Aaron Rahe

Born in 1986, studied at the University of Oldenburg and the Kiel University of Art.  In 2015, he earned his master's degree at the Berlin University of Art.  The artist's portfolio is made up of 16 catalogues, 50 group exhibitions and personal exhibitions.  He has exhibited his art at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien gallery in Berlin, the Oldenburg City Museum (personal exhibition), the Osnabrück block of museum, five city galleries in Berlin, and galleries in Hamburg, Strasbourg, Prague and Moscow.  The artist has been nominated for various prizes, and the ones that he has received most recently were a facilitation prize in painting in 2018 from the Oldenburg Museum and a young artist facilitation prize from the Reinickendorf Museum in 2020.

www.aaron-Rahe.com

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Agnieszka Lakoma

Agnieszka Lakoma received her master's degree in art history from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow in 2005, a master's degree from the Faculty of Graphic Art at the Krakow Academy of Art in 2006, and a doctorate in the arts from the academy in 2012.  She lives and works in Krakow and has taken part in a number of international exhibitions.  Among them the International Print Biennale at the National Museum of Art in Taiwan (2020), the Chinese Printmaking Museum in Guanlan, China (2019), the 17th International Small Graphic Form Triennale in Lodz, Poland (2020), the "New Polish Prints" exhibition at the Reykjanes Museum of Art in Iceland (2019), the International Krakow-Istanbul Triennale in Turkey (2013), the International Small Form Ethnographic Art Exhibition in Budapest, Hungary (2013), etc.  Lakoma's art is in the collections of the China Printmaking Museum, the National Museum of Art in Taiwan, the National Museum of Warsaw, the Bydgoszcz Regional Art Museum, the International Printmaking Triennale Organisation in Krakow, "Magyar Elektrografiai Tarsasag" in Hungary, the Art Library of the Zielonogorski University, the Jagiellonian Library, the Lodz City Gallery of Art, and the Polish Association of Artists and Designers in Krakow.

www.agnieszkalakoma.com

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Al Paldrok, Taje Paldrok

Al Paldrok (Anonymous Boh) and Taje Paldrok (Devil Girl) are active in an unmarked territory, where objects of art are no longer perceived as physically existing things.  Space has many dimensions, and each of them have activities that can be described as structure chaos and performances.

"During the course of endless world travel, performances, exhibitions and publications, Anonymous Boh has created one of the most expressive, important, modern and transformative art movements during all of history.  He's like a ringmaster at the circus, and he has turned into Wild Bill Hickock, P.T. Barnum, Alfred Jarry, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound and Orson Welles.  We have arrived at the apocalypse and the storm.  Boh covers all areas of art, and his NON GRATA organisation presents global performances titled "Diverse Universe."  These reveal thus not just where we are right now at the epicentre of the storm.  They also conjured up visions of what we will soon sense -- postapocalyptic, absurdly playful, stormy and kaleidoscopic landscapes.  Ron Whitehead, underground poet, Kentucky, USA.

Taje Paldrok or the Devil Girl is an Estonian performance and new media artist.  She studied at the Academia Non Grata alternative art institute in Estonia, the art academies of Helsinki and Tallinn, as well as the University of Art in Berlin.  Since 1998, she has been one of the main driving forces for the International Non Grata Performance Group.  Devil Girl is a representative of the continental underground art landscape, and she has appeared all around the world.

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Anita Wasik

Anita Wasik is an assistant to a professor at the Faculty of Graphic Art at the Gdansk Academy of Art.  She directs a studio of cultural design and book design studies and has received numerous awards as a graphic designer who specialises in the design of cultural installations.  Wasik works in the areas of visual identification, exhibition art, and book and catalogue design.

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Annemarija Gulbe

Annemarija Gulbe (b 1997) is a student of visual communication at the Latvian Academy of Art.  She studied photography at the ISSP school.  The artist has organised two personal exhibitions, showing artworks from the photo series "Love Re-search" at the "Organ Vida" photo festival in Zagreb and the ISSP gallery in Rīga.  She also won the Grand Prix at the "New European Creation" art biennale in Paris, as well as the FK prize.

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Bart°Gold°Rost - Caroline Barth

Born in St Wendel, Germany, in 1987, Caroline Barth earned her bachelor's degree in fine arts and a master's degree in art history at the University of Greifswald.  She mostly works with or is inspired by conceptual art, and she works with a diversity of media and styles.  Barth most often uses forms of expression such as paintings, photographs, drawings and fragments of text.  Often the works include humour, irony, sarcasm and a touch of absurdity.  Caroline Barth finds topics within herself.  She is sure that her experience and impressions can create added value that can be passed on to others.  Barth finds topics for artworks in everyday situations which can appear near her, in nature or via contacts with others.

https://www.instagram.com/caro_barth_hgw/

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Bart°Gold°Rost - Jana Nedorost

Born in 1981 in Berlin, Jana Nedorost earned a master's degree in art history at the University of Greifswald.  The artist uses a camera to research aspects of reality in unknown places.  Her pencil creates illustrations of internal landscapes with various realistic elements, while her three-dimensional spaces transfer into interdisciplinary concepts.  On stage ,Jana Nedorost uses her whole body.  She is fascinated by the process of analysing texts, places and topics, and then she releases herself so that she can enjoy them fully.  The artist's work is focused on a game of rising and falling -- a process which encourages a conversation with the audience.

https://www.instagram.com/jananedorost/

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Bart°Gold°Rost - Shirin Goldstein

Born in 1985 in Schwerin, Germany, Shirin Goldstein is a graduate of the University of Greifswald, where she earned degrees in the fine arts and English philology.  The artist was shaped by the blocks and buildings of Schwerin, where she grew up.  She also enjoys the dark humour of her native region of Mecklenburg.  Shirin Goldstein is fascinated by mass entertainments such as festivals and boxing.  She also focuses on the diverse dead ends that relate to human interaction.  Goldstein's artworks play with the intimacy of private photographs, presenting an everyday hierarchy with a model of relations and a minimalism and cynical observation of family secrets.   Looking for controversial ways of expressing questions, Shirin Goldstein is an interdisciplinary artist who uses both images and text.

www.shiringoldstein.de

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Beate Steinmann

Born in 1965, the artist has always been interested in and excited about creativity, painting, photography and art.  In 2013, she took part in the "Blickwechsel Landart Uelzen" exhibition together with Freundeskreis, presenting an installation with chairs.  In 2015, this was followed by an installation involving 140 snails at the same exhibition.  In 2020, the artist worked with wall décor by transforming tablecloths.  Thanks to the varied structures and forms of such items, the décors develop along with colours.  Sometimes the background emphasises the artwork, but sometimes the colour plays the leading role.  This creates a modern interpretation which often includes a mixture of different elements.

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Edith De Jong

Edith de Jong studied art at the Latvian Academy of Art in 2003, and since then, she has often worked in Rīga together with Normunds Brasliņš.  She is a graduate of the Art and Education Department of the "Artez/Zwolle" school in the Netherlands.  Her main topic in art is a schematic depiction of links, as well as interest in building lots.  The artist's studio is in a medieval tower in Hattem, which is a Hanseatic city in the Netherlands.

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Elīna Māliņa

Elīna Māliņa is an artist and art restorer who studied art pedagogy at the University of Latvia and art restoration at the Latvian Academy of Art.  She has taken part in joint exhibitions in Rīga, Germany and Slovenia, as well as international plein air exhibitions in Germany, Croatia and Slovenia.

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Frauke Borchers

Frauke Borchers is a 1983 graduate in free arts from the Hamburg University for the Fine Arts.  Since 1977, she has taken part in 30 group exhibitions in Dangast, Nordenham, Braunschweig, Hamburg, Lübeck, Datteln and Aleppo.  Since 1985, the artist has staged 39 personal exhibitions in Wolfenbüttel, Wilhelmshaven, Lübeck and Datteln, as well as four exhibitions in Damascus, Amman and the capital city of Togo, Lomé.

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Gabi Kleipsties

Born in 1966 in Hagen, the artist lives in Schwerte in the Unna District.  In 1989, she was graduated from the University of Dortmund, where she studied design.  For more than 30 years, she has worked at the Unna School of Art as a docent of art.  For two years until December 2018, she taught a course on design.  Since 1993, Gabi Kleipsties has been a free artist who, in 1990, created a large stained glass window for a church in Sölde.  She has taken part in the "Kunst ORT Unna" project of artists and is a member of the "Kunstforderer Unna" union of artists.  Gabi teaches art at various schools and offers painting courses for adults and ongoing education students.

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Graham Frank Johnson

Graham Frank Johnson has been a painter for many years and has displayed his artworks at several local and regional exhibitions, including in the Hanseatic cities of Beverly and Hull.

www.grahamart.com

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Ieva Vītola-Lindkvista/Ole Lindkvists

Ieva Vītola-Lindkvista (b 1958) is a painter and visual arts teacher.  She lived in Denmark for 12 years and worked as an instructor at the Arhus Academy of Art.  Ieva has lived and worked in Kuldīga since 2012, and she is the director of the M22 art studio.  Ole Lindkvists (b 1954) is a painter, sculptor and visual arts teacher.  He was a lector at the Arhus Academy of Art for 20 years and has lived and worked in Kuldīga cine 2014.  Ole leads courses in self-improvement and art therapy.

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Ilze Laizāne

The artist has master's degrees in painting (2011) and graphic art (2014) from the Latvian Academy of Art, has been a member of the Latvian Union of Artists since 2018, and also been a member of the Jūrmala Union of Artists since 2016.  The artist has been actively involved in creative processes in Latvia and abroad -- in Italy, Belgium, Austria, France, Germany and Lithuania.

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Ilze Vanaga

Ilze Vanaga (b 1979) works in various areas, including photography, videography, drawing, installations, embroidery, etc.  The greatest artwork that brings everything together is the lesson of love and her own life.

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Kristina Frank

An animator who admires nature, but is also interested in human nature, the artist earned a bachelor's degree specialising in game design from the University of Uppsala in Gotland in 2017.  From 2018 until 2019, she studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, specialising in video art.  In 2020, she earned a master's degree from the Stockholm University of the Arts.

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Marijke Schellekens

The artist mostly works with spatial artworks and installations.  She has exhibited her art in various galleries and cultural locations in the Netherlands and abroad, including Bergen in Norway, Kaunas in Lithuania and Pärnu in Estonia.

www.personare.nl

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Markus Wegrzik

Born in 1964, a free artist, musician, architect and art and graphic design teacher who lives and works in Lünen and Coesfeld, Germany, and takes part in personal exhibitions.  The artist collaborates with fellow artists in areas such as painting, spatial and sound installations and video-format artworks.

www.atelier-we.de

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Martin Bäuml

The artist studied photography at the University of Bielefeld, where he specialised in design.  He is a certified photo designer and artist and a member of the German Alliance of the Fine Arts.  The artist has taken part in exhibitions in Bielefeld, Bochum, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Hitzaker, Lüchow-Dannenberg, Lüneburg, Minden, Munich, Reinbeck, Salzwedel and Wörthsee.

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Oleg Vasiliev

Born in 1960 in the USSR city of Satka in the Chelyabinsk District, now living and working in Novgorod.  In 1987, the artist was graduated from the Faculty of Art and Graphic Art at the Leningrad State Pedagogic University.  Since then, he has regularly taken part in art exhibitions.  The artist joined the Russian Union of Artists in 1996.  He is the principal of the Novgorod Children's School of Art, and he curates art exhibitions featuring various levels of talent among children and adults.  In 2009, the artist curated the "HANSEartWORKS" projects "Moving Spirit" and "the Great Hanseatic Journey" at the 29th International Hansa Days event in Novgorod.  Since 2009, he has been a member of the "HANSEartWORKS" working group.  Between 1998 and 2012, the artist staged personal exhibitions in Russia, Sweden, Italy, France, Poland and Finland.  His art is in the collections of the Russian National Museum and the Novgorod State Museum.

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Rainer Weber

Born in 1956 in Berlin, the artist studied at the Dresden University of the Fine Arts, and he worked as an artist in Halle/Saale and Weimar.  In 1989, he emigrated from the German Democratic Republic to Hamburg, where he worked until 1997.  Later he worked in Leipzig and, since 2016, in Stralsund.  The artist is a member of the Artists Union of the federal land of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and has participated in various exhibitions, including a personal one at the "Deichtorhallen" contemporary arts centre in Hamburg, a personal exhibition at "Stapelhaus" in Cologne, and group exhibitions at "Art Stralsund," "Art Open MV, the "Rotklee" gallery in Putbus/Rügen, etc.  Together with Bernd Schlothauer, the artist  established the Hamburg Artists group, which has taken part in art projects in Hamburg, Kassel and Weimar.  He received a scholarship from the "Künstlerhaus Cismar" house for artists in Schleswig-Holstein in 1992.

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Sarah Kunze

The artist is a jeweller and a designer who studied traditional techniques to prepare unique jewellery with integrated design.  She works with various materials.  Sarah Kunze finished her studies with honours, received various scholarships, and has taken part in a number of personal and group exhibitions, as well as performances and fashion shows.

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Sergey Semyonov

Sergey Semyonov from Pskov was born there in 1958.  In 1988, he was graduated from the State Textile Academy in Ivanov, where he studied textile design.  Until 1994, he was the artistic director for the Pskov Puppet Theatre and helped to stage more than ten different puppet plays.  In 2006, he was admitted to the Russian Union of Artists.  Semyonov has taken in many plein air and art exhibitions in Russia and abroad.  He has received certificates of honour from various regions and cities, as well as a prize from the Pskov District governor "for creative achievements in the performing arts."

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Shirley Goodsell

Born in the Hanseatic city of Hull, Shirley Goodsell attended the Hull College of Art to study teaching.  She taught at schools in Hull, including at the Department of Art of the Beverley High School.  She has exhibited her work at a winter exhibition at the Ferenc Gallery of Art and the Beverley Gallery of Art.  She was the first artist to stage two personal exhibitions at the Beverley Cathedral - "Corners of East Riding" and "Fragments of East Yorkshire."  Shirley Goodsell staged a personal exhibition, "North and South" at the Pocklington Gallery of Art and Roses with landscapes featuring the light and contrasts of Provence and Yorkshire.  She has also exhibited artworks at the Mall Galleries in London with the help of the Society of Women Artists.  Shirley Goodsell is a member of the professional division of the ERA Association and a gold member of the SAA journal of art.

www.shirleygoodsell.co.uk

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Sigrid Geerlings-Schake

Born in 1950 in Dortmund, studying drawing and painting at the Trier Academy of Art.  The artist is an architect who has taken part in various international seminars and workshops, studying under artists such as Jochen Stenschke, Joe Allen and Stephan Geisler.  Since 2004, she has taken apart in personal exhibitions and group exhibitions in Switzerland and Germany.  She is a member of the Open Ateliers of Lünen alliance of artists.

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Teresa Frodyma

Dr Teresa Frodyma is a guest professor at the Jagiellonian University and the Katowice University of Technologies.  In 2004, she defended her doctoral dissertation at the Jan Matejko Academy of Art in Krakow.  The professor works in various areas of graphic art, including lithography, printing with brass plates, as well as graphic design.  She has curated many exhibitions and organised seminars about graphic art.  Professor Frodyma is a board member of the Polish Association of Artists and Designers (ZPAP) and the International Graphic Art Triennale (SMTG).  Her works are in the collections of the National Museum in Krakow, the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, the Lodz City Art Gallery, the AFDAFA Museum in Cremona, the Pekao S.A. Bank, the MOB Museum in Bydgoszcz, and other public and private collections.  Professor Frodyma has exhibited her art at printing Triennales and Biennales in Krakow, Lodz, Katowice, Seoul, Guanlan, Frechen, Leipzig, Orense, Užice, ADAFA Cremona, Maastricht, Vilnius, St Petersburg, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Vienna, Salzburg, Brussels, etc.

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