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Yin Xiuzhen

Yin Xiuzhen
Visual artist
Location: Pekin (China)

Yin Xiuzhen was born in 1963 in Beijing where she lives and works. She is a sculpture and installation artist as well as one of the most celebrated female figures in Chinese contemporary art. She incorporates textiles and keepsakes from her childhood in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution in her works to convey the connections between memory and cultural identity.

Individual and the artist.

Yin’s work consistently demonstrates a concern for the relationship between the individual and the artist, with a particular interest for her home city of Beijing. Her signature materials are used clothing, cement, and discarded building materials, which she uses to highlight the ephemerality and fragility of human existence. By utilizing recycled materials, she seeks to personalize objects and allude to the lives of specific individuals, which are often neglected in the drive toward excessive urbanization, rapid modernization and globalization. The artist explains: “In a rapidly changing China, ‘memory’ seems to vanish more quickly than everything else. That’s why preserving memory has become an alternative way of life.”

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28/05/2023 Happen Art Visual Artists

Petros Chrisostomou

Petros Chrisostomou
Photographer
Location: London (UK)

Petros Chrisostomou (born 1981, London, UK) photographs small-scale, ordinary, ephemeral objects in architectural models that he constructs himself, and then dramatically arranges, often employing lighting and staging conventions of the theatre. With the alteration of scale and reversal of the relation between object and environment, between imaginary and real space, his photographs challenge the viewer’s visual certainties. The illusionary effect he achieves highlights the artist’s playful approach, which fluctuates between mimicry of the real world and construction of a surreallistic reality.

Website→ www.petrosc.com

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28/05/2023 Happen Art Photographer

Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley
Sculptor
Location: London (UK)

Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture since the 1960s through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions of where human beings stand in relation to nature and the cosmos. Gormley continually tries to identify the space of art as a place of becoming in which new behaviours, thoughts and feelings can arise.

Exhibit.

Gormley’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK and internationally.

Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999, the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture in 2007, the Obayashi Prize in 2012 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2013. In 1997 he was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) and was made a knight in the New Year’s Honours list in 2014. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, an Honorary Doctor of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity and Jesus Colleges, Cambridge. Also, Gormley has been a Royal Academician since 2003.

Website→ https://www.antonygormley.com/

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21/05/2023 Happen Art Sculptors

Elizabeth Ohlson

Elizabeth Ohlson
Photographer
Location: Sweden

Elisabeth Ohlson was born in 1961 and started working as a press photographer in 1980. Her artistic breakthrough came with the photo exhibition Ecce Homo in 1998. It showed Jesus in the company of LGBTQ people and evoked very strong emotions.

Ecce Homo.

The opening took place in Uppsala Cathedral, leading to bomb threats and the pope canceling a scheduled audience for then Swedish Archbishop KG Hammar. Ecce Homo toured Sweden and Europe for two years. In many places there were riots, demonstrations and death threats.

In her work as an artist, Elisabeth generally works with a documentary tradition at heart. Then the fiction is added to the images. The models are meticulously directed and arranged to get the message across. Elisabeth’s great source of inspiration can be found in the ancient biblical paintings of Caravaggio and Artemesia Gentileschis. These Baroque masters inspired the 2007 exhibition In Hate We Trust.

Injustice.

Making injustice visible and when something goes wrong for the individual is like a common thread running through Ohlson’s images. In 2010 she went to Jerusalem and created 15 images showing the love of LGBTQ people in the city of Jerusalem. The exhibit was first shown at the World Culture Museum in Gothenburg, but only after museum management removed a photo showing three gay Muslims praying. The Museum of World Cultures feared a terrorist attack and put all visitors through a security check.

King Carl-Gustaf.

Another much talked about work by Elisabeth Ohlson came in 2012 and shows King Carl-Gustaf with his male friends eating pizza on Camilla Henemark’s naked body. Next door, a scrubbing Queen Silvia tries to pull a swastika off the floor. The Queen informed several newspapers which published the photo. There has been a great debate about the scope of satire. After this uproar, Elisabeth publishes a documentary photo book on Sweden.

Elisabeth also works with commercial and editorial photography. She specializes in taking strong portraits and has assignments for book publishers, newspapers, companies and organisations.

Website→ https://ohlson.se/

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05/05/2023 Happen Art Photographer

Sean Scully

Sean Scully
Visual artist
Location: New – York

American-Irish artist Sean Scully is best known for his abstract paintings and prints, which seem to synthesize the traditions of classical European painting with the expressive impact of American abstract expressionism through a rigorous yet intuitive approach to artistic practice. Most of his works follow a rhythmic structure of interconnected areas or rectangles of color reminiscent of striped or checkerboard patterning. His canvases are often built up with a heavy impasto and seem to glow with a sense of agency, not unlike the work of the nineteenth century post-impressionists or twentieth century color-field painters. Although his works do not rely on mimetic representation, they often evoke the memories of the artist’s travel and time lived in various countries including Germany and Italy; “in making these paintings I was preoccupied with my memories of Venice, the movement of the water, how it heaves against the brick and stone of the city.”

Website→ https://linktr.ee/seanscullystudio?

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23/04/2023 Happen Art Visual Artists

Tarik Kiswanson

Tarik Kiswanson

Visual artist
Location: Paris (France)

Tarik Kiswanson (1986, Halmstad, Sweden) is a visual artist and poet. His work encompasses sculpture, writing, performance, drawing, sound, and video works. Notions of rootlessness, regeneration, and renewal are central themes in his oeuvre. Always operating at the intersection of different cultural contexts, his various abstract works examine subjects related to memory, heritage, birth, loss and belonging. His oeuvre can be understood as a cosmology of related conceptual families, each exploring variations on themes like refraction, multiplication, disintegration, levitation, hybridity, and polyphony through their own distinct language.

Exhibitions.

Tarik Kiswanson presented his retrospective exhibition Mirrorbody at Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain in 2021. Other recent exhibitions include M HKA-Museum of contemporary art Antwerp (2022), Hallands Konstmuseum (2022), 16th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art (2022), The Ural Biennial (2019), Performa 19 Biennial (2019), Centre Pompidou (2018), 12th Gwangju Biennial (2018), MUDAM-Museum of Contemporary Art Luxembourg (2017). His upcoming solo exhibitions in 2023 include Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholmand Salzburger Kunstverein in Salzburg. He is nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp and will show a new body of works at Centre Pompidou in October 2023.

Mirrorbody.

His first monograph was published in 2021by Distanz and Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain, on the occasion of his exhibition Mirrorbody. In 2022 a new monograph titled Nest was published by Hallands Konstmuseum and Mousse Publishing and a new collection of poems entitled The Window was published by M HKA-Museum of contemporary art Antwerp and JBE Books.

Kiswanson received his MFA from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2014) and BFA from Central Saint Martins-University of the Arts London (2010). He is represented by the galleries carlier | gebauer and Sfeir-Semler Gallery.

Website→ studio@tarikkiswanson.com

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16/04/2023 Happen Art Visual Artists

Katerina Belkina

Katerina Belkina
Photographer
Location: Havel (Germany)

Early on Katerina Belkina knew about her exceptional talent to see the world through different eyes. Born in Samara in the southeast of European Russia, she was brought up in an creative atmosphere by her mother, a visual artist. Her education as painter at the Art Academy and from 2000 at the school for Photography of Michael Musorin in Samara gave her the tools to visualize her ideas. Exhibitions of her sublime, mystic self-portraits ensued in Moscow and Paris. In 2007 Katerina Belkina was nominated for the prestigious Kandinsky Prize (comparable to the British Turner Prize) in Moscow. Recently she got the Hasselblad Masters Prize. Currently she lives and works in Werder (Havel) near Berlin.

Website→ https://www.belkina.art/

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09/04/2023 Happen Art Photographer

Henrique Oliveira

Henrique Oliveira

Visual artist
Location: Sao Paulo (Brasil)

Born in Ourinhos, Brazil in 1973, he received a BFA in painting in 2004 and a masters in visual poetics in 2007 from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Oliveira uses salvaged wood collected from the streets of São Paulo to create massive scale. Site-specific installations with dense layers that twist, curve, bend, and split. Oliveira uses tapumes — which in Portugese can mean fencing, boarding, or enclosure. As a title for many of his large-scale installations. The term makes reference to the temporary wooden construction fences seen throughout the city of São Paulo where Oliveira lives.

Website→ http://www.henriqueoliveira.com/

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26/03/2023 Art Geolocalisation Visual Artists

Daniel Firman

Daniel Firman
Visual artist
Location: France

French-born artist Daniel Firman was born in 1966. He currently works and resides in Paris. His life-sized body cast plaster sculptures are particularly fascinating. In most cases, they are arranged in odd formations. Bbalancing off of each other, crawling backwards or sideways and on various suspensions. Either up in the air or flopping over metal bars. The faces are always hidden, either against the wall, on the floor, covered with clothing or hair. These mannequins are surprisingly quite realistic and Firman puts humor heavily into his work.

Website→ http://danielfirman.com/

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19/03/2023 Happen Art Visual Artists

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset
Visual artist
Location: Berlin (Germany)

Throughout their careers, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset (born 1961 and 1969 in Denmark and Norway, respectively) have continually redefined the representation and experience of art. Drawing on institutional criticism of art, political science, performance and architecture. The duo produces sculptures and installations that question the feeling of familiarity with a most characteristic subversive spirit and humor.