Ročník: 2020

Gordon Endt (* 1996 in Freiburg, D) deals with social issues in his artistic work, phenomena of communication such as confusion of narration and facts or the genesis and intention of commercials and marketing strategies. Through collages, transformations or direct interventions on the photo print, he humorously explores the relationship between promise and reality.

Ranaji Deb is a storyteller born in Agartala, India. Growing up in the suburbs of Bombay he developed a curiosity towards nature, relationships and technology. Having a background education from diverse fields of bioinformatics, marketing communications and user experience design eventually led him to study photography at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). In the classical studio he is exploring the boundaries of photography. Inspired by the Czech philosopher & theorist Vilem Flusser, his work has focused on deconstructing the medium and form. In 2018, Lonely Planet Magazine published his photograph titled “deconstruct” as one of the cover pages for its 100th anniversary edition. His passion for collecting stories behind people, places and photographs has been noted in journals since 2001. During the summer of 2019, he revisited this passion by hitchhiking across Europe for three months while relying on the kindness and cruelty of strangers. Being primarily experimental in nature, exploring the merging of memory, identity and society; his works have been exhibited in selected galleries across Ahmedabad, Pune, Prague, New York and Beroun.

Gabriela BK is a Czech-American activist and visual artist currently based in Prague, Czech Republic. She completed her high school education in Czech Republic, Germany and California, and continued with university at UC Santa Cruz. She is currently studying photography at the FAMU Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, works with various non-profit and grassroots organizations in the movement for climate justice. She currently works as Assistant Director of the international NGO ArtDialog and manages the ArtMill Center for Creative Sustainability in Western Bohemia. Her photographic work has various focuses, from the environmental crisis to psychology and the destigmatisation of mental health, art as activism and the role of privilege in the deconstruction of the photographic medium itself. Her most recent work is the collaborative book “You Are Here,” a series of guides to non-hierarchical communal living and permaculture gardening as a beginning to self-sufficiency and sustainability. 

Brigit Jürgenssen (*1949, † 2003 Vienna, AT) is an photographer, painter, graphic artist, curator and teacher who specialized in feminine body art with self-portraits and photo series, which have revealed a sequence of events related to the daily social life of a women in its various forms including an atmosphere of shocking fear and common prejudices. She was acclaimed as one of the “outstanding international representatives of the feminist avant-garde”. She studied at the University of Applieds Arts Vienna.

Lina Zacher (*1991, Braunschweig, DE) first studied design and then art education at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle (Saale). In 2015 she founded together with Delphine Bishop MIO, an association for multimedia to promotes intercultural media projects. She works as an independent filmmaker and artist in Germany, Madagascar and the Philippines. After several film installations and short film projects “Fonja” is her first feature film production. Her work is based on the examination of socio-political topics with a participatory approach. She deals with human behaviour in spatial and social contexts and tries to get in contact with her subject areas through a practical and field research approach.

Sophie Thun (*1985, Frankfurt a. M., DE, raised in Warsaw, PL) works primarily with techniques of analog photography, its spaces, processes and conditions of production and exhibition. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow and at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Recent exhibitions include, amnong others: 2020 ‘Stolberggasse‘ at Secession, Vienna, ‘Extension‘ at c/o Berlin, 2019 ‘Interiors of Photography’, with Mladen Bizumic at Camera Austria, Graz, ‘Extended Double Release’ at Galerie 52, Universität der Künste Folkwang, Essen, ‘Les Rencontres d’Arles’, Arles. 2020 she finished working on the film This year’s girl with İpek Hamzaoğlu and Laura Nitsch.

Gabriele Stötzer (*1953, Emleben, DE) studied at the teacher training college in Erfurt where, in the mid-1970s, she was expelled on political grounds and imprisoned for a year. She began working as a freelance artist in 1980. In 1989, she was co-initiator of the first occupation of a Stasi (East German secret police) headquarters in Erfurt. Since 1990, she has published eight books and taken part in international exhibitions. She also teaches performance classes at the University of Erfurt and holds lectures on subjects such as feminist art and on being a contemporary witness.

Andrzej Steinbach (*1983, Czanrkow, PL). 2013 diploma and 2017 master student in visual arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. His works have been shown in various exhibitions, among others at the Museum of Modern Art New York, Fotomuseum Winterthur Switzerland, Haus der Photographie Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Kunst Haus Wien, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art Nagoya Japan. He received for example (2015) the Federal Prize for Art Students Bonn, (2015) Berenberg Prize for Young Art Hamburg, (2013) or Marion Eimer-Preis Weimar and (2010).  Among others, he has published the artist books “Gesellschaft beginnt mit drei” (2017, Spector Books), “Ordinary Stones” (2016, Études Books Paris) and “Even and then some” (2010, Institut für Buchkunst Leipzig).

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.