Mimmo Catania
Mimmo Catania is an Italian-born artist, living in Berlin since 1984. He studied painting at Accademia di Belle Arti Urbino (1980-84). He has been working in the last three decades on a synthesis of Informal art (eighties), Environmental strategies (ninenties) and since the beginning of the 2000s introducing the figure to form what he denominates […]
Barbara Bestor
Barbara Bestor, AIA is founding principal of Bestor Architecture. Since 1995, Bestor Architecture has actively redefined Los Angeles architecture with a practice that rigorously engages the city through design, art, and urbanism. Increasingly, the firm applies L.A.’s lessons to national undertakings. Projects such as Beats by Dre headquarters, Blackbirds small-lot housing development, and Intelligentsia café […]
Claire Lieberman
Claire Lieberman is a sculptor and installation artist who combines such materials as marble, Jell-O and video. Her work explores a range of dichotomies, such as the sublime and the quirky, desire and danger, indulgence and guilt. Three current projects include: a series called “Grenades,” small, reflective, black marble sculptures that allude to actual grenades, […]
Fatos Ustek
Fatos Ustek is an independent curator and writer, based in London. She is currently acting as Art Fund curator at fig-2, editing the fig-2 publication in the aftermath of curating 50 exhibitions in 50 weeks at the ICA, London. Formerly, Ustek acted as Associate Curator for the 10th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea. She is member […]
Marion Laval-Jeantet
Marion Laval-Jeantet is an artist, transcultural psychiatrist, and Associate Professor in University Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), she leads the program Art Mondiality and Environment (UMR Acte – CNRS), and holds postgraduate degrees in Art (University Paris 1), Biology, Anthropology and Clinical Psychology (University Paris 8 and 10). She has exhibited her artistic work with Benoit Mangin since 1991 […]
Suzanne Anker
Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. She works in a variety of mediums ranging from digital sculpture and installation to large-scale photography to plants grown by LED lights. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the […]
Ebon Fisher
“Exploring new kinds of art and media-sharing rituals in Williamsburg Brooklyn in the early 1990’s, Ebon was one of the key contributors to both a scene and an aesthetic that continue to sow seeds far beyond their wee geographic origins.” – Robert Elmes, Founder, Galapagos Art Space As Ebon Fisher sees it, art is not […]
Farrah Karapetian
Farrah Karapetian (1978 US) is an artist currently based in California. She makes photography physical; although she works cameralessly, she believes even digital photography has a physical presence, and physical space is political space. Her methods incorporate sculptural and performative means of achieving imagery that refigures the medium of photography around bodily experience. Her work “marries two […]
Valentina Scambia
Valentina Scambia was born in Rome (It) in 1982. She attended a catholic school and an international school while in Rome and went on to study painting and sculpture in London (Uk), where she was also the assistant to an independent curator. Influenced by the work of Mimmo Paladino, Merce Cunningham and Brian Eno, she relates […]
Erik Smith
Evolving out of the physical exploring, salvaging and excavating of urban contexts, artist Erik Smith’s (US) recent work seeks to bring to light latent or concealed features of the built environment and give tangible form to the uncanny in revealing things not readily visible but always felt to be present. Selected solo exhibitions include de Appel Contemporary Arts Centre, Amsterdam NL; Errant Bodies, Berlin […]