Participating artists
In alphabetical order:
a deux c'est mieux (France)
posters
à 2 c’est mieux is a Paris-based art direction studio, founded in 2007 by Aurore Lameyre & Vincent de Hoÿm. Graduated from the ESAG Penninghen school, à 2 c’est mieux work within the fields of print and digital media. Aurore and Vincent pay particularly close attention to fabrics and the production process. They enjoy curating events and building collective projects. The young studio was offered the artistic direction of the French graphic design magazine étapes: for its 155th issue. Aurore and Vincent took part in the 2008 and 2009 editions of the Chaumont Poster Festival. In September 2008,they co-founded the travelling art gallery Rendez-vous sauvage with Jade Fourès-Varnier.
www.a2cestmieux.fr
Conny Blom (Sweden)
sound
4:33 Minutes of Stolen Silence: an obvious reference to John Cage's classic "4:33". The piece is entirely based on pauses within recorded compositions of rock, jazz and classical music.
www.connyblom.com
Pietrina Checcacci (Brazil)
sculpture
Pietrina Checcacci was born in Taranto, Italy in 1941 and moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1954. She studied at the National Fine Arts School, where she was awarded with two Gold Medals. Her paintings, sculptures, design, silk screens and applied art always talk about people, body and earth and how in, some aspect, they look the same. She has been making individual and collective exhibitions since 1961 for the best Brazilian galleries, Italy and the Unites States. Principal Brazilian Museums and privates collection have her works. She has been awarded several times, as mentioned on her website, where you can also have a better insight into the many phases of her work.
www.checcacci.com.br
Tim Cheng (China)
illustration
"I specially drew 'Crowded City' for this invitation. I aim to show people the city I was born and what does it always happen in here." Tim Cheng is an illustrator and has worked in graphic design and illustration for over ten years. He started his own company in 2005. His work includes illustration, character, website, animation and toy figure design. In 2006 he got selected into the IFVA animation section’s top ten.
www.colorscratch.com
Helena Dietrich (Germany)
sculpture
Helena Dietrich (1981) was born in Munich. During her graphic design studies, she spent time in Stuttgart, Berlin and London, where she worked for renowned graphic designers. She is currently active as a graphic designer but finds time and energy as well to work on self-initiated networking projects in the cultural field. She also owns a small shop and gallery in Stuttgart called Salon VOW, which is bringing out its first magazine issue soon.
www.workwithhelena.com
Michael Drebert (USA)
painting
Michael Drebert is a Vancouver based artist. He graduated from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and his work has been included in exhibitions at the Helen Pitt Gallery, Western Front Gallery, Lobby Gallery and Blanket Gallery, among others.
www.workwithhelena.com
Mehriban Efendi (Azerbaijan)
painting
Merhiban has enjoyed painting ever since she opened her eyes wide to this fantastic world. When she was 5 years old she had an unusual feeling of being close to God, Space, and the Universe. That mystic sense has been the primary inspiration that has allowed her imagination to transfer her feelings from the subconscious to the consciousness of paper.
www.mehribanefendi.com
Morgan Fortems (France)
photo installation
Morgan Fortems is a naturally reserved artist working at the intersection of various disciplines. Although he studied architecture and interactive design, he now work as a graphic designer and teacher. He also leads an art gallery in France. His artwork, Thought as a global world with sound and light, goes from the frames out to the walls. It breaks rules or codes with playfulness and poetry to express his recurrent obesssions: the self, identity, perception and the sociality / privacy duality. His projects have been growing up for years on a set of human experiences shared to put audiences before the question of intimate body / social body confrontation.
www.morganfortems.com
Soffia Gisladottir (Iceland)
photograph
"Why I chose to submit 'Peripatetic' for the exhibition? Well, often, when traveling in my own country I am a tourist. I discover new places, many places that give me the feeling that I´m in an adventure. I invite you to experience a piece of Iceland, to give you the chance to look at the photo and travel in your mind, even to your own imaginary place. Follow the road, walk further and see where it takes you".
www.soffia.net
Fathi Hassan (Egypt)
painting
Nubian artist Fathi Hassan was born in Cairo in 1957. His Nubian family relocated to Cairo when their homeland was destroyed by the building of the Aswan Dam in Nubia (Upper Egypt) and he often draws upon the turmoil of this both personal and shared history in his artwork. His language based pieces celebrate the importance of oral traditions. Other major elements in his work are the desert, the colour white, silence and his series of containers. In 1979 he arrived in Italy to study at Art School. In 1988 he was the first African artist at the “Open ‘88” Venice Modern Art Biennial. He has exhibited extensively and his work is in major collections such as the Smithsonian Institute NMAfA, Washington D.C.
www.fathihassan.com
Rikard Heberling i.c.w. Philippe Tempelman (Sweden)
t-shirt
Rikard Heberling was born 1981 in Ystad, Sweden. He studied graphic design in Östra Grevie and Stockholm, at Beckmans designhögskola. He is currently working freelance besides studying at the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne. The t-shirt Rikard made is a tribute to composer and performing artist Moondog.
www.heberling.se
Jin Jiang (China)
paintings
About 'Under the eternal light of childhood III & IV: "Growing up in China, my childhood was under the authoritarian control by the school and by the adults. It was as if you were being observed under a constant strong light, uneasy and intimidating, and you could only escape into a world of dream and fantasy."
www.jinjiangart.se
Vassilis Karakatsanis (Greece)
painting
Vasilis was born in Athens in 1957. He was lucky to grow up in a typical middle-class Athens family that naturally accepted his choice to become an artist, the only reservation being the hardships of an artistic life. He studied at Athens, Barcelona and Venice, which states his firm belief that academic studies were an inevitable starting point to become an artist. He worked a lot on what we call painting and had exhibitions of his work in many Greek and foreign cities. Now, he has come to realise that painting and making a career out of it is not easy, but it isn’t hard either. The hard part of it is to be able to see the man and create something meaningful for him on the canvas.
www.v-karakatsanis.com
Amal Kenawy (Egypt)
video
Visual artist Amal Kenawy was born in Cairo (1974). She studied film and fashion design at the Academy of Fine Arts at the Cinema Institute in Cairo (1997-1999) and received a BA in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Helwan University in Egypt (1999). Kenawy was awarded the UNESCO Grand Prize at the International Cairo Biennale (1998), a grant from Pro-Helvetia Swiss Arts Council for an artist residency in Araau, Switzerland (2004), the Global Crossings Prize in Los Angeles 2005 : The Golden prize /xx111 Biennale de Alexandria des Pays de La Meditranena.
www.amalkenawy.com
Sako Kojima (Japan)
sculpture
Sako Kojima was born in 1976. She graduated from the Kyoto City College of Arts in 1999 and spent some time as an exchange student at the London Royal College of Arts, taking a communication class. In 2001 she completed her Kyoto City College of Arts master’s degree in painting. In 2008 Kojima took part in a Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation Oversea Study Programme for Artists, adding to that a Japanese Government Oversea Study Programme for Artists in 2009.
www.sakokojima.com
David Kozma (Hungary)
illustration
David Kozma is now a digital compositor at UPP Prague, formerly at Cube Effects, Budapest. He likes to work in big movies, and to have the expertise that he has, but he constantly tries to make himself independent, and to reach his dream of becoming a succesful graphic illustrator. He studied art at the College of Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, where he specialised in sculpting, just to have some knowledge of that beloved artform too. He doesn’t like saying “I have already thought about this” and he even less likes saying “I should have thought about this”.
Oliver Laric (Austria)
video
Oliver created many weird, amazing videos of which '50 50' is one of his best. His work can be described as urban, hype like and internet loving.
www.oliverlaric.com
Monica Larsson (Sweden)
photographs
Monica Larsson was born 1959 in Umeå in the north of Sweden. Now she lives and works in Gustavsberg, outside Stockholm, and her studio is at the old Gustavsberg Porcelain factory. Monica was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts, MFA, Umeå from 1989 until 1995, and at Royal University College of Fine Arts and Architecture (2003) in Stockholm. Monica is currently experimenting with installations that combine photo, film and sculpture. The artwork often raises existential questions. She also works with public art in public spaces.
www.monicalarsson.se
Marianna Ludensky and Justin Weber (United States of America)
video animation
ABC YO- YO is a kinetic font created by yo-yo’ing in which all of the visuals and sounds were produced entirely from yo-yos. Inspired by the art of yo-yo’ing and hand-made typography, Marianna and Justin explored the idea of combining the two.
www.mariannaludensky.com
Diana Nagy (Hungary)
illustration
Diana was born in Budapest, in 1982. She graduated at the Hungarian University of Arts and Design (now MOME), Visual Communication – Graphic Design Department in 2007. In 2006, She attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome for a three-month period. Now she’s a DLA student at MOME. In 2005, her illustrations were selected at the Bologna Illustrators’ Exhibition, and in 2007, her work was selected at the Ilustarte Biennal Exhibition. She is married and has a son. She speaks English and Italian, and has begun to study Japanese. She works as an illustrator and graphic designer.
www.picidia.eu
Svetoslav Nedev (Bulgaria)
digital print
Biotope XI: "When I read the theme of the exhibition Invites I thought that after the title Biotope one could place the words Welcome to the Future, as a kind of grim joke. The perfect (sur)realistic image has something from the commercial pictures inviting people to beautiful islands and resorts with blue skies etc. And here the invitation is shiny too, but where are we invited?"
Svetoslav's profile on Karaart
Nikolett Papp (Hungary)
photograph
Niki Papp is a visual artist. Her works include photography, video and text based projects. Since her graduation from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest she has worked as a compositor at the Cubeeffects post-production company for two years. Although she has been involved in Hollywood blockbusters she is also keen on developing non-commercial, art house projects. Her video “Forget-me-not” won 1st prize on the VAD Festival in Girona, Spain in 2008.
www.catbydentist.net
Sam Penaso (The Philippines)
painting
Boholano visual and performance artist Sam Penaso is a Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate from the Technological University of the Philippines and has also taken part in sculpturing courses at the Philippine Women’s University. He has held 13 solo exhibitions, four of which were held in Japan, Thailand, Austria and Germany, next to participating in numerous group exhibits & performance art festivals locally & abroad. He also actively participates in local performance art events, and is one of the core members of the Tupada International Action Art Events and the Philippine International Performance Art Festival, represented at the 10th Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF) in Japan.
www.sampenaso.multiply.com
Siu Pham (Vietnam/Switzerland)
photograph
Siu Pham didn’t come back to Vietnam but to painting… For many many years she belonged to the category of wanderers on Earth. And she still does. Always feeling that she was missing something that she could not name… Writing revived her grieving memories and nights were filled with painful images, thought to be long forgotten. Then one day, she said to herself : “Hey I’ll go back home!” She started to paint back her memories, then blur them with a stain of oil. They invaded the present, returned to the past and joined the future to colour her wandering photos.
Siu's profile on Karaart
Damien Poulain (France/United Kingdom)
poster
Damien works as a graphic designer and art director in a wide range of fields but more specifically for art, fashion and music projects with clients that include Dazed and Confused, Adidas and various art galleries. His work is regularly featured in various magazines internationally. In 2002, after he lived and worked in Spain, Germany and Italy, Damien chose London for the fog, the expensive rents and the warm sun as a the place he would develop his ideas and work.
www.damienpoulain.com
Sonya Rademeyer (South Africa)
video
"How can we know the Dancer from the Dance? (2007) stems from my exploration with regards to embodied empathy. Here, a deaf dancer is invited to interpret empathy (as concept) through the movement of his body. He performs his biological dance in front of a projection of an echocardiogram".
www.sonyarademeyer.co.za
Zakaria Ramhani (Morrocco)
video
"Hole in the Wall is a video of 5 minutes, composed of a suite of various short-sequences in which I recite the text Fi Bayti Ommi, written by the palestian poet Mahmoud Darwish. In each sequence, the voice and clothes are changing but the text stays as the original one. Fi Bayti Ommi is a vibrant dialogue betwen the poet himself and his own image when, back to his mother’s home, he sees with new eyes his youth’s portrait hanging on the wall."
www.zakariaramhani.com
John Rasimus (Sweden)
sculpture
John is a full-time working artist which means that he spends his days in his studio working towards exhibitions, public art pieces and art consulting commissions. He has 3 kids and a wife who works as a midwife at the hospital in their town Falun. They have a blue Saab but normally they walk or bike when going down town. Behind their house there is a small forest area where they pick blueberries to put on pancakes and funguses to fry. His parents are retired and usually love to play with the kids and that’s good when he has writings like this to do.
www.rasimus.se
John Rydberg (Sweden)
painting
“Time has killed more then ever”, oil on canvas , 65x65 cm, 2008. In this superb painting John Rydberg, born and raised in Gothenburg, refers to childhood and thoughts on metaphysical questions. The elephant rides forward yet he can only look back. "To me the painting contains both humor and sorrow at the same time." John Rydberg completed a BETEC Foundation in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design. London 1996. In 2000 he completed his BA (hons) at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London. John Rydberg now lives and works in Stockholm Sweden.
www.johnrydberg.se
Johan van der Schijff (South Africa)
photolithograph
Johann van der Schijff is an artist living and working in Cape Town, South Africa. Johann’s research interests are situated in the areas of computer-aided design and manufacturing techniques and the design of interactive sculptures. Growing up in apartheid South Africa and living in a violent country and continent, questions of power relations in society underlie much of his work, forcing the viewer into a position of choice in their engagement with his artworks. He is a senior lecturer (new media) at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
www.johannvds.com
Frode Skaren (Norway)
sculpture
Born and raised in a small town Frode’s parents supported him at everything he did. Together with his brother he did a lot of talent shows. They impersonated Michael Jackson, played in rock-bands, and played basketball. He has always drawn, and his mother (being a creative soul) encouraged him to continue the path of creativity. Which he did. He has studied art prior to three years of Visual Communications at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, resulting in a bachelor’s degree. In 2008 he started his own company named uglylogo. His studio offers graphic design and illustration services, with a special understanding and love of printed matter. He is currently working on establishing a decent screen-printing service, and will produce limited edition prints and likes. He is married and has a child. He loves his job.
www.uglylogo.no
Erik Snedsbol (Sweden)
photograph
Erik works with installation art and uses photography, video and sculpture. In recent years, he has been working with large installations and stagings of space, including photographs as separate objects as well as part of installations. His video and photographic works are often a mixture of documentations of performances and stagings of performances for the camera.
www.eriksnedsbol.com
Roula Sorour (Lebanon)
video
Lebanese visual artist born in Beirut in 1965. Presently living and working between London, L.A and the Middle East. Holder of a BA in Economics from the American University of Beirut (AUB) and a BA (with high distinction) in Fine Arts from the Lebanese American University (LAU). Taught at “IC” (International College) then later, founded Jumbo Mumbo (1997-2001), an art studio for kids. She exhibited in Beirut and New York.
www.roulasorour.com
Clem Stamation (Australia)
video
"Most of the time I’m a motion designer, but I also make short films about things like chickens that poo lucky lotto numbers. I often work with musicians and comedians creating animated visuals for live shows. My Collingwood studio is more like a shed and still has traces of pigeon. I have the same name as my grandfather. I recently had my identity stolen so now there are 3 of us. I grew up in a country town on a sultana farm so I also know how to drive a tractor." And we think all of this comes together in the amazing video Wax Stag!
www.clemstamation.com
Annelie Wallin (Sweden)
video
Annelie Wallin has been examining the question of the act of creation in the last few years. In ”Kalender 2006”, the work of art actually is the manufacturing of the artpiece itself. The act of sewing elastic strips together became a measure of time and a trace of time passing by.
www.anneliewallin.se
Bjorn Wangen (Sweden)
video
"Almost ashore – visions of Bacbuc" and "The Ground" interact, as a networked state of mind: constantly and very slowly shifting landscapes in which words from nowhere fly in the skies. The landscape image that slowly changes between different seasons is literary, but slowly being invaded by words from internet news headlines.
www.wangen.nu
Intigam Zeynali (Azerbaijan)
painting
"I chose to submit 'Still life with a national Azerbaijanian carpet' because it represents Azerbaijanian folk traditions and our way of life". Initgam’s art works are in private collections in countries like Turkey, Germany, USA and Venezuela.
Intigam's profile on Espectro
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