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1967, Israel. Lives and works in New York.

Ohad Meromi combines performance art, large-scale sculpture, and set and costume design in his work. The artist often creates an overarching architectural structure that can serve as a set for performances, which in turn become part of his installations. Through his works he invokes a utopian, modernist spirit and explores concepts of collaboration, improvisation, and community.

1938, Germany. Lives and works in Germany.

As a painter, sculptor and graphic artist, Georg Baselitz has become well known for his figurative, expressive paintings, rejecting abstraction and inviting the human figure back as a subject matter. He frequently paints his subjects upside down in an effort to overcome the representational, content-driven character of his earlier work. Drawing from a vast range of influences, including art of Soviet era illustrations, the Mannerist period and African sculptures, he developed his own, distinct artistic language.

1965, USA. Lives and works in Joshua Tree, California.

As an artist Andrea Zittel has developed and tested prototypes for living structures and situations since the early 1990s. Her practice investigates the ways in which human society constructs its values, social norms and belief systems. Based in the Californian Mojave Desert, the artist has produced works spanning sculpture, drawing, painting, video, textiles and installations.

1968, Netherlands. Lives and works in Belgium.

Mark Manders artistic practice is described by the artist as an ‘ongoing self-portrait as a building’. Accordingly, he works toward one big moment that will bring together all his works, continuously interconnected and in dialogue with each other. With a firm interest in writing, literature and the way that meaning is ascribed to objects, Manders’ art can be understood as an investigation into the architecture of storytelling and the conception of the selfportrait as an artistic genre.

1958, Belgium. Lives and works in Antwerp.

While an inheritor to the vast tradition of Northern European painting, Luc Tuymans’ relationship to the medium is strongly influenced by photography, television, and cinema. Interested in the lingering effects of World War II on the lives of Europeans, Tuymans explores issues of history and memory, as well as the relationship between photography and painting. Through his work he offers fresh perspectives on the medium of painting, as well as larger cultural issues.

1970, Sweden. Lives and works in Stockholm.

Jonas Nobel’s collages and drawings are often inspired by mass production and industrial representations. In his sculptures he frequently employs basic materials, joining together elements with opposing historical connotations. These juxtapositions challenge the viewer to create or decipher an imagined or implied narrative around political or social events taken from contemporary life. Nobel has a multifaceted practice as both an individual artist and as cofounder of art, design, and architecture group Uglycute.

1948, Sweden. Lives and works in Stockholm.

Susanne Henriques works consistently with textiles, making yarn and color her primary tools of expression. With the weaving technique at the center of her artistic practice, the material determines surface and structure in her works, making them what she once called ‘enriched paintings’. Henriques creates motif worlds that fluctuate between the naturalistic and the abstract, often based on specific themes.

1897–1948, St. Petersburg. Lived and worked in Sweden.

The Swedish painter, curator and art critic began his formation as a painter in Germany and Norway, before continuing his studies at the Académie Moderne in Paris under French artist Fernand Léger. During these years Carlsund became close friends with artists Piet Mondrian and Amédée Ozenfant, among others, and acquainted himself to art movements such as Neoplasticism, Purism, and Synthetic Cubism.

1889–1960, Sweden. Lived and worked in Stockholm.

The artist and ceramicist began his career early on as a painter of commercial shop signs, followed by studies in watercolor and technical drawing. He studied fine art at first in Gothenburg, then in Copenhagen, as well as Munich, and took a formation in lithographic technique in Stockholm. Today, Wilhelm Kåge is best known for his work at the ceramics factory in Gustavsberg, where he was artistic director for over three decades.