In the Studio Cecilia Vicuña, New York

Cecilia Vicuña’s practice moves fluidly between poetry, sculpture, textile, and performance, always returning to what she calls arte precario: an art built from debris, unspun wool, feathers, and stone that she has been making since 1966. Rooted in Indigenous Andean knowledge systems, and above all in the khipu—the knotted cord long dismissed as a mere accounting device—her work reframes precariousness and fragility as forms of consciousness rather than loss.

Person with long wavy hair sits on a stool in a gallery, looking at the camera, wearing a navy jacket; left wall covered in blue Life posters.

In the Studio Robin Kid, Rambouillet, France

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

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In the Studio Megan Plunkett, Los Angeles, CA

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

Two adults smiling in a living room; person in pink gingham shirt and navy skirt, other in blazer and khaki pants, sofa with orange cushions.

Collector Stories Annette and Rainer Stadler, Munich

Over the past two decades, the Munich-based couple Annette and Rainer Stadler have been gathering an art collection that has outgrown their house. As they believe in promoting the artists they collect, they like to show their works in public.

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Henrik Vibskov, Copenhagen
The name Henrik Vibskov may be most commonly associated with the avant-gardist fashion label, but also brings to mind a multitude of twisted universes, created around each of his collections. His creative urge hardly follows along specific paths, which makes his work hard to describe and to pin down.
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