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Carlos Motta

*1978 in Bogotà, Colombialives in New York Carlos Motta received a BFA from The School of Visual Arts in 2001 and an MFA from Bard College in 2003. His multi-disciplinary art practice explores alternative narratives regarding marginalized communities and identities in the context of social and political histories. His work manifests a variety of mediums:

Fefe Talavera

* 1979 in São Paulo, Brazil; lives in São Paulo Fefe Talavera, a native half Mexican, half Brazilian, went through regular artistic learning at FAAP (Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation) in São Paulo, although she developed her style rather while working in the streets. The brutal reality that the big city offered, the impact and social contrasts,

Fiona Hall

* 1953 in Sydney lives in Hobart, Tasmania Fiona Hall has mounted numerous solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions in Australia and internationally, and was the country’s representative at the Australian Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 with the installation work “Wrong Way Time” (2012–15). Notable exhibitions include “Uneasy” Seasons, National Gallery

Osman Khan

* 1973 in Karachi, Pakistan lives in Detroit und Ann Arbor, U.S.A. Osman Khan was born in Pakistan and grew up in New York City. He studied at Columbia University in New York and at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he graduated in 2004. Since 2009 he has taught at the Penny

Roman Signer

* 1938 in Appenzell, Switzerlandlives in St. Gallen, Switzerland After an apprenticeship as a structural draughtsman, Roman Signer attended the arts and crafts schools in Zurich (since 1966) and in Lucerne (1969 – 1971). From 1971 to 1972 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. With his performative experiments and installative experimental arrangements,

Nnenna Okore

* 1975 in Canberra, Australia, lives in Chicago Born in Australia and raised in Nigeria. After studying painting at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka, Nnenna Okore pursued advanced studies in sculpture at the University of Iowa. Nnenna Okore has received international acclaim for her richly textured fiber art sculptures and installations. Known for their

James Gregory Orsto

* 1983 in Darwin, Australia lives in Darwin, Australia James Gregory Orsto is a talented Tiwi emerging artist. Both his personal life and artistic development are entwined in a well known and respected lignage of Tiwi artists: starting with his grand mother, the revered Jean Baptiste Apuatimi and his grand Father Declan Apuatimi; then his

Lorena Herrera Rashid & Endy Hupperich

Lorena Herrera Rashid *1972 in Mexico City, lives in Itzamatitlan, MexicoEndy Hupperich *1967 in Kaufbeuren, Germany, lives in Itzamatitlan, Mexico Lorena Herrera Rashid is a sculptor, Endy Hupperich is a painter. They both studied in Munich and have been living and working in Mexico since 2014. Sculpture and painting each speak their own language, and

Ulrich Rückriem

* 1938 in Düsseldorf, Deutschland lives in Cologne, Germany As a trained stonemason, Ulrich Rückriem’s departure for his own artistic expression began in the early 1960s. After two years of sculptural work at the Cologne Cathedral Masonry Workshop, he took up the challenge of intensively examining artistic creative processes and developing his own formal language. He

Bjørn Melhus

* 1966 in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany lives in Berlin, Germany Bjørn Melhus, born 1966, is a German-Norwegian media artist. In his work he has developed a singular position, expanding the possibilities for a critical reception of cinema and television. His practice of fragmentation, destruction, and reconstitution of well-known figures, topics, and strategies of the

Alfredo Jaar

* 1956 in Santiago de Chile, Chile lives in New York Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. He is known as one of the most uncompromising, compelling, and innovative artists working today. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the

K. H. Hödicke

* 1938 in Nürnberg, Germany † 2024 in Berlin, Germany K. H. Hödicke was a representative of New Figuration and is regarded as a pioneer of German Neo-Expressionism. In 1945 he fled with his family to Wien and moved to Berlin in 1975, where, after a semester of architecture at the Technische Hochschule für Architektur,