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Was born 1975 in Erlangen, Bavaria. She studied painting, free graphic design, and object art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg under Prof. Rolf-Gunter Dienst and at the Magyar Képzömüvészeti Föiskola, in Budapest under Prof. Dóra Maurer. She received a post-graduate grant from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange) for Tokyo, Japan in 2005/2006. She lives and works in Berlin. Besides her focus on conceptual painting, she also works in the fields of film, photography, and writing. Her theoretical interests and writing often include Japanese pop and underground culture.

www.fraukeboggasch.de

In her sculptural work, Birgit Cauer seeks to experimentally reconstruct the fascinating and difficult-to-imagine process of the emergence of the living in stone and to make it visible as traces. To do this, she penetrates into the interior of the stone and leaves it more and more to experimental test arrangements, through which it virtually shapes itself. Sculptures, drawings, experimental arrangements and - partly also participatory projects - in public spaces are created, in which the activation of the energetic potential inherent in the respective material and place plays a central role.

www.bcauer.de

Johannes Büttner has developed a diverse body of works, often arranged in comprehensive spatial installations. He negotiates present and past, speculative as well as science-based socio-economic topics. Thereby he thinks about the future in all its potentialities, but with an awareness of planetary crises. In order to sketch future scenarios, he avoids to reproduce an established, capitalist rhetoric influenced by Silicon Valley and the tech industry, but rather contrast it with subcultural practices, different forms of hacking, queering, DIY practices and calls for self-organization. His work contextualizes the space in which it happens and often integrates people standing outside of the art world. (...)

www.johannes-buettner.com

Lieselotte illig, born in Düsseldorf in 1992, deals with the topics of urban space, spatial perception and public space in her artistic work. She works conceptually and performatively into intermediate spaces.

She completed her diploma in fine arts at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and earned a bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology in Frankfurt a.M. and a master's degree in space- and designstrategies in Linz, Austria.

She lives and works in Berlin since 2021.

vimeo.com/lieselotteillig | instagram.com/liloillig/

Julie Legouez, born in 1988 in Viersen, is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Berlin. She studied Fine Arts at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin and the Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada. | In her artistic work, she explores various facets of love and particularly engages with feminist themes. Her focus is on placing personal experiences in a broader societal context to highlight the connections between the personal and the political. Through her art, Legouez aims to bring social issues such as violence against FLINTA* and unhealthy relationship dynamics from the private into the public discourse.

*women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans, and agender persons

www.julielegouez.de | instagram.com/julielegouez

Justina Los, born in 1986, lives and works in Berlin. Los studied at the Academy of Communication Design in Cologne and media arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She works in sculpture, video, and performance. Her works are homages to a globally non-functioning social and economic system in which the future belongs only to those who can afford it. Fascinated by hyper-capitalistic machinery of exploitation, she currently addresses mechanisms of dependency and the illusion of freedom in our society in her work. Throughout her practice, dystopia has become a motivating force, while humor and resilience remain her preferred survival methods.

www.justinalos.com | instagram.com/justina__los

Dejan Marković is a visual artist who lives and works in Berlin. His installations, objects and video works investigate the connections between ideological and technological transformations, forms of exploitation and oppression, and the production of knowledge. After completing his studies at the UdK in Berlin and Belgrade, he worked at the Institute for Contemporary Art at the Graz University of Technology as a university assistant and project coordinator, among other things. His research-based and collaborative practice, as well as site-specific works and temporary interventions, have been shown at Kunsthaus Graz, MoCA Belgrade, nGbK Berlin, Neue Galerie Graz, MoCA Novi Sad and Belgrade Biennale, among others.

https://markovicdejan.com