Greg Semu
I explore themes of cultural displacement and the significance of identity. Using photography, sound and film, I create evocative dialogues to challenge the romanticised colonialist documentation of “first contact”. The Berlin residency will allow me to research and mine the historical treasures reflecting “colonial” Samoa in German institutions, museums and galleries, with the prospect of […]
Róza El-Hassan
I was born in Budapest of Syrian and Hungarian origins. I grew up in the western part of Germany, near Düsseldorf, and German became more or less my native language. Since 1992 I have been working and participating in exhibitions internationally. One of the works that best epitomises my practice from that time is Stretched […]
Mikko Rikala
What are the possibilities for man to observe and understand the world beyond the rational mind? This is the essential question Mikko Rikala seeks to instantiate through his work. Epistemological by nature, his work examines the tension between “seeing”, which can be equated with the realm of physics and its measurable dimensions as a form […]
Samnang Khvay
Samnang Khvay engages with concepts of mediation, change and continuity, offering new interpretations of historic events, long-standing cultural practices and contentious current affairs. Khvay holds a BA in Painting from the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh (2006) and is a founding member of the artist collective Stiev Selapak and the art venues […]
Jorge Pineda
Jorge Pineda combines the moment and the process of masking with a kind of traumatophilia in which the practice of art is, properly speaking, the sublimatory impulse. The artist himself has underlined his interest in the effects of traumata, focusing on the fragility of childhood. His work leads us into a dark domination or, to […]
Youki Hirakawa
In his work Youki Hirakawa explores the state of things immersed in time, which he conceives of as a river. To do so, he starts by isolating objects or phenomena from their original context, which he then displays in site-specific photographic or video screening situations. The exhibition space thus becomes part of the temporal structure […]
Charles van Otterdijk
Over the past five years Charles van Otterdijk has been working on Double Centre, a project based on the discovery of two specific locations on the German-Polish border. Double Centre addresses the culture of surveillance and the way in which information is controlled and mediated – by the artist himself and, by inference, to society […]
Chia-Wei Hsu
Chia-Wei Hsu´s artistic practice relies on a specific kind of narrative – a way of documenting that interferes with reality by focusing on particular, site-specific characteristics pertaining to memory, imagination or identification. In recent years, Hsu has focused on forgotten histories of the Cold War in Asia. His works betray an acute sensitivity that weaves […]
Justin Boyd
The subject matter of my work is the landscape in the broadest sense. Using sound and video, I am taking samples of the landscape around me, which I then transform by combining them with other materials into sculptures and installations.
Kari Cholnoky
Painting presents itself in the physical space as something to be dealt with directly rather than remotely: it demands engagement. As the distinctions between commodity, machine, object and body have become confused, my work calls on viewers to re-examine their relationships to their surroundings. By re-assembling disparate material elements into paintings that seem to have […]