Grace Ndiritu (b.1982, Birmingham, UK), lives in between places Central themes in the performances, films, architectural spaces and social practices of British-Kenyan artist Grace Ndiritu are shamanic ritual, meditation, healing, esoteric beliefs, and care. She has worked with museums on restitution of looted objects, decolonization, and reactivating the sacredness of art spaces. After her residency […]

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (b.1984, Brooklyn, New York, USA), lives in Paris Working across various mediums including performance, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, and painting, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy embraces the spirit of collaboration to expand his knowledge and his skills. Where his ceramics are influenced by working with artists in Europe and Brazil, his large-scale paintings unearth his fascination with the […]

Simnikiwe Buhlungu (b.1995, Johannesburg, South-Africa), lives in Johannesburg and Amsterdam Simnikiwe Buhlungu researches the production of knowledges, how they are disseminated, and by whom. Through film, sound, installation, and text, Buhlungu transports viewers into considerations of the ways we come to ‘know’ and what informs those narratives. Buhlungu, former resident of WIELS and the Rijksakademie, […]

Zeinab Saleh (b.1996, Kenya), lives in London In her paintings and drawings, British artist Zeinab Saleh explores the themes of personal memory, tenderness, and intimacy with a great economy of means, inviting calm and intense contemplation. Saleh’s distinct technique sees the use of acrylic, charcoal and chalk swept across the canvas, revealing depths of texture, […]

Koenraad Dedobbeleer (b.1975, Halle (Belgium), lives in Bruxelles The sculptures, spatial installations, and architectural interventions of Koenraad Dedobbeleer are riddled with subtle allusions, ironic commentaries, and references to the histories of art, craft and design. The Belgian sculptor changes the structure of common objects, their dimensions, materiality or colors — often by minimal interventions — in […]

Matthew Monahan (b. 1972, Eureka, California) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He was a participant at De Ateliers in 1994-96 and periodically visits as a guest tutor. His talk will focus on the lasting influence that De Ateliers has had on his practice by tracing divergent bodies of work […]

Dora Budor (b.1984, Zagreb, Croatia), lives in New York Dora Budor is an artist and writer who lives in New York. Selected solo exhibitions include Continent, Kunsthaus Bregenz; Incontinent, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GAMeC), Bergamo; Autoreduction, Progetto, Lecce; I am Gong, Kunsthalle Basel; Benedick, or Else, 80WSE, New York; and Spring, Swiss Institute, […]

Huw Lemmey (b. Barrow-in-Furness, UK, 1986) is a novelist, artist and critic living in Barcelona. He is the co-author, with writer Ben Miller, of the book Bad Gays: A Homosexual History (Verso Books, 2022), based on the popular podcast of the same name. He is the author of three novels: Unknown Language  (Ignota Books 2020), […]

Nora Kapfer (b.1984, München, Germany), lives in Berlin Behind the familiar imagery of the works by German artist Nora Kapfer hides an experimental approach to painting and picture making. In her work, radical questions that modern painting has been asking itself since its inception, revive. Using tar-like bitumen and paper cut outs as material, Kapfers […]