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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.

Older woman with red hair stands between two tall wooden frames in a dim sculpture studio, surrounded by unfinished wooden sculptures.

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 Joëlle Romba, Berlin

Joëlle Romba is an expert on contemporary art and is also the director of Sotheby’s Berlin. She lives with her husband Eric, their two young daughters and their large dog in a villa dating from the turn of the century in Berlin-Nikolassee. The passion for art began for the two collectors more than ten years ago. During that period they have acquired more than 200, mostly contemporary works.

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Poster for Julian Charrière's 'Spiral Economy' exhibition at Museo Corner Venezia during the Venice Biennale.

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Nordic Notes

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Reima Nevalainen, Porvoo
Humans and nature serve as the subject matter of Reima Nevalainen’s multi-layered collage paintings – not as conflicting elements, however, for human gestures and nature coexist as equals in his compositions. He mines his subject matter from personal experience, trusting in the intuitive power of the subconscious.
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