Joba Jonathan
My work is dealing with the society to which I belong. I try to gain absolute freedom in art by borrowing images and signs from a wide range of sources such as my personal experiences, memories and imagination as well as poetry, music, commonplace objects or daily events around the world. In African art, it […]
Karen Yasinsky
“Life happens quietly albeit strangely.” K.Y. At the center of Yasinsky’s work you find an emotional space. The action of her films, quiet as it is, works to describe this emotional space. Unconcerned with the car chases, shoot outs and glass slippers that give most films their dramatic arc, the actions of her characters seek to […]
Kornél Szilágyi
In the 1990s Kornél Szilágyi became known for his experimental films as well as motion pictures. Furthermore he cofounded various experimental workshops together with hungarian independent filmmakers and musicians. Towards the End of the 1990s he also collaborated with Nándor Hevesi under the pseudonym Igor und Ivan Buharov. Kornél Szilágyi was born in 1971 in […]
Tamás Komoróczky
Tamás Komoroczky, born 1963 in Békéscsaba (Hungary). Lives in Budapest. In the works of Tamas Komoroczky in the second half of the 1990s, pop culture does not only define the artist’s identity and lifestyle, but the works created according to the rules of pop culture (the application of a logo or slogan, the graphic design […]
Christian Niccoli
Christian Niccoli`s works are encouragements to ceaselessly ask the question of how we catch each other, of how we intend to be there for others. Self- questioning and critical observation of society, a constant pausing to reflect, are the basic premises to observe oneselfand others in this spatiotemporal construction. (excerpt from Harm Lux, Acting alone […]
Serhat Köksal
In 1986, Serhat Köksal founded the 2/5 BZ project in Istanbul. The output of this constantly evolving multimedia project takes on disparate formats: tapes, video collages, CD-ROMs, audio CDs, photocopied zines and live performances. Serhat Köksal aka 2/5 BZ is performing on the subject of Turkish pop cinema and deconstruction, exotic tourism and anti-orientalism, anti-city […]
Sophia Tabatadze
In “Humancon Undercon” (2007), Tabatadze returns to installation after a year spent working mainly in video and performance. The work shows the influence of the latter in that it introduces for the first time an element of fictional narrative. The artist imagines the construction of an apartment block in her native Tbilisi, whose story embodies […]
Libia Castro + Ólafur Ólafsson
The new Dutch neighbourhood Leidsche Rijn (Utrecht) is an example of an area where high expectations converge. This new district is the setting for […] the biggest new housing estate in the Netherlands. It is one of the most extensive new development projects in Europe, set to accommodate almost 80.000 people in 2015. [Libia Castro`s […]
Can Altay
Can Altay works with video, documentation and installation. His works take the viewer along on tours of the city, involving him in the everyday life of the street and making him aware of the life of certain people, who have made themselves a niche and developed existential structures within the urban environment. Altaydocuments everyday practices on […]
Attila Szücs
What can explain Szücs’s obsessed realism? Which is, of course, not realism either in the philosophical sense of the word; on the other hand the rhetoric of the Szücsian depiction is after all based upon a realist method and the problematic of the grip on reality. Szücs paints from photographs. He finds, collects and examines […]