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Tschabalala Self

In the Studio Tschabalala Self, New York

By combining paint, recycled materials, collage, and textiles, Tschabalala Self creates a world that is both sensuous and political. In her powerful images of black bodies, mostly women, she centres pleasure, relaxation, and self-possession, while working against the histories of racism and sexism that have shaped how these bodies are seen.

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Soufiane Ababri

In the Studio Soufiane Ababri, Paris

Leaving the past behind is not a choice for the artist Soufiane Ababri. After moving from Morocco to France at 18, he began creating a personal visual archive of queer life in the Arab world and of gay immigrants in the West — one that weaves together autobiography, political awareness, and homoeroticism.

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Dala Nasser

In the Studio Dala Nasser, Beirut

Working across painting and sound, the Lebanese artist imprints landscapes marked by occupation, extraction, and erasure, approaching them not as backdrops but as active sites of memory. Throughout her work, myth appears as a framework for thinking about the present rather than escaping it.

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Joëlle Romba

Collector Stories Joëlle Romba, Berlin

Joëlle Romba is an expert on contemporary art and is also the director of Sotheby’s Berlin. She lives with her husband Eric, their two young daughters and their large dog in a villa dating from the turn of the century in Berlin-Nikolassee. The passion for art began for the two collectors more than ten years ago. During that period they have acquired more than 200, mostly contemporary works.

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Elmgreen & Dragset

Elmgreen & Dragset, Berlin
From turning the Whitechapel Gallery into a swimming pool to installing a luxury apartment in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2009, Elmgreen & Dragset are best known for creating immersive installations that, in their own words, “camouflage the white cube”.
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Editions

Manuel Tainha

Manuel Tainha
»PATHWAYS«

Ilari Hautamäki

Ilari Hautamäki
»Sketch for dawn«

Elisa Alberti

Elisa Alberti
»abstract relationships«

Exhibitions

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WRAP UP Winter Salon

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