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PAINTING
Joanna Dudziec
joannadudziec@gmail.com
www.dudziec.wordpress.com
 b. 1985 (Poland) – lives and works in
Ostroleka, Poland
 2005-2011 Institute of Fine Arts at
University of Zielona Gora, Poland /
Master of Fine Arts
 2000-2005 State Secondary School of
Visual Arts in Lomza, Poland / Visual
Artist
Agitated Room – Turn Down the Light, 2012, acrylic
on digital print on canvas, 140 × 100 cm
 «I create anti-utopian works where
drama is combined with unexpected
visions.» (Joanna Dudziec)
PAINTING
Yooree Yang
y.yooree@gmail.com
http://www.yooreeyang.blogspot.de/
 b. 1982 (Jeju island, South Korea) – lives
and works in Berlin
 2011 Master’s degree in Art, Art school in
Marseille, France, DNSEP-Diplôme
National Supérieur d’Expression
Plastique, Ecole Supérieur des Beauxarts de Marseille
 2009 Bachelor degree in Art, Art school in
Marseille
Metaphysical landscape, Golden mean II, 2011, oil on
canvas, 180 × 220 cm
 «My painting reigns necessarily,
organically, under the influence of the
visible world, its substance and its
climate.» (Yooree Yang)
PAINTING
Susanne Lund Pangrazio
smlundpangrazio@gmail.com
www.susannelundpangrazio.com
 b. 1983 (Karlstad, Sweden) lives and
works in Dundee, Scotland
The future has got many faces, 2012, oil on canvas, 105 x
80 cm
 2013 M.F.A. in Fine Art, Duncan of
Jordanstone College of Art and Design
 2010 B.A. in Latin American Studies,
University of Gothenburg
 2009 Exchange studies at Universidad
de Colima, Mexico; Facultad de
Ciencias Políticas y Sociales;
International Relations
 2007-2011 Dômen School of Art,
painting
 2011 School of Design and Crafts
And in between us there are doors, 2013, oil on canvas, 210 x 150 cm
PAINTING
Lourdes Archundia
lourdes@lourdesarchundia.com
www.lourdesarchundia.com
 b. (Mexico City, Mexico) – lives and
works in Mexico and Geneva,
Switzerland
 2006-2008 National Autonomous
University of Mexico, Master of Fine
Arts, Painting
 1995-1999 National Autonomous
University of Mexico, Bachelor of Fine
Arts
Locations: MP, 2012, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
 «In a globalized world, where differences
still appear confronting, I believe we can
opt to retrieve those differences and
include them in the construction of our
own identity.» (Lourdes Archundia)
PAINTING
Hyojun Hyun
acrossthenowhere@gmail.com
http://www.hyojunhyun.com
 b. 1983 (Mungyeong, South Korea) –lives
and works currently in Glasgow, UK and
Maastricht, the Netherlands
The Forest in Glasgow’s Park III, 2012, oil on panels, 120x168cm,
16 parts, each 30x42cm
 2010-2012 Master of Fine Art programme
at the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow,
UK
 2002-2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts,
Painting, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, KR
 2013 Artist In Residence at the Jan Van
Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
 «It is the unexpected shapes, colours and
textures that I see in these moments that
inspire me to experiment and develop my
painterly language.» (Hyojun Hyun)
Disappeared Junkie’s Place, 2012, oil on canvas, 137x183cm
Mai Refky
PAINTING
mairefky@hotmail.com
www.mairefky.com
 b. 1976 (Egypt) – lives and works in
Cairo
mixed media on canvas, 2013,
80 x 100 cm
mixed media on canvas, 2012,
120x100cm
 1999-2002 Helwan University, Faculty
of Fine Arts, Cairo, Studio Assistant,
Painting Department
 1999-2000 Islamic Art and Architecture
at the American University in Cairo
 1998 Graduate of the faculty of Fine
Arts, Painting department, Cairo
mixed media on canvas, 2011, 80 x 120 cm
mixed media on canvas, 2012, 100 x 120 cm
GRAPHIC ART
Tara Mahapatra
info@taramahapatra.com
www.taramahapatra.com
 b. 1970 (Berlin) – lives and works in Berlin
Series of Drawings:
3 x 4 Drawings
ink on paper, each 50 x 65 cm
framed (size of frames: each 60,x,80,cm)
 2001 Meisterschülerin with Professor
Katherina Sieverding, UdK , Berlin
 1994 Studies Fine Arts at the Art Academy
(UdK), Berlin
 1992 Studies Film Theory at the Freie
Universität (FU), Berlin
 1990 Studies Anthropology at the
Université Paris VIII, St. Denis, Paris
 «My aim is to capture images that go
beyond forms of representation, images
that translate and display the affective
quality of the immaterial essence of
things.» (Tara Mahapatra)
Magnetism, 2013
Suspension, 2013
Magnetic Currents, 2013
PHTOTGRAPHY
Anatoliy Babiychuk
mail@babiychuk.com
http://www.babiychuk.com
 b. 1975 (Sosnivka, Ukraine, former
USSR) – lives and works in Vienna and
Chervonograd, Ukraine
The Garages of Chervonograd, 2007-2012
Series of 244 photographs
photographed on 4 × 5 inch colour negative film
 2006-2013 Fine Art & Photography at
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Professors: Matthias Herrmann and
Martin Guttmann
 2012 Fine Art Media (Exchange
program) at Slade School of Fine Art,
London
 2005-2006 Artistic Photography at
Friedl Kubelka School, Vienna
PHOTOGRAPHY
Fernando Maselli
maselli.fernando@gmail.com
www.fernandomaselli.com
 b. 1978 (Buenos Aires, Argentine) – lives
and works in Madrid, Spain
Hierophanies, 2011-2013
Inkjet print on cotton paper, 130x158cm
 2007-2011 Workshops with the
photographers: Paolo Roversi, Simon
Norfolk, Stephen Shore, Stephan Ruiz,
Javier Vallhonrat
 2002 Workshop on Photojournalism and
Documentary Photography at the Faculty
of Social Sciences, University of Buenos
Aires
 2001 School of Visual Arts Martin A.
Malharro in Photography and Graphic
Design, Mar del Plata, Argentine
PHOTOGRAPHY
Linda-Marlena Bucholtz Ross
LMBucholtzRoss@gmail.com
www.Linda-Marlena.com
 b. (Montreal) – lives and works in
Montreal, Canada
 2008 Concordia University, BFA
photography/video Montréal, Québec,
Degree Conferred with Distinction
 1997-1995 programs/workshops /painting
at Parsons School of Design, The New
School, New York City, USA
 «The theatrical quality of my photographs
suggests that actors are just beyond the
edges of the image.» (Linda-Marlena
Bucholtz Ross)
PHOTOGRAPHY
Linda Maria Varoma
linda@lindavaroma.com
www.lindavaroma.com
 b. 1985 (Helsinki, Finland) – lives and
works in Loviisa, Finland and Glasgow,
UK
 2013 - 2014 Master of Letters, Fine Art
Photography, Glasgow School of Art,
Glasgow, U.K
 2007 - 2011 Bachelor of Culture and Arts,
Novia University of Applied Scienses,
Uusikaarlepyy
The Singing Neighbour, 2009-2011
Series of 49 photographs
Digital c-print on aluminum, frame
each 41 x 50 cm or 82 x 100 cm
 «People are rarely physically present in
my images. However, when
photographing a reality made by
humankind, people are always nearby
somewhere.» (Linda Maria Varoma)
PHOTOGRAPHY
Myriam Dalal
myriamdalal@gmail.com
 b. in Lebanon – lives and works in
Beirut
 2010 Masters in fine Arts, ALBASpecialization: Artistic photography
 2008 BA in Fine Arts, ALBA, Académie
Libanaise des Beaux Arts, Beirut
 2005 High school diploma, section
science, Saint Vincent School,
Clemenceau
L‘Oubli, 2010
Absence. Presence, 2012
Absence. Presence, 2012
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sameer Tawde
sameer.tawde@gmail.com
www.sameertawde.com
 b. 1978 (India) – lives and works in
Mumbai, India
City Eyes, working title 2008 - present
 2002-2004 Post Graduate Diploma of
Design (ND), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
 1996-2001 Diploma in Architecture, L.S.
Raheja School of Architecture under the
Maharashtra State Board of Technical
Education, Mumbai, India
 «Following the urban living, this essay
observes the city with a documentary eye
blended with a bit of fiction.» (Sameer
Tawde)
PHOTOGRAPHY
Bruno Dias Vieira
brunodiasvie@gmail.com
http://cargocollective.com/brunodiasvieira
 b. 1975 (Leiria, Portugal) – lives and
works in Lisboa, Portugal
 2013 Currently Post-Graduate Studies in
Photography at the University of Lisbon /
Faculdade de Belas-Artes
 2012 Graduate Studies in Painting at the
University of Lisbon / Faculdade de
Belas-Artes
From the window from below, 2009
Colour photograph
7 x 11cm
 «My aim was to link visual echoes of
Constantine Cavafy ś poems with a space
created by light.» (Bruno Dias Vieira)
From the window from below - Artifitial flowers, 2009
From the window from below - Fórmulas Antigas, 2009
From the window from below - Passage, 2009
From the window from below – God forsakes, 2009
SCULPTURE / OBJECT
Chandra Baerg
chandra.cnb@gmail.com
http://chandrabaerg.com
 b. Calgary, Alberta and Regina,
Saskatchewan– lives and works
in San Francisco, California
 2013 MFA, Painting, San Francisco Art
Institute San Francisco, CA
 2001 BFA, Architectural Design,
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Boston, MA
 2012 Burren College of Art,
Ballyvaughan, County Clare, Ireland
 «What are the potential collisions and
reciprocities between painting, sculpture
and architectural space?» (Chandra
Baerg)
Assemblage 6, 2013, oil paint on drywall,
48 x 28 x 2 cm
Assemblage 1, 2013,
Oil paint on drywall, 48 x 28 x 4 cm
SCULPTURE / OBJECT
White Us Metal, perspex, foam, fluorescente light, 65 x 125
x 35 cm
Teresa Braula Reis
http://teresabreis.wix.com/teresabraulareis
teresabreis@hotmail.com
 b. 1990 (Portugal) – lives and works in
London
 2012 - Present MA Fine Art Central
Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design,
UAL, London UK (Awarded with the
Rector’s Scholarship )
 2011 Erasmus,Fine Arts College of
Barcelona, UB, Barcelona Spain
 2008-2012 BA Painting, Fine Arts
College of Lisbon, Lisbon University,
Lisbon Portugal
Untitled Aluminium, perspex, foam, 100 x 170 x 20 cm
MOVING IMAGE
Hui-Hsuan Hsu
skyseasoul@gmail.com
http://www.huihsuanhsu.com/
 b. 1982 (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) – lives and
works in Leeds and Edinburgh
Blind 1, Moving Image, 2013
Projection or LCD monitor
ideal size: at least 37 inch
02:18 looping
https://vimeo.com/65818238
 2011-2015 University of Leeds PhD
 2004-2007 National Kaohsiung Normal
University MA
 2000-2004 National Kaohsiung Normal
University BA
 «I visualize and transfer observations of
easily ignored objects and phenomenon
into a digital form.» (Hui-Hsuan Hsu)
VIDEO
Clarissa Tossin
clarissatossin@gmail.com
www.clarissatossin.net
 b. Brasilia (Brazil) – lives and works in
São Paulo Paulo, Brazil
 2009 M.F.A. in Art, California Institute
of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA
 2000 B.F.A., Fundação Armando Álvares
Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil
 «Architecture, as a manifestation of
White Marble Everyday, 2009
two-channel HD video projection
5’42” loop (color & sound)
http://vimeo.com/25168796
identity, ideology and economic power is
of great interest to me» (Clarissa Tossin)
VIDEO
Lili Chin
lilixc@gmail.com
www.lilichin.org
 b. 1980 (Oregon) – lives and works in New
York City
The Binding, 2012
Single channel video, sound, color, 7’10’’
Installation documentation and original
artwork
31 rit dyed muslin and canvas tie lines,
wool, gold and green bamboo, string,
12 ceramic tea bowls, 3 weaving chains
 2002 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, BF
 2010 University of California at San
Diego, La Jolla, CA, MFA
 2010 Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture, Skowhegan ME
 «The media I use employs a strategically
diverse combination of video, sculpture
and installation to engage with narrative
possibilities between form, content and
material.» (Lili Chin)
https://vimeo.com/56356586
The Binding, 2012
Single channel video, sound, color, 7’10’’
Installation documentation and original artwork
31 rit dyed muslin and canvas tie lines, wool,
gold and green bamboo, string,
12 ceramic tea bowls, 3 weaving chains
VIDEO
Julia Kouneski & Michelle Williams Gamaker
julia.kouneski@gmail.com
michellewilliamsgamaker@gmail.com
www.michellewilliamsgamaker.com
 Michelle Williams Gamaker, b.1979
(London) – lives and works in London and
Amsterdam
 2012 Ph.D in Art, Goldsmiths College,
University of London
 2006 MA Visual Anthropology
 2001 BA Fine Art Middlesex University
 Julia Kouneski, b.1985 (USA) – lives and
works in Los Angeles
 2014 MA, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles
 2007 BA, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis
Scaling Copan, 2009, São Paulo, Brazil
Videostill