Erfahrung.
formless
formless is a ceramic artist working with material agency, coming into dialogue with clay and its materiality. formless combines organic to the otherworldly and alien, material to more spiritual dimensions. formless aims to bring a sense of ritual into the everyday through their ceramic objects. formless has exhibited and sold in various venues in Berlin and Helsinki.
Fran Speicher
Fran Speicher is a visual artist, curator, and cultural manager, hailing from Argentina during the pivotal return of democracy. This transformative period deeply informed his perspectives on freedom, change, and the quest for a distinct identity. His oeuvre is a compelling exploration of art as a medium for transcending personal challenges. Through his diverse series, Speicher delves into themes of identity, gender equality, social issues, and ecology.
Speicher’s artistic expression is notably figurative, often depicting ultra-feminine, queer, and erotic characters set within absurd, dramatic, and theatrical narratives that convey potent messages. His use of saturated colours reflects his cultural identity, while his stylistic influences draw from kitsch, Pop Art, Cubism, and interdisciplinary inspirations such as theatre, fashion design, film, and music.
Predominantly working with acrylic on canvas, Speicher’s artistic practice is also marked by experimentation with a variety of techniques including Chinese ink, collage, wine painting, and oriental pigments. His versatility extends to mediums such as object intervention, installations, murals, and fashion design.
Since 2006, Speicher has been participated in numerous in collective and solo exhibitions across various museums and galleries in locals and internationally. He is the founder of an artist collective dedicated to merging art with social advocacy. Fran Speicher currently resides in Stockhom,Sweden.
Speicher’s artistic expression is notably figurative, often depicting ultra-feminine, queer, and erotic characters set within absurd, dramatic, and theatrical narratives that convey potent messages. His use of saturated colours reflects his cultural identity, while his stylistic influences draw from kitsch, Pop Art, Cubism, and interdisciplinary inspirations such as theatre, fashion design, film, and music.
Predominantly working with acrylic on canvas, Speicher’s artistic practice is also marked by experimentation with a variety of techniques including Chinese ink, collage, wine painting, and oriental pigments. His versatility extends to mediums such as object intervention, installations, murals, and fashion design.
Since 2006, Speicher has been participated in numerous in collective and solo exhibitions across various museums and galleries in locals and internationally. He is the founder of an artist collective dedicated to merging art with social advocacy. Fran Speicher currently resides in Stockhom,Sweden.
Gatha Fiz
Through an excessive and psychedelic language, Fiz´s paintings represent memories that decompose in microorganisms, subtle landscapes and analog bytes that are diluted in the black void of the universe, in oblivion.
Fiz plays with colors, lights and volume, for her paintings are three-dimensional. But beyond this elaborate and distilled aesthetic, which is only the code through which the message is delivered, the intention is to (re)create dreamlike and lysergic spaces of memory through installations that are accompanied by ephemeral sculptures and soundscapes. These landscapes are born from experimentation with sounds from the personal library and are collages with notes of dark ambient music.
In her immersive spaces Fiz explores the psyche and confronts the viewers with the fragility of memories and existential emptiness.
Fiz plays with colors, lights and volume, for her paintings are three-dimensional. But beyond this elaborate and distilled aesthetic, which is only the code through which the message is delivered, the intention is to (re)create dreamlike and lysergic spaces of memory through installations that are accompanied by ephemeral sculptures and soundscapes. These landscapes are born from experimentation with sounds from the personal library and are collages with notes of dark ambient music.
In her immersive spaces Fiz explores the psyche and confronts the viewers with the fragility of memories and existential emptiness.
Gawie Joubert
Gawie Joubert’s ceramic sculptures “Lost in Reverie” and “Absorbed” encapsulate his ongoing battle with migraines. “Lost in Reverie,” a bust with an elongated neck gazing skyward, symbolizes the artist’s quest for tranquility amidst internal chaos. In contrast, “Absorbed,” a head with closed eyes, represents the serene exterior Joubert presents, despite the intense turmoil within. These works poignantly capture the dichotomy between external calm and internal suffering, inviting viewers to reflect on the silent struggle of enduring chronic pain. Joubert’s sculptures transform his personal agony into a universal exploration of resilience and the human spirit.
Giuseppe Randazzo
Experimenting with different mediums and styles, Giuseppe Randazzo enjoys the collision of symbols, idols and the material world. Ancient, fiction, human and everyday elements merge together bending common boundaries into unexpected and unique expression of beauty, power, life and death.
Greif Lazic
GREIF LAZIC, a queer art duo from Berlin, consists of Aleks, a child of ex-Yugoslavian immigrants, and Michele, who was born and raised in Italy. Their work delves into themes of identity, resistance, and queer politics, challenging societal norms and reflecting their personal journeys. Through their art, they aim to enrich the discourse on queer issues, confronting and redefining normativity with each creation.
Greta Martina
Greta Martina (b. 2000, Bologna, Italy) is an artist and independent curator. Her research is deeply rooted in words, sound, and the complexities of communication, exploring the interplay between different languages, movements, and evolving perceptions. Her practice spans photography, video and sound installation, and artist books. Her works reference to moments of solitude and then of sharing, traversing evolving geographies, capturing immutable feelings through fragile and everlasting materials.
Guadalupe Valdes
Guadalupe has been developing her work for over two decades. Her practice of experimental painting is characterized by the articulation of natural patrimony with found objects that reflect the memory of their transformation processes.
Her poetics seek out the formal construction of meaning, portraying nature and humankind as a single living organism, where everything is interrelated: patterns, rhythms, and ways of manifesting themselves over time. Guadalupe’s paintings are primeval and immersive landscapes that reveal geography, reflecting the territory’s genealogical and geological memory. In her work, matter does not disappear; rather, it is transformed—a conviction that drives her forward. Utilizing oil paint, sketches, and the installation of fragments of wood, stones, branches, or debris rescued throughout the territory, she unlocks the value of ancestral life, evoking a profound reality beyond physical corporeality.
Currently she is participating in the Nordart 2024 and preparing AlpesAndes, an exhibition associated with mountain ranges and their geographical, ancestral, and spiritual value, scheduled to be presented in Austria in September of 2025.
Currently she is participating in the Nordart 2024 and preparing AlpesAndes, an exhibition associated with mountain ranges and their geographical, ancestral, and spiritual value, scheduled to be presented in Austria in September of 2025.
Hannah Jones
Hannah Jones (born in Swansea, Wales) Is an abstract painter based in Berlin, Germany. Primarily working with acrylics and inks on canvas and paper. Music is the all-pervading element in each of her works, which have been shown in Galleries internationally. Jones builds up layers of colour to create abstract compositions that reflect the emotions and associations triggered by the music. The rhythm, being a temporal pattern, is translated into a series of painted layers –some of which remain visible on the surface while others are hidden, all informing the finished piece.
Helena Her
I am a Mexican artist based in Berlin. I studied in Mexico, Switzerland and Austria.
Drawing in its many forms is central to my practice but my passion for experimenting with other disciplines led them to find a new way of communicating with textiles. Their work encompasses many approaches within the discipline, from illustrations to site-specific works and installations. My work is inspired by social dialog and the possibility of opening up multiple perspectives on everyday life.
As a POC and non-binary person, I embrace expressing feelings and emotions through artistic practices.
Drawing in its many forms is central to my practice but my passion for experimenting with other disciplines led them to find a new way of communicating with textiles. Their work encompasses many approaches within the discipline, from illustrations to site-specific works and installations. My work is inspired by social dialog and the possibility of opening up multiple perspectives on everyday life.
As a POC and non-binary person, I embrace expressing feelings and emotions through artistic practices.
Helena Ospina
My work stands in the intersection between art and philosophy, it emerges from different practices I develop in order to understand existential questions. I search for answers while generating new questions to create a space of reflection in which the spectators can delve into their own inquiries. I work across different media including ceramics, weaving, video, performance, and installation in order to explore the interrelationship between the natural world and human existence.
In my ongoing research, I address the fundamental issue of time. Reflecting upon our perception of it and how our existence is determined by its social understanding. Within each project I perform durational processes over long periods of time; archiving, walking, asking, recovering, observing, stitching and repeating always with aims to further understand each question. In this search and alluding time, I play with the durability and ephemerality of the materials I working with; candle light, paper, water, clay and organic matter amongst others.
My work process shifts between research and poetic gestures that enable me to grasp more closely the concept of time. Organic shapes, words and immersive spaces are then created as a result of this exploration. I am interested in how the final installation or interaction creates a space of reflection that invites the viewers to pose their own questions about existence and time. The most essential part of my work is to interrogate what seems to be unanswerable.
In my ongoing research, I address the fundamental issue of time. Reflecting upon our perception of it and how our existence is determined by its social understanding. Within each project I perform durational processes over long periods of time; archiving, walking, asking, recovering, observing, stitching and repeating always with aims to further understand each question. In this search and alluding time, I play with the durability and ephemerality of the materials I working with; candle light, paper, water, clay and organic matter amongst others.
My work process shifts between research and poetic gestures that enable me to grasp more closely the concept of time. Organic shapes, words and immersive spaces are then created as a result of this exploration. I am interested in how the final installation or interaction creates a space of reflection that invites the viewers to pose their own questions about existence and time. The most essential part of my work is to interrogate what seems to be unanswerable.
Hildur Henrysdottir
Hildur Ása Henrýsdóttir grew up in Þórshöfn in the Langanes peninsula in northeast Iceland. In 2012, she obtained a BA in Modern Studies from the University of Akureyri. She graduated from the Fine Art department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2016. Henrýsdóttir lives and works between Berlin and Reykjavík. She uses different media in her art to give life to her ideas; watercolours, oil on canvas, soft sculptures and sometimes video and photography are part of her process of creation.
Henrýsdóttir’s works are personal, as she uses her own narrative and body, obscuring the frontier between fictional and autobiographical elements. By putting herself in the foreground in the artworks, she simultaneously provokes and suppresses the male gaze that tries to mould and regulate the female body. Her work depicts intimate moments free of taboos, embracing imperfection and blurring the line between what is meant to remain personal and what is socially acceptable to reveal in public. In most of her works, Henrýsdóttir portrays herself, exploring nudity and vulnerability, while undertaking an introspective journey into the relationship between her inner self, her own body, and others.
Henrýsdóttir’s works are personal, as she uses her own narrative and body, obscuring the frontier between fictional and autobiographical elements. By putting herself in the foreground in the artworks, she simultaneously provokes and suppresses the male gaze that tries to mould and regulate the female body. Her work depicts intimate moments free of taboos, embracing imperfection and blurring the line between what is meant to remain personal and what is socially acceptable to reveal in public. In most of her works, Henrýsdóttir portrays herself, exploring nudity and vulnerability, while undertaking an introspective journey into the relationship between her inner self, her own body, and others.
Hola i Chau
In Hola i Chau we explore the concepts of duality, opposites, and the tension between order and chaos; our name addresses this idea by playing with the binary spontaneous greetings hola (hi) and chau (bye). Our practice is process-led and it begins in an intuitive way with a spontaneous action that opens a dialogue with the material. From that point on, each decision is made as a response to the one before creating visual systems in which color and shape can express themselves.
Hope Bartley
In my artistic pursuits, I undertake a profound exploration and critique of intricate subjects such as masculinity, race, and post-colonialism. Through my approach to mixed media painting, I seek to engage the viewers’ diverse sensory experiences, encouraging contemplation of the nuanced dimensions inherent in these topics. Within the realm of post-colonialism, my work serves as a visual dialogue that challenges historical narratives, prompting reflections on the enduring impacts of colonial legacies, particularly in shaping perceptions of race and gender.
Societal critiques are seamlessly woven into the fabric of my art, urging viewers to confront uncomfortable truths and partake in conversations that transcend the confines of the canvas. The deliberate venture into new materials reflects my commitment to pushing the boundaries of artistic expression. This exploration into uncharted territories enables me to construct narratives that are both visually captivating and conceptually profound. As I navigate the intersections of diverse perspectives, my art evolves into a dynamic platform for meaningful discourse.
Societal critiques are seamlessly woven into the fabric of my art, urging viewers to confront uncomfortable truths and partake in conversations that transcend the confines of the canvas. The deliberate venture into new materials reflects my commitment to pushing the boundaries of artistic expression. This exploration into uncharted territories enables me to construct narratives that are both visually captivating and conceptually profound. As I navigate the intersections of diverse perspectives, my art evolves into a dynamic platform for meaningful discourse.
Horekb
Jorge Linares (Horekb) is an artist and Dr. in Philosophy who has resided in Berlin since 2008. Inspired by the thoughts of Nietzsche, he moved to the German capital to write his doctoral thesis, “The Play in Nietzsche’s Tragedy,” where he explores the idea of play as a key to understanding the German philosopher’s thoughts in connection with Heraclitus: “Play is present in every moment of Nietzsche’s thought, and among all the players, one always stands out above the rest—the child.”
After presenting his doctoral thesis in February 2016, decided to step away from academic philosophy to seek new horizons. It was precisely with his departure from academic philosophy and the birth of his daughter, Luisa, that found in art a means of expression that provided him with a space for play, experimentation, and freedom: “Luisa arrived at the right time. Together, we found in watercolors, crayons, and colored pencils a means of expression and communication where she was the teacher and I was the student.”
This led to the birth of the Horekb project in 2017. An artistic project that, without losing the child’s perspective, blends styles, particularly the use of watercolors with digital art.
After presenting his doctoral thesis in February 2016, decided to step away from academic philosophy to seek new horizons. It was precisely with his departure from academic philosophy and the birth of his daughter, Luisa, that found in art a means of expression that provided him with a space for play, experimentation, and freedom: “Luisa arrived at the right time. Together, we found in watercolors, crayons, and colored pencils a means of expression and communication where she was the teacher and I was the student.”
This led to the birth of the Horekb project in 2017. An artistic project that, without losing the child’s perspective, blends styles, particularly the use of watercolors with digital art.
HYSTERA
HYSTERA (dr Alicja Pawluczuk) is a multidisciplinary artist and digital inequalities researcher whose practice intertwines art, community engagement, and academia. Her artistic practice explores the interplay between research and creative interventions for social change. By embracing participatory, intersectional, and experimental approaches, she aims to create spaces, communities, and artworks that challenge boundaries and spark conversations. Her work is grounded in her lived experiences of invisible disability, neurodivergence, and peripheral whiteness as an Eastern European migrant. She currently works as a Research Fellow at Leeds University/ She is a co-founder of Endo Violence Collective and founder Digital Beez.
Ilze Brenn
I am a visual artist specializing in textile art. I find inspiration by reflecting upon the borders of my understanding. Painting is beautiful, but I find it more engaging to create art with threads, because textiles accompany a person throughout their life–it is what distinguishes us from animals. Through my artwork, I look at themes such as the duality of personalities, society’s standards, self-awareness and more
Infra
Infras artistic journey started with the choice of tape as a medium. This had a strong influence on his visual style which is inspired by straight lines, urban structures, geometric patterns and computer graphics. The limitations and possibilities of tape as a medium made the creative process exciting and challenging, but at the same time simple and playful.
In his often walkable and interactive installations Infra literally brakes with physical borders and viewing habits. His artworks provoke and confuse by dissolving rooms into geometric patterns, however they stay within a certain framework of aesthetic ideas navigating between order and chaos.
On canvas his abstract compositions search to connect the virtual and the physical space taking inspiration from digital aesthetics and bringing them back into the real world.
In his often walkable and interactive installations Infra literally brakes with physical borders and viewing habits. His artworks provoke and confuse by dissolving rooms into geometric patterns, however they stay within a certain framework of aesthetic ideas navigating between order and chaos.
On canvas his abstract compositions search to connect the virtual and the physical space taking inspiration from digital aesthetics and bringing them back into the real world.
Ireland 3000
Ireland 3000’s work explores the profound influence of Christianity on our society while drawing parallels between religious devotion and the faith demanded by the creative process. By reworking iconic Catholic imagery from artists like Caravaggio, Rueben’s, and Gentileschi through the medium of large-scale woodblock prints, he can confront the stereotypes of originality and the complexities of belief, both religious and creative.
Irina Jigilo
I began my journey in photography at the age of 10 when my dad gifted me a Kodak camera for my birthday. It started with simple shots of friends, street cats and dogs, and random passersby. Even now, nothing has changed: I walk, I observe, and I capture moments that are funny, melancholic, beautiful, or sometimes a bit ugly. I’ve always used analog and never switched to digital, and I never will.
Isa Johannsen
I have been working as a graphic designer and art director for more than two decades –
and I paint.
For me, painting is a natural continuation of my graphic-design profession, but with a much greater degree of freedom. The paintings live from the tension between graphic structure and intuitive painting.
My artistic process begins with assembling black and white papers on the canvas. The overlapping and merging of the papers creates a rough grid that forms the basis of the picture and which I then fill and expand with colours and shapes. I love to incorporate intuition and coincidence into my work. My working material includes acrylic paints, chalk, markers, acrylic pens, ballpoint pens and anything else I can get my hands on. My choice of colours is deliberately reduced, dominated by restrained tones such as light blue, pale yellow, pink and grey, but also deep black. Through the powerful integration of bright orange or strong pink, I not only set accents, but also intensify the tension between the colours.
I paint, paint over, wipe off, paste over and let structures shine through. The unpredictable and the fragmentation that results are decisive for thefinal image. However, the geometry always serves as a framework.
The layers in my pictures, some concealed, others still recognisable, are evidence of a process of courage, of letting go and the willingness to embrace something new.
For me, painting is a natural continuation of my graphic-design profession, but with a much greater degree of freedom. The paintings live from the tension between graphic structure and intuitive painting.
My artistic process begins with assembling black and white papers on the canvas. The overlapping and merging of the papers creates a rough grid that forms the basis of the picture and which I then fill and expand with colours and shapes. I love to incorporate intuition and coincidence into my work. My working material includes acrylic paints, chalk, markers, acrylic pens, ballpoint pens and anything else I can get my hands on. My choice of colours is deliberately reduced, dominated by restrained tones such as light blue, pale yellow, pink and grey, but also deep black. Through the powerful integration of bright orange or strong pink, I not only set accents, but also intensify the tension between the colours.
I paint, paint over, wipe off, paste over and let structures shine through. The unpredictable and the fragmentation that results are decisive for thefinal image. However, the geometry always serves as a framework.
The layers in my pictures, some concealed, others still recognisable, are evidence of a process of courage, of letting go and the willingness to embrace something new.
Isabel de Andrés Velasco
Isabel de Andres Velasco is a sculpture artist from Segovia, Spain. Her work expresses the never-ending reactions between elements and materials and can be summarised as “art in motion”.
Her current collection is called “Ánimas” ( or “souls”” in Spanish). Sculptures made in the shaping of concrete with fabric.
Unlike sculptures used to commemorate, Isa is interested in the life of the pieces themself. How does their materiality – much like a human body – express and resist the constraints and limits of the process that makes them?
Each is alive and breathing, as sensed in their textures, lines and deepening wrinkles. And, depending on the viewers gaze, their moods can dance between waking up, curiosity, and apathy.
Her current collection is called “Ánimas” ( or “souls”” in Spanish). Sculptures made in the shaping of concrete with fabric.
Unlike sculptures used to commemorate, Isa is interested in the life of the pieces themself. How does their materiality – much like a human body – express and resist the constraints and limits of the process that makes them?
Each is alive and breathing, as sensed in their textures, lines and deepening wrinkles. And, depending on the viewers gaze, their moods can dance between waking up, curiosity, and apathy.
Itamar Yehiel
Embroidery, a timeless and global craft, has always served as a medium for storytelling.
Itamar merges ancient traditions with innovation to re-introduce embroidery as fine art and offer three-dimensional, emotional and poetic interpretations of organic objects. His work blurs the lines between tradition and contemporary expression, exploring paradoxes and philosophical ideas. Like embroidery, nature is a universal language, allowing him to convey intricate, personal, and global stories through its colors, shapes, and textures. In 2023, my work was presented in museums like the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin and the Grassimuseum in Leipzig.
Itamar merges ancient traditions with innovation to re-introduce embroidery as fine art and offer three-dimensional, emotional and poetic interpretations of organic objects. His work blurs the lines between tradition and contemporary expression, exploring paradoxes and philosophical ideas. Like embroidery, nature is a universal language, allowing him to convey intricate, personal, and global stories through its colors, shapes, and textures. In 2023, my work was presented in museums like the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin and the Grassimuseum in Leipzig.
Iveta Smita
In my artistic language, I want to achieve seeming spontaneity, but in the process of work it is thought out and weighed. Art for me is to speak calmly and measuredly. I believe that simplicity can be powerful. It creates atmosphere and sensibility, that’s important and it’s more than a masterful rendering of what you see. Maybe that’s why I speak quietly in my works and only use a couple of colors and ink. I want to create a situation where the viewer is given just enough information to start a conversation, but not enough to draw a conclusion. I use texture and layering of silk to achieve an emotional movement where the viewer can come to their own thoughts.
Jacqueline Huskisson
A behemoth of a woman and destructor of narratives both linear and abstract, Jacqueline’s artistic practice encompasses everything that makes us uneasy. Huskisson resides in a body broken and bruised, seeking salvation in the stories of youth, nostalgia, and witchery. A breach of unrecognized folklore is spewing forth from old wounds. Symbols and memories come together with each new brushstroke, each carving, every seam. Her art searches for one’s place in our metaphysical realm while examining historical and societal relationships to the natural world using the human body as context and narrative. Memories go up into smoke and through the process of making she finds salvation.
Jana Jacob
Jana Jacob, a painter living in Berlin, brings a mixture of self-portrayal, latent a mixture of self-portrayal, latent exhibitionism and voyeurism. exhibitionism and voyeurism. With increasingly saturated colors and bold, rough brushstrokes, she reveals the subtle interplay between an often inaccessible intimacy and the shame-filled, hesitant desire to show oneself.
The human body parts, which she often depicts in detail, develop their own symmetry and are transformed into landscape-like elevations, ravines and caves that tell their own stories out of their context and tell their own stories.
In her more recent works, the artist incorporates Thai fabrics into her paintings. The fabrics and fabric patterns represent pictorial layers that create a multidimensional scene; the painted people and the fabric layers interweave two worlds together.
The human body parts, which she often depicts in detail, develop their own symmetry and are transformed into landscape-like elevations, ravines and caves that tell their own stories out of their context and tell their own stories.
In her more recent works, the artist incorporates Thai fabrics into her paintings. The fabrics and fabric patterns represent pictorial layers that create a multidimensional scene; the painted people and the fabric layers interweave two worlds together.
Jasmin Valcarcel
Jasmin Valcarcel is a photographer from Cape Town, South Africa with German and Sierra Leonean heritage. She graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town with an Honors degree in Fine Art, majoring in photography.
Jasmin in currently based in Berlin, Germany and focuses predominantly on commercial photographic work. In her personal creative projects, she is interested in themes such as Identity and heritage, explored through portraiture, specifically self portraiture, and the representation of the black body in art, photography and the media as a whole.
Jasmin in currently based in Berlin, Germany and focuses predominantly on commercial photographic work. In her personal creative projects, she is interested in themes such as Identity and heritage, explored through portraiture, specifically self portraiture, and the representation of the black body in art, photography and the media as a whole.
Jessi Kammerer
In comic-like fantasy worlds, humans, animals, and fabulous creatures meet in vivid, dynamic scenes. In colorful detail, I explore the quest for connection and love, embedding it in a constant longing for warmth and sunlight. My background in psychology and contemporary dance has shaped my eye for the physical expressions of social interaction.
Often, my characters’ emotional openness is met with misunderstanding. Nonetheless, I attempt to strip these failures of any tragedy by transforming them into lighthearted playfulness. Through exaggerated symbols and whimsical elements, I invite viewers to embrace eccentricities without judgment, finding inspiration in their vibrant oddities.
Often, my characters’ emotional openness is met with misunderstanding. Nonetheless, I attempt to strip these failures of any tragedy by transforming them into lighthearted playfulness. Through exaggerated symbols and whimsical elements, I invite viewers to embrace eccentricities without judgment, finding inspiration in their vibrant oddities.
Jette
In “trash-life”, Berlin based artist and media designer Jette offers a contemporary perspective on the still-life sujet. She finds still-life like scenes in the streets and replicates them in oil on canvas. „Its an ironic play of contrasting staged vanitas still-life with the ugly of the mundane presented in a coincidental arrangement of miscellaneous items. If vanitas is about the fleetness of life and materialism, trash is today’s version.”
Jette Leder
Step into the intimate world of Jette Leder’s (b1983 Dresden) artistry, where the mundane becomes profound and everyday gestures echo the symphony of human existence. As a self-taught artist, she delves into the depths of the human body, exploring its nuances and subtleties with each brushstroke. Drawing inspiration from luminaries like Lucien Freud, Egon Schiele and Jenny Saville, she employs traditional techniques to unveil the feminine perspective on life’s canvas. Through modern expressionistic colors and meticulous detail, she invites you to ponder the question: how much detail of the female body is needed to tell our story? Join her on a journey of introspection and celebration, where the raw beauty of existence takes center stage, inviting you to reconsider perceptions and embrace the journey of self-discovery.
Jo Rüßmann
Jo Rüßmann is a printmaker and visual storyteller. She works with screen-print and risography; using vibrant colours and strong, high-contrast linework to conjure up enigmatic scenes both real and imagined. Jo draws upon the weird and the surreal; her stylised figures appear as masked actors in an inescapable mythic drama.
Joachim Ramin
Making the hidden visible – or concealing the obvious.
His works focus on exploring and deepening the perception that is altered by light, determining and specifying his own position and point of view (of the viewer) in relation to the respective subject and object: Abstract in virtual or supposedly real space or based on one’s own point of view – real or within the social situation and its complex contexts.
In this way, the “opposing view” (landscapes), concealment (covered) or fragmentation/division (divided landscape) are directed towards a particular perception of the object and thus also change the original view of the object/things.
His works focus on exploring and deepening the perception that is altered by light, determining and specifying his own position and point of view (of the viewer) in relation to the respective subject and object: Abstract in virtual or supposedly real space or based on one’s own point of view – real or within the social situation and its complex contexts.
In this way, the “opposing view” (landscapes), concealment (covered) or fragmentation/division (divided landscape) are directed towards a particular perception of the object and thus also change the original view of the object/things.
Joana Bail
Joana Bail, born in 1996 in Lomé (Togo), is a contemporary oil painter residing and working in Berlin. She is known for her intimate portraits of women at home. In her work, she explores the themes of self-reflection in everyday life. Having studied business administration before painting, she finds herself reconciling the technical part of the painting process – geometry, perspective and composition – with the urge to create paintings that evoke a feeling of calm and melancholy. The act of “looking inwards” is a recurring theme in her work, highlighting the importance of self-care and self-love.
Johanna Dreyer
Johanna Dreyer is a contemporary artist from Berlin, Germany. In her figurative oil paintings she collages memories, qualities, colors and textures with artifacts, symbols, creatures and gestures. She mixes culture into nature and emotions into time. The outcome: carefully crafted worlds, rooted in everyday life, transcending to their own place and universe. Coming from a background of graphic design, Johanna has a strong sense of composition, clarity and zeitgeist.
Jose Romussi
Jose proposes a creative exercise based on experimentation with materials related to textile art. Jose has used techniques such as embroidery, weaving and patchwork, always based on the classic disciplines of design, drawing and photography. He describes his abstract embroidery work as if they were paintings: shapes that range from geometric, color gradients and subtle touches of experience—both of the everyday in the city, as well as the organic in nature. His pieces feature formal references and, in some ways, conceptual to modernist abstraction, while challenging the conventions of traditional weaving. As a self-taught embroiderer, his process has been exploratory and laborious, and has expanded over the years through trial and error to include complex forms, using the texture of the material to create different compositions.
Joy Chen
In her acrylic paintings, Joy Chen embraces expressionism with a focus on vivid colors and smooth lines to transform everyday objects into captivating visions. Her style is characterized by the use of intense blue hues and bold, trippy lines that create a dynamic flowing effect, inviting viewers to explore the blurred boundaries between reality and perception. Through this approach, she aims to elevate daily common items with emotional depth and a visual journey. Each piece is not just an artwork but a dialogue in color and form, challenging and engaging the observer to find beauty in the ordinary.
Juan deCárdenas
I like to try to transmit through abstract geometry. Using different materials to say differnent things. Trying to make the stone light, fluid and dinamic. Trying to make the concret playfull and colorful, as a child. Trying to play with geometry as a painting. trying to make things different in a classical way.
Juan Malte Haußen
Juan Malte Haußen, geboren in Kassel, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.
In seinen Arbeitsprozessen erstellt er mit Ölfarbe auf Leinwand eine nahezu surrealistische und abstrakte Szenerie, welche von seinen mit Kohle leicht skizzierten Figuren bespielt wird. Durch die Ölfarbe bekommt die Umgebung eine gewisse Standhaftigkeit, wodurch die dynamischen, aber gleichzeitig vergänglichen Figuren, wie flüchtige Besucherinnen in seinen Werken wirken.
Haußen verarbeitet seine Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen aus dem Alltag in eine inszenierte Geschichte. Daher erinnern seine Werke an ein Standbild aus einem Theaterstück oder einem Film.
In seinen Arbeitsprozessen erstellt er mit Ölfarbe auf Leinwand eine nahezu surrealistische und abstrakte Szenerie, welche von seinen mit Kohle leicht skizzierten Figuren bespielt wird. Durch die Ölfarbe bekommt die Umgebung eine gewisse Standhaftigkeit, wodurch die dynamischen, aber gleichzeitig vergänglichen Figuren, wie flüchtige Besucherinnen in seinen Werken wirken.
Haußen verarbeitet seine Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen aus dem Alltag in eine inszenierte Geschichte. Daher erinnern seine Werke an ein Standbild aus einem Theaterstück oder einem Film.
Julia Shanaytsa
In today’s reality, where attention is scattered and man defines himself through objects, the artist Julia Shanaytsa finds in this fragmentation and change a source of inspiration. The human desire to describe oneself through objects, these tiny particles of consumer society, becomes a key point in her art.
In her work, the artist explores attributions and objects as symbols of contemporary existence. In analogy to Renaissance portraits, where each object has its own meaning, today’s objects become attributes that characterise us in this ever-changing reality.
The complexity of the contemporary system, where objects are impermanent and subject to obsolescence, creates a sense of confusion in the individual. However, it is in this shift and change that the artist finds beauty. The ability to capture moments in this fluid flow becomes the source of its creativity.
In her work, the artist explores attributions and objects as symbols of contemporary existence. In analogy to Renaissance portraits, where each object has its own meaning, today’s objects become attributes that characterise us in this ever-changing reality.
The complexity of the contemporary system, where objects are impermanent and subject to obsolescence, creates a sense of confusion in the individual. However, it is in this shift and change that the artist finds beauty. The ability to capture moments in this fluid flow becomes the source of its creativity.
Julia Sossinka
My installations are an invitation to the visitor to enter a three dimensional painting. Emerging in a piece of art, forgetting the outside world, letting go in a twilight zone, getting lost for a while in the colors, organic forms and structures, that´s what my art is about.
Katia Cutropia
Katia is a French artist who lives and works in Berlin.
She is an autodidact who explores the world with a curious eye, revealing unseen beauty in the most ordinary object.
„My artistic journey embraces change, growth, and the beauty of impermanence. Through my work, I aim to capture transformation’s core, both personally and universally. My art revolves around reflecting and evolving. In my analog photography, I freeze moments in time, highlighting the transient beauty of ephemeral scenes against solid structures. Each click of the shutter is a reminder of life’s constant motion, where brief instants merge with enduring architecture, creating a dialogue between impermanence and permanence. In parallel, my paintings explore the depths of metamorphosis, using layers of colour and texture to express the intricate dance of change, using brushstrokes like the rhythm of life, and inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the landscape of the human experience. Through visual storytelling, I try to deliver a sense of connection and resonance within the changing tapestry of existence. My art serves as a mirror reflecting the vibrant spectrum of life, inviting viewers to contemplate their own journeys of transformation.
„My artistic journey embraces change, growth, and the beauty of impermanence. Through my work, I aim to capture transformation’s core, both personally and universally. My art revolves around reflecting and evolving. In my analog photography, I freeze moments in time, highlighting the transient beauty of ephemeral scenes against solid structures. Each click of the shutter is a reminder of life’s constant motion, where brief instants merge with enduring architecture, creating a dialogue between impermanence and permanence. In parallel, my paintings explore the depths of metamorphosis, using layers of colour and texture to express the intricate dance of change, using brushstrokes like the rhythm of life, and inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the landscape of the human experience. Through visual storytelling, I try to deliver a sense of connection and resonance within the changing tapestry of existence. My art serves as a mirror reflecting the vibrant spectrum of life, inviting viewers to contemplate their own journeys of transformation.
Katie Straus
Berlin-based abstract artist Katie translates emotions and experiences into vibrant paintings. Her work layers rich colors and textures, that reveal representational forms – flowers, vessels, things we eat and drink – reflecting her love of nature and connection. Working quickly with a focus on joy, Katie hopes her pieces celebrate the beauty found in everyday life.
Katja Stögmüller
Katja Stögmüller knits pictures in Jacquard technique using cotton yarn. The motifs are divided into 4 or 5 colors and visualized in a grid or pixels. This is achieved by creating each stitch on a semi-professional knitting machine from the early 90s, equipped with a cartridge and television, combined with modern programs. Every point in the grid image corresponds to a stitch in the knitting process. The size and density of the grid generate light, shadow, and a certain three-dimensionality, enhanced by the texture of the woolen knit and one’s own perspective.
Kim Kheradmandi
Kim Kheradmandi is a British Iranian artist currently based in Berlin.
He works with various media, such as painting, digital graphics, collage, illustration and poetry.
Whilst not necessarily approaching his work from an intentionally conceptual angle, Kim’s art often blurs the line between surface aesthetics and introspective/external thought.
Kim’s work is ultimately an outlet to document and filter his existence into a visual language, although, language itself, and typography also play a significant role.
Like his choice of medium, many different things can be a source of inspiration, whether visual, sensory, or audio.
He works with various media, such as painting, digital graphics, collage, illustration and poetry.
Whilst not necessarily approaching his work from an intentionally conceptual angle, Kim’s art often blurs the line between surface aesthetics and introspective/external thought.
Kim’s work is ultimately an outlet to document and filter his existence into a visual language, although, language itself, and typography also play a significant role.
Like his choice of medium, many different things can be a source of inspiration, whether visual, sensory, or audio.
Klara Bezug
Klara Bezug is the artist persona of Italian photographer Gaia Marturano, known in Berlin for her surreal photomontages.
Collecting and archiving old postcards and photographs , Marturano uses these images both as inspiration and as a medium. Within her practice she investigates the topic of memory, nostalgia in an attempt to bridge the gap of time.
KOLLASCH
Kollasch has been making papercollages since 2008. He began folding in 2014 and, after a period of experimentation, settled on a basic shape: the triangle. By using a wide variety of used and new papers and ever new forms of folding, he creates a variety of unique pieces of “Falter” that are based on sustainability and recycling materials.
Kollasch’s “Falter”, however, are not dead taxidermied animals, but “Falter -For those who do not like dead animals”.
Kollasch lives and works in Berlin
Kollasch’s “Falter”, however, are not dead taxidermied animals, but “Falter -For those who do not like dead animals”.
Kollasch lives and works in Berlin
Lan Kroeger
I delight in the little moments in life in which we can take pleasure – funny or absurd moments- things you might miss if you’re not paying attention. These are things I like to document through my work.
I am also working on a sensuality project – exploring those deep bodily sensations we feel when we connect with someone else, of feeling both lost and found, of uncertainty and joy. For me, the Jungle captures this essence, hence why plants play a strong role in my paintings.
I am also working on a sensuality project – exploring those deep bodily sensations we feel when we connect with someone else, of feeling both lost and found, of uncertainty and joy. For me, the Jungle captures this essence, hence why plants play a strong role in my paintings.
Lana Anicic
My art is a reflection of personal impressions and obsessions, which mostly revolve around feelings of being lost and wanting warmth and peace. The medium doesn’t really matter. Art is a powerful tool for self-discovery. My goal is to create any emotional response in people.
Landro
I create analogue, digital and mixed-media collages. Using photographs, newspaper clippings, drawings, materials, found objects and the digital transformation of analogue material, I create works that captivate, irritate, and fascinate with their strong visual messages.
I love every part of the process, from the search for images, the intricate cutting, tearing, or folding of the paper, the assembling and arranging to the documentation.
The experimental process is inspired by surprisingly seen objects and colors. On the one hand, I address social problems; on the other, the combination of exciting motifs and materials unfolds a dynamic that leads to another world.
I love every part of the process, from the search for images, the intricate cutting, tearing, or folding of the paper, the assembling and arranging to the documentation.
The experimental process is inspired by surprisingly seen objects and colors. On the one hand, I address social problems; on the other, the combination of exciting motifs and materials unfolds a dynamic that leads to another world.
Lars Plessentin
Aufgewachsen zwischen alten Fotokameras, einer Armada an
Familienfotografien und antiquarischen, in Leder eingebundenen,
chemischen Enzyklopädien aus dem 19. Jahrhundert zur
Fotoentwicklung interessierte sich Lars Plessentin in seiner Jugend für
Vieles – außer für Fotografie und Kunst. Stattdessen widmete er sich,
ganz adoleszenten Neigungen folgend, dem Graffiti. Das änderte sich
schlagartig während seines Studiums des Produktdesigns: Durch einen
Zufall belegte er Fotografieseminare – und entwickelt erste
künstlerische Arbeiten. Seine Arbeitsweise ist lange zeit ganz auf die
Möglichkeiten der analogen Fotografie ausgerichtet, oft allerdings
erweitert um experimentelle Techniken und Verfahren.
In seiner aktuellen Serie verändert Lars Plessentin diese Arbeitsweisen,
aufs Neue, er nähert sich seiner Vorliebe für Objekte, das Bauen von
Modellen ganz im Zeichen seines Studiums. Er experimentiert mit
Strukturen, Elementen, der Gebrauchspatina – ein Nachklang seiner
Graffitizeit –, analogen Techniken der bearbeitung von Materialen
ergeben Endschliff. Dadurch entstehen unkonventionelle, gar kuriose
Objkete, Wandinstalationen , gewürzt mit einem Hauch von scharfen
Sarkasmus und Nuancen spitzer Ironie.
Liad Shadmi
Liad Shadmi is a freelance Graphic Designer and Art Director based in Hamburg/Germany. He graduated with honors from Shenkar College of Engineering & Design, one of the leading design schools in Israel. Liad specializes in brand identity, type design, print and digital design, with a strong emphasis on typography in all his work. He is passionate about researching design, particularly vernacular design, and believes that design should be rooted in deep and meaningful research. Liad strives to combine heritage and classic attributes with contemporary virtues in his work.
Linda Vilka
Linda Vilka (1995) is a multidisciplinary artist and storyteller from Latvia, who has studied art in Latvia, Lithuania, and the Netherlands. Vilka works with the meaning of self-reflection, emotional thickenings and the ways they can be unraveled. By using participatory, community and contemporary art she rejuvenates forgotten places, reflecting how our surroundings affect the way we remember, express and decompress. She paints with materials, words, and harsh paints, tailoring her approach to each narrative and concept specifically.
Linnea Lieth
Linnea Lieth is a German-American artist and illustrator. After completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017, she relocated to Berlin. Her life drawings explore the use of gesture to create a perceived identity of their subjects — either nude or costumed, here as characters from Norse mythology.
Lisa Lemke
My work revolves around layers, showcased through abstract acrylic paintings and digital collages. Abstract art offers a canvas for varied interpretations, akin to a Rorschach test, while digital collages construct tranquil escapes from urban life in Berlin. The city’s grey winters inspire my craving for vibrant colors, evident in my pieces. My process starts with a colour palette, expressing emotions and experiences through spontaneous strokes. Embracing accidents and discoveries, my art evolves through a dialogue between the (digital) canvas and artist. Each layer adds depth, reflecting the intertwining of intuition and intention in my creations.
Lonni Wong
My work examines the question of how we are all connected, in particular connections that are mutually dependent. I am fascinated by the common ground of a coexistence of two opposing forces or qualities.
I question the interweaving between the familiar and the seemingly foreign, which results in ceramic sculptures as an interplay between form, texture and color.
My objects often appear cluster-like, in pairs or similar to a cell division. I mix my own glaze to create a unique volcanic, lichen or metallic shiny surface, that imitates a narrative alien organic surface.
I question the interweaving between the familiar and the seemingly foreign, which results in ceramic sculptures as an interplay between form, texture and color.
My objects often appear cluster-like, in pairs or similar to a cell division. I mix my own glaze to create a unique volcanic, lichen or metallic shiny surface, that imitates a narrative alien organic surface.
Luca Morgantini
Luca Morgantini is an Italian documentary and story teller photographer mostly focused on social, environmental and scientific issues.
He studied photography in Florence (Apab, Marangoni) and Boston at the New England School Of Photography (NESOP). Once he had finished his studies in General Biology at the Children’s Hospital he decided to put all his effort into portraying his own interpretation of reality through the lens of the camera. Among several collaborations such as photographer Alessandro Bencini, Fzero Studio, e-Pitti, De Biasi, he has also worked with the Terra Project collective and is now developing his own photography projects around the world.
His irrepressible street photographer nature and spirit has led to several exhibitions of his projects being held in galleries and artists’ studios in Italy and abroad. He was a former teacher of photography at the Michelangelo Institute in Florence for several years and he still holds photography courses and workshops which has developed throughout years of experience. He works for projects, galleries, events, commercials and fashion as a freelance photographer.
His own photography is based on an attention to composition and searching for the light in order to draw out the image with its own melancholy and dark bitter sweet feeling atmosphere that often reflects the personality of the artist. He lives and works in Berlin.
He studied photography in Florence (Apab, Marangoni) and Boston at the New England School Of Photography (NESOP). Once he had finished his studies in General Biology at the Children’s Hospital he decided to put all his effort into portraying his own interpretation of reality through the lens of the camera. Among several collaborations such as photographer Alessandro Bencini, Fzero Studio, e-Pitti, De Biasi, he has also worked with the Terra Project collective and is now developing his own photography projects around the world.
His irrepressible street photographer nature and spirit has led to several exhibitions of his projects being held in galleries and artists’ studios in Italy and abroad. He was a former teacher of photography at the Michelangelo Institute in Florence for several years and he still holds photography courses and workshops which has developed throughout years of experience. He works for projects, galleries, events, commercials and fashion as a freelance photographer.
His own photography is based on an attention to composition and searching for the light in order to draw out the image with its own melancholy and dark bitter sweet feeling atmosphere that often reflects the personality of the artist. He lives and works in Berlin.
Lucas Mateluna
As a collage and 3D artist, I have always been fascinated by the idea of merging the tangible with the intangible, the physical with the ethereal. My work is an exploration of architectural spaces intertwined with abstract figures that represent the unknown and unseen spirits and elements in our lives. To further enhance the immersive experience of my art, I have incorporated Augmented Reality (AR) features, creating a unique, interactive journey into the world of the unseen.
Lucille Guder
I am Lucille, a French self-taught artist living in Berlin.
I create colorful art pieces endlessly inspired by women’s bodies and flowers, using acrylic and real dry flowers.
I make art to empower women and bring joy.
Luke E Holden
Luke is a visual and sound artist from Dublin, Ireland. His artwork is primarily focused on the medium of glass, exploring themes to do with our presentness of self in the contemporary world. He uses sound to focus our attention and plays with the noises we filter out or have grown to subdue in an attempt to momentarily reconnect us to time and place.
Lura
Lura is an art duo from berlin, which was founded in 2019.
They are embossed by urban contemporary art. Their artworks are specialized in mixed media canvases wich mainly show actually differences and problems in our society.
The images of Lura are filled with a lot of content contrast. These starts with the combination of painting and photography both disciplines are in a historical dispute of defining art. This conflict holds on until now and it is a secondary aim of the artist to reduce the prejudices with the collision of media. The primary aim of the artists is to take influence on the social imbalance. Therefor the artists use provocative symbols and show the criticism in an esthetic way.
They are embossed by urban contemporary art. Their artworks are specialized in mixed media canvases wich mainly show actually differences and problems in our society.
The images of Lura are filled with a lot of content contrast. These starts with the combination of painting and photography both disciplines are in a historical dispute of defining art. This conflict holds on until now and it is a secondary aim of the artist to reduce the prejudices with the collision of media. The primary aim of the artists is to take influence on the social imbalance. Therefor the artists use provocative symbols and show the criticism in an esthetic way.
Magdalena Paz
For the artist, a lifetime in sport and in art define the process towards her goals in both practices the same. Magdalena seeks to achieve a harmonious manipulation of medium and content through research and experimentation, as does the athlete aim to achieve a harmonious manipulation of his body through training. Artist and athlete require discipline and knowledge of technique: preparation, and practice, but this can only take them so far. From there, the ability to respond and improvise to situations as they appear is essential and conducive to new knowledge. She explores and quiets curiosities that come into her awareness by confining them in a physical space where they can move on to provoke awareness, or questions, in others.
Magdalena Piech
Magdalena Piech (b. 1989 in Krasnik, Poland) lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Her interest lies in the exploration of emotion and different mental states through material texture. Her subject matter often involves self portraiture and fetishism that she manifests in meticulous graphite or charcoal renderings on paper.
Mana Urakami
Memories that have been completely forgotten are revived through hand embroidery. Show new faces.
Mandy Merkel
Mandy Merkel, born in East Berlin in 1986, has a strong bond with her city, where she has lived ever since. Despite early creative adventures, she didn’t consistently pursue art. In 2019, after a decade without serious practice, she returned to creating. Since then, she’s explored various techniques, focusing on painting, printing, textiles, and photography. She uses photography to capture small moments and significant changes in her city and beyond. Preferring analog photography, she finds it forces her to slow down and be more aware. Additionally, she cherishes the surprise of seeing the developed photos for the first time.
Mari Foggy
Mari’s artwork is a reflection that she had started with herself. The first painting has been drawing in a challenging period of her life. She was listening to music and painting images that popped up in her head. It was her special moment when artist showed her feeling up.
The meanings people put into music inspire Mari. However, we are often ashamed to share a playlist as well as our emotions. So her mission is to give an opportunity to manifest. Mari want to illustrate how beautiful feelings are, using bright vibrant colors and visuals, and how important it is to express them.
The meanings people put into music inspire Mari. However, we are often ashamed to share a playlist as well as our emotions. So her mission is to give an opportunity to manifest. Mari want to illustrate how beautiful feelings are, using bright vibrant colors and visuals, and how important it is to express them.
Maria Jatzlau
Her focus is black and white photography, which she taught herself, inspired by her grandfather. She finds inspiration in small villages and surreal things, such as bizarre dreams or thoughts. Naively and ambitiously, she creates her own truths, which often deal with themes of youth, freedom and nature. Maria Jatzlau lives in Berlin and Brandenburg.
Maria Silvano
I am absolutely fascinated by the effect and power of colors, structures, textures and snippets of everyday life. Every day we jump into an insane cosmos of images, encounters and events, on a wide variety of levels, surrounded by a mix of natural and artificial elements. For me, painting is a way to bring artificial and natural structures into conversation with each other and to make the encounters between the inner and outer worlds visible. When external and internal images come together, unexpected new ones emerge. For me, exploring these encounters is the subject of my work.
Marios Leandros Basteas
Born in Athens, Greece, in 1992
Based in Berlin
In this series of four etchings, I explore traditional printmaking techniques. With a sculptural background and a desire to break the two-dimensional barriers of a print, I re-examine the techniques with a playful attitude. I create holes in the copper plates, add multiple layers and symbols using the soft varnish technique, and incorporate light, movement, and material imprints. Together, these elements form a microcosm precise in detail and narration.
My work aims to create experiences that challenge the viewer on both empirical and intellectual levels, like a brazen fly that disturbs and provokes action. I invite the audience to an open and continuous discussion through the art, aiming to broaden perspectives and deepen comprehension of human perception and art’s role in shaping consciousness and the world.
Based in Berlin
In this series of four etchings, I explore traditional printmaking techniques. With a sculptural background and a desire to break the two-dimensional barriers of a print, I re-examine the techniques with a playful attitude. I create holes in the copper plates, add multiple layers and symbols using the soft varnish technique, and incorporate light, movement, and material imprints. Together, these elements form a microcosm precise in detail and narration.
My work aims to create experiences that challenge the viewer on both empirical and intellectual levels, like a brazen fly that disturbs and provokes action. I invite the audience to an open and continuous discussion through the art, aiming to broaden perspectives and deepen comprehension of human perception and art’s role in shaping consciousness and the world.
Márton Dés
I obtained my diploma from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Painting in 2015, with my mentor being András Halász. In 2017, I received a postgraduate diploma (Meisterschüler) from the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts where my reference was Thomas Bechinger. In 2022, I earned a master’s degree in visual pedagogy from the Berlin University of the Arts. Currently, I work and sleep in Berlin.
I am a painter, drawer, writer, and dreamer who hasa passion for exploring the boundaries of human existence and the world around us. My art is a subjective and playful representation of society, marked by both humility and rebellion, tradition and modernity. I collect and document visual information from the world and transform it through simplification, disentanglement, flipping, and annotating with questions marks, dots, quotation marks, or exclamation marks. My approach is Dadaist, extraterrestrial, and childlike, with a sense of wonder for everything from a bus schedule to a heritage site. My work is both personal and archival, an encyclopedia of portraits without the demand for completeness, a Babel and Noah’s Ark of existence. Language and words are a big part of my artistic expression. I am fascinated by different cultures and languages and I use text as a visual element or ornament, exploring the power and playfulness of language. My themes and characters balance humor and tragedy, reality and fiction, and the past and present.
My creations are characterized by their simplicity, sensitivity, and humor. My journal-like, syncretic approach to art reflects my belief in the importance of balancing multiple perspectives to create a more comprehensive understanding of the world.
I am a painter, drawer, writer, and dreamer who hasa passion for exploring the boundaries of human existence and the world around us. My art is a subjective and playful representation of society, marked by both humility and rebellion, tradition and modernity. I collect and document visual information from the world and transform it through simplification, disentanglement, flipping, and annotating with questions marks, dots, quotation marks, or exclamation marks. My approach is Dadaist, extraterrestrial, and childlike, with a sense of wonder for everything from a bus schedule to a heritage site. My work is both personal and archival, an encyclopedia of portraits without the demand for completeness, a Babel and Noah’s Ark of existence. Language and words are a big part of my artistic expression. I am fascinated by different cultures and languages and I use text as a visual element or ornament, exploring the power and playfulness of language. My themes and characters balance humor and tragedy, reality and fiction, and the past and present.
My creations are characterized by their simplicity, sensitivity, and humor. My journal-like, syncretic approach to art reflects my belief in the importance of balancing multiple perspectives to create a more comprehensive understanding of the world.
Mathilde Catros
Originally from Toulouse, I’ve been living in Berlin since 2013.
Creating sculptures allows me to materialize my imagination. I particularly enjoy working with clay, a naturally malleable material that can take on any shape. For me, color is inseparable from form, bringing life and light to each piece.
I work with a variety of materials, including clays, colored clays, porcelain, engobes and glazes. I enjoy depicting fantastical worlds, creating expressive characters and exploring the many possibilities offered by clay in freer forms.
Creating sculptures allows me to materialize my imagination. I particularly enjoy working with clay, a naturally malleable material that can take on any shape. For me, color is inseparable from form, bringing life and light to each piece.
I work with a variety of materials, including clays, colored clays, porcelain, engobes and glazes. I enjoy depicting fantastical worlds, creating expressive characters and exploring the many possibilities offered by clay in freer forms.
Mathilde Hostein
I’m a French artist living in Berlin, working mostly with oil paintings.
My paintings are attempts to take a step back and consider layers of experiences bleeding into each other : physical sensations and emotions, learnt significations and intimate understandings.
I gather mundane moments reflecting a soft uncanniness : shapes that impressed me, close ups of body parts, out of context objects or situations. By painting them from a subjective point of view, sometimes adding dream-like details or accentuating slightly some qualities of atmosphere, I make a collection of memories of sensations, clues of what being alive feels like inside.
My paintings are attempts to take a step back and consider layers of experiences bleeding into each other : physical sensations and emotions, learnt significations and intimate understandings.
I gather mundane moments reflecting a soft uncanniness : shapes that impressed me, close ups of body parts, out of context objects or situations. By painting them from a subjective point of view, sometimes adding dream-like details or accentuating slightly some qualities of atmosphere, I make a collection of memories of sensations, clues of what being alive feels like inside.
Matthew Ricci
Painter Matthew Ricci (b. 1998, Australia) emerges from a background of mathematical science and statistics. However, concerned with the interpretations of the subconscious, chooses to explore abstract gestural painting in large formats. His practice involves spontaneous and intuitive mark making, refining figures with a palette inspired by passing shapes in his consciously unconscious state. Ricci proves that while conscious, the mind is mathematical in its connectivity of internal thought into a projection of observable reality.
Inspired by Daoism, Ricci aims to work and live in the present moment, moving between multiple canvases at once. His pursuit of spontaneous creative flow expresses an internal depiction of the internal subconscious landscape. The resulting relationship between composition and subconsciousness is achieved through a dedication to interrogating every mark as a symbolic reference point. This evolves as his raw, often chaotic marks indicate a visceral reaction to the present.
Although hailing form Adelaide, South Australia, Ricci chooses to live and work in Berlin, Germany. Such environmental stimuli has provided more exploration into abstract painting, furthering his emerging career. Ricci appears in private collections in Australia and across Europe, and collaborates with Berlin businesses dedicated to conversational settings.
Inspired by Daoism, Ricci aims to work and live in the present moment, moving between multiple canvases at once. His pursuit of spontaneous creative flow expresses an internal depiction of the internal subconscious landscape. The resulting relationship between composition and subconsciousness is achieved through a dedication to interrogating every mark as a symbolic reference point. This evolves as his raw, often chaotic marks indicate a visceral reaction to the present.
Although hailing form Adelaide, South Australia, Ricci chooses to live and work in Berlin, Germany. Such environmental stimuli has provided more exploration into abstract painting, furthering his emerging career. Ricci appears in private collections in Australia and across Europe, and collaborates with Berlin businesses dedicated to conversational settings.
Michael Dimenstein
My process is to interpret the forms of the human body as movements. I work mainly with stone, wood, cement, gypsum, modelling and by drawing preliminary sketches.
Just as the colour of the walls, the paintings on the walls and the objects around us form the space of our habitat, so the sculpture brings its own integral part to this formation.
Just as the colour of the walls, the paintings on the walls and the objects around us form the space of our habitat, so the sculpture brings its own integral part to this formation.
Michaela Medea
In my artistic practice, I am passionate about immersing myself in the fascinating world of fictional portraiture. Every stroke, every trace on the canvas reveals a new face to me, which I carefully work out until the expression touches my soul. It is a journey through emotions in which spontaneity and intuition are my creative compass. I start without any premonition of what will emerge from nothing, which gives my work a fascinating unpredictability.
Ultimately, my goal is not just to create images, but to create deep connections – emotions that grab the viewer, draw them into their world and give them a moment of reflection and feeling.
Ultimately, my goal is not just to create images, but to create deep connections – emotions that grab the viewer, draw them into their world and give them a moment of reflection and feeling.
Mikhail Gulin
Conceptual artist Mikhail Gulin creates picturesque canvases, objects, and performances, and also oversees exhibition projects, in which he invariably raises socio-political problems of our time. He plays out today’s pressing issues in pop culture and contemporary art images. Exploring social stereotypes, Mikhail Gulin depicts the reality around him but does so with the help of bright colors, iconic cultural references, and irony.
In work “New Baroque” (acrylic and markers on cardboard series) Mikhail continues to explore the phenomenon of selfies. Getting into the Instagram profiles of some women, the viewer is faced with an amazing mixture of eroticism, kitsch, and some new aesthetics. And, of course, this is a demonstration of yourself and your wealth. The Artist wanted to put his heroines in pretentious Baroque frames. Thus, the Artist and the Insta-Model search for a new “big” style. “New Baroque” is a series of works on disposable tableware.
In work “New Baroque” (acrylic and markers on cardboard series) Mikhail continues to explore the phenomenon of selfies. Getting into the Instagram profiles of some women, the viewer is faced with an amazing mixture of eroticism, kitsch, and some new aesthetics. And, of course, this is a demonstration of yourself and your wealth. The Artist wanted to put his heroines in pretentious Baroque frames. Thus, the Artist and the Insta-Model search for a new “big” style. “New Baroque” is a series of works on disposable tableware.
Mina Gospavic
Mina’s artistic vision celebrates the world of lived experience and unseen phenomena through chromatic geometry. Applicable at a variety of scales ranging from paper, textiles to building facades, her work is characterised by layered, woven linework and moiré effects.
As a practicing architect and artist, her multi-disciplinary approach between the hand-made and digital creates mutating compositions combining optical art with energised spatial expression.
With a keen interest in human perception, her ongoing mission is to bring people into contact with seemingly rational forms that transform our emotions and imaginative relationship with the world.
As a practicing architect and artist, her multi-disciplinary approach between the hand-made and digital creates mutating compositions combining optical art with energised spatial expression.
With a keen interest in human perception, her ongoing mission is to bring people into contact with seemingly rational forms that transform our emotions and imaginative relationship with the world.
Miriam Schimka – Captain Canvas
Upcycled Art and Stories on Canvas – Miriam Schimka, the artist behind Captain Canvas invites viewers on a visual journey. Her work is a celebration of the past meeting the future, where vintage charm coexists with robots, spaceships, and superhero tales. Driven by nostalgia and inspired by her childhood heroes she finds forgotten paintings and transforms them into new artworks. Miriam is a storyteller, upcycling art and reshaping the narrative of paintings with each stroke. Each canvas carries its own story, often complemented by vintage frames aged with patina
Mirja Gastaldi
In my artistic practice I mainly deal with figurative drawing and painting, where I
continually try to incorporate abstract elements and proceed experimentally with
the used materials. In addition to the large-format black and white drawings, I
create textile works that often contain a dense network of drawings and
embroidery , painting and different materials.
The works on paper show portraits and figures in their simple and full presence,
based on photos of mostly unknown people found on the Internet. I find it
interesting how I translate this template and which person ultimately becomes from
it, and also what new dynamics arise in the pictorial space.
About the textil work:
The individuel is in the foreground, anchored in their loneliness or in their co-
dependant relationships.
Short stories should be told and situations prompted, opening the space for
interpretation. The image space becomes a theatre where figures appear in
different scenarios. In the most dream-like acts, the scenes reflect a degree of
intimacy within a wider social critique. Like a collage, different figures are removed from their original environment and re-assembled in a new context, writing a new story, whether the character is alone or placed in an estranged „community””.
Miss Glueniverse
Miss Glueniverse ist eine Berliner Collagen-Künstlerin mit österreichischen Wurzeln.
Die Collage als künstlerisches Ausdrucksmittel bedeutet für Miss Glueniverse, vorhandene Strukturen aufzubrechen, um sie nach eigenem Empfinden zu rekonstruieren. Dies ist nicht nur ein künstlerischer Prozess, sondern steht im analogen Sinne auch für Empowerment in der eigenen Lebensgestaltung. Dahingehend sind ihre Werke meistens sehr farbenfroh, dynamisch und immer etwas cheeky. Insgesamt ist die Kunst von Miss Glueniverse geprägt von einer spielerischen und positiven Energie, die gleichzeitig tiefgründige und gesellschaftskritische Themen anspricht. Seit 2018 bringt Miss Glueniverse auch frischen Wind in die Berliner Streetart-Szene. Neben einiger Gruppenausstellungen, war eines ihrer größeren Projekte die Gestaltung einer Community Wall für das „Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art“ in Berlin. Auf ca 14 m² Außenfläche eines Wohnhauses, stellte Miss Glueniverse ihre Sicht auf Berlin in Form einer knalligen Collage dar.
Miss Glueniverse is a Berlin collage artist with Austrian roots.
For Miss Glueniverse, collage as an artistic expression means breaking down existing structures in order to reconstruct them according to her own feelings. This is not only an artistic process, but in an analogous sense it also stands for empowerment in one`s own life. In this respect, her works are usually very colorful, dynamic and always a bit cheeky. Overall, Miss Glueniverse’s art is characterized by a playful and positive energy that simultaneously addresses profound and socially critical topics. Since 2018, Miss Glueniverse has also been bringing a breath of fresh air to the Berlin street art scene. In addition to several group exhibitions, one of her larger projects was the design of a community wall for the “Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art” in Berlin. On approximately 14 m² of outdoor space on a residential building, Miss Glueniverse presented her view of Berlin as a bright collage.
Die Collage als künstlerisches Ausdrucksmittel bedeutet für Miss Glueniverse, vorhandene Strukturen aufzubrechen, um sie nach eigenem Empfinden zu rekonstruieren. Dies ist nicht nur ein künstlerischer Prozess, sondern steht im analogen Sinne auch für Empowerment in der eigenen Lebensgestaltung. Dahingehend sind ihre Werke meistens sehr farbenfroh, dynamisch und immer etwas cheeky. Insgesamt ist die Kunst von Miss Glueniverse geprägt von einer spielerischen und positiven Energie, die gleichzeitig tiefgründige und gesellschaftskritische Themen anspricht. Seit 2018 bringt Miss Glueniverse auch frischen Wind in die Berliner Streetart-Szene. Neben einiger Gruppenausstellungen, war eines ihrer größeren Projekte die Gestaltung einer Community Wall für das „Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art“ in Berlin. Auf ca 14 m² Außenfläche eines Wohnhauses, stellte Miss Glueniverse ihre Sicht auf Berlin in Form einer knalligen Collage dar.
Miss Glueniverse is a Berlin collage artist with Austrian roots.
For Miss Glueniverse, collage as an artistic expression means breaking down existing structures in order to reconstruct them according to her own feelings. This is not only an artistic process, but in an analogous sense it also stands for empowerment in one`s own life. In this respect, her works are usually very colorful, dynamic and always a bit cheeky. Overall, Miss Glueniverse’s art is characterized by a playful and positive energy that simultaneously addresses profound and socially critical topics. Since 2018, Miss Glueniverse has also been bringing a breath of fresh air to the Berlin street art scene. In addition to several group exhibitions, one of her larger projects was the design of a community wall for the “Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art” in Berlin. On approximately 14 m² of outdoor space on a residential building, Miss Glueniverse presented her view of Berlin as a bright collage.
Muriel Gallardo Weinstein
En la producción de mi obra, busco apropiarme simbólicamente de diversos espacios a través de métodos y procedimientos como recorrer, demarcar, recolectar, clasificar y reorganizar. Con estos procesos, despliego mi obra, intentando reconocer, redefinir e interpretar el mundo mediante movimientos tanto errantes como planificados.
Los materiales que surgen de estos procesos —objetuales, narrativos, estéticos, históricos, sociales, geográficos, psicológicos, culturales, etc.— son descontextualizados y mezclados según ciertas “”reglas de juego””. Este reordenamiento pretende producir una historia, tanto literaria como objetual, que desafíe nuestra percepción cotidiana, cuestionando los limites entre espacio, cuerpo y mente.
Al vincular estos materiales, intento construir formas que aludan a la realidad y sus múltiples impresiones. Mi obra combina técnicas y establece relaciones inesperadas e inusuales entre la materialidad y la “”narrativa”” que cada pieza genera.
Mis temáticas más recurrentes son la cultura material y la identidad.
Los materiales que surgen de estos procesos —objetuales, narrativos, estéticos, históricos, sociales, geográficos, psicológicos, culturales, etc.— son descontextualizados y mezclados según ciertas “”reglas de juego””. Este reordenamiento pretende producir una historia, tanto literaria como objetual, que desafíe nuestra percepción cotidiana, cuestionando los limites entre espacio, cuerpo y mente.
Al vincular estos materiales, intento construir formas que aludan a la realidad y sus múltiples impresiones. Mi obra combina técnicas y establece relaciones inesperadas e inusuales entre la materialidad y la “”narrativa”” que cada pieza genera.
Mis temáticas más recurrentes son la cultura material y la identidad.
Nadia Mumladze
I am Nadia, a self-taught painter from Georgia, and I work professionally as a preschool teacher.
Over time, the passion for painting has taken on a significant place in my life.
Currently, I am particularly inspired by nocturnal color palettes. My preferred mediums are oil and pastel. Additionally, I am influenced by the works of artists such as Lenz Geerk, Paul Cèzanne and Anselm Kiefer. My paintings reflect experiences and impressions, portraying dreaming individuals who are in dialogue with themselves.
The philosophy of my art revolves around the transformation of time and colors. Both humans and nature are subject to constant change. In the end, both strive to find a mutual harmony.
At present, I am working on a series with the thematic title: “Long Summer Nights , therefore Memories of the Future and Past Days.”
Over time, the passion for painting has taken on a significant place in my life.
Currently, I am particularly inspired by nocturnal color palettes. My preferred mediums are oil and pastel. Additionally, I am influenced by the works of artists such as Lenz Geerk, Paul Cèzanne and Anselm Kiefer. My paintings reflect experiences and impressions, portraying dreaming individuals who are in dialogue with themselves.
The philosophy of my art revolves around the transformation of time and colors. Both humans and nature are subject to constant change. In the end, both strive to find a mutual harmony.
At present, I am working on a series with the thematic title: “Long Summer Nights , therefore Memories of the Future and Past Days.”
Navid Norouzi
I am Navid Norouzi, a Berlin-based German artist originally from Heidelberg, known for my large-scale abstract paintings created in mixed media.
Within my art, I intricately weave together complex abstract shapes, colors, and marks, arranging them until a captivating and harmonious composition emerges. Employing a variety of tools—from brushes and rollers to palette knives and my own hands—I layer paint onto untreated canvas.
For me, painting is a calming, meditative process that keeps me grounded. It’s also about crafting enduring beauty that touches those who pause to appreciate it.
Within my art, I intricately weave together complex abstract shapes, colors, and marks, arranging them until a captivating and harmonious composition emerges. Employing a variety of tools—from brushes and rollers to palette knives and my own hands—I layer paint onto untreated canvas.
For me, painting is a calming, meditative process that keeps me grounded. It’s also about crafting enduring beauty that touches those who pause to appreciate it.
Nicolás Rivas
Nicolás Rivas (1987) is an Argentine photographer and filmmaker based in Berlin while he explores urban poetics and its corners. Motivated by the contemplation of time and by what silent, empty spaces hide, his work portrays the suspended geometry of the street, its textures and shapes. His search and look propose natural abstractions as pictorial images, in which color, mystery and shadows stand out as central elements of his composition.
Nina Criswell
Nina Criswell is a American oil painter currently based in Berlin. In her practice, she explores the invisible forces shaping the embodied experience. Criswell examines self-censorship of the body and the mechanisms that suppress pleasure and desire in the public space. Combining found and personal photographs, the painting process is a balancing act where Criswell lets these forms merge, unveiling the latent potential for intimacy and violence in the body on both individual and collective levels. By combining sensual bodily forms with images of crowds or the environments designed to serve them, privacy becomes a concern; what happens when we expose the intimacies of the body in public?
Nina Fluppe
Nina Fluppe is a 23 year old Berlin-based artist, born in the west of Germany, in Trier. She studies design at the Hochschule RheinMain in Wiesbaden.
„My art is an existential matter for me. Painting was never an option, but always the solution to the pain and joy of being conscious in this beautiful, yet bizarre world. Mostly, I paint people, which are inspired from day to day life and mixed up with my strange little dream world. I think I see the world differently, more intense and this is what I need to process in my artworks.
Capturing vague concepts and metaphors from my mind, I never painted from a picture and think it’s the key essential to create from your inner self, without restricting to rigid rules or conventions to how art should be done or look. My painted people display the existential pain and melancholy of the dreamers, eccentrics and outcasts of this society without blaming them for their otherworldliness, rather celebrating their uniqueness. Blending together different mediums and styles, as the ultimate and utter freedom of being an artist, in a world that strives to conform to an ideal norm. Acrylic, oil, soft pastels or coal, I don’t restrict myself in the process of my painting and just use whatever intuitively feels right in that moment.
Reality and Absurdity blend together with strong facial features that show off the edges and seemingly flaws of the human kind, which in my eyes are the peculiarity and the depth worth living and dying for.“
„My art is an existential matter for me. Painting was never an option, but always the solution to the pain and joy of being conscious in this beautiful, yet bizarre world. Mostly, I paint people, which are inspired from day to day life and mixed up with my strange little dream world. I think I see the world differently, more intense and this is what I need to process in my artworks.
Capturing vague concepts and metaphors from my mind, I never painted from a picture and think it’s the key essential to create from your inner self, without restricting to rigid rules or conventions to how art should be done or look. My painted people display the existential pain and melancholy of the dreamers, eccentrics and outcasts of this society without blaming them for their otherworldliness, rather celebrating their uniqueness. Blending together different mediums and styles, as the ultimate and utter freedom of being an artist, in a world that strives to conform to an ideal norm. Acrylic, oil, soft pastels or coal, I don’t restrict myself in the process of my painting and just use whatever intuitively feels right in that moment.
Reality and Absurdity blend together with strong facial features that show off the edges and seemingly flaws of the human kind, which in my eyes are the peculiarity and the depth worth living and dying for.“
Olga Urbanek
Olga Urbanek is a digital photographer who explores the space between reality and fantasy, the familiar and the bizarre. Her alluring photos, often self-portraits marked by hallucinatory colors, costuming, and meticulously prepared settings, create bright dreamlands that bely a darkness within them.
Óscar Barbosa
After my studies in Art and Photography, I started working on my personal projects in 2009, with a strong passion for analogue photography and its processes and focusing mostly on documentary analogue photography. It was the pandemic in 2020 who made me slow down, getting me to connect back to my roots and explore new visual techniques and expressions.
My passion for vintage photography is deeply connected to the analogue world itself. I have always collected these photo treasures from unknown people. On the other hand, my passion for threads comes from my grandmother Valentina, a big reference in my childhood. She used to create the most beautiful lace pieces with the bobbin lace technique while I was doing my school homework on her side. I used to help her draw the patterns when her eyes started to get old and her influence lives in my creative process.
I love the uniqueness of these photographs, the impossibility of reproducing them again, as negatives are very rare to find. I always felt disconnected from my upbringings, that is why I love offering them a new colorful life, to heal their disconnection. I like to rescue them from those moist cellars and flea market boxes, where they are destined to decay; bringing them to new hands that will honor their memory, despite being completely unaware of their identity.
My passion for vintage photography is deeply connected to the analogue world itself. I have always collected these photo treasures from unknown people. On the other hand, my passion for threads comes from my grandmother Valentina, a big reference in my childhood. She used to create the most beautiful lace pieces with the bobbin lace technique while I was doing my school homework on her side. I used to help her draw the patterns when her eyes started to get old and her influence lives in my creative process.
I love the uniqueness of these photographs, the impossibility of reproducing them again, as negatives are very rare to find. I always felt disconnected from my upbringings, that is why I love offering them a new colorful life, to heal their disconnection. I like to rescue them from those moist cellars and flea market boxes, where they are destined to decay; bringing them to new hands that will honor their memory, despite being completely unaware of their identity.
Pablo Fernandez Zapata
My work is nourished by my intuition and personal experience, as well as concepts that combine the abstract with the concrete – the interplay and relationship between time, space and reality. I am interested in the combination between different, especially raw and simple materials or elements with technological devices which provide my sculptures and intallations a sort of life of their own, some autonomy.
Paolo Di Diego
For the past two years I have been trying to capture the essence of the Berlin night, its excesses and especially its nighthawks. Subjects born from suffering, from addictions and from the misery of humanity. From the corruptibility of the flesh and the glacification of the soul. They are children of my spleen. Misfits in a world that has lost any connection to the sacred, to divinity, intimacy, infinity, solemnity, or to the sublime.
A world in which the obsession with the results has led to the death of the soul. (Paolo Di Diego_February 2023)
Paula Cano
I my work I reflect about the mixed emotions and experiences that have shaped my identity through the last decade living in the city of Berlin. Alongside the overwhelming tapestry of Berlin’s cultural landscape, my experience as an outsider has brought to light themes of displacement, identity and belonging stimulating a sense of nostalgia and longing for the past, as well as a deeper understanding of myself and resilience for the future.
Curves interrupted by inhospitable corners and spikes. Objects that are a statement themselves yet needing each other to understand their origins. Beyond form and material, the process of my work has become a deep self-reflection and meditative practice for pure survival. My practice is experimental and extremely emotional. In essence, each piece is the physical translation of dichotomies generated by the experience of being an outsider; an almost schizophrenic feeling of simultaneous and permanent feeling of love and rejection.
“Sometimes so inhospitable, sometimes so kind ”
Curves interrupted by inhospitable corners and spikes. Objects that are a statement themselves yet needing each other to understand their origins. Beyond form and material, the process of my work has become a deep self-reflection and meditative practice for pure survival. My practice is experimental and extremely emotional. In essence, each piece is the physical translation of dichotomies generated by the experience of being an outsider; an almost schizophrenic feeling of simultaneous and permanent feeling of love and rejection.
“Sometimes so inhospitable, sometimes so kind ”
Pauline Boucan
Pauline Boucan is a Franco-Thai artist based in Berlin. Navigating between narration and abstraction, her works depict moments in the life of hybrid humanlike animal and tree figures evolving in a transcendent animist reality. These figures coexist in a divine nature that gives and takes, going through a sacralised cycle of life and death. Thanks to her vivid compositions and work on colours, brush strokes, medium and paper textures, the artist conveys multiple atmospheres and scenes of intense emotion that the figures are exploring in their relationship to others, themselves, and nature.
Pauline Zenk
I am an image carnivore: I devour images from all sources: personal or public, magazines, found images, personal photo albums – I take pictures and collect images in order to transform them into paintings.
I am very much on love with painting the human figure and I hope to convey different contradictory feelings in my paintings – of how absurd and vulnerable and at the same time how beautiful life is.
For me a painting should be like a little window or an enchanted mirror that reflects moments of back to us in a more poetic or beautiful way.
I am very much on love with painting the human figure and I hope to convey different contradictory feelings in my paintings – of how absurd and vulnerable and at the same time how beautiful life is.
For me a painting should be like a little window or an enchanted mirror that reflects moments of back to us in a more poetic or beautiful way.
Pavel Gempler
My figurative painting, with its constant reference to art history, is a reaction to the immediate, subjective present. My practice is influenced by different art historical movements and is complemented by classical forms, abstract elements, photorealism, surrealism, historical and pop culture references. This creates an ambiguity that is embodied in every motif and in the spaces that encompass each character. The representation of bodies and objects in my works shows ambivalences that require the viewer to position themselves in relation to the medium of painting.
Pepita Glück
Female artist born in Spain, and based in Berlin. With a background in Medicine, she chose art as her true calling, rejecting the methodical confines of her former profession. Through her work, she explores her reality, infusing classical myths with vibrant colors and a sense of liberation. Often centered around strong women, these mythical portraits serve as representations of inner turmoil, passion, and resilience. In juxtaposition, the Fauvist-style still lives show a glimpse into the external world, where everyday objects take on new significance and symbolism. Whether it’s the chaotic arrangement of cards or the array of fruits in a bowl, they reflect the worlds shaped around us.
Peter Ulrich
Hard edge painting is my passion. I always seek to combine color and form with the finest precision to create something new in the interplay of contrast and harmony.
Prosha Kolosov
In my ceramic artworks I explore the world of subcultural and poplcultural phenomena. While growing up I liked observing different scenes and explore their interconnections. Skateboarding, surfing, bikes, cars, hip-hop, graffiti, punk-rock – though may seem different, they still have some «strings» that bind them. I learn to play them.
pskl
‘pskl’ is a Berlin-based artist focused on the mutations caused by automation of the creative process. By encoding art direction into autonomous virtual machines, their output passively repurposes internet material into new results. Striving to summon a subjective soul into the machine realm, they also explore new methods of production that have inherent properties of scalability. The modular aspects of their practice enable us to gaze into an imminent future where the notion of art production is constantly redefined: a scaled body of work striving to embrace noise, reconsidering every single error and side effect as a fundamental benefit.
Rachel Catton
Interested in movement and language, I play with interpretation as a subject, a metaphor for narratives we tell ourselves. These works are traces of movement and time, with references to archaeology and painting. They are palimpsests, with viewers creating a next layer of meaning in their engagement with it. Through the combination of expressive marks and delicate still-life sensuality I hope to evoke a physical and emotional response, a sense of vitality and an awareness of our subjective, yet valid, meaning-making.
Rachel Catton is from Liverpool, and based in Berlin. She holds an MA and BA in Fine Art.
Rachel Catton is from Liverpool, and based in Berlin. She holds an MA and BA in Fine Art.
Rachel Haaze
Als in Berlin geborene und aufgewachsene Künstlerin, habe ich eine besondere Verbindung zu dieser vielseitigen bunten Stadt. In meiner Malerei kann ich meine Erfahrungen und Wahrnehmungen verarbeiten und verewigen.
Meine Bilder sind bunt wie die Stadt selbst. Die Verwendung von Acryl Farben, aufgetragen in vielen Schichten, erzeugt eine Lebendigkeit, die für mich eine der schönsten Eigenschaften dieser Stadt darstellt.
Seit letztem Jahr beschäftige ich mich in der Reihe “”Female Gaze”” auch mit meinem weiblichen teils utopischen Blick auf Männlichkeit, da in der Kunstgeschichte bisher vor allem Weiblichkeit objektifiziert wurde. Es lohnt sich ein Perspektivenwechsel.
Meine Bilder sind bunt wie die Stadt selbst. Die Verwendung von Acryl Farben, aufgetragen in vielen Schichten, erzeugt eine Lebendigkeit, die für mich eine der schönsten Eigenschaften dieser Stadt darstellt.
Seit letztem Jahr beschäftige ich mich in der Reihe “”Female Gaze”” auch mit meinem weiblichen teils utopischen Blick auf Männlichkeit, da in der Kunstgeschichte bisher vor allem Weiblichkeit objektifiziert wurde. Es lohnt sich ein Perspektivenwechsel.
Ralf Tekaat
In my artistical work I reflect my roots and horizons: from where do I come, by which things I was and still am characterized. Which are my references? Who are the people who did and do influence me. Charles Taylor names all this “Sources of the self”.
As central theme I pick up my role models and my idols, compare myself with superheroes or invent them. I question my changed role with getting older, remind me the time i was a child and question myself, why I am as I am (and doing art).
As central theme I pick up my role models and my idols, compare myself with superheroes or invent them. I question my changed role with getting older, remind me the time i was a child and question myself, why I am as I am (and doing art).
Rhys Bugler
When I watch birds, I look for myself. On a good day, I see myself and so, I paint. My work aims to capture a closeness to nature that we’re born with, yet becomes distant with age.
I’ve noticed a polarisation in the feelings that my work evokes; from unsettlement to endearment. The uncanniness of my surrealism looks toward a tipping point between creepy and cute, allowing for unique interpretation.
Whichever feeling comes to the viewer, I paint to remind them of the humanity that nature holds and that only yesterday, we were much more animal ourselves.
I’ve noticed a polarisation in the feelings that my work evokes; from unsettlement to endearment. The uncanniness of my surrealism looks toward a tipping point between creepy and cute, allowing for unique interpretation.
Whichever feeling comes to the viewer, I paint to remind them of the humanity that nature holds and that only yesterday, we were much more animal ourselves.
Rike Damel
Rike Damel (“Dreamlike”) – is the brainchild of a contemporary artist from Berlin. Through her abstract expressive paintings, this enigmatic persona expresses the deepest recesses of the human psyche. And now creating surrealistic photographs – captured using Photoshop and diverse AI resources – she offers a glimpse into the parallel worlds of her imagination, exploring with them themes of loneliness, sexuality, longing, memory and loss.
For the artist, this process is a return to an old forgotten hobby – the world of film photography – but it is also much more than that. It’s evolving with time, being quick, fast thinking, utilising new exciting technologies, and putting her imagination and creative abilities through the paces.
For the artist, this process is a return to an old forgotten hobby – the world of film photography – but it is also much more than that. It’s evolving with time, being quick, fast thinking, utilising new exciting technologies, and putting her imagination and creative abilities through the paces.
Roma Palermo
I specializes primarily in artistic expression through collage, using mixed techniques to breathe life into compositions that capture the essence of dreamlike universes. My collages, primarily conceived analogically using old photographs, stand as carriers of intense emotions, exploring themes such as anxiety, loneliness, melancholy, and darkness. Each work, despite its emotional depth, also reveals a tender and delicate corner, imbued with sensitivity and poetry.
The progression in my artistic expression has led me beyond the use of paper as a support and medium, exploring the fusion of collage and elements/objects on various surfaces. This gives life to a series of collages on small-scale furniture that goes beyond being a mere artistic expression; it constitutes a manifesto that goes further, an act of rescue and redefinition. In my role as an artist, I become a curator of objects, narrating silenced stories that emerge from these discarded objects. My role as a curator involves infusing new life into these objects, providing them with a space in an alternate universe where their stories can resonate anew.
The progression in my artistic expression has led me beyond the use of paper as a support and medium, exploring the fusion of collage and elements/objects on various surfaces. This gives life to a series of collages on small-scale furniture that goes beyond being a mere artistic expression; it constitutes a manifesto that goes further, an act of rescue and redefinition. In my role as an artist, I become a curator of objects, narrating silenced stories that emerge from these discarded objects. My role as a curator involves infusing new life into these objects, providing them with a space in an alternate universe where their stories can resonate anew.
Roman Manikhin
My goal is to create life-affirming art, and that’s why I want my art to be perceived with humor. I am also interested in life with its modern subcultures and what surrounds me in urban spaces. In my art, I reflect on childhood memories and folk traditions using pop art stamps.
Rosario Vázquez Lozano
I want to tell a new story about what it means to be an emancipated woman today, overcoming traditional representations.
As a woman artist I have distanced myself from the artistic tradition that depicted women as mere objects. I subverted this by presenting female nakedness as something other than flesh for the capitalist and male world.
I portray strong, self-aware women who articulate their own ideas about themselves. Today, women have become our own observers, and can approach our own bodies without an intermediary. No longer an object, I become a creator who achieves independence from being manipulated and represented.
I portray strong, self-aware women who articulate their own ideas about themselves. Today, women have become our own observers, and can approach our own bodies without an intermediary. No longer an object, I become a creator who achieves independence from being manipulated and represented.
ROSITA I.M.
Art is a profound encounter with life, a unique way to experience and, inhabit the world. I explore the intriguing space between fantasy and reality and capture those hidden narratives, in my paintings or drawings. Stopping to contemplate whats around me, is a great source of inspiration.
I studied fine arts in Los Angeles, I live and work in Madrid, Spain.
I studied fine arts in Los Angeles, I live and work in Madrid, Spain.
Sabine Dietrichkeit
It begins with a single dot and develops dot by dot into a flowing movement, bringing the object to life, enveloping it and turning it into a single entity. That’s what it’s all about, the idea that everything flows, is constantly changing and interconnected.
My name is Sabine Dietrichkeit, I was born in Hamburg in 1977 and I live, work and love as an artist in Berlin.
The basis of my work is clay. Clay is a very sensual and changeable material; initially supple and elastic, after firing rock-hard and unmalleable. The medium itself symbolizes the eternal becoming and changing that inspires me again and again.
My name is Sabine Dietrichkeit, I was born in Hamburg in 1977 and I live, work and love as an artist in Berlin.
The basis of my work is clay. Clay is a very sensual and changeable material; initially supple and elastic, after firing rock-hard and unmalleable. The medium itself symbolizes the eternal becoming and changing that inspires me again and again.
Sabine Hilscher
Sabine Hilschers filigrane Papierschnitte und Zeichnungen zeigen Verbindungen von organischen und anatomischen Strukturen.
Netzwerkartige Strukturen wie Handelswege, Migrationsbewegungen, Grenzverläufe aber auch Wurzelwachstum und Geflechte menschlicher Beziehungen thematisiert sie in ihren Arbeiten. Aus Landkarten schneidet sie z. B. die feinen roten Straßennetze aus und fügt sie zu menschlichen Organen neu zusammen. Viele ihrer Papierschnitte sind wie kleine Bühnenbilder objektartig ineinander gewoben und geschichtet und bekommen durch die Wirkung des Lichts eine zusätzliche Raumwirkung. Aus Landkarten schneidet sie z. B. die feinen roten Straßennetze aus und fügt sie zu menschlichen Organen neu zusammen.
Sandra Haselsteiner
Sandra Haselsteiner is an artist based in Berlin.
Making art gives her the ability to find a visual vocabular for an inner process induces by her perception of the circumstances we live in. She wants to arouse interest in questioning how we relate to each other, our environment and to nature.
The basic theme of her artistic work is the patterns of our perception, which are often unconscious, shaped by experience, upbringing, environment and individual life paths. By experimenting with fragments of images, she reflects on how we deal with these patterns, making them visible through drawing and collage.
Sandra Nielen
I work in ceramics, creating structures and textures. Shaping with the touch and pace of my hands and the clay. Expressing man made structures or exploring organic textures. Giving shape to feelings, thoughts and ideas. To slow down and listen.
Schall & Schnabel / Eileen Huhn & Pierre Horn
Schall & Schnabel is a multidisciplinary artist duo based in Berlin. Their works have been exhibited at Moma Moscow, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and at the Cannes Lions, curated by Ridley Scott.
Schirevo
Schirevo immerses herself in the depths of human sensuality, depicting simplicity and the beauty of unattractiveness. Her works explore the dark, anxious sides of life, penetrating vulnerabilities. The artist exposes the emotional landscapes of the body, capturing compressed poses and gestures that express inner mental traumas.
Schirevo shoots from very close, approaching the body yet keeping her distance. Her visual language reflects the unconsciousness of the body, deviations of form, and the imperfect beauty of damage.
Schirevo’s works represent an exploration of human nature in all its candor, wildness, and rawness.
Schirevo shoots from very close, approaching the body yet keeping her distance. Her visual language reflects the unconsciousness of the body, deviations of form, and the imperfect beauty of damage.
Schirevo’s works represent an exploration of human nature in all its candor, wildness, and rawness.
Simon Findlay
Simon Findlay works on his personal relationship with colour through exhaustive durational visual expression.
Sofia Nordmann
The German-Argentinian artist lives in Berlin. She presents philosophical content with a very unique technique. Her concern is the hidden, the metaphysical level behind the visual and the layers of reality that have a great influence on us, although we cannot perceive them with our five senses. Her concern is the processes of reality creation and unconscious communication. She cuts her handwritten texts and paintings on transpartemt paper and constructs new 3dimensional objects out of it, in order to hide the original content and only showing the new created form.
Solah Nam
She playfully cuts or tears up her handwritten philosophical writings, intimate love letters, her own pictures and drawings, family photos, antique maps, etc., and then constructs three-dimensional collages from them. By concealing the original content, she draws attention to it and points to the meaning and beauty of the invisible. Her wall objects consist of light-flooded, translucent layers, snippets and strips of paper that open up more hidden color spaces the more intensively they are viewed. The strong suggestive power of her works is an invitation to a sometimes deep, sometimes funny journey of discovery into one’s own world of thoughts
Sophie Lazari
Creating art has been a tool that allowed me to communicate, to educate and to inspire.
I use my body to perform, my hands to draw, my spirit to go under the skin and my mind to observe any given situation to transform it into a work of art. My language nevertheless remains a constant to the variety of media that I use to create, using a political tone and a slightly erotic connotation.
Stefanie Schairer
My work is based on observations in my surroundings that are connected to my inner world. It depends on the respective observation and which stories emerge from it.
In all my works I try to avoid unambiguity and clarity, so that it remains open what feelings or memories they evoke in others and everything is allowed to be.
In my performances, I create a space in which people become an active part of the art process. I create a kind of playground where I leave it open as to what will happen next or what the outcome might be.
Stephanie Hamer
Alternate states of consciousness and otherworldly presences are the core themes of my paintings and visual depictions. Often rooted in mythological narratives, I explore the ethereal realms that we find living alongside us in reality – the paranormal, false memories, and paranoia. I regularly keep a dream diary to help inform the style of work which helps echo this transitional state of mind.
Channeling themes of Dark Romanticism, my work entwines common human settings with distorted figures to create often macabre and surreal images centring on subjects of oppression, death, and relationship dynamics.
Visually I am interested in tensions that are expressed in forms such as scale and stark colour palettes, and include more emotive manifestations like strained facial expressions and body compositions. Butoh performance has been a huge influence in helping me to achieve this, alongside the malformed paintings of Francis Bacon, the glitched choreography of Pina Bausch, and the theatre works of David Byrne (Talking Heads).
Channeling themes of Dark Romanticism, my work entwines common human settings with distorted figures to create often macabre and surreal images centring on subjects of oppression, death, and relationship dynamics.
Visually I am interested in tensions that are expressed in forms such as scale and stark colour palettes, and include more emotive manifestations like strained facial expressions and body compositions. Butoh performance has been a huge influence in helping me to achieve this, alongside the malformed paintings of Francis Bacon, the glitched choreography of Pina Bausch, and the theatre works of David Byrne (Talking Heads).
Stephanie Nückel
In meiner künstlerischen Praxis erforsche ich das Thema ‘Acting Forces’ – jene Kräfte, die uns Menschen durchdringen und Bewegung sowie Veränderung herbeiführen.
Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem entsprechenden Thema erfolgt in Werkgruppen, jeweils über einen Zeitraum von zwei bis drei Jahren. Mittels Acrylfarben, die ich in dynamischem Duktus in zahlreichen feinen Schichten auftrage, verleihe ich meinen Werken kraftvolle Intensität und zerbrechliche Zartheit.
Im Fokus meiner Kunst stehen vor allem Frauen, die sich den Einflüssen dieser mehrdimensionalen Kräfte ausgesetzt sehen, jedoch zugleich Stärke und Unabhängigkeit verkörpern. Jede der Arbeiten erzählt eine Geschichte von Selbstbestimmung und dem Streben nach innerer Freiheit.
Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem entsprechenden Thema erfolgt in Werkgruppen, jeweils über einen Zeitraum von zwei bis drei Jahren. Mittels Acrylfarben, die ich in dynamischem Duktus in zahlreichen feinen Schichten auftrage, verleihe ich meinen Werken kraftvolle Intensität und zerbrechliche Zartheit.
Im Fokus meiner Kunst stehen vor allem Frauen, die sich den Einflüssen dieser mehrdimensionalen Kräfte ausgesetzt sehen, jedoch zugleich Stärke und Unabhängigkeit verkörpern. Jede der Arbeiten erzählt eine Geschichte von Selbstbestimmung und dem Streben nach innerer Freiheit.
Svenja Christian
Inspired by the ordinary moments of daily life and my travels, I express the beauty of the mundane through figurative art. Working primarily with oil on canvas, I embrace a style influenced by expressionism and fauvism. My paintings predominantly feature faces and people engaged in familiar tasks like doing the dishes or grocery shopping. Through my work, I aim to capture the essence of these everyday scenes, finding beauty in the simplicity of human existence.
Thao Nguyen
Thao Nguyen is a visual artist from Berlin, Germany.
Working primarily with oils and acrylics, Thao creates a body of work that exclusively features portraiture.
The paintings are developed through the use of found imagery and most notably film stills from contemporary cinema, with themes centering around the idea of coming of age – identity, boyhood, loss and emotions. The results are sensitive character-driven portrait studies, ultimately on the search for what makes us human.
The paintings are developed through the use of found imagery and most notably film stills from contemporary cinema, with themes centering around the idea of coming of age – identity, boyhood, loss and emotions. The results are sensitive character-driven portrait studies, ultimately on the search for what makes us human.
Tim Leimbach
In his works, Tim Leimbach pursues a gestural approach, merging figuration and abstraction.
Putting an emphasis on the tension between line and surface, he reveals just enough of his sujets, as to bring the viewer in – without explaining anything.
Color has an important part in the compositions, serving as hint towards an emotion and the untold story behind the image.
Uzma Sultan
The paintings are made on impulse using intuition.
‘I am passionate about the process of painting in oils and the subject of domestic spaces or interiors has been a long standing one. Usually the paintings are made from photos which I take myself on my camera phone of what I like.’
They are much to do with exploiting the application of paint therefore making the paintings equally, as much to do with the surfaces painted on. Whether it be aluminium or just traditional canvas as it is to do and how paint behaves differently on unconventional or abrasive surfaces.
Being in different locations is part of the process of painting and an integral one.
In terms of scale/material and how one relates to being in a familiar environment or ambience is desirable.
They are much to do with exploiting the application of paint therefore making the paintings equally, as much to do with the surfaces painted on. Whether it be aluminium or just traditional canvas as it is to do and how paint behaves differently on unconventional or abrasive surfaces.
Being in different locations is part of the process of painting and an integral one.
In terms of scale/material and how one relates to being in a familiar environment or ambience is desirable.
Valeria Schwarz
Valeria Schwarz is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, art mediator and mother, working at the crossroads of speculative feminist fiction, welfare-orientated public space and alternative pedagogies. She explores artistic processes that create new narratives and imaginaries based on solidarity and mutual understanding.
Valeria is fascinated by how individual behaviors shape collective processes and works on pedagogies that foster cooperation and reciprocal care. She studies Art History at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Fine Arts at the Universidad de Salamanca, and Arts in the Public Space (MA) at École de design et haute école d’art du Valais
Valeria is fascinated by how individual behaviors shape collective processes and works on pedagogies that foster cooperation and reciprocal care. She studies Art History at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Fine Arts at the Universidad de Salamanca, and Arts in the Public Space (MA) at École de design et haute école d’art du Valais
Verónica Lehner
I am a painter concerned with the physicality of painting and its material presence in space. In my work, I break down painting to explore its material and conceptual qualities, how it engages and affects the body and interacts with its surroundings.
I understand painting as a process of laying bare: stripping surfaces to uncover others; framing, unframing and reframing into multiple surfaces and questions; layering over in order to make visible; folding and unfolding; moving across space and changing shape. I am interested in how painting is as much a tool to gain knowledge and an active agent of transformation as an experience in and of itself.
I understand painting as a process of laying bare: stripping surfaces to uncover others; framing, unframing and reframing into multiple surfaces and questions; layering over in order to make visible; folding and unfolding; moving across space and changing shape. I am interested in how painting is as much a tool to gain knowledge and an active agent of transformation as an experience in and of itself.
Victoria Martínez
Victoria Martínez (Mexico City, 1996) multimedia artist based in Berlin. My artistic practice focuses on exploring the potential of images as catalytic agents, either through video projections, screen printing or a mix of both. My work is based on finding parallel threads of history that question dominant narratives, creating connections between timelines through fiction and the imaginative. I am interested in bridging paradoxes between concepts, such as science and magic, as well as facts and fiction. Visuals and poetry have been places where I found the base for my artistic practice. It all came from growing up in Mexico, a place where contradictions like violence and beauty showed me a necessity to find ways how to tell stories, with and to ourselves.
Therefore, storytelling in the form of video became the medium to do so, whether through documenting gender dynamics (Las de Juárez, 2017), analysing word graphics (Notes on Health, 2019) or relating to socio-ecological systems (Bovista Mushroom Club, 2021).
Therefore, storytelling in the form of video became the medium to do so, whether through documenting gender dynamics (Las de Juárez, 2017), analysing word graphics (Notes on Health, 2019) or relating to socio-ecological systems (Bovista Mushroom Club, 2021).
Viktar Siarhei
The essence wanders in strange poses and blurred appearances and reveals itself through the textured, dynamic color of the artist’s works. Environment and time are secondary: a free, honest conversation with the characters takes center stage. One must endure the gaze and peel away the artificial to respond to the naked emotion encountered.
The contrasts of dark and bright, sticky and clean, take you out of your comfort zone, provoking you to explore evil and good not as polar phenomena but as parts of one whole, which is present in each protagonist.
The contrasts of dark and bright, sticky and clean, take you out of your comfort zone, provoking you to explore evil and good not as polar phenomena but as parts of one whole, which is present in each protagonist.
Viktoria Maliar
The essence wanders in strange poses and blurred appearances and reveals itself through the textured, dynamic color of the artist’s works. Environment and time are secondary: a free, honest conversation with the characters takes center stage. One must endure the gaze and peel away the artificial to respond to the naked emotion encountered.
The contrasts of dark and bright, sticky and clean, take you out of your comfort zone, provoking you to explore evil and good not as polar phenomena but as parts of one whole, which is present in each protagonist.
The contrasts of dark and bright, sticky and clean, take you out of your comfort zone, provoking you to explore evil and good not as polar phenomena but as parts of one whole, which is present in each protagonist.
Vivia Wisperwind
Vivia Wisperwind is a berlin-based designer and artist.
She’s known for her photorealistic acrylic paintings on canvas. Some time ago she made the conscious decision to stop using black. Instead, she mixes her palette with the three primary colors magenta, cyan, yellow and white to create a remarkable vibrancy and depth in her works.
She explores freedom and wellness by depicting water, plants, animals and food. Vivia’s paintings invite you to relax and enjoy the beauty of life.
All 5 originals shown at BAAM were part of a challenge she did in January where she finished a painting each and everyday
She explores freedom and wellness by depicting water, plants, animals and food. Vivia’s paintings invite you to relax and enjoy the beauty of life.
All 5 originals shown at BAAM were part of a challenge she did in January where she finished a painting each and everyday
Viviane Stroede
Having a background in Journalism, Visual Media and International Politics, Viviane Stroede started working with glass in 2018. She is a glass sculptor whose previous experiences with conflict studies and communication inform her artistic narrative.
YinXin He
YinXin He (1990) is an illustrator from Vietnam with current residency in Berlin. Being strongly influenced by Dadaism and German Expressionism, her work is a crossroad of conceptual surrealism veiled with a certain fascination for the darker side of the human psyche. Each artwork is built on the artist’s perception of the world and the knowledge she’s accumulated in different fields that have piqued her interest throughout the years, such as psychology or mysticism.
Yulia Ani
In her artistic practice, Yulia Ani delves into the realms of identity, belonging, and
the complexities of human emotions. As an immigrant, a woman, a mother, she
embodies these facets into her work, exploring the dualities of inner and outer
structures and the states of mental health.
Yulia’s painting process is both intuitive and intentional. Her works are more than a
visual feast, they serve as a mirror, reflecting the viewer’s own experiences and
emotions, thereby fostering a deeper understanding of the self and the world.
Yulia Ani uses professional acrylic paints as well as other mediums like oils and inks
in her works. Her paintings are found in private collections around the world.
Zauberohr
Zauberohr is an artist from Berlin who trained in architecture at the Vienna University of Technology. His focus is on drawings, especially since the Corona pandemic, when he started creating and selling humorous house illustrations. Otto skillfully combines German wordplay with visual humor, with the aim of generating laughter and building an emotional connection with the audience. Otto’s philosophy is simple but profound: “My art should make people laugh,” which captures the essence of his creative spirit.