Martin Beck

Elke Silvia Krystufek is an Austrian artist known for her provocative, often autobiographical, works across painting, photography, and performance. Her practice boldly explores themes of gender, sexuality, and the body, challenging societal norms with raw honesty and an unflinching, visceral directness.

Austrian conceptual multidisciplinary artist (b. 1977) working in sculpture, video, photography and installation, critiquing urban representation, display and spatial economies.

West's sculptures and installations challenged traditional notions of art and functionality, creating interactive works that invited viewer participation.

Semotan's photography explores themes of fashion, portraiture, and the female gaze, creating iconic images that challenge traditional representations of women.

Pils's paintings explore the relationship between abstraction, figuration, and the subconscious, creating dreamlike, visually complex compositions.

Yoshinori Niwa is a Japanese artist known for his conceptual and performative works that often involve public interventions. His practice challenges social norms and explores the absurdities of daily life, inviting spontaneous interactions and questioning established systems with subtle humor.

Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian-American artist known for her provocative photographic and sculptural works that critique Iranian politics and human rights issues. Her elaborate, staged tableaux often incorporate figures and objects to expose geopolitical realities and media manipulation with striking visual intensity.

Ian Waelder is a Chilean-German artist known for his conceptually rich practice across painting, sculpture, and photography. His work often uses found objects and ephemeral materials, exploring themes of memory, decay, and the passage of time, imbued with a quiet poeticism and subtle melancholic tone.

Li Shan is a prominent Chinese artist known for his pioneering conceptual and experimental work spanning painting, performance, and video. A key figure in the Chinese avant-garde, his provocative art often critiques societal norms and explores themes of transformation and identity.

Wang Ningde is a Chinese artist known for his distinctive photographic series that often reconstruct historical scenes or personal memories. His work uses unique lighting and staging, blurring reality and fiction to explore themes of nostalgia, collective memory, and the photographic medium itself.

Marcin Dudek is a Polish artist known for his multidisciplinary practice spanning performance, sculpture, and installation. His work often draws from personal history, particularly his past as a football hooligan, exploring themes of masculinity, crowd dynamics, and the architecture of control with raw intensity.

Noémie Goudal is a French artist known for her photographs and video installations that create uncanny, constructed landscapes. Her work explores perception, illusion, and the human relationship with the natural world, blurring the boundaries between reality, fiction, and artifice.

Reza Aramesh is an Iranian-British artist known for his performative photography and sculptural installations that explore themes of power, sexuality, and the representation of the body in conflict zones. His work often re-stages images from news media, transforming them into stylized, classical compositions.

Sam Samiee is an Iranian artist known for his complex, often immersive, painting and installation works. His practice blends abstract and figurative elements, drawing from art history, literature, and personal narratives to create multi-layered compositions that explore identity, space, and the act of seeing.

British-Egyptian visual artist creating intimate conceptual noirs in film, video, installation, and photography that meditate on memory, sound, and female experience.

Influential African-American filmmaker, cinematographer, and curator whose powerful visual essays explore Black experience in the U.S. and globally.

American filmmaker, photographer and sound artist whose poetic, narrative-driven works reflect on memory, identity, and place within Black diasporic discourse.

Pioneering American experimental filmmaker, feminist and LGBTQ icon whose avant-garde works explored gender, desire, and mortality.

Fowler's films and installations explore themes of counterculture, social history, and the politics of representation, using a documentary approach.

Matić's multidisciplinary work, spanning photography, film, and sculpture, explores Blackness, queerness, and the complexities of identity within the diaspora. Their work is rooted in personal experience and cultural observation.

Igwe's film and video works, often incorporating archival footage and experimental techniques, explore themes of memory, history, and the politics of representation. Her practice challenges dominant narratives and power structures.

Oppenheim's photographic and filmic works, often employing historical processes and found footage, explore the relationship between technology, memory, and representation. Her work is marked by a sense of conceptual rigor.

Mekas's experimental films and diaries, with their personal and poetic style, capture the essence of everyday life.