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 […]