Lily van der Stokker (1954, Den Bosch), lives in Amsterdam and New York The visual repertoire of Dutch artist Lily van der Stokker includes flowers, looping lines, clouds and curlicues in bold and bright colors, raising questions about what we regard as typical ‘feminine’ or ‘girly’. Her murals, drawings and paintings can be situated in […]

Melanie Bonajo (1978, Heerlen), lives in Amsterdam In her videos, performances and installations, Melanie Bonajo examines the erosion of intimacy and isolation in an increasingly sterile, technological world. Presenting the human body as a political battlefield, she explores in her work feelings of alienation, spiritual emptiness and our changing attitude towards nature. Melanie Bonajo had […]

Anthea Hamilton (1978, London, VK), lives in London Anthea Hamilton is known for her arrangement of objects, sculptures, costumes and images in immersive installations. The British artist mines many heterogeneous image sources frequently. Her sometimes surreal and humourous works hold an internal logic, based on the cultural connections between objects and the shifting usage of […]

Bani Abidi (1971, Karachi, Pakistan), lives in Berlin and Karachi Pakistani artist Bani Abidi is best known for her satirical engagement with contemporary politics and culture in South Asia, especially the hostile relations between India and Pakistan, infested with nationalism and post-colonialism. In her films, installations and photoworks Abidi zooms in on the lives of […]

Esiri Erheriene-Essi (1982, London, UK), lives in Amsterdam Esiri Erheriene-Essi’s figurative paintings are based on images, objects, and documents which reflect both individual and shared memories and histories that we all unconsciously carry within us and are present in all that we do. By creating new scenarios, she continuously questions the order, the discrepancies and […]

Marianna Simnett (1986, UK), lives in London. This lecture is organised in collaboration with Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem London-based artist Marianna Simnett is known for her multi-channel video installations, exploring our fears and phobias surrounding the human body. Her female protagonists are hybrid figures, altered by technology and contracting diseases and contaminate infections. Simnett: ‘I think […]

Oscar Santillán (b.1980, Ecuador), lives in Equador and Amsterdam Cybernetician Oscar Santillán is the founder of :studio ANTIMUNDO. His artistic practice is embedded in a network of collaborations with astronomers, biologists, engineers and other scientists. In his exhibitions, Santillán explores the edges of the known world, identifying lost episodes of science and generating new narratives […]

Calla Henkel (b. 1988, Minneapolis, USA) & Max Pitegoff (b. 1987, Buffalo, USA), live in Berlin Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff have been working together for over a decade after meeting during their studies at Cooper Union in New York. They live in Berlin, where they have initiated several artist-run spaces such as Times Bar […]

Lydia Ourahmane (b.1992, Saida, Algeria), lives in Barcelona and Algiers A graduate from London’s Goldsmiths College of Art, Lydia Ourahmane’s art encompasses video, sound, performance, sculpture, and installation. Recurring themes are histories of displacement, transcience and colonialism. Ourahmane’s work has recently been shown at De Appel (Amsterdam, 2021), Kunsthalle Basel (2021), Triangle Astérides (Marseille, 2021), […]

Mirak Jamal (b.1979, Tehran, Iran), lives in Berlin Mirak Jamal has lived in the USSR, Germany, the USA and Canada and is currently based in Berlin. His oddly figurative paintings reflect an environment of global placement, and adjustment, after his family fled Iran at the dawn of the Islamic revolution. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthall […]

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 — […]

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 […]

Onyeka Igwe (b. 1986, London, UK), lives in London London-born artist and researcher Onyeka Igwe is working mainly with moving-image. Her work is aimed at the question: How do we live together? She is interested in the prosaic and everyday aspects of black livingness and the exposure of overlooked histories. She had solo/duo shows at MoMA […]

Olga Balema (b. 1984, Ukraine), lives and works in New York. Olga Balema received her MFA in New Genres from UCLA and subsequently attended the Rijksakademie as a resident, as well as Skowhegan. She is the 2023 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2017 and 2021 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She has […]

Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide) (b.1977, Busan, Korea), lives in Berlin and Amsterdam She was awarded the Theodora Niemeijer Prize in 2023, and was a fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme (2022-2023). Since the late 1990s, Chang has created a rich body of work that traverses film, text, immersive film- and […]

Nel Aerts (b.1987, Turnhout, Belgium), lives in Antwerp Nel Aerts is both maker and subject of her paintings, drawings, and collages. Her work features strange cartoonish characters that explore the complex interplay between the self and the public persona of the artist, ironically addressing issues like sexuality, loneliness, pleasure, and power relations. Her solo exhibitions take […]

De Ateliers x UNSETTLING present: Jason Dodge (Pennsylvania 1969) lives on Møn, Denmark Over the past twenty five years, Jason Dodge has been producing sculptures and exhibitions that speak of absence, distance, haptic and visual perception. His exhibition Tomorrow I walked to a dark black star. opens May 4 at MUDAM, Luxembourg. CAConrad has worked […]

Morgan Quaintance (b. 1979, UK), lives in London His practice remains open and responsive to contemporary experience and so largely eschews the rehearsal of set themes. However, interests in the human condition, the cultic milieu, counterculture, ethnography, Afro-Caribbean, East Asian and British histories, and the built environment are all mainstays. His moving image work has […]

Ghislaine Leung (b. 1980, Stockholm, Sweden), lives in London Leung makes art that explores the labor conditions of making art. Often, this is through what she refers to as ‘scores’: written descriptions or instructions to be followed to physically realize the work. For ‘Holdings’, Leung’s 2024 exhibition at the Renaissance Society in Chicago, these scores […]

Özgür Kar (b.1992, Ankara, Turkey), lives in Amsterdam Özgür Kar’s works assemble in space to function as scenes from theatre pieces: each serves as a character playing its part within a non-linear score and script. Working with voice actors and instrumentalists, Kar produces multi-part soundscapes that unfold through solemn repetition, forging existential dread mixed with […]

Abbas Zahedi (b. 1984, London, UK), studied medicine at University College London, before undertaking his MA at Central Saint Martins in 2017. Zahedi’s practice weaves together thought, sound, and form to trigger new ways of perceiving local environments, and engaging with broader ecological systems. Zahedi’s installations often function as resonant spaces, where sound and rhythm […]

Michael van den Abeele (b. 1974, Brussels, Belgium), lives in Brussels Michael Van den Abeele is an artist and writer who works with a diverse practice. Recent and past presentations took place at KIN Brussels, Belgium; Fanta-MLN, Milan; The Wig, Berlin, Stadtgalerie Bern; FRAC Ile-de-Paris, France; MuHKA, Antwerp; gallery Gaudel de Stampa, Paris; la Maison […]