Ročník: 2020

Shelly Silver (*1957, Brooklin, USA) works with the still and moving image. Her work explores contested territories between public and private, narrative and documentary, and – increasingly in recent years – the watcher and the watched. She has exhibited worldwide, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Yokohama Museum, the London ICA. Her films have been broadcast by BBC/England, Arte/Germany, Planete/Europe, RTE/Ireland, SWR/Germany, and Atenor/Spain, among others, and she has been a fellow at the DAAD Artists Program in Berlin, the Japan/US Artist Program in Tokyo, Cité des Arts in Paris, and at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Heji Shin (*1978, Seoul, South-Korea) is a German-Korean artist. She entered the mainstream with her fashion photographs for the New York-based brand Eckhaus Latta, which she later introduced at the sixth Athens Biennale (2018). She also took part in group shows including the Whitney Biennial (2019) and Maskulinitäten, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn / Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne / Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf (2019). She has had solo exhibitions at Reena Spaulings, New York (2017), Kunsthalle Zürich (2018) and the Buchholz gallery, Berlin (2019).

Miloš Šejn (*1947, Jablonec nad Nisou, CZ) works in the fields of visual art, performance and study of visual perception, and conducts workshops, such as Bohemiae Rosa. Šejn’s artistic vision formed when he was young and when he undertook many trips into the wilderness. It embodied an inner need to get closer to the secret of nature and observe the miracles that happen in it. He consciously works in the areas of expressive language among text, visual stroke, body movement, voice, and expansion into space. He studied art education, art history and aesthetics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, in Prague. Between 1990—2011 he directed the Department of New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and worked as a visiting professor at the Academies in Aix-en-Provence, Carrara, Ljubljana, Stuttgart, The Hague and Vienna.

Gundula Schulze Eldowy (*1954, Erfurt, DE). She studied photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Her work has been internationally exhibited and published and is part of collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the LACMA in Los Angeles and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In addition to her photographic and cinematic work, she has written stories, poems, essays and created sound collages and chants. Some of famous series: “Tamerlan”, “Berlin in einer Hundenacht” (Berlin on a Dog’s Night),“Aktportrait” (Nude Portrait),“Der Wind füllt sich mit Wasser” (The wind fills itself with water).  1985 first encounter with the American photographer Robert Frank, who invites her to New York in 1990. „Spinning on my Heels“ (series), Die Wahrheit ist eine versunkene Stadt” (The truth is a sunken city)(film).

Andreas Schulze (*1965, Leipzig, DE). In his work, Schulze deals with a society that relies on a high degree of information. In his comprehensive analysis of the use and consumption of images and texts in mass media and individual contexts, he is particularly concerned with representing and interpreting the entanglement or drifting apart of image and actual experience, of text and perception of reality, of subjective narration and collective orientation. 1995—2002 he studied fine arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig.

Sabine Reinfeld (*1976, Leipzig, DE) works primarily performatively and with the media of video and photography. With her precisely presented sequences of movement or excessively repeated gestures, she takes up classic elements of performance art and illustrates physical action as a means of creating images. Based on her analysis of certain role models, Reinfeld presents situational and ephemeral actions that deal with questions of personal and media staging of identity. She uses a growing archive of stage settings, props and figures developed by her own to address the mutual influence of media images, ideally charged places and the people acting in them in space-filling performances and formats. She is a graduate of the University of the Arts, Berlin. Her works have recently been on display, among others: Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin (2018); Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (2018); Städtische Kunsthalle Munich (2008); Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2007).

Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová (*1975 and 1977 in Nădlac, RO and in Banská Štiavnica, SK) have been working in collaboration since 2000. They both graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. They work across a variety of media including video, sculpture and performance. Their solo and group exhibitions include Floating Utopias, Lunds konsthall, 2020; The Influencing Machine, Nicodim gallery, Bucharest, 2019; a no, A voLcanic attaCk, a hiT, a Muse, Museumcultuur Strombeek/Gent, 2018; How Long Is Now?, KINDL, Berlin, 2016; What Does a Drawing Want?, Beirut, Cairo, 2012; Rearview Mirror, The Power Plant, Toronto, 2010; Gender Check, MuMoK, Vienna, 2009; 6th Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2008 and many others.

Kristin Loschert (*1979 in Lohr am Main) is a freelance photo editor and photographer. Solo exhibitions include Boxer, Vacant, Tokyo (2016), Boxer, Galerie für moderne Fotografie, Berlin (2013), and group shows Rochade, with Lisa Herfeldt, Soy Capitán, Berlin (2019), Admit One, Angela Mewes, Berlin (2018), as well as Riemenschneider in Situ, Conference Riemenschneider in Situ, Rothenburg o.d.T., in collaboration with Heinz Peter Knes (2017), ich, du, er/sie/es and Les chroniques purple, Vacant, Tokyo (2014). 

Zdeněk Lhoták (* 1949, Turnov, CZ) works as a freelance photographer and pedagogue. In the field of documentary photography, he focuses on the sociological problems of elite sports (Sparta, 1977-89) and sport competition (Spartakiad,1985) and the issue of unique Tibetan culture devastated by Chinese occupation (1989-94). Between 2001-08 he photographed the subjective documentary series “United Colours of Nepal”. Another field of interest is staged photography: until 1989 he worked on the cycle „Self-Portraits“ and he has recently been making installations of life-size photographs of figures in real interiors. He studied at the Faculty of Film and Television, FAMU, Prague. For his photo series Spartakiad he won 2nd prize in the sports category of the Word Press Photo competition in 1986.