Art Ashram, multinational collective, berlin based.
Art Ashram was founded in 2015 and refers to a place of joint artistic work. Through a series of residencies, a permeable collective was formed with a fixed core and changing participants. All of them share an interest in making knowledge, skills, and ideas available to one another as an economic means of production within the group, thereby creating an autonomous work that transcends the limits of the individual.
Art Ashram works often without invitation in hidden Berlin basements, fast food restaurants, Saxon front doors and was part of documenta fifteen.
The core team consists of: Florian Dietrich, Georg Scherlin, Klara Adam, Nelli David, and Markus Zimmermann
www.artashram.net
@art.ashram
Laure Boer is a multi-instrumentalist based in Berlin.
Her music is inspired by noise and traditional folk music. Her performances are hypnotic improvisations around traditional instruments, electroacoustic and DIY electronic objects, and sometimes a voice, singing or reciting in her native French; a vibrant universe that is both vulnerable and brutal.
Laure has worked with Rabih Beaini (founder of Morphine Records) as a mentor (Amplify Berlin mentorship program). In 2019, she is doing a residency in Manila/PH, organized by CTM and Goethe Institut and is collaborating with Manila‘s experimental noise and electronic scene. She plays at WSK Festival with the musician Auspicious Family with whom she releases an album on the Chinabot label in 2020. In the fall of 2021, she does a three-month artist residency at the Sound Art Lab in Denmark, an institution in the former Bang&Olufsen factories dedicated entirely to sound art.
Laure Boer collaborates with different artists and musicians, amongst others Marie-Louise Andersson, Luise Volkmann, Dj Die Soon. She played at Berlin Atonal, WSK Festival/PH, the Dokumenta fifteen, at ARTE TV and toured Europe solo and in various duo and trio constellations. In 2022, she plays in trio at the documenta in Kassel with Diane Barbé and Kirstine Elisa Kjeldsen. Her music is published by the labels Kashual Plastik, Chinabot, Otomatik Muziek, and has been featured on the compilation “Below the Radar” by The Wire magazine, BBC Radio and NPR.
https://laureboer.com
@laureboer
Mathieu Cadelo, that’s my name A.K.A dole.in.the.atic, the one that allows me to create.
Born in Biarritz, a tiny city based in France, I pursued Psychology for three years before jumping into a Bachelor of Graphic Design, media print. Thirsty for newness, I sent my bags and myself to London where I started to understand how and what to use my creativity for. Animation became my muse, inseparable from illustration. Giving a voice to the unheard is my shameless goal; quirky, opulent and dark with an explosion of colours. I think I understood quite quickly that Graphic Design wouldn’t be a long term job but more a step to open uninmaginable doors. From still to motion, my mind has found new ways to express itself, giving a real voice to the unheard through the spectrum of animation. Having solved the mystery of how to talk about hot topics, I do my best nowadays to put the same intensity into a piece of paper, still again. I can’t deny that I find some inspiration into the art world but for most of it, it’s just people, their stories, their bodies, way of acting, hiding, being arseholes or deeply touching. I take their traumas, mines, I stare at the walls and ideas start to fuse in my head, I lay them down and BOOM, my big fingers start their part.
https://www.mathieucadelo.com
@dole.in.the.atic
Clara citron, born in 1989, lives and works in Paris.
It's impossible to discern how much of Clara Citron's work is based on her own reality, how much on autobiography, and this is certainly not the point. It would be a mistake to read her engravings and drawings as the diary of a talented young woman. The intimacy summoned here is multiple and universal. Of course, the narrative thread and the relationship to text are at the heart of Clara Citron's work, as she reinvents a hybrid form of writing, mixing words with signs. But if the artist's personality is present in what she writes, her questioning is plural, invoking in turn femininity, sexuality, the oddities and frenzies of our contemporary world, childhood and the mutations caused by the transitions between these different states.
http://www.claracitron.com
@citron_clara
The German-French artist Solweig de Barry (born 1987) graduated as a master student at the Universität der Künste Berlin in 2014. She was awarded the Goldrausch Scholarship. In 2022 she received the Dorothea-Konwiarz Foundation Scholarship and in 2023 the NEUSTART Plus Scholarship from the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn. Her works have been shown at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Galerie Weisser Elefant (Solo-2022), Junge Kunst e.V. in Wolfsburg (Solo-2022) and most recently at Städtische Galerie Offenburg (2023). She lives and works in Berlin.
https://solweigdebarry.com/
@solweigdebarry
I am Marine Froeliger, an artist-curator-mediator born in Strasbourg in 1987. Actually I live and work in Strasbourg where I teach also.
I develop protean research-creation, questioning mesology and transmission practices through artistic, curatorial and mediation projects.
I give priority to co-creation and long-term encounters with otherness, which are necessary for an attentive apprehension of physical and digital worlds. The environments that call out to me are those where there is common ground, those where we wish there were.
I collect and create elements for encounters with others, then use these markers to create systems that translate the complexity of flows, relationships and impermanence.
Alizée Gazeau (born in Paris in 1990) is an artist based in Berlin.
Painting is her anchorage, both as a medium of expression and as an object of research. She deploys a language where autobiographic aspects intertwine with reflections on female, maritime and temporal structures that make up the world. Surface vibrations, skin envelopes, and the structures that link us to our environments are the starting points of her research.
https://alizeegazeau.com
@alizeegazeau
Gisèle Gonon is a visual artist currently based between Berlin (DE) and Tallinn (EST).
Gisèle Gonon’s work questions our relationship to labor. By combining autobiographical elements, social science research, and empirical experience, her mixed-media installations focus currently on agricultural production models. Land as a tool of production, but also as a symbolic and emotional space to be surveyed, mapped, and explored, is constitutive of her work. Her practice flourishes in a polymorphous corpus, ranging from drawing to a walk, from sculpture to installation, from sewing to sound experiment, from video to conceptual cereal garden.
www.giselegonon.net
gisele_gonon
Jan Herdlicka, based in Berlin, Germany.
In a dreamlike way my work focusses the ever evolving interrelations of human and nonhuman agencies from personal to planetary scales. My influences range from scifi to ecology, utopian and dystopian conceptions such as terraforming, technosphere or the myths of preastronautics, to the arts and literature of dark romanticism. Within these thematic fields my artistic approaches are decisively cross-medial and include various techniques such as photography, sculpture, collage and mixed media.
www.janherdlicka.de
@janherdlicka
Zu Kalinowska is a sculptor and video artist based in Berlin. Her work is an exploration of societal ideas about intimacy and the discomfort of giving up control
https://zukalinowska.com
Wataru Murakami is born in Japan, raised in Canada and the USA, his journey blends diverse cultures, shaping his artistic path. He studied Humanities at Sophia University in Tokyo and pursued Art Photography in Karlsruhe. He has exhibited in Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart; Kunstverein Villa Streccius, Landau; POLA Museum Annex, Tokyo; Sammlung Alison und Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nußdorf; Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg; Villa Renata, Basel; Darmstädter Sezession, Darmstadt; Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe.
Central to his artistic expression is the concept of exploration. Within the framework of his creative practice, he embarks on a perpetual journey of discovery, navigating between abstraction and figurative expression within a broad framework. Photography serves as both his compass and canvas, enabling him to capture the essence of his daily encounters – those subtle yet profound fragments that weave the fabric of history, societal dynamics, and contemporary trends.
Amidst the tapestry of existence, certain moments emerge, adorned with an aura of peculiarity, singularity, or impermanence. These instances beckon to be preserved through the lens of his camera, a homage to their significance. His approach to creation combines methodical precision and instinctual spontaneity, allowing him to seamlessly shift between the abstract and the concrete. Each image results from meticulous aesthetic decisions, an exploration of the visual and sculptural dimensions of photography in its printed form.
https://watarumurakami.com
@wha_tar_uu
Michel Santos Born in 1983, Poissy (France)
His approach goes beyond art to document history, suburban codes and the place of the artist in society.
Through novels, drawings and paintings, Michel Santos seek to interrogate the figures of the Western imagination found in cinema and literature.
His work explores questions of identity, authenticity and the often blurred boundaries between reality and fiction in the contemporary world,
a platform for commenting on social issues, cultural trends and historical events, offering a unique perspective through artistic expression.
@mimi_aka_carlos
Marina Stanimirovic (1988, Argenteuil, France), based in Berlin.
She studied Contemporary Jewellery at the Ecole Boulle, in Paris, in Lyon and in London were she completed a Master at the Royal College of Arts in 2013.
In 2022, she founded DERIVAT, a platform that invites to reflect on the contemporary art market.
In 2023 she joined the team board of the project space Gr_und, Wedding Berlin.
My installation work includes the use of sculptures, photography, and sound experiments. These are spatial arrangements I create using fictional or personal elements. I make use of found everyday objects and industrial materials such as glass, rubber and steel. Whether used in their original purpose or repurposed, they reflect the triviality and banality of the violence and derision of the subjects I address.
How do we move forward? How do we heal when our lives are in disarray?
I examine the role of silence, emotions, and repair within our private spaces and social institutions. From failures in the justice system, dysfunctional economic systems to the loss of rituals and care, my installations are observations of our contemporary world.
http://marinastanimirovic.com/
@ma.stanimirovic