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Tammam Azzam

* 1980 in Damascus, Syria lives in Berlin, Germany Tammam Azzam was born in Damascus, Syria. He started painting at the age of 10 and subsequently went on to study Fine Arts at Damascus University specialising in oil painting. While living in Syria Tammam combined his fine art work with a prolific graphic design career,

Herbert Brandl

* 1959 in Graz, Austria lives in Wien, Austria Herbert Brandl is a painter and representative of the Austrian Neue Wilden. In the end of the 1970s he studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 2004 he was appointed professor at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. Herbert Brandl achieved international success at documenta

Leiko Ikemura

* in Tsu, Japan lives in Berlin und Cologne, Germany The painter and sculptor Leiko Ikemura studied Spanish literature at the Osaka University in Japan, and painting at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville, Spain. After her studies, she lived in Switzerland before moving to Germany in 1985.

Thomas Rentmeister

* 1964 in Reken, Germany, lives in Berlin Thomas Rentmeister’s works are created in the field of sculpture and installation. From 1987 to 1993 he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Günther Uecker and Alfonso Hüppi and completed his studies there as a master student with Alfonso Hüppi. Thomas Rentmeister’s work has been shown in national

Carlos Motta

*1978 in Bogotà, Colombia; lives 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

Tony Cragg

* 1949 born in Liverpool, Great Britain lives in Wuppertal, Germany[2nd construction phase] In 1969 Tony Cragg started his artistic career and exhibited his first works. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London and has lived in Wuppertal since 1977. Cragg participated in documenta 7 and documenta 8, and in 1988 he represented

Rozbeh Asmani

* 1983 in Shiraz, Iranlives in Cologne, Germany Rozbeh Asmani deals with the aesthetics of capitalism in many different ways. The workgroup ‘Colourmarks’ shows colours and colour combinations that corporations have registered with the German Patent and Trade Mark Office since 1995 in order to distinguish themselves from their competitors. The consumer world has found

Jochen Gerz

* 1940 born in Berlin, Germanylives in Derryquin, Ireland Jochen Gerz lived in Paris from 1966 to 2007, and is based today in Ireland. From 1959 to 1963 he studied Literature, Sinology and Prehistory in Cologne, Basel and London. Gerz has been working with new media since the late 1960s. After initial performances in public space,

Andrei Loginov

* 1974 in Minsk, Belaruslives in Berlin, Germany Andrei Loginov studied at the Minsk Art Lyceum and at the Duesseldorf Art Academy under Gerhard Merz and Magdalena Jetelová. He worked with numerous different artistic media before finally turning to photographic projects.The works of his recent series ‚Biosynthetic‘ may well be coined “experimental hybrids”. The lightboxes combine

Jan Svenungsson

* 1961 born in Lund, Swedenlives in Berlin, Germany Jan Svenungsson is a Swedish artist who has lived in Berlin since 1997. Since 2011 he is a university professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the field of graphic and printmaking. In his work, which takes its departure in surrealism, Svenungsson uses a variety

Timur Si-Qin

*1984 in Berlin, Germany; lives in New York, USA Timur Si-Qin is a New York-based artist of German and Mongolian-Chinese descent who grew up in Berlin, Beijing, and in the American Southwest. His interests in contemporary philosophy, the evolution of culture, and the dynamics of cognition, take form in “branded ecosystems“ and installations of 3D

Karin Kneffel

* 1957 in Marl, Germanylives in Düsseldorf, Germany Karin Kneffel is one of the most important representatives of Neorealism. Kneffel studied philosophy and German literature at University Münster and Universität Duisburg-Essen, followed by studies at the Art Academy Düsseldorf with Norbert Tadeusz and Johannes Brus and was a pupil of Gerhard Richter. Her photorealistic images