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Abiona Esther Ojo

In the Studio Abiona Esther Ojo, Vienna

Austrian-Nigerian artist Abiona Esther Ojo combines autobiographical themes with photographic, textile and conceptual processes in her work. In her artistic practice, she explores themes such as identity, inherited memory and intuitive knowledge.

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Tschabalala Self

In the Studio Tschabalala Self, New York

By combining paint, recycled materials, collage, and textiles, Tschabalala Self creates a world that is both sensuous and political. In her powerful images of black bodies, mostly women, she centres pleasure, relaxation, and self-possession, while working against the histories of racism and sexism that have shaped how these bodies are seen.

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Soufiane Ababri

In the Studio Soufiane Ababri, Paris

Leaving the past behind is not a choice for the artist Soufiane Ababri. After moving from Morocco to France at 18, he began creating a personal visual archive of queer life in the Arab world and of gay immigrants in the West — one that weaves together autobiography, political awareness, and homoeroticism.

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Robert Punkenhofer

Collector Stories Robert Punkenhofer, Barcelona/Vienna

For more than 20 years, Robert Punkenhofer has been involved in international corporate and art management. His agency Art & Idea considers itself a nexus between art, architecture, design, and economics. He has curated more than 100 exhibitions, among them the annual Vienna Art Week. He has served as Trade Commissioner for the Austrian Foreign Trade Organisation in Mexico City, New York, and Berlin, a role that he currently holds in Barcelona. We spoke with the unusual collector about art, his ability to repeatedly create things from nothing, and about his passion for Vienna’s brilliant k. and k. period.

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Sandra Mujinga

Sandra Mujinga, Oslo/Berlin
Inspired by science fiction and animal survival strategies, Congolese-Norwegian artist Sandra Mujinga explores themes of visibility and surveillance. She builds her own speculative space with ghosts from colonial history that she ties to difficult and sometimes uncomfortable questions pertaining to today.
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Editions

Sophia Pompéry

Sophia Pompéry
»Worlds (small Germany)«

Clemens Wolf

Clemens Wolf
»Expanded Metal Pigment Paintings«

Jonny Niesche

Jonny Niesche
staring at the sky (munich)

Exhibitions

WRAP UP Winter Salon

WRAP UP Winter Salon

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