Han Xiao was born in China. In 2021, his family moved to Spain. In 2005, he graduated from the Design Department of the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, majoring in Landscape.

„I spent the Pandemic period in France. I was living out in the country, in a little corner of the Cote d’Azur facing the Mediterranean. That peculiar feeling of forced isolation.

Ivana de Vivanco is a Chilean-Peruvian artist based in Germany working across media. She studied fine art at the University of Chile in Santiago and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig.

A significant artist of her generation, Zineb Sedira will represent France at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, to be held 23 April to 27 November 2022.

The exhibition gives us insights into the spectrum of expressive forms of art. The artworks shown are based on what had happened, memories and perception, spanning from the past into the future.

Lavinia de Rothschild is an artist, art collector who has never felt like she belonged to any one culture or nationality. Lavinia has always felt closer to animals and nature than to humans and our mechanical world.

Kalina Horon is an artist painter from Poland, who has been living in Vienna since 2014. Although she received classical music training in her childhood and youth, she decided to give it up in favour of painting.

Kenji Lim graduated with a BFA from Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, in 2002 and with a Masters in Sculpture from The Royal College of Art, London, in 2019, and has lived many lives in between.

Negra Bernhard is a painter from Vienna, Austria with Bosnian roots. She is currently about to complete her studies under Daniel Richter at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Tomáš Jetela is a Czech artist, born in 1986, who lives and works in Prague. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague where he studied in the studio of Michal Rittstein.

Dan McCleary is a Los Angeles based artist. He has exhibited extensively in the United States and frequently travels to Oaxaca, Mexico, where he makes etchings at the Taller Sangfer.

This is Liza. A 23-year-old girl. Also an illustrator, graphic designer, and explorer of all things circling in our brains. She visually describes thoughts which have their own existence.

Carlos Vergara is an artist from Barranquilla, Colombia, currently studying at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Within his work, he positions himself in the periphery of diverse scenarios.

Hyon-Soo Kim grew up in the countryside of South Korea. The early death of her mother and the reading of Kafka and Nietzsche led her to the decision to study in Germany.

Pati Baztán is a Spanish artist, based in the middle of the countryside near Barcelona. She paints as she lives, with wild abandon. She is more interested in being led by the desire, emotion, and primal instincts.

Elke Foltz is a French painter. Her work is a search for balance within a constant chaos. All the elements aim to be in harmony and in perpetual renewal in spite of the prevailing disorder.

It was William Burroughs who, in the early 1960s, in his eponymously named cut-up novel, described the human body as a ‘soft machine’, constantly besieged ‘by a vast, hungry host of parasites’.

Eben Haines may have back-to-back exhibitions at two of Boston’s largest institutions, but he’s proven he’s at home in even the smallest spaces It seems the only Boston residents.

Olga graduated on the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and has also studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. She has realized dozens of solo and group exhibitions in Austria and in other European countries.

Due to the fusion of digital life with the physical they have become part of our lived reality. The inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality is addressed through artistic positions.

Feels so warm that you can walk around with your transition jacket. We are invited by the artist Nives Widauer to her studio, and I arrive there with Cornelius, who backs me up in documenting this conversation.

Her work concentrates on technology and the emotional and social culture surrounding it. Nicole creates stills, animations, and interactive AR and VR experiences and has exhibited her work since 2017.

Kim Dorland pushes the boundaries of painted representation through an exploration of memory, material, nostalgia, identity and place. Drawing heavily from the Canadian landscape.

La Biennale di Venezia 2022, with official opening on April 22 at Palazzo Franchetti, presents Vampires in Space, a project by artist, filmmaker, and writer Pedro Neves Marques.

In Impuzzibil, there are these bodies struggling and folding and stretching in stacked boxes. They didn’t disappear but they’re not fully there either. And there is no magician present to help out.

The 59th edition of the Venice Biennale will start in a week. Various artists have been representing Albania since 1999 at this exhibition. This is the first time that a female artist is representing the country.

From one art fair to the next, from Vienna to Milan. Therefore, the impressions of the second edition of SPARK reach the reader a little late. I deliberately visited the site of the art fair three times.

Faye Wei Wei’s paintings feel like they are wearing lingerie, draped in a body of delicate sensuous marks. The colors, often posed against a white background of exposed untouched canvas, are transparent and fleeting.

A dominating motive theme in her work is using the unexpected to create tension. Playing with the viewers expectations, she broaches the issue of moments paired with distorted items of her imagination.