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) […]