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INTERVIEW | Andreea Vasile-Hoxha

INTERVIEW | Andreea Vasile-Hoxha

Andreea is an award-winning architectural & landscape architectural designer and researcher. "After Plastics: The Gardens of the Glacial Foreland" is a transitional landscape – from glacial to post-glacial. The project questions the potential emergence of microplastic particles in the most pristine places on Earth over the next two centuries and the imminent implications on landscape systems and their formation.

INTERVIEW | Clemens Gritl

INTERVIEW | Clemens Gritl

Clemens Gritl is a German artist based in Berlin. His work focuses on the interaction between space, dimension, monotony and materiality of urban megastructures. His black and white photorealistic presentations can be aligned with 1960s architecture photography which documents a singular, unbroken optimism and the radical zeitgeist of its era.

INTERVIEW | Cate Wind

INTERVIEW | Cate Wind

Cate Wind creates sculptures and installations that reveal correlations between modern knowledge and ancient systems of belief. She assembles refined materials such as metal, glass, or resin with discarded found objects including gearwheels, vintage herbariums, or religious textiles. Fascinated by the interaction of materials with different feels and auras, her sculptures can be described as experiments that try to investigate the internal energies of various matters and how they affect each other.

INTERVIEW | Karen Ghostlaw

INTERVIEW | Karen Ghostlaw

As a woman with four children, home birthed two of the four, and homeschooled all through high school, Karen Ghostlaw's creative output inspires others and provides a platform for creative and independent thinking. This daunting task came with more rewards than sacrifices, and Karen found that sacrifice leads to growth. She found herself again through her photography, looking at herself, a study that started twelve years ago and continues today.

INTERVIEW | Federico Alcaro

INTERVIEW | Federico Alcaro

Federico Alcaro is an architect and artist. He approaches the graphic representation of dystopias with an architectural connotation to critically represent some phenomena of modern society. The images are always quite critical and provocative in the form of dystopias with an architectural connotation full of symbols and icons. Federico Alcaro’s biggest influences and inspirations refer to names from both architecture and art world.

INTERVIEW | Qeas Pirzad

INTERVIEW | Qeas Pirzad

A descendant of Afghani transplants to the Netherlands, Pirzad quickly mastered the ability to occupy the contrasting worlds of life both in and out of his home. Much of his work is a reflection of the artist’s revelation of defining his own reality. Pirzad reflects on realizing societal and ancestral influences on his existence. Following an epiphany of these influences’ impact on his existence, Pirzad used his art to analyze and deconstruct the results of his previously prescribed reality.

INTERVIEW | Cristina Maya Caetano

INTERVIEW | Cristina Maya Caetano

Cristina Maya Caetano is Portuguese, born in Angola, lived in Mozambique for some years, and presently lives in Portugal between Aveiro and Pinhel. She is a writer, a plastic artist, an illustrator, and a poet. In 2010, she used Cristina Maia Caetano as an artist name and examples of her book "To Know the Theater in Mozambique" and chronicles "See and Feel" in newspapers of Abrantes Journal; Daily Journal of Aveiro; Pinhel Falcon; Online Root and FM Radio Aveiro.

INTERVIEW | Macha Ovtchinnikova

INTERVIEW | Macha Ovtchinnikova

French filmmaker and researcher from Russia. She's also writing and teaching at University the cinema aesthetics and video art. Experimenting with different film genres and mediums – documentary, fiction, experimental video – Macha Ovtchinnikova questions the notion of the time and its investment in the film forms.

INTERVIEW | Stephanie Zwerschke

INTERVIEW | Stephanie Zwerschke

Stephanie Zwerschke draws her inspiration from all her surroundings that incorporate nature, fragility, age, and beauty in decay. She experiments with the rather unusual painting media steel plates and rust. The artist transfers the metaphorical value of rusting steel to the level of her art through the images she displays.

INTERVIEW | Pablo Von Goethe

INTERVIEW | Pablo Von Goethe

Fascinated by Michelangelo and Pablo Picasso. Pablo Von Goethe work emerges from the eyes of the protagonists of his stories that always cite the verses of being. The works created over the years have profound contents that invite the viewer to dive into the created worlds to search for the messages and the mediated values.

INTERVIEW | feeleash

INTERVIEW | feeleash

feeleash (M. Andresakis) actively works in music as well as the international publishing scene, implementing all types of digital graphics and video. Michael combines incompatible worlds into a new universe, increasing the dynamics between the audience and the author, investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.

INTERVIEW | Ayse U Akarca

INTERVIEW | Ayse U Akarca

Ayse U Akarca is a Turkish scientist who balances making art with her career in research at one of the world’s leading institutions at UCL. Working with different cancer tissues, faced with the reality of what this disease is and the effect it has on people’s lives, Ayse thinks about mortality – and the fine line that exists between life and death.

INTERVIEW | Augusto Poderosi

INTERVIEW | Augusto Poderosi

Augusto Poderosi was born in Rome. He works eclectically in the fields of figurative and audiovisual arts. Augusto started his activity in the laboratories of scenography at the Cinecitta Studios. He is also a sculptor, painter and restorer to the holy see he realizes numerous artistic patronage for the Basilica Papale di S.Paolo Fuori le Mura, di S.Antonio di Padova, Basilica Del Cristo Re (Rome) for the Vatican City and various other Roman churches.

INTERVIEW | Aïda Schweitzer

INTERVIEW | Aïda Schweitzer

Aïda Schweitzer is a Franco-Egyptian performance artist. She lives and works between Luxembourg and Brussels. Without learning in art school, her confusing work is based on "a no" partitioning, a distance from a formatted model, and challenges the established codes. Committed and feminist, her work plunges us into a poetic interiority of pure lines, a legacy of her travels in Asia.

INTERVIEW | Mattia Peressini

INTERVIEW | Mattia Peressini

Mattia Peressini works and studies in Lignano Sabbiadoro and Mestre in Italy. His research focuses on providing visual interpretations of sensations, thoughts, and emotions, and on different topics. The mystical and the inner self, as well as today and tomorrow worlds which intertwine, often by crushing or just touching us.

INTERVIEW | Yseult.D

INTERVIEW | Yseult.D

The choice of the medium is primordial for Yseult.D. Photographs come to life. An innovative concept of art to wear is born. Each piece is made in an ultra-limited series and becomes collector's item after a series of 12. The works to wear are all provided with a certificate of authenticity.

INTERVIEW | Bogdan Murg

INTERVIEW | Bogdan Murg

Bogdan feels an urge to paint, as he wants to make up for all the years he has not been painting. His style surfaced intuitively. Bogdan mostly identifies himself with Francis Bacon’s concept of a ‘tightrope walk between what is called figurative painting and abstraction.’ Each painting in multiple performances.

INTERVIEW | Marco Riha

INTERVIEW | Marco Riha

For Marco Riha, visual arts are about creating, showing up, risking, bearing it all. At first, his artistic expression was therapeutic during his symbolic naïve phase. Then, he started abstract experimentations into colors and textures. His works deal with socio-political provocations.