Andrés Izquierdo (Madrid, 1993) makes use of psychoanalysis and allegory to inspire an exploration of childhood, grief and the restorative qualities of space and the object. Using a number of different and varied media—including mobile sculptures, furniture design, figurative ceramics, marker pen drawings and architectural installations— his works are driven by a juxtaposition of contrasting anarchic yet structured conditions, earth and sky, biology and theology, or emergence and dissolution. Fascinated by what is and yet at the same time isn’t, Izquierdo interweaves physical presence, that is, landscape, cosmology and phenomena with conscious contemplation in the form of intrusive thoughts, daydreams and other bodily sentiments and stimuli.

 www.andresizquierdo.org

@andresizquierdo

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Jorge Isla is a visual artist based in Bilbao. Since 2015, his practice focuses on observing and analyzing the reality and of the modes of production and consumption of contemporary society. His works is a meeting point between sculpture, video art and photography. In 2015 he won the VEGAP, in 206 MAPA Grant of LENS School, and in 2017  Visual Arts Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture in the Collège d’Espagne à Paris. His work has been exhibited in different solo and group shows such as The Natural History Museum of the Universitat de València (2018), Photoespaña (2017), XV Bienal de Fotografía of Córdoba (2017), Kir Royal Gallery (2017, Madrid), Antonia Puyó Gallery (2017, Saragossa), Contemporary Art Glass Museum of Alcorcón (2018, Madrid), Centro de Creación Contemporánnea Matadero (2018, Madrid), Art Lima (2018, Lima), Unseen Art Fair (2018, Amsterdam), Estampa Art Fair (2017 and 2018, Madrid), Photo London Art Fair (2019, London).

www.jorgeisla.com

@jorgeisla.nft

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Keiken is an artist collective, co-founded by Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos in 2015. Based between London and Berlin, they come from mixed diasporic backgrounds (Mexican/Japanese/European/Jewish). They are collaboratively building and imagining a Metaverse to simulate new structures and ways of existing and to test-drive possible futures. Keiken creates these speculative worlds through filmmaking, gaming, installation, Extended Reality (XR), blockchain and performance. Keiken are a winner of the Chanel Next Prize. Recent selected exhibitions include: 2nd Thailand Biennale, Korat; House of Electronic Arts HEK, Basel; Russian Federation Pavilion, 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice; Koenig Galerie, Decentraland; FACT, Liverpool; HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt HKW, Berlin (2020); Institute of Contemporary Arts ICA, London; Jerwood Arts, London (2019).

www.keiken.cloud

@_keiken_

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Katrine Skovsgaard is a Danish artist working between Copenhagen and London. She is the recipient of the Sven Dalsgaard Honorary Award for young experimental artists, HIGH Prize of Creative Excellence and the 15th of June Foundations Honorary Award. Her work investigates ways to communicate subjective sensory and emotional experience, especially those personal experiences we do not talk about and those we do not notice. Her research is based on art practice and located at the intersection of understandings of shame, chronic pain, sharing and mutual care. Her work has been exhibited at Brandts, c4 Projects, Copenhagen Art Week, Kunsthal Aarhus, Middelfart Museum and The Psychiatry in Southern Denmark, Montez Press Radio, Sorø Art Museum, Vollsmose Culture House and elsewhere.

www.katrineskovsgaard.net

@katskovsgaard

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Ndayé Kouagou is an artist and performer based in Paris, his practice always starts from texts of which he is the author. Voluntarily or involuntarily confused, he tries as best as he can to bring a reflection on these 3 topics; legitimacy, freedom and love. The result is... what it is.  He describes his work as ‘quite interesting, but not that interesting or maybe not interesting at all’. He has presented his work among others at Auto Italia South East (London), Centrale Fies (Dro/Italy) and Lafayette Anticipation (Paris) where he also launched his publishing project YBR* (Young Black Romantics).

www.youngblackromantics.com

@youngblackromantics

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Raissa Pardini is an Italian-borned, UK based visual artist who works mainly with music and culture. 16 of her poster work were recently added to the V&A permanent collection as part of a documentation of the current wave of rising British music scene. She has been working for many of the most interesting artists and projects around the world: From Apple Music to MTV, Sony to Vevo, NYTimes, Adobe, WeTransfer and worked with artists like Måneskin, Nadia lee Cohen, Paul Weller, Idles, Khruangbin, among others. Raissa has been extremely active with talks, seminars, free mentorship programs, festivals, where she speaks about the importance of visuals in the music industry trying to raise interesting topics and get a younger crowd inspired to follow a similar path. She has been hosting for Adobe Live, at the main OFFF stage in Barcelona, Wide Awake Festival, guesting for Rough Trade podcast, Synesthesia, BIMM Institute and countless universities around Europe.

www.raissapardini.com

@raissa_pardini

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Linda Rocco is a London-based contemporary art curator and PhD researcher at the Royal College of Art with a full LAHP/AHRC doctoral award. She is the lead creative producer of Liberty at The Greater London Authority (GLA) and has curated public events and exhibitions internationally, with established small-scale institutions as Goethe Institut, to warehouse spaces as Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects, including the curation of the public sphere for Nine Elms on the South Bank. Linda also co-directs the not-for-profit organisation _inventory platform, which engages communities in urban and rural contexts through socially engaged art projects since 2016. Her research interests orbit around alternative organisational methodologies which recognise pluralistic values and experiences in cooperative and distributed ways; long-term cultural engagement and networks creation; blockchain and crypto ecosystems; transdisciplinary experimentation.

https://lindarocco.art/about/ | @lindaonmars

Alex Baczynski-Jenkins is an artist and choreographer engaging with queer affect, embodiment and relationality. Through gesture, collectivity, touch and sensuality, his practice unfolds structures and politics of desire. Previous and solo exhibitions include: Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2019); Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2018); and Chisenhale Gallery, London (2017). Baczynski-Jenkins has also presented work at: the 58th International Art Exhibition–La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich (2018); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2017); Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, Νew York (2016); Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (2016); and Basel Liste (2014). He is co-founder of the feminist and queer project space Kem in Warsaw. Kem have recently realised projects at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (Kem Care, 2017) and at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (Three Springs, 2018–2019). He was a fellow at the Home Workspace Program, Beirut between 2012–2013. In 2018, he was the recipient of the Arts Foundation Award and the Frieze Artist Award. 

@baczynski.j

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