Artists 2023 – khmessen

March 2023

Adi T. Hoffman – Israel – painting

www.adihoffman.com
Adi graduated from the San Francisco Studio School of Drawing, Painting, Photography & Mixed Media in San Francisco California. From 2007-2008 she studied at the Hatahana Studio for Figurative Arts. Tel-Aviv Israel. Master Class: Aram Gershuni; Ran Tenenbaum.

Irit Abramovic – Israel – photography, video

Irit is photographing since childhood and worked in darkrooms years before Lightroom was launched. Nature beauty and what the light does to it is her main inspiration. As glider pilot she was watching earth from above for years, until drone era emerged and enables me to capture and share the beauty of the birds’ eye view.

Irit´s photographs were published in magazines (such as Soaring Society of America, National Geographic Israel), and have been selected and presented in exhibitions (such as 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021 Israeli nature photography in Eretz Israel Museum Tel-Aviv).

Sarit Krupka Weingarten – Israel/USA – photography
https://www.saritkrupka.com

Sarit is a photographer born in in Israel, raised in New Jersey and lived a few years in Seattle, Washington. She creates art through the medium of digital photography and videography.

Sarit spent a good part of the past 20 years traveling internationally, designing in the exhibition world, photographing places and people in India, Singapore, Korea, United States, Europe.

Huang Chih Hua – Taiwan – drawings, painting, installation
https://www.paperbleats.com/about-1
Born in Yilan, Taiwan in 1993, Huang, Chih Hua graduated from Chung Yuan Christian University, Bachelor of Architecture, and University of the Arts Utrecht, the Netherlands, Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design, Scenography.
She practices multiple art forms such as drawings, painting, installation, story-telling, and lecture-performances with a particular interest in the narrative of space.
HUANG considers art should provide people a sense of lightness which gives new meaning to the heaviness of life. “I view our universe structured by systems. In order to better perceive the complex world, I seek a way of understanding through scenography. The independent events in our ordinary life, are being examined and revalued in my works.” By practicing in visual arts and theatre-making, she is seeking connections with people in both independent and interdependent contexts.

World without us

Masha Ryskin and Serge Marchetta – USA
drawing, writing, printmaking, installations, video

Masha Ryskin is a Russian-born immigrant artist. She received an academic art education in painting in Moscow, Soviet Union, followed by a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of Michigan.

Ryskin uses a variety of media, including drawing and painting, printmaking, and installation. Her work is concerned with landscape and its elements as a metaphor for a sense of place, memory, history, and passage of time.

For the past eleven years, Ryskin has collaborated with Montreal artist Serge Marchetta. Their collaborative practice stems from investigations of memory, a sense of place, and displacement. Together, they have been invited to a number of International artist residencies and have exhibited their work internationally.
https://masharyskin.com

Serge Marchetta
https://www.sergemarchetta.com/portfolio.html
After 18 years of service at Post Canada, Serge Marchetta quits in 1993 and starts a new career as an art visual artist. Graduate from Université du Québec à Montréal in 1995, Marchetta has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Montreal, in the Province of Québec, Europe and United States. He participated in residencies in Europe and United States. He was the curator of few important exhibitions and the director of the non-profit organization, C2S Arts et Événements from 2005. He is also a grant recipient from the Fondation Ténot, France, Ragdale Foundation, USA, and Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec. His works are part of public and private collections. In parallel with his individual practice, he collaborates with the American artist Masha Ryskin since 2011.

Dominik Fleischmann – Germany/Finland Photography http://www.mysilentkingdom.com/ Dominik is a lens-based visual artist and writer. His work circles around the idea that there’s beauty in everything that’s broken and in the strength to endure. Over the last few years he has focused on the creation of photographic series about the unity of human and non-human animals and the struggle and misunderstanding guarding this way. He draws his inspiration from nature writers, poetry, social and environmental activism. Dominik´s work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Germany (Listros Gallery Berlin) and Finland (e.g. Valokuvakeskus Nykyaika, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte) and numerous group shows across Europe such as the Nordic Light Festival of Photography (Norway 2020) and Circulation(s) – European young photography festival at Centquatre-Paris (France 2022).

February 2023

Kathleen McDowall and Robert Curgenven – Australia / Ireland Writing/photography/performance and Sound/Music & video

Kathleen McDowall’s work embraces the abstract and the physical in equal measures and in a very concrete approach. She has undertaken solo physical performances including Performance Art Oslo as well as residencies in Forte Marghera (Venice) and Oxford Art Factory (Sydney). In 2019 she collaborated on international festival performances with Robert Curgenven on their live light and sound performance, AGENESIS. In her professional career during the past 20 years McDowall has worked as a speech and language therapist in community and clinical settings in Australia, UK & Ireland. She is currently writing her first novel for young adults

Robert Curgenven is an Ireland-based, Australian-born artist producing albums, performances and installations. His work emphasizes physicality, our embodied response to sound and its correspondence to location, air, weather and architecture. Spanning pipe organ to turntables, custom-made dubplates and oscillators as well as video he has produced works and installations for National Gallery of Australia, National Museum of Poland (Krakow), Palazzo Grassi (Venice), Transmediale (Berlin) and National Sculpture Factory (Ireland) and the National Film and Sound Archive (Australia). He has presented live performances at festivals including Sydney Festival (Sydney Town Hall), Maerzmusik (Kraftwerk Berlin), TodaysArt (The Hague), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam) and Cork Midsummer. Curgenven is an associate composer with the Contemporary Music Centre (Ireland) and since 2008 has been a guest lecturer in music and sound at Universities, Conservatoriums and tertiary institutions internationally. https://www.recordedfields.net Bronzelands

Dominik Fleischmann – Germany/Finland Photography http://www.mysilentkingdom.com/ Dominik is a lens-based visual artist and writer. His work circles around the idea that there’s beauty in everything that’s broken and in the strength to endure. Over the last few years he has focused on the creation of photographic series about the unity of human and non-human animals and the struggle and misunderstanding guarding this way. He draws his inspiration from nature writers, poetry, social and environmental activism. Dominik´s work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Germany (Listros Gallery Berlin) and Finland (e.g. Valokuvakeskus Nykyaika, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte) and numerous group shows across Europe such as the Nordic Light Festival of Photography (Norway 2020) and Circulation(s) – European young photography festival at Centquatre-Paris (France 2022).

The scent of Flowers The touch of Soil 2022

Aleksandra Szlęk – Poland Visual artist Aleksandra graduated with honors from the High School of Fine Arts in Dąbrowa Górnicza. A double graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Multiple scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Winner of many competitions and participant in numerous exhibitions. Her main areas of interest are graphics and illustration and in topics related to melancholy, passing and daily routine. While observing everyday life and boredom, she tries to catch “triggers” that provoke reflection and then become an intriguing art theme. She often works at the intersection of design and art. Franzisca Siegrist – Spain/Norway Visual artist perfromance http://www.franzisca-siegrist.com/ Franzisca was born in Switzerland, raised in Spain (Canary Islands), lives mostly in Oslo, Norway and works internationally. She has a Masters in Fine Art from the University of La Laguna (2008) and the Polytechnic University in Valencia (2010) where she studied performance art with spanish teacher and artist Bartolomé Ferrando. She works with objects, installations and performance art. She is also co-founder and chair of the artist run initiative PAO – Performance Art Oslo (Norway) and has shown her work in several European countries, in Asia and USA.

I am interested in the possibilities of my body and observe its relationship with time and space. I use both cutsom made and mundane, everyday objects to create pieces where the objects are taken out of their regular context and given a new meaning. The range of topics I deal with can vary, however there is always a connection to my own every day life and how I experience society. As a result, my works often bridge absurdity and poetry.

Sophie D´Henin – France Illustrator – Graphic design – painting Sophie is an illustrator working often with monotypes. Working with monotypes allows her to explore notions of isolation, magnitude and melancholy in an almost abstract way, so that the journal becomes a record not only of the landscapes and scenes encountered, but also of the impressions the traveler carries with them long after leaving.

January 2023

Nele Brökelmann – Germany Artist, writer and researcher http://nelebrokelmann.com/index.html Nele Brökelmann is an artist, writer and researcher. Deeply intrigued by the human need for structures of meaning, the perpetual search for and fabrication of meaning are recurring themes in her practice. These human made structures, and mental and worldly concepts create (physical) borders and either/or thinking which Brökelmann continuously seeks to challenge by playing with the experiences and concepts of distance, repetition and parallelity. This finds its form in diverse media such as performative installations, situations and actions, writing and video. Brökelmann exercises creating space for ambiguity, wandering in thought, and approaching the beings in and of our environments otherwise.

Ingebjørg Berg Holm – Norway Writer Ingebjørg Berg Holm (1980) is a Norwegian crime writer, blogger and social debater, living in Bergen. She has a master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen.

She made her debut in 2015 with the book Stjerner over, mørke under. The book received good reviews in the press, including dice roll five in Dagbladet In 2016, her debut novel was nominated for the Riverton prize, and won the Maurits Hansen – prize Nytt blod. She won the latter award on the grounds that “Ingebjørg Berg Holm’s debut novel is a silent and multifaceted historical crime where the literary quality almost overshadows the classic murder mystery”. In 2018, the novel Barefoot over the ice came out, a standalone continuation of Stjerner over, mörke under.

Franzisca Siegrist – Spain/Norway Visual artist perfromance http://www.franzisca-siegrist.com/ Franzisca was born in Switzerland, raised in Spain (Canary Islands), lives mostly in Oslo, Norway and works internationally. She has a Masters in Fine Art from the University of La Laguna (2008) and the Polytechnic University in Valencia (2010) where she studied performance art with spanish teacher and artist Bartolomé Ferrando. She works with objects, installations and performance art. She is also co-founder and chair of the artist run initiative PAO – Performance Art Oslo (Norway) and has shown her work in several European countries, in Asia and USA.