Oliver Ressler, born 1970 in Austria, is an artist and filmmaker who produces installations, projects in public space, and films on issues such as economics, democracy, migration, the climate crisis, forms of resistance and social alternatives. Ressler has had solo exhibitions at Berkeley Art Museum, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid; Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Egypt; The Cube Project Space, Taipei; Kunsthaus Graz, Graz and comprehensive solo exhibitions at Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo – CAAC, Seville; SALT Galata, Istanbul; MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; and Cultural Centre of Belgrade.
Ressler has participated in more than 400 group exhibitions, including Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven; MASSMoCA, North Adams, USA; Centre Pompidou, Paris; CCK, Buenos Aires; the biennials in Prague (2005), Seville (2006), Moscow (2007), Taipei (2008), Lyon (2009), Gyumri (2012), Venice (2013), Athens (2013, 2015), Quebec (2014), Helsinki (2014), Jeju (2017), Kyiv (2017), Gothenburg (2019) and Stavanger (2019), and at Documenta 14, Kassel, 2017 (exhibition organized by EMST).

Photo: Lineematiche, Luca Guadagnini

Last update: 16th November, 2020

Natalia Skobeeva is Russian-born and based between London and Belgium. She creates work that crosses the borders of media and carries characteristics of transnational art, exploring how the issues of the particular and universal are re-negotiated in the context of ambivalent (non)belonging by humanity in crises, mediated by technology.

Natalia has presented work in Manifesta11, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary art and the 15th WRO Media Art Biennale, Miden 2013 Festival of Video Art, Bristol Biennale, Festival of Ideas and Art. Actually, she is attending a Master degree at the Royal College of Art, London.

Michel Huelin is a multidisciplinary artist who uses both painting, digital art and video. He mixes genres, introducing touches of paint in his digital compositions and virtual elements in his paintings. He is particularly interested in the frontier between nature and the artificial world and composes enigmatic universes where boundaries are jostled and questioned. Ethical concerns take a prominent place in his work. Michel Huelin imagines a universe of mutations provoking both fas-cination and uneasiness, manifestations of a techno-nature in expansion accord-ing to a principle of proliferation. Michel Huelin has exhibited in several international galleries and several museums: Museum of Contemporary Art of Cleve-land, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Museum of Modern Art, Honk Kong, Elysee Museum, Lausanne.

Last update 5th May, 2017.

Serafín Álvarez is an artist, researcher and educator. His work entails collecting images, organise them, relate them to one another, ruminate them: imagining other worlds using them as a starting point, building those worlds and contemplating them. These processes are usually motivated by a keen interest on how we relate to the unknown, how we study it and how we represent it.

Last update: November 11th, 2022

Bianca Kennedy studied art at Athens School of Fine Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and completed her diploma with a Meisterschüler-degree (2017). Scholarships have brought her to North America, Barcelona, Athens and Tokyo. Kennedy’s animations, VR experiences and site-specific installations were shown at CCBB Rio de Janeiro, MACBA Barcelona, Literaturhaus Berlin and Colombo Art Biennale in Sri Lanka among others. In her analytical animations she depicts the human abyss and works regularly on mixed reality works and drawing series where she stages self-created miniatures. Fascinated by body horror, she depicts physicality in a tongue-in-cheek way and always looks beneath the surface. Her interest in the staging of the bathtub represents the climax of this confrontation to date; in the 3-channel installation and her drawing series (We’re all in this together, 2018) she gathers all human emotions and even brings the viewer into the bathtub (VR all in this together, 2018). In collaboration with The Swan Collective, they create video and virtual reality works that deal with the future of evolution. Their utopian scenarios propose the fusion of humans, animals and plants (HYBRID, 2016) or a solution to world hunger by eating insects, who in turn are not enthusiastic about this idea (ANIMALIA SUM, 2019).

Last upadte September 7th, 2019

Felix Kraus is the founder of The Swan Collective and studied media art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He received the scholarship ‘Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes’. The group mixes different techniques like Virtual & Augmented Reality, literature, painting and paper embossments. Works of the collective were shown in institutions like Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, CCBB Brazil, Goethe Institut Toronto, C-Gallery Milan, Gallery Casciaro Bolzano, Espronceda Barcelona, Literaturhaus Berlin & Egyptian Museum Munich.

Last update September 7th, 2019

Richard T. Walker (1977, Shrewsbury, UK) makes videos, photographs, sculpture, installations and performances that reveal a frustrated, obsessive relationship with landscape and at the same time explore the complexity of human relations. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Bath Spa University College in 1999 and his Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2005. His work has been in exhibitions at àngels barcelona (2006, 2010); Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica; James Cohan Gallery, New York; Carroll Fletcher, London; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Curro Gallery, Guadalajara; and K21, Düsseldorf. Walker lives and works in San Francisco.

Last update 7th October 2019

Lives and works in Sant Pol de Mar.

Perejaume started to exhibit his work during the late seventies and since then he has been developing it in parallel, either in visual disciplines or in literary extension.

The landscape is a recurring subject analyzed and explored in his work, retaking and reevaluating the presence it has had most of all, in its literary and visual production. Through this approach, his relationship with the landscape is examined from diverse points of view none of which are exempt of irony. Points of view that are shaped through painting, sculpture, photography, installations, video or the intervention on the natural environment itself. For Perejaume, man is part of the landscape, he isn’t an outsider to it and he is yet another agent in its conformation and evolution, as if the geologic time would have been accelerated.

Based in Barcelona, Marvila’s practice is born from a need to understand belongingness in relation to a habitat. Her processes grow slowly and progressively, taking her own corporal experience as the main tool to interpret and interact with a space. She uses the media that adapts best to each context, so far having worked with sculpture, photography, moving image and painting. Her work has been exhibited in Fabra i Coats – Centre d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain (2019); Despina, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2018); Mecànic, Barcelona, Spain (2018); lokal_30, Warsaw, Poland (2017); Córtex Frontal Artist Residency, Arraiolos, Portugal (2016). She is MFA in Production and Artistic Research, Universitat de Barcelona (2019), and Bachelor in Fine Arts, Universitat de Barcelona (2015).

JOHANNA REICH is a video artist working also in the fields of performance and photography. Johanna Reich received national and international awards and scholarships like the Nam June Paik Award, the Excellence Prize of the Japan Media Arts Festival,Tokyo, the Media Art Award NRW and the Konrad-von-Soest Prize. She took part of several artist residencies Romania, the USA, Luxembourg and Spain.
EXHIBITIONS (selection): Ornament and Obsession, Goethe Institut Paris, France (2017) Till it‘s gone, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey, (2016) Miami New Media Festival, Miami, USA (2015), Behind The Screen, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt am Main (2014), Per Speculum Me Video, Frankfurter Kunstverein (2013), Young Artists Project 2012, Daegu EXCO, Corea (2012), ARTE Video Night, FIAC Paris (2011), ¡Patria o Libertad!, Museum of Contemporary Canadia Art,Toronto (2011), Culture Shock: Video Interventions at the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver, Canada, (2010), Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Russia (2010).

Carolina Ciuti is a contemporary art curator and researcher in the fields of visual and performing arts. She holds a BA in History and Preservation of the Artistic Heritage from the University of Florence (2009-2012) and an MA in Contemporary Art from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London (2013-2015). During her university training, she collaborated with the Collezione Gori: Fattoria di Celle (Pistoia) and the artists residency Villa Lena (Pisa), being respectively in charge of the educational proposals, the guided tours and the assistance to the director. She currently serves as artistic director of the LOOP video art festival in Barcelona, ​​where she started working in 2015 as a curator. At LOOP, she has produced exhibitions, film programmes and performances by internationally recognised artists such as: Regina de Miguel, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Aleksandra Mir, Muntadas, Steina and Woody Vasulka and Anton Vidokle. She curated the group exhibitions And If Seeing Was Fire (Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2020), One Day I Stumbled Upon A Meteorite (Fabra i Coats – Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona, 2019), PRODUCE, PRODUCE, PRODUCED (Real Cercle Artístic, Barcelona, 2018), the projects Francesca Banchelli: Before The Name (MACBA, Barcelona, 2016) and TRANSEUROPE EXPRESS (OfficeCafè, Pistoia, 2015), as well as the video programmes presented by LOOP at Cinéphèmère-FIAC Paris (editions 2017, 2018, 2019). She edited the publications One Day I Stumbled Upon a Meteorite (exhibition catalogue, stuffinabook, 2020), I Have A Friend Who Knows Someone Who Bought a Video, Once (LOOP Barcelona, ​​Mousse Publishing, 2016) and Before The Name: a book on an itinerant performance project. (RAM Editions, 2018). Ciuti is a permanent collaborator of the magazine of contemporary culture La Maleta de Portbou and she frequently contributes to the art catalogues of the publishing house Istituto Italiano Edizioni ATLAS. In 2017, she co-founded the art collective CRiB to create hybrid projects straddling the visual arts, theatre and performance. Whether through writing, curating, or research, all of Carolina’s projects denote a deep interest in the notion of ‘time’ in all its facets, its representation in the philosophical and cultural sphere, and its influence on the construction of identities.

Last update 3rd October 2020