Jan Hoet

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Art historian and professor of aesthetics Jan Hoet (born in 1936 in Belgium) made, amongst other things, an international name for himself in 1986 in the context of his exhibition “Chambre d’Amis": which located artistic installations in 70 privately owned Gent flats removing the barriers between art and everyday life.

As artistic director of documenta 9 (1992) Jan Hoet breathed new meaning and international success into an exhibition of this calibre. Since then he has curated numerous exhibitions of world-acclaim. He also established Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst S.M.A.K. in Gent – one of Europe’s most renowned/ prestigious establishment for contemporary art. From 2002 to the end of 2008 Jan Hoet also transformed MARTa Herford into an unconventional venue for art.

Jan Hoet is Artistic Director and also Curator of the Global Grid at the BiennaleOnline 2013.

Jan passed away on 27 February 2014. We will deeply miss a friend and mentor. Thank You, Jan.

Nancy Spector

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Nancy Spector is Deputy Director and David and Jennifer Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which she joined in 1989.

Responsible for contemporary programming and the growth of the permanent collection, she oversees the institution’s primary acquisition councils, the Collectors Council and the International Directors Council. Exhibitions that Nancy

Spector has organized at the Guggenheim include Rebecca Horn: The Inferno-Paradiso Switch (1992, with Germano Celant); Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1995); Robert Rauschenberg: Performance (1997); Postmedia: Conceptual Photography from the Guggenheim Museum Collection (2000); Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collections (2002); Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle (2002-2003); Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present (2004); Marina Abramovic: Seven Easy Pieces (2005); Richard Prince (2007); Louise Bourgeois (2008); theanyspacewhatever (2008), Tino Sehgal (2010), Maurizio Cattelan: All. (2011-12)

At the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, she has overseen commissions by Andreas Slominski (1999), Hiroshi Sugimoto (2000), Lawrence Weiner (2000) and Gabriel Orozco (2012), as well as organized the exhibitions Douglas Gordon’s The Vanity of Allegory (2005) and All in the Present Must be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys (2006).

In addition to her position at the Guggenheim, Nancy Spector was one of the curators of Monument to Now, an exhibition of the Dakis Joannou Collection, which premiered in Athens in 2004 as an official part of the Olympics program.

She was Adjunct Curator of the 1997 Venice Biennale and co-organizer of the first Berlin Biennale in 1998.

She has contributed to numerous books on contemporary visual culture with essays on artists such as Maurizio Cattelan, Luc Tuymans, Douglas Gordon, and Marina Abramovic. In 2007 she was the U.S. Commissioner for the Venice Biennale, where she presented an exhibition of work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. She is a recipient of the Peter Norton Family Foundation Curators Award (1993) and a Cartier Foundation Grant (1992). Five of her exhibitions at the Guggenheim have won International Art Critics Association Awards.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Hans Ulrich Obrist is Co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London.

Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris. In 2012, he has co-curated Jonas Mekas, Thomas Schütte Faces and Figures, Yoko Ono TO THE LIGHT, Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei Pavilion and the Memory Marathon at the Serpentine Gallery, London; To the Moon via the Beach, LUMA Foundation, Arles; Lina Bo Bardi, Casa de Vidro, Sao Paulo; A call for unrealized projects, DAAD and e-flux, Berlin.

Obrist’s recent publications include A Brief History of Curating, Project Japan: Metabolism Talks with Rem Koolhaas, Ai Wei Wei Speaks, along with new volumes of his Conversation Series.

Katerina Gregos

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Katerina Gregos, (born 1967, Athens, GR), is an art historian, curator and writer.

She was curator of Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, Mechelen, Belgium (September 2012). In 2011 she was the curator of the Danish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, where she curated Speech Matters, an international group exhibition on freedom of speech. That year she was also the co-curator of the 4th edition of the Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen in Germany. During 2006 and 2007 she was the artistic director of Argos – Centre for Art & Media in Brussels and prior to that she was the founding director of the Deste Foundation – Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens. As an independent curator Gregos has also curated numerous exhibitions internationally including, among others, Hidden in Remembrance is the Silent Memory of Our Future, Contour 2009 - The 4th Biennial for Moving Image, in Mechelen, Belgium (2009); Give(a)way: on Generosity, Giving, Sharing and Social Exchange, the 6th Biennial E V+ A: Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick, Ireland (2006). Other projects include Leaps of Faith: An International Arts Project for the Green Line and the City of Nicosia, Cyprus (2005), the first international contemporary art exhibition to take place on both sides of the divided city, and Channel Zero, for the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (2004)

Katerina Gregos regularly publishes on art and artists in magazines, books and exhibition catalogues, and is a frequent speaker in international conferences, biennials and museums worldwide. She is also a visiting lecturer at HISK – The Higher Institute of Arts, Antwerp.

Jens Hoffmann

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Jens Hoffmann, born in 1974 in San José, Costa Rica, is a writer and exhibition maker based in New York where he is the Deputy Director and Head of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Jewish Museum. In addition to this he currently works as the senior curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

He was director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco (2007-2012) and chief curator at Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (2003-2007).

Hoffmann has worked for a number of art institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; KIASMA -- Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; The Hugh Lane Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; DIA Center for the Arts, New York, Kunstverein in Hamburg; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles; Museum Kunst-Palast, Düsseldorf; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City; ArtPace, San Antonio. and others.

Hoffmann curated and co-curated the 1st Berlin Biennial (1998), the 2nd San Juan Triennial (2009), the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011) as well as the 9th Shanghai Biennial (2012). In 1999 he organized, with Marurizio Cattelan, the 6th Caribbean Biennial, and co-curated, with Harrell Fletcher, the 1st People's Biennial in 2010.

Hoffmann is an associate professor at the Nova Academia di Bella Arti in Milan.

He is the founding editor of The Exhibitionist: A Journal on Exhibition Making and editor at large of Mousse Magazine.

His most recent books include "The Artist's Studio" (for the MIT Press series Documents of Contemporary Art and Whitechapel Gallery, 2012), "The Next Documenta Should Be Curated by An Artist" (ed.) (Revolver, 2004), and "Perform" (coauthored with Joan Jonas, Thames & Hudson, 2005). "SHOW TIME," a history of exhibitions from 1990 to the present, is forthcoming from Thames & Hudson in October 2013, "The Exhibition As A Dramatic Construction" will be published by Sternberg Press in November 2013 and "Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating" is forthcoming with Mousse Publications in May 2013.

Yuko Hasegawa

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Yuko Hasegawa is Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2006 - present) and Professor of curatorial and art theory at Tama Art University in Tokyo.

She was a Chief Curator and Founding Artistic Director (1999 - 2006) of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Her responsibilities included the architectural design, collections and programs.

Since 2001, Hasegawa has served on the International Arts Advisory Council for the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, Ohio, USA), and since 2008 has been a member of the Asian Art Council at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York). Most recently, she has served as a Board Member of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Hong Kong (2009 - 2010), as well as the Artistic Director of Inujima House Project at Benesse Corporation, Japan (from 2010).

She has curated major exhbitions including Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony – Emerging Resonance (2004), Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint (2005) at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Qiu Anxiong (2007), Marlene Dumas: Broken White (2007), SPACE FOR YOUR FUTURE: Recombining the DNA of Art and Design (2007), Neo Tropicália: When Lives Become Form, Contemporary Brazilian Art: 1960s to the Present (2008) , Ryoji Ikeda +/－[the infinite between 0 and 1] (2009), Rebecca Horn: Rebellion in Silence Dialogue between Raven and Whale (2009), Kazuyo Sejima Spatial Design for COMME des GARCONS (2010), Transformation (co-curated with Shinichi Nakazawa, anthropologist in 2010), and Architectural Environments for Tomorrow: New Spatial Practice in Architecture and Art (co-curated with SANAA, architect, in 2011) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Trans-Cool Tokyo: Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (2010), at Singapore Art Museum (2010) and at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2011).

Hasegawa has also curated numerous international exhibitions, acting as Artistic Director of the 7th Istanbul Biennale (2001), the Co-Curator of the 4th Shanghai Biennale (2002), the Commissioner of the Japanese Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), the Co-Curator of the 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (2006), the Artistic Advisor of the 12th Venice Architectural Biennale (2010) and the Co-Curator of the 29th São Paulo Biennale (2010).

Her other independent exhibitions include: Trial Balloons at MUSAC (León, Spain, 2006), and When Lives Become Form: Dialogue with the future Brazil at MAM São Paulo (Brazil, 2008).

Previously, she has served on the Jury of the Venice Biennale (1999), the Hugo Boss prize at the Guggenheim Museum (2002) and the Future Generation Art Prize at Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine (2010).

She has written extensively throughout her career, including her recent essay "Performativity in the Work of Female Japanese Artists In the 1950s-1960s and the 1990s" in Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa, New York, 2010).Yuko Hasegawa is the Curator of Sharjah Biennial 11 Opening March 2013

Adriano Pedrosa

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Adriano Pedrosa is a curator, writer and editor based in São Paulo.

He has published in Artforum (New York), Art Nexus (Bogota), Frieze (London), Mousse (Milan), The Exhibitionist (Berlin), among others.

He was adjunct curator of the XXIV Bienal de São Paulo (1998), co-curator of the 27th Bienal de São Paulo (2006), curator of InSite_05, San Diego/Tijuana (2005), curator of 31st Panorama da Arte Brasileira (Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 2009), artistic director of the 2nd Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan (2009), and co-curator of the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011).

Pedrosa is the director of PIESP—Programa Independente da Escola São Paulo.

Daniel Birnbaum

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Daniel Birnbaum has been the Director of Moderna Museet since autumn 2010.

Between the years 2000-2010 he was the rector of Städelschule in Frankfurt and director of the Kunsthalle Portikus.

He is contributing editor of Artforum in New York and has curated a number of large exhibitions, including "Airs de Paris" at Centre Pompidou in Paris (in co-operation with Christine Macel) in 2007.

He was the Director of the 2009 Venice Biennale.

Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez

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Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1976, I am an art critic and independent curator based in Paris, France.

In 2010 I was appointed co-director of the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers (until the end of 2012), a space for artistic research in north of Paris.

In 2006 I co-founded the seminar on artistic and curatorial practices “Something You Should Know,” at the EHESS / School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris, with Patricia Falguieres, Elisabeth Lebovici and Hans Ulrich Obrist. For the FIAC art fair in Paris in 2012, the seminar was invited by the FIAC art fair in Paris to organise a series of lectures; they took place during the art fair on the question of the value and how it is constructed in the global contemporary art market today.

In 2010 I was the associate curator of the exhibition The Promises of the Past. A Discontinous History of Art in the former Eastern Europe, at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, where I worked with the curators Christine Macel and Joanna Mytkowska. The same year I was the guest curator of the art fair Paris Photo, for the section Statement with the galleries coming from the Central Europe.

Other curatorial projects include Yona Friedman. Around the concept of ville spatiale, Project space of the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (2010); Conspire, festival transmediale.08, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (2008); Distorted Fabric, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2007); Participation: Nuisance or Necessity?, lASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden (2005); Our House is a House that Moves, Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (2003/06); Radical Closure at the Oberhausen Film Festival (2006), where I assisted the curator and the artist Akram Zaatari; In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2003), chief-curated by Rene Block. I was the co-curator of the project Société Anonyme, Le Plateau and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2007/08).

I contributed to the magazines including e-flux journal, Bidoun, Springerin, Parkett, and Sarai Reader. I am member of the advisory board of the journal for the Eastern European contemporary art ARTMargins.

Since 2011 I have been the chief editor of the journal Manifesta Journal - Around Curatorial Practices. Since 2003 I have held workshops and lectures in MACBA, Barcelona; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fine Arts Academy, Reykjavik; Royal College of Art, Stockholm; Platform Garanti Center for Contemporary Art, Istanbul; Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; Wiels, Bruxelles.

I am a member of the international professional associations CIMAM and IKT (International Association of Curators). Among the professional grants, I have received the curatorial grants of the former American Center Foundation (now Foundation for Arts Initiatives, New York, 2006), the British Council in France (2011), Ifa (Stuttgart, 2006), CEC Artslink (New York, 2004), Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (Amsterdam, 2002). In 2005 I was the finalist of the 3rd international prize for young curators, Lorenzo Bonaldi EnterPrize, organised by the Museum Gamec, Bergamo. In 2011 I was a shortlisted candidate for the Sharjah Biennial of contemporary art.

Giovanni Carmine

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Giovanni Carmine (*1975 Bellinzona, Switzerland) has curated numerous exhibitions and was a participant in the Lyon Biennial and the Venice Biennial.

Together with Thomas Boutoux he conceived the exhibition »A Town (Not a City)«, that is concerned with the »Mittelstadt« and its search for identity between global aspirations and peripheral location.

Carmine worked at the Kunstraum Walcheturm in Zürich and has organised exhibitions for various institutions such as 999 (1999) and Updating Landscapes (2003) for the Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, the exhibition Body Proxyabout Norma Jeane (Helmhaus Zürich, Swiss Institute New York, and Kunstverein Freiburg, 2004/5), and the painting trilogy Fois Gras (Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris, 2007).

He has also initiated a number of independent projects like Unloaded (2002) in former Swiss-army bunkers and the mobile platform zimmerfrei. He has contributed to various magazines (Kunst-Bulletin, Frieze, Parkett), written for catalogues and edited publications (PSYOP Post 9/11 Leaflets with the artist Christoph Büchel, 2005).h

Since March 2007 he is the director of the Kunst Halle St. Gallen. He wil curate Valentin Carron's show at the 2103 Venice Biennale. He lives and works in Zürich and St. Gallen.

Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel

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Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel is curator at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

Graduated in Political Sciences, History and Art History at the Sorbonne University (Paris), Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel (born 1986) is a French curator and art critic.

She has started her independent curator activities after several experiences at the French Minister of Culture (2006), the Modern Art Musem of Paris (2008) and Paris-Musées (2009). She has lived for several years in Berlin, where she assumed the curation of, amongst others, "4D Uncharted" (Stattbad Wedding Art Center, Berlin), "A Skeleton in the Closet" (Heidelberger Kunstverein / Remap 3, Athens).

She has also contributed to several international projects like "Based in Berlin" (Hamburger Bahnhof, KW, NBK, Berlinische Gallerie, Monbijou, Berlin, 2010-2011, assistant curator), and "Art by Telephone" (Art Basel Miami, Paris, 2009-2010), before being appointed as curator at the Palais de Tokyo in January 2012, where she curated, among others, shows by Jonathan Binet, Benoît Pype, Helen Marten, François Curlet (upcoming) or Clémence Seilles (upcoming).

Specialized in the international emerging art scene, she publishes regular critical articles and essays, and takes part in several jurys.

Manray Hsu

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Manray HSU is an independent curator and art critic based in Taipei.

He is Advisor to Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong, co-founder and chairman (2010-2012) of Taipei Contemporary Art Center, and visiting professor of National Taiwan University of the Arts.

Among other projects, he has curated Taipei Biennial in 2000 (with Jerome Sans) and 2008 (with Vasif Kortun), Liverpool Biennial in 2006 (with Gerardo Mosquera), Biennale Cuvee at the OK Center for Contemporary Art in 2009 (with Martin Sturm), and the Forum Biennial of Taiwanese Contemporary Art in 2010. He developed several research-based, thematic exhibitions, including Wayward Economy (2004) and Naked Life (2006).

He has lectured extensively in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australia, and organized curatorial workshops including Curating in Time (2011) at Taipei Contemporary Art Center and The Next Edition (2012) at Shanghai Biennale.

Fulya Erdemci

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Fulya Erdemci is a curator and writer based in Istanbul.

Erdemci was curator of the 2011 Pavilion of Turkey at the 54th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale. From 2008 till 2012 she was the Director of SKOR (Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte) Foundation For Art and Public Domain in Amsterdam. Her projects at SKOR include: ‘Morality Wall: Between You and I’, four facade projects in collaboration with Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2010; ‘Actors, Agents and Attendants’, international research, symposium and publication series, the first edition, ‘Speculations on the Cultural Organisation of Civility’ was co-curated with Andrea Philips and Markus Miessen in 2010, and the second edition ‘Social Housing-Housing the Social’ (Amsterdam 2011) with Andrea Philips.

Fulya Erdemci, was among the first directors of the Istanbul Biennial (1994-2000), was director of Proje 4L in Istanbul (2003-2004) and worked as temporary exhibitions curator at Istanbul Modern (2004-2005). She was invited to curate the ‘Istanbul’ section of the 25th Biennale of São Paulo ‘Metropolitan Iconographies: Cities’ in 2002 and joined the curatorial team of the 2nd Moscow Contemporary Art Biennial ‘Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market and Amnesia’ (2007). Erdemci initiated the ‘Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions’ in 2002, the first urban public space exhibition in Turkey that centred on the “pedestrian” and co-curated the second edition in 2005 with Emre Baykal. In 2008 Erdemci co-curated SCAPE “Wandering Lines: Towards A New Culture of Space”, the 5th Biennial of Art in Public Space in Christchurch, New Zealand with Danae Mossman, presenting the work of 25 international artists throughout the urban spaces of Christchurch city.

Erdemci has served on international advisory and selection committees, including “The International Award for Excellence in Public Art” initiated by the Public Art (China) and Public Art Review (United States) Shanghai, May 2012; the SAHA, Istanbul, 2012; the 12th International Cairo Biennial, Cairo, 2011; and, De Appel, Amsterdam’s, Curatorial Programme ’10/’11 and ’09/’10. Erdemci has taught at Bilkent University (1994-1995), Marmara University (1999-2000) and at Istanbul Bilgi University’s MA Programme in Visual Communication Design (2001-2007). Recently in 2012, she was named the Laurie Chair at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Fulya Erdemci is the curator of the 13th Istanbul Biennial.

Cuauhtémoc Medina

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Art critic, curator and historian, holds a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art from the University of Essex in Britain and a BA in History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Since 1992 he has been a full time researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Between 2002 and 2008 was the first Associate Curator of Art Latin American Collections at the Tate Modern in the UK.

Among other projects, he has curated When Faith Moves Mountains (Lima, Peru, 2001) by Francis Alÿs, 20 Million Mexicans can´t be wrong (South London Gallery, 2002), and The Age of Discrepancies, Art and Visual Culture in Mexico 1968–1997, (in collaboration with Olivier Debroise, Pilar García and Alvaro Vazquez, 2007-2008). In 2009 he curated Teresa Margolles's project, What Else Could We Speak About?, as the Mexican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. All along 2010, he organized the Contemporary Art Project (PAC) in Murcia, Spain, with a year long exhibition titled Cannibal Dominoes, and in collaboration with Mariana Botey and Helena Chavez The Red Specter, publication and platform that organized the exhibition titled “Critical Fetishes. Residues of the General Economy” at the C2M IN MADRID, presented in 2011 in the Mexico City Museum. In 2011 he curated the overview of Enrique Jezik’s work titled: Obstruct, destroy, conceal, in the MUAC (Contemporary Art University Museum) in Mexico City.

Medina recently organized the Manifesta 9 Biennial in Ghenk, Limburg, Belgium, in association with Katerina Gregos and Dawn Ades.

Beyond a significant number of publications of Contemporary Art since 2000 he has been in charge of the art critical column titled “Ojo Breve”of the Reforma newspaper in Mexico city.

Joanna Mytkowska

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Joanna Mytkowska is the director of the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art since 2007.

Previously she was curator at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, where she organized the exhibitions Pawel Althamer (2006), Le nuage Magellan (2007), and The Anxious (2008).

Mytkowska was curator of the Polish Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005) that presented the work of Artur Zmijewski.

She is also co-founder with Andrzej Przywara and Adam Szymczyk of the Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, where she has curated exhibitions of artists Monika Sosnowska, Paulina Ołowska, Mirosław Bałka, Wilhelm Sasnal, and Oskar Hansen.

Lorenzo Benedetti

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Lorenzo Benedetti (born in Rome, 1972) is director of the SBKM De Vleeshal art center in Middelburg since 2008.

He studied Art history at the University La Sapienza in Rome and attended the Curatorial Program at de Appel, Amsterdam. He was curator in Marta Herford under the direction of Jan Hoet, guest curator at La Kunsthalle in Mulhouse, and artistic leadership of Rome’s non-profit art gallery Volume! He is tutor at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht and writes regularly for exhibition catalogues and art magazines.

The Mondriaan Fund has selected the presentation Room with Broken Sentence by curator Lorenzo Benedetti (1972) and visual artist Mark Manders (1968) as the Dutch entry for the 55th Venice Biennale.

Josée Drouin-Brisebois

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Josée Drouin-Brisebois is the Senior Curator of Contemporary Art responsible for the collections of Canadian and international Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa.

She organized the Canadian participation in the 2011 Venice Biennale, Steven Shearer: Exhume to Consume and is currently working on the 2013 Canadian participation for the Biennale, Shary Boyle: Music for Silence.

She has curated numerous important exhibitions including monographs of senior Canadian artists Arnaud Maggs: Identification (2012); Christopher Pratt (2005) and thematic group exhibitions: It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art (2010–11); Nomads (2009); Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer (2008) and De-con-structions (2007).

Ms. Drouin-Brisebois co-curated Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque with Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2012); and Spectral Landscape (2012) and The Shape of Things (2012) with David Liss at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (MOCCA).

Her writing has also appeared in the publications Barroco Nova: Neo-Baroque Moves in Contemporary Art (Museum London, Artlab Gallery and McIntosh Gallery, 2012); Dominique Rey: Erlking/Pilgrims (Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 2012); Wanda Koop: On the Edge of Experience (Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2010), Otherworld Uprising: Shary Boyle (Conundrum Press, 2008) as well as in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art and Prefix Photo.

Laurent Busine

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Laurent Busine is the director of the MAC’s – Museum of Contemporary Arts at Grand-Hornu (Belgium) since 2002.

He is an exhibition organiser and the author of numerous scientific and literary publications.

He was a lecturer in museology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and from 1982 to 2002, exhibition director at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi.Among other projects, he was the curator of the Belgian pavilion at Venice Biennial in 1995 and organized the exhibitions Je vous ai tant aimés, CAPC, Brodeaux, 1994 ; La Beauté insensée ( collection Prinzhorn), Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, 1996 ; Le Vaste Monde à livre ouverts, Brugge, 2002 ; Giuseppe Penone, MAC’s, 2010 ; Balthazar Burkhard, MAC’s, 2011 ; Tant d’amour et tant de larmes, Brugge, 2012.Last publication edited: Penone, Fonds Mercator, Bruxelles ; Electa, Milan, 2012.

Elena Sorokina

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Elena Sorokina is a Russian-born, Paris based curator and art historian, alumna of the Whitney Museum of American Art ISP in New York.

She graduated in art history from the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn, Germany.

Recently, she co-organized the symposium "What is a postcolonial exhibition?", a collaborative project of SMBA/Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and is currently working on a special project for the upcoming Moscow Biennial. Her further exhibitions include (selection): "Temps Trituré. Agnes Varda" at LVMH in Brussels, "Petroliana" at Moscow Museum of Modern Art; "Laws of Relativity" at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; "On Traders' Dilemmas" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; “Scènes Centrales" at Tri Postal, Lille; "Etats de l'Artifice" at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and others.

She published in numerous catalogs, and has been writing for Artforum, Flash Art, Cabinett Magazine, Manifesta Journal, and has been the contributing editor of the Moscow Art Magazine.

Sorokina is a frequent speaker in international conferences and has been invited as guest lecturer to ISCP, New York; Garage CCC, Moscow; and other institutions.

Javier Hontoria

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Javier Hontoria, (born in Madrid in 1975), is a writer and independent curator. He is a regular contributor to EL CULTURAL and Artforum.

His recent shows include Ignacio Uriarte. WORKS at Sala Rekalde, Bilbao and La Panera, Lleida (2011-2012); A Dutch Landscape, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2012) and Bas Jan Ader. Tra due Mondi, MAMbo, Bologna, Italy (2013).

He is currently working on the group exhibition Sin motivo aparente at Madrid's Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, CA2M, to be held in May 2013 and on Mark Manders first retrospective exhibition in Spain, expected in March 2014.

Gerardo Mosquera

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Gerardo Mosquera is an independent art critic, curator, historian and writer based in Havana and Madrid.

He is advisor to the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Art in General, New York, and other international art centers.

He was a co-founder of the Havana Biennial, Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and is the Artistic Director of PHotoSpain 2011, 2012 and 2013 in Madrid.

Author of numerous texts and books on contemporary art and art theory, he is a member of the advisory board of several art journals, including Art Nexus (Bogota), Calabar and Nka (New York).

He has lectured extensively in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and North America. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990.

Iara Boubnova

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Iara Boubnova, curator and art critic from Sofia was born in Moscow, Russia.

She graduated from the Department of Art History and Theory at Moscow State University and worked as a Junior Editor at the Soviet Artist Publishing House.

Since 1984, she has lived in Sofia, Bulgaria and worked at the National Gallery for Foreign Art as a curator of the Department of East European Art.

For the last three years Boubnova has worked as the leader of the Visual Seminar, a multidisciplinary project dedicated to the urban environment of neo-capitalism. Among other important curatorial projects are Joy at Casino Luxembourg and Dialectics of Hope, 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2005, Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt am Main in 2002 — all as co-curator; Talk with the Man on the Street part of the 4th Biennial in Cetinje, Montenegro; Double-Bind (co-curator) in 2003, Locally Interested in 1999 — both in Sofia and Ars ex Nacionem. Made in BG in 1997 and In Search of the Self-Reflection in 1994 — both in Plovdiv.

She curated and organized the Bulgarian National Participations at the 48th Biennale di Venezia, 1999; the 3rd Biennial in Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, 1997; the 4th St. Petersburg Biennial, 1996; the 4th Istanbul Biennial, 1995; and the 22nd Sao Paulo Biennial, 1994.

Boubnova is President of AICA Bulgaria and since 2002 has been a board member of the International Foundation Manifesta. Iara Boubnova is the founding Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art — Sofia.

Rodrigo Alonso

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Rodrigo Alonso is a professor and curator.

Master’s Degree in Art Theory specialized in contemporary art and new media. Researcher and theoretician in the field of technology-based arts, he is a referent of the history and present of this production in Latin America.

He has published numerous essays and books on the subject, and he regularly writes in newspapers, art magazines and catalogues.

As independent curator, he has organized exhibitions worldwide; recent exhibitions include: Pop, Realisms, and Politics. Brazil/Argentina. 1960s (Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires; Museu Oscar Neimeyer, Cutitiba, Brazil, 2012), Untimely Archeologies (Gabriela Mistral Gallery, Santiago de Chile, 2012), Situating No-Land (Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA, 2011), Tales of Resistance and Change (Frankfurter Kustverein, Frankfurt, 2010), Out! Art in Public Spaces (Cordoba, Argentina, along with Gerardo Mosquera, 2010), among many others.

In 2011, he was the curator of the Argentine Pavilion (Adrián Villar Rojas) at 54° Venice Biennale.

He is also professor at graduate and postgraduate levels in Argentine, Latin American and European universities, and advisor for international art foundations.

He lives and works in Buenos Aires.

Gideon Ofrat

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Dr. Gideon Ofrat is an art historian, curator, professor of philosophy and aesthetics.

He has organized exhibitions around the world including the groundbreaking 1993 & 1995 Israeli Pavilion exhibitions at the Venice Biennale. Ofrat was the first to organize performance art festivals in Israel as well as 9 pioneering exhibitions on the rise of Israeli Post-Modernism. He is the author of over 30 books and 80 exhibition catalogues including the English translated books One Hundred Years of Art in Israel and The Jewish Derrida.

Dr. Ofrat is currently scholar in residence at the Koffler Centre for the Arts in Toronto.

Vincenzo de Bellis

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Vincenzo de Bellis (1977) is Co-Director and Curator at Peep-Hole Art Center, Milan.

From 2012 he is also Artistic Director of Miart, international modern and contemporary art fair, Milan. Some of his recent projects include: John Henderson (2013); Gabriel Sierra (2013); Renata Lucas. Third Time (2011); Pavel Büchler and Evangelia Spiliopoulou. Working Title (2011) J. Parker Valentine. Cut-Outs-Inter-Sections (2011); Mario Garcia Torres. I Will Be With You Shortly (2010); Ahmet Ogut. Mind the Gap (2009).

De Bellis is also editor of Peep-Hole Sheet, a quarterly of writings by artists, which is now at its 12th issue with contributions by artists such as Liam Gillick, John Miller, Dora Garcia, Jonathan Horowitz, Massimo Grimaldi, Matias Faldbakken, Pavel Büchler, Karl Holmqvist, Giuseppe Gabellone & Diego Perrone, Jimmie Durham, Lara Favaretto, Claire Fontaine, Nick Mauss, Paul Sietsema.

In 2010 he was guest-curator at Museion, Bolzano where he curated Soft Information in Your Hard Facts, solo show by Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri. In 2011 he was Curator-in-residence at Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome for which he curated solo shows by Lara Almarcegui and Reto Pulfer.

De Bellis holds a Master of Arts in Curatorial Practice at Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

Ranjit Hoskote

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Ranjit Hoskote is a cultural theorist, curator and poet.

He is the author of more than 20 books, including Vanishing Acts: New & Selected Poems 1985-2005 (Penguin, 2006), Die Ankunft der Vögel (Carl Hanser Verlag, 2006), and I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (Penguin Classics, 2011).

Hoskote has authored nine artist monographs, including, most recently, Zinny & Maidagan: Compartment/ Das Abteil (Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/ Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010).

With Ilija Trojanow, Hoskote has co-authored Kampfabsage (Blessing Verlag, 2007; in English as Confluences: Forgotten Histories from East and West, Yoda Press, 2012). With Nancy Adajania, Hoskote is co-author of The Dialogues Series (Popular/ foundation b&g, 2011), an unfolding programme of conversations with artists.

Hoskote’s essays have appeared in numerous anthologies; most recently, ‘Biennials of Resistance’ in Elena Filipovic, Marieke van Hal and Sølveig Øvstebo eds., The Biennial Reader (Hatje Cantz, 2010), and ‘The Nth Field: The Horizon Reloaded’ (co-authored with Nancy Adajania) in Maria Hlavajova, Simon Sheikh and Jill Winder eds., On Horizons: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art (BAK, 2011), as well as ‘The Uncontainable’ in Sølveig Øvstebo ed., Marianne Heier: Surplus (Bergen Kunsthall/ Sternberg Press, 2012). Hoskote has also contributed essays to the catalogues of many international exhibitions of contemporary Indian art, including Indian Highway (Serpentine Gallery, London/ Walther König, 2008) and India: Art Now (ARKEN Museum, Copenhagen/ Hatje Cantz, 2012). He writes a column, ‘Atlas Bombay’, for Art in America.

Since 1993, Hoskote has curated or co-curated 24 exhibitions of contemporary art, including a mid-career survey of Atul Dodiya (Japan Foundation, Tokyo, 2001) and a retrospective of Jehangir Sabavala (National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay and New Delhi, 2005-2006). Over 2000-2002, he co-curated the trans-Asian collaborative project, ‘Under Construction’ (Japan Foundation: Tokyo and other Asian centres). Hoskote was co-curator, with Hyunjin Kim and Artistic Director Okwui Enwezor, of the 7th Gwangju Biennale (Korea, 2008). He curated India’s first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (54th edition, 2011).

Hoskote has been a Fellow of the International Writing Program, University of Iowa (1995), an Associate Fellow at Sarai/ CSDS, New Delhi (2006-2007), and writer-in-residence at Villa Waldberta, Munich (2003), Theater der Welt, Essen/ Mülheim (2010) and the Polish Institute, Berlin (2010). Jointly with Nancy Adajania, he holds a research residency at BAK/ basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (2010; 2013).

Hoskote serves on the academic advisory board of the Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong) and on the international advisory board of the 1st Bergen Triennial (Norway).

Chang Tsong-zung

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CHANG Tsong-zung (Johnson Chang) is a curator, director of Hanart TZ Gallery, guest professor of China Art Academy, board director of Asia Art Archive.

Chang has been active in curating Chinese exhibitions since the 1980s.

Research projects include the “Yellow Box” series of projects about contemporary art practice and Chinese aesthetics spaces (since 2004), and “Jia Li Tang” projects on traditional hall of rite and its relationship to aesthetics (since 2012).

Recent curatorial work include: Co-curator of Guangzhou Triennial 2008 “Farewell to Post-Colonialism”, “Spiritual Space: A Dimension in Lacquer” (Hubei Museum of Art 2009), the “West Heavens” series of Indian-Chinese art and intellectual exchanges (presented on the platforms of Shanghai Biennial 2010, Guangzhou Triennial 2011, and Shanghai Biennial 2012). Chang is Co-curator of the 2012 Shanghai Biennial (October 2012 to March 2013).

Hyunsun Tae

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Hyunsun Tae is currently the Senior Curator at Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, where she joined in 1996.

She has been working on Leeum’s contemporary collection, exhibition program, and the museum’s publication.

In the past, Tae has curated exhibitions featuring Korean and Asian artists, including Kimsooja (2000), Ahn Sang-Soo (2002), Yoshitomo Nara (2005), Michale Joo (2006), and One Fine Day (2007).

She has participated in Art Spectrum since 2012, the Leeum’s biennial exhibition that aims to discover young Korean artists.

She also has organized Human in Sculpture (2000) and Reality and Illusion (2001), and coordinated MUSE-UM, the inaugural exhibition at Leeum in 2004. Tae’s latest exhibition is Anish Kapoor (2012), which is the artist’s fist solo exhibition in East Asia

Martin Germann

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Martin Germann is senior curator at S.M.A.K., the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent since September 2012. From 2008 and 2011 he has been curator at kestnergesellschaft Hanover, where he worked on exhibitions and publications with artists like Michaël Borremans, Michael Sailstorfer, Elke Krystufek, Larry Sultan, Aaron Curry, Julian Göthe, or Joachim Koester.

From 2010 – 2012 he was part of the curatorial team for ‘Made in Germany Zwei’, a survey show of young international art at kestnergesellschaft, Kunstverein Hannover and Sprengel Museum.
Prior to his position at Buero Friedrich, Berlin (2006-7) he was responsible for the programme of Gagosian Gallery, Berlin, a project space of the 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2005-6). At the 3rd Berlin Biennial (2003-4) he coordinated five thematic spaces within the Biennial.

He regularly publishes in books, exhibition catalogues and magazines, and has written on artists such as Kai Althoff, Dirk Braeckman, or Mathias Poledna. He is also a visiting lecturer at HISK – The Higher Institute of Arts, Ghent.

Beni Bischof

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Beni Bischof, 1976 lives and works in St.Gallen/Switzerland

Beni Bischof is a multidisciplinary artist working in the fields of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, installation, video and others.

Bischof is known for his grotesque, playful, surprising and anger-motivated works. Bischofs inspiration lies in his next surrounding in everyday live.

Popculture, nature, society or politics motivate him making art.

!Mediengruppe Bitnik

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!Mediengruppe Bitnik www.bitnik.org

Carmen Weisskopf, 1976, Switzerland Domagoj Smoljo, 1979, CroatiaOther members: Adnan Hadzi, Daniel Ryser, Silvan Leuthold.!Mediengruppe Bitnik (read - the not mediengruppe bitnik) live and work in Zurich/London.

Using Hacking as an artistic strategy, their works re-contextualise the familiar to allow for new readings of established structures and mechanisms.They have been known to intervene into Londons surveillance space by hijacking CCTV cameras and replacing the video images with an invitation to play chess. In early 2013 !Mediengruppe Bitnik sent a parcel to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuodorian embassy. The parcel contained a camera which broadcast its journey through the postal system live on the internet. They call this work a SYSTEM_TEST and a Live Mail Art Piece.!Mediengruppe Bitniks interventions into (digital) live media feeds formulate fundamental questions concerning contemporary issues.

Their works have been shown internationally including:La Gaîté Lyrique Paris, NiMk Amsterdam, Space Gallery London, BAC Bâtiment d‘art contemporain Geneva, Cabaret Voltaire Zurich, HMKV Dortmund, Beton7 Athens, Share Torino, Museum Folkwang Essen, Ars Electronica Linz, Contaimporary Art Center Vilnius, Kunsthaus Zurich, Gallery EDEN 343 São Paulo and the Roaming Biennale TeheranThey have received awards including:Swiss Art Award, Migros New Media Jubilee Award, Honorary Mention Prix Ars Electronica

Carter Mull

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Carter Mull is an artist based in Los Angeles. He received a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000 and an MFA from CalArts in 2006.

Mull’s work has been exhibited widely, most recently at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Presentation House, Vancouver, Domaine Departement de Chamarande, Paris, Vilma Gold, London, Gagosian Gallery, New York and in the Venice Beach Biennial, Venice, California.

His project intertwines multiple mediums to question the temporality of medias that construct our conception of the world. In turn, the practice recomposes an understanding of our shared, social imagination.

His works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Orange County Museum of Art, The Getty Research Institute, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Walker Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

His practice has been discussed in publications and periodicals, including Artforum, Art on Paper, Art In America, Art News, Flash Art, Nero, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The New Yorker.

Navid Nuur

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Navid Nuur (Teheran, 1976) lives and works in the Hague.

‘In-betweenness’ is the most defining characteristic of Navid Nuur’s organic, synaesthetic practice, with its formal echoes of Minimalism and Conceptual Art on the one hand and a truly mindblowing sensorial exoticism on the other.

The term applies to the position of the artist himself, too: he is always positioned in the middle, aiming to guide (or to conduct) his transformative processes to maximum impact. On the level of the works themselves, ‘in-betweenness’ points to the processual aspects that prevent them from becoming definite, static objects.

A couple of years ago, Navid has coined the term ‘interimodules’ to describe his spatial works: they are pieces mediating between thoughts and their materialisation, negotiating the space they 10 occupy and their temporal presence. His works are never static objects, but organic and alive presence in the space they occupy. They live in between the viewer and the 'residual space' - as Navid calls abstract phenomena such as light and air - changing the way the viewer experiences the surrounding place.

His works will be exhibited in a solo show at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht in autumn 2013 and have already been shown in major institutions such as Centre Pompidou, Paris (2013, ongoing exhibition), Institut Néerlandais, Paris (2013, ongoing exhibition), Parasol unit, London (2013), Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (2011), Museion, Bolzano (2011) and Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2009). He participated in the 54th Biennale di Venezia in 2011 and won the Dutch Royal Prize for Painting that same year.

His work is the object of many publications, including four monographic catalogues (the most recent of which accompanies his 2013 show at Parasol Unit, London). He is the author of a number of artist books and magazines.

Meta Grgurevič

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Meta Grgurevič (1979) completed her postgraduate studies in painting at the Venetian Fine Arts Academy. In 2002 she, Mara Ambrožič, Jasmina Cibic and Mery Favaretto founded the Passaporta group, which operated between Venice, Ljubljana, Granada and London. Since 2007 she realized several solo projects in Slovenia and collaborated in numerous group exhibitions in Slovenia, Italy, London, Greece, Bosnia, Croatia and Macedonia. Meta Grgurevič has received many nominations for emerging young artists and several awards: in 2002, she received the Premio Consorzio Nuovo Bevilacqua la Masa prize in Venice for her work Miki Maus je pedr / Miki Maus is a poof, in 2005 the Passaporta group was shortlisted for the Italian Emerging Artists Prize Premio Furla and in 2009 she was awarded for the project Worlds Don't Come Easy being recognised as the best intermedia project at Akto festival in Macedonia. In the spring of 2012 she was a resident artist in Finland at HIAP - Helsinki International Artist Programme. She lives and works in Ljubljana.

Leja Jurišić & Teja Reba

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Tandem Jurišić & Reba have been working in the field of interdisciplinary art since 2007.

After decade of work in performing arts and contemporary dance, with critically acclaimed projects such as Jurišić’s R’z’R (2005) and Ballet of Revolt (2012) and Reba's 650 experiences (2011). Jurišić a graduate in The Science of Law and Reba a student at Arts at the Sorbonne University in Paris joined forces as a tandem with projects such as experimental and intervention works: The Cycle, living installation White Cube/Black Box (in collaboration with Loup Abramovici), dance piece Between us and durational performance Sofa, of which the former two gained big critical acclaim and are still touring.

Beside their author work, they have been working with established choreographers and theater directors, among others Jurišić: Meg Stuart (It's not Funny, 2007), Janez Janša (Fake it!, 2008), Sebastijan Horvat (Utopija I and II, 2009), and Reba: Janez Janša (Life [in progress], 2008 and Monument G II, 2009). Durational performance Sofa premiered at Scores N°2: What escapes festival at Tanzquartier Wien, 2010 (curated by Tim Etchels), it was selected in the programme of Festival City of Woman – International Festival of Contemporary Arts, 2012 (curated by Mara Vujić), Festival Exodos – International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, 2013 (curated by Tim Etchels) and will be presented at U3 – Triennale of Contemporary Slovene Arts, 2013 (curated by Nataša Petrešin – Bachelez). Tandem Jurišić & Reba summarize and develop a series of experience gained by the artists in their work during these past years, among others their remarkable reactivity to the given situation and a special talent for the customs fee for moderation at the border crossing between the audience and the show. The performance researches the diverse aspects of dance, body, intimate, work and public relations between two partakers faced with the certainty of an impermanent limit.

Leja Jurišić and Teja Reba take the temperature of those limits.Rok Vevar, Gibanica 2011Awards: Tandem Jurišić & Reba received Ksenija Hribar’s award (2013) for Promising Choreographers.

:// RUBEDO

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Rubedo are a London-based practice and think tank founded in 2004 by Laurent-Paul Robert and Dr Vesna Petresin Robert who have collaborated since 1994 when they first met in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Rubedo explore relations between aesthetics, complex geometry, acoustics and synaesthesia, through performance, installation and artefact.

The work integrates multiple material supports (sound, space, moving image, narrative) and customised digital and analogue tools. It explores sound in relation to space, time and user interaction.It takes art out of the ‘white cube’, inviting immersion and a personal interpretation that is not restricted by cultural background.

The practice uses broadcast and physical events as a means of radical theory, as well as composition methods based on ambiguity, chance, emergent patterns and particle fields. Topology becomes a vehicle for conceptualisation, concretisation and symbolic mediation of the work that seeks to merge the dualism of art and science, micro and macro, the intimate and the collective.

The work recently featured at Tate Modern, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Festival Hall, Venice Biennale, Cannes International Film Festival, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, World Architecture Festival, Sydney Opera House, Beijing Architecture Biennale, Venice Biennale, Kings Place and Vienna Secession.Rubedo are recipients of industry and arts grants (British Council, UK Govt. Department of Innovation, Business and Skills, Arts Council, Crafts Council) and acted as Industry Advisor to Goldsmiths College [Topology Research Unit] and Industry Partner to the University of the Arts London.

Their work has been awarded an hors-concours Critics Selection at the 44th International Film Festival at Cannes, also contributing to team awards (Oscar, BAFTA, VES, Palme d’or) as well as patents and the first non-commercial satellite.

Marge Monko

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Marge Monko (born 1976) is an artist living and working in Tallinn, Estonia and Ghent, Belgium. She has studied in Estonian Academy of Arts (MA in Photography, 2008) and in University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Monko mainly works with photography and video. She has examined psychoanalysis and it’s impact on gender representation in visual culture. Her recent subject is gendered work in the context of paradigmatic changes of labour policies. Monko has had solo exhibitions in Tallinn and Helsinki and participated in several group exhibitions, a.o. Manifesta9, Genk, 2012, curated by Cuathemoc Medina, Katerina Gregos and Dawn Ades; CCA Glasgow, curated by Angela Dimitrakaki and Kirsten Lloyd and Bétonsalon, Paris, curated by Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quiros. In 2012, Monko won the Henkel.Art.Award. Since January 2013, she is participating in a 2-year studio program in HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts), Ghent, Belgium.

Beau Rhee

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Beau Rhee (1985) is an artist and designer based in New York and Switzerland.

She is the founding director of Atelier de Geste, a studio that produces work at the boundaries of art-theatre-design. Originating from choreographic ideas: performances, scents, objects, editions create fresh notions of the body and la miss en scene.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at X-Initiative, Exit Art, PS1/MoMA (NY), Musée d'art et d'histoire, Musée Ariana, St Valentin Espace d'arts, la Maison Blanche de le Corbusier, Kunsthaus Baselland (Switzerland).

Artist editions and design objects are available at various stockists internationally.

She has lectured as a guest artist at the Swiss Master Symposium for the Arts and the ICP/Bard MFA program. MFA Haute école d'art et de design, Genève Switzerland BA Dance & Art History/Visual Art double major, Columbia University (cum laude, distinction), New York US.

Julia Spinola

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Julia Spínola (Madrid, 1979) lives and works in Madrid.

She has recently presented the two solo shows The Drum in the Mouth (2012) and Into the point (vibration) (2011), both of them at Tatjana Pieters Galerie, Gante; and the exhibition Oreja. Naufragio (2011), in dialogue with artist Mauro Cerqueira, in Heinrich Erdhardt Gallery, in Madrid.

Last years she has took part in some group exhibitions as Resonance at Repetition, curated by Rivet, at EFA Project Space, New York; Visible, Móvil, Vidente, Centro Párraga, Murcia (2012); Antes que todo, CA2M (2011); Teatro de Anatomía, RMS El Espacio, Madrid (2011); Change of Adress, Tatjana Pieters Galerie (2011); Plano, peso, punto y medida curated by Mariano Mayer, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires (2011); Trigger, curated by Sofie van Loo, Tatjana Pieters Galerie (2008).

In the next months she will participate in the group exhibition Sin motivo aparente, curated by Javier Hontoria in Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Ca2m, Madrid, and she is preparing her next solo exhibition at Heinrich Erdhardt Gallery in Madrid.

Recently she has been awarded with the Generaciones 2013 Prize.

Paloma Polo

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Polo studied fine arts at Complutense University (Madrid), finishing her degree in 2006 at Camberwell College of Arts (University of the Arts of London).

Between 2007- 2009 she attended De Ateliers art residency program (Amsterdam). In 2010 she was a resident artist at Gasworks program (London).

Amongst other places, she has exhibited her work individually at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Kurimanzutto Gallery (Mexico City), Casa Barragan (Mexico City), Frieze Art Fair (Frame section) and Montehermoso Cultural Centre (Vitoria).

The most remarkable prices she has been awarded are Contribution to the working budget Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten Vormgevin en Bouwkunst. Holland (2013 and 2011); Production grant MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary art of Castilla y Leon (2010); Generacion 2011 award. Fundacion Caja Madrid.(2010); Art and Research 2009. Montehermoso. Vitoria.; First Price at the Art Contest INJUVE. Madrid (2009); First price of audiovisual contest. Centro de Arte y Naturaleza.CDAN. Huesca.(2008); Prize International mobility of artists. Matadero. Madrid (2008).

Carlos Irijalba

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Carlos Irijalba (Pamplona, 1979) Actual resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten of Amsterdam (2013-2014).

He graduated in 2002 at the Fine Arts Basque Country University and studied at UDK Berlin. Awarded the Revelation PhotoEspaña Prize or Generaciones 2009, among others, he also received the Guggenheim Bilbao Photography grant in 2003 or the Marcelino Botín Foundation in 2007/08. Irijalba has exhibited at international Art Museums, including the CCCB Barcelona or Herzliya Museum Israel or The Yokohama Art Center.

His work analyses the way in which Western culture recreates an abstract medium that loses all relations except to itself, transferring attention towards a series of pseudo-events. In projects as Twilight (2009) or High tides (2013) works between relative experience of time and space and the collective construction of the territory.

Ignacio Uriarte

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Ignacio Uriarte (b. 1972, Krefeld, Germany) lives and works in Berlin.

He studied Business Administration at Europäische Wirtschaftsakademie in Madrid, Spain, and at Berufsakademie Mannheim, Germany, from 1992 to 1995, and worked for major corporations including Siemens, Canon, Interlub, and Agilent Technologies. From 1999 to 2001, Uriarte studied Audiovisual Arts at the Centro de Artes Audiovisuales in Guadalajara, Mexico, prior to becoming a full-time artist.

Recent solo exhibitions have taken place at UMOCA, Salt Lake City, USA (2013), The Drawing Center (2013), Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain (2012); Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain (2011); Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico (2011); Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany (2010); and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain (2008).

His work can be found in the collections of Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Colección Jumex, La Caixa, and FRAC Lorraine, among others.

Kiko Perez

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Kiko Pérez, born in Vigo in 1982. Lives and works in Madrid.

Started his artistic career in the Fine Arts University of Pontevedra, moving forward to the University of the Basque Country, in Bilbao, city where he lived for several years.

In 2005 takes part in "Lupa e imán", a workshop coordinated by Iñaki Imaz and developed in Arteleku (San Sebastián), that supposed a big influence for the artist.

In 2011 did his first solo show in the Madrid established gallery Heinrich Ehrhardt, and participated in different group shows like "Gure Artea" (Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, 2008); Antes que todo (CA2M, Madrid 2010), Lo nuestro:from me to you (La casa encendida, Madrid 2012) or XXXI Biennal of Pontevedra "Utrópicos".

He also showed his works at Cologne Art Fair 2011, Bourouina Gallery (Berlin) and Gallery Tatjana Pieters (Ghent).

Now he is preparing to participate in a group exhibition at MARCO museum in Vigo.

Gauthier Leroy

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« My work process is an inner voyage left to the vagaries of wandering, like a mental road movie. »

The territories visited by Gauthier Leroy (b. 1967, lives and works in Valenciennes) are of all kinds, from American rock ‘n’ roll to the ashtray, from the Fallingwater House by Franck Lloyd Wright to the comic book, from the peanut motif to design.

Working with samples, the artist eschews any notions of a scholarly or popular culture repertoire, more interested in the signs of a collective memory that he reinterprets through subjective rewriting with new compositions and new scenarios. Using a heuristic approach, he attempts to expose the genesis of daily objects. In keeping with the Arts & Crafts movement, Gauthier Leroy has developed a practice that subverts mass consumption products and the cultural industry in order to extract the symbols contained within them and integrate them into a system, freed from the productivist cycle and market logic.

By reintegrating craftsmanship mixed with the creation of new fictions, he is effectively “repackaging”.

Bertille Bak

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Bertille Bak was born in 1983 in Arras, France - she lives and works in Paris.

She graduated from the school of Beaux-Art in Paris - Christian Boltanski studio - in 2007 as well as the Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains in 2008. In 2010 she awarded the Edward Steichen prize, Luxembourg.

Recent solo exhibitions include “« Circuits », Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France ; « Bertille Bak », NETTIE HORN, London / « Ô quatrième » Les Eglises, Centre of Contemporary Art, Chelles, France / « Robe » in collaboration with Charles-Henry Fertin, Galerie Xippas, Paris / « Le tour du propriétaire », Mac-Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France / « Urban Chronicle » Module 1, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. She also recently participated in group exhibitions such as « Voice of images », Palazzo Grassi, Venice / Evocateur, 14th Prize Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris / Intense Proximity, La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris / L’homme de Vitruve, CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine, France.

Bertille Bak's multi-disciplinary practice revolves around the creation of films addressing the notion of community and identity and evoking a “tribal adventure” through which she tells stories about the communities she seeks out. Since her initial experience in 2007 within the mining community of Barlin in France.

Bak has continued to immerse herself within micro-societies - sensitive to the situation of these communities, she appropriates with affection and humour these ethical systems and popular traditions. If the result of her “infiltrations” convey the aesthetic of an ethnographical documentary, some picturesque elements and other incongruities however lead these realistic stories towards semi-fictional portraits of united singularities.

From the Polish community of New York to the Din Daeng neighbourhood in Bangkok or the French convent in Paris, Bak portrays with sensitivity and humour the broader life within these communities - mixing truths and falsehoods and playing with how the clichés and fantasies that we have of these populations resonate with us.

Maria Marshall

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Maria Marshall was born in 1966 in Bombay.

She received a BA from the Wimbledon College of Art in London and later studied sculpture at the Chelsea College of Art & Design in London and the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva before turning her attention to video.

Many of Marshall’s video works have featured children in troubling adult situations. Often, their titles are derived from the utterances of her children. When I Grow Up I Want To Be a Cooker (1998) features footage of her son digitally altered so that it appears as though he is smoking. I should be older than all of you (2000) reveals a wide-eyed child lying in a box, surrounded by slithering snakes. When are we there? (2001) is a six-minute loop that winds through the corridors of a nondescript institutional building, ultimately ending up in a room in which Marshall herself stands; the camera approaches and focuses on her skin, which appears to move as though touched by phantom hands. For Puzzle Fit (2002–03), Marshall taped a group of preadolescent students, outfitted with microphones, in a disco; images of the students commingling and dancing appear with subtitles of their gossipy discussions on a four-part split screen, as 1970s dance music plays in the background. For 3 Minute Wonder, screened on London’s Channel 4 in 2006, Marshall created three films each consisting of three-minute deconstructed biographies of her son, her grandmother, and herself.

Marshall has had solo exhibitions at the Oliver Art Center at the California College of the Arts in Oakland (2000), Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2002), and Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine in Geneva (2004), among other venues.

Her work has been included in several group shows, including Family at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut (2002), Casino 2001 at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Ghent (2001), Slow Motion at the Ludwig Forum in Aachen, Germany (2002), The American Effect at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2003), and Closed Circuit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (2007). Marshall lives and works in London.

Edith Dekyndt

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Often using the simplest of means and with minimal intervention Edith Dekyndt creates art works which engage with common place forces of nature and scientific phenomena. Working in an area of two overlapping territories - physics and aesthetics - Dekyndt’s methodologies do have something akin to scientific experiments.

However she is less in the pursuit of decisive evidence or proving a theorem than opening herself up to unknown outcomes, and to failure as much as success. Similarly, she is less interested in the universal, and cold objective fact, than in how her various explorations can engender a more personal, emotional response.

As a corollary to her many ventures and journeys (Dekyndt has travelled widely, often making context specific work) she has developed a body of drawings representing the persistence of time in a single location. Slowly and repetitively, pencil and ink marks are applied to paper or canvas until an area is completely filled. This simple, time consuming, repeated action of the hand transforms the underlying layer of material to create undulations and buckles giving the drawing the appearance of something fluid like a rippling curtain or wavy water. Meditative, and in some ways melancholic too, they are like monuments to the passing of time.

Carl Freedman, January 2013

Frédéric Platéus

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Frédéric Platéus develops an artistic course in which numerous influences, subultures and hybridations of a globalised world merge.

Thus he works on the conquest of a play space for the reinvention of identities and the redefinition of acknowledged cultural hierarchies.

Through a strategy of camouflage he ingeniously mixes all sorts of materials, ranging from astrophysics, graffiti and UFOs, to art history.

Yi-Jou SUN

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Yi-Jou SUN, born in 1988, lives and works in Taipei.

Her work centers on performance art and public intervention.

SUN has participated in The 3rd Taiwan International Performance Art Festival in 2011 (Taipei), International Interflow of Video Art and Performance Art in 2011 (Hong Kong), Xi’an International Performance Art Festival in 2012 (Xi’an, China), Performance Art Network ASIA in 2012 (Korea), 15th Asiatopia International Performance Art Festival in 2013 (Bangkok, Thailand).

SUN had her first solo exhibition in 2011, at the Taipei Contemporary Art Center. Group exhibitions include in Kaohsiung Monkey Wrenching Art Center (2010), Taipei Hong-gah Arts Museum (2012), Taipei Artist Village (2012), Ganghwa Arts Center in Korea (2012), Bangkok Art & Culture Centre in Thailand (2013). Her new work "The Wormhole in Round Trip History: Anonymous Folks," was part of the Zhongshan Park Project in Zhangzhou (2013) and Power Station of Art in Shanghai (2013), both being part of the Shanghai Biennale.

James T. Hong

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James T. Hong has been producing thought-provoking, unconventional, and occasionally controversial films and videos for over fifteen years.

His moving image works, described by Steve Seid of the Pacific Film Archive as “a sump-hole of chilling irony,” have shown at many prominent and obscure film festivals and galleries throughout the world.

In 2006, he was honored with a Goldies Award in Film from the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

In 2007 he premiered Die Entnazifizierung des MH at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and his short documentary 731: Two Versions of Hell at the Tel Aviv International Documentary Festival in Israel, which went on to win the “Best World Documentary” Award at the 2007 Jihlava International Documentary Festival in the Czech Republic. In 2007-2008, he was honored with solo shows in Finland, Taiwan, and the Pacific Film Archive in California.

In 2008, Hong was awarded the Berliner Künstlerprogramm Award from the Deutscher Akademische Austausch Dienst. He was also an invited artist to the Flaherty Film Seminar in New York.

In 2010 and 2011, Hong premiered the documentary Lessons of the Blood in San Francisco, Singapore, New York, and Europe. He was also an Artist in Residence at the Impakt Foundation in the Netherlands.

In 2012, Hong co-curated and presented installation works in a mini-museum within the Taipei Biennial. In early 2013, he presented a short documentary and a video installation in the Forum Expanded program of the Berlin International Film Festival.

Weili YEH

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Born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1971,

Wei-Li Yeh emigrated to the United States at the age of eleven and returned to reside in Taiwan in 2002. He obtained an MFA Degree in the Department of Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design, USA, in 1997 and has exhibited internationally since 1990’s.

Yeh’s various photographic and textual based projects for the past decade explore the dynamics of the individual within collective practices that centralize on the personal and socio-political relationships between oneself and the city in which he resides.

Yeh’s work is represented by Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China. He currently lives and works in Dayuan and Yangmei, Taiwan.

Chieh-jen Chen

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Chen Chieh-jenBorn 1960 in Taoyuan, TaiwanLives and works in Taipei, Taiwan

Contemporary artist from Taiwan. Graduated in Fine-arts and Craft from the vocational school system. His creative method tends to involve collaborations with people (multitudes) from different backgrounds. Through the process of building a film set together, the filming site becomes a temporary community where atomized individuals can get to know one another and together they complete the poetic dialectics film in this field.

Chen has held solo exhibitions at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Redcat art center in Los Angeles, the Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Asia Society and Museum in New York; and the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.

He has also participated in art biennales in Venice, Sao Paulo, Istanbul, Liverpool, Lyon, Sydney, Shanghai, Gwangju, Taipei, etc.

Jui-Chung YAO

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Yao Jui-Chung was born in 1969 in Taipei.

Graduated from The National Institute of The Arts (Taipei National University of the Arts) with a degree in Art Theory. In 1997, he represented Taiwan in “Facing Faces-Taiwan” at the Venice Biennale and took part in the International Triennale of Contemporary Art Yokohama in 2005, APT6 (2009), Taipei biennial (2010) and Shanghai biennial (2012).

Also participated in numerous other large international exhibitions. Yao specializes in photography, installation and painting.

The themes of his works are varied, but most importantly they examine the absurdity of the human condition.

Representative works include his Action Series which explores the question of Taiwan’s identity in Military take over (1994), subverts modern Chinese political myths in Recovering Mainland China (1997), and examines post-colonialism in The World is for All (1997~2000), as well as Long March-Shifting the Universe (2002).

In recent years, he has created photo installations, combining the style of “gold and green landscape” with the superstitions that permeate Taiwanese folklore, expressing a false and alienated “cold reality” that is specific to Taiwan. Representative works include the series Celestial Barbarians (2000), Savage Paradise (2000) and Heaven (2001).Ten years ago, Yao has assembled all the black-and-white photos of ruins he took in the past fifteen years, grouped under the themes of Industry, Religious Idols, Architecture and Military Bases. They reveal the enormous ideological black hole in Taiwan hidden behind the trends of globalization and Taiwan’s specific historical background, as a continuation of the main theme of his work: the absurdity of the historical destiny of humanity.

In 2007 Yao started to create a series of paintings. He appropriates masterpieces from Chinese art history and recreates them in his own work, transforming them into his personal history or real stories, in an attempt to transform grand narratives into the trivial affairs of his individual life.

Yao intends to usurp so called orthodoxy with his recreated landscapes. From 2010, Yao organized a photography workshop called "LSD"(Lost Society Document). He advocates university students to photograph and survey in their hometowns. Through the way of field survey, they attempt to draw the outline of “mosquito houses”(Public Property) and practice the possibility of observing the society by means of art. His essays have been published in many art journals and also published several books, including Installation Art in Taiwan since 1991-2001 (2002), The New Wave of Contemporary Taiwan Photography Since 1999 (2003), Roam The Ruins of Taiwan (2004), Performance Art in Taiwan 1978~2004 (2005), A Walk in the Contemporary Art：Roaming the Rebellious Streets (2005) and Ruined Islands (2007), Yao Jui-Chung (2008), Beyond humanity (2008), Nebulous light (2009), Biennial-Hop (2010), "Mirage : Disused Public Property in Taiwan Ⅰ & Ⅱ"(2010 & 2011).

His works have been collected by many Museums & private collectors.

Osang Gwon

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Osang Gwon was born in Korea in 1974. Gwon studied sculpture at Hongik University, Korea.

He received international attention through his solo exhibition in Arario Gallery Seoul in 2012, Arario Gallery Cheonan in 2006, Arario Gallery Beijing and Manchester Art Gallery in 2008.

He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Memories of the Future at Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Korea in 2010, Manipulating Reality at the Center of Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Italy in 2009, and the South American travelling exhibition Peppermint Candy at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea in 2007.

After his 1998 photography-sculpture Deodorant Type series, Gwon Osang took a major step forward in the concept of photography and sculpture with The Flat series in 2003.

Gwon's earlier works, Deodorant Type series, employed the process of taking over 1000 photographs were selected to create a sculpture. However, the artist's recent works take this process a step further by borrowing and transforming internet images that have been taken by others rather than himself. The Flat series features cut-outs of images that appear most frequently in advertisements, such ad watches, jewelry and make-up. The pieces of cut-out paper are fixed with simple wire structure, each becoming an individual sculpture. Then the installation is photographed into a flat surface, becoming both photograph and sculpture.

Kijong Zin

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“Mom, was the world black and white long ago?”- it suddenly occurred to me while watching TV one day that I had asked my mother this question watching black and white television.

They often say that TV is an idiot box. It is because television makes people to believe what they see on TV. Just as I had believed that it was black and white in the old days, people learn about the outer world through watching television.

This is why I intended to use television of all media instead of projection or video. Shocking - it would be when the audience sees images on TV outside the gallery and then the reality inside the gallery in real-time. ‘Fake’ and ‘media fabrication’, actuality and virtual reality, obscure boundaries between the truth and false, expansion or diminution of an incident, and even a creation of an affair in the media – this is what I want to work on in the project.

Sookyung Yee

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The visual artist Sookyung YEE lives and works in Seoul.

Since 1992, she has had solo as well as group exhibitions in Korea and abroad. Her solo exhibitions include Sookyung YEE solo show, Almine Rech gallery, Brussels, Belgium in 2011, and Museum Schloß Oranienbaum, Dessau, Germany in 2009.

In 2012, her group exhibition include Deoksugung project , Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea Korea Artist Prize,National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea / Berliner Festspiele, Seitenbuhne Berlin, Berlin, Germany / The Diverse Spectrum : 600Years of Korean Ceramics, Museum of Art, Sao Paulo, MASP, Sao Paulo, Brazil / Korean Eye, Saatchi gallery, London, UK Sydney Biennale, Museum of contemporary art, Sydney, Australia / Arsenale: First International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Ukraine 2012, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine / Walk in Asia, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan / Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan / Art project 2012: communion, nuclear Summit Seoul, Media Center, Seoul, Korea /Ceramics Commune, ArtSonje Center, Seoul, Korea.

Changwon Lee

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Changwon LEE earned an MFA in sculpture from Seoul National University and studied Fine Arts at the Kunstakademie Muenster. He currently works and lives in Korea. Using unsculptural materials of optical principles - light, shadow, reflection or reflected light, he is interested in metaphorically or indirectly revealing what lies behind a subject or social phenomenon. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘MAM Project 017: Lee Changwon’, Mori Museum, Japan, 2012 and ‘Other Selves’, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, 2012.

Sojung Lee

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Sojung Lee (b. 1979) received a B.F.A. in Korean Painting from Ewha Woman's University and a M.F.A. in Oriental Painting in Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. She has had a solo exhibition at Brain Factory (2010, Seoul, Korea), Gallery 2 (2009, Seoul, Korea), and Kumho Museum of Art (2007, Seoul, Korea). Her works also have been included at Kumho Museum of Art (2012, Seoul, Korea) Aando Fine Art (2010, Berlin, Germany), Alternative Space LOOP (2008, Seoul, Korea), Seoul Museum of Art (2008, Seoul, Korea), and Insa Art Space (2007, Seoul, Korea).

Pawel Bownik

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Bownik (b. 1977), photographer, graduate of the Poznań Academy of Fine Arts (Photography and Multimedia), holder of a scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2008).

He also studied philosophy. His photographical cycles are often developed for many years, on using wearisome and demanding technologies. Although some of his work can be read as an interesting anthropological study, his work is a very important area of image semantics, or reference to the experiences of historical photographs. Participated in numerous solo and collective shows e.g.: Dismantling (CK Zamek, Poznan 2013), A few practical ways to prolong one's life (Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warszawa 2013), View Point (Museum for Fotografie Huis Marseille, Amsterdam 2012), E-słodowy (Gallery Starter, Warszawa 2012), Gamers (Galeria m55, Ateny, 2011), Gamers (Fotofestiwal OUT OF LIFE , Łódź, 2011), Lucim żyje (CSW Toruń 2009). 

His works were aquired by several collections including Museum in Huis Marseille, Amsterdam; ING Polish Art Fondation. Bownik lives and works in Warsaw.

Zorka Wollny

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Born in 1980, visual artist.

She is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, she has a

PhD in Visual Arts. She is also a junior lecturer at the Academy of Arts in Szczecin.Her works function at the boundary between the theatre and visual arts and are strictly related to the architecture.

She collaborates – in a director-like mode – with musicians, actors and dancers and, every time with members of local communities too.She cooperates with the leading Polish modern art institutions: Zachęta Gallery, Museum of Art in Łódź, Wyspa Institute of Art, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum and the Ujazdowski Castle.

In 2007 she represented Poland at the European artists' exhibition in Brussels. She has twice held a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture, and has won the Eugeniusz Geppert Award for her achievements in painting.

In 2009 she was nominated to the Deutsche Bank Award for the best young artist, and was Artist of the Year of the Arteon art magazine in 2010.The jury wrote in the statement:
Zorka Wollny is a worthy successor of the first wave of artists that emerged in Poland after the great transformation of political system in 1989. She is an extremely interesting artist, most important aspects of her work being: intellectual liveliness, curiosity of the world, openness for cooperation and uncommon treatment of seemingly trivial subjects. Therefore, the art of Wollny is so difficult to pigeonhole – the artist smoothly moves among disciplines, making use of inspirational books. Moreover, she is devoted to the theatre, dance and music. The contact with others, conversations and flow of ideas is crucial for Wollny. So far, the work of Wollny has been categorized as feminist deconstruction of patriarchal codes of behavior or a criticism of the form of institution. Such perception of her art, nevertheless, does not do justice to her individuality and the specific aura that surrounds her.

Apart from the art exhibitions, she has participated in important musical festivals (Warsaw Autumn – International Festival of Contemporary Music, Audio Art Festival in Krakow) as well as theatrical events (International Ballet Meetings in Łódź, Malta Festival in Poznań). Her projects have also been presented in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

Robert Kusmirowski

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Robert Kuśmirowski (born 1973 in Łódź), is a Polish contemporary artist whose work includes sculpture, installations, performance and photography.

His work uses reconstruction of historical artefacts and settings to examine and manipulate historical themes. He lives and works in Lublin.

Slawomir Pawszak

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Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.

He is mainly interested in abstraction, but sometimes, on the contrary, he experiments with deeply realistic video or installation settings. He is the co-founder of Warsaw’s A Gallery and is engaged in the plein air activities of the Billy Gallery, internet gallery and artists collective.

In 2003-2008, Pawszak studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw. His Master's Degree exhibition was shown at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castel in Warsaw.

He participated in the Ain’t No Sorry group exhibition at the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art (2008). In 2012, he had a solo exhibition titled New Works at BWA Gallery in Zielona Góra, Poland.

Wojciech Bąkowski

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Born in 1979 in Poznan. Lives and works in Poznan.

Graduated at Audiosphere Studio at Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan in 2005. Visual artist, poet, musician. Author of animated movies, videos, audioperformances, alternative music, drawings and graphics. Co-founder of artistic group Penerstwo in 2007.Member of music bands: KOT, NIWEA. The chief editor of "Dusk", quarterly of literature and art.Winner of Deutsche Bank Prize “Views 2009” and “Paszport Polityki” Prize of Polityka Weekly in 2010.

Represented by Galeria Stereo, Poznań and Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam

Florian and Michael Quistrebert

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Born in France in 1982 and 1976, Florian and Michael Quistrebert graduated from Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Nantes.

Their work has been exhibited in several galleries and institutions in France (in Paris at Galerie Crevecoeur, FIAC, Fondation Ricard and Centre Pompidou; Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes; Domaine Departemental de Chamarande; LE Confort Moderne, Poitiers; 40MCube, Rennes), Europe (Glasgow Project Room; CARprojects, Bologna; Artissima Art Fair, Turin; Galerie Stadtpark, Vienna; PSM Gallery, Berlin; Cosart HMT, Düsseldorf) and the United States (in New York at Envoy Enterprises, International Studio and Curatorial Program; in Miami at Carol Jazzar Gallery, Frost Museum, Art Basel; Silverman Gallery, San Fransisco). In 2012, they also showed in Morocco at the 4th Arts in Marrakech Biennale, at Harris Lierberman in NYC,  Ellen de Bruijne Project in Amsterdam.

More recently, they were represented in artfairs in ARCO Madrid by Galerie Crèvecoeur and in Art Rotterdam by Juliette Jongma Gallery.They are currently exhibiting at Cosar HMT in Düsseldorf and at La Centrale in Brussels within the exhibition of the CNAP collection.

They will be soon part of group shows  in Grand Palais and Palais de Tokyo in Paris, at LACE in Los Angeles, at Mews Project Space in London, at New York Gallery in NYC and at Galerie Crèvecoeur with whom they'll also show works during Art Brussels. At last, the Quistreberts will have solo exhibitions at CARproject in Bologna (It), at Leto in Warsaw (Pl) and at Juliette Jongma Gallery in Amsterdam (Nl).

In 2009, they completed a one-year residency at Triangle Studios in New York and they are attending  since 2012 the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.

Jeremy Shaw

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Jeremy Shaw (Vancouver, 1977) is a Canadian artist based in Berlin. He works in a variety of media ranging from film and video installation to performance and sculpture. He has had solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, USA, and MOCCA, CAN, and been included in group exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum, NL, and Palais de Tokyo, FR. From 1999 until 2009, Shaw was also responsible for the underground electronic music project, Circlesquare. His upcoming solo exhibitions include Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.

Petrit Halilaj

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Petrit Halilaj was born in 1986 in Skenderaj (Kosovo), he lives and works in Kosovo and Berlin.  Upcoming: Kosovo Pavillion, Venice Biennale, curated by Kathrin Rhomberg, commissioned by Erzen Shkololli, Arsenale, Venice (2013); solo exhibition at WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels (2013); solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Prishtina, Prishtina (2013). Recent solo exhibitions include: “Who does the earth belong to while painting the wind?!”, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen (2012); Art Basel Statements with Chert, Berlin (2011); Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck (2011); "Back to the Future", Station,  Prishtina (2009); Chert, Berlin (2009). Selected group exhibitions include: “SUPER Visions”, group exhibition at Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau (2013); "New Public", Museion, Bolzano (2012); "30 Künstler 30 Räume", Kunstverein Nürnberg, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft (2012); Temoraneao, Nomas Foundation, Rome (2011); "Ernste Tiere", Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2011); "Ostalgia", New Museum, New York (2011); STRUKTUR & ORGANISMUS, Marillenhof – DestillerieKausl, Österreich (2011); "Maladresses ou La Figure de l’idiot", The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Paris (2010); "Based in Berlin", Atelierhaus Monbijoupark, Berlin (2011); 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2010).

Adrien Missika

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Born in 1981 in Paris, France, Adrien Missika graduated from ECAL in 2007.

He lives and works in Berlin.

MISSIKA, while playing with the viewers' expectations and biases, questions in a subtle way our relation to the world and its representation. He addresses both media and popular imageries, while paying a particular attention to the history of photography and the contemporary use of this media. The photographic image and the video are characterized by their link to the real. Usually documentary, they are tied to the very existence of objects, from which they give a direct and immediate print. Drawing from the registers of artificial scenery, comic books, science-fiction movies and postcards, Adrien MISSIKA is a great amateur of architecture and archaeology. His work deploys itself as a permanent investigation of in-between spaces, between fiction and reality. He retrieves pictures from his travels and mixes them with the ones he realizes in the studio, out of models made of basic materials and with the use of simple lighting. From his interest for movie scenery, ADRIEN MISSIKA draws lighting and trickery techniques.

He uses the process of picture making in order to propose to the viewer dream-like narrative. In the studio, he photographs a polystyrene asteroid which seems to come out a 50s movie, or a sunset on a plastic sea reminiscent of Federico Fellini movie tricks. From the modernist architectural utopias to the conquest of space, from the myths built by the first studios to science-fiction comic books, our prefabricated dream is here ironically replayed.

Neil Beloufa

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From 2004 to 2009, Neil Beloufa studied visual arts at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, at the Cooper Union in New York and at CalArts in Valencia. Since then his work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions (David Roberts Foundation, London 2011), Biennales (Young Artists’ Biennale, Bucharest 2010, and Manifesta 8 in Murcia 2010) as well as at film festivals (Film Festival Oberhausen 2008). For his work Kempinski he was awarded the ARTE prize for a European short film at the Oberhausener Short Film Festival 2008, the prize of the German foreign office for intercultural dialogue at the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück in 2008 and the Short Film Grand Prize at the IndieLisboa Filmfestival 2009. The Kunsthaus Glarus is showing the first solo exhibition of this artist in an institution. In his practice Neïl Beloufa demonstrates a persisting interest in dichotomies; reality and fiction, cause and effect, presence and absence, all of which he communicates through mediums ranging from sculpture, video, installation and conceptual photography. Through his construction of dichotomies Neïl Beloufa is able to deconstruct our perceived ideas of truth and fantasy, thus posing fantasy as truth. His works relies on our relations to exoticism, authority, cultural hierarchies in a wikipedian era he considers hypereel. Neïl Beloufa himself dubs some of his work as “ethnological sci-fi documentary”.

Edgardo Aragon

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Edgardo Aragón received a B.A. in Fine Arts from the ENPEG la Esmeralda, Mexico City.

His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at various institutions including the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC), Mexico City; MoMA P.S.1, New York; and the Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. His work has also been included in various group exhibitions including Resisting the Present, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2012); Disponible: A Kind of Mexican Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (2011); Historias Fugaces, Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijon, Spain (2011); and El horizonte del topo, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgim (2010).

His work was also included in the 3rd Moscow Biennial of Young Artists, the 12th Istanbul Biennial, and the 8th Mercosur Biennial.

His films have been screened in film festivals in Werkletiz, Marseille, and Mexico City.

He currently lives and works in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Teatro Ojo

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Teatro Ojo is an artistic collective from Mexico City founded in 2002.

It begun its artistic practice raising a question about the different ways, angles, viewpoints involved in the production of the subjective, spectatorial gaze.

After working more closely in a theatrical format during the early years, it has moved to different artistic practices experimenting fields such as performance art, art intervention, urban interventionism, installation art, site-specific art, among others, within the frame of what has been called in recent years as the expanded theatrical scene.

Teatro Ojo members come from different academic and artistic disciplines such as architecture, political science, literature, mathematics, and performing arts.

In 2011, Teatro Ojo won the golden medal in the architecture field in the Prague's Quadriennal of Performance Design and Space for "Within a failed state" gathering together works from 2007-2011.

In the last years they have produced different works with the sponsor of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), and the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA).

They were selected to participate in the Belluard Bollwerk Festival at Fribourg, Switzerland in year 2012 producing the project "Ponte en mi pellejo (Xipe Tótec)".

Current members are: Héctor Bourges, Karla Rodríguez, Laura Furlan, Patricio Villarreal Ávila, Jorge Pérez Escamilla, Gisela Cortés & Emanuel Bourges.

Fritzia Irizar

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(Born in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico 1977.

Lives and works in Culiacan.)Studied Fine Arts in “La Esmeralda” Mexico City and Sculpture in Kalamazoo Institute of Arts in Michigan, USA.

She has won a scholarship for Casa Velázquez (Velazquez House) in Madrid, Spain, the Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes (State fund for Culture and Arts) three times, and won three times the Young artists FONCA (National Found for Culture and Arts) scholarship in Mexico City.Won the international “Unión latina a la creación joven” (Latin union for young creators) award, the “Antonio López Saenz” State Award, and the Sinaloa State photography award.

She has exhibited in places like Germany, NY, Belgium, France, Spain, London and Mexico and has participated in various shows in galleries and museums such as, Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual, MUCA-ROMA, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Centro Cultural de España, Museo de Querétaro, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Aguascalientes, amongst others.In the last couple of years Irizar has been commissioned and exhibited by the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation in Miami, FL. USA, awarded by the Bancomer-Carrillo Gil art fund and the Bienal de Artes Visuales del Noroeste (Visual Arts Biennial of the Northwest), shown in the re-opening exhibit at the Tamayo Museum in Mexico City and done the artist in residence, AIR KREMS in Austria.

Manuel Mathar

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Manuel Mathar was born in Merida, Yucatan on August 9, 1973.

Has presented five solo exhibitions and participated in over 100 group exhibitions in major museums in the country. He has exhibited in countries like France, the U.S., Belgium, Honduras and Argentina. He has been a fellow of Young Artists in two tranches and is now part of the National System of Art Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts. He belongs to several public and private collections, including the collection of the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC), Museum of Contemporary Art in Saint-Etienne in France, Regional Museum of the City of Queretaro, Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca and Pinacoteca de Nuevo Leon.

In 2002 he won the prize acquisition of the Fifth Biennial of Young Art in Monterrey Mexico, in 2008 was the winner of Tamayo Biennale and in 2010 he won the First Prize for Painting Contest Golden Arches Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Since 1997 is member of the group Lichis, a group of experimental music and video, who has participated in solo and group exhibitions and presentations in different countries like Mexico, France, the U.S. and Colombia.

Presently living in Mexico City.

Yvonne Venegas

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Yvonne Venegas is a graduate of the certification program at the International Center of Photography in New York and received her MFA at University of California San Diego.

She has shown her work individually and in group shows throughout the US, Mexico, Poland, Spain, France and Canada, including the Exhibition Strange New World: Art and Design from Tijuana, Embarrassment of riches at eh Nerman Art Museum, and individually in Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, Casa de America in Madrid, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Diaz Contemporary Gallery in Toronto and recently Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City.

She was awarded top honors for the series The most Beautiful Brides of Baja California at the prestigious, tenth annual Bienal de Fotografía, organized by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the stART up Award from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and in 2010 she received the Magnum expression Award, given by the renowned photography agency Magnum, as well as the Sistema Nacional de Creadores Grant by the Mexican Cultural Fund.

Her work is part of collections in the US, France and Mexico, including the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary art San Diego, Fundación Televisa, Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City and The San Francisco Moma. In 2010 she published Maria Elvia de Hank and Inedito in 2012, both by the editorial house RM.

Her photographic work explores issues of class, gender and personal representation in accordance to a participation in a specific class structure.

Yvonne now lives and works in Mexico City.

Franka Kassner

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Franka Kaßner is a German artist based in Leipzig and Munich.

She works in a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, video and installation.

She studied under Professor Olaf Metzel at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, from which she graduated in 2006.

Since 2007, Franka Kaßner has been represented by Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, where she also had her last three solo shows „Wohnhaft“ (2007), „Heimatabend“ (2009) and „Dumpfer Winkel“ (2011).

Furthermore, Franka Kaßner has participated in numerous group shows in Germany and abroad, among others „LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT“ (5. Cetinje Biennale, Montenegro, 2004), „e-flux video rental“ (KunstWerke, Berlin, 2005), „Made in Germany“ (Sprengel Museum/ Kestner Gesellschaft, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, 2007), „Perspektive 07“ (Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 2007), „Happy House oder die kleine Reparatur der Welt“ (Kunsthalle Düsseldorf KIT, Düsseldorf, 2009), „Der offene Garten“ (Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, 2010), „Perverted Minimalism Nr. 3“ (The Woodmill, London, 2011), and „Es gibt... Reflexionen aus einem beschädigten Leben“ (b-05, Montabaur, 2012).Last year, Franka Kaßner’s video work „Was bleibt!“ was acquired by Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and became a part of the permanent collection.

Sophie Bueno Boutellier

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Sophie Bueno-Boutellier (*1974 in Toulouse, France) lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

She has recently been showing in solo exhibitions at Circus, Berlin (2012), Kunstverein Langenhagen (2011) and Freymond-Guth, Zurich (2011).

Recent group exhibitions include ‘The Possessed’, Triangle France, Marseille, ‘Archéologie(s)’, Musée du château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard (2012), ‘Lumière Noire’, Staatliche Kunsthalle zu Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe (2011) and ‘L’image cabrée’, Fondation d’Entreprise Prix Ricard, Paris (2009).

In May this year, she will have her debut presentation in New York at Frieze Frame with Circus, Berlin, followed by a group exhibition with The Approach, London in summer.

Nina Canell

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Nina Canell was born 1979 in Växjö, Sweden, educated in Dublin, Ireland, and lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Solo exhibitions include Tendrils at the Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin; Lautlos at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart Berlin; Nina Canell: Into the Eyes as Ends of Hair at Cubitt Gallery, London; Odes to outer Ends, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; To Let Stay Projecting…, MUMOK, Vienna; and Nought to Sixty at ICA, London.

Recent group exhibitions include Intense Proximity at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the 2010 Liverpool Biennale and Manifesta 7 - European Biennale of Contemporary Art. Nina Canell received the Baloise Kunst Prize at Art Basel Statements in 2009 and Ars Viva Kunst Prize in 2010

Alberto Tadiello

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Alberto Tadiello (b. 1983 in Montecchio Maggiore, Vicenza, Italy) graduated from IUAV University of Venice in 2007.

His work has been featured in many solo and group shows in Italy and abroad, including: “T2 Torino Triennale – 50 lune di Saturno”, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2008; “X Initiative”, New York, 2009; “Science versus Fiction”, Bétonsalon – Centre d’art et de recherche, Paris, 2009; “SI Sindrome Italiana”, Le Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, 2010; “Italian Art To Be Listened To”, NCCA – National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, 2011; “Experimental Station”, CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, 2011; “Terre vulnerabili”, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, 2011; “Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art”, ZKM – Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 2012, “HIGH GOSPEL”, Villa Croce Museum, Genova.

In 2009 he won the 7th Premio Furla, and in 2011 received the New York Prize. He has taken part in various residency programs, organized by Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art (Paris), Gasworks International Residency Programme (London), Villa Arson (Nice), HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme (Helsinki), Viafarini (Milan), and ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program (New York). His work has been presented by T293 (Naples/Rome) in the “Present Future” section of the Artissima International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin and at “Art Public”, Art | 41 | Basel (2010).

Nezaket Ekici

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Nezaket Ekici is born 1970 in Kirsehir/ Turkey.

She lives in Germany since 1973, From 1994-200 she study Art Pedagogy, Art History, Sculpture at Ludwig-Maximilians-University and Fine Arts Academy Munich and got her Degree in M.A. in Art Pedagogy.

From 2001-2004 she study Performance Art by Prof. Dr. Marina Abramovic at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Braunschweig. She got her Degree in Fine Arts and MFA Degree.

She has been presenting her work in national and international solo exhibitions since 2000 (Selection):Galeria Valeria Belvedere , Milan (2002); Proje 4L Artvarium, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art (2005): Goethe Institut Madrid, (2005); DNA Gallery Berlin (2006) ; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (2007); U2 Alexanderplatz Berlin (2007); Gallery TPW, Toronto Canada (2008); DNA Galerie Berlin (2008) ; Kunstmuseum Heidenheim (2009); Claire Oliver Gallery NYC (2009) ; Goethe Institut Madrid, Ankara (2009); Kunstverein Friedrichshafen (2010); DNA Galerie Berlin (2010); Marta Herford (2011); Städtische Galerie Bremen (2011); PI ART WORKS Istanbul (2012); Braverman Gallery Tel Aviv (2012); De Bond, Cultuurcentrum Brugge (2013); Städtische Gallery Ostfildern (DE) (2013)

She has been presenting her work in national and international group exhibitions since 2000: (Selection): Museum Haus der Kunst , München (2000), Fondation Antonio Ratti Como (2000), The Irish Museum of Modern art, Dublin (2001), 25. May Museum Belgrade (2001); PAC Milano (2002), Museo Centro Galego de Arte Contemporànea Santiago de Compostela (2002), The Women's Art Festival 5 th Internationalin Aleppo, Syria (2003), the 50. Venice Biennale (2003), 4th International Performancefestival Odense/ Dänemark, P.S.1 New York (2004), Art Fair ART FORUM Berlin, ART FRANKFURT (2004), An International Festival of Performance Art, Boston/ USA (2004), Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam (2005); Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, (2005); Proje 4L Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, (2006); FOI#3 International Performance Art Event, Singapore (2006); The Armory Show, NY (2006); Galerie Feigen Contemporary NY (2006); Venice Biennale (2007); Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (2007); Venice Biennale (2007); Into me out of me Kunstwerke Berlin (2007): Triennale Bovisa Museum, Milano, (2008), Expo Zaragossa (2008), Museum for Moderne Kunst Arnheim (2009), 5th Latin-American Biennal of Visual Arts Vento Sul, Curitiba, Brasil (2009), Kunstverein Friedrichshafen (2010) The First Mediterranean Biennial of Contemporary Art , Haifa(2010); Museum Alex Mylona, Athen (2010) , Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Viena (2010); Mardin Biennale (2010); Cobra Museum Amsterdam (2011), ZKM Karlsruhe (2011), Villa Empain Foundation Brüssel (2011), Istanbul Modern (2011); ICAS Singapore (2012); Esjberg Kunstmuseum Kopenhagen (2012): Museum Bojimans Van Beuningen Rotterdam (2012); Centre of Contemporary Art Torun (2012); Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg (2012); Arts Council of Princeton , New Jersey (2012); White Box (Munich 2013); Soho 20 Chelsea Gallery NYC (2013); Bahrain National Museum (2013); Maison de la Catalanité Perpignan (2013); Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery/Sun Yat Sen Hall, St. John’s University , NYC (2013)

She got different Sholarships, Grants and Awards (Selection):Projectgrant from Karin Abt Straubinger Stiftung (2010); Arbeitststipendium Bildende Kunst von Berliner Senat (2010); Bursary for FADA International Artists’ Residencies Toronto (2008); Art award U2 Alexanderplatz Berlin (2007); Arbeitsstipendium Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg (2006); Bursary for Artist Residencies in BM Contemporary Art Center Istanbul (2005); Arbeitstsipendium Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn (2005); Bursary for Artists’ Residencies Künstlerhäuser Worpswede (2004); GASAG Art award Berlin (2004); Artists’ and Authors’ Bursary by the Else-Heiliger-Fonds, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (2002); Culture Academy Tarabya Residency Istanbul (2013/2014)

Project grants by Goethe Instittut International since 2001 are: Mailand (2001); Damaskus (2003) Madrid (2005); Los Angeles (2006), Jakarta (2007), Amsterdam (2007), Istanbul (2008), Tiflis (2009), Ankara (2009), Athen (2010), Vietnam (2010); Thessaloniki (2010); Ghana (2012);

Nezaket Ekici Performances, Installations, and Videos are inspired by her double culture german and turkish; or related to art history context, or she takes inspiration from daily live situation.

Hiroyuki Masuyama

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Hiroyuki Masuyama attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music from 1987–93 where he specialised in oil and mural painting.

He received a DAAD scholarship for the Academy of the Arts in Düsseldorf, Germany (1995–99) and subsequently studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne until 2001.

He was born in 1968, in Tsukuba City, Japan and currently lives in Düsseldorf.

Matsuyama's recent solo exhibitions have been held at Mikkeli Art Museum, Finland (2010), Studio la Città, Verona, Italy (2010), and the Louis Vuitton Cultural Space, Hong Kong, (2010). His work has also been shown in group exhibitions at Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria (2010), Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany (2009) and Inter Alia Art Company, Seoul, Korea(2008).

Paolo Chiasera

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Paolo Chiasera (born 1978) lives and works in Berlin.

Chiasera is fascinated by History, Art theory, philosopy and post-philosophycalmyths, exploring these disciplines in order to construct an artwork as complex system of sense and conceptual opposition to the dominant"effect" of culture industry.

Recently he published online a book titled "Painting 1 analysis and convergences"about the history of painting in the last hundred years and "thehorizon after commodity, notes on perversion", presented at BergenKunsthall as reflection on art practice at the decline of capitalism.

Joris Van de Moortel

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Joris Van de Moortel (Oostakker, Belgium, °1983)

Joris Van de Moortel seeks and destroys. Working on and on, adding layers to a consistent oeuvre witch explores all media relevant to what Van de Moortel is heading on. Though the work reveals a great understanding and particular view on today’s every day life and society from bottom to top and back again, like in a consistent loop, ever changing, ever returning, Van de Moortel claims to work from his stomach, listening to the moment, the straight adrenaline of performing.

Van de Moortel just returned from a 1 year residence at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, to his Antwerp based home and studio.

Xiang YANG

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Xiang Yang (Chinese, b.1967) was born and raised in China and moved to the United States in 1998.

He has exhibited works at venues including Museum of Art and Design (NYC), Scope Miami, Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia), Art Alliance (Philadelphia), and National Art Museum of China (Beijing).

Xiang was chosen as the most obsessive artist of 2007 in Philadelphia Citypaper “Choice Award 07”. And his work is in the permanent collection of National Art Museum of China.

Now Xiang has lived and worked both in New York and Beijing.

Nicolas Provost

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Nicolas Provost's work reflects on the grammar of cinema, the human condition in our collective film memory and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience.

His films provoke both recognition and alienation and succeed in catching our expectations into an unravelling game of mystery and abstraction. With manipulations of time, codes and form, cinematographic and narrative language are sculpted into new stories.

In 2003 Nicolas Provost (born in Ronse, Belgium) moved back to Belgium after a 10 years stay in Norway. He now lives and works in New York.

Solo exhibitions include The Seattle Art Museum, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp and Haunch of Venison London and Berlin. His work has been acquired by major museums including the Birmingham Museum, SMAK Gent and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Belgium. His work has earned a long list of awards and screenings at prestigious festivals including The Sundance Film Festival, The Venice Film Festival, The Berlinale, The San Sebastian Film Festival and The Locarno Film Festival.

His critically acclaimed first feature film 'The Invader' had it's world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2011.

Jan Van Imschoot

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Jan Van Imschoot is born in Ghent Belgium in 1963.

He studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent.Since 1995 he participates in exhibitions worldwide. Such as “How to Sell your wife” New York, “Not enough brains to survive” Ghent, “The misantropical chachacha” Berlin and “The first worldwide presentation of Anarcho-Barocque” Los Angeles.

His works actualizes historical facts and puts parts of actuality in a historical frame.

Samira Yamin

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Yamin lives and works in Los Angeles.

Samira Yamin’s work deals primarily with the narrativization and representation of war through an interrogation of documentary war photography. Using various techniques -- recontextualization within or as pattern, seemingly incessant repetition or hand-cut deconstruction -- to sublimate, and ultimately to emphasize, such images, her work investigates the fraught relationship of war photography to systems of knowledge production, such as TIME Magazine, as well as to the individual viewer.

Yamin received an MFA from University of California, Irvine, and dual BAs in art and sociology from University of California, Los Angeles. A 2012 Headlands Center for the Arts Artist in Residence, Yamin’s first solo show, We Will Not Fail, was at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and she has a forthcoming two-person exhibition at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles.

Rossella Biscotti

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Born in Molfetta, Italy (1978) and lives and works in Amsterdam.

Rossella Biscotti’s artistic oeuvre encompasses videos, photographs and occasionally sculptures. They often illuminate the history and stories about people who become a source of reflection on individual or collective identity and memory.

In Biscotti’s art, the starting point of a work is always a social or political event, possibly one in the distant past, which the artist encounters e.g. in the form of documentation or a newspaper snippet and subsequently investigates meticulously.

Biscotti employs her works to transpose these found documents in a subtle interplay between concealed or multiple identities, fiction and reality, and overlapping layers of time.

Veronica Brovall

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Born in Falun, Sweden 1975, Veronica Brovall lives and works in Berlin.

Brovall has participated with sculptures and collages in numerous group exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States. Solo shows have taken place at institutions such as Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden, Kunstverein Schwerin, Sint Lukas Gallery, Brussels, Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen and in galleries such as Rod Bianco, Oslo, Arndt & partner, Berlin, and Tatjana Pieters, Ghent. In April 2012 Brovall curated the exhibition ‘Larger than Life’, with Thomas Hirschhorn, Marcus Steinweg and herself, at Galleri 21 in Malmö, Sweden.

She has recently shown her ceramic works at U37- Raum für Kunst, Berlin, Norrtälje Konsthall, Sweden and Hopstreet, Brussels. She was invited by Jan Hoet to participate at the Western International Art Biennial Yinchuan, China 2012

Brovall has achieved several prices and grants and she is represented with larger sculptures in collections like Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, USA and Malmö konstmuseum, Sweden.

Michal Budny

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Born 1976 in Leszno. Works and lives in Warsaw.

By using the simplest tools and materials – predominantly paper and cardboard – Michal Budny creates formally restrained models not only of objects, places and situations, but also of phenomena which do not have a fixed material form, such as voice, memory, rain or a ray of sunlight. The meticulously constructed tiny objects and sculptures, as well as the monumental installation or site-specific works by

Budny function as an echo of the reality and are at the same time a discreet story about transitoriness, the fading away of the contents with the paper, empty forms and shapes whose sense is difficult to decipher due to the passing of time and their removal in space.

Because of the modesty of his material and the freehand nature of the constructions, these works seem to be especially close and homely. They give form and meaning to that which we would previously consider as empty space. In this sense, Budny's activities are a poetic interpretation of the architecture around us and the ways in which life fills it with meaning.

Koenraad Dedobbeleer

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Koenraad Dedobbeleer, born in Halle, Belgium - 1975, raised and still living in Brussels, where he spents an important part of his time with his wife, the no less than brilliant artist Valérie Mannaerts, and their wonderful daughter Claude Konrad Mannaerts.

Dedobbeleer is deeply in love with the first but can't help but be amazed by the latter.

He is an visual artist by profession and remains an amateur publisher, one time editor and an occasional curator; if asked at certain ones. But more often that interrogation would lead to jobless, irresponsible, poor devil, arrogant bastard for an answer. "Ceterum censeo NATO delendam esse" would nonetheless should be the only sensible response, although it seems to be beside the question

Jonathan Horowitz

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Since the early 1990s, Jonathan Horowitz (b. New York, 1966) has made art that combines the imagery and ambivalence of Pop art with the engaged criticality of conceptualism.

2012 his installation Your Land/My Land: Election ’12, was staged a seven museums in the US to coincide with the presidential campaign. At each location, red and blue carpets divided the exhibition space into opposing zones, reflecting America’s political dichotomy, and back-to-back monitors simultaneously broadcast live feeds of Fox News and MSNBC (Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City; Telfair Museums, Savannah; and New Museum, New York).
Other major solo shows include minimalist works from the holocaust museum, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, 2010-11; Jonathan Horowitz: And/Or, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2009; Apocalypto Now, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2009; Jonathan Horowitz/Silent Movie/MATRIX 151, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 2003; and Time, Life, People: Jonathan Horowitz at Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2001. In 2012 he co-curated (with Alison Gingeras) We Are The People, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York.

Horowitz has been included in numerous key group exhibitions of recent years including Paparazzi, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France, 2013; Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007; Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, 2007; The Eighth Square: Gender, Life, and Desire in the Visual Arts Since 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2006. A comprehensive catalogue was published on the occasion of Jonathan Horowitz: And/Or in 2009.

Jonathan Horowitz lives and works in New York.

Thomas Helbig

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Thomas Helbig (born 1967 in Rosenheim, Germany) lives and works in Berlin and Munich.

Although he trained primarily as a painter (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and Goldsmiths College, London 1989-1996), Thomas Helbig’s artistic practice typically incorporates various disciplines, with equal emphasis on each, including sculpture, drawing and painting, to describe manifestations of an alternate reality.

As a point of departure for the production of many of his works, Helbig sourced existing materials and twee craftworks from flea markets and thrift stores. These found objects then function as frameworks within which to suspend a range of painterly gestures and sculpted forms; Helbig energetically deconstructs and reconstructs the objects, abolishing the original form and quality of halcyon otherworldliness, to create assemblages within a new place or parallel world.

The resulting works are strange hybrids that exist in relation to one another in their mutated states, while simultaneously contradicting their barely concealed allusion to the idyllic.

Vaast Colson

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Vaast Colson takes advantage of installations, performances, actions and interventions to create a space wherein form can be originated.

His job is determined by the circumstances, the location or by the audience. This audience can be an art lover or a passerby.

The content of his work is subtle, generous and engaging. Intense physical or mental efforts are often part of it. His only dedication is the process based on the signification.

Therefore the ultimate image or product is a composed document: a sculpture, a movie, a photograph or installation.

Katinka Bock

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Katinka Bock (born in Francfort, 1976)

2012-13 residency at Villa Medici Rome recent prices: Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis of Kunstmuseum Bonn 2012 and Prix Ricard 2012 ParisUpcoming solo shows at Mamco Geneva, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, Meyer Riegger Berlin and Galerie Jocelyn Wolff ParisPrior solo shows at Culturgest Lisbon, De Vleeshal Middelburg, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and Kunstverein Nürnberg

Recent projects at Colossal Osnabrücker Land, Biennale de Lyon, Carré d'art de Nîmes and Public Artfond New York

Guillaume Leblon

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Born in Lille, France in 1971, Guillaume Leblon lives and works in Paris. He attended the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts,Lyon, France and graduated in 1997 with honors.

He was awarded a residency at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam in 1999 and 2000. In 2008 he was in residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York. In 2011 Leblon was a nominee for the Prix Marcel Duchamp.

The artist is represented by Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, ProjecteSD, Barcelona and Carlier/Gebauer, Berlin.

Leblon’s work is in prestigious museum collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon and has been featured in solo exhibitions at numerous international venues, including MASS MoCA in North Adams, USA, the Musée de Sérignan, Sérignan, France (2012); The Suburban & The Poor Farm Experiment, Wisconsin, (2011); Fondation Paul Ricard, Paris, (2011); MUDAM, Luxembourg (2009); Centre d’art contemporain Culturgest, Porto, Portugal (2008) Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2008); Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium (2008) Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2006) Centre d’art contemporain, Ivry-sur-Seine, France FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon (2004).

Kristin Grey Apple

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Kristin Grey Apple is a Philadelphia-based video artist.

She investigates the vertigo involved in being a body in a larger world of bodies. She received her MFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and her BA in Studio Art from Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina.

She has participated in USA solo and group exhibitions, including shows at The Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania, Pterodactyl Gallery, Osvaldo Romberg Studio, Walter & Leonore Annenberg Gallery, Gallery 8 and Gallery 128 at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Van Every Gallery in North Carolina.

In 2011, she received the Eagles and Eagles Award from the Graduate Faculty at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and was one of three artists selected during the Third Annual Fourth Wall Panel Review at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Evariste Richer

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Evariste Richer was born in Montpellier (France) in 1969 and lives and works in Paris.

Currently he has a solo exhibition, Le Grand Elastique, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (France) and a solo exhibition, Continuum, at Meessen De Clercq in Brussels (Belgium). He prepares a commissioned work for FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (PACA) in Marseille for 2013.

Upcoming group exhibitions are Paint it Black at FRAC Île de France, Paris (France) and La Fabrique des Possibles at FRAC PACA, Marseille (France).

In 2012 he had a soloshow, Substrat, at the Centre international d’art et du paysage in Vassivière (France), participated in the group exhibition Les Dérives de l’imaginaire at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (France) and was shown at Art Basel Miami Beach (USA) by Meessen De Clercq. Other past personal exhibitions include Cumulonimbus capillatus incus at Collège des Bernardins, Paris (France) (2011), Caesium at Kunstverein Braunschweig (Germany) (2010) and La Rétine at La Galerie, Centre d’art, Noisy-le-Sec (France) (2007), amongst others.

Evariste Richer is represented by Meessen De Clercq, Brussels and Schleicher+Lange, Berlin.

Thomas Bogaert

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Thomas Bogaert (°1967 Belgium/ lives and works in Ghent) studied animation film at KASK Gent under the auspices of Raoul Servais, the Belgian pioneer of animation film.

Among other, his first works of art consisted of subtle film loops projected on postcards. His fascination for both the capturing of moving images and the freezing of images in an object, culminated in a distinct individual oeuvre of drawings, collages, movies and objects. 'The Superfast Series', a film loop presented at SMAK Ghent in 2003, is without a doubt one of his most renown works of art. In this double projection miniature Matchbox cars tear along on the beat of a compelling soundtrack. It is a trip at the top of its speed, hip and nostalgic at the same time.

In 2011 Thomas Bogaert presented 'On The Way To The Peak Of Ecstasy' at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle (BE): a movie installation, objects and an artist book that were inspired by a road trip in California (USA).

Recently the artist traveled to Zermatt (Switzerland) where he made Super8 captions that will inspire a new series of works.

Wesley Meuris

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Born in Lier, Belgium, in 1977. Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.

Wesley Meuris was educated in fine arts in Brussels and Antwerp. In the early nineties he started to make architectural models which then quickly gave way to full-scale constructions. Sanitary features were titled according to their function : Urinal (2002), Footbath (2004), Swimming Pool (2004). In 2006 Meuris published Zoological Classification, an inventory not just of animals, but significantly of the modes of their exhibition.

Meuris subsequently built several enclosures, defined as structures for the display of specific species. Inspired by the German architect Ernst Neufert’s classic Bauentwurflehre (1936) about rationalisation through standardisation and prescriptive types in architecture, his recent work reflects both a fascination with and a critical stance towards zoo and museum architecture which he sees as epitomatic of “show society” and the “entertainment industry”. Meuris’ sculptures create both ideal spaces for their imaginary inhabitant and appear as ultra-modern tools of confinement.

One of the essential aspects of his work is the discovery and visualisation of the human tendency to desire, meaning, diffusion and its derivatives, in all forms of architecture in which language is undoubtedly the dominant structure. Meuris objectifies human language and its taxonomy; he communicates this architecture as an abstract spatial datum, thus revealing its enormous impact. He seems to have found an interesting answer to our desire for information and communication, in many cases it is the phobia of assigning a name. The physical form of information has become the true – because it is tangible – form of communication.

Harm van den Dorpel

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Harm van den Dorpel (born 1981 in Zaandam, The Netherlands) is a Berlin-based conceptual artist known for investigating the aesthetic hierarchy of contemporary (digital) culture in relation to art history.

His practice includes sculpture, collage, animation and websites. He is often dubbed a key figure of Post-Internet art

Paul Kneale

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Paul Kneale is an artist based in London. He received his MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2011. He tweets @paulkneale and is currently a Lecturer in Kunst & Medien at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. He's co-director of the London project space Library+ and has recently presented his works and writing with Lima Zulu London, 7th Berlin Biennale, Auto Italia, Plaza Plaza, Arcadia Missa, Frieze magazine, White Cube publications and others.

Juliette Bonneviot

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Juliette Bonneviot (b. 1983, Paris, France) graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2008, she lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include 'Shanghai Gesture 2', Wilkinson Gallery, London (2012); 'Pumping Dancers' CEO, Malmö (2012). Recent and current group exhibitions include 'Analogital', Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City (2013), 'The Dark Cube', Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); 'Very abstract and really figurative', Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (2012); 'entrance entrance', Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (2012). Upcoming group exhibitions and events include 'False Optimism', Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2013), 'The Mediterranean Dog', Cole, London (2013) and 'Nostalgia for Something We Never Even Had', Space, London (2013)

Holly White

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Holly White Bio Holly is an artist living and working in London. She makes sculpture, videos, vlogs, games and websites, among other projects. She is also one half of dance music project Goth Tech.

Marlie Mul

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Marlie Mul (1980, NL) is currently based in Berlin. She graduated from the Architectural Association in London with an MFA in Architectural Theory, and has a degree in Fine Arts Department from the Academy of Fine arts in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Marlie Mul is one of the initiators of the online artists PDF publishing platform www.xym.no and teaches at the Architectural Association in London. Recent solo exhibitions are “Boneless Banquet for One” at Croy Nielsen in Berlin, “So We Came Anyway, In Barrels” at Fluxia in Milan, “No Oduur” at Space in London, “No Oduur (Your Smoke Draws Me In)” at Oslo10 in Basel, and “Stop Being So Attractive I Can’t Get Anything Done” at Autocenter in Berlin. Recent group exhibitions are “Great Offers” (with Morag Keil) at CEO Gallery in Malmo, “Net Narrative” at Carlos Ishikawa in London, “Grouped Show” at Tanya Leighton Gallery in Berlin, and “The Smart Frrridge (Chilly Forecast for Internet Fridge)” at Kunstverein Medienturm in Graz.

Uri Nir

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Ur Nir b. 1976, Israel.

Lives and works in Tel Aviv.

Uri Nir's large-scale installations incorporate organic matter, constructed objects, video and photography. Instilling a sense of ambiguity between the art object and its location, Nir's work provokes a feeling of dislocation. His work explores the way that 'form is determined by matter', a fascination that leads to projects that seemingly submerge the exhibition space with layers and piles of shifting, borderless materials, such as sand. In these alternative, almost intangible landscapes, Nir's pieces investigate the rippling effect of a disturbed aesthetic.

Sharon Poliakine

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Professor Sharon Poliakine (b. 1964, Israel) is a painter and print maker. In recent years she has also been creating sculptural objects, relating to her two dimensional works. She started her artistic career as a Master Printer at the Jerusalem Print Workshop, and is considered one of the top Israeli experts in the field of print. Poliakine has been involved in art education in Israel for many years. She has established and taught at print workshops at a variety of schools, including Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design and the University of Haifa. Poliakine was recently appointed head of the Haifa School of the Arts at the University of Haifa. The Haifa School of the Arts is a new school in the culturally diverse city of Haifa, known for being a home to both Arabs and Jews. Therefore, headed by Poliakine, the school focuses on the complexities of the cultural dialogue and the possibilities of joint creation in different mediums. In recent years Poliakine has been represented by one of Israel's leading galleries, Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv, where she has exhibited four solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions. In 2011 she exhibited a large scale solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as the recipient of the prestigious Rappaport Prize for an Established Israeli Painter. In 2012 she exhibited a large scale solo exhibition at the Ashdod Art Museum, curated by Mr. Yona Fisher.

Masha Yozefpolsky

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Masha Yozefpolsky was born in Leningrad. FSU. 1964. She lives and works in Tel Aviv. The body of Masha Yozefpolsky’s interdisciplinary work concentrates mainly on installations, comprising of video-performance, sound, matter, and reflective poetry. Her oeuvre is a critical elegy, investigating social, political and psycho-physical conditions, while dealing with dream realm, memory and identity. Exploring perceptions of home, dis-placement and disorientation, the psycho-physical environments that Yozefpolsky exposes function as mental maps that draw limitless circular routs of sober urge that resemble a cerebral forest of nerves emerged in empiric disorientation that undermines any rational interpretation.

Pavel Wolberg

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Pavel was born at 1966 in Leningrad USSR now St.Petersburg and came to Israel as a school student . Studied photography in Tel Aviv ''Camera obscura''school of art. From 1997-2010 he worked as a photo journalist . Since 2010 he is working on artistic and documentary projects in former Soviet Union countries Ethiopia and Israel.

Guy Bar-Amotz

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Guy Bar Amotz was born Kibbutz Ma’abarot, Israel in 1967. He has lived and worked in London, UK since 1996. Bar Amotz has been active as an artist since his graduation from the Bezallel Academy of Art & Design (Bachelor of Fine Arts), Jerusalem (1994). In 1997 Bar-Amotz graduated from the Master of Fine Arts course at Goldsmith’s College, London (supported by a full scholarship from the British Council). During 1998-9 he participated in the Two Year Residency Programme at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Bar-Amotz’s projects have been commissioned by art spaces such as The Israel Museum (Jerusalem), Tate Britain (London), CCA (Geneva), Project (Dublin) the Ein-Harod Museum, the Stedelijk Museum's Bureau (Amsterdam), Kwangju Biennale (South Korea), The Biennale of Sydney 1998, The Ikon Gallery (Birmingham UK), Fuori Uso (Italy), Saitama Museum of Modern Art (Japan), The Trade Apartment and the APT (London), W139 (Amsterdam), fashion house W’s show room (Antwerp), and Transport for London’s “Platform for Art” (London). Between 1997 to 2004, Bar-Amotz collaborated with London-based choreographer Jasmin Vardimon; including video and media design for Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company’s most successful projects: "Lullaby", "Park", "Justitia" and "Yesterday""7734" and "Freedom". Bar-Amotz is currently associate director and dramaturge for the Company’s new productions (shown at London’s Sadler’s Wells theatre). Bar-Amotz has been profiled in books and publications focussing on his work at the ‘99 Sydney Biennale, ‘97 & ‘99 Israeli Biennales, ‘95 Kwangju Biennale, Sungkok Museum (Seoul), IKON (UK), Fuori Uso (Italy), and W< (Antwerpen), Saitama Museum of Modern Art (Japan), FlashArt (Itally) and Art Forum (US), Contemporary (UK), ID (UK), TimeOut (London).

Stela Vasileva

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The works of Stela Vasileva include photography, installation, video and drawings. They are all ‘formal’ investigations into Bulgarian social realities. The complex apparatus fascinates her. In her works, the artist transfers the sober objects into abstraction while at the same time labour as well goes through aesthetic transformation. Stela Vasileva affords the aesthetical luxury to view labour not socially critically but contemplatively, like a hypnotic stare at its “natural” essence. Admitting the endless cycle of labour from a still artistic position brings more impact than a critical work would do.

Ivan Moudov

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Ivan Moudov graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia. By taking action and risks into the public space he became one of the most interesting artists of his generation. Dressed up as a Bulgarian traffic cop he “regulated” the traffic at intersections in Austria and Greece. Then he made the opposite just a few years later when he blocked two roundabouts in Austria and Germany with the help of friends (14:13 and 9 Minutes Priority). This attitude of working along the edge of law, the ability in exploring roles and power relations, and the need to go beyond the protected confines of the art institutions made him an artist difficult to categorize. Some people think of Ivan Moudov as a thief, others - as a manipulator. He had been stealing segments from other artists’ artworks (Fragments); he faked the opening of a Museum of Contemporary Art in a train station in Sofia (MUSIZ). Some know him as a Museum Director; others recognize him as an art collector especially after he learned the street-wise trick for how to earn money by destroying coins. With the proceeds he started his own collection (The Romanian Trick). He doesn’t like to be described through the roles he has been taking but roles and rules are what he has been investigating. As a “wine producer” and an artist representing Bulgaria at the Venice Biennial in 2007, he not only produced his own special wine (Wine for Opening) but also convinced the curators and distributed it to 63 other national pavilions to toast during their own official vernissage.

Timofey Radya

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Radya is russian street artist. Lives and work on the streets of Ekaterinburg, Russia. He graduated from the Philosophical faculty at Ural State University. In 2012 he participated in First Kiyv Biennale and Second Ural Industrial Biennale in Ekaterinburg.He was nominee for Innovation Prize in 2010 and 2012.

Stefania Batoeva

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Stefania Batoeva (b.1981, Sofia) lives and works in London. Currently she is attending the MA Sculpture course at the Royal College of Art, London. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘In Control’, Galerie Koal, (Berlin 2012) and ‘Unstoppable’, Sariev Contemporary, (Plovdiv 2012). Recent group exhibitions include ‘Scattered Showers - Forms of Weather’, Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt 2013) and ‘Words to Be Spoken Aloud’, Turner Contemporary, (Margate 2013). In 2009 she won the “Gaudenz B. Ruf” Award, she was nominated for the “Baza” Award in 2010 and 2011, and was shortlisted for the M-tel Award in 2011.

Babak Golkar

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Born in the United States, raised in Tehran and having lived between Canada and the Middle East since 1996, Babak Golkar has developed bodies of work, which navigate and negotiate the space between cultural and socio-economical registers. His research-based art practice is centred on seemingly contradictory forms, shapes and material. Often engaging syncretic strategies, Golkar juxtaposes several disparate traditions, asserting an underlying common ground, allowing for an inclusive approach to multi-layered reading. These strategies are implemented by exploring the potential of how ideas and forms transform between diverse contexts and systems and how new forms — and by extension, new meanings — emerge from re-contextualization. The results of Golkar’s research and associated practice have been actively exhibited in local, national and international venues including: The Victoria and Albert Museum (London), BrotKunsthalle (Vienna), Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki), Southern Exposure (Los Angeles) and Sanatorium Project (Istanbul). His upcoming engagements include participating in a group exhibition at Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris and a solo exhibition at West Vancouver Museum. Golkar currently lives and works in Vancouver.

Ryan Lobo

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Ryan Lobo is an award winning filmmaker and photographer.

In 2009 Ryan spoke about what he calls “compassionate storytelling” with photography at the TED conference, to a standing ovation.

Ryan Lobo has co-produced the 2011 Sundance film festival award winning film “The Redemption of General Butt naked”. Ryan owns Mad Monitor Productions, a film and photo production company based in Bangalore.

He has worked as a producer and cinematographer on more than 70 film projects for National Geographic, Discovery Channel and other networks, including shooting undercover for the Emmy-nominated film Child Slaves of India.

His photographs and writing have been featured in numerous magazines like GEO magazine, Marie Claire, Elle, Tehelka, The Wall Street Journal, Bidoun, The Caravan, National Geographic Magazine, the Boston review, Chimurenga, Onzeweruld, the Wall Street Journal and many others. His photographs have been exhibited all over the world and are present in many collections.

Desire Machine Collective

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Mriganka MadhukaillyaBorn 1978 Assam, India. The Artist Lives and Works in Guwahati IndiaEducation: National Institute Of Design, Ahmedabad, India.Sonal JainBorn 1975 Shillong, India. The Artist Lives and Works in Guwahati Education: Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda

DESIRE MACHINE COLLECTIVECollaborating since 2004 as Desire Machine Collective, Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya employ film, video, photography, and multimedia installation in their works.

Assuming their name and theoretical disposition from Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, a seminal text from 1972 by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, Desire Machine Collective seeks to disrupt the neurotic symptoms that arise from constricting capitalist structures with healthier, schizophrenic cultural flows of desire and information.

Atul Bhalla

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b. 1964, IndiaAtul Bhalla has explored the physical, historical, spiritual, and political significance of water to the urban environment and population of his city (New Delhi) through artworks that incorporate sculpture, painting, installation, video, photography, and performance.

In Immersion, Bhalla uses sand taken directly from the Yamuna River to make concrete casts of portable water containers. These casts are then placed in water-filled vitrines, drawing a connection between Delhi’s historical source for water and the spiritually absent disposable containers of today. Similarly, in his photographic works of “piaus” (water spigots)—a public source of drinking water—Bhalla examines water as both symbol and source of renewal and reexamination.

Bhalla is particularly concerned about the relationship between the Yamuna and urban communities. The Yamuna is one of the largest tributaries of the Ganges River and tens of millions of people depend on its water for irrigation, and municipal/domestic use. Venerated in Hindu mythology as the goddess of life, it is also one of the most polluted rivers in the world. With a focus on pollution and scarcity of water, Yamuna Walk traces the artist’s five-day walk around the portion of the river that encircles New Delhi. At times through this journey Bhalla was forced to climb fences and cross concrete overpasses to continue his quest. These modern obstacles weave their way into the fabric of rural life— connecting and hampering its development as well as continuation.

Atul Bhalla earned his BFA from Delhi University and hisMFA from the School of Art of Northern Illinois University. His work has been in several museum exhibitions, most notably in The Newark Museum’s “INDIA: Public Places, Private Spaces” and the Fotographie Forum Frankfurt’s “Watching me – Watching India: New Photography from India,” and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Triennial.

Praneet Soi

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Praneet Soi (b. 1971, Kolkata, West Bengal, India) currently divides his time between Amsterdam and India.

Soi’s work spans a wide range of media including painting, drawing, collage, text, slide-shows and performance-lectures. Literature and film have influenced his work and narratives. Soi’s exploration of media imagery led him to experiment with fragmentations and distortions of the human body and the environment around him.

He is currently working to create a body of work on the subject of labour using documentation of small one-man workshops in North Kolkata that he has collected over the past four years.Praneet Soi participated in the first curated Indian National Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia in 2011. The Indian Pavilion, located in the Arsenale, featured four artists and was curated by Ranjit Hoskote.

Soi’s work for this pavilion involved a large-scale mural accompanied by a slide installation, Kumartuli Printer, Notes on Labor part 1 and a work-station

L N Tallur

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Tallur L.N. was born in Koteswara, a small Indian village of about 14,000 people, in 1971.

Tallur’s work represents an amalgamation of influences, ranging from those of the sheltered, traditional and rural farmlands he grew up on, and those he encountered and was exposed to during his many later visits to various foreign countries. Tallur studied art in various institutions, each of which has helped to shape the way he works today.

In 1996, he received his Bachelor’s degree in painting from the Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts (CAVA) at Mysore University, and then followed it with a Master’s degree in museology from Maharaja Sayyajirao University of Baroda in 1998. In 1999, he was awarded a scholarship from Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK, to complete another Master’s degree in Contemporary Fine Art Practice. Through exposure, experimentation and influence, the artist has managed to create a truly unique artistic vocabulary and style. As a result, each piece is complex and physically diverse. Tallur’s time at Leeds proved beneficial to his exploration of medium, material manipulation, and working on a large scale – all of which are are visible in the works he creates today. Incorporating a dynamic mix of ideas relating to politics, culture, tradition, spirituality, technological deterioration and environmental depletion, the artist’s three-dimensional works capture the absurdity of every-day village life and the anxiousness that characterizes contemporary Indian society.

Tallur was also able to grasp the importance of subtle mannerisms from the esteemed painter Bhupen Khakhar, after training under him. His work proves to be a surreal amalgamation of Indian signs, symbols and traditions held close to the heart in the country’s rural areas, focusing primarily on poverty and farmland issues. His pieces, though thought provoking to the viewers, are either a grotesque take on reality or portray a certain beauty which he has the ability to capture and create from the use of damaged objects and distorted materials.

Not only has Tallur’s work been exhibited all over the world, but he is also the winner of multiple prestigious awards. These include the Emerging Artist Award from Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, in 1999, and the Sanskriti Award from the Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, in 2003. His paintings have been displayed in solo and group exhibitions in India and other countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, China, Cuba, South Korea and Canada. Tallur currently lives and works between India and South Korea.

Cheng-Ta Yu

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Born in 1983, Tainan, Taiwan. Lives and works in Taipei.

Yu studied art at the Taipei National University of the Arts inTaiwan. In 2008, he received the 1st place of Taipei Arts Award (TFAM, Taipei) and was awarded Beacon Prize at Art Fair Tokyo in 2012. Yu participated in the 6th Taipei Biennial and was selected as one of the artists to represent Taiwan at the 53rd Venice Biennale. In 2009, he participated in the Biennial Cuvée 08 at OK center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria, and in 2012, he participated in the 5th International Biennial of Media Art at Experimenta in Melbourne, Australia and Made in Asia Art Festival in Toulouse, France.

Wei CHEN

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Wei CHEN was born in Salt City Zigong in southwest Sichuan in 1980.

She went to Sichuan Fine Arts Institute to study oil painting in 1997 and graduated with a master’s degree in Oil Painting in 2006.

In 2012, she received the Young Artist Award from the 6th Most Influential Participants of Chinese Arts 2011.

In 2005, Wei CHEN made a successful debut with My Way, a series of painted boxes, in Archeology of the Future: the Second Triennial of Chinese Art, Nanjing. For her, the imagery in her painting is but the carrier of delicate human feelings.

CHEN regards herself as a visual “omnivore.” Keen on traditional culture and crafts, she makes attempts on bringing forth new artwork by combining these cherished objects. The Salt City, an artwork exhibited in the 9th Shanghai Biennale 2012, is a large-scale complex installation coming of her continual attempts. The Salt City represents a starting point from which CHEN entered upon a new phase of her life as artist. She is in the hope of dissolving the clear lines of demarcations between different art forms.It is Chen’s ambition to be a pioneer who would bridge the gap between traditional and contemporary arts.

Shiming QIU

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Shiming CHIU focused on all the western art after the Renaissance in the late 1990's.

And since 2000, he turned to be intrested in imitating Chinese landscape painting during the Song and Yuan dynasties.

In 2006, he started the practice of modern art, including video, photography, animation, etc.Through the fantastic fable, it can be seen that the author's path of self-discovery about history, politics, identity and fate, etc.

Since 2008, he has stepped into the period of Wu Wei(natural action without any excessive effort).In his work, allusions and metaphors appear freely in the endless entanglement of time and space, heaven and earth, human beings and the inner world.

Sheung-Chi KWAN & Doris WONG

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KWAN Sheung Chi was born in 1980, Hong Kong.

He graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003.

In 2002 “Kwan Sheung Chi Touring Series Exhibitions, Hong Kong” was toured in 10 major exhibition venues in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Art Centre presented “A Retrospective of Kwan Sheung Chi”. In addition to his studio practice, he is also a founding member of the Hong Kong Arts Discovery Channel (HKADC), and local art groups, hkPARTg (Political Art Group) and Woofer Ten.

In 2009, He had been awarded the Starr Foundation Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council, to take part in an international residency program in New York, USA.

Wai Yin Wong was born in Hong Kong, received her BFA degree from Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004, and her MFA degree from University of Leeds in the UK in 2005.

Since graduating she has both organized and participated in numerous regional and international exhibitions, including One Degree Separation, Chinese art Centre, Manchester, UK; Wanakio 2008 in Okinawa, Japan; Reality Reversed at Worksound Artspace, Portland, Oregon; The Third Guangzhou Triennial at the Guangdong Museum of Art in China and Inside Looking Out at the Osage Gallery in Singapore.

Ms. Wong’s work spans many disciplines and includes painting, sculpture, collage, photography and installation. There have been three major areas of research through her artistic practice: one with a wry sense of humor, she creates work, which contextualizes her personal histories and relationships in an art historical context, one around the notion of architectural use of space and its meanings, connecting to the concepts hierarchical dominance and structures, the other being everyday life and its connection with the rationale of the real versus fake.

Chung-Yu Wong

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WONG Chung-yu is a Hong Kong artist.

He received his Master degree of Computer Science and later pursued a Master of Art degree in Digital Arts in London with scholarship. He is now a member of the Hong Kong Union of Visual Artists. He remains active in the realms of Painting and Digital Art. For Painting, WONG studied painting in the Fine Art department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and continues his exploration particularly in the area of modern Chinese painting. In the field of digital art, WONG attempts to extend the possibility of programming and multimedia application.

He particularly focuses himself on the harmonization of digital technology with Chinese context. WONG’s digital media works and imaging works have been exhibited in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Norway, and Australia.

His paintings and digital art works are collected by the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the University Museum and Art Gallery of The University of Hong Kong, and collected privately.

Besides visual arts, WONG also participates in Creative Writing of Fiction. His short stories were published in local literary magazines and won merit awards in local competitions. His major works include the novel of “Perhaps” and “The Lawra”. Personal website is www.jumptoart.com

Maider Lopez

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Maider López (1975, Spain).

Maider López's interest relays in interrupting norms in space and architecture, inviting us to experience common spaces in novel and potentially rewarding ways.

She has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and aboard. Some of her works include: Between you and I, Witte de With and Skor, The Netherlands; Eclats, Centre Pompidou Metz (2010); Sharjah Biennial 9, United Arab Emirates (2009); SCAPE Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space, New Zealand; Line of sight, Zendai Moma Museum, Shanghai (2008); AdosAdos, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (2007); Columnes, Caixa Forum, Barcelona (2006); Ataskoa, ARTIUM, Vitoria and 51st Venice Biennale (2005).

Leyla Gediz

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Leyla Gediz (Istanbul, 1974) moved to the UK to study art where she first took a foundation course at the Chelsea College of Art and Design.

She then went on to study at the Slade School of Fine Arts, finally receiving her MA in Visual Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Gediz is renowned for her narrative paintings and installations, inspired by her memories and experiences about growing up and living in Istanbul. As a prolific artist, she realizes projects by experimenting not only on the media of painting but also on the form and conception of exhibition-making. She approaches exhibits as a way of conceptualizing her process of painting, and conceptualizes her presentations with an ambitious artistic vision for unique settings.

Her first solo exhibition opened in Galerist, Istanbul in 2002 followed by exhibitions in Istanbul and abroad such as with Roberts & Tilton Gallery in L.A. and Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie in Zurich. Gediz also participated in numerous group exhibitions such as “Egofugal”, 7th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2001); “Where? / Here?, Turkish Art Today”, The Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Saitama (2003); “Urban Reality: Focus Istanbul”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2005); “Last Things”, Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Münster (2008); Fantasy & Island, FRAC, Corsica (2010); Dream and Reality – Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul (2011); Istanbul Eindhoven-SALTVanAbbe: Post ’89, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul (2012)

She was also the curator of several exhibitions in Istanbul between 2007 and 2009 and attended the HIAP Helsinki artist-in-residence program in 2010Leyla Gediz lives and works in Istanbul. She is currently represented by Rampa Gallery, Istanbul.http://www.rampaistanbul.com/artists/leyla-gediz/

Şener Özmen

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Şener Özmen was born in Idil (1971), lives and works in Diyarbakır. He graduated from the Department of Painting Education in the Faculty of Education at Çukurova University. He has had several solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions both in Turkey and abroad: Germany, France, England, Kosovo, Serbia, Albania, the USA, Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Swiss, Sweden, Holland, Spain, Yugoslavia and Austria. His articles on exhibitions were published in Birgün Newspaper, Art-ist Magazine, Sanat Dünyamız, Radikal Kitap and Siyahî. His works were shown in Centre Pompidou, Wordly House (Documenta), Stedelijk Museum, Frac, Istanbul Modern, Kunsthalle Fridericianum. He recently had a solo show named "Zero Tolerance"(2012) at Pilot.With biting irony, brilliant humour, a clear aesthetic language, and with an outspoken and provocative critical attitude Şener Özmen questions the certainty of existing conditions and situations, authoritarian structures and existing taboos. His subtle and poetic works focus our attention not only on the perception and the changes in the context of art, but refer mainly to the critical problems of social reality in which the artist positions himself and offers his opinion.

Rosa Chancho

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ROSA CHANCHO is a group of Argentinean artists based in Buenos Aires. They started working together in 2005, founding an artist-run space. Since that project ended in 2007 they've been developing context-responsive and research-based projects in museums, art centers, alternative and public spaces, under a mutating identity that has led its participants to take on various different roles (artists, curators, collectors, producers, galleriests or theater directors).Among their most relevant projects are: Caverna, developed at Beca Kuitca-UTDT (2010), Galeria Mite (2011) and The Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2012); Doble Penetración at Beca Kuitca (2011) and La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2013); S/T Stage Diving in South Limit (2008); Retrospective, Apetite Gallery (2008); Bola de Lodo, Cceba (2007) and Ventana (2005-2007).Rosa Chancho’s members are: Julieta García Vázquez, Javier Villa, Mumi and Osías Yanov.

Agnieszka Polska

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Agnieszka Polska - born in 1985 in Lublin, Poland; lives and works in Warsaw. Her predominantly film-based practice is concerned with the processes of reshaping the past by present activities and productive potential of memory imperfections.

Ben Vickers

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Rodrigo Cass

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Rodrigo Cass was born in São Paulo (1983), lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

He studied Visual Arts at Santa Marcelina College in São Paulo, and graduated in 2006.

In 2009 he was selected for the CNI, SESI Marcantonio Vilaca for the Arts, Brazil and was a resident artist of the Institute Sacatar in Itaparica in Bahia. In 2010 he was selected for the artist residency Bolsa Pampulha and attended the Pará Art History Museum in Pará State, Brazil, where he was awarded the prize acquisition.

Among its major exhibits include: Exhibition Program Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil (2013); Program Exhibition 2012, Art Museum of Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil (2012); Bolsa Pampulha 2011-2012, Pampulha Museum of Art, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil (2011); Wonderland - Actions and Paradoxes, Centro Cultural São Paulo, SP, Brazil (2010); Mostravideo Itaú Cultural, Self-portraits documentary, Palace of Arts, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil (2009); Container Art, Villa Lobos Park, São Paulo, Brazil (2008); Zone 4 video, Video Panorama of Latin America, Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Israel (2008); Digital Arts Medellin, Medellin, Colombia (2008); International Festival of Electronic Art Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil (2007); Hall of Contemporary Art in Santo André, Palace of Arts, Santo André, SP, Brazil (2007); In Vitro, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (2006).

Participated in 2011-2012 PIESP: Escola São Paulo Independent Program, mediated by Adriano Pedrosa and Carla Zaccagnini. Rodrigo Cass is represented by Galeria Fortes Vilaça.

Gabriel Sierra

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Gabriel Sierra, (*1975 San Juan, Nepomuceno, lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia)

Gabriel Sierra studied Architecture for one year then switched to Industrial Design, his artistic career reflects in a highly distinctive way his training in these two dissimilar and interconnected fields.

His works include objects, sculptures, writings, spatial constructions and site-specific interventions, using a vocabulary that points directly to the history of art and architecture.

His works has been show among others in The Ungovernables, The New Museum, The New Museum Triennial, New York (2012); Untitled (12 Istanbul Biennial), (2011); ( ), 2012, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco; Planos de Fuga, CCBB, São Paulo, (2012

Ed Atkins

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Atkins graduated with an MA from the Slade School of Art in 2009.

He was selected for New Contemporaries in 2010.

In 2011 he was included in the group exhibition ‘Time Again’ at SculptureCenter, NY; co-organized ‘A Dying Artist’ at The ICA, London; was shortlisted for the Jarman Award and had a solo show at Cabinet Gallery, London.

He has been commissioned by Frieze Film and Channel 4, and had a solo presentation for Art Now at Tate Britain entitled ‘A Tumour (In English)’. In 2012 his work was exhibited as part of ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ at JVA at Jerwood Space, London and he had solo projects at Chisenhale Gallery, London and Bonn Kunstverein.

In November 2012 he was one of eight recipients of the Paul Hamlyn Award, and in 2013 he has so far presented solo exhibitions at Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin; MoMA PS1, New York and Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.

He has been included in the Venice Biennale 2013 and will present his largest solo show to date at Kunsthalle Zürich in August 2013.

Charlie Engman

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Charlie Engman (b. 1987, Evanston, IL) is an American artist and photographer.

Engman received a BA First Class in Japanese and Korean studies from the University of Oxford in 2009, where he also studied at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. There he began working as a commercial photographer and exhibiting his artwork, most notably at the Lisson Gallery in 2009 with the exhibition Boule to Braid curated by Richard Wentworth.

Upon graduating, Engman returned to his home country, where he began integrating his commercial, fashion, and art practices.

Engman’s work has been shown internationally in a variety of venues ranging from Condé Naste to The Armory. Publications include Graphic Fashion [BNN, Tokyo 2012], ERRATIC: Visual Impact in Current Design [Gestalten, Berlin 2011], and Some Ways to Disappear [London 2010].

He has also produced several monographs both in print and digitally, including "Flounder" [Pau Wau Publications, 2013] and FIELD [Hard Workers Club Press, 2011].

Tony Chakar

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Lieko Shiga

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Born 1980 in Aichi Prefecture (Japan), based in Miyagi Prefecture (Japan). Shiga went to Britain in 1999 and graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London in 2004. Shiga has captured people's attention with her powerful, structured photography, which draws images from the darkness that exist as latent potential in her subjects and in the land, and with the way her distinctive pictures seem to generate light in that darkness. In 2007 she spent a year in London on an Agency for Cultural Affairs program for artists to pursue further studies overseas. And she won the Kimura Ihei Award for photography in 2008 for her series "Lilly" and "Canary" (both released in 2007). The Infinity Award for young photographer of the year followed in 2009, from the New York International Center for Photography. On her return to Japan, she took up residence in the Kitakama district of Natori, Miyagi, where she operated locally, recording the festivals and other events. She also started building up an oral history of the area. Her solo exhibition 'Rasen Kaigan' at Mediatheque, Sendai, offering a comprehensive display of her four years of experimentation in Kitakama won acclaim in 2012-13. Before its opening, Shiga also broke new ground by giving a series of 10 lectures in person about her photography, and they have been published together under the title "Rasen Kaigan Notebook" (2013).

Motoi Yamamoto

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Motoi Yamamoto is an artist based in Kanazawa, Japan.

He was born in Onomichi, Hiroshima in 1966 and received his BA from Kanazawa College of Art in 1995. He was awarded the Philip Morris Art Award in 2002 as well as the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2003.

Motoi is known for working with salt, often in the form of temporary, intricate, large-scale installations. He uses salt to create mental maps, miniatures of the mind. Yet, in his case, he doesn't seem to choose materials merely for the sake of novelty or originality. Motoi forged a connection to the substance while mourning the death of his sister, at the age of twenty-four, from brain cancer, and began to create art out of salt in an effort to preserve his memories of her.Salt, a traditional symbol for purification and mourning in Japanese culture, is used in funeral rituals and by sumo wrestlers before matches. It is frequently placed in small piles at the entrance to restaurants and other businesses to ward off evil spirits and to attract benevolent ones.

His art radiates an intense beauty and tranquility, but also conveys something ineffable, painful, and endless.

An important aspect of the installation is the dismantling of his work at the end of each show and delivering the salt back to water, usually in collaboration with the public.

Motoi says, “Drawing a labyrinth with salt is like following a trace of my memory.Memories seem to change and vanish as time goes by; however, what I seek is to capture a frozen moment that cannot be attained through pictures or writings.What I look for at the end of the act of drawing could be a feeling of touching a precious memory.”

"The First Steps; Emerging Artist from Japan" P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2003), "The Encounters in the 21st Century; Polyphony - Emerging Resonances" 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2004-05), "Rising Sun, Melting Moon -Contemporary Art from Japan-" The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2005-06), "MOT Annual 2010; Neo-Ornamentalism from Japanese Contemporary Art” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2010), “Reliefs” Fondation espace _ecureuil pour l'art contemporain, Toulouse (2011), “City Net-Asia 2011” Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2011), “To the White Forest” Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa (2011-12), “Return to the Sea” Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston (2012) and The Mint Museum, Charlotte (2013).

Otobong Nkanga

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Otobong Nkanga b. 1974 Kano, Nigeria. Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. 2008, MPA, Dasarts, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2002 – 2003, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2001, DNSAP, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, 1992 - 1994, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria Otobong Nkanga works across a broad spectrum of media, including performance, installations, photography, drawing and sculpture, in order to interrogate mental and physical identities in varied environments and contexts. She sometimes serves as the protagonist in her performances, videos, and photographs, making use of personal biography and observation to reveal the structures underlying everyday landscapes. Nkanga’s recent shows include: Re:Emerge – Towards a new cultural cartography, Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, UAE (2013); Across the Board: Politics of Representation, Tate Modern, The Tanks, London, United Kingdom (2012); Inventing world: The Artist as citizen, Biennale Benin, Cotonou, Benin (2012); 50 Days at Sea, Antwerp Pavilion, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China (2012); Tropicomania: The Social life of Plantes, Betonsalon, Center of art and research. Associated venue of La Triennale 2012 - Intense Proximity. Paris, France (2012); and Object Atlas – Fieldwork in the Museum, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. (2012). ARS 11, Kiasma Museum of Contempoarary Art, Helsinki, Finland.(2011)

Taus Makhacheva

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Taus Makhacheva (born 1983) graduated in 2007 with a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College (London).

She is currently pursuing an MA in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art in London (2013).

Selected exhibitions: Migration, Daria Kamyshnikova, curator (First Moscow International Biennale for Young Art Qui Vive?, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, 2008); A Space of Celebration, Djamilya Dagirova, curator (Pervaya Gallery, Makhachkala, 2009); Aluminium, Leyla Akhundzadeh, curator (Fourth Baku International Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2009); History of Russian Video Art, Volume 3, Antonio Geusa, curator (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2010); Practice for Everyday Life, David Thorp, curator (Calvert 22, London, 2011); Affirmative Action (Mimesis), Marco Scotini, curator (Impronte Contemporary Art, Milan, 2011); Greater Caucasus, Irina Yashkova, curator (PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011); Rewriting Worlds, Peter Weibel, curator (Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Main Project, ArtPlay Сentre, 2011); Migrasophia, Sara Raza, curator (Maraya Contemporary Art Centre, Sharjah, 2012); Quarantania, David Thorp, curator (John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 2012); Makhachkala, Topography of Masculinity, Irina Stark and Kelly Klifa, curators (7th Liverpool Biennial: City States, LJMU Copperas Hill Building, 2012); The Process or Instance of Breaking Open, Maria Kotlyachkova and Emmeli Person, curators (Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden, 2013) Re: emerge – Towards a New Cultural Cartography, Yuko Hasegawa, curator (11 Sharjah Biennial, 2013).

In 2011 Taus Makhacheva was shortlisted for Kandinsky Art Prize and in 2012 won the Innovation Art Prize (National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow) in the “New Generation” category.

Mandla Reuter

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Mandla Reuter was born in 1975 in Nqutu. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.

Falke Pisano

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Falke Pisano (Amsterdam, 1978) lives and works in Berlin. Her diagrammatic works expose a loop, in which shifting abstract sculptural forms are conceived directly in relation to written and spoken language, implying an ongoing and morphing production of meaning. In the publication ‘’Figures of Speech’’ (designed and co-edited by Will Holder, published by JRP-Ringier, Christoph Keller Editions, 2010) Pisano brought together her work focusing on the act of speech in relation to different forms of agency in artistic production. The artist second cycle of works (2011-) “The Body in Crisis” consists of a series of propositions and inquiries that look at the body in crisis as an ongoing event. Pisano's solo exhibitions include Hollybush Gardens (London, 2012), De Vleeshal (Middelburg, 2012), CAC (with Benoît Maire, Vilnius, 2011), Transmission Gallery (Glasgow, 2010), Extra City (Antwerp, 2010), Kunstverein (Graz, 2009) and Halle für Kunst e.V. (Lüneburg, 2008). She participated in major groups shows such as the Venice Bienial (2009) and Manifesta (2008). She performed at Museo Reina Sofia (2012), the 5th Berlin Biennale (2008) and Lisson Gallery, London (2007). Recently Pisano participated in the groupshow Beyond Imagination, at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2012) and the Amsterdam Pavilion of the Shanghai Biennale (2012) and upcoming exhibitions include solo shows at gallery Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo and The Showroom, London ( both April 2013) and a collaborative project with Benoît Maire and Liam Gillick at Shanaynay, Paris (May 2013).

Michael Dean

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Michael Dean was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. Writing and the delivery of this writing into states of typographical physicality centre Dean's research into the political properties of language pertaining to authorship and autonomy. Taking the form of writing, reading, drawing, photography, video, sculpture, installation and publication, solo exhibitions include Cubitt, London, the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Herald St, London; Nomas Foundation, Rome and Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany.

Vincent Vulsma

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Vincent Vulsma (1982, Zaandam, Netherlands), lives in Amsterdam. In his elegant yet austere works, Vincent Vulsma investigates contextual parameters of art production, specifically the histories and economies of cultural appropriation. Vulsma had solo exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2011) and Galerie Cinzia Friedländer (Berlin, 2009 and 2011) and participated in group exhibitions at De Vleeshal (Middelburg, 2013), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 2012), Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2012), Ludwig Forum (Aachen, 2012), Villa Romana (Florence, 2011) and the Berlin Biennale (2010).

Gwenneth Boelens

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Sarah Conaway

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Sarah Conaway received her MFA in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2001.

Her work has been featured in exhibitions in the US and abroad, including solo and two person exhibitions at The Box, Los Angeles, Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich and Bellwether Gallery, New York, and in group shows at Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles; Prism Gallery, Los Angeles; 64bis, Paris; Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin; Anthony Greaney Gallery, Boston; and Gallery Diet, Miami.

Her work was included in the biennial exhibition, Made In LA, at the Hammer Museum in 2012. She lives and works in Los Angeles,CA.

Ellen Lesperance

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Ellen Lesperance lives and works in Portland, OR, and is represented by Ambach & Rice Gallery, Los Angeles.

She has exhibited her work in venues including Josh Lilley Gallery, London; the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Monya Rowe Gallery, New York City; the NADA Art Fair, Miami; the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon; PS122, New York City; Artists Space, New York City; Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon; and Samson Projects, Boston.

Her work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Tema Celeste, USArt, and Art Monthly.

In 2010 she received The Betty Bowen Award and was a MacDowell Colony Artist-in-Residence. In 2012 she was awarded a Ford Family Fellowship in the Arts. In 2012 her work in memory of slain activist/artist Pippa Bacca was featured in a solo exhibition in the FRIEZE “Frame” section in New York City.

Her work is included in Phaidonʼs 2013 Vitamin D2 Drawing Anthology.

Clarissa Tossin

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Originally from Brazil, Clarissa Tossin lives and works in Los Angeles.

She earned an M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts in 2009 and was a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston from 2010-2012.

She was an artist-in-residency at Fundación Botín in 2010 under Mona Hatoum’s mentorship and in 2009 at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

In the summer of 2013 she will join the international artist-in-residency program at Artpace San Antonio, curated by Hou Hanru.

Her work has been shown at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, in San Francisco; Redling Fine Art, Compact Space and REDCAT, in Los Angeles; Houston Center for Photography and Sicardi Gallery, in Houston; Dallas Contemporary, in Dallas; Galeria Luisa Strina, in São Paulo; Centro Cultural Tlatelolco, in Mexico City, among others.

Upcoming exhibitions include a site-specific project at the Blaffer Art Museum and solo exhibitions at Ltd Los Angeles and Sicardi Gallery.

Tossin was awarded a Center for Cultural Innovation Grant and a Video Art Grant from Fundação Joaquim Nabuco in 2012, a College Art Association L.A. MFA Award in 2009 and an Interdisciplinary Grant from CalArts in 2008.

Her work is included in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Kadist Art Foundation.

Zarouhie Abdalian

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Zarouhie Abdalian (b. 1982, New Orleans, LA) lives in Oakland, CA.

She has a solo exhibition upcoming at the Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley, CA. Recent group exhibitions include the Shanghai Biennial, China; "When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes," CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA, traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI; Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia; Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey; and will participate in "Prospect.3," New Orleans, LA, in 2014.

She is the 2013 recipient of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Award, which will feature a commissioned public work later this year. She is represented by Altman Siegel, San Francisco.

Jennifer West

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Los Angeles based artist, Jennifer West employs various unique processes to produce alchemical transformations in her film-based practice.

The artist subjects 16, 35 and 70 mm film negative and leader to an eclectic range of idiosyncratic substances including nail-polish, liquid eyeliner, “Teen Spirit” deodorant, wine, spices, Jell-O shots, body glitter, paintballs, Jack Daniels, hot springs water as well as physical interventions such as skateboarding, smearing, crushing, drawing and throwing.

West is influenced by classical structuralist film, urban mythology and popular culture, combining everyday actions and materials to create hypnotic, fast paced films. Performance is as essential to West’s practice as the material composition – united to not only construct the work itself, but also provide a conceptual context. The titles are similarly important. They denote the specific components, activities and participants involved in making the respective film, decipher the enigmatic imagery for the viewer and become evidence of the event/action. Her solo exhibitions include High Line Art, New York, NY (2012); S1 Artspace, Sheffield, England (2012); Vilma Gold, London (2011/2008); Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles (2011/2009/2007); Contemporary Art Museum, Houston (2010); Western Bridge, Seattle (2010); Kunstverein Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany (2010); Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2008); and White Columns, New York (2007).

Select group exhibitions include Palais de Toyko, Paris, FR (2013); Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, UK (2013); MOCA, Cleveland, OH (2013); deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (2012); Saatchi Gallery, London (2012); the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (2010); Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2010); Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York (2009); The Drawing Center, New York (2008); Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France (2007); Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England (2011, 2007); and ZKM Museum for New Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (2007), among others.

She was an Artist in Residence at the MIT List Visual Arts Center (2011) and has created commissioned works specifically for High Line Art, New York (2012), the Aspen Art Museum (2010) and for the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, London (2009). She received a Master of Fine Arts from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Jarbas Lopes

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JARBAS LOPES finds the materials for his artworks in everyday life contexts: seemingly trivial objects become the starting point for an investigation into its functions and symbolic language.

In doing so, his works enter into a dialogue with public and social spaces: Lopes is primarily concerned with the idea of accessibility of aesthetic experience and social interaction.

However, Jarbas Lopes does not act as a political artist but rather as an artist who produces art in a political manner: his work is centered on the question how the people shape a society.

Graduated in Fine Arts by the UFRJ Fine Arts School, Jarbas exhibitions in Brazil and abroad very often. Among many exhibitions, the flowing should be highlighted: “Off the grid”, Lehmann Maupin, New York (2002); 8th Havana Biennial (2003), “Gambiarra - New Art from Brazil”, London (2003) and .the 27° São Paulo Biennial (2006). His works have been acquired by the following collections: Tate Modern, London; MoMA, New York and Inhotim, Minas Gerais.

Regina José Galindo

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Regina José Galindo (b. 1974) was born in Guatemala City. She is a visual artist who specializes in performance art.

Her works explore the universal ethical implications of social injustices, racial and gender-related discriminations and abuses.

She has participated to various biennials, among which the XV Biennale Donna, Ferrara (Italy), the 17th Biennale of Sydney, Biennale of Pontevedra 2010. 10th Habana Biennale 2009, Valencia Biennale, Spain, 2007, III Bienale of Tirana, Albania,2005, Venice Biennale in 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2009) and the III Bienal in Lima in 2002, Perú.

Galindo received the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale in 2005, in the category of “artists under 35”, for Quién puede borrar las huellas and the video Himenoplastia. The work depicted surgical reconstruction of the artist’s hymen.

In 2011 she receive the Prince Claus Award. She was honoured for transforming personal rage and injustice into powerful public acts that demand response, for disrupting ignorance and complacency to bring us closer to the experience of others.

Also, in 2011 the jury of the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana awarded her with the Grand Prize for the works: Móbil, Caparazón and Confesión, the last one was produced in Spain and inspired by the extraordinary rendition flights uncovered by a team of local reportes in Palma de Mallorca.

Galindo is also a writer of poetry and narrative; in 1998 she received the Myrna Mack Foundation's Premio Unico de Poesía in Guatemala. In 1996 her poetry book Personal e Intransmisible was published by Editorial Coloquia in Guatemala City.

Dulce Pinzón

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Dulce Pinzón was born in Mexico City in 1974.

She studied Mass Media Communications at the Universidad de Las Americas in Puebla Mexico and Photography at Indiana University in Pennsylvania.

In 1995 she moved to New York where she studied at The International Center of Photography.

Her work has been published and exhibited in Mexico, the US, Australia, Argentina and Europe.

In 2002 Dulce won the prestigious Jovenes Creadores grant for her work.

She won an Honorific Mention in the Santa Fe project competition 2006 with “The Real Story of the Superheroes” series. In 2011 her work was exhibited at the "Les Rencontres d'Arles"Dulce is a 2006 fellow in Photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

She currently resides between Mexico and New York City

Marcela Armas

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Marcela Armas (b.1976, Durango, Mexico) Studied at the University ofGuanajuato, and at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Valencia. Spain.

Her work hasbeen shown in several museums in Mexico and internationally, includingMusée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; PAN- Palazzo delle Arti Napoli,Italy;MARCO, Vigo, Spain; . Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center, Texas; The HolmanHall College Art Gallery, New Jersey; Örebro Art Center and PassagenLinköping Art Center. Stockolm, Sweden; MUAC UNAM Mexico City;Laboratorio Arte Alameda,Mexico MACO Oaxaca; Museo Carrillo Gil Mexico.

She has received numerous fellowships, artist residencies, and awards froma range of institutions, including Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,the National Fund for Culture and the Arts; the Bancomer Arte Actual MACG2009-Program; the Program for New Media Research at Multimedia Centerof CENART.

She directed the workshops VIDA 10 of Fundación Telefónicain Buenos Aires, Argentina; Lima, Peru; Santiago de Chile and Mexico City.

She was awarded the ARCO/BEEP for New Media at ARCO Madrid 2012.Marcela Armas also participated in the 7th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre,Brazil and in the 11th Havana Biennial.

Marcela Armas explores the notion of spending and the waste of energy;material and energy in transformation, as well as the impairment of physicalspace, through the use of waste or residual material. Her work has beendeveloped through urban interventions, sound actions, installations,development of tools and devices, as well as through personal involvementin the design and construction of machines that challenge affluent society.In some of her works, she discusses the dialectical relationship between theimage and the device that supports it, while the device is the image itself,emphasizing the instrumental action of various mechanisms and ways ofpower over the public imagination.

Jeanette Chávez

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Jeanette Chavez was born in Havana - Cuba, where she lives and works.

In 2004 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba and then became a member of the Cátedra Arte de Conducta directed by Tania Bruguera.

In 2009 she graduated from the Hight Institute of Art (ISA), Havana, Cuba. She is member of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC) and Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS)Chavez has participated numerous solo shows and group exhibitions including Politics: I do not like it, but it likes me, Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk, Poland, 2013 / Face Contact. Iberia Art Center Beijing, China, 2012 / Über den Dilettantismus. HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany, 2012 / Unresolved Circumstances. Museum of Latin American Art, MOLAA.. California, United States, 2011 / Face Contact. PhotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain, 2011 / Crisis. América latina. Arte y confrontación. 1910-2010. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes. México, DF, 2011 / Bienal de Liverpool, Liverpool, England, 2010 / Video Experimental y Video Art: Artistas de Cuba. Museo de Antioquia. Colombia, 2009 / Estado de Excepción. Galería Habana.. X Havanna Biennial. Cuba, 2009 / Endurance. VIVID. Birmingham, England. 2008 / States of Exchange. Institute of International Visual Arts (iniVA). London, England, 2008.

She has been the recipient of several grants and awards, including 17th International Studio Program of the ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany, 2011. Residency Parties Prenantes, Bétonsalon, L’Ecole Publique, Paris, France, 2009. Programa de Residencias Proyecto Batiscafo, Triangle Arts Trust. Havana, Cuba, 2007. Gran Premio. XVI Salón de la Ciudad, Havana, Cuba, 2006.

Chavez´s work has been published in differents books and Catalogs including “Ustedes y Nosotros. Jóvenes Artistas Iberoamericanos”. Luisa Fuentes Guaza, 2010. “Younger Than Jesus. Artist Directory.” New Museum. (NY). Editorial: PHAIDON. 2009.“Playing with fire.” Alessio Antoniolli. Catalog: States of Exchange. Artists from Cuba. 2008 Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts). “Armed with Mirrors: An Exploration of the States of Exchange of Cuba.” Cylena Simonds. Catalog: States of Exchange. Artists from Cuba. 2008 Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts). “History and Context.” Gerardo Mosquera. Catalog: States of Exchange. Artists from Cuba. 2008 Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts).

Vlatka Horvat

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Vlatka Horvat (born in Čakovec, Croatia; lives in London and New York) makes works in sculpture, installation, drawing, performance, and photography.

Her projects often focus on re-arranging or reconfiguring objects, built space, and social relations at play in it.

Recent solo exhibitions include Boston University Art Gallery (Boston, 2012), Rachel Uffner Gallery (New York, 2012), Zak|Branicka (Berlin, 2012), Bergen Kunsthall (Bergen, 2011), annex14 (Bern, 2011) and the Kitchen (New York, 2009).

Recent commissions include projects for the 53rd October Salon (Belgrade, 2012), Stroom den Hague (the Hague, 2012), artissima 18 (Torino, 2011), “Greater New York” at MoMA PS1 (New York, 2010), Aichi Triennale (Nagoya, 2010, a collaboration with Tim Etchells), Galerija Skuc (Ljubljana, 2010) and the 11th Istanbul Biennale (Istanbul, 2009).

Vlatka holds a BA in Theater from Columbia College Chicago (1996), an MA in Performance Studies from Northwestern University (1997), and a practice-based PhD from Roehampton University in London (2009).

In 2010 she received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation visual art award (New York).

Vlatka’s work is represented by Zak| Branicka Gallery (Berlin), Rachel Uffner Gallery (New York), and annex14 (Zurich).

Nikolay Oleynikov

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Nikolay OLEYNIKOV (1976) is a Moscow based artist and activist, member of Chto Delat?, editor for Chto Delat? newspaper, member of editorial board of Moscow Art Magazine (2011), co-founder of the Learning Film Group, and May Congress of Creative Workers, member of the Arkady Kots band.

Known for his didactic murals and graphic works within the tradition of the Soviet monumental school, comics, surrealist-like imaginary and punk culture.

Represented worldwide by his solo projects as well as with number of collective activities, Oleynikov has had numerous international shows including Fargfabriken, Stockholm; Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris – MAM/ARC, Paris; Serralves Museum, Porto; Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella; Museo dell Arte Contemporaneo Luiggi Pecci, Prato; X BALTIC TRIENNALE in Vilnius; KIBLA, Maribor; Graz; Welling School, London; State Tretyakov Gallery and Paperworks Gallery, Moscow.

Anna Parkina

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ANNA PARKINA (b. 1979, Moscow) uses various mediums such as collage, drawing, sculpture, film, and performance.

Having studied in California at Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena (2005) and at École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2002-6) she sees the world keenly through a globalized, multi-cultured perspective infused with her native Russian culture.

Parkina is currently having her second solo exhibition at the Wilkinson gallery, as well as recently being commissioned to make a new performance at the Pompidou Museum, Paris.

Parkina is also currently included in Perspectives on Collage at the Photographers Gallery, London and New Art From Russia, at the Saatchi Gallery. In 2012, a performance was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, Moscow where she also exhibited an installation of her recent work.

Other recent shows include San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (solo), USA (2011); Wilkinson Gallery (solo), London (2010); Focal Point Gallery (solo), Southend-on-Sea, UK (2010). Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NYC (2010). Parkina was also included in the 2009 Venice Biennale Making Worlds curated by Daniel Birnbaum and Modernikon: Contemporary Art from Russia, at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2010-11).

In 2003, Parkina created her own publishing house, Tramway, where she edited about 15 artist books and posters.

In 2012, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, published her first monograph.

Marina Naprushkina

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Marina Naprushkina (born 1981) is an artist whose work concentrates on power structures in nation-states, often making use of nonfiction material such as propaganda issued by governmental institutions in Belarus.

Since 2007 Naprushkina runs the Office for Anti-Propaganda, which participates in and organizes political actions and also publishes newspapers.

Recent exhibitions include: Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, 2012; Dear Art, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 2012; How Much Fascism?, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2012; and Self # Governing, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 7th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, 2012 and Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, 2012; Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, Cultural Centre Mechelen.

Nikita Kadan

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Nikita Kadan was born 1982 in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he lives and works today.

In 2007 he graduated from the National Academy of Art and Architecture in Kyiv.

He is an author of objects and installations, painter and a graphic artist.Kadan often works in the interdisciplinary collaboration - with architects, human rights watch activists, writers and sociologysts. Nikita Kadan is active also as a member of R.E.P. artistic group and Hudrada curatorial union.

Kadan’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including such exhibitions as ‘Desire for freedom. European art after 1945’ in Deutsches Historisches Museum (Berlin) and Palazzo Reale (Milano), ‘Newtopia’ (Mechelen), "The best of times, the worst of times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in contemporary art" the first Kyiv Biennale at Art Arsenal, “Eyes looking for a head to inhabit’ in MSL museum (Lodz),
Schockworkers of the Mobile Image, 1st Ural Industrial Biennial (Ekaterinburg).

Nikita Kadan won PinchukArt Prize in 2011, and was shortlisted for Future Generation Price in 2012.

Eitan Efrat & Sirah Foighel Brutmann

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Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat (both °1983 in Tel Aviv) have been working in collaboration for several years and are creating works in the Audiovisual field. Living and working in Brussels.

Their works have been produced by Auguste Orts and Argos (BE) and distributed by EYE institute (NL); shown at filmfestivals as IDFA and Rotterdam Film Festival (NL); Courtisane (BE); New Horizons (PL); on television (Arte) and in exhibitions at STUK (BE); EMAF (DE) and ThePetah-Tikva Museum for Contemporary Arts (IL). Their work have won prizes in IMAGES (CA) and Oberhausen Film Festival (DE).

Coming from different educational backgrounds – Sirah studied at P.A.R.T.S (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios), Brussels and and Eitan studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam – their work has been challenging the performative aspects of the moving image. In their latest film Printed Matter and their upcoming installation Journal they question the spatial and durational potentialities of reading photographs that carry a common visual language and historical narratives.

Francesco Cavaliere

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Calle Holck

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Calle Holck, born 1983 is an artist with base in Stockholm, Sweden.

He graduated with a master in fine arts from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm 2012. He works with many different forms of art. Film, sculpture, installation, sound, music and performance.

Lately Holcks work has been The Artist Is Dead, sits specific video in Lithuania. In Your Face, manipulative brainwash in Norrköping. You Are Great, feel-good posters in Kalmar. In 2012 he also showed his movie Twenty Happy Endings for the first time. His sculptures work Seven Epic Sculptures are on public display in Smedjebacken, Sweden.

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Katerina Undo

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Katerina Undo (GR) is an audiovisual artist, theremin player and performer, mostly concerned in creating intermedia works with a particular interest in exploring the acoustics frontiers. Her work is introducing a conceptual turn toward additional ways of ‘being-in-the-world’ with the Heideggerian meaning of perception. Katerina currently lives and works in Belgium, where she is a resident artist at the HISK Institute, Ghent.

Maro Michalakakos

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Maro Michalakakos "Born in Greece and raised in Athens Maro Michalakakos dividing her life between the Hellenic world and France.She became known through a substantial body of work in which figures or themes abound that are invariably in a new state of tension :men and women ,the protective domestic interior and painful intimacy ,love and submission ,the bond and the shackle .Woven of family memories ,cultural references and erotic residual images.Michalakakos aim is to use the principle of figurative allusion:no description,no frontal statement and even less slogans.the artist universe is more given to creations on the edge of dreams ,filled with an apparent calm,intentionally positioned midway between reality and the imaginary dimension." Maro Michalakakos Violente Beauté/violent Beauty Paul Ardenne

Ahmet Ögüt

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Ahmet Öğüt: Born in 1981 in Diyarbakir, Turkey, lives and works in Berlin, Istanbul and Amsterdam.

Öğüt recently completed a year-long residency at Tate and the Delfina Foundation, resulting in the major ongoing project: the Silent University (2012). Öğüt recently had solo exhibitions at Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart; SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul; Fondazione Giuliani, Rome; Artspace Visual Arts Centre in Sydney and Kunsthalle Basel. Selected group exhibitions include the 7th Liverpool Biennial; the 12th Istanbul Biennial; the 4th Moscow Biennial; Performa 09 in New York and the 5th Berlin Biennial.

He is winner of the 2010 Europas Zukunft prize from Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK) Leipzig, the 2011 Volkskrant Art Prize, and 2012 The Special Prize of the Future Generation Art Prize.

He co-represented Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale together with Banu Cennetoğlu.

Francesco Arena

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Francesco Arena was born in Torre Santa Susanna, Brindisi, in 1978, now he lives and works in Cassano delle Murge, Bari.

To create his works he starts from the Italian history, in particular from the political and social facts that characterized the recent past. Episods, too many times hidden or hushed up, that in the works by Francesco Arena gain a new life thanks to the synthetic and metaphorical forms of his sculptures.Francesco Arena shows his works in solo exhibitions like: 2013 Onze mille cent quatre-vingt sept jours, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims. 2012 Trittico 57, Project Room, Museion, Bolzano; Orizzonte con riduzione di Mare, Monitor, Roma; 2011 Com'è piccola Milano, Peep Hole, Milano; 2010 Art Statement, Art Basel; Teste, Fondazione Ermanno Casoli, Fabriano.

He also has taken part in several group exhibitions among wich: 2012 The revolution must be made little by little |part 2: The Squaring of the Circle, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, San Paolo, Brasile; Sotto la Strada la Spiaggia, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino; 2011 Il bel paese dell'arte, GAMEC, Bergamo; Pleure qui peu rit qui veut – Premio Furla 2011, Palazzo Pepoli, Bologna; 2010 Temporaneo – contemporary art in the evolving city, organized by Nomas Foundation and IMF Foundation, Roma; Practicing Memory – In the time of an all – engaging present, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella.

In 2011 Arena was shortlisted for Premio Furla, Palazzo Pepoli, Bologna; in 2009 he won the Premio Fondazione Ermanno Casoli, Fabriano and Premio LUM for the Contemporary Art, I Edition, LUM, Libera Università Mediterranea, Bari. Arena has been artist in residence at Villa Arson, Nizza and he will spend the next year in New York as winner of the New York Prize.

Linda Fregni Nagler

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Linda Fregni Nagler was born in Stockholm, the 21th.10.1976. She lives and works in Milan, Italy.

She uses the photographic medium with a critical, reflective purpose, investigating tradition, iconographic conventions, the status of the photographic image. After having achieved a BFA in painting at the Academy of fine Arts of Brera, Milan, in 2000, she participated in 2004 to the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Ratti Foundation, in Como, with Jimmie Durham. In 2006 she took a diploma in Cinematographic Photography at the Escuela International de Cine y Television (EICTV), in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba.Her photographs and videos were exposed in solo shows at Monica De Cardenas Gallery in Milan (2011), Franco Soffiantino Gallery in Turin (2009), Alessandro De March Gallery in Milan (2008), Columbia University, NY (2007), Olivetti Foundation in Rome (2006) and Viafarini Gallery in Milan (2003).

She exhibited in group shows such as: LE SILENCE – Une fiction, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco –Villa Paloma (2012); Beyond the Dust, Artists' Documents Today, at De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan and Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris (2010), SI - Sindrome Italiana, la jeune création artistique italienne, at the MAGASIN-Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble (2010); Person in Less, Palazzo Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene D’Alba, and Palazzo Ducale, Genova (2010); La Différence, CAB-Centre d’Art Bastille, curated by Vincent Verlé (2010).

In 2008 she was invited in residency at the Centre International d’Accueil et d’Echanges des Récollets, in Paris, with a Scholarship offered by Dena Foundation, and in 2007 she won the New York Prize, offered by Italian Foreign Office toghether with Columbia University. In March 2012 the magazine Domus published a photo essay on her work “Things that Death cannot Destroy”. In june 2013 she will expose her work within the 55th Venice Biennial “The Enciclopedic Palace”, curated by Massimiliano Gioni.

Guiseppe Gabellone

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Giuseppe Gabellone, lives and works in Paris.

After graduating in Brindisi, the artist continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna (1992-1994) and afterwards at the Academy of Brera (1994-1995), in Milan, the city where he lived until 2006.

The artist participated in many international group exhibitions such as the Biennale in Venice (1997 e 2003), Lyons (2003), Sidney (1998) and Santa Fe (1997) as well as Documenta in Kassel (2002). He had solo exhibitions in institutions such as the Domaine de Kerguéhennec in Bignan (2008), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2002) and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo din Turin (2000).

His works have been exhibited in institutions such as the Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museu Serralves in Oporto, the Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst in Gent, the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea del Castello di Rivoli and the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna.

The work of Giuseppe Gabellone is a reflection on time, memory and its transformation. These dimensions of existence dialogue with the production of photographic images as well as the processes and materials of sculpture, in which the artist expresses an attitude of constant experimentation.

Pilvi Takala

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Pilvi Takala (b. 1981 in Helsinki), graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2006 (MFA), was artist-in-residence at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam 2009-2010 and won the Dutch Prix de Rome 2011.

Her solo exhibitions include Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Site Gallery, Sheffield; Künstlerhaus Bremen; Kunsthalle Erfurt, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Turku Art Museum; Kunsthalle Lissabon; Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway.

Her work has been shown in New Museum, New York; S.M.A.K., Ghent; Kunsthalle Basel; De Hallen Haarlem; Wiels, Brussels; 4th Moscow Biennial; Witte de With, Rotterdam; 4th Bucharest Biennial; 5th Berlin Biennial; 9th Istanbul Biennial and Kunsthalle Helsinki.

Thomas Kratz

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Thomas Kratz, born 1972 in Germany, is an artist based in Berlin.

Mikael Mikael

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Mikael Mikael grew up in Wiesbaden, Germany. He studied Fine Art at the Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin and at the HFBK (University of Fine Arts) Hamburg.

Subsequently he worked as a VJ in Berlin's club scene. 2009 he received a scholarship from the Berlin Senate for a stay in New York. 2011 he received yet another scholarship from the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Engl. Academy Schloss Solitude), Stuttgart.

Mikael Mikael's works are conceptually developed as interventions within the physical and discursive public space. Installations are documented through photography and video, whereas the documentations can stand as self-contained works themselves. In November 2011 a specific work Mikael Mikael's appeared in a photography depicting female Israelian activists, holding up the poster that reads "Show you are not afraid", showing their solidarity and support for the Egyptian Blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy.

Suse Weber

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Suse Weber, geboren 1970 in Leipzig (GDR), entwickelte einen eigenen Werkbegriff der Emblematischen Skulptur.

Diese Skulpturen bewegen sich im interdisziplinären Raum und operieren mit dem Möglichkeitsraum der Begegnung zwischen Skulptur, Betrachter und Künstler.

Dieser eigene Werkbegriff formuliert neue Gesetzmässigkeiten im Umgang mit einem Kunstwerk, aber auch neue Methoden der Herleitung und Entwicklung eines Werkes. In ihren Performances inszeniert Suse Weber Widerlager alltäglicher Formen der Gesellschaft, die sich mit dem kulturellen und politischen Umbruch des heutigen Europas auseinandersetzen.2006 schuf sie die erste Deutsch-Türkische Oper ("DTO", Akademie der Künste Berlin).

Seit 2008 entwickelte Suse Weber Werkformeln mit den Titeln "Formel:Verein" (2008 MMIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach; 2009 Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin), "Formel:Kongorama" (2009 Troubleyn Laboratorium, Antwerpen; 2009 Wiels, Brüssel ; 2008 Base Alpha Galerie, Antwerpen) und "Formel:Marionette" (2010 in "Tanzschule für eine Marionette", Galerie Barbara Weiss; 2011 Kunsthalle Lingen; 2012 Sprengel Museum, Hannover).Ihre Arbeiten wurden unter anderem in Institutionen wie der Temporären Kunsthalle in Berlin ("Zeigen", 2009), den Kunstwerken Berlin ("Jetzt und Zehn Jahre Davor", 2004), im Martin-Grophius-Bau Berlin ("Urbane Realitäten: Focus Istanbul", 2005), Pace Wildenstein New York ("Berlin 2000", 2009), im ZKM Karlsruhe ("Circle 5", 2005) und im Martha Herford Museum (2009 Marta SMS) ausgestellt. Suse Weber lebt in Berlin.

Tobias Zielony

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Tobias Zielony was born in 1973 in Wuppertal,Germany.

After studying DocumentaryPhotography at the University of Wales, Newport, Zielony enters Timm Rauterts‘ class for artistic photography at the HGB Academy ofVisual Arts Leipzig in 2001.

After his graduation in 2004 and his master in 2006 he moves to Berlin. He receives the GASAG-Kunstpreis, Berlin, in 2006 as well as grants for New York and Los Angeles. In 2009 and 2010 Zielony holds the professorship for artistic photography at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne.He lives and works in Berlin.

Mariam Ghani

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Mariam Ghani was born in 1978 in New York. Her research-based practice spans video, installation, performance, photography and text, and operates at the intersections between place, memory, history, language, loss, and reconstruction. Ghani's exhibitions and screenings include the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2013), dOCUMENTA 13 (2012), MoMA, New York (2011), the Sharjah Biennials 10 and 9 (2011, 2009), the National Gallery, Washington DC (2008), the Tate Modern, London (2007), d/Art, Sydney (2006), EMAP, Seoul (2005), Liverpool Biennial (2004), and transmediale, Berlin (2003). Her public and participatory projects have been staged in Berlin, Amsterdam, Buffalo, Detroit, New York and online. Recent texts have appeared in Filmmaker, Mousse, Abitare, the Radical History Review, the New York Review of Books blog, and Creative Time Reports. Ghani has collaborated with artist Chitra Ganesh since 2004 as the experimental archive Index of the Disappeared; with choreographer Erin Kelly since 2006 on the video series Performed Places; and with media archive collective pad.ma since 2012 on the digitization and dissemination of the Afghan Films archive. She also recently co-curated an Afghan cinema retrospective for the Guggenheim Museum, and co-wrote the book Afghanistan: A Lexicon for documenta's 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts series. Ghani has been awarded the NYFA and Soros Fellowships, grants from the Graham Foundation, CEC ArtsLink, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Experimental Television Center, and residencies at LMCC, Eyebeam Atelier, Smack Mellon, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from New York University and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Asian Pacific American Institute at NYU.

Liz Deschenes

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“Liz Deschenes is a photographer who, in the best modernist tradition, pushes against the basic terms by which photography is conventionally defined: instantaneity, veracity, fixity, or reproducibility,” writes curator and critic Matthew Witkovsky. Indeed, Deschenes uses durational photogramatic exposure to create unique, shifting surfaces that frequently function as sculptural or architectural rather than photographic objects. Deschenes stages the technical components of photography, both contemporary and anachronistic, while reflecting, compressing, and assessing the architectural settings that surround them, through her mirrors’ simultaneous repopulation and evacuation of these spaces. In her earlier work, Deschenes utilized landscape images as an entry point to address self-reflexive concepts of the medium. Her Elevations series utilized the rich and dense dye transfer color printing reminiscent of the golden age of Technicolor films, a process discontinued by Kodak in 1993. The project staged the seven standard colors developed by cartographers to represent ranges of the earth’s elevation to produce a gradation of corresponding monochrome photographs. Deschenes’ Blue and Green Screens foregrounded the invisible screens typically used as the invisible basis for special effects and absent background imagery. In her Moiré series, Deschenes photographed a sheet of perforated paper filtering the light coming through a window, and superimposed the ensuing negative with a duplicate on an enlarger to create an abstract, moiré pattern image. The result is an optically oscillating, dazzling body of work grounded in the manipulation of a single negative. In her most recent work, Deschenes exposes photographic paper to the night sky, develops it, and fixes the photogram with silver toner, creating misty silver surfaces brindled with slight changes in hue – affected either by exposure to ambient light, or the hand-application of the toner itself. After the photogramatic process creates these unique and varied surfaces, the works are mounted on aluminum or Dibond. Some of these photograms remain unframed and tend to oxidize over time, further problematizing the role of the photograph as fixed image on surface. Instead, purged of representational content, the photograph functions as an object that records how it has been, and continues to be, acted upon. The series originated with Tilt / Swing, an installation of six such “silver mirror” panels arranged in a 360-degree floor-to-ceiling configuration at Miguel Abreu Gallery, based on a diagram that 20th Century architect, designer, and artist Herbert Bayer drew to accompany his essay The Fundamentals of Exhibition Design. In her second iteration of the Tilt / Swing installation, the photographic panels were fully exposed to daylight, and brought to black in the development stage. Deschenes‘ subsequent individual silver and black mirror works stage the same time-based photographic processes in an energetic rather than taxidermic language, allowing variations in framing and size to act in myriad ways upon the surrounding conditions of display. Liz Deschenes was born in 1966 in Boston, MA, and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1988. Deschenes teaches at Bennington College, and is a visiting artist at Columbia University, School of Visual Arts, Yale University and Bard College. Among others, her work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2012, Deschenes exhibited her new work in a solo exhibition at the Secession, Vienna. Her work was included in the Whitney Biennial 2012, and in Parcours, a two-person exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago that she collaboratively curated with Florian Pumhösl and Matthew Witkovsky. In 2011, she participated in The Anxiety of Photography at the Aspen Art Museum; If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now, organized by Josiah McElheny, Tom Eccles, and Lynne Cooke, at the CCS Bard Hessel Museum, along with participations in group exhibitions at Klosterfelde, Berlin, Musée Juif Belgique, Brussels, and the Bergen Kunsthall, Norway. Deschenes was previously included in Color Chart, curated by Ann Temkin, at The Museum of Modern Art and Tate Liverpool, and in Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her work has been exhibited at, among others, The Drawing Center, New York, the Walker Art Center, the Langen Foundaiton, Düsseldorf, and the New Museum. Tilt/Swing was Deschenes’ second solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery in May 2009.

Jessica Dickinson

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Jessica Dickinson was born in St.Paul, MN and lives and works in New York. She is represented by James Fuentes in New York. Recent Solo exhibitions include Under at Maisterravalbuena in Madrid, Spain (2012), BEFORE/BESIDE at James Fuentes in New York (2011), and a solo presentation at Frieze Art Fair, Frame in London (2010). Group exhibitions include Paintings from the Zublodowicz Collection: Painting in the 2.5th Dimension at the Zublodiwcz Collection in London, Come Through at Sikkema Jenkins in New York, Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and the Ready Made Gesture at The Kitchen in New York, along with group exhibitions at Lehman Maupin, Max Protech, Andrew Kreps, Altman Siegel, Derek Eller Gallery, and Cranbrook Museum of Art, among others. Dickinson’s solo exhibitions have been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, and The New Yorker, among others. Her awards include a Farpath Grant in Dijon France (2008), a Change, Inc grant (2003), and The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program (2001). Dickinson received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1999, and her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1997. She was appointed graduate critic in painting at Yale University School of Art in 2012. Dickinson has forthcoming solo exhibitions in 2013 at David Peterson Gallery in Minneapolis and Altman Siegel gallery in San Francisco.

Nicola Lopez

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Born in Santa Fe, NM, Nicola López currently lives and works in Brooklyn and teaches at Bard College in upstate NY. Through her work in installation, drawing and printmaking, López describes and reconfigures our contemporary—primarily urban—landscape. Her focus on describing ‘place’ stems from an interest in urban planning, architecture and anthropology and it has been fueled by time spent working and traveling in different landscapes.

López has received support for her work through a NYFA Fellowship in Drawing/Printmaking/Book Arts and a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant, among others. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally: it been included in group exhibitions at museums including MoMA in NY, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in LA, the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City and the Denver Art Museum in Denver, CO and featured in solo exhibitions at the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, WI and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Lucy Raven

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Lucy Raven was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1977 and lives in New York City and Oakland, California. Her work has been included in exhibitions and screenings internationally including Forum Expanded, Berlinale, Berlin (2013); Lucy Raven: Hammer Project, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012); Documentary Fortnight, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); and Greater New York, PS1, Long Island City, New York (2010). Raven is a contributing editor to BOMB magazine, and her writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum; BOMB; and October. She was the co-curator with Fionn Meade of Nachleben at the Goethe Institute, New York (2010); co-curator with Regine Basha and Rebecca Gates of The Marfa Sessions at Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas (2008); associate producer on Urbanized (2012); and co-producer of a series of online documentaries for the Oakland Museum of California (2012).

Meriç Algün Ringborg

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Meriç Algün Ringborg (b.1983, Istanbul) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. She received her BA in Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design from Sabanci University, Istanbul (2007) and her MFA from Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2012). In her work, she employs a variety of media including printed matter, photography, sound and installation; mainly focusing on the themes of nationality, borders, translation, bureaucracy and home. Recent and forthcoming group exhibitions include: The Time of Our Image, Talinn Art Hall, Talinn (2013); ABCDEFGHI, Marabouparken, Stockholm (2013); Sequences VI, Reykjavík (2013); When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, MoCA, Detroit (2013); The Library of Unborrowed Books, Art in General, NYC (2013); Signs Taken in Wonder, MAK, Vienna (2013); Incremental Change, Galeri NON, Istanbul (2012); Detective, Andreas Huber, Vienna (2012); When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2012); Show Off, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (2012); An Incomplete History of Incomplete Works of Art, Francesca Minini, Milan (2012); Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul (2011). Solo exhibitions include A Hook or a Tail, Frutta, Rome (2013), Prompts and Triggers: Meriç Algün Ringborg, Line No.2 (Holy Bible), Witte de With, Rotterdam (2012), The Concise Book of Visa Application Forms, Gallery Naïve, Stockholm (2010).

Susan Hefuna

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Susan Hefuna was born in 1962 in Germany. She works with several medias such as drawing, installation, photography, video and performance. Susan Hefuna has exhibited widely at international institutions including the MoMa, New York, USA; MAD Museum, New York, USA; Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt; Rose Issa projects, London; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA; New Museum, New York, USA: Kunstmuseum, Thun, Switzerland; Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria; Fare Mondi, 53rd Venice Biennial, Italy; Seville Biennial, Spain; New Museum, New York, USA; 2nd Riwaq Biennale, Palestine; 9th Sharjah Biennial, UAE; The Louvre, Paris, France; National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. Pi Artworks held her first solo exhibition in Istanbul in September 2011, parallel to the 12th Istanbul Biennial.

Flo Maak

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Flo Maak (born 1980, Fulda, Germany) is an artist based in Seoul (Korea). His work is grounded in photography and an interest in social conventions of image production and consumption. It extends from photography to installation, text sculpture and video. He currently teaches fine art photography at Chung-Ang University, Seoul. Maak studied fine arts with Wolfgang Tillmans and Willem de Rooij at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main and at Cooper Union, New York as well as art history, philosophy and sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main. Selected solo exhibitions include “Living in the Lobby” at Bernhard Knaus, Frankfurt (2011), “Humidity Control” at von Cirne, Cologne (2011), "Nichts tun wie ein Biest" at Bielefelder Kunstverein (2009), "Trompe-l'eil Polizei" in cooperation with Free Class Frankfurt at Frankfurter Kunstverein (2008) and "silent specters" at JET, Berlin (2006). Selected group exhibitions include “Scattered Showers” at Frankfurter Kunstverein (2013), “The Worldly House” at documeta 13, Kassel (2012), “After Prisma” at Villa Romana, Florence (2011), "I Animal! (You Human)" at Perla Mode, Zurich (2010), "Lyst" at Overgaden, Copenhagen (2009) and "Dear Anus" at VBKO, Vienna (2008).

Christine Ödlund

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Christine Ödlund, artist and composer (born 1963) lives and works in Stockholm Sweden.

She studied electroacoustic music at EMS (The Electronic Music Studio) in Stockholm after she graduated from the Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, and Konstfack University College of Arts, Craft and Design 1996 and 1995 respectively.

Christine Ödlund’s artistic practice covers drawing, painting, animations and electro-acoustic music.

Her work is rooted in different terrains such as theosophy, synaesthesia, clairvoyance and pure scientific research. One example of a recent work is the score ”Greetings from Uranus H.P. Blavatsky” from 2012, a musical score containing parts of Madame Blavatsky’s thoughts about magnetism, Uranus, cannabis and occult chemistry.

Recent shows include Art & Music – Search For a New Synesthesia, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2012/2013. Channeled, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden. Ynglingagatan 1 at Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2011. Thrice Upon A Time, Magasin 3, Stockholm and The Moderna Exhibition, Moderna Museet, Stockholm all in 2010.

She has recently finished the video installation "Atlantis No.2 / 2012", a 2.5 x 16 meter led wall of animated drawings commissioned by the Statoil Oslo offices, Fornebu Building, Norway.

Upcoming events include a solo exhibition of new works at Galleri Riis Stockholm in August and the participation in the book about abstract pioneer Hilma af Klint published by Moderna Museet, that will be launched at the Venice Biennale May 2013.

Ragnar Kjartansson

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Ragnar Kjartansson (b.1976) lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland. He has exhibited widely around Europe and the US and represented Iceland at the 53 Venice Biennale in 2009 with his performance The End – Venice, lasting the entire length of the Biennale, and the five channel video The End - Rocky Mountains. Kjartansson has been selected to show at the 55th Venice Bienniale -The Arsenale, 2013 curated by Massimiliano Gioni. Solo exhibition include shows at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2012); the Carnegie Museum of Art (2011) – touring to MOCA North Miami and to ICA Boston (2012); the Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany (2011) and EX3, Florence, Italy (2010). Other exhibitions featuring major works by Kjartansson include the 2nd Turin Triennial, Italy (2008) and Manifesta 8, Italy (2008); the Reykjavik Arts Festival in Iceland (2012, 2008, 2005, 2004) and Performa 11, New York in 2011 where his 12-hour performance Bliss received the Malcolm McLaren Award. Kjartansson is a self-described incurable romantic, whose multifaceted artistic practice is rooted in a tradition of acting and performance, and whose existential and absurdist sensibility can be linked to artists including Caspar David Friedrich, Gilbert and George, Harold Pinter, and Samuel Beckett. He has experimented with elements of visual art, music, and theatre and considers himself mainly a performance artist. His work is characterized by the tragicomic spectacle of human experience where sorrow collides with happiness, horror with beauty, and drama with humor. Repetition and ritual feature prominently in Ragnarsson´s work – his performances share a structure that has been characterized as ´live loop´.

Amílcar Packer

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Amilcar Packer was born in Santiago de Chile in 1974 and moved to Brazil in 1982. Currently pursuing a master degree in Clinical Psychology at the Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, he graduated in philosophy by the University of São Paulo. Packer carries a working practice which shifts, subverts and re-contextualizes everyday objects, architecture and the human body in actions often performed by the artist and usually presented in photographies, videos and installations. His work operates on the organization of the world as language where art points to the possibility of intervention on life modes, renewal of modalities of seizure and constant questioning of patterns of behavior. While investigating the possibilities for the production of diference and subjectivity resistance and friction, emerges the possibility to face hegemonic and homogenizing historical, political and social structures that rigidly determine individuals. In recent years, he developed and organized presentations and meetings involving reading formats, workshops and urban intrerventions, talks, walks and meals. Since January 2013, works as co-director of Brazilian internationa residency program CAPACETE Entretenimentos.

Virginia de Medeiros

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Virginia de Medeiros, born in Feira de Santana, 1973, is master in Visual Arts. In 2006, she was part of the "27th Bienal de São Paulo: Como Viver Junto". In 2010, she was invited to the "2nd Triennial of Luanda: Geografias Emocionais Arte e Afecto". In 2011, she was part of the art exhibition "Roaming Itinerary: 32 º Panorama of Brazilian Art," Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo. She have participated in some international residencies, as the Arts Center La Chambre Blanche in Quebec, Canada, and the "International Women for Peace Conference" in Dili, East Timor (2009). In 2012, the work "Studio Butterfly" was acquired by Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste to compose a collection that includes the artistic production from Brazil northeast in the last decade. Collective Exhibitions: 2013 18th International Festival of Contemporary Art SESC_Videobrasil; 2011 Video Guerrilla, São Paulo, SP, 2008 " É Claro que Você sabe do que Estou Falando?", Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, SP; 2006 “Entre o Público e o Privado: Transições na Arte Contemporânea”, Dragão do Mar, Fortaleza, CE; 2006 “Paradoxos Brasil”, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, RJ/ Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, SP, among others. Lives and works between Salvador and São Paulo.

Kevin Simon Mancera

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I got my arts degree five years ago here in Bogotá, since then, drawing and publications has become the most frecuent tools in my work. I titled my degree work: A Hundred Things i Hate. I drew with all my love the things i most used to hate on these days. That proyect marked the path I would follow after. At the same time, i was working in a series of drawings that together make a sort of emotional diary compiling the own and others misery. Those early works were driven by my own emotions and my particular way of relating to the surrounding. Then my interest turned in dictionaries, biographies of losers, stories, travels, and maps. My last project, which I presented this year, was named: La Felicidad, which translate The Happiness, was born in the library one of those afternoons with me getting lost between maps and dictionaries. In the middle of my search, I found a group of cities in Latin America named Felicidad (Happiness), after a long process and a lot of arrangements, I begun my expedition by land trying to find these places, while I was drawing and photographing interesting things that I was finding along the journey. After my came back, the project ended in one book with all the drawings I made during the trip around Latin America, and I also showed the seven pictures taken in each of the final destinations were called Happiness.

Daniela Ortiz

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Cusco - Peru 1985 Her work aims to generate spaces of tension where the conceptions of race, social class, nationality and gender are explored for then showing social behavior as an structure based in inclusion and exclusion. During the last years the investigations and projects she has developed are mostly related to migration and how the states and societies manage and relate with this phenomena. She is editor, together with Xose Quiroga, of the independent news media Antigonia.com. Daniela has been awarded with the grant for young artist of the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation with the project “Distinction”, the grant for artist of the Guasch Coranty Foundation with the project “Maids Rooms”, the grant for publications of the Sala de Art Jove of Barcelona for producing the book “97 House Maids”and recently with the grant BCN Produccio for developing the project NN 15 518. She has also participated in various group shows in the US, Sweden, Rumania,Argentina and Czech Republic.

Niclas Bacal

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Angélica Teuta

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Angélica Teuta is an artist living and working in Bogotá, Colombia. Her work challenges the notion of a "learned" condition and attempts to contrast this against how one is accustomed to experiencing this reality. We rarely inquire about our conditioning, and we have a passive attitude towards our experiences and memories. Teuta's work summons the question "why". In her installations, Teuta is looking for a perceptual experience using space and resources such as light, mechanisms, basic technologies, recycled objects and information. The artistic result is an expansion of space and time to affect perception. Languages of Birds and RE quest /RE place are her last project showed at Art Gallery of York University and Canada's 25th Images Festival in Toronto, Canada. Also, she did a site-specific installation in her own home. Teuta also participated in group exhibitions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia,, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States, Costa Rica and Turkey. Her installations have been reviewed in various publications including Artforum and Artnexus. In May, 2013, Teuta will be presenting a solo exhibition at Fotogalleriet in Oslo, Norway.

Camila Ramírez

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Camila Ramírez Gajardo, Visual Artist. Born in Antofagasta, Chile, 1988. Master’s Degree Candidate in Visual Arts, University of Chile. Bachelors Degree in Visual Arts, University Diego Portales. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art MAC, Santiago, Chile (2012); Metales Pesados Visual, Santiago, Chile (2012); Solidarity Museum Salvador Allende MSSA, Santiago, Chile (2012). She has also participated in a number of group shows at Centro Cultural de España, Lima, Perú (2013); CCU Art Room, Santiago, Chile; (2013), Gabriela Mistral Gallery GGM, Santiago, Chile (2012); Concreta Gallery at Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile (2011) and at the Museum of Visual Arts MAVI, Santiago, Chile (2011). In 2011 she was distinguished as one of the three winners of the Showroom contest, organized and sponsored by Chile´s National Council of Culture and Arts pavilion at the Ch.ACO art fair, of Santiago, Chile. In 2012 she was nominated for the AMA fellowship and also for the Gasworks International Residency Programme; that year she was pre-selected for the EFG Bank & ArtNexus Latin American Art Award following her participation as part of XS Gallery, at the Ch.ACO art fair of Santiago. Since 2011 she has been part of the Artist Collective “Intento Colectivo” which also directs and owns Armada Gallery, a new exhibition space in Santiago of Chile. Lives and works in Santiago of Chile.

Eduardo Basualdo

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Eduardo Tomás Basualdo is an argentinian artist. His works stay in a limit between theatre and visual arts. He works with installations, sculptures, drawings or objects. Last years he has participated in many events in public and private spaces like the Museé départemental dart contemporain de Rochechouart, Bienal de Montevideo, Uruguay (2012), Lyon Biennale , France (2011), Mercosur Bienal , Brasil (2009), Pontevedra Bienal, Spain (2006), Fundación Jumex, Mexico DF (2010). He studied arts at IUNA (Instituto Universitario Nacional de las Artes) and theatre in General San Martín Theatre, in Buenos Aires , Argnetina. Eduardo participated in different national and internatinal scholarships like “Beca Kuitca”, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2010/11, “Scowhegan School of painting and sculpture”. Maine, EEUU, 2009 y “SAM art project”, Paris, Francia 2012. Currently he is represented by Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires and PSM Gallery, Berlin. He lives in Buenos Aires.

Giuseppe Campuzano

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Giuseppe Campuzano is a transvestite philosopher. In 2004, Campuzano created Museo Travesti del Perú, The Transvestite Museum of Peru, a bodily counter-narrative to makeup voids and de- makeup boundaries. Parasitising the museums of contemporary art of São Paulo, Santiago and Barcelona, the Reina Sofia, Madrid, and the Tate Modern, London; universities of Lima, Brighton, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, México D. F. and Quito. Working the streets. Spawning libraries with Museo Travesti del Perú (2008); Chamanes, danzantes, putas y misses: El travestismo obseso de la memoria (2010, Ramona) and Veiled Genealogy for a Transfuture in The Future Lasts Forever (2011). Campuzano is recipient of the Foundation for Arts Initiatives Grant in 2013.

Alejandro Chaskielberg

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Alejandro Chaskielberg (b. 1977) is Director of Photography from the Argentina's National Film and Audiovisual Art Institute. He began his career photographing for magazines and newspapers, where he developed a body of work on social issues and as a portraitist. After stint as musician playing classical music with violin, he started doing documentaries for television were he wrote and directed more than forty documentaries Since 2006 Alejandro devotes his time to his personal projects. His work has been exhibited at the New York Photo Festival and the Brighton Biennial. He also exhibited at the photo festivals Paraty en Foco (Brazil) and El Ojo Salvaje (Paraguay). His latest exhibition in 2012 was hold at the 916 Gallery in Tokyo Alejandro is the winner of the 2011 L'Iris d'Or at the Sony World Photo Awards. Also in 2011 he received the POYI - Latin America Pictures of the Year as the best Latin American Portrait. In 2009 he was the recipient of the BURN online magazine Emerging Photographer Grant. He also won the Talent Latent Award as part of Spain's SCAN'09 Festival, as well as the Leopold Godowsky Jr. Award from the Boston University. He was named as one of PDN magazine’s 30 New and emerging photographers to watch. In 2008 he was invited to participate in the National Geographic All Roads Photography Program. In 2006 he won the Curriculum Cero award in Argentina.

Luiza Margan

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Luiza Margan was born in Rijeka, Croatia. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana and Vienna. Margan currently lives in Rijeka and Vienna.

Margan’s work is research based; taking shape in form of exhibitions constructed from variety of media, public space interventions or publications. In the last several years she has exhibited internationally in group as well as solo exhibitions. In 2007 she has received the OHO Art Award for a project together with artist Miha Presker, including a 2 month residency at ISCP studios in New York. She has since exhibited in exhibitions like L’art contamporain en Europe Pommery Experience 5 in Reims, Paris (2008), “Bienale Quadrilateralle” in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Croatia(2009), Iron Curtain in National Museum of Art in Bratislava(2010), Extrem, in Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (2011), Art Annale: Recalling the Past in Porec, Croatia (2012) and so on.

In 2012 Margan was taking part of Changdong National Art Studio Residency Program developing research that took shape in an installation Anatomy of the Bow, exhibited in Korea and Vienna (at Künstlerhaus/Passagegalerie).The most recent work was activating the concern of ‘disappearance’ of public space in Zagreb, leading to a public space sound installation Concert for a Sewing Machine and a Tree (2012) and a publication. Margan has collaborated with and for radio, for example for the audio work Rehearsal or Re-tailoring, a sound piece developed for the Picture of Sounds – art show on the 3rd Croatian Radio Program.

In 2012 she has received the T-HT& Museum of Contemporary Art Award in Zagreb, Croatia for the work Outside the Role.

Hadley + Maxwell

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Hadley + Maxwell Stemming from their commitment to collaboration, Hadley+Maxwell’s installations, performances, and writing employ diverse media to engage the relation between private life and public appearance, often borrowing iconic images and traditional forms as they are expressed in pop-cultural, artistic and political movements. They have presented their work internationally, in exhibitions and events at institutions including the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Witte de With (Rotterdam), SMART Project Space (Amsterdam), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Powerplant (Toronto), and the Seattle Art Museum. Recent presentations include Higher Atlas, the 4th Marrakech Biennale (Morocco, 2012), Material Information, Bergen Art Museum (Norway, 2012) and Oh, Canada!, Mass MoCA (MA, 2012). They met in Vancouver, Canada, and are currently based in Berlin.

Corin Sworn

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Corin Sworn is interested in the means by which artifacts are borrowed, adapted and reconfigured to tell various stories.

Her work often explores the alternate narratives that cultural products might develop through use. Sworn is interested in hierarchies of attention, the systems that order these and how the erratic nature of subjective perception might undermine them.

Solo exhibitions including: Chisenhale Gallery (2013), Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery (2011), Art Now at Tate Britain (2011), and Tramway (2010).

Group exhibitions include: Cosey Complex, ICA (2010) Morality, Witte de With (2010) EASTInternatinal (2009), Kunsthalle Basel (2009).

She is represented by Blanket Contemporary Inc and Kendall Koppe Gallery.

Sarah Anne Johnson

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Winnipeg-based artist Sarah Anne Johnson was trained as a photographer, but uses a variety of media to realize her vision, including painting, sculpture and performance, to make up for the limitations of representation within the photographic medium. Her subject matter varies, from environmental to personal concerns. Johnson completed her undergraduate studies at The University of Manitoba and her Masters at The Yale School of Art. Her work has been exhibited extensively in North America and is in several prestigious public collections including, the Art Gallery of Ontario, The National Gallery of Canada, the Phillips Collection and the Guggenheim Museum. She is the recipient of several grants and awards including the inaugural 'Grange Prize', Canada's most prestigious photography award. Her work has been reviewed and published in many news papers and magazines including, The New York Times, Art Forum, Border Crossing and Canadian Art Magazine.

Raphaëlle de Groot

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Raphaëlle de Groot works from encounter situations with people and communities in response to experience. Her projects often rely on the collection and archival reorganization of material gathered in various contexts outside the conventional art world. She produces works that generally take the form of actions, objects, images and documentation. Other aspects of her research involve performance pieces that explore the ways in which art is created and received through constraints - like blindness, limiting garments, suppression of the face - that create a state of dispossession and loss.Raphaëlle de Groot presents her work actively since 1997. She has acquired valuable collaboration experiences with, among others, the Musée de la civilisation (Quebec), the 3e Imperial (Granby), the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge), the Quartier, Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper (France), the Galerie de l’UQAM, the Leeds City Art Gallery (UK) and the Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto (Italy).En exercice, her most important solo exhibition, took place at Galerie de l’UQAM in 2006, accompanied by an important publication. In 2008, she participated in the first edition of the Québec Triennial at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. In 2012, her work was presented at Hospice Cabañas in Guadalajara (Mexico) as part of Candido a group exhibition showcased in the Festival cultural de Mayo.Raphaëlle de Groot lives and works in Montreal. She holds an MA in Visual and Media Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal (2007). She received numerous distinctions including the prestigious Sobey Art Award in 2012.

Zin Taylor

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Zin Taylor (1978, Calgary, Canada) Canadian-born, Brussels-based artist Zin Taylor has become known internationally for his elaborate installations encompassing elements of performance and sculpture along with drawing, photography, and video, Taylor’s work revisits the process, construction and inscription of form through specific cultural histories. In the words of curator Dieter Roelstraete, his works “signal a definite shift toward a fundamental interrogation of sculpture’s basic language, if not of the very assumptions that underlie the enterprise of sculpture and art as such. How do forms come about? Do materials have a will of their own, content to speak through Zin Taylor’s hands as long as he’s able to give voice to matter’s inner thought?” His multifaceted works are often culled from the undergrowth of popular culture (especially the underground music scene) and contemporary art lore. The spoken and printed word in all its forms - journalism, research, storytelling - figures prominently in Taylor's practice, and many of his installations have also been accompanied by publications and/or artist books. Zin Taylor lives and works in Brussels since 2008. Recent solo exhibitions include The Ceremony & The Spirit (with Roe Ethridge), La Loge, Brussels (2013); Art Statements, Art Basel (2012); The Story of Stripes and Dots, MuHKA, Antwerp; The Flute of Sub, The Artist's Institute, New York; Growth, KIOSK, Gent; The Units, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal (all 2011); The Bakery of Block (first arrangement) - Front room - Contemporary Art Museum St Louis (2009); The Crystal Ship, BELvue Museum & Etablissement d’en Face Projects, Brussels (2008). Selected group exhibitions include Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2011); Architectooralooral, 1857, Oslo (2010); Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2009), amongst many others. Zin Taylor is represented by Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels; Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto; and Supportico Lopez, Berlin.