Artists
Adrian Ganea (b. 1989 Târgu Mureș, Romania) is an artist and set designer, who studied at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) and the University of Arts Târgu Mureș, and works in Cluj, Romania. His practice ranges from sculptures and 3D animations to extensive work in scenography for theater and performance projects. He is particularly interested in forms of fiction that can materialize through the subjectivity of technologies. His works are often described as liminal spaces, where the boundary between the intangible and the material becomes ambiguous.
Analisa Teachworth (b.1987 Detroit, Michigan) is a multidisciplinary artist based between New York City and Berlin. Her practice, which includes painting, sculpture, sound, video, and installation. The artist’s work interchanges through multifarious mediums and historical references to remodel our relationship to the ‘natural vs. artificial’, highlighting the agency of ethics used within contemporary technologies. Teachworth’s work has been exhibited at institutions and galleries including: Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; Kunstverein Kevin Space, Vienna; Company Gallery, New York City; The Shed, New York City; FRAGILE, Berlin; MoMA PS1, New York; Hamburger Bahnhof Staatliche Museen, Berlin; Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
Bogdana Dima (b.1990, Romania) is a multilateral artist with background in classical and contemporary music, currently active in Bucharest’s free improvisation music scene and working as a theater composer. Interested in syncretic art, she is a multi-instrumentalist (she plays piano, accordion, percussion, saxophone, violin, cello) and a performer, looking to develop a deep understanding of the complexity of colors, tones and vibrant textures. Her composition is an ostinato with polyrhythms and a subtle juxtaposition of melodies and polyphonies that work in harmony.
Chlorys (b. 1993, Fălticeni, Romania) is a multimedia artist and musician, based in Bucharest. She studied Visual Arts at the Department of Dynamic Imaging and Photography at the Bucharest National University of Arts. A significant part of her activity revolves around the clubbing scene, where she works as a DJ and party promoter. She has performed music both locally in cities like Bucharest, Timișoara, and Cluj-Napoca, as well as internationally in cities such as Berlin, Stockholm, London, Lyon, Nantes, and Paris. She is part of the Queer Night family and was the resident artist for the Shape Platform edition in 2017. Since 2016, she has been a founding member of the Corp. platform, together with von Bülove and Admina, which is dedicated to supporting and promoting female and non-binary artists interested in electronic music and associated culture.
Ioanida Costache (b. 1990, Multnomah, Oregon) is a Romani violinist, audio-video artist, and scholar. She is an assistant professor of Ethnomusicology at Stanford University. Her research traces the legacies of Romani historical trauma—as well as the feminist and de-colonial critiques of the present—inscribed in Romani music, sound, and art. Her work as a video and sound artist has been exhibited in New York City, Bucharest and at the 2022 Roma Exhibition Collateral Event at the 59th la Biennale di Venezia.
Julie de Kezel (b. 1995, Ghent, Belgium)’s experimental practice manifests through drawings, 3d sculptures, videos, and wearable objects, and the use of non-conventional and natural materials. These are bound together with elements such as scent, local vegetation, sound, and light. She uses visual stimuli drawn from social media and the fashion industry to bring new light to subjects such as myxomycetes (Slime mold), Flowers, Mycelium folklore, fantasy-based games.
Lea Rasovszky (b. 1986, Bucharest, Romania) is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Bucharest. Her work is inspired by pop and urban culture and often engages with popular values and clichés to subvert them. Notable exhibitions include Life – A User’s Manual, Art Encounters Biennale, Timișoara (2017); Out of the Blue, Mobius Gallery, Bucharest (2017); FLIRT, Im Hinterzimmer, Karlsruhe (2016); Building Modern Bodies. The Art of Bodybuilding, Zurich KunstHalle (2015); Din Dragoste. Fapte morale III [From Love. Moral acts III], Cyclops Garage, Bucharest (2015, solo); Inner Wimp, Lateral ArtSpace, The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca (2014, solo); PASAJ, MNAC Annex, Bucharest, Romania (2014); De la stele la steroizi [From stars to steroids], Anca Poterașu Gallery, Bucharest (2014, solo); The Savages, Atelier 35, Bucharest (2012, solo). She participated in the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale (the New Gallery of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Venice, 2015).
Nona Inescu (b. 1991, Bucharest, Romania) lives and works between Berlin and Bucharest. She completed her studies in the summer of 2016 at the National University of Arts in Bucharest (Photography and Video Department) after studying at the Chelsea College of Art & Design in London (2009-2010) and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (2010-2011). Her artistic practice is interdisciplinary and includes photography, installation, sculptures and video works. Based on a theoretical and literary perspective, the works focus on the relationship between the human body and the environment and the redefinition of this subject in a post-human key.
Rasmus Myrup (b. 1991, Copenhagen, Denmark) is an artist, based in Copenhagen. His work seeks to explore how the experience of being human is malleable – and how susceptible it is; at its worst to manipulation and at its best to change. emotions. Through his sculptures, installations and drawings, he seeks to understand other times, species and worlds – and in that way everything from Neanderthals to trees or folklore can provide new perspectives on our understanding of death, sex and power. His recent solo exhibitions include Precoming at O–Overgaden (DK), Vertreibzeit at Kunstverein Göttingen (DE), Slut [The End] at Jack Barrett (US) and Folx at Nicolai Wallner (DK). He has recently published his first book, The Völva’s Bestiary of Best Friends (w. s/z and Coda Press).
Kris Lemsalu (b.1985, Tallinn, Estonia) lives and works in Tallinn and New York. She studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, EE; Danmarks Designskole, Copenhagen, DK; and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT. Lemsalu represented Estonia in the 58th Venice Biennial (2019), and, amongst many international solo exhibitions and public commissions, the artist has shown as part of Performa 17 (2017), DRAF performance night (2017), Bunshitu Gallery, Tokyo (2015), Ferdinand Bauman Gallery, Prague (2015). In 2020 she was awarded the Grand Prize from the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
NEW YORK is a girl-pop music and performance project by artists Gretchen Lawrence and Coumba Samba. The sampling of royalty free loops and sounds of clicks and cuts are met with chopped vocals and impulsive lyrics. NEW YORK chews up the sounds and visuals of hip hop, pop, and electro and spits them out onto the city streets. They self-released their debut album No Sleep Till N.Y. in 2022.
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