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Laura Vanessa Galeano Ochoa

Laura Vanessa Galeano Ochoa (*1992, Bogotá, Kolumbien) lives and works in Stuttgart. She studied performance art at the ASAB in Bogotá and completed the MFA programme Body, Theory and Poetics of the Performative at the Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts.

Her works focus on exploring the possible relationships that are created between artist and observer when they are face to face without any other spectators watching. Her artistic practice is comprised of these two positions. In works such as Mantrailing (2019), Reflection (2019), Private (2020) and Duet (2021), Galeano Ochoa explores the everyday, intimate, personal, private and individual as factors that make up the collective body.

Together with other artists in Stuttgart, she founded La Fuchsia Kollektiva e.V in 2019.
www.lauragaleano.com

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Rosa Violetta Zettl

Rosa Violetta Zettl Rosa Violetta Zettl (*1989) lives and works in Heidelberg. She studied visual arts as a meisterschüler under Johannes Spehr at the Kunsthochschule Kassel until 2018 as well as sculpture and installation at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn, Estonia, and art history and aesthetics at the University of Kassel.

The study of biological and social connections stands as the basis for Rosa Violetta Zettl’s installations, drawings and well-balanced assemblages. Found objects are combined together with handcrafted sculptures made of ceramics or plastics to form a fine collection. The syntactic creations evolve to become fragile installations that encompass hierarchical structures, archives and symbioses.

Her works have been displayed internationally in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including those at the Neuer Wuppertaler Kunstverein, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallinn, Warte für Kunst, Kassel, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, L40, Berlin and Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin. In addition to other accomplishment, she was awarded with a scholarship from the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn and won first place at the Young Sculptor Award in Tallinn.
http://www.rosazettl.com

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Lennart Cleemann

Lennart Cleemann Lennart Cleemann (*1990) lives and works in Stuttgart. He studied architecture in Hannover, Aarhus, Basel, and Stuttgart. He took part in Reto Boller’s art class at the Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts, which ultimately led him to find his artistic style.

He is currently a stipendiary at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and explores ideas and concepts from “home”. His work combines space and materials. Through the construction and abstraction of rooms, furniture and playing equipment, he explores his environment and tries to gain an understanding of its processes. His studio is a place of necessity. It becomes the physical stage for the inner self, absorbing moods, dust and sweat. Observing the day-to-day changes of this intimate space is an exploration of the self.
www.instagram.com/lennartcleemann/

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Judith Milz

Judith Milz Judith Milz (*1989) lives and works in Marseille and Karlsruhe. She studied at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig.

In her work, Judith Milz explores and develops narrative possibilities: sculptural, performative, photographic, journalistic. She is drawn to the incidental and mundane, the situational and anecdotal. As a result, her work always sways between that which is routine, private, personally remembered and told, and what is socio-politically important. When the artist approaches and processes themes for her practice, the image of a catalytic converter or flow heater might lend itself as an obvious metaphor. These pieces often include performative qualities.

Most recently Judith Milz has become increasingly involved in private and public archives. Her involvement in a place of artistic research significantly influences her work, which are often developed in a site- and context-specific way.

In 2019 she began focusing on creating an artistic language for Inter-German history; an ongoing project based on her ten years of working as a transcriber.

Judith Milz has already received several scholarships. In 2020 she was awarded a scholarship from the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, and as of November 2022 she will be on scholarship at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris.
www.judithmilz.com

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Karolina Sobel

Karolina Sobel Karolina Sobel (*1987) lives and works in Karlsruhe. She studied at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. She also has a master’s degree in urban studies from the Technical University Darmstadt, studied social sciences at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris as well as visual arts at the Iuav University of Venice.

Her interests include different modes of representation of social issues such as identity, the process of building communities, social exclusion and hierarchies. For her work, she looks for other methods of presentation that allow her to expand further on multiple levels of discourse. In utilising various mediums with a documentary approach, the line between fiction and reality is blurred. She uses photography as a tool for visual research in her work.

In 2020 Karolina Sobel was a scholarship recipient of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, and in 2021/22 she was awarded a scholarship from the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. She has been a member of the Archive of Public Protest since 2020.
www.karolinasobel.com

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Jacob Ott

Jacob Ott Jacob Ott (*1992) lives and works in the High and Upper Rhine area. He studied at the Freiburg School of Art, Design and Popular Music, the Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts, and at the Basel Academy of Art and Design.

Jacob Ott works with a variety of media – from sculpture, assemblages, painting and installation to film, sound and performance. The style of his work is influenced by his exploration into the habits and symbols that shape social arrangements and institutions. Much of his work deals with the fundamental elements of art production and the individual components and structures of the institution of art itself. Through simple, seemingly illogical interferences and a denaturalisation of the natural, his work offers a possible reflection on the often arbitrary or violent divisions and rules that go hand in hand with the increasing civilisation of our world.

His works have been shown in numerous exhibitions in, for example, Basel, Freiburg, Leipzig and Mexico City.
www.jacobott.de

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Gin Bahc

Gin Bahc Gin Bahc (*1985) lives and works in Karlsruhe. He studied painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe.

The basis of Gin Bahc’s work is influenced by her interest in social issues as well as the behaviour of people within their social environments. Her work questions the growing media overload and the apparent loss of control over one’s own life. Different determinants analyse power and control structures and gain a larger spatial language. Exposure and veiling, humiliation, self-determination and power are important themes here. Her drawings are the starting point for installations and performances that confront the audience with a flood of associative images.

In 2019/20 Gin Bahc was on scholarship at the Cité internationale des arts Paris, and in 2021 she received a scholarship from the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg. She has been teaching at the Kunsthochschule Kassel since the 2022 summer semester.
www.ginbahc.com

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Nils Weiligmann

Nils Weiligmann Nils Weiligmann (*1988) lives and works in Karlsruhe. He studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe as well as is in Tianjin (China) and Minnesota (United States of America). He was a meisterschüler under Leni Hoffmann.

Nils Weiligmann’s works are a mix of objects and site-specific installations. The ruinous touches he brings into the materials shape and define his works. The objects wear and tire throughout the creation process. They develop an allure that repels at the same time.

The parasitic installations ‘claw’ their way into architecture, begin to ‘encroach’ and redefine spaces. In doing so they not only undermine the original use of the location, but also demand new behaviour from the viewers.

His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in, for example, Karlsruhe, Freiburg, Basel, Cologne and Minneapolis.
https://www.instagram.com/nls__int

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Antonia Low

Antonia Low (*1972) lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und Stuttgart. Sie studierte Visuelle Kommunikation an der Münster School of Design, zeitgleich Freie Kunst bei Ulrich Erben an der Kunstakademie Münster und absolvierte ihren MA Fine Arts am Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Die Irritation von realen Räumen und eingeübten Wahrnehmungen durch installative und prozessuale Interventionen sind das Feld ihrer bildhauerischen, konzeptuellen und künstlerisch explorativen Praxis. Entlang neuer Blickachsen, visueller Überlagerungen, aus Grabungen und Verschiebungen entstehen Reflexionen, poetische Erfahrungen und die Gleichzeitigkeit verschiedenster Realitäten.

Lows Installationen und Interventionen wurden in renommierten Ausstellungsinstitutionen gezeigt, u. a. im K21 Kunstsammlung NRW Düsseldorf, im Palazzo Altemps Römisches Nationalmuseum, im Kunstmuseum Bonn, im Kunstverein Braunschweig und im ISCP New York. Sie erhielt zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, Stipendien und nahm an internationalen Artist-in-Residence-Programmen teil. Seit 2019 ist sie Professorin für Körperraumnarration an der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart und leitet dort den Studiengang Intermediales Gestalten.
www.antonialow.com

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Valentina Karga

(*1986) lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg. She studied Architecture at the University of Volos.

Her artistic practice lays somewhere between art, design, research and architecture. She combines elements of participation and speculative experiments that question prevailing social and physical infrastructures in energy, economy, and sustainability.

Valentina Karga is a founding member of the Collective Disaster, an interdisciplinary group that works in the interstices of architecture and the social realm.

She was a fellow at the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Science/Graduate School at the University of the Arts Berlin, a Saari Fellow in Finland, a resident at the Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art in Singapore and was awarded the Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research. Her work has been shown at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, the Athens Biennale, the first Thailand Biennale, the Konsthall C, the Hippolyte Gallery in Helsinki and in a major exhibition curated by the Whitechapel Gallery, among others. She has been a professor at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK) since 2018.
www.valentinakarga.com

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Martin Pfeifle

Martin Pfeifle (*1975) lives and works in Düsseldorf. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Tony Cragg and was a meisterschüler under Hubert Kiecol.

Martin Pfeifle’s installation works are usually created in situ and incorporate the surrounding space. This way, the perception of space interacts with deliberations on sustainable materials used in sculpture.

Amongst other recognitions he was awarded the Villa Romana Prize in Florence and has received sponsorships from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the city of Düsseldorf. His works have been shown in exhibitions at home and abroad, including projects presented in public spaces. He was a scholarship holder of the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn and the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg and received the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Sculpture Prize. Since 2021, Pfeifle has been a professor for the department of “Körper Raum Struktur” at the Peter Behrens School of Arts/University of Düsseldorf.
www.pfeifle.de

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Katrin Ströbel

Katrin Ströbel Katrin Ströbel (*1975) lives and works in Marseille, Stuttgart and Rabat. She studied fine arts and literature and, while concentrating on her artistic work on the relationship between text and images in contemporary art, completed a doctorate in art history. She is a mother.  

Her drawings, site-specific works and installations are based on a critical questioning of the social and geopolitical conditions that define our everyday social life. The artist deconstructs gender relations and female stereotypes in various drawings and collages. Her work also deals with cultural codes and (visual) languages as well as colonialism, migration and displacement, and shows how strongly gender and geopolitics are interconnected.

Since 2004 Katrin Ströbel has worked in Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Peru, Australia and the United States of America among other places. She has been taking part in international solo and group exhibitions for around fifteen years. In 2013 she began teaching at the Villa Arson, École nationale supérieure d’art in Nice, France, and in spring 2023 she became a professor for drawing at the Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts. Since 2013 Katrin Ströbel has been working together with Moroccan artist Mohammed Laouli on “frontières fluides – fluides boundaries”, a multimedia project that addresses migration and transit between Europe and Northern Africa.
www.katrin-stroebel.de

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Myriam Holme

Myriam Holme (*1971) lives and works in Mannheim. She studied fine arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe under Meuser and Andreas Slominski.

Holme’s art creates a fine connection between painting, sculpture and installation. Her broadened concept of painting is based on the experimental and the processual, though both should be seen as originating from the material. This results in paintings that can be thought of as expansive and unfinished, that do not settle into the existing, but remain in constant motion.

Myriam Holme has received numerous awards and her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Since 2008 she has held multiple visiting professorship and teaching positions. Together with Philipp Morlock, she founded and runs Einraumhaus c/o and is also co-creator of the new art venue barac – Kunst/Labor/Soziales in Mannheim, which opened in 2020. www.myriamholme.de

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Ulf Aminde

Ulf Aminde Ulf Aminde (*1969) is an artist and filmmaker. He studied at the Berlin University of the Arts under Lother Baumgarten.

His productions often negotiate and/or are shown in public spaces. Many of them deal with and initiate collaborations and collective learning environments. In his cinematic work he negotiates the potential of self-empowerment through the performative camera, alienation effects in the documentary, and strategies of subjectification. His film works are usually characterised by intensive collaboration with the protagonists and experimental settings. His most recent works deal with social movements, memory and resistance.

His works have been exhibited in many renowned institutions, including the Berlin Biennale 4, the Havana Biennial, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, nGBK Berlin and Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, MARTa Herford Museum, Steirischer Herbst, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, Kunstverein Heidelberg and Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei. Ulf Aminde is also professor of performative spaces at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. There, he initiated the *foundationClass for artists who have had to flee their home countries and are affected by racism.
www.ulfaminde.com

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Rabih Mroué

Rabih Mroué Rabih Mroué (*1967) lives and works in Berlin. He studied theatre at the Lebanese University in Beirut.

His artistic work encompasses theatre, visual arts and literature. Working at the intersection between private and political history, media criticism and concepts of authorship, his performative compositions question our tendencies of seeing and speaking.

Mroué is the editor of The Drama Review and co-founder of the Beirut Art Center. He was a fellow of the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at the Free University of Berlin and regularly directs and performs at the Münchner Kammerspiele, Kampnagel Hamburg and the Hebbel Theater in Berlin. His work has also been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, Kunstverein Stuttgart, BAK Utrecht, Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona, documenta 13, Performa New York, Centre Pompidou and Tate Modern. In 2020, Rabih Mroué received the Ernst Schering Foundation Prize for Artistic Research – the awards collaborator KW Institute for Contemporary Art presented his solo exhibition Under the Carpet in 2022.

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Annette Kelm

Annette Kelm Annette Kelm (*1975) is an artist and photographer who lives and works in Berlin.

Kelm is one of the most important contemporary photographers in Germany.

Her conceptual photographs focus on the conventions of seeing and displaying, the constructed nature of images, and the disclosure of the circumstance of their production. She documents modern everyday culture in her still life portraits, landscape and architectural photographs. Removed from their original context and transferred to new constellations, the motifs elicit associations that reveal artistic, historical and socio-cultural references.

Her work has been shown internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Museum Frieder Burda | Salon Berlin, the Fosun Foundation in Shanghai, the Kunsthalle Vienna, the Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MoMa in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art Vienna, the Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Kunsthalle Hamburg and the Kunstmuseum Solothurn. kkkk Annette Kelms Arbeiten wurden vielfach ausgezeichnet und sind in namhaften Sammlungen vertreten. Im Wintersemester 2021/2022 hatte sie eine Gastprofessur an der HfG Karlsruhe inne.