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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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Otto and Saskia Wiesenthal

Collector Stories Otto and Saskia Wiesenthal, Vienna

It has been twenty-five years since Otto Wiesenthal resigned from a managerial position to devote his time to the transformation of a house in Vienna’s seventh district built during the period of intensive industrial expansion at the end of the nineteenth century into the Hotel Altstadt Vienna, a key role in this decision, was the intention of installing his personal art collection. We met with Wiesenthal and his daughter Saskia, the hotel’s marketing and art manager and an art collector in her own right, in one of the suites of the “Altstadt” filled with design and art for a conversation about life with beautiful things and of that which is special about Vienna.

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Lone Haugaard Madsen

Lone Haugaard Madsen, Ærø, Denmark
In her work, Lone Haugaard Madsen moves between sculpture, painting, object art, photography, sound, text and performance – without giving preference to any of these media. In her installations, she places her works in a specific context that describes her engagement with the concept of art.
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Editions

Jonny Niesche

Jonny Niesche
»Chocolate Box Portals«

Niko Abramidis &NE

Niko Abramidis &NE
»Creature PNL (CA)«

Dejan Dukic

Dejan Dukic
»I still believe in Paradise«

Exhibitions

WRAP UP Winter Salon

WRAP UP Winter Salon

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