Artists

Learn all about your favorite artists of the 8th edition of BAAM the Berlin Affordable Art Market.

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Achim Saar

Achim Saar is currently devoting himself to different materials and how they can be combined.
Wood, metal, bronze, glass, ceramics, etc. are some of the materials he has already worked with.
But the topics are also important, in this case he is trying to bring together different things that don’t really belong together.

Adelia Koldarova

My paintings are inspired by the emotions and moments I experience in everyday life. Using oil as my main medium, I create figurative pieces that reflect both the visible world and the fleeting feelings it brings. Each painting captures a specific moment, guided by my emotions at the time.Through this process, I aim to create paintings that feel personal, yet relatable

Agata Kycia

My work explores the relationship between digital technologies and material practices. It is strongly influenced by my architectural background, fascination with geometry and spatial perception. I adopt techniques of screenprinting and relief printing to depict a dialogue between precision of the digital and imperfections of the human hand.

I also combine these techniques with other media, such as painting or drawing. Many of my immersive, colorful compositions reflect upon my experiences as a woman and as a mother, portraying intangible concepts and emotions. They are constructed through agglomeration of simple, repetitive forms; often balancing on the verge of symmetry and differentiation.

Agatha Fiz

Through an excessive and psychedelic language, F I Z paintings represent memories that decompose in microorganisms, subtle landscapes and analog bytes that are diluted in the black void of the universe, in oblivion.

F I Z 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.

Agnieszka Kruczek

My collage Art is inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s philosophy of humanity, which emphasizes the natural goodness of people and how society corrupts this purity. Rousseau’s belief in a harmonious connection with nature is central to my work.

The fragmented style of collage reflects the fractured state of modern humanity, while also offering a space to imagine a return to balance. My art seeks to inspire reflection on freedom, authenticity, and equality.

Alexandra Liakhavets

As an artist and illustrator, I depict everyday life experiences that are touching, annoying, or personally disturbing. Using gouache as my primary medium, I explore overlooked aspects of mundane activities behind screens.

My work addresses themes such as mental health, social relations, power dynamics, and femininity, often illustrated through objects, phrases, and characters. Influenced by my fashion design background in Belarus, I distort human figures and emphasize clothing, where color, pattern, and shape become key tools of expression. I embrace a non-digital approach, focusing on presence and mindfulness in art practice.

Alice Brunello Luise

Through the lens of my camera and the treasures found in antique 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 rich tapestry of inner life.

I commit to the art of self-narration, weaving reality, dreams, and desires into an abstract landscape. My intent is to prompt contemplation on the gap between inner feelings and external reality, an inner and outer worlds that creates a narrative transcending the boundaries of perception.

Alvine Bautra

Alvine Bautra (b.1990) is a Latvian contemporary painter. The portrait painting compositions embody the feeling of movement in slow motion. The zooming on the faces or the seemingly calm figures are never frozen because the state of peace is utopian.

The figures dance within themselves, allowing the movement of the soul, giving themselves to a peculiar trance when revelation occurs unconsciously. Currently works and lives in Riga, Latvia.

Amber Cannings

Cannings’ work is centred around space and place, she takes energy from her surroundings and represents not just the way things look, but the essence of them, how it feels to be there in that exact moment.

The place around her naturally weaves into the paintings, be that a gritty underground station in Berlin, or a beautiful sunset on a Spanish beach. It offers a window into her own lived experience and covers themes of nostalgia, loneliness, and exploration.

AME DGD

AME DGD (*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 focus lies 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 oftentimes depict protagonists of city life in Berlin, discussing topics of feminism, queerness, techno parties, kink. By using LED backed canvases the paintings are extended by the aspect of turning into light installations. This technique creates new ways to use paint and mixed materials in different spectrums of light.

Amela Hasani

My work explores the emotional depth and complexity of the human experience. I use abstract and surreal forms to express feelings of isolation, reflection, and inner peace. Through bold colors and exaggerated shapes, I aim to depict the tension between the visible and the hidden aspects of our emotions.

Each piece is a journey into the unknown, inviting the viewer to contemplate the unseen forces that shape our thoughts and relationships. These artworks are meant to evoke personal interpretation, guiding viewers to reflect on their own emotional landscapes.

Ana Salinas Mata

Ana Salinas Mata’s pictorial work, “Floral Still Life / Bodegones, Centros Florales,” is inspired by the still lifes of the 17th century, a period when flower arrangements reached their highest artistic expression.

In her current series, Ana enlarges the scales and abstracts the floral motifs, exploring new dimensions and perceptions of these traditional arrangements. Using traditional media such as oil on canvas, she captures the richness of colors and the depth of textures, creating works that invite the viewer to a sensory and reflective experience.

Anastasia Egonyan

Anastasia Egonyan (b.1987, Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian artist of Armenian descent based in Berlin. Her practice is driven by emotional fluctuations that are deeply rooted in her introspective life experiences. She continues to balance a longstanding practice in photography with evolving focus on a variety of mediums and visual forms.

Egonyan’s artistic practice is grounded in psychological self-reflection, where themes of ancestral heritage and identity gradually unfold. Her use of textile, photography collages, and mixed media often employs layering techniques to shield the vulnerable aspects of emotional and personal experience. Frequent engagement with family narratives and the exploration of female fragility are closely integrated into the evolving sense of self, as she continues to expand her approach across diverse mediums.

Anastasia Strockova

Anastasia Strockova is Czech illustrator based in Berlin and collaborating with prominent publishers, magazines and graphic studios. 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. 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. Studied at Academy of Art Architecture and Design in Prague, attended the program Erasmus at Halle Burg University at Georg Barber (Atak) studio.

andre andrejew

André Andrejew ist 1970 in die DDR hineingeboren worden und arbeitet bis heute am Theater. Während der Pandemie begann er mit der Malerei. Themen seiner Arbeiten sind Einsamkeit, Melancholie, Anarchie, Beziehungen zwischen Menschen und die subjektive Wahrnehmung von Natur. André arbeitet in seiner Küche und isst seitdem oft auswärts.✌️

Andrey Anro

My work revolves around the complexities of collective memory and historical narratives, often rooted in socio-political landscapes between Western and Eastern cultures. I use painting, photography, digital collage, and installation to engage with themes of dictatorship, religion, loss, and disappearance.

Through these mediums, I explore the ways in which power, ideology, and history imprint themselves on individual and collective consciousness. By juxtaposing the past and present, I seek to provoke reflection on the fragility of identity and the forces that shape our understanding of reality, memory, and death.

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.

Ángeles Alarcón

My images first go round and round in my head for a long time, I rarely make sketches. I am fascinated by the act of being able to materialise them.

Angeliz Herholz

Angeliz Herholz seeks to evoke emotions in her work. Transparencies that merge between the material used and the drawn object bring the idea of being beyond what one is, and merging with the vastness, freeing oneself from any bonds that do not represent one’s inner self. Highlighted real objects play the role of the reality that binds us to society and the impositions created by it.

Anja Weingärtner

Verbindungen und Begegnungen

In meinen abstrakten, expressiven Malereien lasse ich intuitive Verbindungen von Lichtblicken, Farben, Geflechten und Alltagsschnipseln entstehen, die sich zu abstrakten, emotionalen Landschaften formen und Raum lassen für das Momentane, Prozesshafte und Unfertige.

Künstliche und natürliche Strukturen miteinander ins Gespräch zu bringen und die Begegnungen zwischen inneren und äußeren Welten sichtbar zu machen , ist Inhalt meiner künstlerischen Arbeit.

In Verbindung zu sein, mit der Natur, den Menschen und sich selbst ist für mich der einzige Weg, den alltäglichen Wahnsinn glücklich händeln zu können. Der Vielschichtigkeit und Komplexität des Lebens möchte ich mit meinen Bildern die sonnige Stirn bieten und ein Gefüh l von Leichtigkeit, Offenheit und Freiheit vermitteln.

Anna Lea Schmitt (aelnaan)

Lea (she/her) is a Berlin-based illustrator, 2D-animator, and sculptor. Her work explores feminism, the (human) body, and sexuality, manipulating body shapes and colors to challenge societal norms and inspire new perspectives. Using a variety of mediums, including animation, screenprints, and sculptural works with clay, she examines the complexities of identity and expression.

Her recent exhibition focuses on the mythology of sirens, reimagining them as symbols of female autonomy and desire, while challenging traditional depictions of femininity. Through these reworks, she aims to create dialogue around power, voice, and the body’s role in society.

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Als intermediale Kunsttherapeutin widmet sich Anna-Lea Wiegard der Arbeit mit Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung. Für sie sind diese vielfältigen Begegnungen eine wesentliche Quelle der Inspiration für ihre eigene künstlerische Praxis.

Ihr Interesse liegt insbesondere darin, zu erforschen, wie die Welt aus verschiedenen Perspektiven betrachtet werden kann. In ihren Kunstwerken folgt sie einem Weg des Experimentierens und Entdeckens. Sie setzt unkonventionelle Techniken ein, wie das Malen mit geschlossenen Augen, ihrer linken Hand und einem verlängerten Pinsel, um alltägliche Elemente auf die Leinwand zu projizieren. Im Anschluss übermalt sie die Leinwand großflächig, wodurch aus den verbliebenen Fragmenten des ursprünglichen Werks oft vollkommen neue, unerwartete Elemente entstehen. Der Austausch mit den Betrachtern ihrer Kunstwerke liegt Anna-Lea Wiegard besonders am Herzen, da er verdeutlicht, dass jeder Mensch die Welt auf seine eigene, einzigartige Weise wahrnimmt. Ihre Kunst lädt dazu ein zu Entdecken und Geschichten zu erfinden.

Anne von Westphalen

My paintings explore interior spaces that blend reality with surreal elements, creating dreamlike environments where the familiar dissolves. These “thinking spaces” are not meant to depict reality but to generate a new, imagined level of it. Central to my work are faceless female figures.

My fascination with portraiture began with the „Project 52“ series, where I painted weekly non-portraits. In 2023, I resumed the series, incorporating AI techniques as a tool to rethink and reinterpret my process. These AI-generated templates are refined, transformed and finally painted in my distinct style.

Antanina Slabodchykava

Antanina Slabodchykava is a painter and performance artist. She was born on April 7, 1979. 2004 she graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts with an Architectural Monuments and Decorative and Applied Arts degree. Since 2005 she has been a Member of the Belarusian Union of Artists.

In 2020, due to political persecution, she was forced to leave Belarus. She currently lives and works in Dresden, Germany. She works in the fields of painting, graphics, and installation. Using collage, pop culture imagery, humor, and subtle irony, she discusses the topic of motherhood, gender identity, and social stereotypes. The heroes of her works are women and children who build relationships between themselves and the world around them.

Anya QRP

In my art practice, I explore themes of trauma and emotions, femininity and embodiment. Using mystical allegories, bodily and vulnerable images is a way to closely examine traumatic events, loss, and experiencing complex emotions in order to create a space for non-verbal dialogue, empathy, and catharsis.

Axel Pahlavi

I try to paint as best as I can. I try to paint the people I meet, they are all a mystery to me, a mystery that tells the world where I live.

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Barbara Evina

Barbara Evina is a Cameroon born french artist who took up painting as a tool of self expression.
Based in Berlin since 2019, she started painting as a mean of introspection.

Barbara Evina’s art is dedicated to women of color and more particularly black women whom to this day, lack diverse, non stereotypical representation in the art community.
Her art depicts women who look like her, and share a similar, multicultural background.

Beata Filipowicz

My creative process is guided by intuition, where imagination, coincidence and automatic drawing play an important role. The final form is open to the imagination and interpretation of the viewer.

I express great admiration for the structure of the world, explore phenomenon of life and nature from universal and personal perspective – especially buddhist thought – relations between mind (conciousness) and body – nature and the universe.

My latest body of works explore the impact of distortion on visual patterns sourced from religions and alphabeths – where they lead, their intent, their possibilities. Text is always a primal inspiration for all of my visual works). As a visual artist who expresses herself artistically through printmaking and painting, I also use illustration, experiment with paper installation and object art, products from everyday life and pop culture.

Ben Meyer

I get inspired by sleeping, eating, drinking, walking,

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 it 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.

Berner Panti Quispe

I am a Peruvian-Italian migrant and artist specialized in Platinum-palladium printing and image gilding, but also drawing and painting. My work develops itself around the concept of positivity and beauty as a way to defeat social poverty and injustice, and the analog process as a way to fight the rapid decline of our ambitious society.

The use of precious materials and ancient method is the result of my natural rejection of immediacy and obsolescence.

Bettina Hajanti

I am inspired by colour and contrast, and by everyday scenes. In my paintings I like to study what type of story one can tell in a still-life format. I am a self-taught painter working in gastronomy, and thus food and dinners play an essential part in my paintings.

I love to paint cats on a table, as in Finland (my home country) this symbolizes difficult discussion topics. I want my work to bring joy and light to its viewers.

Birch Hayes

My photographic works are produced by making small sculptures and taking close up shots of them with a macro lens, they are not made with CGI or digital effects. The idea is to confront the viewer with a richly detailed image that is very mysterious and let them interpret it how they wish.

I think about them in terms of phenomenology and epistemology but they can also be seen in relation to science fiction and horror movies. The drawings are older works that are drawn from the imagination and are more playful or ironic.

Brigitta Friedrich

With my Pixel artworks I create a connection between industrial materials and craftsmanship and between painting and object. Through my own multi-layered technique, I show a visual language with an unmistakable and unique character. I’m the artist who paints pictures with plastic straws.

Burak Erkil

Burak Erkil, a queer artist based in Berlin, brings a unique fusion of AI-generated portraits and traditional lino printing to this presentation. His works, characterized by bold patterns and rough edges, evoke the spirit of German Expressionism with their raw emotional depth and strong, flat shapes. Expressionism’s focus on subjective emotions and inner experiences feels particularly apt as a reference point for Erkil’s practice.

Erkil, born in Istanbul and migrated to Germany as a student, embodies this theme bothin his biography and work, presenting personas that resonate with the process of navigating a new identity while balancing the memories of home and the challenges of belonging in a new place. His use of AI as part of his creative process further underlines this exploration of identity, emphasizing the tension between past and present, tradition and innovation, as well as self-invention. The characters in his prints—striking, unfamiliar, and yet deeply human—reflect the emotional landscape of migration, where one often must reinvent and rediscover oneself in an unfamiliar environment.

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Carsten Wagner

Carsten Wagners themes focus on the female face and form, wildlife and subculture. Through the mediums relief- and intaglio printmaking, Carsten brings his characters and innermost thoughts to life, finding joy in getting his hands dirty while creating surreal and hyper-graphic figurative works.

The characters in his works are coming out of their own imaginary universe. A slow motion caption of ingredients which develop something that contains our volatile zeitgeist, celebrating counter-culture attitudes and underground moods as well as feelings and conflicts that appeared since humans were present.

cati laporte

“I will soon smoke in your living room” and ” Portrait within a portrait series” are continuation of my exploration of the truthfulness in the painted portrait of non _exosting people , following the first series of people holding their animal artefacts ,

Charlotte Ackermann

My artistic work is a constant immersion in the world of natural processes. Corroding metal, crystal-forming salts, weathering rock. In my workshop, I explore the transformative nature of materials, often revealing a surprising aesthetic potential hidden in the supposedly familiar.

Through sober macro photography of natural disasters, such as volcanic ash or burnt leaves after a woodfire, I explore the poetic connection between humanity and nature and the interplay of control and chance.

Ching Lan Chang

I usually work with clay as my medium, creating tableware and sculptures. My current series,“Sweet secret“ The current stage of life is like melting ice cream, sweet but always changing and sinking, explores my life abroad where I tend to stay within my comfort zone and fear changes.

Chris Kamprad

Malereien über Befindlichkeiten und Zwischenwelten, in Bildern gedacht – schafft sie farbige Lebens- Bildmomente,Verknüpfungen und Traumzonen mit Eigenleben. Ihre Malereien bezeichnet sie als “”Reisen des Geistes””.

Ihre Suche nach dem Imaginären, mit intuitiver Farbgebung und gesturalen Formen, heißt Weglassen und Füllen von Freiräumen. SEIN mit den Farben, der Komposition und vor allem der Spaß der Überraschungen, der Magie im Gelingen. Dabei genießt die Künstlerin das Beste: den Raum ohne Zeit zu finden!

Christian “Rabe” Eickelberg

Modern fairytales of an animistic mind. I paint animals but i dont paint animals. I paint humans but i dont paint humans. Static movement inspired by mythologies of the world in a naive palette of simplicity. The story is yours if you let it happen.

Ciara Lee

The aim of the project Balter is to capture the catharsis of the dancers whom are being released from the emotional tension of everyday life. To balter is to dance artlessly without particular skill nor grace but with immense enjoyment. To balter in itself involves a certain degree of letting go. Balter aims to capture the boisterous grittiness of what it is to be a part of the dancefloor.

The feelings one experiences and the sights one sees. Removing the beer goggles and the drug-infused state, one experiences the dancefloor differently now that it is laid out in front of them. Nostalgia plays a major role in my work. By placing the dancefloor in what has traditionally been an elitist space I am inviting the community to interact with the gallery space by entering it through the dancefloor. Dance has a way of uniting people with the common experience.

CIENTODOS

Macarena Pereyra Iraola is an Argentinian artist based in Berlin. She is interested in the sutile, the often hidden grace of the seemingly ordinary, what can’t be expressed without painterly qualities and subjective, personal and intuitive hand.

In her works, she often incorporates the process into the final result evidencing the human hesitation involved in creating, not in a “pentimenti” way, but in a “carry all I am with me” way. The result is a series of deep artworks that address humanity in its fragile, essential and subjective version; those dark hidden places that we visit alone but we all visit.

Ciro Chávez

Graduado en pedagogía de arte Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (Lima, Perú) y posgrado en pedagogía de la cultura de arte UDK (Universidad de Arte de Berlin), Arte y filosofía en la Universidad Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Perú)

Claudia Gillies

Claudia’s works celebrate sensuality. Lavish colour and sensation dominate. With turns of movement, the pieces move and change depending on the angle, or the viewer’s mood. Sometimes soft and dreamy, although not innocent. More often indulgent, ripe with juicy colour and texture.

Formerly of New Zealand, later Australia and briefly France, Claudia makes her home in Berlin. She paints with her young daughter, whose contributions can usually clearly be spotted.

Constanza Guadalajara

This paintings are from a project I did in 2022, it was called “Un lugar en dónde no había nada” (A place where there was nothing). I wanted to explore the feeling of vertigo and absurdity, mostly through the figure in the landscape, referring to the sense of being small and vulnerable, facing the immensity of the world.

Constanze Krischer

As a Berlin-based makeup artist turned painter, I began my artistic journey during the pandemic in 2020. This pivotal time ignited in me a desire to explore my own vision of aesthetics and meaning beyond the client-focused nature of makeup artistry.

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.Through my paintings, I delve into themes of solitude and the quest for balance between the self and the environment, often capturing individuals in moments of inward contemplation. My painting technique is a natural extension of my work as a makeup artist; I embrace spontaneity, allowing shapes and expressions to emerge organically on the canvas without preliminary sketches.

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.

Cyrilo

I think my main motivation is my feelings and the need to express them to myself and others 🙂

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Daniel Leo 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.

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.

Daniela Torres

Daniela Torres is a multidisciplinary artist from Quito, Ecuador, based in Berlin, Germany. Advocating for gender equality, the artist challenges societal norms through the mediums of photography, ceramics, and writing. Her work is a celebration of feminity, highlighting the profound beauty found in vulnerability, empowerment and liberation.

Daria Chernyshova

Intuition plays a leading role in Daria Chernyshova’s practice. The starting point of her work is an ephemeral vision seen by her inner eye. She documents these insights, supplementing them with records of emotions translated into a graphic language.

The drawing process becomes a tool she uses to observe the ways in which the mind memorizes, stores, and reproduces information in reimagined form. The compositions of Intuitive Practice combine abstraction with geometric shapes and often include figurative elements referring to her personal recollections. They resemble tables, schedules, questionnaires, notebook pages or various containers that Chernyshova fills out during sessions of self-reflection.

Dasha Buben

All the works I’ve selected for this edition of BAAM share themes of sensuality and play. It’s also my personal feminist statement, asserting my right to portray female sexuality not for the male gaze, but for women’s empowerment. The works are created in different mediums (photography and drawings), but I maintain an abstract form in both. This helps to create an unspoken game with the viewer, inviting them to ask themselves what they truly see.

Dasz Art

My art reflects the emotional complexities of mental health and personal transformation. Through bold colors and abstract forms, I explore the fragmented self, the weight of past experiences, and the journey toward healing. The ‘Bleeding Man’ series embodies the tension between despair and hope, using mixed media to evoke the rawness of inner struggle and the search for identity. Each painting is a visual narrative of breaking down and building back up.

DayraPalaciosArt

In my art, I focus on capturing everyday life in Berlin through vibrant acrylics on wood and canvas. Since childhood, I’ve been inspired by the people and moments I observe in public transport. This inspiration is reflected in my project “Berlin ABC,” which blends real experiences with urban sketches.

My detailed acrylic paintings encapsulate these fleeting moments and invite the viewer to dive into the diversity and stories of Berlin’s city life. My work is a tribute to the daily encounters in this dynamic city.

Dilara Tüzün

I make cyanotypes because I am joyfully being in the flow in it’s experimental process. Each print is unique and created by hand without rush. As in our life journey, there is a room for mistakes, but also plenty of rooms for freedom.

With this photo series “Inner Bloom” I focused on my personal journey that I evolve and grow with every challenge and change along the way. Collaborating with nature during this alternative process made me respect nature more, and gave me the inspiration to take self-portraits within nature and to capture some nature photographs.

Dominique Suberville

Between Rites and Punishments is a series that explores the relationship between ritual and bodily punishment. On one hand, it’s a time based performative series where I cover medical bandages drop by drop with candles, submitting myself to a slow endurance based practice.

On the other, it is a symbolic representation of my personal narrative relating to a history of many reconstructive surgeries and a Mexican catholic background. Both the materials and the production itself relate to both of these points in the work.

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Elina Evstig

I’ve been engaged in making art since 2012 and work as a freelance artist since 2015. As an artist based in Berlin, I participated in local collective exhibitions and a few abroad. I do figurative painting with elements of abstraction and paint primarily with oil.

My most frequent subject is people, especially women and children portraits, which is a tribute to my childhood in a dysfunctional family and an attempt to capture what resonates with me now as an adult. My artworks are mini-stories about me and my perception of the world and people, and yet my works are open to interpretation.

Elio Rodriguez

Pop Art style paintings, I use images of various topics obtained from social networks to illustrate the visual overdose of our daily lives. I paint what my algorithm suggests, i let myself be carried away by it.

Elisabeth Bukenberger

Elisabeth is fascinated by how we, in a digitalised modern era, perceive the world.

Thus far Elisabeth has focused on representing figures, drawing inspiration from fashion and beauty as well as her inner social circle. In her recent work she represents so called “light and shadow” scenes in form of architectural still life.

She uses photography as a medium to document these scenes and there upon translates them into her painting practice. By practicing mindfulness and stepping away from our digitalized culture, Elisabeth encourages viewers to be present in everyday moments. These light and shadow scenes are close to her heart, often reflecting scenes from her life in Berlin. Through her realistic representations she encourages the viewer to delve into scenes that are often taken for granted or are overlooked, and invites to reflection on deeper awareness of the world around us.

Emma de Warren

Through my work, I question the idea of femininity, in the hope of finding an answer to inner subconscious confusions. I experience the feminine as having a certain mystical power that has the potential to heal inner and outer landscapes.

Using dreamy backgrounds, figures, and sometimes text, I play with utopian ideas, which are often drawn from views I have gotten to know through the city’s party culture. The characters in my work live odd raw experiences. I wish to expose all ranges of emotion, mixing intimacy with disgust, pride with shame or care with anger.

Emma Lu

I’m obsessed with cars for one year. When I don’t find any I shoot nature and street views. I like colours and light and interesting perspectives.

Ernst van Hoek

Ernst van Hoek is a Dutch Berlin-based illustrator, designer, and artist known for his vibrant paper cut-out collages, drawings, and paintings. His work explores contemporary portrayals of the queer body, drawing from diverse influences and personal experiences within the community.

He is committed to resisting fascism and oppression and therefore advocates for queer freedoms by crafting vibrant fantasy worlds that celebrate alternative identities. Through his art, he envisions a Queer Utopia, showcasing the richness and diversity of queerness. He has exhibited in solo and group shows in the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Greece.

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
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Fanny Harms

Do you ever find yourself caught in the chaos of a world that seems increasingly divided and stressful? I think 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 new place, but to leave examples that assure others they are not lost or alone, like signs on our path to a better now.

Fei Alexeli

Hailing from Greece (b.1987) a place of intense political, social and historical scene, Alexeli has been intrigued by the theme of escapism. Fei Alexeli’s photography transcends the boundaries of reality and imagination. Her work is characterized by vibrant color palettes, dreamlike landscapes, and a harmonious juxtaposition of natural and urban environments.

Through her art, Alexeli explores themes of escapism, identity, and the complex relationship between humanity and nature. Alexeli’s photography and collage work in parallel direction, informing and contemplating one another.

Felix Lies

I try to translate stories into pictures. Through my works, I endeavors to capture the unbiased and imaginative perspective of children towards the world, while metaphorically addressing social issues such as alienation, self-optimization, and housing shortages. For me, stories transcend mere text or images; they manifest in diverse forms of language. Mainly Pictures.

Fernanda Porto

My creative process is very intuitive and visceral. I have transited through various media, such as painting, performance, and installation, but it was through collage that I consolidated my production.

It is in the very possibility to mix photography with paintings, textiles, different materials, that makes this language so intrinsically related to what moves me as an artist: this great melting pot of our contemporary society. A blend of cultures, of styles, of flavors, of times that live together simultaneously. In my collages, the cellphone, as a recurring element, is often a window to an imaginary world, a portal to fictitious planets, or a magnifying glass that yields an augmented perception of our own reality.

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.

Florencia Lizama / ~Studio eclectic~

At Studio Eclectic, I am inspired by the perfect blend of art and functionality. I create unique objects and garments using textiles and a variety of materials, ensuring they meet everyday needs while showcasing artistic flair. Vibrant cotton-thread lampshades convert color into striking, practical pieces. Each lamp is a unique creation that reflects my commitment to sustainability and lasting design.

Florian Bong Kil Grosse

The project Tokyo Diary was shot during a 3 weeks stay in Tokyo in 2017. It focuses on the particular aesthetics of urban landscapes in a subjective manner.

Francisca Poch

Ever since I moved to Berlin 6 years ago and found a child’s crayon in my first Moabit Wg, I started to draw everything I saw. Maybe because of the loneliness of newcomer to the city, to capture on paper the everyday objects that surrounded me, made me a great companion.

My work is the practice of capturing moments, objects, scenes. Putting a main focus on the observation of color and contrast of light and shadow. Creating visual joy through the use of a palette of vibrant complementary colors.
I work mainly with water based crayons and oil pastels because they allow me that expressiveness and speed in drawing, while allowing me to have very saturated colors.

Francisco Cintolesi

In my work, the idea of the real thing is being objected, incomplete or fractured. With that, I try to subtract some certainty that installs a question that is not answered. That anxiety that arises, it seems beautiful. There is a desire to isolate the circumstances that give identity to time. I try to do certain things well and break the language in others. It is a visual strategy.

Frauke Sophie Thiemig

Protecting nature and animals have always been very important to me. That’s why I paint still lifes in which the topic of climate change plays a role and nature is slowly reclaiming its space piece by piece.

Frieda Maelle & Sebastian Schubbe

2 PHOTOGRAPHERS, 1 MERCEDES BUS, 20 COUNTRIES, 3 YEARS FROM HAMBURG 50,000 KM TO THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS

We are selling photographs from our exhibition ‘In between’, which tells stories of cultures between Europe and Asia and attempts to blur the borders that have been created in our minds.

On this journey, we visited the most remote places and fascinating cultures, often documenting them photographically for days, weeks or even months.

The smooth transition in each country – from mountains to deserts, religion, culture and the everyday travelling around it – has inspired us to live a life far away in our bus, to dive deep into other worlds.”

Friederike Meier

Friederike is a German artist living in Berlin. Her main motif is women – in strong and bright colours, which are based on AI.

“The sketching took place in the AI through my play with different prompts: The creation of new women. Fragile women with a strong expression, each with her own story to tell.”

Friederike combines her digital figures with classic portrait painting in oil and acrylic and interprets them in the haptic sphere of the canvas.

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Gabriela Guarnizo

Gabriela is a visual artist from Bogotá, Colombia based in Berlin. She is an interdisciplinary artist who currently focuses mainly on oil painting. Her art is characterized by being surreal and figurative. Each painting tells a story. These stories abstract experiences and dreams, family stories and knowledge learned in her culture.

She also creates adaptations of Latin American women writers and world music. As a migrant, Gabriela’s art reflects the struggle to preserve marginalized cultures in the Global North. Her creations celebrate resilience and offer reflections on identity and belonging. Over the past decade, she has exhibited in Berlin, Frankfurt, Halle (Saale), Leipzig, and Bogotá. Self-taught, Gabriela developed her artistic language and style, inspired by Latin American Flinta* artists who narrated stories in their works. She also had a desire to confront classical painting, since her style is intuitive.

Gabriela Sacconi

Gabriela Sacconi is a textile artist that uses the material, its possibilities of transformation, expansion and contraction to talk about the ways in which we move, migrate and interact with our environments and the other beings that co-inhabit these spaces.

The pieces she is proposing for the fair are a series of painted fabrics painted with pigments she created with natural dyes from plants endemic from Colombia (her home country) and others introduced artificially to the territory over the years. She takes inspiration from migration patterns of animal species and the symbiotic relationships of plants to create these surfaces.

Gina Donner

Gina Donner’s work explores the forms and movements of the body. Curved body shapes and organic, flowing lines intertwine to create an intimate inner landscape. Transparent layers of paint and soft brushstrokes capture the subtle movements and energies that reside within. The figures, often appearing too large for the canvas, fold into themselves, embracing themselves in a tender act of introspection.

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Hanna Squiggles

My work explores the resonance of shape, line, and color in abstract forms through a process of tactile exploration and intuitive mark-making. Each piece captures a moment of discovery, where fragments of experience are translated into fluid, vibrant compositions – with a focus on the interplay between structure and spontaneity.

Helena Her

There is something that happens when we pierce fabric with the needle and that resonates in our bodies. It is something in the fabric that challenges many people. Perhaps it is the ancient echo in our body’s memory of a language that has been before the written word: the language of needles and textiles. As a contemporary artist, I love to give people the experience of small works of art that involve peeking into the intimate through textiles.

Hey Bonito

My art is more than just a visual feast; it’s a journey back to our inner child, evoking warm, high-frequency vibrations that uplift and inspire. I believe that colors are not just hues; they’re the physical manifestation of our deepest feelings. In my canvas, they play and intertwine, creating patterns that captivate and energize.

Horekb

Jorge Linares (Tenerife, 30.06.82) is an artist and doctor of Philosophy who has lived in Berlin since 2008. Driven by Nietzsche’s thought, he moved to the German capital to write his doctoral thesis, “The Game in Nietzsche’s Tragedy.” However, upon presenting his thesis in 2016, he decided to distance himself from academic philosophy to seek new horizons.

It is precisely with the abandonment of academic philosophy and the birth of his daughter Luisa that he found in art a means of expression that provided a space for play, experimentation, and freedom: “Together, we found in watercolors, crayons, and colored pencils a medium of expression and communication where she was the teacher and I was the student.” Thus, in 2017, the Horekb project was born, blending styles that prominently feature watercolors and digital art, sometimes born from effort and other times from chance.

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Ina Berlina

Ina is a Berlin based visual artist. Her work is meditative, free-flowing and mostly abstract. She is an architect who started painting as a way to deal with her emotions, it was a form of self-exploration and meditative practice.

Her work is intuitive and organic, done with acrylics with elements of embroidery, crocheting and knitting. Ina expresses herself with different textures and mediums. She recently started exploring painting on new surfaces, like Plexiglas which she layers. It gives her new artworks depth and movement. Ina draws her inspiration from nature with all its forms and human anatomy.

Irina Jigilo

I am a photographer from Belarus. I was born in 1990 in a village in Polesie. I started shooting at the age of 10 when my dad gave me a cheap Kodak camera for my birthday. I still shoot on film, but the cameras are cooler. I never studied photography, everything happened organically.

I just took pictures of friends, cats, dogs, random people walking down the street, running, sitting, lying down — everyone is doing his own thing.

20 years later, I do the same — walking and observing: I come across funny, sad, beautiful or ugly moments, and I take them with me on film. I’m always on a mission.”

Isabelle Bapté

I want to celebrate the beauty and diversity of the human body in all its shapes, sizes, and colors through my Ceramics . Through playful and joyful representations, I use vibrant hues and unique forms to highlight individuality and self-acceptance.

By incorporating different body types, including breasts of various forms, my work aims to challenge narrow beauty standards and embrace the full spectrum of what it means to be human. Each piece is a reminder that our bodies are to be cherished, and through art, I hope to inspire confidence, self-love, and a celebration of the diversity that makes us who we are.

ISS.UE

ISS.UE is a street artist and graphic designer currently based in Berlin. In his artistic process, ISS.UE addresses themes of transformation, chance and interconnection. Drawing inspiration from multi-layered urban environments and spontaneous situations.

He interprets randomly seen objects and artifacts of the man-made world through geometric shapes and digital techniques, creating vivid and intricate narratives. By using different methods and materials and experimenting with techniques, ISS.UE crafts a new visual experience for the viewer, leaving space for personal interpretation.

Itamar Yehiel

Itamar’s artistic exploration delves into the tension between realism and illusion, organic and artificial, temporary and eternal, contemporary and traditional, and fine art and craft. Through his artistic endeavors, Itamar delves into profound themes, inviting viewers to contemplate the complexities of existence.

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Jakob Drömmer

Als Architekt habe ich schon immer eine Leidenschaft für die Kunst gehabt. Meine neuesten Arbeiten, abstrakte Holzreliefs, sind für mich eine Kombination zwischen Architektur, Kunst und Konstruktion.

Jan Kallenbach

ICH BIN BEGEISTERT VON MENSCHEN, IM POSITIVEN WIE AUCH IM NEGATIVEN. WÄHREND ICH SIE BETRACHTE, OB SIE NUN STILL VOR MIR SITZEN, ODER IM ALLTAG AN MIR VORBEI GEHEN, DENKE ICH MIR MEINE GESCHICHTE DAZU. DURCH ABSTRAKTION ERSCHAFFE ICH TEILS EINE NEUE PERSÖNLICHKEIT AUF MEINEN BILDERN.

FÜR MICH HAT KUNST IM BEZUG AUF MALEREI NICHT DAS ZEIL EINE REALISTISCHE DARSTELLUNG MEINES GEGENÜBERS ZU MALEN, SONDERN EINE NEUE GESCHICHTE ZU ERZÄHLEN. AUS DER PERSPEKTIVE UND ERFAHRUNGEN VON MIR ALS BETRACHTER.

Jana Blum Zimova

Jana Zimová was born in the Czech Republic in 1987 and now lives and works in Germany. In the tradition of Magical Realism, her works present unreal and impossible events taking place in the real world. The impossible or supernatural happens in her paintings.

The artist uses imagination in the frame of natural environment and social realities, thus searching for a truth that goes beyond what is visible in everyday life. In those so-called “magical happenings” in her paintings, reality and dream melt into a superordinate totality that needs to be interpreted.

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. 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.

JAQ

I love colors, surfaces and spaces … and love questioning and dissolving them in the process of my work. This creates an appealing tension between objects and color planes. I mainly work with acrylic pigment and oil paint.

Jessi Kammerer

Colors provide solace. In vivid comic-like fantasy worlds, humans, animals, and fabulous creatures meet. 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 and comfort in vibrant oddities.

Jette Leder

Jette Leder, born in 1983 in Dresden, is a self-taught artist fascinated by the poetry in everyday gestures. Her work delves into the human body, emphasizing its nuances to evoke visceral responses from viewers.

Inspired by Lucien Freud, Egon Schiele, and Jenny Saville, Leder uses traditional painting techniques and expressionistic colors to explore human existence. Her art seeks to strip away societal constructs, revealing the raw beauty of the human form from a feminine perspective. Through light, shadow, form, and texture, she invites viewers to introspect and celebrate the resilience and vulnerability of humanity.

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.

Joana Lucas

I am drawn to fractured images of urban daily life, scenes marked by the human presence. I am inspired by the constant revolutions of urban coexistence. The circumference of my methodology revolves around photography and painting, between reality and my translation of it.

I understand my surroundings through images and use them as a code to both interpret information and communicate. My paintings present reality as a narrative to be concluded. They play with beauty, the digital world, technology and classical aesthetics. This visual metaphors suggest pathways for new ideas around balance and disorder, and explores disruption and discontinuity.

Joe Cummins

Joe Cummins’ work interrogates the duality of simplicity vs complexity, control and no-control. often exploring the relationship between shapes, colours, structure and pattern. He uses layered elements to lead the eye across surreal landscapes, building images that are inspired by the twists and turns of what it means to navigate the modern world.

In particular, Cummins responds to personal narratives around self preservation, family and the stigma of mental health, as well as broader topics such as the reality and beauty of living within intersectional and complex systems. Often melting macro and micro examples from philosophical theory taking inspiration from the mundane to the sublime. They query what it means to be present in a forever turbulent space, and invite the viewer to seek beauty in understanding something that is not immediately visible, clear or ever fully resolved.

Joelle Glueck

My recent work draws from snapshots of where I have roots: Berlin, NYC, and Romania. I’m inspired by the emotions these places evoke, exploring how each location forces me to confront different aspects of myself.

Coming to terms with my shattered identity reflects my ongoing personal growth, symbolized in my use of green. I experiment with stark contrasts and mixed media in my practice, which mirrors the complexity of the human experience. I invite viewers to explore their own complex relationships with places and identity, reflecting on the different facets that shape who they are.

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.

Johanna von Oldershausen

I think the medium of collage is very close to life: a composition of various fragments, one’s own and collective memories, whereby especially in the digital age it is blurred which fragments are real and which are manipulated.

Central to my work with the medium of collage is to address the Janus-facedness / ambivalence of our lives, the beautiful and at the same time absurd and grotesque faces of mankind. How do we put inner and outer images into new contexts again and again? I see my work as a search for its own form of surrealism, a means to question reality, from the flood of images and the various levels of the digital age to search for a deeper understanding of what makes the human being.

Joshua Hoskins

I start with the idea that the meaning of an artwork is primarily unknown until engaged with by a viewer. The meaning the viewer finds is personal and resides only in the mind of imagination. Any attempt by the artist to say what their art means is best viewed as intention. There is both the personal meaning for those who engage with the artwork and a cultural meaning.

The cultural meaning is continually constructed through a process in which the culture the artwork is embedded in, engages with the artwork. Said in another way, the viewing of the artwork by many countless viewers constructs its meaning. This meaning is both created and discovered in a process that takes place through time, always becoming but never arriving.

I create personally meaningful artworks by engaging with subject matter and ideas that I am interested in and find meaningful. These ideas have to do with how our perception changes depending on how we engage with the object of our gaze. I look to represent familiar objects, technologies, and genres in order to rethink generally held notions, assumptions, and beliefs by seeing with new perspectives, angles or framing.

Asking about meaning is one approach when viewing an artwork. However, when art is seen as a technology, it assumes new functionality. Typically, the meaning of technology is not questioned; rather, its purpose and application are of interest. Thus, when art is utilised as a technology, it allows for the transcendence of commonly held views and beliefs, leading to the discovery of new insights and understandings about reality. One looks at an artwork to see beyond it. What is depicted is not the thing itself but rather an interface or conduit through which perception is altered. Whether or not it is true that art is a technology, this is how I would like my artwork to function. When I create an image I am attempting to create a portal through which the viewer escapes their everyday reality and journeys to a world of new ideas and possibilities, and connects the past, the present and the future.

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

Julia Sophia Neundorf

Julia Sophia Neundorf geboren 1991 in Thüringen, ist eine Künstlerin die sich mit figurativen Motiven und abstrakten Elementen in der Malerei auseinandersetzt. Sie arbeitet und lebt in Erfurt. Sehr früh als Kind begann Sie, nach einen schweren Unfall an der Halswirbelsäule, die ersten Zeichnungen auf ihren Gips zu zeichnen.

Kai Krause

So it’s easy to see my love for vibrant colors and how they’re able to create so many different layers. With high viscosity of my pre-mixed colors it allows you to track the momentum and energy of the stroke movement and make them visible. So it offers a lot of power and a pinch of coincidence.

Everytime it is this coincidence which forces me to step back again and again to take a new look on the piece but at the same time it reveals so many small details and facets that I couldn’t have planned.

Kaloan Meenochite

My work explores the playful interaction of shapes and colors, blending borders and surfaces to create fluid illusions. Through watercolor, I aim to evoke a sense of movement and harmony, where boundaries dissolve and new forms emerge, inviting viewers to explore their perceptions of space and color.

Karmen Kraft

My work explores the complexities of the human experience, with a focus on the often-overlooked depth of modern femininity. Through drawing, painting, and printmaking, I seek to reveal the hidden strength, emotions, and contradictions within women, who are often portrayed superficially.

I aim to communicate the unspoken, capturing the raw essence of individuality and solitude. My art is a dialogue on equality, respect, and freedom—values that I believe are essential for a just society. By depicting women through a genuine feminine lens, I strive to honor their stories, emotions, and inner worlds.

Katerina Belkina

I am fascinated by exploring the psychology of relationships and giving shape to human emotions like joy, jealousy, and indifference. As a model, I use my face and body as instruments to embody these emotions, drawing inspiration from theatrical traditions. My work often resembles a performance, where I communicate feelings through my characters.

Influenced by classical art and modern technology, I blend painting and photography, using collage to merge reality and imagination. Through my creations, I express a female perspective, grounded in feminist principles, seeking balance and harmony where women are seen as powerful sources of energy, not objects.

Katja Murysina

I am drawn to the concepts of time, the cyclicality of life, and rituals. Emigration to Berlin has been a pivotal moment in my life, bringing a persistent sense of loss and disconnection from my roots. In an unfamiliar and foreign space, the mind instinctively seeks grounding in familiar elements of the past, in symbols that can evoke a lost experience.

My work focuses on the search for universal symbols and artefacts that can connect people across different cultures and temporal landscapes. Recurring life events, rituals, and cycles become key points through which I seeks to unify the human experience.

Khvylya /Andrii Kovtun

I started my career with graffiti in 2004, I was engaged in commercial wall painting since 2011, since 2014 I started doing murals and developing my own style, I like to work with graphics and bright colors. My works will tell you more about me.

Kim Kheradmandi

Kim Kheradmandi is a British Iranian artist and graphic designer, born in Paris (1989), raised in Ipswich, England, and currently based in Berlin.

He creates using different techniques, such as digital design, painting, collage and illustration. He also enjoys writing poetry and working with typography.

His art often blurs the line between surface aesthetics and introspective/external thought.

It is a physical manifestation of consumption and filter, love, sadness, happiness, contemplation and ultimately, an outlet to document a narrative which can sometimes feel irrelevant. His work consists of everyday reality and mundanity, imagination, abstract emotions, personal perspective and external media.

Kirk Sora

I use the language of art because it is the appropriate means to make the statements that are important to me. Of course, these are things that cannot be expressed in words, but which can be felt and experienced through contemplation. At best, the works convey a special emotionality that can only be evoked in this way, provided that the viewer takes some time and allows the respective work to have an effect on them.

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.

Kseniia Apresian

My work as a photographer centers on exploring the complexities of human identity, vulnerability, and desire through portraiture. I employ a range of techniques—from classic documentary photography to staged and digitally manipulated images—tailoring my approach to each project while maintaining a consistent focus on the human condition.

Whether capturing candid moments or constructing elaborate scenes, my goal is to reveal the deeper emotional layers that define us. Through my lens, I seek to create images that reflect the fragility and motivations that shape our lives.

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Lana Bragin

Bunki are hand-knitted and crocheted sculptures, in which the traditional craft finds a new form of expression. Because art does not only exist in museums, but in every woven thread. Collectibles that bring spaces to life, a statement for the power of the abstract that unfolds beyond the boundaries of the ordinary.

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.

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.”

Lars Wohlnick

Lars Wohlnick, born in Bremen in 1964, is a designer, typographer and artist | As a highly decorated creative he deals with the clearest possible communication of complex content.

As an artist, however, he is particularly interested in the ambiguity of messages: Quotes taken out of context, mutilated words that have various meanings and only transform through the interpretation of the viewer. In doing so, he uses typography, fragments from literature and music, and often alienates texts to give the viewer the opportunity for individual interpretation. His tools are various stamps and stencils, some of which he cut himself, with which he can give space to chance and mistakes, in order to transform letters into lively, unique pieces with intuition and spontaneity. Lars Wohlnick lives and works in Berlin.

Laura VELA

Laura Vela is an emerging artist of Latvian origin. Studied piano, gaining masters degree in Information Technology and then masters degree in painting at the Art Academy of Latvia. Laura Vela uses identity, time and transgenerational trauma research as inspiration for her artworks.

In the recent years the artist focuses on developing her own technique combining old school of painting and drawing with new media and materials. The main impulse comes from social environment, searching for her own identity and creating a bridge from the past to future. The artist mainly focuses on paintings as media, but also creates installations and video art. On year 2021 Laura Vela receives Nordic & Baltic Young Artist Painter Award 2020 for her masters degree multimedia installation “Time.Identity”. Since 2014 she has been participating in local and international group exhibitions and has had 6 solo shows. Laura Vela’s artworks are located in private collections in Latvia, United States, the Netherlands, Austria, France and Germany.

Lea Gramsdorff

I am interested in observing life in its everyday declinations. I like to tell with a light melancholy, and sometimes with irony, human behaviors. Paper is my favorite material; used paper from my personal archive such as old documents and letters, or nautical charts and maps.

“”Waving Goodbye”” portrays the windows of Southern Italy and wants to be both a tribute and a farewell. “”The Bathers”” is an allegorical reflection on the exhibitionism that is in all of us and especially in us artists.

Lenneke Benders

Lenneke Benders is a photographer from the Netherlands, based in Berlin. Her work focuses on the beauty of ordinary moments in daily life and the spaces that surround us, often in places that are unfamiliar or new to her.

She uses natural light, colour, texture, and objects to transform this simplicity into something artistic and timeless. For Lenneke, the strength of photography lies in capturing the unnoticed beauty of the ordinary by highlighting those often overlooked places and moments.

Lesia Pcholka

Lesia Pcholka visual artist. Born in Belarus (1989), currently lives and works in Berlin/DE

Her artistic practice includes photography, video, installations, and archival work. Through research-based work, Pcholka examines collective memories from the Soviet past and those of today, reflecting on the pressing social issues and processing political trauma.

Lola Giancarelli

I’m passionate about exploring abstract reality in artistic practice, uncovering the forces behind the world’s superficial image. My work balances composition and decomposition, precision and imprecision, appearance and disappearance.

I use materials like paper, cardboard, and labels, which I glue or sew onto paper, preserving the poetics of everyday discarded fragments. The combination of these elements, the temperament of thread lines, and the use of archival paper give my work a gestural, intuitive, and documentary style. Each texture plays a crucial role in speech production, creating space to reclaim the power of imagination.

Lucas Mateluna

Lucas Mateluna works contemplate a range from 2D, digital and physical collage, to the 3D and AR experiences. It presents artifact-creatures made up by information, accesible only with the help of Augmented Reality technology.

Coming from another dimension, these sculptures pick-point the ephemeral connection between the physical world and the metaverse.

His work is placed on the edge of the traditional art space, by being produced and showcased entirely in the digital realm.

Lucile Guder Art

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.

Luka Topp

Bei meinen Bildern habe ich mich von Papieren und Plastiktüten inspirieren lassen, die ich auf der Straße gefunden habe und als Müll deklariert wurden. Ich möchte die Schönheit und Eleganz der Faltenwürfe sichtbar machen, die normalerweise schnell übersehen wird.

Die Papiere wurden komplett aus ihrem Kontext gezogen und nur auf ihre Form reduziert, wodurch auf einmal eine Dynamik und Ästhetik entsteht. Die mit Pastellkreide fein ausgearbeiteten Flächen stehen im Kontrast zu den homogenen Hintergründen, wodurch sich ebenfalls spannende Negativflächen bilden. Trotz der realistischen Malweise wird so Raum geschaffen, zum Fantasieren und Interpretieren.

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Macarena Ruiz-Tagle

Liquid samples of affective and psychic memory photographed with the aid of a microscope. Human tears that resemble crystallization, a cracking process captured in a moment, an almost direct transfer from soul fracture to the visual. The aesthetic result is a unique pattern of solid salts after the evaporation of water.

Alluding to a common syndrome in our Anthropocene times, tears refer us to solastalgia, a neologism formed by the fusion of “”Solace”” and “”Nostalgia”” referring to the emotional, psychic, and existential stress caused by the definitive transformation of the landscapes in which we live.

Tears are bodily particles, saline solutions resulting from experiences of emotional rupture between the self, the environment, and life beyond time. Here, they serve as vehicles of meaning; reminiscent of phenomena of crystallization and thawing, displacement of layers, and changes in the chemistry of the light and air environment.

The installation confronts us with an unexpected balance: on one hand, the resemblance between each tear. On the other hand, the uniqueness of each one, a unique identity. Both are articulated and overlapped, one upon the other: different layers of uniqueness in form and content, just as in layers of snow and ice we can see the elements to understand how they (self-)generate in the course of their own history. A scale model of the Salar de Atacama in porcelain material refers us to a territory both close and distant, reminding us that the map is also a remnant of a relationship between the specific and the cosmic.

The tear is an analogy of the subject, which here is a micro-entity in the macro environment: like a snowflake, whose trail appears fractal of ice stars falling, each drop is a testament to sedimentation, ruptures, and permanent changes, landings of water and salt.

Małgorzata “ARTESZKA”

For me, collage is a journey between dimensions. It starts with an idea in my head and, through the creative process, often ends up in a place that surprises me myself. It is a journey to myself as well – I interweave each portrait with my emotions. As a highly sensitive person and woman, I give myself strength with my art and these are often my personal affirmations

Mana Urakami

It is a work that will come to life for the third time and become someone’s memory somewhere.

Manuel Aldunate

Manuel Aldunate is an Argentinean artist based in Berlin. Graduated in graphic design at the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires He ran several creative agencies as creative director, build one of the firsts online rock magazines in Argentina with almost 40 young talented people working with him and creator of 2 bands that were part of the indie scene in Buenos Aires.

Musician , Graphic Designer and Creative. Influenced by the culture of the 60s and the fascination with life, he has created a personal universe by designing his own language of symbols. Through his pieces he has developed a unique style, with unlimited strokes, bright colours and infinite shapes.

Marcello Castellani

Marcello Castellani is a painter with 10 years of experience, specializing in portraiture. His work stands out for breaking away from traditional forms, creating visual experiences that deeply connect with internal emotions.

Although he has received guidance from many teachers, he considers experimentation and mistakes as his greatest creative guides. He works with materials like charcoal, acrylic, and watercolors, incorporating wax to add drama and texture to his pieces. Marcello has exhibited his artwork in various galleries across Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

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 Naidyonova

Menschen sind für mich eine unerschöpfliche Inspirationsquelle.

maria silvano

I work with embroidery and photographs, weaving threads to create new possible worlds.

Marion Heine

Marion Heine *1973, DplDes. Kunst, Philosophie, Politologie Grundstudium Co Founder, Geschäftsführung Kreation Mutter 3 Kindern, 12, 17, 24 Jahre. Seit ich denken kann male ich. Malen hat mich – zusammen mit meinem Tagebuch – mit den Anforderungen des Lebens versöhnt. Meinen Weg anders zu gehen als ich wollte.

Ich hatte nicht genug Mut als Mutter den Weg der Kunst einzuschlagen.Das Leben hat mich zur Feministin gemacht. Es ist notwendig für Frauen, benachteiligte Menschen einzustehen. Meine Themen widmen sich der Verbundenheit, der Versöhnung – Natur, Körper, dem vermeintlich Alltäglichen, oder Schönen. Verbunden mit zusätzlichen Layern. Einige Arbeiten sind offensiv feministisch, politisch.

Mathilde Hostein

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

Matthew Ricci is a Berlin-based artist whose work explores dialogues of the self through its complex internal and external relationships. His work highlights states of confusion and turmoil experienced while balancing the often competing themes of sexuality and religious ideology.

Finding consolation in Jungian psychology, Ricci confronts imposing ethical questions associated with interactions of the physical body and the conscious mind. In this way, his paintings can be thought of as subconscious abstractions of the human condition.

Matthias Deller

For me, art is egoistic. Unlike other (probably better) artists, I do not thematize current political, environmental, or sociological developments in the world. Rather, I try to deliver my inner world to the outside as precisely as possible, while still maintaining a little bit of ambiguity.

I do this with the help of acrylic paint and expressive portraiture. My inspirations are drawn from literature, especially sayings and idioms that I purposefully misinterpret.

Mauro Fariñas

In his ceramic practice, Mauro tests how far he can take functional ware and sculptural vessels, while bringing a sense of wonder and unexpectedness to the everyday object. Disproportions, aggresive texture, excessive glazing, meandering ornamentation… these are some of the tools he uses to rarify the ordinary.

Starting at the wheel, and altering the shapes through coils, slabs, and glazework, his quasi-organic objects surprise with either their uncertain earthly origin, or their certainly unearthly disposition.

Max Eckhardt

I am driven by a desire to capture the essence of people in my portraits, distilling their emotions into timeless, archetypal images. Each painting is an exploration of what the subject is thinking, balancing clarity and depth with bold, unexpected color accents that evoke emotion.

My background in industrial design influences my focus on aesthetics and precision, where every detail is intentional. I aim to create works that radiate strength, beauty, and positivity, offering a quiet yet powerful presence in a rapidly changing world. My goal is to paint images that possess soul.

Melanie Völker

For me, it’s a different approach to the subject. With manual focus and a continuous view through the viewfinder, I explore the image until it feels just right. Black and white film automatically reduces the image to the essentials, while analog photography and film grain allow a little more distance and poetry.

Most of it is created spontaneously, the idea only sets the framework, the concept always remains open, allowing impulse and dialog. Like a train journey whose exact destination is unknown. It’s a view at eye level, with respect and full of trust, which creates strength. I love that creative process.

Mia Butter

I construct new and absurd narratives through visual grouping, where a dialogue between kitsch and class frequently enters. The sensation of constantly receiving input is manifested, and seemingly unrelated ideas come together to form an ensemble. Inspiration for my work stems from online as well as real world sources.

Still frames from videos, images from the internet, song lyrics analysis, song titles, and my own photography create a database from which I connect the dots for my next piece. Referencing digital and popular culture in the traditional medium of oil painting creates a tension that reflects my now.

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.

Michael Goerner

Michael Goerner was born on the last day of the 60s. He is a new face on the international art scene. His mission is visualization of individual and social emotions in the face of the profound change. He is driven by the search for truth and truthfulness.

Michael works in Hamburg/Germany, at Lake Constance and in Northern Italy. Stylistically Michael moves between minimalism, ICM and street photography. His role models include Antoine D’Agata, Daido Moriyama, Michael Ackerman and Martin Bogren, to name but a few. Recently, his works have been presented in exhibitions in France, Germany, Switzerland and Great Britain.

Mikhail Gulin

Mikhail Gulin is a contemporary conceptual artist originally from Belarus, known for his vibrant performances and provocative actions. His primary media include painting, sculpture, objects and installations, and video art.

In 2022, due to political persecution, he was forced to leave Belarus. He currently lives and works in Dresden, Germany.

The artist invariably raises socio-political problems of our time. Exploring social stereotypes, Mikhail Gulin depicts the reality around him but does so with the help of bright colors, iconic cultural references, and subtle irony.

Miriam Schimka – Captain Canvas

Stories on Canvas & Upcycled Vintage Art – Miriam Schimka, the artist behind Captain Canvas, invites viewers on a visual journey where past meets future. Fueled by nostalgia, she finds old paintings, skateboards and more and transforms them into new artworks by adding futuristic details. Each of her paintings carries its own story, blending vintage charm with robots, spaceships, and superhero tales.

Monika Kalinowska

My painting explores the female experience, challenging patriarchal structures through themes of racial inequality, feminism, LGBTQ rights, and identity. I capture marginalized individuals in moments of vulnerability, aiming to reveal their raw emotions rather than replicate photographs.

Using oil paint and traditional brushes, I portray people close to me, blending personal experiences with feminist literature and political influences. My creative process balances careful planning with spontaneous expression, building narratives through fragmented moments. Ultimately, my art seeks to illuminate overlooked stories, provoke empathy, and offer a nuanced view of the societal challenges faced by marginalized voices.

Moritz Wippermann

Vorwiegend widme ich mich der Grafik (Linol- & Holzschnitt) und der Malerei (digitale Malerei, Ölpastell). Gegenstand meiner Arbeit ist meist die Realität – Landschaften, Straßenszenen, Stillleben, Portaits, was auch immer mich in seinen Bann zieht. Die Fähigkeit gesehenes zu Papier zu bringen, erweitert die Wahrnehmung.

Wenn man sich beim Anblick der Dinge fragt, wie man sie malen würde, werden sie umso interessanter und deswegen schöner. Diese Schönheit ist Grundlos und braucht keine Bedeutung. Man kann mal aufhören, nach dem Warum zu fragen und sich über das Wie freuen. Eine Freude, die die Realität genießbarer macht – das treibt mich an. Das, und der Umstand, dass sich diese Freude auf Betrachtende meiner Bilder übertragen kann.

mujer gallina

For more than fifteen years I have been drawing, writing and painting. For more than 20 years I have been circulating in radical scenes that in a certain way are reflected in the themes of these paintings, posters or drawings. With color, awkward shapes and humor I try to counteract the harsh themes that these works deal with.

Myers Alan

Alan Myers, plastic artist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work is developed mainly in the street and on large format walls, from Latin America to Europe, seeking to represent the fragility, vulnerability, as well as portray the desires and wishes of the people.

Myriam Gross Mal

Bei Frage, ob zuerst das Ei oder die Henne gewesen sei, handelt es sich um eine uralte philosophische Frage, die bereits in der Antike eine Rolle spielte. Über Jahrhunderte beschäftigte diese Frage die Menschen. Laut der Evolutionstheorie war das Ei zuerst da, laut der Bibel das Huhn.

Meine Bilder visualisieren diese uralte philosophische Frage. Die Frau fungiert auf den Bildern als die Fragende. Die Bilder sind mit Öl auf Leinwand entstanden. Zuvor konstruiere ich die Bilder digital. Anschließend mache ich große Skizzen um deren farbliche Wirkung, Konstruktion zu erfassen und schließlich das Format des Ölbildes festlegen zu können.

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Nadia Mumladze

I am Nadia, a self-taught painter from Georgia, and I work professionally as a preschool teacher. 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.

Natalia Lisinicchia

Illustrator, screen printer, painter, and muralist. Using art as a resource to address issues such as the deconstruction of bodily representations, desire, and sexuality.

Natalie Strauß

Mein Interesse gilt der Natur und ihren wunderbaren , faszinierenden Erscheinugsformen. Die Intention ist den Blick darauf zu schärfen und Geschichten sich erzählen lassen. Es geht um die Schönheit, Zerbrechlichkeit und Verganglichkeit.

Navid Norouzi

Navid Norouzi (b. 1990) is a self-taught abstract painter with German-Iranian roots, based in Berlin. Known for large-scale canvases, his work intricately weaves together abstract forms, colors, and markings to create dynamic, harmonious compositions. Rooted in a deeply personal process of free self-expression, his work invites viewers to pause and reflect.

Having participated in BAAM #7 this year, Navid continues to evolve his practice, pushing boundaries in his exploration of vibrant abstraction. His method involves layering, rotating, and scraping paint to reveal hidden textures, engaging viewers in a complex, diverse experience.

Nele-Marie Franzen

By nature I am gifted with lots of energy. This positive energy and joy of life is transferred onto all my large-format colorful canvases. In all my paintings I try to unlock the brightest color combination possible, creating fascinating and magic fireworks of color. Get inspired by my energetic paintings and live like there is no tomorrow.

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.

Nika 237

My work generally features tension-filled moments that explore unspoken aspects of the human experience, such as anxiety and fear. Lately, my work has shifted towards more observational paintings with a focus on exploring the medium of oil paint and a lighted color scheme, which embody self-reflection and growing up.

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Olga Urbanek

Digital photographer from Berlin and Warsaw who blurs the lines between reality and fantasy by crafting mesmerizing self-portraits. Her vibrant compositions, with hallucinatory colors and intricate settings, unveil dreamy landscapes with underlying darkness.

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.

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Paloma

Vivian Meier was an immensely prolific photographer who never made her work known. Decades after her death, someone accidentally discovered her work and made it known. How many women whose work has gone totally unnoticed? How many Vivian Meiers must have existed? Her story and her photographs have inspired me deeply and I wanted to pay tribute to them.

Paola Martínez Gámez

Painting others and their stories has enabled a deeper understanding of myself, provoking in me a sense of unity and viewing humanity as one.

My subjects found in the Mexican border are carefully chosen with the purpose of creating cultural diversity, equality, identity and to give a voice towards minorities. La Frontera, also known as the border, is a place that has been stripped of its identity where most of its people identify with the saying, “ No soy de aquí, Ni soy de Allá” (“I am Neither from Here, Nor There”). These Chicano portraits enable the people from the border a sense of belonging, as well as expanding cultural context to others. My first introduction to painting was through the medium of oil, which has accompanied me since. However, acrylic paint is a medium that I utilise to paint Mexican indigenous subjects with fingers rather than brushes. A black-and-white pallet is used to remove skin colour in order to create equality and eliminate classism as well as racism. Painting others enables the telling of my truth through empathy, diversity, equality, and unity.

Pauline Boucan

Pauline Boucan is a Franco-Thai artist currently working in Berlin. Inspired by the essence and cyclical character of nature, we find in her practice of painting and ceramics natural elements like fire, earth and water and deep perspective landscapes with organic forms, play of colours, transparency and textures to create movement.

In-between figurative and abstract, she pictures parallel worlds where figures and forms of beings interact together or with the nature. Ceremonial atmospheres are created whether an offering from or to nature as part of a cycle of transformation, inspired by the beliefs and folklore of her two cultural backgrounds.

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.

Phillip Staffa

I am interested in the humane. And I want to create work that speaks to everyone. Embracing playfulness and beauty, blurring the line between the familiar and the abstract, I aim to examine the contradictions of modern life—fragility and resilience, humor and introspection, chance and order.

I love the intensities of life, its paradoxes, and hope my work reflects on ways how we can negotiate a life that encompasses both its affirmation and its depth.

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Rachel Haaze

Rachel Haaze is a Berlin-born and raised artist. She studied visual communication at the UdK Berlin with a focus on illustration. She is currently searching experimentally for new possibilities of expressions in her visual language. As an artist, she often asks herself questions about the point at which a picture is truly finished. In her more recent works, her previously very illustrative art is beginning to dissolve more and more.

Raphael Baffe

In my work, I create miniatures and timeless sculptures that invite viewers to explore the delicate landscapes of their inner worlds. Each piece embodies a sense of melancholy, evoking the notion of home within ourselves.

Through simple visual symbols, I reflect on identity and belonging, encouraging a connection to the wonders of life. My art serves as a reminder of the beauty in small moments, inviting contemplation and a sense of companionship in our shared human experience.

Regine Wolff

In meinen Bildern entlarve ich die Trennung von Mensch und Natur als künstliches Konstrukt. Es geht mir um die Einheit, die wir mit unserer Welt bilden in der die verschiedensten Erscheinungsformen auf den immer gleichenm Elementen beruhen, die unendlich variiert werden.

Für meine Arbeiten nutze ich oft Druckversuche, die während meiner Tätigkeit als Textildesignerin entstanden sind. An Mustern interessiert mich die Wiederholung, durch die eine Art Unendlichkeit entsteht und gleichzeitig, bei aller Komplexität, eine beruhigende Ordnung. Meine Beziehung zur Malerei ist poetisch, dramatisch, emotional, manchmal auch komisch und bizarr. Diese intensiven Gefühle will ich auch beim Betrachter auslösen.

Regress Bar (Julia Vergazova and Nikolay Ulyanov)

Regress Bar Collective is driven by a desire to explore the intersections between the digital and physical worlds. Our work in hybrid media art stems from a fascination with how technology and human experience blend together. By combining elements of digital imagery, video, sound, and tactile materials, we create immersive experiences that provoke thought, emotion, and introspection.

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.

Robert Schröder

Robert Schröder is a Hamburg based artist, musician and grade school teacher. Having spent most of his time in independent sub-cultures, his pictures are related to the aesthetics of urban art, but also play around with aestheticism – polished with his love for clean design.

Ghosts, collages, placeholders or new beginnings. Coincidence or construction. The hidden secret or the childlike game. The analogue stroke dancing on the pages of a self-made coloring book. The picture as alleged manifestation of the moment. From the poetic play of our self or the shaping of our world.

Roman Luzgin

Through my paintings, I explore the intersection of memory and imagination, often depicting nostalgic cityscapes where I journey with my dog. These scenes evoke both the past and possible future, blending the familiar with the dreamlike. Each painting invites viewers to reflect on the passage of time and the quiet beauty of everyday spaces.

Rong Notes

What is the meaning of analog drawing in an age of photography and digital rendering?
With this drawing series Infinite Ruin, I seek to demonstrate the unique qualities that can only be achieved through the act and labor of drawing.
I have developed an exploratory drawing method that creates and depicts beyond what our eyes can see.

Roxana Ardeleanu

Central to my artistic practice are the encounters of various cross-disciplinary ideas and mediums as means to create semiotical spaces of reflection on aspects of human condition. Most active themes and questions revolve around spirituality and esotericism, consciousness, science and literature, dreaming and being, transhumanism, embodiment and synaesthesia.

Always through a self-referential lens, I approach painting in a multidisciplinary way, oftentimes seeking to redefine and question its role within installations that use soundscapes, human movement and writing.

Roy Draws x Sidney Cash

Roy Draws Berlin Street artist, Sid Cash I love experimenting with spray paints, images, colours and textures.

Ryke Turin

Ryke Turin is an artist working at the intersection of textile art and painting. She studied at Kunsthochschule Weißensee and during a semester abroad (PROMOS scholarship) at NSCAD (Halifax, Canada) was able to learn the craft of weaving, which has since played an increasingly important role in her artistic work.

After completing her studies, the artist moved away from fashion and has since sought to decouple the textile fabric from its intended purpose and make visible the highly complex architecture underlying it, along with its cultural values. In her works, the artist first paints and dyes the threads and then weaves them on the loom. This results in almost object-like, textile color and surface studies.

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Sabine Dietrichkeit

It starts with a single dot and develops dot by dot, stroke by stroke into a flowing movement, bringing the object to life, enclosing it and making it into a unity. 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 and love as an artist in Berlin.

Sandra Haselsteiner

Sandra Haselsteiner is an artist based in Berlin and loves to work with paper, found photographs, colours and nature. 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 or intervening with colour, she reflects on the handling of these patterns, which is made visible through drawing and collage. The series of Colour Interventions is an exploration of human intervention in nature, where seemingly nothing remains untouched.

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.

sanna strange

My work explores the intersection of human creativity and machine intelligence, embracing the beauty and strangeness of nature and the unusual interpretations AI brings to artwork curated through my human perspective. I find inspiration in nature’s intricate forms, textures, and patterns, which shape my digital paintings, ceramics, and spatial installations.

Experimentation is key to my practice, and AI helps me explore new ideas quickly, encouraging spontaneity and unpredictability. A life-changing diagnosis of brain cancer shifted my relationship with time, deeply affecting both my process and philosophy. Through my art, I celebrate the “strangeness” that define all living beings.

Santiago Mejía

In my work, I seek to explore the relationships between friends and couples, their never static nature, constantly changing. Relationships in which, despite the distance and the intervals between each encounter, tend to grow and strengthen.

These art works aim to capture the feelings caused by the waiting, the reunion, and the imminent separation between individuals whose paths constantly converge and diverge.

Sara Campaci

Italian artist based in Berlin. Passionate about different creative processes such as drawing and photography, in the last years I have been working mostly with collage.

Collage is a way of giving my personal interpretation to the chaos of images that floods us every day. By combining images that would otherwise never have come together, it is possible to reveal unexpected meanings. I find it fascinating that, despite the physical limitations of the technique, the possibilities are almost endless.

Simon Findlay

Simon Findlay works on his personal relationship with colour through exhaustive durational visual expression.

Simone Dulcis

Solitude has been a main theme of my work for about 35 years. My research is technically based on abstraction and conceptually on the relationship between the human beings, Nature and infinity.

Sofia Nordmann

I understand my artistical work as a philosophical act. Destroying my own handwritten texts and paintings and creating new 3dimensional pieces with the fragments, I want to point on my main concept: That what you see is not what it really is.

My passion 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. I want to visualize the processes of reality genesis and the unconscious communication between an art object and its spectator.

Sofia Sofiez

Sofia Sofiez, architect and visual artist, transforms memes and viral moments into painted art. Her work explores popular culture and identity in the digital age, blending humor, sustainability, and social critique from her perspective in Berlin

Sofia Sohr

my motivations are freedom and my family

Sophia Söderqvist

I draw inspiration from expressionism, abstract art and film. I view my work as visual diaries of my daily encounters, navigating the contrasts of big city life and my longing for stillness and nature.

My art emerges from within, exploring themes rooted in the dichotomy of existence: broken spaces juxtaposed with beauty and the interplay of chaos and order. I always aim to include the emotional spectrum of darkness, joy, doubts, ambiguity and my interpretation of personal experiences in my works.

Soyoung Park

The cabinet series is inspired by European Bauernmalerei, while the motifs originate from Korean folk painting.

Stanislaus Hergert

Born in Russia and growing up in Germany the love for art became a guiding path through my biography of migration and finding a new home.
I started my professional career in Design in Munich after receiving a degree at the University Pforzheim School of Design. Later I worked in Art-Direction on various subjects.

In my art I try to join my deeply rooted knowledge and experience of composition, colors, and space with my passion for deconstructing and transforming shapes. Always challenging the supposedly known, I try to give the viewers a sensitive and unique perspective onto the world and its objects.

Stefanie Schairer

In my work, I explore the forms, effects, manner and design of relationships. In doing so, I am constantly inspired by the observation of interpersonal relationships as well as by experimenting with different materials. My works are based on observations in my surroundings connected to my inner world.

It is largely abstract and I avoid unambiguity in my forms and titles. It depends on the respective observation and which stories emerge from it. This “”This way or that way?”” is always correct and has its place in my work. Encounters can take place that would otherwise not have happened.

Stephan Zarmann

I am a self-trained artist whose work reflects the beauty in urban decay and the fleeting nature of city life. Having lived in cities across Germany, Sweden, and the UK, I capture the textures and memories of overlooked spaces through abstract surfaces, evoking a sense of nostalgia and the passage of time.

My process is informal and intuitive, rooted in a sense of realism that acknowledges both the harshness and the poetry of the everyday. In my work, I seek a quiet reflection on the spaces we leave behind and the traces they leave on us.

Svetlana Pokrovskaya

I’m interested in human emotions, experiences, and states. I work in various mediums and with different materials. I recently moved to Germany and, due to emigration, I’m now working in a small format. Over the past year, I’ve been drawing a lot with colored pencils, and two series have emerged: Monochrome and Multicolored.

For me, in these difficult years, it’s a way to distance myself from the frightening new reality of permanent war. To detach and try to look at what’s happening from the outside to expand drawing where peace and tranquility emerge

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Tatiana Lazareva

As a contemporary artist, I bring my inner emotional landscape to life on expansive canvases, creating an art universe resonating with human connection. My palette is a triad of red, yellow, and blue — colours embodying the complexity of love, passion, and fear.

In my work, I explore the importance of recognizing and contemplating the emotions of others. Each piece invites you to engage with the feelings that shape our shared experiences, fostering empathy and understanding. My canvases reflect where we stand in relation to others. Step into my universe and connect with the emotions that unite us all.

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.

Thomas Möller (TM)

Everyday objects, well-known signs, ordinary situations – I use those materials to develop my works. Due to the proximity to the well-known, the manipulations can often only be recognized through closer observation. Learned behavior, which is triggered by the signals of our everyday life, is led ad absurdum by these anomalies.

The signals no longer match to the original intention and can only be “misinterpreted”. The result is a semantic clash. The resulting confusion can only be resolved by accepting the absurdity of human existence with tolerance and understanding.

Tiberiu Bleoanca

In my artworks, I create imaginary spaces where characters, objects, and abstract signs interact, transforming into familiar beings that challenge perception. Inspired by urban legends and myths, I weave fictional narratives into each composition.

The boundary between the figurative and abstract is intentionally blurred, inviting multiple interpretations while infusing a surreal dimension that reflects the subconscious. In our image-saturated world, I defend the power of the image as a medium, crafting alternative realities that inspire reflection and contemplation.

Tobias Molitor

Tobias Molitor is a multidisciplinary artist and conceptual printmaker living and working in Berlin. His work is about everyday products and fast moving consumer goods, which sometimes only perceive little attention. His work examines the role of the human being in the consumption cycle, by documenting objects he himself or somebody else has used and left behind.

His work examines the role of the human being in the consumption cycle, by documenting objects he himself or somebody else has used and left behind. His OEuvre comprises ordinary objects including graphic elements which reflect on the cultural context and Zeitgeist. The technique of silkscreen printing underlines the repetitive and industrial character of these objects. His works address topics such as cultural identity, consumerism, human traces and souvenirs.

Toby (uk44)

OUTSIDER/INSIDER ARTIST

My work is created using a combination of digital and traditional analog printing techniques to create my artwork, I am very interested in different printing techniques and printing on different materials, especially recycled ones. I am constantly looking for new recycled materials that would suit my work.

I would like people to enjoy my work and realise it is an easy process, I hope it inspires them to created their own artwork, I enjoy creating my work this way and feel it has helped me a lot during low points in my creative process. Ie Creative blocks ……….

TOTEM

TOTEM Santiago de Chile FRANCISCO TOTEM PEREZ IS A CHILEAN ARTIST BASED IN BERLIN FOR ABOUT 17 YEARS. THE ORIGINALLY TRAINED THEATRE ACTOR AND STAGE DIRECTOR BRINGS HIS EMOTIONS , THOUGHTS AND THE MADNESS OF THIS PULSATING CITY IN HIS ARTWORKS.

THE RESULTS IS A MIXTURE OF ABSTRACT HUMAN-ANIMAL SYMBIOSIS WHICH ARE ALREADY INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN. THE SITUATIONS AND THE SETTING OF THOSE CHARAKTERS ARE EXPRESSIONS OF HIS INDIVIDUAL VIEW OF OUR SOCIETY AND ITS CURRENT EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS. ONE OF THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS ARTWORKS, INSTALLATIONS, SCULPTURES OR FURNITURE IS IN USING RECYCLINGMATERIAL. THESE INCLUDE REMAINS OF MATERIAL FROM TRADE SHOWS LIKE ADVERTISING BANNERS OR VARIOUS CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS AND TREASURES THAT CAN BE FOUND ON THE STREETS OF BERLIN. ALL CANVASES ARE HAND DRAWN AND HANDMADE.

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Vasilisa Palianina

I work with topics of sexual and gender identity, human and animal source, political aspects through mythology. Usually I work across graphics, installation, performance and experimental techniques. Here on BAAM market I would like to present a few series of graphics which have been made between 2022-2024.

Viktoria Maliar

In my portraits, I use oil pastels to explore the deep connection between emotion and color. Each stroke is intentional, capturing the raw energy of human experience—joy, sorrow, hope, or tension. The bold, vibrant hues and flowing movement of the pastels allow me to express feelings that transcend the subject’s likeness, revealing the inner spirit.

I believe color is a universal language, and through it, I aim to communicate the complexities of emotion, inviting the viewer to connect with the unspoken narratives in each portrait.

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.

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Wu Zhi

Beauty matters. so i make art. I love to paint. so I do it. I was trained in Chinese fine art institutes but have developed my works in Amsterdam and Berlin. My main focus is to capture humans emotions, soul and beauty in any kinds of ways. Here i will show two parts: digtal drawings and masterhanded oil paintings.

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Xuehka

The heart of Xuehkas work is drawing, even though her artistic praxis flows between autobiographical comics, painting, ceramic and editorial illustration. Color is her super power, humor is her intimate way to process life.

Witty, emotional, loud, critical, sensitive, funny, poetic… Xuehka has developed her own artistic language in which she translates her own existence in a variety of forms and expressions. She belongs to the third generation of women artists in her family.

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YinXin He

My name is YinXin He, I’m an illustrator/artist from Vietnam living in Berlin, Germany. I first studied product design in my home country and then moved to Germany in 2015 for my second degree majored in illustration.

My artworks are a combination between traditional acrylic painting and digital. I would describe my art as being on the crossroads of conceptual surrealism with a certain fascination for the darker aspects of humans’ existence: our uncertainty about the future, anxiety, our unanswered questions about life while stumbling through it… I set my focus more in interpretive illustration, which means I work with certain contexts but will infuse my artworks with symbolism and metaphors, and they should reflect my world view as well as the knowledge I’ve absorbed in life.

Yulia Ani

For this series: My latest series “DTR” (define the relationship), which was recently exhibited at Bethanien Studio 1. The series reflects on how relationships today are treated like consumer products, driven by the illusion of infinite choice through dating apps and social media.

The ease of swiping and discarding matches fosters superficial connections, where romantic expectations clash with reality. Through semi-abstract, absurd portraits, I explore these contradictions and the emotional weight behind them, capturing the fears and frustrations that arise when relationships become disposable. Alongside these, vibrant abstract works express the complex emotions of desire, disappointment, and disillusionment.

Yurii Koval

In my realistic paintings, I talk about the human body as a territory, as a living space that has certain outlines and characteristics – with strengths and weaknesses, sore points, injuries. The space can be shared, contested, open or isolated, as we choose.

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.