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SELECTED ARTISTS: 

MARIELE BERGMANN-de 

LELAND BOBBE-us 

CHIARA DYNYS-it 

HELGA FRANZ-de 

LEA GOLDA HOLTERMAN-il 

TUIJA HELENA MARKONSALO-fi 

HANNAKAISA OKSANEN-fi 

ALESSANDRO SAU-it 

GERARD ´ 

STRICHER-fr 

RICHARD TIPPING- au 

YONATAN ULLMAN-il 

JAMES WATTS-au 

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MARIELE BERGMANN -DE 

born 1946 in Lüneburg/Germany 

1966-1968 study medicine in Bonn 

1969 daughter Maja 

1968-1973 study psychology in Hamburg 

1974 son Dirk 

1973-1992 working as therapist 

1991 study UdK Berlin 

1992 -1997 study art college in Berlin 

seit 1997 free working 

Exhibitions 

2011 Peace Price 2011 Stift Klosterneuburg / 

Vienna 

2011 Gallery Kunstleben-Berlin 

2011 Gallery Klosterneuburg / Vienna 

2010 Invited Competition, art and building, Berlin 

2010 Contemporary Art Gallery Amsterdam, 

2009 Quartiersbüro Berlin, art and children 

2008 Gallery Alte Post, Berlin, Kunstprojekt mit 

Kindern 

2007 Gallery Tsoubris / Athens 



2006 Gallery Cornelius Herz / Bremen 

2003 show-room / Berlin 

2003 Gallery Kunstkreuz / Berlin 

2003 Gallery Forum Seestraße / Berlin 

2001 Gallery Goldküste / Berlin 

2001 Gallery Kulturbrauerei / Berlin 

2001 Gallery am Buttermarkt, Cologne 

2000 Gallery Velvet / Athens 

1999 Gallery Statthaus Böcklerpark / Berlin 

1997 Gallery Forum Seestraße / Berlin 

1996 Gallery Bruchhausen-Vielsen / Bremen

MARIELE BERGMANN -DE 

Title: Ballast of the past, 1998 

Three women are sitting on pallets of wood, standardized 

for trade. they represent the generation of the war with 

all morals and ideals, they represent the inequality 

between men and women of this time, born to bear 

human labour. Today they are traded as a product, a 

ballast from the past, which costs too much money for 

the new generation, which must get more and more 

inexpensive 

Technique: gips, wachs, haar, europalette 

size: 200 x 120 x 115 


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LELAND BOBBE - US 

SHOWS 

One Person 

2011 Museum of Sex, The Nudie Artist: Burlesque 

Revived 

1997 Ogilvy & Mather Direct New York, NY 

1995 Richard Greene Gallery Guilford, CT 

1994 Grey Advertising New York, NY 

1994 Leo Burnett Company Chicago, IL 

1994 Lintas New York, NY 

1994 Soho Photo Gallery New York, NY 

1986 William Esty New York, NY 

1985 Zippers Gallery New York, New York, NY 

Group 

2010 Project 30, The Sex Show Volume 5 “Neo- 

Burlesque” 

2009 Farmani Gallery Brooklyn, NY, Xto Nude Image 

Award Winners 

2009 Project 30, The Sex Show Volume 4 “Neo- 

Burlesque” 

2009 Project 30, Unreal Show 

2009 Project 30 Melancholy Show 



2006 Center For Photography at Woodstock “Our Link 

With The Past” 

2002 Photo District Gallery New York, NY “Beyond The 

Shadows” 

1999 Colorite “The Gallery” New York, NY 

1996 The STAGE Gallery Merrick, NY “Photography 

Plus” 

1996 Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences Staten 

Island, New York Biennial Juried 

Art Exhibition 

1996 Agora Gallery New York, NY Soho Art-Quest 

Contest Winners 

1996 Ceres Gallery New York, NY National Juried 

Show “Beyond Tradition-Embracing Diversity” Curated 

by Thelma Golden, Associate Curator The Whitney 

Museum of Art 

1996 Greene County Council On The Arts Catskill, NY 

“Witness to The Cycle of Life” 

1996 The Visual Club New York, NY “Photographs Only 

Awards Show” 

1996 Agora Gallery New York, NY “Through The Lens” 

1996 Hopper House Art Center Nyack, NY “Faces” 

1995 Café Bondi New York, NY APNY Awards Show 

1995 Walden House San Francisco, CA 

1995 The Visual Club, New York, NY 

1995 Workbook Gallery, New York, NY 

1995 Agora Gallery New York, NY “Soho International 

Art Competition Winners” 

1994 Synchronicity Space New York, NY “Juried 

Selection From The “Fourth Annual 

1994 Synchronicity Space New York, NY “Fourth 

Annual Juried Exhibition” 

1991 Nikon House New York, NY “New York: A 

Photographic Mosaic” 

1985 Zippers Gallery New York, NY “Mixed Mediums” 

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS 

Center for Photography at Woodstock 

PUBLISHED WORK 

2011 The Graphis Photography Annual 100 Best 

2010 The Graphis Photography Annual 

2002 Creativity 31 The Creativity Annual 

2001 The 2001 Design Annual/American Graphic 

Design Awards 

1998 Photo District News, Photo/Design Awards 

Supplement 

1998 Photo District News, Agfa Scala Film Photo 

Awards 

1996 Creativity 26 The Creativity Annual 

1996 Photo District New,s Photo/Design Awards 

Supplement 

1995 Communication Arts, Design Annual 36 

1995 Art Direction Magazine 

1994 Photo District News “Technically Speaking” 

1988 Studio Photography 

1987 Advertising Techniques 

1983 Popular Photography Magazine, “Stormy 

Weather” 

1982 Petersen’s Photographic 

1982 Today’s Photographer 

1981 Camera 35 

AWARDS 

2011 International Loupe Awards, Neo-Burlesque 

2011 One Life Photography Competition 

2011 International Color Awards, Photography Masters 

Cup, Portraits 

2011 World Photography Gala Aawards B&W 

Competition 

2011 Px3 Prix de la Photographie Official Selection 

2011 Creative Quarterly 22 

2011 Graphis 100 Best in Photography Gold Award 

2010 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Peoples 

Choice 1st Place, Neo-Burlesque 2010 

2010 ASMP Image ‘10 Award 

2010 American Photography 26 Annual Competition 

2010 Xto Nude Image Awards, Boolk Proposal, Neo- 

Burlesque 

2010 5th Annuall Black and White Spider Awards, 

Honor of Distinction 

2010 Artrom Gallery Top[ Ten Split Second Impulse 

Competition 

2010 5th Annual Black and White Spider Award, Honor 

of Distinction 

2010 Graphis Photography Annual Gold Award 2010 

2009 International Aperture Award, People and Portrait 

2009 Double Exposure Photographic & Digital Imaging


Award 

2009 Xto Nude Image Awards, Body Art 

2008 International Color Awards Photography Masters 

Cup, Abstracts 

2006 London Photographic Award About Face 2 Portrait 

Competition 

2005 London Photographic Award Urbanscape With 

Figures 

2005 Creativity 34 Award of Distinction 

2003 PDN Pix Digital Imaging Award, Website 

2002 The Association of Educational Publishers/ 

Distinguished Achievement Award 


2001 Graphic Design: USA American Graphic Design 

Award 

1998 Photo/Design Competition “Gold Award” 

1997 Soho International Art Competition, Award of 

Excellence 

1998 Agfa Scala Film Photo Awards 

Contest,Conceptual 


1996 Staten Island Biennial Juried Art Exhibition Award 



of Merit 


Award 

1996 The Visual Club Photography Only Awards Show 

“Silver Award Best of Show” 

1996 Photo/Design Competition “Silver Award” 

1995 Rx Club “Award of Excellence” 


Award 

1995 Advertising Photographers of New York Award & 

Exhibition 

1995 The Visual Club Publication Cover Show “Award 

of Excellence” 

1984 Art Direction Magazine, “Creative Excellence 

Award” 

TEACHING & LECTURES 

2008 Photo Plus Expo New York, NY 

2005 Camera Club of New York, NY 

2004 Photo Plus Expo New York, NY 

1996 Parsons School of Design New York, NY 

1991 ASMP New York, NY 

1986 Roosevelt Island Camera Club, New York, NY 

1985 Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY


Title: FIfi, 2012 

Half-Drag Artist Statement 

These images are part of an ongoing series of portraits 

of Drag Queens in half drag. With this series my 

intention is to capture both the male and the alter-ego 

female side of these subjects in one image. Through 

the power of hair and makeup these men are able to 

completely transform themselves and find their female 

side. These are composed in camera and are not two 

separate images joined together. 

from an ongoing series of portraits of drag queens shot 

as half male and half female 

technique: phorography 

size: 16x24 




Title: Roxy, 2012 

Half-Drag Artist Statement 

These images are part of an ongoing series of portraits 

of Drag Queens in half drag. With this series my 

intention is to capture both the male and the alter-ego 

female side of these subjects in one image. Through 

the power of hair and makeup these men are able to 

completely transform themselves and find their female 

side. These are composed in camera and are not two 

separate images joined together. 

technique: photography 

size: 16x24 



CHIARA DYNYS - IT 

Chiara Dynys was born in Mantua. 

She rejects every concept of style and school, to freely 

express her reflection on the contemporary world, 

speaking through the language of art. Initially, in the late 

80s, she devoted herself to figurative painting made 

material and chromatic by the use of the sand, which 

quickly evolves into three-dimensional geometric forms 

of mathematical order. She uses different materials like 

resins, wax, pigments, marble, alabaster, silk, velvet, 

ceramic, crystal, with which she generates steps and 

changes of light and color. His creations appear in 

search of spaces to be filled. She expresses allusions 

kept secret to the language, focusing the intellectual 

reflection on the rituals of the society, following her own 

intuitions. 

The progressive increase in the size of installations 

from the ‘90s and the importance of light, element 

that is indissolubly linked to the vision, change the 

perception of space, engaging emotionally the viewer 

in artistic creation. The contact with the observer 

is essential, so that these often turns into an actor 

projected in the space of creation. The works of Chiara 



Dynys become more site specific and, one might 

say, aredeveloped in the perception of users that, 

crossing them, find themselves “different” and altered, 

rediscovering the feeling of their presence. 

“I often used the word passages to talk about my work. 

In fact what is common to all my work is the sense of 

the crossing.” (Chiara Dynys) 

The most important personal exhibitions of Chiara 

Dynys are: 

Centre d’Art Contemporain in Genève (1996), 

Centre d’Exposition Expression in Saint-Hyacinthe 

(Canada 1997) , 

Museo Cantonale-Ala Est in Lugano (2001), 

Museum Bochum (2003), 

Kunstmuseum, Bonn (2004), 

Wolfsberg Executive Development Centre in Wolfsberg 

(2005), 

Rotonda della Besana in Milano (2007), 

Franz Gertsch Museum in Burgdorf (2007), 

Museo Bilotti - Aranciera di Villa Borghese in Roma 

(2008), 

Palazzo Reale in Milano (2008), 

ZKM-Museum für Neue Kunst in Karlsruhe (2009), 

Archivio Centrale dello Stato in Rome (2010), 

Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea in Foligno (2010), 

Italian Embassy in Damascus-Syria (2011). 

The most important group exhibitions are: 

PAC in Milano (1989), 

Palacio Del Marqués De La Scala in Valencia (1990), 

Musée d’Art Moderne Saint-Etienne (1992), 

Centre International d’Art Contemporain Montréal 

(1994), 

Palazzo della Ragione in Mantova (2000), 

Scuderie Papali in Quirinale and Mercati di Traiano in 

Roma (2001), 

Von der Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal (2002), 

Stadgalerie in Klangerfurt (2003), 

Institut Mathildenhöhe in Damstad (2003), 

Galleria 

Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Roma (2005), 

Mart Rovereto e Trento ( 2005 and 2011 ), 

Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro in Milano (2005 and 

2010), 

ZKM-Museum für Neue Kunst in Karlsruhe (2009, 2011 

and 2012), 

La Triennale in Milano (2007), 

Villa Panza Collection in Varese (2009), 

Fondazione Oreistaidi in Gibellina (2010), 

Camera dei Deputati in the Italian Parliament-Rome 

(2011), 

Museo 900, Milano (2012), 

Museo Pecci, Milano (2012). 

Chiara Dynys artworks are in many private and public 

collection, like Civiche Raccolte d’Arte, Milano, MART, 

Rovereto, VAF Stiftung, Frankfurt, UBS, Milan, Manno, 

Zurich, Collection Museo Cantonale, Lugano, Collection 

Kunstasammlung, Weimar, ATEL Energia, Milan, ZKM, 

Karlsruhe, Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese, Accademia 

di Architettura-Casa dello Studente, Mendrisio, 

Terna Energia, Rome, Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno 

Foundation, Mobimo AG Zurich. 

The next exhibition are: 

• Lugano, Museo Cantonale, Una Finestra sul Mondo/ A 

Window on the World , 16 September 2012 - 6 January 

2013, group exhibition, twenty art works entitled “Clean 

Your Eyes”. 

• Catanzaro, Fondazione Rocco Guglielmo, “Right to 

Play”, March 2013, personal exhibition. 

• ZKM-Museum für Neue Kunst in Karlsruhe, 2013, 

personal exhibition.


Title:False Perspective, 2012 

The work entitled “False Perspective” recreate the 

illusion of perspective. The work are made of glass, 

wood and colour and study the perspective effect of 

varying colour 

technique: wood frame, plaxiglass shanghai, led 

size: 80 x 67 x 31 cm 




Title:False Perspective, 2012 

The work entitled “False Perspective” recreate the 

illusion of perspective. The work are made of glass, 

wood and colour and study the perspective effect of 

varying colour. 

technique: wood frame, plaxiglass shanghai, led 

size: 80 x 67 x 31 cm 



HELGA FRANZ -DE 

Helga Franz. Vita 2012 

artist, installations, light, kinetics, photography, artistic 

research, concepts 

lives in Berlin 

Franz art shows a profound immanence with diciplines 

of natural sciences and tecnical appearence. Since 

25 years she investigates about an interpretation 

of real and mental fourdimensioness by artistic 

means. Her work includes permanent and ephemeral 

installations, objects, series of photographies, and 

concepts. She realized free artistic works as well 

as works in cooperation with Berlin cultural and 

environmental governmental institutions, and works due 

to competitions for art in urban spaces. Her projects 

between aspects of art, science, ecology, and utopia, 

she realizes on different continents, for example in 

Central- and South America, Japan, Namibia, and Java. 

Concerning life’s dependency on gravity – a factor of 

high interest in planning and design of recidencies in 

space – since ten years her artistic research includes 



the reactions of living plants on changing conditions of 

gravity. Franz’ workcicle ‚Wahrnehmungsdialoge auf der 

Suche nach Leben‘ (percepting dialogues in search of 

life) deals with features of flora and fauna, and refere to 

human social and urban analogies. 

Since the late 1980s Franz conceives the workcycle 

„Kristalline Ereignisse“, installations with chemicals in 

crystallization process, modifying light. Over periods 

of time between days and/or years those works show 

relations between time and space in a receptional form 

of fourdimensioness. As a pilot and artist she creates 

stereo-photographies of for example the namibian 

desert, one of the eldest landscapes on earth. As well, 

her airial photographical investigations of german urban 

and nonurban situations deal with historical, geological, 

and climatological aspects. 

For her artistic work Franz received numerous awards 

and prizes, as Senat für Wissenschaft, Forschung 

und Kultur von Berlin, Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung 

Berlin, der Stiftung Kulturfonds, Council for the Arts 

des Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.I.T., 

Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes. She was 

Berlin candidate for Villa 

Massimo and invited artist to Botho-Graef-Kunstpreis 

of the city of Jena: Light. In competitions for art 

in architecture and in urban spaces she receives 

numerous first and second prizes. 

Helga Franz 

Installationen, Licht, Kinetik, Fotografie, künstlerische 

Forschung, Konzepte 

lebt in Berlin 

Die Kunst von Helga Franz zeichnet sich durch 

grundlegende Immanenz mit naturwissenschaftlichen 

Disziplinen und Ökologie aus. Visuelle und virtuelle 

Konzepte entwickelt sie auf Basis der künstlerischen 

Untersuchungen von Lebensräumen und Prozessen, 

um „Annäherungen“ und „Selbstortungen“ in der (realen 

und ideellen) Vierdimensionalität zu vollziehen, die 

eine Voraussetzung für kreative Projektierungen und 

Utopien bilden. Ihre Forschung zu Interpretationen 

raum-zeitlicher Bewegung und Dimension, 

Geschwindigkeit und Wahrnehmungsmethodik 

schließt den Menschen, das Selbst, ein. Als 

Bestandteil gesellschaftlicher Lebenswelten wird 

er (es) im Sinne künstlerischer Kommunikation in 

Wahrnehmungsdialoge gelockt. Ihre ‚Annäherungen‘ 

formuliert sie in permanenten und ephemeren 

Installationen, Objekten, Fotoreihen und Konzepten. 

Zu realisierten Projekten zählen neben freien Arbeiten 

Kooperationen mit Berliner Kultur- und Umweltämtern 

sowie zahlreiche Wettbewerbe für Kunst im öffentlichen 

Raum. Projekte mit übergreifenden Thematiken 

zwischen Kunst, Ökologie und Utopie führt sie auf 

verschiedenen Kontinenten durch, unter anderem in 

Mittel- und Südamerika, Japan, Namibia und Java. 

Als Pilotin und Fotografin erstellt sie in Zusammenarbeit 

mit Geologen mittels Senkrecht- und Stereofotografie 

im Flug fotografische Dokumentationen der 

Veränderung geologischer Formationen unter dem 

rhythmischen Einfluss von An- und Abwesenheiten 

von Wasser in Namibia als einer der ältesten 

Landschaften der Erde. Auch ihre flugfotografischen 

Untersuchungen inner- und außerurbaner Situationen 

in Deutschland weisen auf historische wie geologische 

Dimensionen und klimatologische Fragen hin und 

werden als kontinuierliche Projekte über mehrere Jahre 

durchgeführt. 

Franz‘ transdisziplinären Kooperationen im Umwelt- 

und Naturschutz zählen Projekte für Wasserkunst, 

die als ortsbezogene Installationen im städtischen 

Außenraum, unter künstlerischer und ökologischer 

Maßgabe naturwissenschaftliche und technische 

Aspekte verbinden. Ihre zum Teil kinetischen 

Projekte für Lichtkunst sind Gestaltungen im 

spezifischen Kontext (halb-)öffentlicher Räume unter 

Gesichtspunkten der kreativen Zusammenführung von 

architektonischen und künstlerischen Aspekten mit 

Anforderungen durch die jeweiligen Nutzer.

HELGA FRANZ - DE 

Ausgehend von Fragen unseres Überlebens und 

der Konzeption von Aufenthalten im Weltraum 

sowie der Erkenntnis, dass Leben auch von der 

Schwerkraft abhängig ist, erforscht sie seit zehn 

Jahren mit künstlerischen Mitteln Leben in der 

Schwerelosigkeit bzw. unter veränderten Bedingungen 

der Schwerkraft. Dazu setzt sie Versuchsreihen zum 

Themenkomplex ‚Wachstum, Zyklen, Prozesse‘ mit 

Besonderheiten der Flora und Fauna auf, die zugleich 

auf soziale und urbane Analogien verweisen. Ihre 

‚Wahrnehmungsdialoge auf der Suche nach Leben‘ 

gehen von 3D-Scans realer Tierpräparate aus. So 

kontrastierte die Rauminstallation ‚Wasserleben‘ bei 

‚Leben forschen. Ästhetische Annäherungen‘, in Berlin 

2011, 3D-Animationen mit präparierten Körpern. 

Seit Ende der 80er Jahre konzipiert Helga Franz 

den Werkzyklus „Kristalline Ereignisse“. Die 

Installationen mit Chemikalien zwischen kristallinem 

Wachstum und Zerfall modifizieren einfallendes Licht 

mittels kristallisierender Substanzen und zeigen 

über Zeiträume zwischen mehreren Wochen und 



Jahren Beziehungen von Zeit und Raum als konkret 

wahrnehmbare Vierdimensionalität. 

Für ihre künstlerische Arbeit erhielt Franz eine Reihe 

von Auszeichnungen, unter anderem vom Senat 

für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur von Berlin, 

dem Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung Berlin, der 

Stiftung Kulturfonds, dem Council for the Arts des 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.I.T. und des 

Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes. Sie war 

Berlin-Kandidatin für Villa Massimo und eingeladene 

Künstlerin zum Botho-Graef-Kunstpreis der Stadt Jena: 

Licht. Bei Wettbewerben für Kunst am Bau und Kunst 

im öffentlichen Raum erhielt sie zahlreiche erste und 

zweite Preise. 

Franz baute 1993 bis 2001 als Lehrkraft für besondere 

Aufgaben am Institut für Kunstpädagogik der 

Universität Leipzig das Fach Plastik/Objekte auf und 

bildete Studierende im Grund- und Hauptstudium aus. 

Sie führte Weiterbildungen für Lehrkräfte und inner- 

und außeruniversitäre fakultative Angebote im In- und 

Ausland durch. Seit 1993 hält sie Vorträge zu Fragen 

der bildenden Kunst und ihrer Vermittlung, u.a.: Das 

Temporäre in der Permanenz, Akademie der bildenden 

Künste Berlin 2002, Einflüsse der Gegenwartskunst 

auf die Landschaftsarchitektur, Fachhochschule 

Weihenstefan 2001. 

Seit 1999 ist sie Jurorin für Wettbewerbe und beteiligt 

an Verfahrensvorbereitungen für Ausschreibungen 

„Kunst am Bau“. Sie hält eine Reihe von Ämtern und 

Mitgliedschaften, u.a. Mitglied Sculpture Network 

seit 2012, Vorsitz der Werkstattkommission des 

Berufsverbandes Bildender Künstler Berlin 2009–11, 

Mitglied des Deutschen Künstlerbundes seit 2008, 

Vorstandsmitglied des Berufsverbandes Bildender 

Künstler Berlin 2007–09, Mitglied der Kommission für 

Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Pankow-Prenzlauer Berg 

2001–2007 und des Künstlerischen Beirates, Büro für 

Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Berufsverband Bildender 

Künstler Berlin 1999–06. 

Franz studierte von 1980 bis 1986 Malerei, Grafik 

und Bildhauerei an der Akademie der Bildenden 

Künste Karlsruhe und der Hochschule für Bildende 

Künste Hamburg. Von 1987 bis 1988 studierte sie 

Experimentación Plástica an der Universidad Nacional 

Autónoma de México U.N.A.M., Mexico-City und 

schloss 1989–90 ein Postgraduiertenstudium in den 

Fächern Advanced Visual Design, Environmental 

Art und Space Habitat Design am Department of 

Architecture und am Center for Advanced Visual 

Studies C.A.V.S. des Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology M.I.T., Cambridge, USA, an. 2002 bis 2003 

studierte sie Digitale Medien und Architekturvisualisier 

ung an der Akademie für Digitale Medien Berlin


Title: Double Rotator, 2011 

Concerning likfe’s dependency on gravity - a factor of 

high interest in planning and design of recidencies in 

space - growing plants are being rotated to influence 

gravity and therewith growth. 

technique:electrical rotator, earth, plants 

size:120x100x30cm 




Title: Crystal Events. Velocities, 1997 

Glass bowl with liquids in ongoing crystalization prozess, 

light defraction. Since the late 1980s Franz conceives 

the workcycle „Kristalline Ereignisse“, installations with 

chemicals in crystallization process. 

technique:plexiglass, liquid, light 

size:100cm diameter 



LEA GOLDA HOLTERMAN - IL 

Born in Haifa, Israel 1976 

Lives and works in Tel-Aviv and Berlin 

Education 

2003 – 2008 B.F.A 

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design 

Graduated with Honor and Excellency. 

Work 

Haaretz Magazine - Private column photography and 

writing 

L’uomo Vouge 

Awards 

2011 Nominated Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 

2010 Nominated Der Merck-Preis 

2010 1st Prize, Arle Photography Festival 

2010 1st Prize, IPA Photography 

2009 Hasselblad Award Best 100 Photographers 

2007 Sharet Foundation 

2007 IPA award 

2006 Honor Bezalel Academy of Art and Design 



Selected Solo Exhibitions 

2012 Fred Gallery, London (future) 

2011 orthodox eros brussle 

2011 orthodox eros Lithuinia 

2010 Orthodox Eros, Arle Photography Festival, France 

2010 Chapter one, Ramat Gan Museum, Israel 

2009 Orthodox Eros, Dada Post gallery, Berlin, 

Germany 

2009 Exile Coker college, Art Department, Hartsville, 

U.S.A 

2008 D&A Gallery, Israel 

2007 Tova Osman Gallery, Israel 

Selected Group Exhibitions 

2012 Grid Festival 

2012 No Fashion Please! Museum for the Arts, vienna 

2011 Boghossian Fundation, Brussle 

2011 Minitire Museum for Modern Art, Amsterdam 

2010 Museum of Photography, Darmstädter, Merck 

Prize (Nominated) 

2009 Museum of Tel Aviv, Photography group show, 

(curator: Nili Goren) 

2009 Haifa Museum of Art, History of Violence, (curator: 

Hadas Maor) 

2009 Hasselblad Photography Awared (10 Best 

Photographers for 2009) 

2008 IPA, Los Angeles, USA 

2007 The Open Museum of Photography, Tel-Hay, 

Israel


Title: Orthodox Youth, 2011 


size: 60X60 




Title:Orthodox Eros, Youth, 2011 


size: 60X60 



TUIJA HELENA MARKONSALO - FI 

Born 1969 in Mikkeli, Finland. 

Works and lives in Helsinki. Mother of 2 children. 

Member of Artists’ Association Muu ry, Helsingin 

taiteilijaseura and Kuvasto. 

Education : 

1999-2001 University of Art and Design UIAH / 

Master`s degree, Helsinki 

1993-1998 Lahti Polytechnic, Institute of Design, 

jewellery design, Lahti, Finland 

1990-1993 Vihti Arts and Crafts School, blacksmith 

department, Vihti, Finland 

Exchange student : 

2000 Royal College of Art, London 

1997 Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia 

1995 Guildhall University, London 

Upcoming exhibitions: 

- Tutkielmia Muutoksesta, gallery Rantakasarmi 

- Barcelona Showcase 2012, Barcelona, Spain 

- solo exhibition in Jangva gallery, Helsinki, Finland, 

- Tallinn Applied Art Triennial ; The Art of Collecting, 



- Amsterdam Showcase, 

Solo exhibitions: 

2010 Malmintalo gallery, Helsinki, Finland 

2010 Mikkeli Art Museum, Finland, 

2010 Updates, Napa Gallery, Helsinki, Finland 

2008 My Little Limbo, Napa Gallery, Helsinki 

2002 Gallery Krista Mikkola ( with Alvar Gullichsen ), 

Helsinki 

2000 A – Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia 

Selected group exhibitions and else : 

2012 - EUNIQUE arts and crafts, Karlsruhe, Germany 

2011 - Luukku Auki! Galleria Katariina, Helsinki 

- Sipuli, jewellery art from Finland, Saint-Petersburg 

institute, Russia 

- Finland in Cheongju International Craft Biennale, 

South Korea 

- Tarinamatot - Saga, Gallery Campus, Turku, Finland 

- Nord Art 2011, Budelsdorf, Germany 

- Body Wraps, Handwerksform Hannover, Germany 

- Art in Mind, The Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK 

2010 - Culture Gallery, digital showcase of 

contemporary artists from Finland 

- ArtHelsinki / O-galleria, Ornamo, Messukeskus, 

Helsinki 

- Huomenta Afrikka! Kunsthalle Helsinki 

- Nord Art 2010, Budelsdorf, Germany 

- Glimten i ögat, Katrineholm, Sweden 

- Finnish jewellery 1600 - 2009, Finchburg Art Museum, 

USA 

2009 - Art fair / Ornamo, Wanha Satama, Helsinki 

- Know How, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and 

Design, Tallinn, Estonia 

- Finnish jewellery 1600 - 2009, Design museum, 

Helsinki 

- 8 + 8, jewellery art from Finland and Sweden, 

Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Sweden 

- Miten niin kaukaa, Museum of cultures, Helsinki 

- Custom Toy Contest Vol.1 and Sketch it out, APW 

gallery, New York 

- Artist of the month, February -March 2009, Design 

Museum, Helsinki 

- 8 + 8, jewellery art from Finland and Sweden, - - - -- -- 

- Hanasaari Cultural Center, Espoo, Finland 

2008 - Symbols of Faith , CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, 

Holland 

- Symbols of Faith , Westergasfabric, Amsterdam 

- Nykytaidetta Arabiassa, Gallery Groovy Eldorado, 

Helsinki 

- TOP TEN, at-work gallery, London 

2007 - SIERAAD - jewellery fair, Amsterdam 

- NORD style- design fair, Berlin 

- Dark Rainbow Shop, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, 

Sweden 

2006 - SIERAAD – jewellery fair, Amsterdam 

- Be-a-queen, Taot n`Thea, Amsterdam 

- Behind the Mascara, Cable Factory, Helsinki 

2005 - Refuse, Trumann Gallery, London 

- Pocketsize, internet exhibition, Postpicasso, USA 

- Maker-Wearer-Wiever, Glasgow School of Art 

2004 - Sama Meri, Sama Intohimo, Kerava Art 

Museum, Finland 

- Pääkalloviikot, ROR Gallery, Helsinki 

- Gallery Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco 

- Jewellery With Purpose, Internet exhibition, 

Postpicasso, USA, honorary mentioning 

2003 - Koru 1, Lappeenranta, Finland 

- 3 x 5, Rostock, Germany 

- Simple Beads, Kyoto, Tokyo 

2002 - Holiday Exhibition, OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, 

USA 

- Simple Beads and Cultural Seeds, Plüschow, 

- Kühlungsborg, Güstrow, Schwerin, Germany 

- Finnish Jewellery 3, Porvoo, Finland, honorary 

mentioning 

2001 - ROR: UTOPIA, Kiasma Museum of 

Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, 

Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm 

Kontakt-Räume, Junger Schmuck, Rostock, Germany 

- 2 nd Nordic Jewellery Triennale, touring exhibition in 

Europe 

2000 - Terror 2000, Into gallery, Helsinki, Nordic House, 

Reykjavik 

- Youth Forum, Helsinki, Glasgow 

20 th Century Icons, @-work Gallery, London 

- Objects – Concepts, Museum of Applied Art, Helsinki 

- Inovacao, Design e Qualidade, Viseu, Portugal


2000 - A - Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia 

1999 - Inhorgenta Fair, Munich, Germany 

- Young Forum, Helsinki 

- Schmuck 99, Munich, Germany 

- Mind Seductions, Tallinn, Estonia 

1998 - Talente 98, Munich, Germany 

Grants: 

2011 Arts Council of Helsinki Metropolitan Region 

2011 Frame 

2010 Frame 

2010 Frame 

2009 Helsinki City Cultural Foundation 

2009 Ornamo 

2009 Swedish-Finnish Cultural Foundation 

2008 Arts Council of Finland 

2008 Arts Council of Helsinki Metropolitan Region 


2007 Frame 

2006 Finnish Cultural Foundation 

2002 Arts Council of Finland, one year working grant for 

2003 



2002 Schloss Plüschow artist residence, Germany 

2002 Villa Karo studio residence grant, Benin, Africa 


2001 City of Helsinki 

2000 University of Art and Design UIAH 


Works in collections: 

State Art collections 

private collections


Title: Case number 81128, 2010 

technique: sewing, made of old textile, beads, plastic 

hand, glove, safety pins. 

Size 115 x 75 x 10 cm and beads from finger to floor. 




Title: Inbox, 2010 

technique: collage with paper, stickers, small metal 

items, thread, framed, glass 

size: 70 x 34 x 3 cm 



HANNAKAISA OKSANEN - FI 

Born: 28.2.1973, Vaasa, Finland 

Art Studies: 

1994-1995 Studies in Institute of Fine Arts, Lahti 

Polytechnic, Finland 

2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) (Painting), Finnish 

Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland 

2008 Master of Fine Arts (MFA) (Painting), Finnish 

Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 

2002 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Helsinki, 

Finland 

2003 Resturant Motti, Helsinki, Finland 

2007 Gallery Just, Turku, Finland 

2010 Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland 

2012 Gallery Kajaste, Oulu, Finland 

2012 Gallery Luoto, Hailuoto, Finland 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 

1996 Institute of Fine Arts, Lahti, Finland 

1996 Search, Helsinki, Finland 



Woodhead wondering (detail), 2012 

Technique: wood and sewing (fotografer: Anni Rapinoja) 

1998 Ars Oy, Helsinki, Finland 

1998 “In the Air”, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, 

Helsinki, Finland 

1999 Borey Art Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia 

1999 Cable Factory Gallery, Helsinki, Finland 

2000 Christmas Exhibition, Gallery Forum Box, 

Helsinki, Finland 

2001 Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, Finnish 

Academy of Fine Arts Gallery Helsinki, Finland 


2004 Rauha Hospital, Joutseno, Finland 


2006 Sf. Gheorghe Art Museum, Sf. Gheorghe, 

Romania 

2007 Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland 

2007 Centrum of Art Ahjo, Joensuu, Finland 

2010 Tammisaari Book Fair, Tammisaari Library Gallery, 

Tammisaari, Finland 

COMING GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 

2012 Alla Luce de Nord, Venice, Italy 

2012 Get Down the Rabbit Hole Berlin, Germany 

2013 Hailuoto-biennaal 2013, Hailuoto, Finland 

2013 “Le genie de la bastille”, Leon ArtCentre, Leon, 

France 

2013 “Le genie de la bastille”, Paris ArtCentre, Paris, 

France 

GRANTS: 

1999 Oskar Öflund Foundation 

2000 Heikki ja Hilma Honkanen Foundation 

2002 Finnish art Society 

2003 Uusimaa regional Fund of The Finnish Cultural 

Foundation 

2003 Alfred Kordelin Foundation 

2004 Art Council of Finland 

2004 The Finnish Cultural Foundation 

2005 Uusimaa Regional Fund of The Finnish Cultural 

Foundation 

2006 Arts Council of Uusimaa 


2008 Paulo Foundation 


2010 Alfred Kordelin Foundation 

2010 Art Council of Finland 

2012 Art Council of Finland 

2012 The Finnish Cultural Foundation 

SCOLARSHIPS: 

2001 Kesko Scholarship 

2003 Artist in Residence, Marbella, Spain 

2006 Grönqvist Foundation Scholarship 

2006 Finnish- Hungarian- Romanian Artists´ 

Symposium, Romania 

2010 Antia Snelmann Foundation Scholarship 

MEMBERSHIPS: 

Finnish Painters’ Union 

Helsinki Artists’ Association 

Oulu Artists” Association 

PUBLIC ARTWORKS: 

Will be finished in 2012: Public Artwork: Roundabout, 

Vaasa, Finland 

ARTWORKS IN COLLECTIONS: 

Helsinki Art Museum Collections, Finland 

Ilona Anhava Collections, Helsinki, Finland 

Sf. Gheorghe Art Museum Collections, Sf. Gheorghe, 

Romania 

Finish Art Society Collections, Helsinki, Finland 

Private Collections inh Finland






Statement 

I am a 39 year old visual artist and I live and work on 

Hailuoto island in Finland. I was born in Vaasa, Finland. 

I have a Master’s degree in Fine Art and I have studied 

under the discipline of painting at Finnish Academy of 

Fine Arts in Helsinki. 

I sculpt, paint, and make light art. For sculpting material 

I use mainly wood, which I drill and sew into. The 

materials are both driftwood collected from the beaches 

on the islands and old wooden floorboards dismantled 

from various dwellings. I strive to use recyclable, natural 

materials in the process, such as wax soap tempera in 

my paintings. 

At the moment I am contemplating the concepts of time 

and transitoriness. My works are a sort of map, memorytraces 

of places or situations in which I have been. I have 

had or I still have a powerful, emotional and personal 

connection to those events, issues and memories. 

My most recent works explore the fragility of life, when 

the time comes to give something up and how that 

space will subsequently be filled by memories. I remove 

a piece from a work and sew it back again. Things are 

not as they were before, yet they still are. 

Hannakaisa Oksanen




Title: The small needle, 2010 

Technique: Wood 

size: 90x60x25 cm 






Title: Blockhead’s wandering, 2012 

Technique: Wood and sewing 

size: 60cm x 40cm x30cm 


GET DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE pag. 27

ALESSANDRO SAU - IT 

Date of birth: 09/10/1981 

Education 

2010 - 2012 MFA Transart Institute/University of 

Plymouth (MFA in Creative Practice based in Berlin) 

2005 - 2008 MA. Arti e Antropologia del Sacro. 

Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano, Milan, Italy. 

2001 - 2005 BA. Pittura. Accademia di Belle Arti di 

Roma, Rome, Italy. 

Collaborations 

September 2008 - June 2009 

Studio assistant for Attilio Maranzano (photographer) at 

InBit, Lohmuhlenstr. 65, 12435, Berlin. 

Awards 

2011 The Others (art fair), artist selected for Rolling 

Stone Award by Andrea Bruciati and 

Alessandro Facente (Carceri Le Nuove, Torino) 

2010 Transart Institute scholarship 

Group exhibitions 

2012 Openstudios Culturia, (Joao Cocteau, Berlin) 

2012 Transformers, curated by Miles Chalcraft and 



Anette Schäfer, (Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin) 

2012 VIDEODROMO REC, DOCVA, (Milano) 

2012 VIDEODROMO REC, Videodromo Atelier Arco 

Amoroso (Piazza del Plebiscito, Ancona) 

2011 The Others, art fair, (Carceri Le Nuove, Torino) 

2011 Tra Figurativo, Astratto e Nuova Figurazione, 

curated by Daniele Lastretti, Concettina Ghisu, 

Massimo Antonio Sanna (Museo dell’ Arciconfraternita 

dei Genovesi, Cagliari) 

2011 Insieme a te non ci sto più, curated by L. Corridori 

and C. Pinna (Villa Sulcis, Cagliari) 

2010 Gemine Muse: Strati Urbani, curated by 

Alessandra Menesini (Ex Palazzo di Città, Cagliari) 

Solo exhibitions 

2011 The Image as Origin, curated by Corrado Folinea 

(Museo Apparente, Napoli) 

2011 Storia dell’Occhio, curated by Daniele Lastretti, 

Concettina Ghisu and Massimo Antonio 

Sanna (Museo dell’Arciconfraternita dei Genovesi, 

Cagliari) 

2011 Nachleben, curated by underArtstudio and 

Concettina Ghisu (Studio Ricetto, Cagliari) 

Residences and Workshop 

2012 Berlin Island, art residency program for Sardinian 

artists at Culturia, Berlin. 

Bibliography 

Alessandra Menesini, L’arte del secolo breve: piccolo 

viaggio tra grandi collezioni, article, 

L’Unione Sarda, 27 December 2011; Concettina Ghisu, 

Massimo Antonio Sanna, Tra Figurativo, 

Astratto e Nuova Figurazione, catalogue, December 

2011; Marzia Marino, Arte, filosofia e teologia 

incontrano l’occhio: le metamorfosi di Sau, article, 

L’Unione Sarda, 15 October 2011; Concettina 

Ghisu, Nachleben, catalogue, June 2011; Concettina 

Ghisu, Massimo Antonio Sanna, Storia 

dell’Occhio, catalogue, October 2011; Alessandra 

Menesini, Strati Urbani, catalogue, Electa, May 

2010. 

STATEMENT 

My artwork takes a critical view of aesthetic issues in 

relation to anthropology. 

Most of my work is based on a dialectical technique 

of taking a set of visual premises and working with 

them until they are transformed. I am fascinated by the 

seductive power of the image, which I consider to be 

something that is always beyond our understanding. 

I am attracted by the process of construction and 

destruction of things, and this leads me to conceive of 

the image as always being in a state of becoming. Often, 

my work consists of multiple fragments of an idea: every 

work is a fragment, a relic of a process. I always attempt 

to make this fragment universal: the work should always 

embody the entire process. Most 

of my work relates in one way or another to philosophy, 

and I often write a brief essay to reflect on those concepts 

I feel to be fundamental to my art practice. I like to think 

of myself as a person who knows one thing — that he 

knows nothing. 

Alessandro Sau


Title:Mandala, 2012 

Erotism and death underlie the Disney images I created 

with the help of those snails which infest the cemetery of 

San Michele. Thus the images are modified and eaten 

by these pests. 

technique: tempera on paper, snails 

size: 33 x 33 cm 




Title: The Origin of Society, 2010 

“the symptom speaks through the mouth of flesh”:from 

this basic intuition I developed these particular series 

of sculptures where the body becomes flesh, the cave 

becomes origin and den. 

technique:clay 

size:20 x 10 x 10 cm 



GÉRARD STRICHER - FR 

Gerard Stricher was born in 1948 to a family of artists in 

Sarrebourg, France. As a child he was already dreaming 

of becoming a painter and drew prodigiously. Self-taught, 

he immersed in the café society of painters, attended 

gallery openings , and was encouraged by 

sales but ultimately decided to enter industry. He became 

a highly regarded international manager whose carcer 

and travels led him become a ‘’World Citizen ‘’. Widening 

his horizon, observing new people, different landscapes, 

and other realities, which gradually became stratified 

in his unconscious to reappear later in his painting. He 

acquired and old mill in the 

French Vexin, established his studio where he worked 

feverishly. His exhibition in 2007 in Paris at the Espace 

Commines, introduced him to collectors and galleries. In 

2010 the enthusiastic response of the patrons of Bartlow 

Gallery in Chicago launched his American career. In 2011 

they featured his work in a one man show at Art Chicago 

which led to his further representation in Indianapolis by 

Artbox Gallery. His work is the collection of Empire Bank 

in Springfield, Missouri, and the PepsiCola Foundation 

of New York and a few prestigious private collections 



including that of American Bob Bohlen. 

After représentation at Galerie Protée (Paris) he joined 

Galerie Schwab Beaubourg in Paris. 

Main solo exhibitions : 

.2007 -Espace Commines in Paris 

.2009 

- Gallery Swiss Art Space Lausanne (Suisse) 

- Carré du THV Le Havre 

- Gallery Rosanoff Nice 

.2010 

- Gallery Bartlow Chicago 

- Espace Commines Paris 

- For Art Gallery Lille 

.2011 

- Art Chicago with Gallery Bartlow 

Main group exhibitions : 

.2009 

-Salon des Realités Nouvelles 

.2010 

-Salon des Realités Nouvelles 

-For Art Gallery Lille 

-Lille Art Fair 

.2011 

-Galerie Daudet Toulouse 

-Galerie Protée Paris 

.2012/2013 (solo) 

-Galerie Shwab Beaubourg Paris 

-Espace des Bernardins Le Cannet 

-Bartlow Gallery Chicago 

Gérard stricherstatement 

My painting is abstract. I’minspired by nature and 

I’mpushingmy technique to get more and more texture 

on the canvaswhilekeepingtransparency.Thisgives the 

painting a third dimension and lighteningbecomeskeywh 

enlookingatmypaintings. My « signature » iscolorswitch 

I handelinstinctively. I workonlywithoil and spendquite a 

lot of time on each painting. I want to getdreams, happ 

inessintomypaintings. I stronglybelieve painting should 

help people to behappy.Myworkdoesn’tfollowanyfashion 

and I keepfocused on whatmy feelings are telling me. 

Gérard Stricher

GERARD STRICHER - FR 

Title: Untitle, 2012 

technique: Oil on canvas 

size: 146x114 cm 



GERARD STRICHER - FR 

Title: Untitle, 2012 

technique: Oil on canvas 

size: 146x114 cm 



RICHARD TIPPING - AU 

Born in 1949 in Adelaide, South Australia, Richard 

Tipping studied in humanities at Flinders University 

and later completed both a masters degree and a 

doctorate at the University of Technology Sydney. The 

doctoral thesis is titled: ‘Word Art Works: visual poetry 

and textual objects’. He is known as a widely published 

poet, and for his photography, as well as documentary 

films on writers. He has exhibited sculptures, prints and 

drawings in many exhibitions in Australia, and in the 

USA and Europe. For two decades he was a lecturer 

in communication and media arts at the University of 

Newcastle. He currently lives in Sydney. 

Richard Tipping’s poetry has been included 

in over thirty anthologies including: The New 

Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, edited 

by John Kinsella (2008), The Penguin Book of 

Modern Australian Poetry, edited by Phillip Mead 

and John Tranter and the New Oxford Book of 

Australian Verse, edited by Les Murray. 

Books 

Off the Page and Back Again (visual poems and 



sculptures), Writers Forum, London, 2010 

Subvert I Sing (visual poems and graphics), Red Fox 

Press, Ireland, 2008 

Notes towards Employment (poetry), Picaro Press, 

Warners Bay NSW, 2006 

Nearer by Far (poetry, hardback), University of 

Queensland Press, 1986 

Signs of Australia (photographs), Penguin Books 

Australia, 1982 

Domestic Hardcore (poetry), University of Queensland 

Press, 1975 

Soft Riots (poetry), University of Queensland Press, 

1972 

Small press books 

The Sydney Morning 1-IV (50 prints in four 

folios),Thorny Devil Press, Newcastle,1989-1994 

Five O’Clock Shadows (poetry), Thorny Devil Press, 

Newcastle, 1989 

Headlines to the Heart (poetry, with drawings by Maize 

Turner), Pothole Press, London, 1985 

Diverse Voice (visual poetry), The International Poetry 

Archive, Oxford, 1985 

Catalogues 

2012 Studio, Australian Galleries, Sydney 

2008 Only Emotion Endures, Australian Galleries, 

Sydney 

2007 Multiple Choice, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, 

NSW 

2005 Roadsigned (postcard pack), National Gallery of 

Australia, Canberra 

2002 Public Works, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, 

2002 

2002 City Rubbings, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, 

Sydney and Cologne 

1997 Hear the Art, The Eagle Gallery, London 

1996 Multiple Pleasures, Art Gallery of New South 

Wales, Sydney 

1980 Word Works 2, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne 

1980 Word Works, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 

Solo exhibitions: 

2012 Studio, Australian Galleries, Sydney (catalogue 

published) 

2009 Hearth, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 

2008 Only Emotion Endures, Australian Galleries, 

Sydney (catalogue published) 

2008 Subvert I Sing, Multiple Box Sydney 

2007 Multiple Choice, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, 

NSW (catalogue published) 

2007 Fresh Concrete, John Miller Gallery, Newcastle 

2007 Imagine Silence, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 

2004 Errrorism, Multiple Box Sydney 

2004 Art Signs and Word Sculptures, Banning + Low, 

Washington DC 

2004 Exit Strategy, The Studio, Sydney Opera House 

2003 Street Talk, Banning Gallery, New York 

2002 Public Works, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 

(catalogue published) 

2001 One Two Many, Multiple Box Sydney 

1998 Versions: Perversions, Subversions and Verse, 

Ubu Gallery, New York 

1997 Hear the Art, The Eagle Gallery, London 


1996 Multiple Pleasures, Art Gallery of New South 

Wales, Sydney (catalogue published) 

1994 Art Allergy (with Alex Selenitsch), Rhumbarellas 

Gallery, Melbourne 

1984 Between the Lines, United Artists Gallery, 

Melbourne 

1983 Fast Art, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney 

1983 Ideagraphics, Rosyln Oxley Gallery, Sydney 

1981 Inside Outside, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane 

1980 Word Works 2, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne 


1980 Word Works, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 


1978 The Everlasting Stone, Adelaide Festival Centre 

Gallery 

1973 Soft Riots (with Aleks Danko), Watters Gallery, 

Sydney 

1970 Uck (with Aleks Danko), Llewellyn Gallery, 

Adelaide


Editor 

The Word as Art, special issue of Artlink (Vol 27 No.1) 

2007 

The Friendly Street Poetry Reader, Adelaide University 

Press, 1977 

Mok magazine, 5 issues 1968-1969 

Grants and Awards: 

2002 Visual Arts/Craft Fund, Australia Council, 

publication grant 

1996 Visual Arts/Craft Fund, Australia Council, project 

grant 

1996 The Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery sculpture 

commission 

1996 The Roland Robinson Literary Award, Lake 

Macquarie, NSW 

1994 Scarp Magazine Visual Poetry Award, 

Wollongong 

1994 Arts Design Industry Award, NSW Ministry for 

the Arts 

1984-88 Archival Film Program, Australia Council, 

grants for film documentaries 



1984 Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, overseas 

studio residence (Milan) 

1984 Literature Board, Australia Council, overseas 

studio residence (Venice) 

1984 Art Gallery of NSW, Dyason Bequest (with Maise 

Turner) 

Collections: 

Australia: The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; 

the State Galleries of New South Wales, Victoria, South 

Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and the Northern 

Territory; the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; the 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Powerhouse 

Centre for the Live Arts, Brisbane; regional art galleries 

including Lake Macquarie, NSW; Lismore, NSW; 

Gold Coast, Qld; major libraries including the National 

Library, Canberra; the Mitchell Library, State Library of 

NSW; the State Library of Victoria; the State Library 

of Queensland; university library and art collections in 

NSW, Victoria, SA, ACT and Qld. 

International: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; 

The Deutsches Telekommunication Museum, Frankfurt; 

the Sackner Archive of Visual Concrete Poetry, Miami; 

the Beinecker Library, Yale University; Rare Books 

Collection, Buffalo University; the Getty Center for the 

History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles. 

Selected Commissions: 

2008 The Art Fence, Adelaide Showgrounds, 100 

metres long made of cast-alumium pickets 

2004 Sign Language, Riverside Theatres 

Parramatta, Sydney 

2001 Signed Signs, permanent installation of 

signworks for the precinct of the Powerhouse 

Centre for the Live Arts, Brisbane 

2000 Watermark, a 15m long steel sculpture 

(‘Flood’) for the Powerhouse Centre for the Live 

Arts, Brisbane 

1999 Art Lifts: Lifting Art, an installation in the two 

lifts of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 

the inaugural work of an ongoing artist series 

1999 Signs Signed, an installation of signworks in 

Salvatorplaz, Munich, as a part of Piazza: 

Language and Art, organised by Art Circolo with 

the Literaturhaus, Munich 

1998 Sounding Silence (Listen: Silent), a granite 

sculpture for Cataract Gorge, Launceston 

1997 Hear the Art, a 5m diameter lightwork on the 

facade of Australia House, London 

1996 Hear the Art (Earth Heart), a 22m diameter brick 

wordwork for the grounds of Lake Macquarie City Art 

Gallery, NSW 

1993 The Shouting Zone (Quiet), a large wall 

installation in Swanston Street, Melbourne, for the 

5th Australian Sculpture Triennial 

1993 Neoeon, an animated neon work for Monash 

University Art Gallery, Melbourne(permanent collection) 

1992 Smothered, a 3 metre animated neon work for 

the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (permanent 

collection) 

1992 Road Works, two 18 metre ’poem banners’ on 

a city bridge, for the 9 th Biennale of Sydney (director, 

Anthony Bond) 

1990 Shifting Ground, a large cloth ‘earthquake crack’ 

on the facade of the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney (with 

Caroline Jones) 

1988 Imaginaction, a cloth banner installation across 

the whole front of the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney (with 

Caroline Jones) 

1983 Southern Crossing Hobart, installation of a major 

lightwork on Mt Wellington’s ‘organpipe’ cliffs facing the 

city, for Anzart-in-Hobart 

1982 The Eternal Question, a circle of engraved 

granite blocks on the banks of the River Torrens, for the 

Adelaide Festival; acquired by the Art Gallery of 

South Australia – relocated to Light Square, 2003 

1982 Southern Crossing, installation of a major 

lightwork on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, for the 

Festival of Sydney and the Biennale of Sydney , in 

association with Clarke Perry Blackmore, architects 

Selected Group exhibitions: 

2011 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 

2011 The Silent Scream, Monash University 

2008 Correspondences: Mail Art in the C21st, Center 

for Books Arts, New York 

2007 Multiplicity: prints and multiples, Museum of


Contemporary Art, Sydney 

2006 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi - Sydney 

2006 Farmyard Challenge, Field Gallery, Newcastle 

2006 Who cares? Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney 


2004 HunterArt1: art tourist, at five Hunter Valley 

galleries (NSW), co-ordinated by Lake Macquarie City 

Art Gallery 

2003 The Contemporary Art Fair, Cologne, represented 

by Galerie Seippel 

2003-04 Art Australia, Germany - the Kunstraum, Sylt; 

Galerie Seippel, Cologne; and touring 

2003 The National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, 

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (also selected 

for tour to Macquarie Bank head offices) 


2002 Sculpture in the City, Martin Place, Sydney 

2002 Text Art Object (with Ruark Lewis & Jennifer 

Joseph), Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Cologne 

2002 Text Art Multiples, Multiple Box Sydney 

2001 Feedback: Total Text Meeting, Museumshop of 

the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin 



2000 Signed 2000, Maisenbacher Art Gallery, Trier, 

Germany 

1999 Word, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 



1998 Verve: Poetic Visuals and Visual Poetry, S.H. 

Ervin Gallery, Sydney 

1996-97 The Subverted Object, Ubu Gallery, New York 

1996-98 Artist Books, Artists’ Secrets, Goethe Institute, 

Sydney and touring 

1996-97 Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries and 

touring 

1995 Bi-annual Exhibition, Pacific Center for Book Arts, 

San Francisco 

1995-96 Fragile Object, Australian Embassy, 

Washington D.C. and touring 

1994 and 1995 The Fremantle Print Award 

1993-94 Fluxus and Beyond, Queensland Art Gallery, 

Brisbane 

1993-94 Lightworks, Museum of Contemporary Art, 

Sydney 

1993 Luminaries, illuminated art, Monash University 

Gallery, Melbourne 

1993 The Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, 

Melbourne 

1992-93 The 9th Biennale of Sydney, The Boundary 

Rider 

1992 The Trial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 

1991 Art Freeway, Newcastle artists at Jan Taylor 

Gallery, Sydney 

1991 Cross the Creek, The University of Newcastle 

1990 Shifting Ground, Newcastle artists at the Art 

Gallery of NSW 

1990 Lake Macquarie Gallery Art Prize Exhibition, NSW 

1990 Alice 125, Gryphon Gallery, University of 

Melbourne 

1989 Visual Poetics: Concrete Poetry and its Contexts, 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane 

1989 Words on Walls, Heide Park and Art Gallery, 

Melbourne 

1987 The Age of Collage, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney 

1987 The Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, 

Melbourne 

1986 International Concrete Poetry Archive, Oxford, at 

Wolfson College 

1986 Ex-Patriates or Exiles, Adelaide Festival Centre 

Gallery 

1985 The International Contemporary Art Fair, London 

1984 Artists in the Field, Darwin Museum and Art 

Gallery 

1983 Ideas on Ice, Experimental Art Foundation, 

Adelaide 

1983 Anzart-in-Hobart, Tasmania (Southern Crossing 

on Mt Wellington cliffs) 

1982 The Biennale of Sydney, and the Festival of 

Sydney 

1982 Recent Sculpture in South Australia, Art Gallery of 

SA, Adelaide 

1982 Artists for Aboriginal Land Rights, Sydney 

1982 The Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1932-82, Art Gallery 

of NSW 

1981 The First Australian Sculpture Triennial, 

Melbourne 

1981 See Hear: 7 Visual Poets, Niagra Lane Gallery, 

Melbourne 

1980 The Security Show, Ewing Paton Gallery, 

Melbourne University 

1978 ACT 1 Performance Art Festival, Canberra 

1975 Post Object Art in Australia and New Zealand, 

Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide 

Film and Video 

1984-86 documentary portraits of Australian writers 

including Roland Robinson, Les Murray, Peter Porter, 

Randolph Stowe, David Malouf, and Sumner Locke- 

Elliott 

1994-present documentary portraits of artists who make 

books including: Bob Cobbing (UK), Ronald King (UK), 

Warren Lehrer (USA), Ed Ruscha (USA), Christo and 

Jeanne-Claude (USA), Purgatory Pie Press (USA) and 

other in progress.


Title:Wrong Day with Chook, 2012 

Photograph by Richard Tipping of his sign, Wrong Day, 

in a surburban living room, with a rooster outside the 

window 

technique: photograph 

size: image 40 x 40 cm 




Title:No Understanding with Wedding Couple, 2012 

Photograph by Richard Tipping of his sign, No 

Understanding, installed in a city street, with a wedding 

couple - who kindly gave permission. 

technique: photograph 

size: image 30 x 40 cm 



YONATAN ULLMAN - IL 

Education: 

Sep 2008 - Jun 2010: MFA Fine Art, School of Visual 

Arts, New York, NY 

Sep - Dec 2006: Exchange semester, Carnegie Mellon 

University’s School of Art, 

Pittsburgh, Penn 

Oct 2004 - May 2008: BFA Fine Art, Bezalel the 

Academy for Art and Design, 

Jerusalem, Israel 

Exhibitions: 

Jun 2012: “Bikurim/Bichurim” @ Levinski library, 

Levinski garden, TLV, Israel 

May 2012: “Live to Tell” @ Fresh Paint Art Fair, 3 

Soshana Persiz st. TLV, Israel 

Sep 2011: “UP” @ The renewing business area, 33 Ort 

Israel st. Bat Yam, Israel 

Jul 2011: “B.O.S” @ 56 Bogart st. Brooklyn, NY 

Apr 2011: “Colored Cactus” @ Industry City, 255 36th 

st. Brooklyn, NY 

Feb 2011: “Sallon Stye show” @ Greenpoint gallery, 

390 McGuiness Ave. 



Brooklyn, NY 

Sep 2010: “Plus One” @ Perry Rubinstein, 527 West 

23rd street, New York, NY 

Jun 2010: “That’s just it” @ SVA gallery, 601 West 26th 

street, New York, NY 

Jan 2010: “Gremlins” @ Maribo Gallery, 201 South 

Maine st. Highstown, NJ 

Jan 2010: “Multiplex” @ SVA gallery, 601 West 26th 

street, New York, NY 

Collections: 

“S T Art collection”, 8 Ha’Tzedef Street. Jaffa, Israel 

“Mandel Foundation”, Mahon Megid 101 Hebron Blvd, 

Jerusalem, Israel 

“Bank Leumi Permanent Collection”, 9 A’had Ha’Am st. 

Tel Aviv, Israel 

“Rani Rahav collection”, 31 Shlomo Ha’Melech st. Tel 

Aviv, Israel 

Awards: 

Jun 2010: Excellence on behalf of the School of Visual 

Arts, New York 

Dec 2008: Excellence on behalf of the Fine Art 

department, Bezalel, the Academy 

for Art and Design, Jerusalem 

Dec 2008: Strauss prize for outstanding achievements 

on behalf of the History and 

Theory department, Bezalel, the Academy for Art and 

Design, Jerusalem 

Statement 

My art disrupts the intolerable movement of time to 

contemplate real life and its decay, violence, heroism 

and vulnerability. Would you care to slide down my 

rabbit’s hole? 

Yonatan Ullman


Title: Matter of time, 2012 

I pored hot liquid sap into a working analogue wall clock. 

As the sap cooled it solidified and stopped the clocks 

motion thus capturing the cock’s exact moment of 

transition between life and death. 

technique: sap and readymade analogue wall clock 

size: 33cm X 33cm 




Title: Bumster, 2011 

I became intrigued with the form of bones. I therefore 

went on Ebay and payed 1$ to some guy who was 

selling them. As the package arrived, I was pleased and 

appalled to welcome death to my studio. 

technique: Gessoed cow bones and scented wax in 

wood 

size: 30cm X 38cm 



JAMES WATTS - AU 

Education 2009 Bachelor of Fine Art – First Class 

Honours, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane. 

2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Queensland College Of Art, 

Brisbane. 

Solo Exhibitions 

2011 Hassell Architects, Brisbane. 

2010 Gayden Lawyers, Brisbane 

1997 A Conscious Existence - Motions in Form, 

The Three Legged Dog Gallery, Sydney. 

Group Exhibitions 2012 Artcycle 2012, The Incinerator 

Gallery, Victoria. 

2012 Moreton Bay region art awards, Brisbane. 

2011 Local velocity, Brisbane Institute of Art. 

2011 Woolloongabba art gallery, Brisbane. 

2011 Jugglers artspace, Brisbane. 

2011 Moreton Bay region art awards, Brisbane. 

2010 Small Works Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, 

Fitzroy, Melbourne. 

2010 Construction of Situations, Bari Festival, Brisbane 

Gas Works, Newstead. 

2010 Fall Out, Art Factory Gallery, South Brisbane. 




2010 Awkward, The Wandering Room, South Brisbane. 

2010 The Art of Wood, Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Bribie 

Island Regional Gallery, Qld. 

2009 The Gas Graduate Show and Espresso Garage 

Awards. 

Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane. 

2009 Wherever you go, there you are, Fine Art & 

Photography 

Honours Exhibition, Queensland College of Art. 

2009 Intra-space, Queensland College of Art Honours 

sculpture, Project Gallery, Brisbane. 

2009 Sucker Punch, Flipbook Gallery, Westend, 

Brisbane. 

2009 Off the Blocks, Queensland College of Art 

Honours, Project Gallery, Brisbane. 


2009 Carnivale Collaborata, Woodford Folk Festival, 

Qld. 

2008 The Gas, Graduate Art Show, Dell Gallery, 

Queensland College of Art. 

2008 Untitled, Griffith University Studio Graduating 

Exhibition, Queensland College of Art. 

2008 Sculpture 3, Project Gallery, Queensland College 

of Art. 

2008 Open Day Exhibition, White Box Gallery, 

Queensland College of Art. 

2007 MacroMicro, College Gallery, Southbank, 

Brisbane. 

Awards and Scholarships 2009 Griffith University Award 

for Academic Excellence. 

2008 Griffith University Award for Academic Excellence. 

2008 Flipbook Gallery Professional Development 

Award. 

2008 eX de Medici and Griffith Artworks Award. 

2007 Griffith University Award for Academic Excellence. 

1984 Queensland Art Gallery art award scholarship. 

Commissions 2010 Private commission, Newstead 

apartments, Brisbane. 

Publications 

2010 Eyeline Contemporary Arts Magazine, No: 72. 

2009 Art Monthly, March edition. 

2009 The GAS Art Show, Griffith University. 

2008 Carnival Collaborata, Griffith University. 

Statement 

As a sculptor I am interested in the convergence of 

everyday found materials and communication through 

the construction process. The materials I select for 

my work are collected from the streets of Brisbane 

suburbs in Australia where they have been discarded 

from domestic or renovation sites and industrial areas. 

I am attracted to and utilise materials that contain 

painterly and worn characteristics as a way of not only 

translating painting and drawing into physical space but 

evoking a sense of time and place. The work itself is 

created spontaneously depending on the materials and 

objects found at the time. The materials are intuitively 

orchestrated to encapsulate meaning that is drawn from 

everyday life. 

Through the preservation of these discarded materials 

the works become an embodiment of those who have 

lived alongside these remnants. The inscribed 

gestures and composition of diverse materials give 

tangible form to intimate experiences and memories. 

The scratches, cracks and marks also create a 

historical landscape that travel beyond the surface into 

a bodily interiority that transcends the physical into 

another time and place. 

James Watts


Title: Ashgrove to Geebung, 2011 

technique: Assemblage laminate, ply, wardrobe and 

veneer. 

size: 42 x 38 x 6cm 




Title: Woolloongabba to Elimbah, 2011 

technique: Assemblage laminate, ply, veneer and 

timber. 

size: 40 x 20 x 5cm

Mommsenstrasse, 27-berlin 2012 project berlin - Factory-Art

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