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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ghislaine Leung (b. 1980, Stockholm, Sweden), lives in London Ghislaine Leung’s works often utilise their surrounding structures – exhibition space, temporal durational, regional location or organisational partners – as limits deployed through sets of conditions for each institution to perform the work. In her ongoing Questions talks, the artist takes the structure, and demand, of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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), […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

De Ateliers nodigt u uit de filmvertoning van René Daniëls door Erik van Lieshout bij te wonen op dinsdag 31 januari 2023 van 17:00-18:00 op De Ateliers. De film is Nederlandstalig en heeft Engelse ondertiteling. Tickets voor de filmvertoning zijn te verkrijgen via deze link. René Daniëls (1950, Eindhoven) is een van de bekendste Nederlandse […]

Zocht u Grace Ndiritu? Klik dan hier. Tenant of Culture (Hendrickje Schimmel, 1990, Arnhem, Nederland), woont in Londen, VK Tenant of Culture is the name of the practice of Hendrickje Schimmel. By disassembling and rebuilding manufactured garments, Tenant of Culture examines the ways in which ideological frameworks and power structures materialize in the production, circulation, […]

Allison Katz (1980, Montreal, Canada), woont in Londen, VK Allison Katz’s paintings derive from playful curiosity, puns, and irreverent wit. She draws from a diverse array of references, including art historical clichés associated with painting and the history of representation. Recurring motifs such as mouths, roosters, noses, fairies, and cabbages add up to a personal, […]

Raimundas Malašauskas (1973, Vilnius, Litouwen), woont in Brussels, België Raimundas Malašauskas has a distinctively reflexive approach to writing and curating, drawing from various modes of communication. His questioning of the exhibition concept often results in unpredictable, playful projects. ‘Hypnotic Show’ for example, his longest-lasting project (from 2008 on), is an exhibition that takes place through […]

Mounira Al Solh (1978, Beiroet, Libanon), woont in Beiroet en Zutphen, Nederland Tickets zijn hier verkrijgbaar.

SOLD OUT Alexis Blake (1981, Pittsburgh, VS), woont in Amsterdam| Alexis Blake’s multidisciplinary practice coalesces visual art, performance and dance. She investigates the way in which the body is represented and treated as an archive, which she then critically examines, disrupts, and re-negotiates. Her work directly engages with the representation and subjectification of women’s bodies […]

Michelle Williams Gamaker (b.1979, London, UK), lives in London Michelle Williams Gamaker is an artist working in moving image and performance, often in dialogue with film history. Through an interrogation of cinema and its artifice, she recasts characters as fictional activists, proposing critical alternatives to colonial and imperialist storytelling in early 20th-century British and Hollywood studio films. Her work has featured in […]

Phung-Tien Phan (b.1983, Essen, Germany), lives in Essen In her sculptures and videos, German-Vietnamese artist Phung-Tien Phan explores the social significance and cultural references of everyday household objects we surround ourselves with. From 2014 to 2017, Phung-Tien Phan was involved with artists run space Belle Air in Essen. Her work was presented in solo and […]

Anders Dickson (b. 1988, Wisconsin, USA), lives in Paris and The Hague American painter and sculptor Anders Dickson is a former participant of De Ateliers. He studied art in Karlsruhe with Harald Klingelhöller and in Frankfurt with Amy Sillman. Fascinated by conspiracy theories, ghost stories, and Americana his paintings, drawings and sculptures explore instable connections […]

Moshekwa Langa (b. 1975, Bakenberg, Limpopo, South-Africa), lives in Amsterdam The studio practice of South-African artist Moshekwa Langa spans drawing, painting, installation, video, and photography, culling materials from his immediate surroundings. Simultaneously poetic and emotional, Langa creates a visual language to convey personal histories as a way to grapple with the often slippery meaning of […]

Monika Sosnowska (b.1972, Ryki, Poland), lives in Warsaw Monika Sosnowska is best known for her large sculptures, exploiting the mysterious grace of engineered architecture. These industrial skeletons, ungrounded and unhinged, seem to crumple, to bend, and to contort, something ghostly resonates from them. Recent solo shows took place at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow, […]

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 […]

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), […]

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 […]

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 […]

Marianna Simnett (1986, VK), woont in Londen. Lezing in samenwerking met Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem Marianna Simnett maakte naam met multi-channel video-installaties waarin ze onze angsten en fobieën over het menselijk lichaam exploreert. Haar vrouwelijke protagonisten zijn hybridische figuren, getransformeerd door moderne technologie en vatbaar voor infecties en ontstekingen. Simnett: ‘Ik denk dat het onmogelijk […]

Esiri Erheriene-Essi (1982, Londen, VK), woont in Amsterdam De figuratieve schilderijen van Esiri Erheriene-Essi zijn gebaseerd op beelden, objecten en documenten die zowel individuele als collectieve herinneringen en geschiedenissen reflecteren, geschiedenissen die we onbewust meedragen en doorwerken in alles wat we doen. Met het creëren van nieuwe scenario’s onderzoekt ze de ordeningen, de discrepanties en […]

Bani Abidi (1971, Karachi, Pakistan), woont in Berlijn en Karachi De Pakistaanse kunstenaar Bani Abidi staat bekend om haar satirische engagement met hedendaagse politiek en cultuur in Zuid-Azië, met name de vijandige relaties tussen India and Pakistan, belast door nationalisme en postkolonialisme. In haar films, installaties en fotowerken zoomt Abidi in op de vraag hoe […]

Anthea Hamilton (1978, Londen, VK), woont in Londen Anthea Hamilton maakte naam met combinatie van objecten, sculpturen, kostuums en beelden in installaties waarin de bezoeker zich volledig weet opgenomen. De Britse kunstenaar put haar beeldmateriaal uit de meest uiteenlopende bronnen. Haar soms surrealistische, humoristische werk heeft een eigen logica, gebaseerd op culturele connecties tussen voorwerpen […]

Melanie Bonajo (1978, Heerlen), woont in Amsterdam In haar video’s, performances en installaties onderzoekt Melanie Bonajo de erosie van intimiteit en isolatie in een steeds sterieler wordende, technologische wereld. Vanuit het idee van het lichaam als politiek slagveld verkent zij in haar werk gevoelens van vervreemding, spirituele leegte en onze veranderende houding tegenover de natuur. […]

Lily van der Stokker (1954, Den Bosch), woont in Amsterdam en New York Het beeldrepertoire van de Nederlandse kunstenaar Lily van der Stokker omvat bloemetjes, wolken, sierlijke lussen en slingers in felle, heldere kleuren, een repertoire dat vragen oproept over wat we beschouwen als typisch ‘vrouwelijk’ of ‘meisjesachtig’. Haar muurschilderingen, tekeningen en schilderijen kunnen worden […]

Dit evenement is uitverkocht   Jessica Stockholder (1959, Seattle, VS), woont in Chicago Al meer dan 25 jaar staat de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Jessica Stockholder bekend om haar grensverleggende sculpturen en installaties, die het onderscheid doen vervagen tussen schilderkunst, beeldhouwkunst en de omgeving, en die zelfs buiten de muren en ramen van de expositieruimte treden. Met […]

Renzo Martens (1973, Sluiskil), woont in Amsterdam De Nederlandse kunstenaar Renzo Martens maakte naam met controversiële films als Enjoy Poverty (2008), waarin wordt voorgesteld hoe Congo aan zijn armoede zou kunnen verdienen. Hij is de oprichter van het Institute for Human Activities (IHA) dat met kunst als inzet economische ongelijkheid wil bestrijden. In samenwerking met […]

Kasper Bosmans (1990, Lommel, België), woont in Brussel en Amsterdam De Belgische kunstenaar Kasper Bosmans maakt kleurrijke schilderijen, tekeningen en sculpturen, geïnspireerd op de beeldtaal van de heraldiek en een visuele cultuur van overgeërfde tekens, symbolen en emblemen. Zijn speelse combinaties van lokale tradities en universele mythes voeren langs de grenzen tussen kunst en ambacht, […]

Pauline Curnier Jardin (1980, Marseille, Frankrijk), woont in Amsterdam en Berlijn   Kunstenaar en performer Pauline Curnier Jardin kreeg bekendheid met haar excentrieke, theatrale films en installaties, vaak ontstaan in samenwerking met dansers, performers en set- en kostuumontwerper Rachel Garcia. De films zijn gebaseerd op allegorische vertellingen, waarin historische gebeurtenissen en figuren opnieuw worden verbeeld […]

Bárbara Wagner (Brasilia, 1980) & Benjamin de Burca (München, 1975), werken samen sinds 2011, wonen in Recife, Brazilië   De Braziliaanse Bárbara Wagner en de Duitse Benjamin de Burca werken samen sinds 2011. In hun korte films en installaties onderzoekt het kunstenaarsduo de betekenis van raciale afkomst, seksuele oriëntatie, religie en economie voor de Braziliaanse […]

Celebrating Amsterdam Art Weekend 2018, De Ateliers proudly presents a public interview with the acclaimed British-Nigerian artist Karimah Ashadu (b. London, 1985), former participant of De Ateliers. The interview is an addition to the exhibition of Ashadu's work. Public interview: Saturday November 24th 16.00 Moderated by Dominic van den Boogerd   Tickets can be obtained via the […]