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.

Adult female with blonde ponytail in a dark sweatshirt stands with arms crossed amid tall cacti in a sunlit garden.

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.

Mann in dunklem Hemd sitzt an weißer Theke neben farbigem Wandkunst-Text ANGRY YOUNG MEN.

Collector Stories Jan Widlund, Stockholm

Jan Widlund is considered one of the most avid collectors in the Swedish contemporary art scene and is recognized for having discovered and paved the way for many emerging Swedish artists. His standards of collecting are uncompromising and living up to nothing less than museum quality.

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Ville Kylätasku, Berlin
Ville Kylätasku explores existential themes both on the level of the reality we see and experience, and within the context of perceptual psychology. Painted on black or foggy sheets of hi-tech PVC, the paintings evince the artist’s fascination for different materials, textures and processes.
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