Soda_Jerk
Soda_Jerk are two collaborative artists since 2002, who work exclusively with audiovisual samples to create new narratives. By atomising and reassembling recorded culture they aim to manufacture counter-mythologies of the present. In their work sampling becomes a means of synthesising distinct space-times, making explicit the inherent ‘science-fiction’ of recorded media. Their work at Künstlerhaus Bethanian […]
Alicia Frankovich
I test the boundaries of the monumental, analysing the responsive, reactionary act versus the grounded and final object. The work asserts a sense of territory and power in a space. The work often appears flipped and active. Restraint is a concern where the body is held back. Relating to my performance works, my body is […]
André Romão
My work explores the boundaries between absolute, idealistic abstraction and the actual making of things that exist in the visible word. My working process often derives from a rethinking of historical and literary episodes and sources. These references, such as the War of Italian Unification or the British miners’ strikes, are put into relation to […]
Patrick Bernatchez
Patrick Bernatchez’s ongoing cycle entitled Chrysalides (French entomological term for “chrysalis”) uses painting, drawing, installation, sound, film, video and photography. “Fashion Plaza”, an imposing shopping centre in Montreal’s Mile End district, is a constant source of inspiration for the artist’s research on metaphoric metamorphosis and his reflections on the relationships between industry and power, and their […]
Michael Kutschbach
With deceptive effortlessness, the elliptical trajectory of Michael Kutschbach’s fluid and ever-evolving practice migrates seamlessly between disparate media – painting, works on paper, sculpture, installation, DVD animation. The use of the term “masquerade” in the title of the work for Kinderszenen (Rohkunstbau XII) is instructive, since in the manner of his animated, chameleon globules that […]
Mark Soo
By what terms is it possible to discuss cultures rather than culture? Animated by this question, Mark Soo’s work explores the intersections of perception and the dynamics of social space, often through unexpected juxtapositions, shifting points of view, doublings and divisions, and across other latitudes. These projects reflect upon themes ranging from events of past […]
Romeo Gongora
Romeo Gongora has explored displacement and intimate spaces as reflections of interiority for several years. Fusing digital photography with high definition video, he creates scenes of deep emotional intensity with great economy of gesture. In this way body language takes on great significance. His subjects are often suspended in a supercharged world where verbal communication […]
Isabel Simões
Isabel Simões’s paintings explore shifting sites where a threshold is identified, translated and made tangible. The artist navigates around a given space and has demonstrated a particular awareness and sensitivity in her painting to overlaps, folds, residue, traces, openings, to transient moments where interior and exterior space meet, where past and present convene, to sites […]
Cedric Bomford
My installations are created through a process I call “thinking through building”, in which the act of construction is akin to a process of drawing or sketching ideas as they come to mind. The intention behind adopting this methodology is to avoid a linear process – from a preconceived plan through to the finished work […]
Gerry Bibby
Take a setting, perform an action, and create a problem. For Gerry Bibby, this simple structure establishes the potential for protest, power, and poetry. Building on the tradition of the collage, where existing materials are mixed and merged, Bibby likes to occupy and colonize an object, an image, or a place: he finds what it […]