Jonathan Guyer
Jonathan Guyer is Cairo-based writer. He is a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs in Washington, DC, and contributing editor of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs. From 2012 to 2013, he served as a Fulbright fellow researching political cartoons in Egypt. A regular contributor to Public Radio International, he has written for […]
Hans-Jürgen Hafner
Hans-Jürgen Hafner, born in 1972, is an exhibition organizer, writer and art critic. From 2011 to 2016 he was director of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf. Hafner studied German sciences and history at the University of Regensburg. Having worked as a freelance writer and art critic since 2000, he has contributed […]
Takehito Etani
Takehito Etani invents fantastical wearable devices, installations, and toys that he refers to as spiritual prosthetics. He explores the relationships between body, consciousness and technology in contemporary daily life. His subtly humorous performances with such devices are intended as both social critique and a vision of a future alternative reality. Selected exhibitions and installation venues featuring his work include Yerba Buena […]
Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen
Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen’s Cut Work series is an evolving exploration of emotion initiated though free hand scalpel cut multilayered organic imagery. The layers make space for shadows to fall and move with the vibration of life where the imperfection is the perfection. There are no expectations, only discovery. The image is determined in the top layer […]
Michael Blum
Michael Blum is an artist born in Jerusalem, educated in Paris, based, among others, in Amsterdam and Vienna, and living in Montreal since 2010. His projects include A Tribute to Safiye Behar, a museum dedicated to the secret lover of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (9th Istanbul Biennial, 2005), Cape Town – Stockholm (On Thembo Mjobo), a book […]
Marco Antonini
Marco Antonini is an independent writer and curator. From 2011 to 2016, he served as NURTUREart’s Executive Director & Curator, presenting new work by Ian Pedigo, Ivan Argote, Jonathan Ehrenberg, Meredith James, Arianna Carossa, Daniel Bejar, Nathalie Hausler, Alina Tenser, Gabriela Salazar, Deville Cohen, Lior Modan, and Steffani Jemison, among many others. Antonini’s ambitious, inter-generational […]
Will Corwin
William Corwin is a sculptor based in New York City, He is represented by Geary Contemporary and staged the exhibition Champollion this past July/August, a series of small cast sculptures in lead, plaster and resin that explored the idea of text as symbol and symbol as embodied form, and then back again. He is also a […]
Ben Langlands & Nikki Bell
Artists Ben Langlands Nikki Bell are based in London. They met and began collaborating in 1977 while studying Fine Art at Middlesex Polytechnic. Their artistic practice ranges widely from sculpture, to film & video, innovative digital media projects, and full-scale architecture. Their art is focused on a poetic and conceptual exploration of architecture and the […]
Beti Žerovc
Beti Žerovc is a Slovene art historian and art theorist. She teaches on Slovene art from 1800 until today at the Faculty of Arts/University of Ljubljana. Her areas of research are visual art and the art system since the mid-nineteenth century, with a focus on their role in society. In the past ten years her […]
Jan Hietala
Jan Hietala is an artist, architect and academic. Hietala is a fellow of ResArch – The National School of Research in Architecture Sweden. He has held administrative positions at the Royal Academy of Arts Stockholm, Färgfabriken Centre for Art and Architecture Stockholm and Nordic Institute For Contemporary Art Helsingfors, and academic positions at the Royal […]