Artists

Learn all about your favorite artists of the 9th edition of BAAM the Berlin Artists Art Market.

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Achim Saar

Achim Saar is currently devoting himself to different materials and how they can be combined.
Wood, metal, bronze, glass, ceramics, etc. are some of the materials he has already worked with.
But the topics are also important, in this case he is trying to bring together different things that don’t really belong together.

Adelia Koldarova

I paint to explore the connection between people and the natural world, especially animals. Working primarily with oil, I create figurative pieces that blend the visible world with deeper reflections. I try to show how we connect with nature, how we misunderstand it, or even push it away—using symbolic imagery to express these ideas. Each painting tells a story about our place in this shared world. I want my work to feel personal yet open, making people pause and reflect on their own connection with nature.

Agafia Polynchuk

Agafia’s self-portraits visualize personal feeling and memory, but they are equally steeped in nature, classical art, and the art of the commonplace. The immediacy and intimacy of the polaroid brings these timely and timeless subjects together.

Agatha Fiz

Agata Kycia

My work explores the relationship between digital technologies and material practices. It is strongly influenced by my architectural background, fascination with geometry and spatial perception. I adopt techniques of screenprinting and relief printing to depict a dialogue between precision of the digital and imperfections of the human hand.

I also combine these techniques with other media, such as painting or drawing. Many of my immersive, colorful compositions reflect upon my experiences as a woman and as a mother, portraying intangible concepts and emotions. They are constructed through agglomeration of simple, repetitive forms; often balancing on the verge of symmetry and differentiation.

Aleksandar Nesic

„Sad Ugly Clowns“ thematisiert die Tragik der menschlichen Existenz und das Scheitern der Suche nach Sinn und Glück in einer leer gewordenen Welt. Die Clowns sind keine bloßen Unterhaltungsträger, sondern fragile Symbole des Scheiterns. Ihr erzwungenes Lächeln wird zur resignierten Geste, ein Abwehrmechanismus gegen die oberflächliche Realität.

Byung-Chul Han beschreibt in *Vom Verschwinden der Rituale* den Verlust gemeinschaftlicher Strukturen, die das Leben sinnvoll ordnen. In einer Welt, die vom Zwang zur Authentizität und Leistung geprägt ist, verschwinden diese Rituale. Die Clowns sind tragische Spiegel einer Gesellschaft, die nur noch die Inszenierung des Selbst kennt und Gemeinschaften verdrängt. Han zufolge führt dieser Trend zur Verrohung und Nivellierung von Werten. Die Clowns spiegeln diesen Verfall wider, ihre grotesken Gesten sind Symbole einer Welt ohne echte Rituale. Ihr Lächeln ist ein leiser Ruf, die Tiefe und Symbolik im Leben neu zu entdecken.

Alex Libotte

“Parts Unknown” is an exploration of the fragmented self that delves into the hidden, the repressed, and the refracted aspects of our being. Through the passage of time, as we grow and adapt, parts of ourselves become distorted — manipulated by external forces, dimmed by societal expectations, compartmentalized and lost within the depths of our memory.

This series seeks to evoke the tension between identity and detachment, between the raw, unfiltered force of our authentic selves and the veiled versions we present to the world. Each composition plays with light and shadow, movement and stillness, revealing an emotional landscape that is both deeply personal and universally human. “”Parts Unknown”” is not just a reflection of what is lost but an invitation to rediscover what still remains deep down in ourselves, the life force waiting to be reclaimed – our authentic love.

Alex See

In my practice, I explore the nature of image in post-digital reality, the transformation between material and immaterial states, and the ambiguity of truth within complex knowledge networks.

Speculations, uncertainty, and overcomplexity are central to my work, as I seek to reveal what extends beyond the observable — layers of dreams, faded memories, and hidden object properties. I work with image manipulation, code, 3D, and generative graphics, combining them with fabric, cotton, resin. My works take form as objects, video, and sound.

Alexander Azukar

Artist of the future

Alexandra Oracz

My work explores the surreal and abstract dimensions of consciousness, delving into themes of inner peace, self-acceptance, emotional struggle, and transformation. I am drawn to the tension between opposing forces- acceptance and resistance, loneliness and connection- expressed through recurring motifs like double figures and fluid, organic forms.

Water often appears in my paintings as a symbol of renewal, where old emotions dissolve to make space for growth. Through introspective imagery and emotional depth, I aim to create a visual space for reflection, inviting viewers to embark on their own journeys of self-discovery and harmony.

Aliaksandr Biruk

I perceive the universal and objective through the lens of inner myth—subjective and unconscious, yet a psychological response to the complexity and contradictions of reality. My training in monumental art shaped my approach to painting as the creation of an environment for thought and reflection.

At the core of my work is a poetic experience of the self in the world, a connection with nature and the body. My paintings are immersed in symbolism, archetypes, and emotional states, exploring themes of self-discovery, identity, and inner conflict, making them resonate through a psychological and therapeutic perspective.

Alicia Roman

My work as a figurative oil painter is a reflection of inner exploration, self-esteem, and the deep connection to femininity. I paint women in intimate, expressive poses where light and shadow become a language of emotion. Each brushstroke is a dialogue between delicacy and strength, between vulnerability and self-empowerment.

My inspiration comes from my personal journey and my Spanish roots, where the sun and the sea have shaped my artistic vision. Warm colors fill my canvases, evoking the serenity of a golden afternoon or the introspection of a reflexive moment with yourself.

I would be honored to participate in this edition of BAAM and share my art with other Berliners. Painting is my way to flow freely, transforming insecurities into beauty, and giving form to my inner world. I seek to connect with other women who resonate with themes of vulnerability, strength, and self-acceptance, creating a space for reflection and empowerment, and who knows—maybe also inspire them daily while hanging on their home walls?

You can discover more about my art journey in this personal interview made by Artists of Berlin (Youtube channel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkFji6b54aw&t=21s

Alvine Bautra

Alvine Bautra (b.1990) is a Latvian contemporary painter. The portrait painting compositions embody the feeling of movement in slow motion. The zooming on the faces or the seemingly calm figures are never frozen because the state of peace is utopian.

The figures dance within themselves, allowing the movement of the soul, giving themselves to a peculiar trance when revelation occurs unconsciously. Currently works and lives in Riga, Latvia.

Amber Cannings

Cannings’ was born in Southampton in 1996 and lives and works in Berlin. She graduated with a first class degree in Fine Art at Loughborough University, where she also completed a year of study at the Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain.

Amber Cannings’ work is centered around space and place, she takes energy from her surroundings and represents not just the way things look, but the essence of them, how it feels to be there in that exact moment. It offers a window into her own lived experience and covers themes of nostalgia, loneliness, and exploration.

AME DGD ART

AME.DGD. ART (*1995) lives and works as a multidisciplinary artist in Berlin. The artist’s works invite viewers to make the invisible visible: emotions, relationships, and the role of the individual in modern spaces, mostly taking space in Berlin. Using bold, high-contrast palettes and expressive, abstracted figures, AME is bringing life to stories of everyday moments and introspection.

AME is exploring the intersection of color, form, and emotion. The psychological impact of the chosen combinations creates a dialogue between the art and the viewer’s internal world. This central topic aligns with the artist’s background as a doctor in the psychiatric field. From dynamic pianists to contemplative figures and surreal portraits, the creations are characterized by movement, energy, and a deep passion for experimenting with shapes and spaces. Workshops and group projects, including curation of group shows, play an important role in the artist’s practice, fostering art as a medium for community and exchange.

Anali Vakili

Born in 1990 in Tehran, Iran, and now based in Berlin, Germany, Anali Vakili is a visual artist whose work delves into themes of identity, memory, and resilience. Her practice intricately weaves personal narratives with broader cultural and socio-political commentaries, using printmaking, installation, and mixed media to explore notions of censorship, displacement, and human connection.

She focuses on the importance of emotional stages in an Abstract way. Currently, she is meistersvhuelrin at HGB Leipzig under the supervision of Prof. Kerstin Drechsel .

André Vonderlind

figurative Malerei: klare Sujets, leicht entrückt mit subtil-absurden Elementen; abstrakte Materialarbeit: Reste getrockneter Fassadenfarbe collagiert

Andrey Kasay

Andrey Kasay is a multimedia artist based in Berlin originally from the far east Russia from shore of the Amur river, where his neighbours were the Amur tiger and a wild dog, who taught him how to draw. He uses bold lines and vibrant and distinct colours.

All of his works are based on real stories and full of political satires and metaphors of the contemporary society we live in, with a psychedelic feel. Spontaneity and the unexpected, along with the language of the absurd—which helps him express his perception of the world most accurately—play an important role in his creative method.

Andrzej Koston

My work explores the fragile balance between comedy and tragedy, the familiar and the surreal. Through my paintings, I bring to life figures that seem both human and otherworldly—creatures caught between reality and dream, humor and melancholy. Inspired by film, cartoons, and classical art, I aim to capture the absurdity and beauty of existence.

My characters, often distorted or misplaced, reflect the imperfections and vulnerabilities we all share. They tell stories of longing, resilience, and transformation—sometimes ironic, sometimes tender. With a limited color palette and a cinematic approach, I invite viewers to see themselves in these figures, to embrace the strangeness of life, and to find meaning in the in-between spaces of our own narratives.

Angel de Soto

Ángel de Soto (born in 1998) is an artist hailing from Cuenca, Spain, with a background in design from the Superior School of Art in Andalusia. His artistic work is deeply influenced by the Spanish abstract expressionism of the 20th century, with artists such as Antonio Saura, Manolo Millares, Luis Feito, and José Guerrero as key references.

His artistic journey began with drawing, where he experimented with various techniques and materials, blending traditional elements like charcoal with contemporary methods such as spray painting and acrylic. This combination of materials plays a fundamental role in the creation of his works, achieving a harmonious integration.

Ángel de Soto delves into abstraction, where in-the-moment creation takes on a fundamental role. His works are a reflection of his gestures, his interaction with the canvas, and his ongoing quest for introspection through energetic brushstrokes. His focus is on conveying emotions and rhythm through a palette of colors and movements that evoke sensations.

Angela Wichmann

Light Is My Story
It is pure light – in its many facets – that always inspires me, so that it has become the dominant theme of my work. It captivates me in order to bring it to life on the canvas. Often it is the simple things, the small daily encounters with, for example, a discarded can whose metal reflects, a snack bar that lights up or simply the nighttime atmosphere of the city. I am a Berlin native and most of the motifs are too.

Artistically, I work as a full freelance artist in the field of painting and printmaking. My experimentally developed technique makes it possible to find a form of expression specific to my work.
Every new work – whether painting or printmaking – is an open experiment for me, a very personal journey.

Ángeles

Verbindungen und Begegnungen In meinen abstrakten, expressiven Malereien lasse ich intuitive Verbindungen von Lichtblicken, Farben, Geflechten und Alltagsschnipseln entstehen, die sich zu abstrakten, emotionalen Landschaften formen und Raum lassen für das Momentane, Prozesshafte und Unfertige.

Anita Popovic Art

My artistic journey is profoundly shaped by my experiences across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Germany, including living through two wars. These events have deepened my appreciation for the resilience and beauty inherent in the human spirit.

My work celebrates body positivity, fluidity, and strength, drawing from both the human form and biomorphic shapes. Through painting and sculpture, I explore the harmony between organic forms and human anatomy, reflecting our capacity for growth and transformation. By transforming personal and collective wounds into expressions of beauty, I aim to inspire viewers to find empowerment and hope amidst adversity.

Anka van Hövell

Each image I bring to life under my Bic pen stems from an emotion, a deep feeling it has awakened in me. Each time, it feels like diving into the soul of the person I am drawing, an intimate interaction that unfolds over the course of several hours, where my pen dances across the slightly textured paper.

Depending on the emotion it conveys to me, my lines become lighter, more blurred, or more defined and direct. My drawings are a true reflection of what I feel.

Anna Chlebowska

I am a polish artist based in Berlin. I work primarily with drawing and printmaking, exploring the medium of artist’s book. My works tackle the subject of human-nature relations, the notion of landscape and climate change.

I am interested in relations between people and their environment and how negative anthropogenic changes of the climate are affecting people’s mental health. In my works I design a glossary of recurring symbols connected to these topics by simplifying landscape elements into graphic signs, creating a kind of dictionary, a collection of symbols, then building images in which I rely more on the mood, than on the specific meaning of a given symbol or an existing landscape.

Anne Bengard

Anne’s work deals with issues around connection, intimacy and fetishisation, understanding the term ‘fetish’ in the context of behaviour, devotion, obsession and consumption.

At times borderline voyeuristic, her visual language uses polarities to explore social issues, norms and stereotypes and often creates a sense of sensuality and tension. Her work aims to probe at the complexities of human desire, spirituality and its underlying psychology.

Her works ask questions rather than make statements.

Anne von Westphalen

My artistic practice explores the construction of identity and orientation within the tension between individuality and culturally mediated structures. In my works, protagonists stretch colorful orientation bands, which serve as visual metaphors for stability and navigation within a fragmented reality.

Spatial compositions featuring painted lines extend this concept, reflecting the relationship between the subject and its environment.

At the same time, my portraits deconstruct traditional markers of identification by distorting, overlaying, or replacing facial features. These interventions emphasize the fluidity and complexity of the self in a postmodern world. The interplay of surrealist and realist elements creates a visual ambiguity between intimacy and alienation, making identity tangible as a dynamic construct shaped by symbols and projections.

Antanina Slabodchykava

Antanina Slabodchykava is a painter and performance artist. She was born on April 7, 1979. 2004 she graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts with an Architectural Monuments and Decorative and Applied Arts degree. Since 2005 she has been a Member of the Belarusian Union of Artists.

In 2020, due to political persecution, she was forced to leave Belarus. She currently lives and works in Dresden, Germany. She works in the fields of painting, graphics, and installation. Using collage, pop culture imagery, humor, and subtle irony, she discusses the topic of motherhood, gender identity, and social stereotypes. The heroes of her works are women and children who build relationships between themselves and the world around them.

Antonia Freisburger

My work is circling around big human ideas like the origin of life, astrophysics, the future of the universe (and humanity in it) and everything that exceeds human imagination. As a life long atheist I have come full circle to the realization that science cannot explain everything which makes me almost feel spiritual about these topics of my work that i research in my free time.

Knowing I cannot fully invent new geometrical shapes, I simply paint and draw what I can only describe as a self-evolving world of ambiguous creatures, forms, plants, organs, galactic and particle structures, alternative dimensions and unexplainable physical conditions. Whatever they are, they’re life.

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Beate Baumholzer

After studying design, Beate Baumholzer worked for well known companies in the fashion industry. Today, she works as a lecturer at various educational institutes. Her teaching activities focus on design and trend research. This requires her to constantly deal with colors, trends, materiality and aesthetics.

Individuality, social change and social disparities characterize her artistic work. Her painting style is characterized by overlapping layers. Different layers emerge one after the other and leave room for interpretation _ Complexity has many facets _ She plans her compositions roughly, developing the details in an emotional process. Imperfection creates tension and distinctiveness.
Recurring motifs in Beate Baumholzer’s work are landscape and the body in search of space. Beate Baumholzer was born in Ulm/Germany. She lives and works in Berlin

Benjamin Pléau

In this age of artificial intelligence and “all-digital” technology, I see my drawings as a counterpoint to the instantaneity of photography as a way of representing reality.

A fervent admirer of Lucian Freud and Morandi, I’m influenced by these painters who managed to carve out their own path away from mainstream trends and ephemeral “isms”, who tried to give a new meaning to “classical” in the modern age. In my most recent work, I explore in depth the question of self-portraiture, always with a view to expressing the most with the least means. I see self-portraiture as an autonomous production, in which one is both the author and the subject. Influenced by notorious self-portraitists Albrecht Dürer and Otto Dix, these works are a way for me to adapt the themes specific to these artists and their times to current issues.

Beppe Gallo

I start with the premise that I have no plans and I know nothing. I experiment. I trust my instinct. I photograph women because this is the subject matter that inspires me the most.

Sometimes is body shapes or body parts, sometimes is portraits, sometimes is just abstract. I am inspired by the women I photograph as well as everything and everyone around me, from design, to music, to films, to politics, to people and most definitely emotions. At times in my head it is a little chaotic and what I am trying to say is not immediately apparent, not even to myself, but for some unknown reasons my work seems to connect with certain people and that’s all I can ask for.

berend vissers

Berend’s work is driven by impulse and emotion, often reflecting the chaos and thoughts that occupy his mind. He begins with raw forms, allowing them to evolve naturally into a final piece. Music plays a crucial role in his process—he listens to sounds that mirror his emotions at that moment, and this resonance is visible in the outcome.

He is not bound to a single medium; his choice depends entirely on what feels right at the time. His art often emerges from darkness—born out of frustration, hunger, anger, or despair. Yet, within that rawness, he seeks to reveal beauty. He explores the art of emotional expression, transforming inner turmoil into something tangible, something real.

Berk Akkaya

The first five fashion installations in the PDF explore human behavior through the lens of various natural phenomena. These works aim to highlight how nature’s patterns can reflect and influence human actions.

The last two installations are part of a series focused on creating historical characters. Each character is designed by blending elements from different cultures, merging their distinct features into a unified, unique representation.

Bettina Hajanti

Colors, the energy and the joy they bring inspire my work. I like my paintings to spread joy also to others and spark smiles on the face of the viewer. Naive still life paintings are my favourites, as they, at their best show a full scene of life and range of emotions in one picture. Through painting I have learned to work with and accept my own incompleteness, and not aim for perfection, but to have fun on the way.

Bettina Homann

Aus der ewigen Flut der Worte und Bilder lösen sich einzelne heraus, verdichten sich zu Mustern, die wahrhaftig erscheinen. Wie die Hohepriesterin in den Eingeweiden der Opfertiere, die Dorfhexe im Kaffeesatz bin ich unaufhörlich auf der Spur der Bedeutung, die jenseits meiner begrenzten Vorstellungskraft liegt.

In kompulsiven Arbeitsprozessen werden bestimmte Themen und Anliegen eingekreist, bis nach vielen Annäherungen und Versuchen ein Bild plötzlich „stimmt“. So entstehen poetische Momentaufnahmen, die bestimmte Themen, Formen oder Arbeitsweisen ausloten. Manche sind nach einer Session abgeschlossen, andere werden seriell weitergeführt, wie die Kombination von drei Motiven zu Trypticha. Eingefasst werden die fertigen Bilder in Rahmen, die ich aus gefundenem Altholz baue.

Bhavna

In my paintings, I create immersive scenarios that explore themes of identity and body positivity, set against the backdrop of compulsive consumption and productivity. I try to show female bodies engaging in radical acts of rest and pleasure, with the aim to reclaim their power back from extractive capitalism. I try to bring a lightness to my work through the titles I use, inviting viewers to engage with themes.

Bunki

Bunki are hand-knitted and crocheted sculptures, in which the traditional craft finds a new form of expression. Because art does not only exist in museums, but in every woven thread. Collectibles that bring spaces to life, a statement for the power of the abstract that unfolds beyond the boundaries of the ordinary.

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Carlos Génova

Carlos Génova – Contemporary art reveals that, now more than ever, we experience a profound human sense of community—sharing work, studies, and research in an interactive dialogue between nature and culture, science, art, and technology, all within a relational poetics (Glissant, 2017).

The value of an artist’s work lies in how it presents itself to society for validation, becoming a subject of reflection. Today, creative processes drive the creation of multilayered works with a high degree of transparency between each stratum, generating an illusion of space and movement—something that Carlos Génova achieves masterfully. Technology contributes by introducing new materials, guiding us on how to interpret interactions within spaces where viewers engage with the exhibited works—scanning upwards, downwards, left, right, forward, and into depth. This gives meaning to the act of taking action, a fundamental concept in this critical perspective, which seeks to understand our role amid the intricacies of technology, the stratifications of the urban environment, and the tools provided by science. Génova’s vast paleo-writings create an immersive discourse that envelops the viewer, confronting us with the challenge of recovering a society fractured by its own design—a society that taught us a violent model of life without realizing that its reflection would take root like a rhizome, sprouting where least expected.

cati laporte

My work navigates the borderlands between the familiar and the strange, where the unsettling meets the extravagant and fantasy runs wild, inviting the viewer into places inhabited by surprising and unexpected presences.

Célina Dasneves

My work is inspired by things around me, by people, by simple lights on my skin. I mostly capture things in black and white as a personnal choice of not having any distraction : Simply my subject and their shadows.

Charlotte Ackermann

My artistic work is a constant immersion in the world of natural processes. Corroding metal, crystal-forming salts, weathering rock. In my workshop, I explore the transformative nature of materials, often revealing a surprising aesthetic potential hidden in the supposedly familiar.

Through sober macro photography of natural disasters, such as volcanic ash or burnt leaves after a woodfire, I explore the poetic connection between humanity and nature and the interplay of control and chance.

Cherie Birkner

In her work Cherie Birkner explors themes of intimacy, identity, and human connection. With a background in fashion and design, she brings a unique aesthetic sensibility to her imagery. Cherie’s photography has been exhibited internationally, resonating with audiences on a deeply personal level. Through her lens, she seeks to tell stories that evoke emotion and authenticity.

Chie Marquart-Tabel

My art is an act of documentation and memory, capturing the intimacy of shared moments, a testament to our existence while questioning the objectivity of what we see and remember. Living as a non-binary, neurodiverse person and a child from many divorces from mixed racial backgrounds—Black in West Europe and white in West Africa—has taught me to embrace the idea of simultaneity: of stories, truths, identities, sensations, thoughts.

In my painting, I thus frame bodies within architectural spaces — windows, mirrors, and walls — and create intersecting compositions that reveal intertwined simultaneous truths. In-betweenness and intersection. At the same time, my work, whether painting or sculpture, is permeated with a sense of care: I take the viewers into account, the state they are in, their need for rest, for connection and, in the case of my stoneware sculptures, for touching them. I want my art to bring you back into your body.

Chochu

Chochu is a passionate photographer and artist whose work embodies a rich diversity of styles. She values variety and distance in her projects, approaching her craft with curiosity, intuition, and playfulness. This freedom allows her to explore without being confined to rigid classifications or patterns.

Her subjects range widely, encompassing reportage, still life, and portraiture. Chochu often revisits specific techniques, such as double exposures and distortions, and explores recurring themes like food. She stages and visualizes imagined images, delving into the impact of visuals on perception. By blending empirical observations with contemporary ideas, Chochu has developed a unique artistic style. Each piece of her work stands alone, distinct and rooted in her experiences and practice, reflecting her journey as an artist.

Chris Kamprad

Malereien über Befindlichkeiten und Zwischenwelten, in Bildern gedacht – schafft sie farbige Lebens- Bildmomente,Verknüpfungen und Traumzonen mit Eigenleben. Ihre Malereien bezeichnet sie als “”Reisen des Geistes””.

Ihre Suche nach dem Imaginären, mit intuitiver Farbgebung und gesturalen Formen, heißt Weglassen und Füllen von Freiräumen. SEIN mit den Farben, der Komposition und vor allem der Spaß der Überraschungen, der Magie im Gelingen. Dabei genießt die Künstlerin das Beste: den Raum ohne Zeit zu finden!

Christina Eva Walz

My art is influenced by prehistoric and indigenous art, the exploration of ancient cultures, and the burial rituals of different eras. I also deeply engage with history and current social developments, which flow into my work. Every line, every brushstroke connects these influences with my personal journey.

The focus of my art studies was drawing, and paper is a central medium in my work. I create multilayered collages and detailed drawings that combine various techniques. In addition to paper, painting also plays an important role in my artistic practice. Using acrylic and mixed media, I create expressive works on canvas that reflect my passion for experimental and multi-dimensional art.

Art is more than a profession – it is my calling. Get inspired & discover my work!

Christina Mros

In meinen Bildern halte ich Szenen fest, die durch kräftige Farben, Reflexionen und Kontraste die Schönheit des Alltäglichen sichtbar machen.

Christoph Brückner

Christoph Brückner’s work explores the process and properties of image making itself. By reducing physical, compositional elements, and experimenting with different printing and replication techniques, he seeks to broaden the notion of what an image can be.

Methods of repetition and layering are integral to Brückner’s artistic practice bringing the focus onto fundamentals of form, line and colour. His works explore the relationships between photography, sculpture, object and drawing; manifesting as paintings that are in dialogue with the age of digital reproduction. He utilises photography’s ability to flatten what we normally experience in three dimensions and condense physical space alongside its effectiveness in creating recognisable facsimiles of objects from the real world within the picture plane.

Claudia Gillies

Claudia’s works celebrate sensuality. Lavish colour and sensation dominate. With turns of movement, the pieces move and change depending on the angle, or the viewer’s mood. Sometimes soft and dreamy, although not innocent. More often indulgent, ripe with juicy colour and texture.

Formerly of New Zealand, later Australia and briefly France, Claudia makes her home in Berlin. She paints with her young daughter, whose contributions can usually clearly be spotted.

Constanze Krischer

As a Berlin-based makeup artist turned painter, I began my artistic journey during the pandemic in 2020. This pivotal time ignited in me a desire to explore my own vision of aesthetics and meaning beyond the client-focused nature of makeup artistry.

With a fresh eye and a keen sensitivity for colour, Cerdeira blends elements of his cultural background with influences he gathers from his travels, creating images that capture with aesthetic boldness the essence of contemporary life and challenge the limits that shaped his childhood.Through my paintings, I delve into themes of solitude and the quest for balance between the self and the environment, often capturing individuals in moments of inward contemplation. My painting technique is a natural extension of my work as a makeup artist; I embrace spontaneity, allowing shapes and expressions to emerge organically on the canvas without preliminary sketches.

Cooked Rabbits

My work explores the raw energy of urban life, blending street art, neo-expressionism, and chaotic abstraction to create my signature *Cooked Characters*. Each piece is a conversation between spontaneity and control, where scribbled lines, layered textures, and bold colors form distorted yet familiar figures.

Influenced by the grit of Berlin and the subconscious narratives of everyday existence, my paintings embrace imperfection, humor, and emotion. Through this visual language, I invite viewers to find their own meaning in the mess—where beauty and madness collide.

Cris Cerdeira

Cris Cerdeira (Santiago, Chile, 1993) studied photography and art direction in Santiago, Chile and Buenos Aires before moving to Europe. Berlin and its subcultures, where he has lived since 2016, determined his firm commitment to creative freedom and self- expression.

In 2013 he presented his first photography exhibition, “An Innocuous Beauty”, at the House of Culture Anáhuac in Santiago, Chile. Driven by his passion for visual creation and storytelling, Cerdeira finds in photography a means to explore his identity. His images connect his experiences with the world around him, while reflecting on the notion of travel as a catalyst for personal transformation. With a fresh eye and a keen sensitivity for colour, Cerdeira blends elements of his cultural background with influences he gathers from his travels, creating images that capture with aesthetic boldness the essence of contemporary life. His work spans a wide range of subjects, including fashion, portrait, abstract photography, and surrealism, always seeking to challenge the limits that shaped his childhood and now invites us to leave behind.

Cyrilo

My self-taught technique combines abstract and figurative, finding a blurred line between outsider, primitive and naive art. I search in the depths of the unconscious, my works are an unburdening of emotions, seeking to free us from the burdens of the past through the exchange of feelings.

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Denise Bartoschek

Eine Hommage an die Natur – Emotionen in Farbe und Form In einer Welt, die sich ständig wandelt, fange ich die flüchtigen Momente der Natur ein und verwandle sie in zeitlose Kunstwerke.

Meine Gemälde sind mehr als nur Bilder; sie sind emotionale Reisen, die den Betrachter einladen, die elementare Schönheit unserer Umwelt neu zu entdecken. Mit kraftvollen Farben und kontrastreichen Kompositionen schaffe ich Szenen, die sowohl abstrakt als auch figurativ die Essenz der Natur widerspiegeln. Jedes Werk ist ein Dialog zwischen meiner Verbundenheit zur Natur und meiner Vision, ihre zerbrechliche Schönheit zu bewahren. Meine Kunst ist ein Aufruf, die Balance zwischen Mensch und Natur wiederzufinden. Sie soll den Betrachter inspirieren, die Wichtigkeit des Respekts und der Achtsamkeit gegenüber unserer Umwelt zu erkennen. Lassen Sie sich von meinen Werken berühren und entdecken Sie die Kraft der Natur in jedem Pinselstrich. Ein Stück dieser zeitlosen Schönheit könnte bald Ihr Zuhause oder Ihre Sammlung bereichern.

Deniz Cinbil

My work moves between design and art, exploring materiality through play, curiosity, and experimentation. I work with up-cycled glass, spray paint on glass and other surfaces, kinetic sculptures, and mixed-media installations, allowing materials to guide the process.

Having studied textile and fashion design, I like to use raw canvas in unexpected ways, incorporating it into my kinetic mobiles and developing my own techniques. I enjoy creating pieces that respond to their surroundings—shifting with light, space, and movement. Relocating from Istanbul to Berlin has given me the freedom to move beyond functional design into a more experimental and open-ended practice. Through my work, I seek to create moments of interaction, and balance.

Dima Korma

I’m Dima Korma, an artist and designer based in Berlin. I work with various media, from collages to large-scale murals, painting directly on walls to transform spaces. My art explores composition, color, and layering, always infused with subtle details for viewers to discover. Inspired by my surroundings, I draw from the energy of the environment to create contemporary, visually striking pieces that captivate and inspire.

Dora Banhegyi

I create because love—especially self-love—must be cultivated, not just received. My art is a declaration of worth, a space where I am both the giver and the receiver of affection. Each piece is a way to hold myself, to translate longing into something tangible, beautiful, and real. If the world does not offer love freely, I will paint it into existence. My brush moves in defiance of emptiness, filling the canvas with the tenderness I refuse to live without.

Dragan Denda

I am a Berlin-based illustrator with a BFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo and an MBA in Stage Design from the Technical University of Berlin. Drawing is a daily practice, and for me, line is paramount. My work is inspired by everyday life and reading.

Since the advent of AI-generated art, my style has evolved to incorporate fuller, more textured surfaces. I invite viewers to appreciate the time and effort invested in each piece, reflecting the thoughtful process behind the work. To appreciate the hand-made.

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Elina Evstig

I’ve been engaged in making art since 2012 and work as a freelance artist since 2015. As an artist based in Berlin, I participated in local collective exhibitions and a few abroad. I do figurative painting with elements of abstraction and paint primarily with oil.

My most frequent subject is people, especially women and children portraits, which is a tribute to my childhood in a dysfunctional family and an attempt to capture what resonates with me now as an adult. My artworks are mini-stories about me and my perception of the world and people, and yet my works are open to interpretation.

Elisabed Zautashvili

Elisabed is an architect and artist from Tbilisi, Georgia, now based in Berlin. She divides her time between working as an exhibition designer and creating sculptures. Her work explores memory, identity, and materiality, influenced by her background in architecture and personal experiences in Georgia.

Focusing on ceramics, she creates organic, surrealist forms that reflect the fluidity and complexity of memory. Experimenting with textures in clay and metals is central to her practice, conveying the layered nature of personal history.

Elisabeth Bukenberger

Coming from a background in psychology, I have been searching to replicate and translate my own experiences and emotions in life through my art practice.

Being particularly aware of the shift towards digitalism, I find myself in constant nostalgia for traditional ways of creating art, tapping into the craftsmanship of print-making, painting, drawing and sculpture.

Light, shadow and reflection have become an integral part and reoccurring theme within my art practice. While many engage with these phenomenon in fleeting moments in time – if at all – these realities hold deeper psychological meanings to me. Through my work I explore perceptions of reality and what it means to be ‘human, as an individual as well as part of a bigger construct of society.

Elisabeth Wülfing

My colour fragments create a floating image, the flow of life, the flow of perceiving and influencing the world. The fragments stand for sensory impressions. I concentrate on feeling the world and using the language of colour to reconnect myself with the natural flow.

The flow symbolizes freedom, my life’s essence. Everything is connected with each other, so are the colours and the materials I work with in my paintings. With its strengths of colour and brightness my art celebrates life. My guideline is” focus on beauty and reality follows focus”.

Emma Lu

As a photographer, I explore the dynamic interplay between the ocean, the art of surfing and urban still life. Through my lens, I showcase the vivid colours and emotions found in both natural and urban environments inviting viewers to appreciate the artistry in everyday moments that often go unnoticed.

Eric Kons

Much of my recent art revolves around themes of conflict and confrontation, particularly the fraught relationships between human animals and other animals. I like to explore and challenge the idea that conflict is inherent to human nature. I like to look for the tenderness in conflict.

Erik Weiser

Baumärkte, Discounter, Online-Secondhand-Plattformen, Spielwarengeschäfte, Straßenränder, Parks und Strände: an solchen Orten findet Erik Weiser Inspiration, und die Materialien für seine Kunstwerke.

Weiser hegt eine Vorliebe für Treibgut, gebrauchte Waren und Discountprodukte. Diese Neigung ist keineswegs abwertend gemeint. Wo andere lediglich Nichtigkeiten und Abfall sehen, der schnell entsorgt werden soll, erblickt er Schönheit und Potenzial.

Eszter Kerdö

I aim to create paintings that bring happiness to people. If my work can bring a little more joy into someone’s life, I consider it a success.” My artistic journey is defined by a simple yet profound intention: to spread happiness.

As a painter, my greatest aim is to create works that bring joy and moments of happiness to viewers. In a world often marked by hustle and worries, I believe in the transformative power of art to bring glimpses of light into everyday life.

My paintings are an ode to the beauty of life, to the small joys, and to the carefree moments that make us smile. With vibrant colors and playful motifs, I aim to create an atmosphere of positivity that warms hearts and brightens spirits.

Each of my paintings is a loving invitation to be swept away by the flow of life and to pause for a moment, to recognize the beauty of the world around us. If my art can contribute even just a bit more joy to someone’s life, I consider that the greatest success of my work.

As an artist born in Hungary and now residing and working in Berlin, my creative journey has been shaped by a fusion of influences from both my upbringing and my current environment. Having pursued classical art studies, I developed a deep affinity for painting from an early age. Subsequently, my exploration led me to textile design, where I honed my skills at UDK (Universität der Künste Berlin). However, painting has always remained my true passion.

In my studio nestled in the vibrant neighborhood of Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, I find solace and inspiration to express myself through vibrant brushstrokes and powerful imagery. Each stroke is infused with intention, each canvas a reflection of my innermost thoughts and emotions. My works often exude a boldness, both in technique and message, aiming to provoke contemplation and evoke visceral responses from the viewer.

Welcome to my world of happy colors and radiant emotions, where the canvas becomes a portal into a realm full of joy and optimism.
with love XXX
Eszter

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Fabian Brück

Fabian Brück, born in 1989 in Langen, Germany, is an interior architect, graphic designer, and painter. With a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and a Master’s degree in Furniture Design, he pursues a full-time career as an interior architect.

His passion for drawing ignited during his early childhood and was further cultivated through an apprenticeship in carpentry and furniture making. Throughout his Bachelor’s studies in Architecture at FH Darmstadt and his Master’s program in Furniture Design at TH Rosenheim, he honed his skills in capturing his surroundings through sketching. To this day, urban sketching remains his focal point during travels and daily life. Since relocating to Berlin in 2020, his artistic spectrum has expanded from mere drawings to encompass watercolor, acrylic, and oil painting. His subjects are diverse, consistently imbued with an impressionistic portrayal of everyday life.

Fanny Harms

Hey, I’m glad you’re here! Have you ever wondered how we can navigate the chaos of our fast-paced, divided world? And what if, instead of being swept up in it, we could find joy and connection by turning inward —and outward — to the beauty around us?

As an architect and artist, I see the world as a playground of possibilities. My work is a curious exploration of how opposites meet, materials play, and ideas transform into something new. It’s a joyful process, and every piece I create is an invitation to reconnect—with ourselves, with others, and with the world.

I hope my work sparks something playful, meditative, or even unexpected in you — a reminder that happiness and peace are closer than they seem.

Florencia Martina

To play with the sensual and colorful configurations of the body in motion, rest, disturbance, in states of pleasure. A body is full of readings and the skin is too thin to delimited their boundaries. I have curious attempts to blur borders between public and so-called private/intimate realms.

Fran Poch

Ever since I moved to Berlin 6 years ago and found a child’s crayon in my first Moabit Wg, I started to draw everything I saw. Maybe because of the loneliness of newcomer to the city, to capture on paper the everyday objects that surrounded me, made me a great companion.

My work is the practice of capturing moments, objects, scenes. Putting a main focus on the observation of color and contrast of light and shadow. Creating visual joy through the use of a palette of vibrant complementary colors. I work mainly with water based crayons and oil pastels because they allow me that expressiveness and speed in drawing, while allowing me to have very saturated colors.

Francesca Mencarini

I am a Berlin-based chilean artist, born in 1980. Through drawing and painting, I have developed a body of work that reflects a deeply personal exploration of temporality, finitude, and the fragility of our reality.

This observation of time takes shape in paintings of landscapes, objects, and abandoned places, rendered as if they were molds of an absence. With an imagery that proposes a romantic, dark, and fantastical figuration, my work becomes an exercise in both wonder and melancholy. In this application I am presenting two lines of work that converge around these subjects. On one hand, small paintings depicting empty rooms and furniture. On the other hand, larger format works executed using mirrors as canvases. The viewer, standing in front of the painting, can see themselves reflected through the scratched spaces. The overlapping of landscape and reflection generates a dissociated vision, where both images combine and disrupt each other.

Frauke Sophie Thiemig

In my work I deal with climate change, social consumption, nature- and animal protection and I try to create more awareness for these topics through my work.

Friederike Meier

Friederike Meier combines artificial intelligence with traditional painting to challenge perceptions of femininity.

Using MidJourney, she creates photorealistic portraits of women that question beauty ideals and gender norms.

Her figures are complex—fragile yet strong—existing beyond binary categories. Each is captured in a charged moment: something has happened, a word was spoken, a glance exchanged. Their emotions—anger, sadness, determination—overlap in a single “snapshot” created with AI.

For Meier, AI is more than just a tool; she uses precise prompts to reveal the beauty standards embedded in AI systems. She then translates these digital images into vibrant oil and acrylic paintings. Each figure receives a name and a story, transforming from an AI-generated image into a unique identity on canvas.

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Gina Donner

Gina Donners artistic journey is characterized by a fusion of abstract and figurative elements that reflect on the emotions and energies that are intertwined and expressed through the body. Set within abstract and dream-like environments, the figures often find themselves in a phase of introspection, transition or a even dissolving into shapes and colors. She works intuitively in many layers, creating a visual dialog that refers to the tensions between separation and connectedness in our everyday experiences.

Giulia Facciolo

Giulia Facciolo (1991, Padua, Italy) is a photographer who has been living in Berlin since 2011. She graduated in photography at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin in 2022, after many years of self-experimentation and exploration of the medium of the camera: in fact, she started at the age of 16, photographing only on film and practicing prints in the darkroom.

Today she prints in both black and white and colour, usually adding a personal touch to the colour gradation of her final prints rather than following strict technical rules. The subjects she concentrates on are usually objects, buildings or urban landscapes. She also uses digital photography when she is looking for a more precise technical result.

Goldie_Ceramics

These ceramic lamps from The Absurd Glow collection are a playful rebellion against the monotony of everyday life. Inspired by the theatricality of the circus, they embrace the absurd, the exaggerated, and the humorous; because, after all, life itself is often ridiculous.

Living in Berlin, where everything around me feels black, gray, and stripped of color, I wanted to create something that pushes back. I love colors and objects that don’t take themselves too seriously. These pieces are my way of bringing fun and light into a world that often feels too rigid and restrained. More than just lamps, they are a small act of protest, a reminder that things don’t always have to make sense. Art can be loud, playful, and delightfully weird, simply for the joy of it.

Greif Lazic

We are Greif Lazic, a Berlin-based queer artist duo and couple, passionately exploring queer identity, intimacy, and our impact as humans on the planet. Our inspiration is drawn from queer history and culture, observations and our relationship.

Guadalupe Valdes

Her academic background includes a Bachelor’s Degree in Art from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, with an Academic Certificate in Philosophy and Art History studies at the Berlin Technical University in Germany. From 2002 to 2004, she developed her painting at the Flutgraben Art Factory in Berlin, later continuing her endeavors in Miami from 2012 to 2013.

Guadalupe has exhibited her work at various solo and collective exhibitions in New York, Miami, Washington DC, Berlin, Essen, Büdelsdorf, Hong Kong, São Paulo, Lima, and Buenos Aires. Currently, she is preparing AlpesAndes, an exhibition associated with mountain ranges and their geographical, ancestral, and spiritual value, scheduled to be presented in Austria in September of 2025. Guadalupe has been developing her work for over two decades. Her practice of experimental painting is characterized by the articulation of natural patrimony with found objects that reflect the memory of their transformation processes. Her poetics seek out the formal construction of meaning, portraying nature and humankind as a single living organism, where everything is interrelated: patterns, rhythms, and ways of manifesting themselves over time. Guadalupe’s paintings are primeval and immersive landscapes that reveal geography, reflecting the territory’s genealogical and geological memory. In her work, matter does not disappear; rather, it is transformed—a conviction that drives her forward. Utilizing oil paint, sketches, and the installation of fragments of wood, stones, branches, or debris rescued throughout the territory, she unlocks the value of ancestral life, evoking a profound reality beyond physical corporeality. Color and its emotions are a key stimulus for her learning, leading her to conduct children’s workshops throughout the country, including at the Martín Gusinde Anthropological Museum in Puerto Williams and in Koñimo, a Huilliche community on the island of Chiloé.

Gülfem Cetin Capci

My creative process is intuitive and experimental. In my paintings, I try to reveal the movements and emotional reflections of figures and objects, the relationship between nature and human beings in a unique language through vibrant color palettes. I aim to create a dramatic atmosphere with intense color blocks and layered tonal transitions.

In my work, I seek a new expression space for my emotions with clear contours, layers of monochrome or contrasting colors and sometimes sharp, sometimes soft touches. By emphasizing atmosphere and emotion, I offer the stories hidden behind the paintings to intuitive experience.

Günes Evrim Yılmaz

My work revolves around the transformation of discarded paper and natural waste into distinctive, textured artworks. The essence of each piece comes from the materials themselves, which I shape to complement their form. Drawing from the ancient craft of hand papermaking, I integrate sustainability by repurposing everyday and organic waste into new, artistic surfaces.

Designed for interaction, my artworks are unframed by glass, encouraging touch and engagement. Some elements are movable, allowing for versatile displays—on walls, illuminated from behind, or placed on surfaces—enhancing how textures shift with light. Since founding Sukurusu® in 2008, I have expanded my practice throughout Europe, crafting bespoke paper-based designs, abstract compositions for public and corporate spaces, and sustainability-driven projects. My aim is to redefine perceptions of waste by giving new purpose to overlooked materials, creating immersive and adaptable art that invites continuous exploration.

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Halim Karabibene

In meiner Malerei habe ich immer versucht, eine primäre Faszination zu finden, die ich in meiner Kindheit vor den römischen Mosaiken des Bardo-Museums oder vor der populären Glasmalerei in Tunesien erlebt habe.

Es waren Fenster zu einer verzauberten Welt, die ich durch die Praxis des Malens immer noch versuche zu öffnen, dann zu durchschauen … auf unterschiedliche Weise. Was ich dort sehe, ist eine Art verlorenes Paradies, Charaktere und Räume einer hybriden Mythologie, gewalttätig und komisch zugleich, tragisch und magisch. Eine Inszenierung in zwei Dimensionen, die uns aber zu einer Lektüre in mehreren Dimensionen führt, darunter auch die der “”inneren Notwendigkeit””. Malerei als Fenster zu unseren inneren Landschaften, zwischen Realität und Traum. Halim Karabibene

Helena Her

My stitching practice is rooted in generations of embroiderers. I create intimate, miniature embroidery pieces using sewing thread, with the intricate details reflecting my eye for drawing. In a way, I draw with thread, transforming my work into an augmented form of drawing. The character I developed in the Her series is bound by no restrictions and can do things I cannot.

Hola i Chau

In Hola i Chau we explore the concepts of duality, opposites, and the tension between order and chaos; our name addresses this idea by playing with the binary spontaneous greetings hola (hi) and chau (bye).

Hope Bartley

In my artistic pursuits, I undertake a profound exploration and critique of intricate subjects such as masculinity, race, and post-colonialism. Through my approach to mixed media painting, I seek to engage the viewers’ diverse sensory experiences, encouraging contemplation of the nuanced dimensions inherent in these topics.

Within the realm of post-colonialism, my work serves as a visual dialogue that challenges historical narratives, prompting reflections on the enduring impacts of colonial legacies, particularly in shaping perceptions of race and gender. Societal critiques are seamlessly woven into the fabric of my art, urging viewers to confront uncomfortable truths and partake in conversations that transcend the confines of the canvas. The deliberate venture into new materials reflects my commitment to pushing the boundaries of artistic expression. This exploration into uncharted territories enables me to construct narratives that are both visually captivating and conceptually profound. As I navigate the intersections of diverse perspectives, my art evolves into a dynamic platform for meaningful discourse.

Horekb

My work is an attempt to explore the complexities and contradictions of human nature. It’s a visual game that invites reflection on who we are in different moments of our lives, our character, and the different personalities that inhabit our existence, without losing sight of the humor and irony of our being.

Hounyeh Kim

I explore my existence as a transient being in constant flux, shaped by my relationship with everything around me. Despite my cognitive limits as a human, I relentlessly seek meaning—not only in what is visible but also in the micro and macro forces that connect us all.

I embrace the fleeting nature of being, navigating the tension between uncertainty and understanding. In this space of impermanence, I celebrate our existence as whole and real entities—ephemeral yet infinite, suspended in the vast expanse of time.

HUMATIC

Art is Statement . HUMATIC is Teamwork

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Ibán Ojea

Besides, naturally, becoming better every day, and obviously becoming the best in my field (street photography), one of the main motivations I am aware of is being able to capture the reality of our times and the beautiful side of life.

imitelex

My art is a response to the relentless and inhuman rhythm of capitalism shaping our lives.I am an abstract painter with a background in theatre, I use acrylics, collage, gesso, and mixed media to create layered compositions. I build and erase, scrape and repaint, embracing imperfection as part of the process.

My works reflect resilience and transformation, capturing the struggle between destruction and renewal. Through texture and depth, I seek to question the forces that shape us, leaving space for the viewer to navigate their own interpretations.

Ina Djurkovic

Ina Djurkovic’s work explores the tension between strength and softness, challenging the idea that femininity equates to weakness. She paints on raw, unstretched canvas, allowing water and pigment to seep unpredictably—embracing both control and surrender.

Her artistic journey began with organic abstract forms inspired by human anatomy, created as a way to cope with depression. Later, she shifted to portraiture, layering transparent Plexiglas panels to create depth and movement. Her current collection merges abstraction and figuration, reflecting an evolution in her exploration of identity and resistance.

By allowing her materials to unfold naturally, Djurkovic redefines softness—not as fragility, but as power. Her work resists rigid structures, instead embracing transformation, imperfection, and vulnerability as acts of strength.

Isabel de Andrés Velasco

Isabel de Andrés Velasco is a sculptor known for her ability to translate intangible emotions into solid form. Her work explores the intersection between material and feeling, where raw textures and organic structures give shape to internal conflicts.

The series, Angst, consists of three concrete sculptures that embody the physical manifestation of anguish. Each piece captures the sensation of a throat tightening, of words left unsaid. The rigid concrete folds over itself, forming tense, constricted shapes that seem both restrained and in motion.

Isabelle Tellié

Isabelle Tellie is a French-German interdisciplinary artist, based in Berlin. She studied at the Artez Institu- te of Arts in Arnhem (Netherlands), where, in 2015 she got a Bachelor degree in Fashion Design, graduating with honours.

At Artez, Isabelle committed to a less conventional approach to design by integrating influences such as Bauhaus and Minimalism with ideas and forms that relate to the imaginative, the emotional sphere, and the intuitive response to the surrounding world. With her unique work and enticing personality, she invites our body mind complexity to a journey that enhances the consciousness of the act of perception and its possibilities. In 2017, Isabelle started dedicating to what she describes as “optical illusion art” a playful and yet thought- provoking way to get to question our sense of reality. Later in her practice, Isabelle deepens her focus on duality and the symbiotic relationship between the piece and the viewer – or better, between the artistic work and the “inter-actor”. Under the spotlight are as well the duality of artificial order-disorder and natural organicity, rational language and instinctive emotion, trigger and reaction, logic and intuition.

Ivo Berg

Curiosity is the fuel driving my passion to view the world through the lens of a camera. Curiosity about the world, the people within it, and how everything fits together to create the experience of life. Pushing myself to explore the world also tests the limits of my own comfort zone.

I am very interested in how these personal boundaries are created, how they can expand, and the growth we experience as humans when we are willing to open ourselves to the world. I am drawn to seek out the unknown. Within the fear and ambiguity of new experiences is also a powerful sense of anticipation, of adrenaline, of ‘anything can happen’. A camera in my hand urges me forward to find out what is on the other side of fear. My creative process is as much an exploration of my internal space as it is an exploration of the world around me. Boundaries are meant to be crossed and I capture the thrilling experience of discovery. During this exploration, I uncover beauty in the most unlikely of places and situations. From bleak brutalist landscapes to colorful centers of modern architecture. From dust-filled impressions of long forgotten basements to the impressive highlights of urban structures. It is all about the decisive moment. When the single aspects in the frame add up to something much greater than the sum of its parts, something truly remarkable comes into existence. Curiosity is the force that drives my work. And I cannot help but curiously look forward to see where this exploration is leading me.

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Jakob Drömmer

As an architect, I am interested in the similarities between abstract art and architecture.

Jakub T Szczęsny

In my work, I reflect on the human condition, using the gaze as a symbol of presence and vulnerability. Through abstract forms, I explore identity, emotion, and the tension between visibility and obscurity.

Jana Blum Zimova

Jana Zimová is a Czech artist. The theme of all of her paintings are bizarre stories, that are full of dramatic moments, erotic, miracles and weird beasts. The inspiration for these artworks are drawn from stories that appear in the daily press and from the traditional myths from South America and Asia.

Zimovás works are full of allegorys and a dark symbolism, this makes her works look scary and inviting at the same time. In her paintings the exaggerated reality collides with nightmares and dreams, always spiced with a portion of humor.

Jana Jacob

As a painter, I explore the intimate and often private moments of human existence. My oil paintings blend self-portrayal, latent exhibitionism, and voyeurism, capturing the interplay between intimacy and the desire to reveal oneself. Through saturated colors and bold brushstrokes, I examine the tension between the hidden and the exposed, often focusing on fragments of the human body that create their own narratives and symmetries.

Janine Kuehn

I am a Berlin-based photographer and digital artist dedicated to capturing the essence of everyday life and the stories behind my subjects. My work focuses on identity and emotion, often blending portraiture with experimental techniques.

Collaborating with musicians and other creatives allows me to explore new perspectives and create engaging visual narratives. I aim to connect with viewers, inviting them to find their own meaning in each piece.

Jérémie MARTINO

I grew up in the Côte d’Azur, at some point I realised that I always wanted to paint lush mediterranean scenary, when I was a student I was already amazed by those scenes. Unfortunately I never really allowed myself to do so, on the surface it didn’t really seem to be deep enough, it was too anecdotic, but the desire to paint them never left me.

Most of those places that I paint don’t actually exist in reality, they are sometimes from pure imagination, or a collage of photos previously edited on Photoshop, and sometimes both; in that sense they are from my memories, or more likely from the memories of my sensations, whether they are from my youth, or from the present. Indeed they are nostalgic, they are talking about a time that doesn’t exist, a place that might one day, not exist anymore.”

Jessi Kammerer

Colors provide solace. In vivid comic-like fantasy worlds, humans, animals, and fabulous creatures meet. I explore the quest for connection and love, embedding it in a constant longing for warmth and sunlight. My background in psychology and contemporary dance has shaped my eye for the physical expressions of social interaction.

Often, my characters’ emotional openness is met with misunderstanding. Nonetheless, I attempt to strip these failures of any tragedy by transforming them into lighthearted playfulness. Through exaggerated symbols and whimsical elements, I invite viewers to embrace eccentricities without judgment, finding inspiration and comfort in vibrant oddities.

Jette Leder

My name is Jette Leder (b1983 in Dresden) and as a self-taught artist, I am continuously drawn to the intricate poetry found in the mundane, the everyday gestures that compose the symphony of human existence. My artistic journey is an exploration of the human expression, delving deep into its nuances and subtleties.

I strive to capture the essence of humanity by zooming into the minutiae, pushing the boundaries of proximity until it evokes a visceral response from the viewer—a blend of discomfort and fascination. Drawing inspiration from the works of Lucien Freud, Egon Schiele, and Jenny Saville, I employ traditional painting techniques to carve out a space for self-discovery and reflection. My palette is imbued with expressionistic colors, each hue echoing the complexities of the human psyche. Through the interplay of light and shadow, form and texture, I aim to capture the raw essence of existence, stripping away the veneer of societal constructs to reveal the raw beauty beneath. In essence, my art is a celebration of the human form from a feminine perspective, a testament to its resilience and vulnerability. Central to my work is the question of how much of the human body is required to narrate the story of our humanity? Join me on a journey of introspection and celebration, where the raw beauty of existence takes center stage, inviting you to reconsider perceptions and embrace the journey of self-discovery.

JILLI DARLING

My work explores the Self through vibrant abstractions, where geometric structures and expressive gestures coexist. Bold contrasts and subtle transitions create a dynamic push and pull, balancing energy with quiet introspection.

Colours and textures shift in dialogue, while markings trace memory, thought, and daydreaming. Playful yet meditative, my work—primarily in acrylic and oil—invite the viewer into an ever-evolving internal landscape.

Joana Lucas

My work navigates the tension between reality and perception, capturing fractured moments of urban life where the familiar becomes strange. I am drawn to the fleeting, the overlooked—scenes marked by human presence yet unsettled by disruption.

Through painting and photography, I reshape reality, layering beauty with imbalance, precision with distortion. My images remain open-ended, inviting viewers to complete their own narratives, to question, to engage. By weaving classical aesthetics with digital influences, I explore the delicate interplay between connection and alienation, order and chaos. In breaking the logic of reality’s appearance, I create visual disruptions that challenge perceptions, provoke thought, and suggest new ways of seeing the world.

Joanna Mortreux

Embracing painting and ceramics, my practice is about creating entities that resonate with awkwardness, fragility and the uncomfortable process of being. I explore in an anthropomorphic and almost sensual way the monuments, artefacts and sculptures that make up our collective human history.

References are purposefully eclectic, ranging across many cultures and multiple historic periods. The emerging forms and figures have a universal and timeless feel. Suspended in an eerie twilight zone these works are about potential. Either in a state of construction or collapse there are no fixed narrative and this unravelling creates a space for potential narratives to emerge.

Jonathan Esperester

My name is Jonathan Esperester, I am an artist working and living in Berlin and in my collage – like paintings I am interested in man – made imitation of nature. Categories such as “naturalness” carry for me an ambivalence that reflects the enormous diversity of the world and thus develops a kind of magic

The often nostalgically charged contents and aesthetics enable the viewer to find an emotional access to my surreal worlds and to question their own percep tion. In my paintings , I am in search of the fantastic element that makes the everyday appear magical.

Joshua Hoskins

The shapes of things (objects) can take on strange appearances depending on the information provided. What we see is a reconstruction which approximates the object outside our heads. For instance, when we look at a house we only see the side that’s facing us.

When we walk around it, we cannot hold in our memory all the perspectives we’ve seen. Then there is what’s inside, the many rooms and different floors, and all that it contains. This “Objekt” can never be entirely perceived. But nonetheless, we experience the whole object as it is in reality. These images are an exploration of this paradox.

Juhee Ahn

I explore growth, connection, and resilience by depicting trees with skin-like textures—where human emotions and nature deeply intertwine.

Julez

My work is based on painting, sculpture and installation, and explores the deconstruction of traditional anatomy through a dynamic fusion of playful elements inspired by folklore, subculture, world music and my own experiences, all infused with a dynamic urban aesthetic.

Julia Shanaytsa

Julia Shanaytsa, as an artist, delves into the contemporary human experience, navigating a new reality where attention is scattered, and individuals define themselves through the objects surrounding them. In this intricate dance, people become mere elements within the larger machinery of consumer society, where objects function as the tiniest particles comprising a vast mechanism in which we dissolve.

Similar to the significance of attributes in Renaissance portraiture, objects become the attributes of the modern individual, describing and characterizing them. However, a challenge arises as these objects are transient, subject to planned obsolescence—a mechanism dictating that every product must be reissued over time, compelling consumers to replace items as they expire.

This constant flux leaves the contemporary individual in a state of total disarray. Yet, amidst this chaos, there lies an ability to find beauty in the ever-shifting, in the simplicity of objects, in fleeting aesthetic sensations. Perhaps, the ephemeral nature of the present moment defines the self-perception of 21st-century individuals: tomorrow one identity, the day after, another. Yet, there exists another perspective, an external gaze that imparts some stability to this fluid motion. The “Other” represents the carrier of opinions and ideologies, possessing a viewpoint on the surrounding world. The uniqueness of the “Other” lies in its appearance of wholeness, certainty, as if it is free from self-questioning or doubt about self-awareness. The same “I,” immersed in internal transformations and uncertainties, appears remarkably unified when seen through the eyes of the “Other.”

Furthermore, this complexity intensifies as objects interweave into the relationship between the “I” and the “Other,” becoming equal actors in the situation. It is through the mechanism of photographic capture that this intricate network of mutual perspectives can be observed—through a pause, outside the rush, and beyond the stream of consciousness.

As an artist, Julia Shanaytsa penetrates the momentary and the objectified forms that are on the verge of shifting their positions in reality. Her works capture not the totality, but rather the flashes, the vibrations of a total upheaval of existence. Through her art, she offers a glimpse into the essence of a fluid and ever-changing human experience, revealing the profound beauty found within the transitory nature of our modern existence.

Julieta Abdon

Julieta Abdon (1992), Argentinian Visual artist, working and living in Berlin. “Quantum Expressionism, art movement”, Is how I named my Observations on dynamics such as Electromagnetic Radiation, magnetic fields, magnetism. translation from the waves of the invisible interactions to the matter, with oil painting on canvas and sketching paper on pencil. movements from “Topological Variant Movements”.

Julz

My work explores the intersection between collective memory and visual iconography, appropriating images from film and television to reinterpret them in my painting processes. These references function not only as memories but also as tools to examine how popular culture shapes the perception of reality, identity, and the evolution of the image.

Through the appropriation of these images, I highlight the ways in which audiovisual media influence my imagination and the construction of shared meanings, while also exploring other key aspects of my work, such as the body, expression, time, color, distortion, and movement. My work exists in a dialogue between the personal and the collective, transforming familiar symbols into new visual expressions that invite reflection.

My creative process is not solely based on reproduction but on reinterpretation. By altering, recombining, or reimagining these images, I create a conversation between past and present, exploring nostalgia, contemporary mythology, and the power of the image.

jumu

Jurena Muñoz Lagunas is a visual artist based in Berlin, with Peruvian-Chilean roots and raised in Hannover. Her work is inspired by the richness of Abya Yala culture and the experiences gathered during her travels, exploring the relationship between humans and nature.

Through masks, canvases, and murals, she creates a visual universe where tradition and memory interact with contemporary themes. With a vibrant aesthetic and a fusion of techniques, her work invites reflection on identity, and the invisible connections that bind us together.

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Kai Krause

So it’s easy to see my love for vibrant colors and how they’re able to create so many different layers. With high viscosity of my pre-mixed colors it allows you to track the momentum and energy of the stroke movement and make them visible. So it offers a lot of power and a pinch of coincidence.

Everytime it is this coincidence which forces me to step back again and again to take a new look on the piece but at the same time it reveals so many small details and facets that I couldn’t have planned.

Kama Nelson

The Flexibility of Identity – Art with My Body My art is my story. It is the echo of my origins, my upbringing, and my personal exploration of identity. I come from a conservative country where many topics—especially sexuality—are taboo. This background has shaped me deeply, but it has not defined me.

My medium is my own body. Through it, I explore the limits of identity: How flexible can a personality be? How far can one shape, liberate, or transform oneself? My body becomes a canvas on which I ask questions, push boundaries, and break through restrictions. Each photograph is a dialogue with myself and with the world. I investigate how deeply cultural conditioning runs and how much of it can be transcended. My art is a search for freedom—the freedom to reinvent oneself beyond societal norms and expectations. My images hold intimacy, confrontation, and transformation. I invite the viewer to reflect on their own identity—on physicality, on the unspoken, and on what we could become if there were no limits.

Karl-Berthold Ziegler

Art and Painting have fascinated me since early youth and have remained my impetus troughout my life. For 60 years I have been a painter alongside my job as a surgeon, standing at the canvas for 45 years.

The ceative phase shown here developed from the charming play with light and shadow on the tableclothes and the reflections on the glass vases, garnished with flowers in different wilking stages. During my artistic career I had about 45 solo and group exhibitions as well as participation in fairs in Strasbourg and Geneva.

Katerina Gutiérrez

My work is born from painting as an artistic language. Through it, I enter into artistic thought and understand the world from there, thus creating an imaginary by observing the different layers that make up current reality. I live in Chile, a country characterized by its landscapes, from the desert to Patagonia. I have traveled the country, exploring its landscapes.

Geography and vegetation are key. Nature is always the way my painting finds form; it is what I have experienced and seen. My language is painting. It is painting in different ways. It is seeking how to paint in such a way as to transform painting into an experience, a process, an experimentation, a chemistry that mutates, changes, and connects us.

Katerina Murysina

Katerina Murysina creates art using oils, charcoal, and simple pencils to explore the intricate spaces between memory and reality. Her work delves into the creation of a foggy, dreamlike world—rooted in memories of events that never actually occurred. Her artistic inquiry also engages with the existential themes of mortality and the passage of time, presenting a reflective meditation on the fragility of existence.

Kateryna Barvinska

Meanings, feelings, sexuality, and meanings again. Woman as an image in art, reflections, sexuality. The renowned researcher and philosopher Stanislav Grof believes that the most important things in life are birth, sex, and death. But we don’t remember our birth, and we know little about death.

As an artist, I am left to explore the theme of sex and sexuality. This series of works is dedicated to the game of sex. Because the act of coitus is always preceded by a romantic story, a moment of seduction, flirtation, the pain of previous relationships, shame, and it all ends with an orgasm, or not…

Katharina Stumm

In meiner Kunst schaffe ich Verbindungen und stoße einen Dialog zwischen Werk und Betrachtenden an. Zentral ist dabei das Zusammenspiel von Plan und Zufall, wodurch Arbeitsprozesse entstehen, die aufeinander aufbauen und sich weiterentwickeln.

Ich verschicke MailArt Objekte mit der Post und beschäftige mich mit dem Genius Loci und entwickle daraus raumgreifende Installationen. Meine MailArt ist eine Collage aus verschiedenen Techniken und Materialien, Gedanken und Ereignissen. Oft zeigen sie phantastische Landschaften und Ideen von möglichen Orten, die zum Träumen und Assoziieren einladen. Bei Postkarteneditionen kombiniere ich Materialien, Ideen und Texte zu Bilder die nachträglich in DinA6 große Segmente zerschnitten und an unterschiedliche Menschen verschickt werden. Ich möchte hierbei nicht nur Kunst erschaffen, sondern Erlebnisse, die direkt mit den Empfänger*innen in Resonanz treten. Papier ist dabei mein bevorzugter Werkstoff. Die gleichzeitige Empfindlichkeit wie Robustheit, die Leichtigkeit und Wiederverwendbarkeit, reizen mich. Diese Eigenschaften eröffnen mir Türen in die 3-Dimensionale Welt.

Katharina Wenk

Katharina Wenk’s work intensely explores the question of what remains of our essence when we question or even break societal norms and values. On a personal level, this means for her as a woman and mother that she engages with the expectations placed upon her by both society and herself.

The reflection on her own identity as a woman is a central aspect of her art. She asks herself to what extent she defines herself and how much these definitions are shaped by external societal norms. This engagement leads to the consideration of whether we are indeed dependent on such definitions or if we have the freedom to choose and shape our own identity. Wenk uses her art to explore these complex themes. Through various media, such as acrylic paints on wood or soft sculptures made of fabric, she expresses her personal feelings about femininity, motherhood, and originality. She often finds inspiration in her daily life as a care person, where she encounters the demands and expectations associated with this role. Additionally, she draws inspiration from female deities, mystical stories, and fairy tales from around the world to capture the diversity of life and the various facets of femininity. Overall, her work invites us to reflect on our own identity and to explore the possibilities of self-definition beyond societal dictates.

Katie Straus

Berlin-based abstract artist Katie translates emotions and experiences into vibrant paintings. Her work layers rich colors and textures, that reveal representational forms – flowers, vessels, things we eat and drink – reflecting her love of nature and connection. Working quickly with a focus on joy, Katie hopes her pieces celebrate the beauty found in everyday life.

Katrin Lazaruk

Katrin Lazaruk, Osnabrück, works with a clear feminist approach and dedicates her art to exploring both gender issues and the visibility of female artists. Her primary materials are cassettes and videotapes. She uses these media to reflect on themes such as memory, time, and the distortion of narratives.

Her works are both small- and large-format, installation-based, and present in public spaces. She places her works in dialogue with their surroundings and raises questions about the visibility and accessibility of art.

Keegan Luttrell

In my artistic practice, I create vessels that replicate the intricate and often unseen aspects of the human body, such as flesh, bones, and sinews, projecting these elements outwardly. This inversion serves as a powerful metaphor for vulnerability, making visible what is typically concealed within.

My work is a personal journey into understanding my relationship with my own body, confronting its imperfections and strengths. I see each vessel as a representation of the human condition, a body that encapsulates not just the body’s physicality but also the complex emotions and experiences we carry. The act of pit-firing these body-like vases further emphasises these themes. The primal and unpredictable nature of pit- firing subjects the vessels to intense heat and raw forces, similar to the external challenges that the human body navigates on this earth during its lifespan. They emerge with their own histories and evidence of struggle. This transformative process echoes the way our experiences shape and imprint upon us – like how wrinkles depicting the passage or time, or how stories are told through scars – the process echos and reflects the body’s strength and resilience.

Kerstin Kary

My bubble subsists of sound and vision. What matters* to me I capture in paint and on paper- I work in figurative drawing and painting**.

*everything matters
**exceptions confirm the rule

Kerstin Serz

Meine Malerei ist eine Mischung aus, surrealer Bildsprache, magischem Realismus und symbolischer Überhöhung. Ich verbinde Elemente aus der Natur – insbesondere Tiere und Pflanzen- mit alltäglichen Objekten. Während in meinen älteren Bildern noch der Mensch im Zentrum stand, waren irgendwann nur noch die Hände oder Füße da, die von seiner Existenz Zeugnis ablegten.

In den aktuellen Arbeiten sind auch diese verschwunden und menschgemachte Objekte, wie Teller, Schalen und Vasen usw. besetzen diese Leerstelle. Es geht mir dabei um die Gegenüberstellung von Ästhetik und Irritation, aber auch um einen poetischen und humorvollen Umgang, der sich in den Wortspielen der Titel ausdrückt. Es herrscht eine sinnliche, barocke Opulenz, die Farben sind übersättigt und leuchtend, ein Spiel der Verführung und dann kommt plötzlich der Moment der subtilen Störung dieser vermeintlichen Idylle.

Kirk Sora

My Artworks deal with the beauty of light and the secrets hidden in the light. These are pictures created for dreaming and about dreaming, for immersing and calming down. This is a moment for taking a pause to get aware of conscious breathing.

Each of them is of distinct individual presence, is full of expressive power, exploding colours and compositional refineness. Never pushy, although esthetically pleasing, timeless and harmonious.

Klara Bezug

Klara Bezug is the artist persona of Italian photographer Gaia Marturano, known in Berlin for her surreal photomontages. Collecting and archiving old postcards and photographs , Marturano uses these images both as inspiration and as a medium. Within her practice she investigates the topic of memory, nostalgia in an attempt to bridge the gap of time.

Koshmak

My recent works are deeply influenced by my background as an artist from Ukraine. The war and my worries about loved ones naturally affect what I create. But this series is different. It is inspired by Berlin Pride and the people of Berlin. With these works, I want to show how we are both different and alike—a celebration of diversity, a burst of color, and at the same time, a deep sadness that seems to be in everyone.

Kseniia Antipina

I create surreal images using a photo camera, crafting dreamlike or unsettling scenes by sculpting, embroidering, painting, or applying body makeup. Faces are often hidden, with emotions conveyed through objects and poses. My work blends reality and fantasy, inviting viewers into a world of invisible emotions.

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Ładnie

I’m Ładnie and I use colour to explore vulnerability. My experiences with self-examination and physicality have shaped my art across canvases, digital pixels and even skin. I first started really developing my style in hospital while undergoing a treatment in my early 20s. From this place of limitations, I started to apply the colour theory into fine liner and marker sketches.

These therapeutic escapes helped get me through the intense days of having a compromised immune system. Body language, proportions and perception all make up the oeuvre of my current work. With my paintings, I want to ask: Who owns the perception of ourselves? Who has the right to shape that? And how do we define it for ourselves in a world constantly focussed on norms?

And now, I’m ready to display this – to push me further out of my comfort zone and hold up a mirror to a collective discomfort.

Lan Kroeger

I love weird and creepy scenes, there is something beautiful about them. I am also inspired by plants and like exploring what kind of mood different plants can evoke

LANDRO

I create analogue, digital and mixed-media collages. Using photographs, newspaper clippings, drawings, materials, found objects and the digital transformation of analogue material, I create works that captivate, irritate, and fascinate with their strong visual messages.

I love every part of the process, from the search for images, the intricate cutting, tearing, or folding of the paper, the assembling and arranging to the documentation. The experimental process is inspired by surprisingly seen objects and colors. On the one hand, I address social problems; on the other, the combination of exciting motifs and materials unfolds a dynamic that leads to another world.

Lars Plessentin

Aufgewachsen zwischen alten Fotokameras, einer Armada an Familienfotografien und antiquarischen, in Leder eingebundenen, chemischen Enzyklopädien aus dem 19. Jahrhundert zur Fotoentwicklung interessierte sich Lars Plessentin in seiner Jugend für Vieles – außer für Fotografie und Kunst.

Stattdessen widmete er sich, ganz adoleszenten Neigungen folgend, dem Graffiti. Das änderte sich schlagartig während seines Studiums des Produktdesigns: Durch einen Zufall belegte er Fotografieseminare – und entwickelt erste künstlerische Arbeiten. Seine Arbeitsweise ist lange zeit ganz auf die Möglichkeiten der analogen Fotografie ausgerichtet, oft allerdings erweitert um experimentelle Techniken und Verfahren. In seiner aktuellen Serie verändert Lars Plessentin diese Arbeitsweisen, aufs Neue, er nähert sich seiner Vorliebe für Objekte, das Bauen von Modellen ganz im Zeichen seines Studiums. Er experimentiert mit Strukturen, Elementen, der Gebrauchspatina – ein Nachklang seiner Graffitizeit –, analogen Techniken der bearbeitung von Materialen ergeben Endschliff. Dadurch entstehen unkonventionelle, gar kuriose Objkete, Wandinstalationen , gewürzt mit einem Hauch von scharfen Sarkasmus und Nuancen spitzer Ironie.”

Laura Salomone

Leevke Succow

Born in 1998 and based in Berlin, I have been studying sculpture at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin since 2021. My ceramic work explores the beauty of imperfection, organic decay, and natural patterns, drawing inspiration from lichens, seed capsules, and underwater life. Each piece embraces irregularities—cracks, textures, and traces of process—that make it feel alive and unique.

I create both functional and sculptural ceramics, bridging the gap between design and art. Some works are deeply personal, shaped by my emotions and fascination with psychology and the subconscious. I see ceramics as a way to externalize inner states—translating thoughts and feelings into tangible forms. Alongside this introspective approach, my work engages with themes of time, transience, and my deep love for nature. Through glazing, form, and texture, I aim to create pieces that feel both organic and emotionally resonant.

Levan Amashukeli

My work is a response to the complexities of human nature and the shifting landscapes of contemporary society. Through mixed media, I explore themes of identity, power, and the contradictions that define our world. I am particularly interested in how certain figures—once unlikely to hold influence—now shape our reality in unexpected ways.

By layering textures, materials, and imagery, I create pieces that invite both introspection and a sense of irony. My practice balances critique with curiosity, encouraging viewers to engage with the nuances of our time—where absurdity and truth often intersect.

Linde van der Burgh

Linde van der Burgh is a Dutch artist who draws inspiration from her daily life. The emotions she experiences are expressed on paper and in three-dimensional works. She studied Illustration at The University of the Arts Utrecht, the Netherlands and became increasingly curious about giving body to her drawings, which led her to Ceramics.

Lisa Faustmann

For the past seven years, Lisa has been studying art at the University of the Arts in Berlin, with a strong focus on experimental printmaking. Her work explores the interplay of color, surface, and structure — elements that printmaking, with its rich possibilities, allows her to engage with deeply.

Lisa’s work reflects her interest in communication challenges, particularly in the context of modern relationships and digitalization. She seeks to uncover the intersections of body and identity while highlighting the complexities of human connection. A significant influence on Lisa’s work is the Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayón. Ayón’s innovative approach to printmaking and her exploration of identity and spirituality have inspired Lisa to pursue her own themes with authenticity and depth. Through her art, Lisa aims to reflect the nuances of identity and the intricate dynamics of relationships.

Lola Giancarelli

Lola Giancarelli (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a visual artist, performer and cultural manager based in Berlin. What I am passionate about in artistic practice is the ability to delve into areas of abstract reality and discover the forces behind the superficial image of the world.

My work balances composition and decomposition, precision and imprecision, appearance and disappearance. I use materials like paper, cardboard, and labels, which I glue or sew onto paper, preserving the poetics of everyday discarded fragments. The combination of these elements, the temperament of thread lines, and the use of archival paper give my work a gestural, intuitive, and documentary style. Each texture plays a crucial role in speech production, creating space to reclaim the power of imagination.

Louisa Dzewior

I can‘t remember a time I didn’t create drawings, paintings or art in some way and I know that I will never stop doing it. It is just part of me and one of the most honest and vulnerable ways for me to express myself. As a young student I would love to have more capacities for my art and I want to take opportunities to take part in interesting projects like BAAM to share it with other creative people and art lovers.

Luca Morgantini

Passion in capturing forms, moments and emotions makes consciousness in what we live day by day, photography succeeds in capturing those moments and colours that lead the mind far away, suspended between remembrance and beauty.

Łucja Bańkowska

I’m a student of Graphics at Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Poland. My work is a dialogue between tradition and spontaneity, where the precision of intaglio techincs meets the immediacy of drawing and typography. Inspired by the everyday—notes, shopping lists, scribbles—I explore how fleeting marks become lasting imprints.

Notebooks, stationery, and the act of writing are central to my process, serving as both subject and medium. Through layering, I seek to capture the tension between structure and intuition.

Ludwig Nikulski

These photographs are excerpts of larger award winning documentary photography projects with artistic approaches, such as an investigation of the home town of Santa Claus above the arctic circle, a journey through Japan with a love letter, or a confrontation with the Ukrainian border in order to highlight the confusion between everyday life and conflict. All photographs are shot with analog medium or large format cameras and printed on high quality fine art paper.

Lufo Art

Lucas Fabian Olivero (b. 1985, Córdoba, Argentina) is a contemporary artist, PhD student in Digital Media Art, PhD in Design and Innovation, Architect and Building Engineer-Architect, based in Berlin since 2021. He has exhibited in several countries of America, Europe and Asia.

Lufo’s artistic realm builds from his life experiences, books, travels and academic research. He blends all his background in hybrid (analogical/digital) art, digital art, parallel and conical perspectives and fully immersive spherical and cubical perspectives. He created “Spheri”, an installation to engage with VR drawings interactively by through body-tracking gestures. Much of his art-practice-based research focuses on paradigms of perception, which he materializes in dynamic, fluent, relative and never-ending artworks, right as he perceives that reality could be (and worth living). Lufo’s art invites viewers to explore and experience multidimensional spaces, through his unique style mixing architecture, mathematics, scientific illustration, perspective, digital art and interactive installations.

Luka Topp

In meiner Kunst beschäftige ich mich mit der plastischen Darstellung von Formen mit Pastellkreide und der Frage, wie sich Tiefe in verschiedenen Materialien ausdrücken lässt. Mich interessiert das Wechselspiel von Flächen, Licht und Struktur – wie sie sich gegenseitig beeinflussen und dadurch eine Spannung im Bild erzeugen.

Als Vorlage verwende ich Papiere und Plastik, deren Faltenwürfe für mich eine eigene Ästhetik und Dynamik bergen. In meiner Kunst greife ich sie auf und experimentiere mit ihnen, um neue Kompositionen zu schaffen.

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Mads Daugaard Mortensen

Multitudes
Like any artist, each person takes the experiences of a lifetime and integrates them into their complex representation of the world. That representation, the subjective consciousness that makes you you, integrates memories, attitudes, beliefs, convictions, traumas, loves, fears, desires, and goals into their own distinct way of seeing.

In each work, Mortensen portrays one person’s experience of the same event, yet uniquely seen. Reflecting on both the continuous influence our environment has on our lives and the power we have over these to shape what we experience, we find that there’s a dualistic rhythm to life.

Magdalena Paz

Magdalena Paz is a Chilean artist, her paintings are a place to explore and release repetitive thoughts, unanswered questions, and curiosities. Once these enter a physical space, they can move on to provoke awareness or questions in others. “The figures I depict are often caught in quiet moments of reflection or repose, allowing for a connection to the gentle rhythms of everyday life.’

Malerei zu Zweit

Malte Hagen

I paint pictures that are both attractive and culturally deep. They are fully aware of past and present painting and speak their own language within that context.

The motifs stem from staged scenarios that are re-enacted from my imagination and then appear on the stage of the painterly. Between play and seriousness, there is an elevation of the everyday, such as household appliances, walks, or objects with unknown functions.

Mana Urakami

A photograph found at a flea market, forgotten by all. It takes on a third life beyond physical death and death by oblivion.

Manu Aldunate

Manuel Aldunate is an Argentinean artist based in Berlin. Graduated in graphic design at the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires He ran several creative agencies as creative director, build one of the firsts online rock magazines in Argentina with almost 40 young talented people working with him and creator of 2 bands that were part of the indie scene in Buenos Aires. Musician , Graphic Designer and Creative.

Influenced by the culture of the 60s and the fascination with life, he has created a personal universe by designing his own language of symbols. Through his pieces he has developed a unique style, with unlimited strokes, bright colours and infinite shapes.

Marco Wachsmuth

Das Bild als Verstärker weckt in uns Assoziationen aus unserem Unterbewusstsein. Das zum Teil stark umkonkrete in den Bildern lässt viel Raum für freie Interpretationen und schafft so dem Betrachter die Möglichkeit sich das Bild zu eigen zu machen. In seiner ganz persönlichen Sichtweise kann er das Bild annehmen und eine Verbindung zu Ihm aufbauen. Das in Ihm angelegte Klima lässt sich auf subtile Art durch die Bilder verstärken.

Margarethe Ucinski

My paintings are driven by an interest in the painting material and painting technique. I am interested in transitions, margins and the interaction between forms as well as the interactions between form and background. Sometimes form and background are beside each other without a hierarchy, sometimes the background pushes forward and becomes a form itself.

In most of my paintings the space is not airy but solid and competes against the inner form. In our daily life we perceive matter as solid and space as atmospheric. I reverse these conditions in my paintings.

María Rapela

My series of watermelons, inspired by the Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo, invites reflection on being, time, and life. Using neofigurative and abstract techniques, I play with colors, textures, and shapes. The motif of the watermelon allows for deeper contemplation of existential questions.

Maria Ugarova

I started Cyanotype as a hobby about a year ago and fell in love with the process. I mix the chemicals myself and enjoy not only the meditative aspect of creating art but especially the experimental part. I started with negatives of my own photos, then experimented with glass, different papers, fabrics, and forms. Every time a print shifts to deep blue (my favourite colour) feels like a little moment of magic and makes me excited like a child again.

Maria von Staa

Having spent most of my life moving between cities and traveling, photography has become a way of archiving my encounters with new places, experiences, and people. I am particularly drawn to the unfamiliar—odd spaces, objects, and moments within the urban landscapes I find myself at.

My style blends documentary and artistic elements, with a focus on urban still life, often framing them in distinctive ways, playing with color, shape, symmetry (or asymmetry), and visual illusions.

Marie Cloppenburg

Born and raised in northern Germany, Marie Cloppenburg is a contemporary artist based in Berlin. With a master’s degree in Fashion Design, she specialises in painting, illustration, and sculpture.

Cloppenburg’s artistic approach blends a childlike, naïve view of her surroundings with an urban zeitgeist, capturing the essence of innocence and contemporary aesthetics. She has been exhibiting her sculptures since 2022. Following several celebrated exhibitions in Germany, Cloppenburg’s sculptures have since been shown and sold in Paris, New York, and Tokyo.

Marion Meinberg

Meine Malerei bewegt sich an der Schnittstelle von Realität und Imagination. Szenen, Figuren und Symbole verweben sich zu narrativen Fragmenten, die Erinnerungen, Erfahrungen und gesellschaftliche Fragen reflektieren. Die Bildsprache bleibt bewusst offen – sie fordert zur eigenen Interpretation auf.

Figürliche Elemente changieren zwischen menschlich und tierisch, sanft und exzessiv. Durch Übermalungen und Bearbeitungen entsteht ein Dialog zwischen dem Sichtbaren und dem Verborgenen – eine Einladung, genauer hinzusehen.

Marissa Kimmel

I’m an artist and designer based in Bremen. For me, art and design are interconnected and inspire each other. In my creative practice, they are not separate but intertwined. Design provides the structure for visual communication and delivering clear messages.

My art focuses on playing with typography’s form and color, blending it with painting. I see typography as an artistic medium that adds a new dimension to art. Typically a precise tool for communication, typography becomes an aesthetic element in my work. Letters and symbols transform into abstract shapes and patterns, sparking dialogue about language, meaning, and perception.

In my work, the boundaries between design and art blur, creating an open space for exploration and interpretation.

Martina Alice Tolotti

Martina’s introduction to photography stemmed from a desire to pursue an analytical approach to distillate her perception of reality during her architecture studies. She combines documentary, conceptual, and fine art photography, often focusing on surfaces and landscapes as vehicles for storytelling.

Through her work, Martina reflects on the dynamic relationship between humanity and the land, observing how the landscapes she captures serve as a link between past and present. Her practice bridges ancient references with the fluidity of contemporary social, temporal, and spatial realities.

In parallel, Martina’s intimate portraits crystallize the essence of private conversations, where the veil of Maya—defined by Schopenhauer as the illusion that hides true reality—appears in multiple forms. This veil symbolizes the subject’s gradual liberation throughout the experience, culminating in a transformative moment of self-realization and epiphany.

Martina Breyer

ERINNERUNGEN
BILDERSERIE MIT ROSTDRUCKEN
Spannende Eisenteile, die einen Ansatz von Rost haben oder bereits einen fortgeschrittenen Verfall aufweisen, sind inspirierend für mich. Ich habe sie auf Leinwänden sichtbar gemacht.

Die rostigen Scheiben, Seile, Schlüssel oder Werkzeuge verwendete ich und schuf damit spannende Drucke. Auf der Basis einer experimentellen Voruntersuchung entwickelte ich diese ausgefallene Technik. Mit Essenzen wie Essig, Gallapfelpulver, Tee, Weinsteinpulver, Pottasche, Alaun und Rotwein entstehen verschiedenste Farbtöne und Effekte. Sogar glänzende dicke Rostablagerungen werden auf den Bildern sichtbar. Im kreativen Prozess entstehen Rollen oder Päckchen, die ruhen mussten. Das Auspacken ist immer sehr aufregend und für mich sind es Geschenke, die sich zeigen und die ich auch bemale. Die Kunstwerke erinnern an die vergangenen Zeiten in historischen Gebäuden, wie z.B. an frühere Zeiten in einem alten Gutshaus. Oder ich denke an das Arbeiten im Keller meines Vaters. Von den Gegenständen mit der Patina kommen Erinnerungen an alte Geschichten.

Mathias Schauwecker

My work floates between abstraction and figuration. Since my beginings there is a concentration on the human body. In more recent years, figures with exaggerated anatomy, male and female, appear. There also is the idea of doubling which is recuring – double-portraits and double-personalities.

Mathilde Hostein

I’m a French artist living in Berlin, working mostly with oil paintings. My paintings are attempts to take a step back and consider layers of experiences bleeding into each other : physical sensations and emotions, learnt significations and intimate understandings.

I gather mundane moments reflecting a soft uncanniness : shapes that impressed me, close ups of body parts, out of context objects or situations. By painting them from a subjective point of view, sometimes adding dream-like details or accentuating slightly some qualities of atmosphere, I make a collection of memories of sensations, clues of what being alive feels like inside.

Mauro Fariñas

In his ceramic practice, Mauro tests how far he can take functional ware and sculptural vessels, while bringing a sense of wonder and unexpectedness to the everyday object. Disproportions, aggresive texture, excessive glazing, meandering ornamentation… the- se are some of the tools he uses to rarify the ordinary.

Starting at the wheel, and altering the shapes through coils, slabs, and glazework, his quasi-organic objects surprise with either their uncertain earthly origin, or their certainly unearthly disposition. Born in Madrid and educated in art in Helsinki, Mauro got reacquainted with clay whi- le living in Berlin. He joined the studio Ceramic Kingdom in summer 2021, where he worked and taught for two years, before embarking in art residencies, in Tuscany and Japan. Back in Berlin, he has set up his atelier within the community of Kunsthalle Neukölln, and took up teaching at Peace Out Paradise studio.

Michael Dimenstein

My process is to interpret the forms of the human body as movements. I work mainly with stone, wood, cement, gypsum, modelling and by drawing preliminary sketches.

Just as the colour of the walls, the paintings on the walls and the objects around us form the space of our habitat, so the sculpture brings its own integral part to this formation.

Michael Großstück

Mikhail Gulin is a contemporary conceptual artist originally from Belarus, known for his vibrant performances and provocative actions. His primary media include painting, sculpture, objects and installations, and video art.

Michael Navarro

Michael Navarro is a painter of Irish and Maltese descent, living and working in Berlin, Germany. Queerness & technology predominantly inspire his work, with collage-like compositions of multiple images imposed onto each other as a reaction to the collective consciousness of online community.

Seemingly unrelated figures, animals and settings are forced together to emulate our online existence and the absurdity of memes, shared and repurposed into what could appear nonsensical, but have clear and recognisable meaning to many people. Michael’s work is greatly inspired by his contemporaries, and attempts to reject the traditional elitism and inaccessibility of representational painting with humour and candour.

Michelle Riemer

In her works, Michelle Riemer uses form and color in abstract painting and sculpture to work with various sensations and inner psychological contexts.
Her work interacts with her profession as an art therapist. Recurring dream symbols are depicted in the ceramics and translated into a real context, creating a link between the unconscious and tangible reality.

In her painting, on the other hand, the reference to reality is often less clear and tangible. Connections are repeatedly created on the pictorial level and then partially dissolved again. Painting as an intuitive process, in which meanings can emerge and disappear again simultaneously, thus stands in contrast to the ceramics. While the sculptures embody the feeling of decay, the paintings seem like a search for new possibilities of connections and relationships.
Michelle’s works are currently on display at the Artmadness Store Berlin.

Mike Hentz

My work blends technical precision with organic influences, combining industrial drawings with the simplicity of indigenous art. My flatware pieces, though two-dimensional, feel tactile and prominent, with shapes that protrude from the paper, evoking a sense of relief or primitivism.

Through meticulous dotting, I capture natural forces like moss, creating intricate patterns, and drawing inspiration from microscopic views of molecules. Collaboration is central to my process, allowing me to break boundaries and explore new perspectives. My compositions merge various influences, from 1960s computer programming schedules to traditional Arab ornaments, layering forgotten cultural artefacts. I focus on the overlooked, magnifying even the smallest details to encourage reflection on what we choose to remember or forget. Ultimately, my work is a conversation, where diverse influences collide to open new ways of seeing the world. Each piece invites viewers to explore the connections between art, culture, and memory, while pushing the limits of creative expression.

Mikhail Gulin

In 2022, due to political persecution, he was forced to leave Belarus. He currently lives and works in Dresden, Germany.

The artist invariably raises socio-political problems of our time. Exploring social stereotypes, Mikhail Gulin depicts the reality around him but does so with the help of bright colors, iconic cultural references, and subtle irony.

Mila Kotka

I create bio-hieroglyphs in the ‘wild studio’—the natural environments of the most beautiful and untamed places in the world. I use small elements of endemic flora and biodiversity (seeds, petals, mushrooms, shells) to convey nature’s secrets through various contemporary media, including photography, video art, and virtual reality. I employ hybrid media to seek a balance between different artistic methods, nature and technology, ethics and aesthetics, as well as spiritual practices and science.

Mio Kasai

I have had synesthesia since I was a child. Colors and the process of painting leads me to gaining a kind of understanding that I did not have before.

Mirja Gastaldi

In painting, drawing, and objects, I explore ﬁgurative storytelling. My focus is on the individual in their relationships, development, and emotions. The large-format, mostly black-and-white drawings are based on photos of unknown individuals found online. Here, I am fascinated by the possibility of transforming these people into new characters and the changed of dynamic.

Miss Glueniverse

Miss Glueniverse ist eine Berliner Collagen-Künstlerin mit österreichischen Wurzeln. Die Collage als künstlerisches Ausdrucksmittel bedeutet für sie, vorhandene Strukturen aufzubrechen, um sie nach eigenem Empfinden zu rekonstruieren. Dies ist nicht nur ein künstlerischer Prozess, sondern steht im analogen Sinne auch für Empowerment in der eigenen Lebensgestaltung.

Dahingehend sind ihre Werke meistens sehr farbenfroh, dynamisch und immer etwas cheeky. Insgesamt ist die Kunst von Miss Glueniverse geprägt von einer spielerischen und positiven Energie, die gleichzeitig tiefgründige und gesellschaftskritische Themen anspricht. Seit 2018 bringt Miss Glueniverse auch frischen Wind in die Berliner Streetart-Szene. Neben einigen Gruppenausstellungen, war eines ihrer größeren Projekte die Gestaltung einer Community Wall für das „Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art“ in Berlin. Auf ca 14 m² Außenfläche eines Wohnhauses, stellte Miss Glueniverse ihre Sicht auf Berlin in Form einer knalligen Collage dar.

Monika Kalinowska

My painting explores the female experience, challenging patriarchal structures through themes of racial inequality, feminism, LGBTQ rights, and identity. I capture marginalized individuals in moments of vulnerability, aiming to reveal their raw emotions rather than replicate photographs.

Using oil paint and traditional brushes, I portray people close to me, blending personal experiences with feminist literature and political influences. My creative process balances careful planning with spontaneous expression, building narratives through fragmented moments. Ultimately, my art seeks to illuminate overlooked stories, provoke empathy, and offer a nuanced view of the societal challenges faced by marginalized voices.

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Sol Undurraga and Mujer Gallina
Authors and artists. Sol studied architecture but is dedicated to writing stories and drawing them. Gallina learned from her friends and is interested in graphic activism and urban art. But both merge into one.

They work writing, drawing, painting, silkscreening and doing graphic activism actions. They have published more than seven books, some of which have been translated into more than six languages. Sol and Gallina have exhibited individually and collectively in Chile, Mexico, United States, Barcelona, Madrid, Porto, Berlin and South Korea. Sol has received important awards and recognitions in Bologna Children’s book fair, Nami in South Korea, Guadalajara Book Fair and Ravens in Internationale Jugendbibliothek. Their books have been translated into more than six languages. This merged duo lives in Berlin in a collective, anti-authoritarian and self-managed project.

Muriel Gallardo Weinstein

Con mi trabajo artístico investigo las relaciones entre identidades y contextos desde una perspectiva intercultural. Exploro los distintos espacios en los que me encuentro, reconociéndolos y redefiniéndolos en relación con las materialidades que los conforman, o los representan simbólicamente.

Estas materialidades las combino y reordeno mediante diversas técnicas —principalmente manuales y textiles, propias del feminismo—, generando formas que aluden a la realidad de maneras muchas veces inesperadas, cuestionando así las formas habituales o convencionales de comprenderla, buscando también cuestionar los límites entre espacio, mente y cuerpo. Mi trabajo se inspira en temas contemporáneos que considero relevantes y está profundamente arraigado en un trasfondo teórico, basado en diversas áreas del conocimiento como la filosofía, la psicología y la antropología.

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Nadia Mumladze

I am Nadia, a self-taught painter from Georgia. Professionally, I work as a preschool and integration educator. Over time, my passion for painting has taken on a significant role in my life. Currently, I am particularly inspired by nocturnal color palettes. My preferred mediums are oil and pastel.

Additionally, my work is influenced by artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Lenz Geerk, and Paul Cézanne. My paintings reflect personal experiences and impressions, portraying dreamlike individuals engaged in dialogue with themselves. The philosophy of my art revolves around the transformation of time and colors. Both humans and nature are subject to constant change. In the end, both strive to find a mutual harmony. At present, I am working on a series with the thematic title: “Long Summer Nights – Memories of the Future and Past Days.”

Nadia Valeska

Born in Germany and raised in New Zealand, my artistic practice is shaped by migration, cultural transitions, and a search for belonging. Having studied and worked in New Zealand, Spain, Italy, and Chile, and now based in Berlin, I explore identity, memory, and the fluid dialogue between individuals, environments, and artistic disciplines.

My work connects visual art with music and technology, integrating fine art prints and small-scale paintings that merge sound, rhythm, and AI-generated elements. Blurred imagery and layered compositions evoke the fragility of memory and the interplay between human experience and digital transformation. A recurring theme is the overlooked role of women in history, highlighting resilience, solidarity, and adaptation. Through mixed media, oil paintings, and experimental processes, I weave together personal and collective narratives, creating works that explore transformation, connection, and the evolving relationship between tradition and innovation in contemporary art.

Nato Bagrationi

My work explores the delicate intersection between fragility and resilience, the seen and the unseen. Using diverse techniques, I capture the essence of transformation—whether through micro photographs of illnesses embedded in wax or intricate drawings of nature, flowers, palms, the sun, and human faces. These elements reflect both the organic beauty of life and the invisible forces that shape it.

By juxtaposing scientific imagery with traditional artistic expression, I seek to evoke a dialogue about vulnerability, impermanence, and the hidden patterns that connect all living things. My pieces invite viewers to contemplate the duality of existence—the microscopic and the vast, the ephemeral and the eternal.

Nena Cermak

Nena Čermák would like to open up new worlds, bring about social changes, create free spaces. As a means of salvation, she generates her own cosmos. The name COSMILUTION is composed of the words “evolution”, “revolution”, “emancipation” and “solution”.

Having participated in BAAM #7 this year, Navid continues to evolve his practice, pushing boundaries in his exploration of vibrant abstraction. His method involves layering, rotating, and scraping paint to reveal hidden textures, engaging viewers in a complex, diverse experience.

Nicholas Kashian

The works selected for display at BAAM 2025 come from a long on-going series of collages that have acted as both a means of drawing or sketching and simultaneously as finished artworks. The pieces start always from the act of cutting. Old books, posters, magazines and manuals are all possible source material.

The elements are stripped of their context and become simply material. After multiple piles of cut material accumulate, the shifting and placing and composition process begins. This is all analog collage and relies on improvisation and abstract exploration. Paper, scissors and blades, and glue. Shifting visual focus and complex layering are the main focus and the elements of color and shape and line are used to create dynamic pictoral space, similar to painting or drawing. The works are then mounted on board and carefully coated in one to three coats of Epoxy Resin. This process transforms the works into serious objects for viewing.

Nicolas Crocetti

Nicolas Crocetti is an Italian multidisciplinary artist. His artistic research spans different areas of interest and encompasses multiple media including photography, painting, and installation. His conceptual works are made with the intention of triggering reasoning and dialogue with the public on issues and criticalities that distinguish contemporary society.

Nika

I collect discarded fragments of urban life—street trash, forgotten objects, overlooked materials—and transform them into new visual narratives. My practice is rooted in upcycling and resignification, revealing the hidden beauty in what others deem worthless.

Through collage, assemblage, and mixed media, I capture ephemeral moments of urban and social existence, exploring themes of decay, renewal, and memory. The raw, unconventional nature of my materials reflects the unpredictability of the streets, creating works that are both spontaneous and intentional. My process is an act of resistance against consumerism, questioning the boundaries between art and waste, permanence and impermanence. Each piece tells a story of transformation, inviting viewers to reconsider their perception of value and beauty.

Ninjaaaling

This painting series especially embodies themes like nostalgia and longing. The story behind the pictures is a very personal one, because each of them portrays a memory of a person who is not among us anymore.

Themes that touch upon the human psyche have always fascinated me and played a significant role in choosing the motives that I want to create. Being part of the Vietnamese Diaspora in Germany makes it inevitable that I choose certain cultural references and visuals that function as visual keys in my work.

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Olga Urbanek

Born near Warsaw in 1987, Olga Urbanek is a digital photographer who explores the space between reality and fantasy, the familiar and the bizarre. Her alluring photos, often self-portraits marked by hallucinatory colors, costuming, and meticulously prepared settings, create bright dreamlands that bely a darkness within them.

Óscar Barbosa

“After my studies in Art and Photography, I started working on my personal projects in 2009, with a strong passion for analogue photography and its processes and focusing mostly on documentary analogue photography. It was the pandemic in 2020 who made me slow down, getting me to connect back to my roots and explore new visual techniques and expressions. My passion for vintage photography is deeply connected to the analogue world itself. I have always collected these photo treasures from unknown people. On the other hand, my passion for threads comes from my grandmother Valentina, a big reference in my childhood. She used to create the most beautiful lace pieces with the bobbin lace technique while I was doing my school homework on her side. I used to help her draw the patterns when her eyes started to get old and her influence lives in my creative process. I love the uniqueness of these photographs, the impossibility of reproducing them again, as negatives are very rare to find. I always felt disconnected from my upbringings, that is why I love offering them a new colorful life, to heal their disconnection. I like to rescue them from those moist cellars and flea market boxes, where they are destined to decay; bringing them to new hands that will honor their memory, despite being completely unaware of their identity.”

My passion for vintage photography is deeply connected to the analogue world itself. I have always collected these photo treasures from unknown people. On the other hand, my passion for threads comes from my grandmother Valentina, a big reference in my childhood. She used to create the most beautiful lace pieces with the bobbin lace technique while I was doing my school homework on her side. I used to help her draw the patterns when her eyes started to get old and her influence lives in my creative process. I love the uniqueness of these photographs, the impossibility of reproducing them again, as negatives are very rare to find. I always felt disconnected from my upbringings, that is why I love offering them a new colorful life, to heal their disconnection. I like to rescue them from those moist cellars and flea market boxes, where they are destined to decay; bringing them to new hands that will honor their memory, despite being completely unaware of their identity.

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Pachón

My practice emerges at the intersection of art, spirituality, and technology. It explores the margins of reality as a fertile ground for generating new imaginaries and narratives connected to ancestral knowledge and traditional practices.

I employ the ancestral technology of mask-making to create opportunities for identity shifts, the exploration of agency, freedom, sexuality, and the relationship between the body and nature; through a decolonial perspective that counters dominant global imaginaries.

I believe in the multiple possibilities of community-based work and in socially engaged art’s capacity to bring about social, political, and cultural transformations.

Paola Martínez Gámez

Painting others and their stories has enabled a deeper understanding of myself, provoking in me a sense of unity and viewing humanity as one.

My subjects found in the Mexican border are carefully chosen with the purpose of creating cultural diversity, equality, identity and to give a voice towards minorities. La Frontera, also known as the border, is a place that has been stripped of its identity where most of its people identify with the saying, “ No soy de aquí, Ni soy de Allá” (“I am Neither from Here, Nor There”). These Chicano portraits enable the people from the border a sense of belonging, as well as expanding cultural context to others. My first introduction to painting was through the medium of oil, which has accompanied me since. However, acrylic paint is a medium that I utilise to paint Mexican indigenous subjects with fingers rather than brushes. A black-and-white pallet is used to remove skin colour in order to create equality and eliminate classism as well as racism. Painting others enables the telling of my truth through empathy, diversity, equality, and unity.

Patrick Henne

I’m exploring popculture, politics and sexuality.

Paula Wellmann

My paintings (large format, mostly in oil and airbrush) are eruptions of my subconscious. Wild, fantastic, essential and yet familiar scenes. There is often a sexual tension in the air. The arrangements have something childlike about them, like a fantasy story and yet something darkly real.

I try to approach the issues of our generation in a playful and humorous way. In the paintings, everyday observations merge with quotes from mythology, art history and pop culture. The raw and wild strokes show – far from any theory – a world in a process of dissolution. Values disintegrate, desire remains. My sources of inspiration are encounters in the subway, my own biography, everyday and global events. Moments open my associative space. Doors to analogies are pushed open. Compositions of pictorial worlds emerge in my mind. The process of painting is then liberating, naive, fast, unloading, relieving.

Pauline Boucan

Franco-Thai artist based in Berlin.
One of my interest is how people deal with unpleasant feelings or the idea of end. However, it is important to me to continue depicting a non-human world in which there are only forms and hybrid figures inspired by fauna and flora.

In landscapes in which abstraction and figuration mingle, the beings interact among themselves or with the living surrounding nature and trigger something in each other. Entangled, they have no way of escaping except through acceptance. Thus, the depiction of their connection in mostly intense scenes (of destruction or strong introspection for example) is a reflection on how acceptance could be the full stop to a negative experience, bringing them to an end, however a turning point towards renewal (or metamorphosis for the relevant figures). In this imaginary world, the concepts that we as humans regard as difficult experiences are reversed.

PAULINE ZENK

I am an image carnivore: I devour images from all sources: personal or public, magazines, found images, personal photo albums – I take pictures and collect images in order to transform them into paintings.

I am very much on love with painting the human figure and I hope to convey different contradictory feelings in my paintings – of how absurd and vulnerable and at the same time how beautiful life is. For me a painting should be like a little window or an enchanted mirror that reflects moments of back to us in a more poetic or beautiful way.

Pavel Gempler

My figurative painting, with its constant reference to art history, is a reaction to the immediate, subjective present. My practice is influenced by different art historical movements and is complemented by classical forms, abstract elements, photorealism, surrealism, historical and pop culture references.

This creates an ambiguity that is embodied in every motif and in the spaces that encompass each character. The representation of bodies and objects in my works shows ambivalences that require the viewer to position themselves in relation to the medium of painting.

Pepita Glück

Like myself, my work has evolved almost without me noticing, shaped by my experiences. Initially driven by the pop culture of my childhood, my focus has gradually shifted toward more personal details, building a domestic universe through the objects that surround me books, talismans, and everyday items arranged on tables, each telling a fragment of my story as a woman living in a foreign country.

My intention is to create paintings that, much like illustrated storybooks, invite the viewer to search for clues within the composition. Each element holds meaning, yet the narrative remains open-ended, allowing every observer to unravel a story that is unique to them.

Phillip Staffa

I am continuously drawn to and moved by the humane—and seek to create work that speaks to everyone. Embracing playfulness and beauty, my work blurs the line between the familiar and the abstract to explore the contradictions of modern life—fragility and resilience, humor and introspection, chance and order.

I am fascinated by life’s intensities, paradoxes, and contemporary totems—the symbols, objects, and rituals that shape our collective experience. Through color, form, and material, I aim to create pieces that invite curiosity and contemplation, revealing layers of meaning over time. I am interested in how we engage with the world, how we construct meaning from the fleeting and the permanent, and how art can serve as both a reflection and a disruption of everyday life. Through my work, I reflect on how we navigate a world that demands both affirmation and depth.

Pia Isaia

Pia Isaia is an Argentinian artist based in Berlin. Graduated in Fine Arts from the National University of Rosario, her career has since focused on ceramics. She has participated in various academic projects, both formal and informal.

The TRIPOLAR PROJECT which combines recycled lampshades and stoneware ceramics arise from her recent migration, where she urgently needed to find an imaginary third point where she felt drawn to Earth in order to inhabit an internal sense of stability. Each ceramic lamp is unique because they are designed in relation to what she finds to redefine.

Polina Ryman

The world is a strange mosaic where the familiar breaks down to reveal hidden layers of reality. In my artistic endeavours I try to penetrate the cracks of the everyday, exploring the shaky boundaries of time, language and the uncanny*.

My primary medium is graphite drawing, but I actively use a transmedial approach in my work, incorporating sound, embroidery, smell and three-dimensional form.
*Time = nostalgia, death. Sound = shakiness, invisibility. Language = linguistic errors, poetics.

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Quyny

As a Germany-born Vietnamese photographer, my work explores the tension between cultural identities, migration, and the complexity of femininity. Through my photography, I examine how these themes intertwine and shape both personal and collective narratives. My camera becomes a tool to reveal often invisible facets of identity and belonging.

Deeply influenced by my own migration story, my artistic practice navigates the dynamic relationship between tradition and modernity, home and alienation. I am particularly drawn to the stories of women whose lives exist at the intersection of cultural heritage and new surroundings. Through a sensitive and poetic approach, my images offer intimate insights into their realities.

Beyond international exhibitions, I publish zine projects and regularly lead workshops in Berlin, creating spaces for storytelling through photography. My work invites viewers to reflect on migration, identity, and gender while questioning their own place in a globalized world.

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Rabentinte

My art moves along the border between the naive and the mystical, between surreal dreamscapes and symbolic density. I create figures, structures, and spaces that do not explain but rather invite intuition and interpretation.

Each of my works is an open gateway through which the viewer finds their own access—some stories I tell, others remain hidden. My visual worlds are shaped by an intuitive symbolism that emerges from archetypes, creative coincidences, and personal motifs. My focus is on unveiling the spaces in between, where dream, myth, and memory intersect. My works hold a tension between control and chaos: lines that take shape deliberately yet develop a life of their own; compositions that emerge from within themselves. My artistic process is one of discovery—I allow my images the space to unfold naturally. Whether in painting, drawing, or experimental formats, my goal is to create not just images but atmospheres.

Ramona Czygan

I am working between photography and painting, creating poetic rooms, mostly landscapes. I prefer old cameras, make my own hand painted filters, use extreme temperature to manipulate the results and paint on my prints. My passion for the color blue is the reason why I mostly use the historical process of cyanotype to develop the prints.

As carrier material I often use old fabric like bed linen, tablecloth or cloth handkerchiefs. For me photography is not about fixing reality, but using the medium as a starting point, to detach from reality and point beyond the concrete. Since about 15 years the subject of landscape has become the center of my work. It´s a room to work in and with. It´s a surface for inner states, thoughts and emotions. It´s a place to find roots and never ending inspiration.

Regine Wolff

In my work, I explore the separation of man and nature as an artificial construct.I am interested in the unity that we form with our world. I am concerned with alienation and the loss of our livelihoods by ourselves.

For my work as a painter, I often use prints that were created during my work as a as a textile designer and which are printed with printed with various patterns. What interests me is in repetition, which creates a kind of infinity and at the same timea calming order in a complex image. My relationship to art is poetic, dramatic, emotional. I want to trigger these intense feelings I also want to trigger in the viewer.

Rike Damel

Rike Damel (“”Dreamlike””) – is the brainchild of a contemporary artist from Berlin. Through her abstract expressive paintings, this enigmatic persona expresses the deepest recesses of the human psyche.

And now creating surrealistic photographs – captured using Photoshop and diverse AI resources – she offers a glimpse into the parallel worlds of her imagination, exploring with them themes of loneliness, sexuality, longing, memory and loss.

For the artist, this process is a return to an old forgotten hobby – the world of film photography – but it is also much more than that. It’s evolving with time, being quick, fast thinking, utilising new exciting technologies, and putting her imagination and creative abilities through the paces.

Roberto Aarnio

Finnish-born painter Roberto Aarnio is a self-taught artist based in Berlin since 2019. Although with a BA degree in graphic design, he leans towards painting. He works primarily with acrylic paint on canvas. He explores subjects such as one’s past self, human behaviour, introspection and the dynamic interplay between conjectures and exaggerations.

Rodeos Kidding

His stage name Rodeos Kidding stands for exactly that: never leaving the stage (rodeo), always creating, always taking on a new challenge and never taking anything too seriously. That is his vision and mission.

His development has no defined objective, it’s all about the joy of creating and his work is proof of that. As a versatile graphic designer, as he describes himself, he then also dedicated himself to photography and, more recently, digital art – in order to have a comprehensive 360° expertise.

Rolf Bremer

My works are characterized by the interweaving of analogue and digital techniques – in the working process as well as in the result. Work processes do not follow a fixed pattern but are open experimental arrangements, apparent completions, sometimes only the beginnings of new chains of association. The works do not formulate any established truths, they are a search for ambiguities.

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Sabine Dietrichkeit

My name is Sabine Dietrichkeit, I was born in Hamburg in 1977 and I live, work and love as an artist in Berlin. My work is based on clay and colors. Clay is a very sensual and changeable material; initially supple and elastic, after firing rock-hard and unmalleable.

The medium itself symbolizes the eternal becoming and changing that inspires me again and again. On the other hand, there is the white canvas, where the figurative becomes completely secondary and where it is all about the expression of emotions and abstraction. And as different as both media appear, they speak the same language, grown from the thoughts and feelings that flowed into them during their creation.

Salvatore Siciliano

Salvatore Siciliano’s artwork explores themes of metaphysics and psychological reality, often portraying the human body in a raw and visceral manner. His approach to the human figure is informed by his experience in choreography, resulting in compositions that are dynamic, expressive and dramatic.

The result is a visually harmonious fusion of disciplines. Siciliano’s artwork bodies are always excessive, always beyond themselves, coming together in a subversive encounter between the figurative and the abstract, between drawing and painting, between joy and sacrifice. In Siciliano’s works, there is an undeclared, non-perspective three-dimensionality that emerges from the intersection of the horizontality and verticality of the lines on which bodies and limbs lie on. There is rest and momentum, sexuality and desire, the heavy matter of the body, and the elevating fire of the sacred.

Sam Sara Acid Notes

Sam Sara Acid Notes is an imaginary imaginarium created to breathe in a country (Poland) oppressive towards LGBT people, ruled by a corrupt church and a conservative right wing.

Offered here are vegan thin-crust posters in a psychedelic mind, using the finest quality queer and personalized ingredients sourced from organic and transcendent crops resembling of childhood flavors. usually portraits, are to tell a certain psychology of the character, paying attention to the spiritual dimension, but with complete ease and a tonic stoner’s joy in life. Dionysian rituals, all rituals, stuffing with symbols present everywhere, which in such a crowd often loses its meaning and it does not make any difference, substances that help us live and in which we also find spirituality and god ourselves, no matter if it is there or not, no matter what we feel.

Sasha 89°

My art is a way to resist darkness and injustice, filling the world with light, strength, and harmony. I draw inspiration from tigers—symbols of untamed beauty and courage—as well as from folk traditions where masks served as protective talismans.

I create vibrant, benevolent works that shield, heal, and bring joy. My masks do not conceal but rather reveal the inner self, expressing both vulnerability and strength. They reflect emotions, dreams, and my pursuit of boldness and confidence.

For me, art is a conversation with the world. It has the power to awaken resilience and inspiration, creating a space where beauty and kindness prevail. I believe that light will always overcome darkness, and through my work, I strive to keep that light shining.

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I look for images that seem interesting to me, that somehow speak to me. I cut them out and let them develop until I find other images that can be combined with the ones I have already found. It may be because of a similarity of shape, colours or meaning, or simply because I find that two images go well together, or reinforce each other.

Other times I start with a concept that an image inspires in me, or a vision, and specifically look for the images I need to create what I have in mind. I cut them out and start to combine them, but rarely is the end result what I had foreseen. I let the images recombine themselves organically, I let them talk to each other, until I reach a result that I think will work, from the point of view of meaning, but also aesthetically.

Sebastian Kläbsch

As a photographer from Berlin, I capture fleeting moments and powerful statements about society. With provocative, socially critical themes, my work encourages reflection and challenges the viewer. In my mixed media pieces, I combine fine art prints with acrylic painting to merge visual and conceptual layers.

This fusion invites the viewer to dive deep into the imagery, sparking personal interpretations and emotions. My works are not just visual impressions but invitations to engage with one’s own experiences and opinions, subtly guiding the viewer while leaving room for individual perspective.

Sebastian Serrano

Hello, my name is Sebastian Serrano. I’m a multidisciplinary Visual Artist based in Berlin, Germany. I like to explore the art and design fields by finding different visual and technological interactions.

My work is defined by experimenting with the combination of technical skills across creative coding, screen print, light and installation, ultimately creating a variety of solutions that not only fulfil desires but also creates something unique and aesthetically pleasing. I currently combine different interests and technical abilities, defying traditional bounds and exploring new ways of experiencing visual imagery. I specialise creative coding and printing techniques.

Sheldon Drake

One definition of life is ‘dynamic disequilibrium’: always reacting. The human mind wants to see patterns, but reality is a multiverse with folded dimensions: intersecting systems with patterns in frequencies we swim in, but can never perceive.

Seen with two eyes, these paintings subtly twist space, and perpetuate curiosity. They gently confound: static objects with superposition, like an electron in all the places at once.

Show.O (Shojiro Oshita)

I am an artist from Japan, inspired by everyday moments that feel small but hold deep personal meaning. My work reflects memories from the 1990s and 2000s—childhood, cultural trends, and nostalgic objects like old toys and devices.

These elements trigger emotions, blending the past with a fresh, pop-sensory aesthetic. Through bold colors and compositions, I reimagine personal experiences and invite viewers to reconnect with their own nostalgia in a new way.

Shuaitong Zong

Shuaitong Zong is a Berlin-based artist working primarily with acrylic painting. Drawing inspiration from personal experiences, her work explores the intersection of memory, desire, and imagined realities. Each series follows its own narrative, reflecting on themes of escapism, identity, and alternative possibilities.

Using digital collages as a foundation, Shuaitong constructs idealized scenes that blur the line between reality and fantasy. Her paintings are characterized by bold colors and evocative figurative motifs, inviting viewers to engage with the tension between aspiration and lived experience. In her most recent series, she reimagined an alternative timeline— one in which she never left China and experienced adolescence there. Through these visual explorations, she examines how personal history and cultural context shape one’s sense of self and longing.

Sibille Riechardt

I am interested in the tension between nature and culture. Many of my works focus on perception in everyday life. In search of the poetic and humorous, I direct the gaze to what is always there and yet not seen. The traces on the floor build a bridge between past and future and locate us in the moment.

Everyday ornaments and surreal associations characterize the pictures as well as abstractions and typologies. My life is characterized by very different interests: physics, art, ethnology, medicine. Whether I take a scientific, cultural, ethical or sociological approach, there is always a desire for a comprehensive understanding of human existence on many levels. Who are we, as humans, as living beings, as part of the earth and the cosmos? And how can we make life good for everyone?

Simon Findlay

Simon Findlay, lives and works as an artist in Berlin, Germany. Artistically he focuses on his personal relationship with colour through exhaustive durational visual expression.

His process based painting and performance incorporates: cycling over large canvases, moving heavy rocks, collaborating with live musicians and dice as a mechanism of chance. Throughout his work there are reoccurring themes of: colour theory, plants, gestural movement and playfulness.

SNYDER

My work plays with the balance between order and dissolution. I draw on elements of the built environment—railway signs, walls, trains—and let them dissolve under flowing lines and gradients. Structures give way to a new, organic movement, as if the rigid were shifting into flux.

The inspiration comes from chromatic aberration—a physical color distortion that has embedded itself deeply into our visual perception through digital and analog imaging processes. I use this effect like a melting process: at the edges of colors, blurs emerge, and the original object dissolves layer by layer. In these moments, our familiar visual world begins to waver—as if revealing an unexpected depth beneath its surface.

It is this fine line between familiarity and transformation, between control and dissolution, that shapes my work—a space in between, where the eye pauses for just a moment.

Sofia Nordmann

I understand my artistical work as a philosophical act. Destroying my own handwritten texts and paintings and creating new 3dimensional pieces with the fragments, I want to point on my main concept: That what you see is not what it really is.

My passion is the hidden, the metaphysical level behind the visual and the layers of reality that have a great influence on us, although we cannot perceive them with our five senses. I want to visualize the processes of reality genesis and the unconscious communication between an art object and its spectator.

Sofia Sohr

I swim through the places of equilibrium between contradictions, seeking the questions that cannot be answered, but can be solved. Through painting I understand. Without any word , any doubt, every error is inside the success, the success doesn’t exist. It is a film happening.

The hands are the instrument, driven through the director, the brain the subconscious. Everything is present, in its most honest form, it’s not important. it’s just a process of vomiting the world, new words, one thousand of languages, new systems of life, seeing god with one’s own eyes. the question of why the fuck are we alive. I can’t reach with words. I can only touch freedom or get close to it by working harder. it’s survival. no fear exists here, only to strengthen the own being, in this solitary process where one is the beast against the empty space that is ready to fight.

Sonja Glasder

With my photography I aim to create an aesthetic that plays with the eye. My work shows abstract versions of everyday moments and gives the viewers the opportunity to immerse themselves in the scene.

At the same time my work leaves enough space for the viewers own associations to complete the photo. All my photos are shot analog on 35mm film. By using a flash light as technique I want to create a visual moment we can’t recreate with the human eye under everyday lightening. This emphasizes the unusualness of the shown scene which somehow seems familiar.

Sophia Novosel

Born in Vienna and now creating in Berlin, I harness my art to celebrate the strength, vulnerability, and beauty of womanhood. My work weaves enchanting and ethereal tales that speak deeply to the female soul, serving as a portal to embrace the myriad dimensions of femininity, encourage self-discovery, and nurture inner strength.

Each piece is imbued with a touch of fairy magic, transforming life’s adversities into “Wunderbare Utopien” – wonderful utopias – where imperfections shine as unique jewels. Through my art, I confront and transcend societal expectations, creating spaces where women can rediscover their power, find solace in vulnerability, and celebrate the rich tapestry of human experience. My creations are reflections of my personal journey, imbued with passion, resilience, and hope. I aim to inspire and empower, offering a visual narrative that honors the unyielding spirit of women and invites every observer to embrace their truly inherent worth and beauty.

Stanislaus Hergert

Born in Russia and growing up in Germany the love for art became a guiding path through my biography of migration and finding a new home.
I started my professional career in Design in Munich after receiving a degree at the University Pforzheim School of Design. Later I worked in Art-Direction on various subjects.

In my art I try to join my deeply rooted knowledge and experience of composition, colors, and space with my passion for deconstructing and transforming shapes. Always challenging the supposedly known, I try to give the viewers a sensitive and unique perspective onto the world and its objects.

Stella Iakovleva

As an artist, I work with visual sociology, combining documentary, conceptual, and installation practices, and using a variety of mediums: photography, video, creating objects, archival images, and collage.

My interests are focused on themes of memory, boundaries (personal, social), the nature of relationships. The “”Invisible Flowers””, it is skanogram series focuses on wild plants that grown in urban environments, which are used in the production of medicines. These plants, often forgotten in cities, symbolize ecological fragility and the disconnect between urbanized spaces and nature.

Stephan Zarmann

I am a self-trained artist whose work reflects the beauty in urban decay and the fleeting nature of city life. Having lived in cities across Germany, Sweden, and the UK, I capture the textures and memories of overlooked spaces through abstract surfaces, evoking a sense of nostalgia and the passage of time.

My process is informal and intuitive, rooted in a sense of realism that acknowledges both the harshness and the poetry of the everyday. In my work, I seek a quiet reflection on the spaces we leave behind and the traces they leave on us.

Studio eclectic / Florencia Lizama

At Studio Eclectic, I am inspired by the perfect blend of art and functionality. I create unique objects and garments using textiles and a variety of materials, ensuring they meet everyday needs while showcasing artistic flair.

Vibrant cotton-thread lampshades convert color into striking, practical pieces. Each lamp is a unique creation that reflects my commitment to sustainability and lasting design. Currently working with clothing and decorative textile art as well.

Susanna Gyalokay

Mein künstlerisches Interesse besteht schon seit früher Kindheit. Zeichnen und malen gehört zu meiner Art, Gesehenes zu verarbeiten. Seit meinem 5. Lebensjahr wohne ich in Berlin und das Leben in dieser Stadt war und ist immer eine reiche Inspirationsquelle für mich.

Ich male figurativ. Meine Werke zeigen Porträts , Figuren und Gruppen von Kreaturen in Räumen. Ich liebe es, scheinbar unzusammenhängendes, zu neuer Realität zu verbinden – es entstehen surreale Bilder. Sehr gerne verwende ich Abbildungen von Speisen, um daraus Porträts oder Figuren auf Papier zu collagieren, kombiniere auch mit anderen Ausschnitten aus Printmedien, ergänze mit Zeichnung oder Malerei, bis ein Porträt oder eine Figur entsteht. Die Collagen auf Papier sind eigene Kunstwerke und gleichzeitig Vorlagen für meine Ölgemälde . Meine Ölgemälde sind meist großformatig, farbintensiv, narrativ, surreal. Reale Figuren können neben Fantasiegestalten auftauchen und in Beziehung treten. Gerne lasse ich meine Figuren auch in mehreren Bilder auftauchen, so dass es ebenfalls Verbindungen zwischen einzelnen Bildern geben kann. Es entsteht eine komplexe Welt, traumhaft und doch mit einem großen Teil Realität – so, wie ich selbst das Leben sehe.

Svenja Christian

Inspired by the ordinary moments of daily life and my travels, I express the beauty of the mundane through figurative art. Working primarily with oil on canvas, I embrace a style influenced by expressionism and fauvism.

My paintings predominantly feature faces and people engaged in familiar tasks like doing the dishes or grocery shopping. Through my work, I aim to capture the essence of these everyday scenes, finding beauty in the simplicity of human existence.

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Thao Nguyen

Thao Nguyen is a visual artist from Berlin, Germany. Working primarily with oils and acrylics, Thao creates a body of work that exclusively features portraiture. The paintings are developed through the use of found imagery and most notably film stills from contemporary cinema,

with themes centering around the idea of coming of age – identity, boyhood, loss and emotions. The results are sensitive character-driven portrait studies, ultimately on the search for what makes us human.

Tobias Molitor

Tobias Molitor is a multidisciplinary artist and conceptual screen printer based in Berlin. His works explore everyday products and fast-moving consumer goods that often receive little attention. His work examines the role of humans in the consumption cycle by documenting objects he has used himself or that have been left behind by strangers in various locations.

His oeuvre consists of ordinary everyday objects with graphic elements that reflect cultural context and Zeitgeist. The screen-printing technique emphasizes the repetitive and industrial nature of these objects. His works address themes such as cultural identity, consumption, mass production, and souvenirs.

Thomas Möller (TM)

Everyday objects, well-known signs, ordinary situations – I use those materials to develop my works. Due to the proximity to the well-known, the manipulations can often only be recognized through closer observation. Learned behavior, which is triggered by the signals of our everyday life, is led ad absurdum by these anomalies.

The signals no longer match to the original intention and can only be “misinterpreted”. The result is a semantic clash. The resulting confusion can only be resolved by accepting the absurdity of human existence with tolerance and understanding.

Tiberiu Bleoanca

In my artworks, I create imaginary spaces where characters, objects, and abstract signs interact, transforming into familiar beings that challenge perception. Inspired by urban legends and myths, I weave fictional narratives into each composition.

The boundary between the figurative and abstract is intentionally blurred, inviting multiple interpretations while infusing a surreal dimension that reflects the subconscious. In our image-saturated world, I defend the power of the image as a medium, crafting alternative realities that inspire reflection and contemplation.

Tomás Cohen

Visual art has been a sustained practice throughout my whole life. With comics, my writing developed hand in hand with drawing. I studied Fine Arts in Chile and was an assistant professor in drawing, engraving and work production courses. I also studied Art History and worked for an art auction house.

TOTEM

TOTEM Santiago de Chile FRANCISCO TOTEM PEREZ IS A CHILEAN ARTIST BASED IN BERLIN FOR ABOUT 17 YEARS. THE ORIGINALLY TRAINED THEATRE ACTOR AND STAGE DIRECTOR BRINGS HIS EMOTIONS , THOUGHTS AND THE MADNESS OF THIS PULSATING CITY IN HIS ARTWORKS.

THE RESULTS IS A MIXTURE OF ABSTRACT HUMAN-ANIMAL SYMBIOSIS WHICH ARE ALREADY INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN. THE SITUATIONS AND THE SETTING OF THOSE CHARAKTERS ARE EXPRESSIONS OF HIS INDIVIDUAL VIEW OF OUR SOCIETY AND ITS CURRENT EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS. ONE OF THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS ARTWORKS, INSTALLATIONS, SCULPTURES OR FURNITURE IS IN USING RECYCLINGMATERIAL. THESE INCLUDE REMAINS OF MATERIAL FROM TRADE SHOWS LIKE ADVERTISING BANNERS OR VARIOUS CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS AND TREASURES THAT CAN BE FOUND ON THE STREETS OF BERLIN. ALL CANVASES ARE HAND DRAWN AND HANDMADE.

Trudeiskrude

I am a Berlin-based digital illustrator drawn to the slightly odd. My work exists in the space between the familiar and the surreal, transforming everyday ideas into something unexpected. I want my art to make people pause, look twice, and think, “What the heck is going on here?” For me, the beauty of illustration lies in its ability to take the ordinary and make it strangely captivating.

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UrbanDirt

Ich bin Bibo und Künstler aus Berlin. Angefangen mit Graffiti und Stencil bis hin zur miniatur. Meine Leidenschaft zur Miniaturen hab ich 2020 entdeckt,dort habe ich meine erste miniatur gebaut und zwar das So36,mein Gedanke dahinter war künstlerisch auszudrücken wie Corona den Clubs schadet,da im lockdown ja alle geschlossen waren.

2020 angefangen 4 Jahre später habe ich über 30 Miniaturen von Club und alternativen haussfassaden in meinen Stil nachgebaut. Meine Miniaturen bestehen aus Pappe,Papier,Acrylfarbe,Kleber,Holz und Verpackungsmüll. Meine Miniaturen sind keine 1:1 nachbauten da ich immer noch mein künstlerisches ich verwirklichen möchte. Deshalb unterscheiden sich meine Miniaturen auch zu den Originalen.

Uzma Sultan

Usually the paintings are made from photos which I take myself on my camera phone, of what I like. They are much to do with exploiting the application of paint, therefore making the paintings equally, as much to do with the surfaces painted on.

Whether it be aluminium, vinyl, fabric or just traditional canvas. It is to do and how paint behaves ‘My paintings are made on impulse using my intuition. I am passionate about the process of painting in oils and the how paint behaves differently, on unconventional or abrasive surfaces’.

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Valentina Berthelon

Title of the Series Breaking old Paradigms Statement: This series of collages originates from my audiovisual project “The history of darkness”, which explores how visual representations of the universe reflect our evolving self-awareness and understanding of reality.

Drawing from old astronomy books, I created stop-motion animations frame by frame — cutting, drawing, and intervening in the printed material with bold red and black markers. These gestures highlight the fragility of scientific “truths,” often accepted once printed in books, and open space for other forms of knowledge beyond science. The resulting collages reflect paradigm shifts and challenge the authority of established narratives, inviting viewers to imagine alternate cosmologies.

Verena Friedrich

My work is an exploration of paper as a material, a medium that at first glance appears simple and mundane but is in fact inexhaustible in its versatility. Through a combination of precise technique and patient handwork, I transform this fragile material into complex structures and site-specific installations that are profound in both form and content.

Each of my works is created from a multitude of small elements that grow into larger, organic forms. This process, which is often very time-consuming, reflects my fascination with the repetitive patterns and structures found in both nature and society. My works explore themes such as impermanence, transformation, and the delicate connections that link the seemingly insignificant to the greater whole. Through my art, I invite viewers to discover the beauty and complexity of paper and to engage with the themes of my work, which range from social upheaval to ecological issues.

Viacheslav Shulika

Mit meiner künstlerischen Arbeit erforsche ich das Thema der Multikulturalität als Gegenpol und zugleich als Bedrohung für die kulturelle Identität sowie die Themen Migration, Veränderung des gewohnten Lebensraums und das Überschreiten des Bekannten hin zum Intuitiven

Viktoria Maliar

In my work I explore deeply sentimental reflections on the past, bringing imagined figures, evocative settings, and symbolic elements to life. My pieces convey emotions such as joy and melancholy, weaving together personal and collective memories with dreamlike aesthetics.

Timeless objects and hazy details capture the fragile beauty of fading moments, celebrating the ways in which memories shape identity and a universal sense of longing.

Viktoria Maria Werner

Architecture of the 1970s, an era often referred to as “high-tech art”, is characterized by architectural complexity, technical innovation and clear geometric forms in a way that emphasizes both the functional and aesthetic dimensions of these spaces.

The ICC Berlin has undoubtedly come in for criticism in the 45 years of its existence. But its efforts to communicate with visitors in a differentiated and restrained manner are timeless, and the world‘s most modern congress center at the time has not been forgotten by the public since its closure. Strong, bright colors and overlapping shapes express a unique perception of space and make the complexity of this architecture tangible in my pictures. My work is not only about depicting architectural details, but also about exploring the interactions between space, light and color. By creating a visual tension that invites the viewer to constantly discover new details, I pay tribute to the technology and futurism of the 1970‘s. In the viewer‘s reflection, the ICC is redesigned by means of imagination in order to discover further potential – for the next 40 years? Because “yesterday was today‘s future” and this future is alive.

Vivia Wisperwind

Vivia Wisperwind is a berlin-based designer and artist. She’s known for her photorealistic acrylic paintings on canvas. Some time ago she made the conscious decision to stop using black.

Instead, she mixes her palette with the three primary colors magenta, cyan, yellow and white to create a remarkable vibrancy and depth in her works.

She explores freedom and wellness by depicting water, plants, animals and food. Vivia’s paintings invite you to relax and enjoy the beauty of life.

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Wanda Stang

My work is driven by a deep fascination with human emotions, identity, and memory. I strive to create immersive pieces that challenge perceptions and invite introspection. By questioning societal norms and exploring the complexity of existence, I encourage viewers to reflect on their own experiences and biases.

Detail and emotional depth are central to my artistic approach, allowing me to craft works that resonate on a profound level. My goal is to break traditional boundaries and spark meaningful dialogue through art.

Wojciech Wos

I am Wojciech, (b. in 1993) in Slubice, Poland. My journey as an artist began in Northern Ireland, where I moved at the age of 19, and later found its evolution in Berlin, a city that continues to shape my creative process.

My work centers around figurative art, exploring queer themes, love, human connection, and mental health. These subjects are deeply personal, and I find inspiration in the subtle complexities of emotion and identity. I am particularly drawn to moments of vulnerability, which I express through the portrayal of sad boys with rosy cheeks—images that evoke both tenderness and melancholy. The textures in my paintings are shaped by bold brushstrokes and a deliberate use of color. The hues I choose are sometimes soft, sometimes striking, but always meant to create an intriguing play of light and shadow. Each piece is a reflection of the emotional landscapes we navigate, offering a glimpse into the quiet, intimate struggles and joys that define us as human beings.

Wu Zhi

My paintings are develped in Berlin. At Baam in 2025, i want to show my personal historic working line to audiences, from fairy tale to the reality or beyond.

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Yana Tark

Yana Tarakanova is a young Russian artist. Born in 1995 in Zelenograd. Currently lives in Bratislava in Slovakia Creative activism has always played a big role in my life. Initially, I became acquainted with activism in art through participation in online open calls and offline exhibitions of the association of the worst artists (ahuhu).

At one of these exhibitions, I met my husband, artist Vladislav Novoshinsky in 2020, as well as a large number of other talented artists, Dmitry Shnurov, Veronica Polonskaya, Vadim Sobolev. I have always admired the dedication of the members of this community and the desire to continue even after the door to one of the exhibitions was welded shut by the police. A report about this was presented on Radio Liberty. Later I became acquainted with other protest organizations, such as the Feminist Anti-War Resistance. In the fall of 2022, the FAS announced antiwartober, every day I took part in creative tasks, and then on Radio Liberty I took part in discussing the project together with other flash mob participants. In January 2023, an exhibition of works by participants in this project was held in Berlin. In February 2023 in Paris, I took part in an exhibition dedicated to women victims of the Putin regime. For participating in this exhibition, I received personal gratitude from the Paris mayor’s office. The mother of Alexandra Skochilenko, who now faces a prison term of up to 10 years, came to the exhibition. My work presented at the exhibition was a portrait of Irina Tsybaneva. Irina laid an inscription on the grave of Putin’s parents, for which she was subsequently taken into custody and was sentenced by the court to two years of suspended imprisonment. On September 13, 2023, an auction was held in support of political prisoners from the Yabloko party, in which 2 of my works took part, each of which was sold for more than $1000; in total, more than 3 million rubles were collected during the auction. I am currently working on creating a large NFT charity project from the World of Fragment agency together with the Podari Zhizn Charitable Foundation. Many of her works are now in personal collections around the world, including Holland, USA, Switzerland, Latvia, Slovakia, UK and Russia. Some of her NFTs are also collected by world famous collectors such as Vincent Van dough.

Yulia Ani

For this series: My latest series “DTR” (define the relationship), which was recently exhibited at Bethanien Studio 1. The series reflects on how relationships today are treated like consumer products, driven by the illusion of infinite choice through dating apps and social media.

The ease of swiping and discarding matches fosters superficial connections, where romantic expectations clash with reality. Through semi-abstract, absurd portraits, I explore these contradictions and the emotional weight behind them, capturing the fears and frustrations that arise when relationships become disposable. Alongside these, vibrant abstract works express the complex emotions of desire, disappointment, and disillusionment.

Yulia Katan

Yulia Katan is a Berlin-based artist from Ukraine. She works mainly with drawing, painting, and sculpture, building upon modernist ideas and the tradition of surrealism.

She explores identity formation, memory, dreams, relationships with people and objects. The artist devoted most of her practice to illustrating fantastic landscapes and otherworldly creatures, paying special attention to details, color, and form. With the beginning of the war and emigration, her gaze shifted from the fantasy world: she took the position of an observer of the surrounding space and the reactions this space evokes. Shadows, windows, or wind in the leaves, patterns on a soup tureen; memories of homes, or feelings – vulnerability, love, anxiety – physical phenomena and movements of the psyche merge into a single drawing. Flowing from biomorphic forms to figurative representation, Yulia presents reality without a clear boundary between internal and external, physical and spiritual. The artist seeks an anchor in the volatility of nature and everyday, yet fragile, things. She forms bonds with observed subjects, infusing them with emotions and symbolic ambiguity. Capturing these sensations, she invites viewers to experience the deeply personal in the seemingly mundane.

Yurii Koval

In my realistic paintings, I talk about the human body as a territory, as a living space that has certain outlines and characteristics – with strengths and weaknesses, sore points, injuries. The space can be shared, contested, open or isolated, as we choose.

Zauberohr

Otto Solms, alias Zauberohr, ist Zeichner, Fotograf und Künstler aus Berlin. Seine Arbeiten umfassen überwiegend Handzeichnungen von Gebäuden und Personen. Dabei bewegt sich seine Kunst im Spannungsfeld zwischen Zeichnung, Humor und dem Alltäglichen.

So kommt bei den realistischen, architektonischen Zeichnungen einerseits sein Auge und Talent für Detailreichtum und Präzision zum Vorschein, das es schafft, die Schönheit der Gebäude und ihrer einzelnen Elemente mit Strichen zum Ausdruck zu bringen. Andererseits liegt der Fokus vieler seiner Werke darin, durch geschickte Zeichnungen, Illustrationen und Kombinationen dem Betrachter ein Schmunzeln in das Gesicht zu zaubern. Das gelingt Zauberohr durch die Verarbeitung von Wortspielen und einer oftmals genutzten Zweideutigkeit in seiner Kunst, stets im Zusammenspiel mit Humor. Otto Solms machte seinen Bachelor in Architektur an der TU Wien, wo er ein Auge für Detail und Raum entwickelte, das seinen Illustrationen Tiefe und narrative Kraft verleiht. Mit seinem Grundsatz „Meine Kunst soll Menschen zum Lachen bringen“ verfolgt Zauberohr das Ziel, über visuelle Komik neue Zugänge zur Kunst zu schaffen und dem Betrachter ein humorvolles Erleben von alltäglichen Motiven zu ermöglichen.