Iris van Dongen
The work of Iris van Dongen is always instilled by gloomy romanticism. In recent years she has been producing drawings several meters in height, their sheer size giving them a quality one can hardly escape. Though van Dongen’s work comes about mainly in an intuitive manner, the theme ‘man tormented by demons’ seems to keep […]
Germaine Koh
Germaine Koh makes works that pivot out onto the possibility of their reception. Koh’s confidence in the artwork’s ability to add meaning to the world combines what she can reasonably expect to believe about its significance, with a faith in what she cannot know or anticipate about it. […] You are not required to know […]
Kristina Braein
Perhaps another way to describe Bræin’s ingenious commentaries, reactions, and inversions of the main logic of any room is to say that the artist’s installations advocate the out-of-the-question. In the spirit of the impractical, they shed light on the impossible, the invisible, and the unspeakable, which contest the programmed organisation of the surrounding architecture.Bræin’s focus […]
Charif Benhalima
Charif’s book “Welcome to Belgium” (2003) is like a testimony, a diary, or the screenplay of a film, ending with a catharsis in which the personal story is interwoven with the detached, documentary image and in this sense becomes part of a larger history. All this is done without pathos, however. This hybrid form, being […]
Frank Kalero
The idea of launching the initiative Ojodepez arose after Frank Kalero had noticed that his documentary work had generally less opportunities to be published than his other artistic and/or advertising endeavours. The first project of Ojodepez, a non-profit association devoted to promote documentary imagery in all shapes and forms, was to create a magazine that […]
Kerry Tribe
Kerry Tribe’s work in a variety of media explores relationships between subjectivity and representation, often by investigating the grey areas between the authentic and the scripted, or the collective and the idiosyncratic. She regularly invites the unpredictability of collaboration to produce ludic philosophical inquiries through structurally rigorous forms. Tribe approaches her work from a background […]
Leonor Antunes
I recognise myself in street mythologies. I give myself the role of a traveller, eternally set in the world of action, of the real accidental nature of things, and link them to the paradox of constructing sculptures as public experiences. My work fights for the revelation of chance, in searching for and arranging objects whose […]
Ján Mancuska
Over the past year, Mancuska has abandoned the principle of the handicraft production of his artefacts, which used to determine a priori the form of his work. This do-it-yourself aspect was not merely a reference to social practices in our region (where people were actually forced to make things themselves, since they couldn`t buy them […]
Yoshiaki Kaihatsu
I am primarily interested in social services projects. Following the belief that works of art do not necessarily have to be objects, I am working on projects that incorporate direct communication with people. However, as viewers often experience problems in identifying such intangible projects with artworks, in my attempt to find new ways of expression, […]
Althea Thauberger
Althea Thauberger’s work examines self-expression and individualism in contemporary culture, particularly in relation to adolescents and young adults. By placing the diverse subjectivities of her collaborators within one context, Thauberger creates the potential of meeting points where individuals may undergo a sociological, cultural or psychological transformation. Thauberger’s projects provide a container in which to examine […]