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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.

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In the Studio Elisabeth von Samsonow, Vienna/Lower Austria

Elisabeth von Samsonow is a philosopher, artist, author and emeritus professor of Philosophical and Historical Anthropology at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In her work she brings together art, ecological concerns and feminist theory.

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Collector Stories Jens-Peter Brask, Copenhagen

Jens-Peter Brask is a curator, publisher and passionate art collector. What began with an early fascination with graffiti as a form of artistic expression led to the fact that art has entered his life throughout.

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Lone Haugaard Madsen, Ærø, Denmark
In her work, Lone Haugaard Madsen moves between sculpture, painting, object art, photography, sound, text and performance – without giving preference to any of these media. In her installations, she places her works in a specific context that describes her engagement with the concept of art.
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