Lucy Stein (b.1979, Oxford, UK), lives in London Former participant of De Ateliers Lucy Stein makes colourful paintings and drawings featuring girls and women, sometimes infused with self-mockery, sometimes with an all-pervading sense of darkness. Deploying an array of figures blended with hedonism and humour, Stein reveals abiding sensitivities and fears. Lucy Stein had solo […]

Gregor Schneider (b.1969, Rheydt, Germany), lives in Berlin Since the eighties, Gregor Schneider has devoted his attention to the relation between the builded environment and the individual psyche. For the 2001 Venice Biennale, Schneider transferred extensive sections of his private house in Rheydt to the German pavilion in Venice. Famous for his architectural interventions, the […]

Willie Doherty (b.1959, Derry, UK), lives in Derry Doherty’s early photo works combine topographical images overlaid with words and phrases, demonstrating his interest in the ambiguous meanings that images can suggest. His engagement with the political conflicts in Northern Ireland and his home town of Derry inspired many of his video and film works. In […]

Markus Karstiess (b.1971, Haan, Germany), lives in Düsseldorf German sculptor Markus Karstiess was a Meisterschüler of Jannis Kounellis at the Düsseldorf art academy. In his practice, he focusses on manual labour and ancient crafts, using a variety of sculptural techniques including ceramics. Recently, he had solo shows in Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (2014), Mediterranean […]

Jennifer Tee (b.1973, Arnhem), lives in Amsterdam Jennifer Tee, born to a Dutch-English mother and a Chinese-Indonesian father, explores the complexities of culture in a permanent state of transformation. She creates sculptures and installations, some of which function as site for choreographic performances. Work of Jennifer Tee has been exhibited worldwide: at the Sao Paulo […]

Kerstin Brätsch (b.1976, Hamburg, Germany), lives in New York Kerstin Brätsch creates strange hybrids of painting, design, and performance. She further expands her practice through her collaboration with other artists as a member of DAS INSTITUT. This kind of decentred approach to art making is typical of many of her contemporaries, who view art not […]

Gert Robijns (b. 1972, Sint-Truiden, Belgium), lives in Charleroi Belgian artist Gert Robijns is best known for the ‘reset’ of the Flemish village where he grew up, on a 1:1 scale. With playful and sometimes surrealist interventions indoors and outdoors the artist challenges viewers to take a closer look at their surroundings. Robijns had solo […]

Laure Prouvost (b. 1978, Croix, France), lives in London French artist Laure Prouvost makes films and installations. She won the Turner Prize in 2014, for a complex installation of objects and images involving a fictional tea party with her grandfather, who was a conceptual artist and a friend of Kurt Schwitters. In recent years, she […]

Manon de Boer (b. 1966, Kodaicanal, India), lives in Brussels The films of Manon de Boer challenge the conventions of the documentary genre, exploring the disjunctions between lived time and recorded history. Drawn to individuals with unusual personal histories, she creates intimate portraits that question their own veracity, revealing the inherent instability (perhaps even impossibility) […]

Michael Raedecker (b. 1963, Amsterdam), lives in London Dutch artist Michael Raedecker presents a contemporary approach to painting. Whilst traces of historical genres can be found within his works, Raedecker juxtaposes this graceful aesthetic with stitching, cutting and embroidery. His paintings of dead flowers, abandoned interiors and empty landscapes speak about melancholia, both unsettling and […]

Nora Schultz (b. 1975, Frankfurt, Germany), lives in New York City Working primarily with scrappy industrial materials that she scavenges from the street, Nora Schultz assembles her “found footage,” as she calls it, into fragile, precariously balanced abstract sculptures and installations, which frequently function as analogue printing stations. Each part of her pieces frames another […]

Neïl Beloufa (b. 1985, Paris, France), lives in Paris The sculptures and videos of French-Algerian artist Neïl Beloufa are exhibited in specifically designed architectural installations. Using a multitude of screens, these scripted situations make powerful statements about the complexities of interaction and interpretation since the advent of the internet. Neïl Beloufa had solo exhibitions at […]

Mike Bouchet (b.1970, Castro Valley, California, USA), lives in Frankfurt Since the early 1990s, American artist Mike Bouchet has been questioning social-political issues in a variety of media, including large scale sculptures, paintings and installations. His artistic practice focuses on the effects of images and the desires they produce, dealing with topics such as ownership, […]

Janis Rafa (b.1984, Athens, Greece), lives in Athens The short films of Janis Rafa are situated on the margins of civilization, haunted by catastrophic events such as a ship wrecking, a road accident or a fatal epidemic. The dead and the living seem to co-inhabit these dreamlike, timeless worlds. Films of Janis Rafa were included […]

Marine Hugonnier (b.1969, Paris, France), lives in London Marine Hugonnier’s work is greatly influenced by her studies and long-standing interest in philosophy and anthropology. Working across film, photography, installation and collage, Hugonnier’s art explores how historical or social conditions affect our experience of the present moment. Recent solo exhibitions were held at Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt, […]

The artist talk by Alexandra Bircken on Tuesday April 4th 2017 is postponed to fall 2017 on request of the artist. Reto Pulfer will take her place in the Spring Blossom 2017 series. Self-taught artist Reto Pulfer (b.1981, Bern, Switzerland, lives in Berlin) constructs a kind of ‘total artworks’ combining installation, sculpture, painting, performance, music […]

Tiril Hasselknippe (b.1984, Arendal, Norway), lives in Oslo Incorporating stairs, surfboards, cars, and anchors, the playful sculptures of Tiril Hasselknippe are rooted in a material world that is personal as well as reflective on our digital environment. Inspired by American West Coast Minimalism, where the synthetic and the sublime unite in perfectly abstract aesthetics, the […]

Mandla Reuter (b.1975, Nqutu, South Africa), lives in Berlin Through both subtle and radical interventions of the gallery space, diverting the flow of information and the movement of audiences, Mandla Reuter examines issues like art production, presentation context and exhibition display. Blockades and new passages, time zones and light conditions, compel visitors to experience the […]

Ryan Mosley (b.1980, Chesterfield, UK), lives in Sheffield British artist Ryan Mosley paints freely and unabashedly from his imagination. His brushstrokes are expressive and gestural, giving the feeling that the fantastical characters that parade across his paintings have simply stepped out of their own psychedelic world and onto the canvas. His technicoloured palette only adds to this hallucinatory […]

Marek Wieczorek: Mondrian’s Calling Already during the 1920s, Piet Mondrian’s Paris studio took on mythical proportions as a visionary structure that developed out of his pioneering neo-plastic paintings. Surprisingly, commentators have never attempted to define the precise relationships that exist between these paintings and the studio walls with their dynamically placed colored pasteboards. In this lecture, Marek Wieczorek, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary […]

James Richards (b.1983, Cardiff, UK), lives in London In the  video work of James Richards images and sounds merge into highly affective sequences, recombining footage from a wide range of sources. His ongoing exploration of the emotive power of appropriated video is a meditation on bodily and psychic sensations. Solo shows of James Richards took place […]

Sarah Pichlkostner (b.1988, Salzburg, Austria), lives in London Former Ateliers-participant Sarah Pichlkostner creates sculptural objects and spatial settings, in which she investigates the representation of invisible processes such as the transmitting of energy, the passing of time and our psychological behaviour towards materials. As the artist stated: ‘When material is brought to an object, i.e. is […]

Navid Nuur (b.1976, Tehran, Iran), lives in The Hague The way in which Navid Nuur relates to material, the space around him and his observations therein, can almost be regarded as devout. In Nuur’s sculptures and paintings, a very personal visual problem becomes the central question. Here, form is not necessarily the result of the idea, […]

Dan Walsh (b.1960, Philadelphia, USA), lives in Brooklyn Working from a pared-down repertoire of elemental forms (lines, grids, rectangles), American artist Dan Walsh creates abstract works which are both minimal and playful. In his paintings, drawings, prints and books, he explores images as they are shaped by the process of their own making. Walsh participated in […]