Nicolae Comanescu
Nicolae Comănescu (aka Comă) was born on November 14th 1968 in Pitești. In 1998 he graduated from the painting section of the Bucharest University of Arts, in the class coordinated by Ion Sălișteanu. He is the founder of the Rostopasca group, one of the most rebellious artistic groups in Romania, which marked the years of […]
Del LaGrace Volcano
Del LaGrace Volcano (born California 1957) is considered to be one of instigators of queer LGBTQI culture with a working practice that not only documents a ‘queer time and place’ but are also iconic testaments to the love, lust, and burning desire to defy the forces that seek to destroy, disrespect and deactivate us. They […]
Panya Clark Espinal
Panya Clark Espinal is a Canadian artist whose 35-year multi-media practice has explored mechanisms of representation and their influence on perception. She has attempted to bridge a gap between the world as seen in images and that of tangible experience. Through site-specific installations, exhibitions and public commissions, her work has focused on bringing renewed intimacy […]
Theresa Newsome
Exploring significant instances of black and African American history, culture, and experiences within the United States, Theresa Newsome examines how these events and historical narratives have had long-lasting effects on her own culture and identity, both from a personal and universal perspective. Throughout history, black women and their bodies have been experimented upon, stereotyped, judged, […]
Jungwoo Lee
Lee Jungwoo (b1981) is a South Korean artist based in Seoul. He studied stage design and worked as a film pre-production designer from 2003 to 2009. In 2010, he moved to Germany and earned his Diplom and Meisterschüler degrees from the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst Braunschweig (HBK). His solo exhibitions include Art Sonje (Seoul/2017) and […]
Chia-Yi Chen
Chen Chia Yi graduated from the National Taiwan University of the Arts with a Master in New Media Arts from the Department of Multimedia Animation Art. The main theme of her works focuses on the relationship between the environment and life, as well as the subtle changes in time. She specializes in reshaping space by […]
Duy Nguyen
“I often describe my art practice as an attempt to take ownership and re-write stories of the Vietnamese diaspora in Norway (and Europe). My practice researches multicultural identity, often in connection with mental health and/or masculinity. Growing up without an identity anchor and cultural reference points, my work often becomes an exploration of contradictions – […]
Takashi Arai
Takashi Arai is a Japanese artist who exercises the daguerreotype, video, sound, text, and research on the relationship between individual and collective memories. Arai views daguerreotypes, one of the earliest photographic techniques, as “micro-monuments” that convey the sensation of encountering subjects in a way that transcends time and space and stretches its contemporary significance primarily […]
Zen Teh
Encounters are meetings that involve surprise and conflict, that are not a coupling but a mediated space of coming together and pulling apart (Ahmed, 2000). Zen Teh’s art practice explores photography as an expanded field —camera is used as a tool for image making, documentation and exploring concepts of truths. Her work is activated by […]
Christie Blizard
At the core of my work is an investigation into the boundaries between intuition and posthuman becoming. In my performances, I wear a 3D mask either of Scarlett Johannsson and Elle Fanning as a death mask of the hyper-desire of American culture. This phenomenon represents the death of the artist, being forced to work within […]