Ročník: 2020

Yvon Chabrowski (East-Berlin, DE) Her work deals with the visual formulas of contemporary media, which she decontextualizes, making them tangible by creating a reflexive distance. Her works thus create awareness for the grammar and independent existence of omnipresent media images as well as for the relation of the body to circulating media body images. She studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and the École nationale supérieur des beaux-arts Lyon. Her works have been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including at the Arnhem Museum, the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Kunsthalle Rostock and the Weserburg Bremen.

Dirk Braeckman, (*1958, Eeklo, BE) has spent the past 30 years working with the medium of photography, he occupies a distinctive place within the visual arts. Braeckman has taken part in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally. In 2017, he represented Belgium at the 57th Venice Biennale. He has had solo shows for example at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (USA), De Appel (Amsterdam) and ROSEGALLERY (Santa Monica, CA). Braeckman’s works are part of important private and public collections around the world, including in FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais (Dunkirk), Fondation Nationale d’Art Contemporain (Paris) or Musée d’Art Contemporain et Moderne (Strasbourg) and more.

Tina Bara (*1962, Kleinmachnow, DE) is an artist and professor. She became known for her intimate photographic body portraits in the 1980s, that represent a generation of young people who no longer believed in the socialism of the GDR. In 2016, the photographic film “Lange Weile” was created on the basis of this material and a commenting soundtrack. In the 1990s, she was mainly dealing with fragmentary representations of the body and she observed the vague attitude to life in her changing neighbourhood by means of portraits and urban architecture. Since 2000 she is interested in photographic portraits of women. In photographic series and videos she is researching on various aspects of female biographies and strategies of self-empowerment through the appropriation and deconstruction of male-occupied stereotypes. In collaboration with Alba D’Urbano she has been working since 2000 on several installations, as well as curated projects and books.

Tobias Neumann (*1982, Würzburg, DE) 2005—2013 he studied photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, at the Al-Balqa‘ University of Applied Arts in Amman, JOR and at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, IN. In his photographic work, he deals with the possibilities and conditions of the documentary, especially the portrait. 2018 his book „Deux Sœurs“ (Two Sisters) was published by Spector Books, Leipzig.

Alžběta Bačíková (*1988, Hodonín, CZ) mainly works with audiovisual installations. In 2018 she completed a dissertation on the topic of documentary strategies in contemporary artist moving image at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology. In 2018, she won the Audience Award as part of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award for Encounter 2018. She is participating in the 2020 Prague Biennale, ‘Matter of Art’ where she presented a video Lavish Issue made together with Romany political scientist and human right activist Edita Stejskalová.

Eiko Grimberg (*1971, Karlsruhe, DE) works with text, photography and video. Its artistic form is the visual essay. Since 2013 he has been observing the construction of the Berlin Palace and has been studying the layers of German history associated with it. In the project of reconstruction, he uncovers the transitions from the German Empire, through National Socialism, the FRG and GDR, to the reunified Germany.

Zbyněk Baladrán (*1973, Prague, CZ) is an author, artist, curator and exhibition architect. In his works he is investigating territories that are occupied by that part of civilization, which we call Western. He is searching for spatial “pockets” where the way of life is reflected with its systems, rules and coincidences; as well as for the objects through which humanity, obsessed with itself, is arranging the image of its past and future. Baladrán studied art history in the Philosophy Department of the Charles University and in the studios for Visual Communication, Painting and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts, both in Prague. In 2001 he co-founded Display, a space for contemporary art. He was a member of the curatorial team (through tranzit.org) of Manifesta 8 in Murcia, Spain (2010). He is represented by the Jocelyn Wolff Gallery in Paris, Gandy Gallery in Bratislava and Hunt Kastner in Prague.