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In the Studio Robin Kid, Rambouillet, France

Robin Kid works with images that feel less made than encountered. Cowboys, cops, fragments of cartoon Americana: images that existed long before he picked them up, suspended somewhere between memory and mass culture. Raised in the south of the Netherlands by his grandparents, in a former mining neighbourhood bordering an American army base, he grew up with the idea of the U.S. glowing faintly from the other side of the fence.

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In the Studio Megan Plunkett, Los Angeles, CA

American artist Megan Plunkett turns away from depicting people, instead focusing on everyday objects. Drawn from consumer culture, and the film industry, her carefully constructed photographic series cultivate a sense of estrangement within things that might otherwise feel familiar.

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In the Studio Elisabeth von Samsonow, Vienna/Lower Austria

Elisabeth von Samsonow is a philosopher, artist, author and emeritus professor of Philosophical and Historical Anthropology at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In her work she brings together art, ecological concerns and feminist theory.

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Collector Stories Henrik Kanekrans, Stockholm

Having been exposed to art already as a child, it had always felt natural to Henrik Kanekrans, a young collector and entrepreneur from Stockholm, to make art an everyday part of his live. With his venture, called Artworks, Henrik has combined his passion for art and his business acumen to help art passionates such as himself navigate the jungle of internationally available art.

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Asger Dybvad Larsen, Aarhus
Young Danish artist Asger Dybvad Larsen has found himself absorbed in a space of reflection from an early age. Looking inward and reflecting on the process of coming into being has become a defining element in his art. In this interview, Asger Dybvad Larsen contemplates his own practice and how it leads him to challenge the way he works with colour, form, scale and not least the process itself - a constant inconstant in his art and in his life!
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