artists

Since the early 1990′s Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s films and still photographs have told stories of human relationships and the elementary emotions that underlie these relationships: love, anger, jealousy, sexuality and vulnerability. Ahtila describes her films as human dramas.

     Janine Antoni was born in the Bahamas in 1964 and now lives in New York. Her performance and installation pieces have used “feminine” mediums, such as lard, hair dye, and chocolate, as metaphors to explore female sexuality. She exhibited at the Istanbul Biennale of 1997, the Kwangju Biennale of 2000, and has also shown [...]

Vasco Araújo works in a variety of media, including video, installation and photography, to explore ideas of community and marginality.

Yael Bartana was the winner of the fourth Artes Mundi prize in 2010. She uses photography, film, video, sound and installation to create complex visualisations. Using documentation, simulations and re-enactments Bartana explores the relationship of the individual within society. That society is often Israel or other communities with strong connections to Jewish – Israeli history. Born in 1970, Yael Bartana’s work addresses issues of the mechanism of nationalism and the formation of identity, focusing upon Israel and the Israeli situation.

Xu Bing was born in China in 1955 and now lives in New York. He is a print-maker and installation artist with a particular interest in how linguistic nuances can affect cultural differences. He exhibited at the Venice Biennale 1993, the Yokohama Triennale 2002, and has also shown at the V&A, at the Smithsonian Institute, [...]

Fernando Bryce stopped painting over ten years ago to work primarily in Indian ink. He is interested in examining how visual and written media create and convey a perception of a country, a people, or an historical event. He adopts a drawing style that is reminiscent of mid 20th century comic strips and re-presents printed material he finds, from political propaganda to promotional literature. Through this process of copying, he highlights the ways in which facts are constructed, culture is described and history is reported. Through his reproductions he questions the credibility of the printed page. Born in Peru he now divides his time between Lima and Berlin.

Born in 1964, Lee Bul lives and works in Seoul, Korea. Her varied artistic production, in sculpture, performance, and video explores the nexus of nature, technology, and the human body. Lee’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions in major institutions throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the New Museum [...]

Mircea Cantor works in a wide variety of media including video and photography and constantly investigates the conventions of image and object making.