New Viewings XMAS Special

Barbara Breitenfellner, born in Austria, graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with a Master of Fine Art and lives in Berlin.

She has had solo exhibitions at the Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault; Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers; and HMKV, Dortmund, among others, as well as group exhibitions at Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles; and the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris. Her works are represented in important collections, such as the Berlinische Galerie, the Artothek des Bundes, Vienna, and the Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris.

Sarah Entwistle works across multiple forms and often with found ready-mades to develop sculptural arrangements that recall interior still-lives.

Deeply interested in family systems theory and trans-generational transmission, the artist, who trained as an architect, has committed to an artistic/life practice that will stay bound, however tangentially, in a provocation with the archive material and legacy. In doing so she uses this posthumous dialogue to confront familial narratives that intersect with her own identity as a woman, an artist, and a mother.

Johnny Miller is a master of melancholy and the grotesque.

The personnel of his linocuts, collages and drawings consists of bizarre and tragic figures. They exhibit clownesque or animal-like features, are as small as midgets or big as giants. As agents of the subconscious, they represent diffidence in interpersonal encounters as well as physical and emotional inadequacies.

Rufina Bazlova is a Belarusian artist who works with traditional folk stitching as a medium to depict socio-political issues.

In 2020 Bazlova created the series Belarusian Vyzhyvanka. She is the coauthor of an installation in Aachen dedicated to the three Belarusian female opposition leaders who won the Charlemagne prize in 2022. Last August, the Ukrainian president V. Zelensky wore a shirt with Bazlova’s ornament. Her new project Framed in Belarus inviting people to stitch the stories of Belarusian political prisoners.

kennedy+swan (founded in 2013) comprises the collaborative work of artists Bianca Kennedy and Swan Collective.

Their work deals with the future of evolution and its impact on plants, animals, humans and machines. These utopias are liberated from human supremacy, illuminate the ecological benefits of hybrid life forms, and address the entangled relationship between humans and machines.

The duo exhibits internationally in galleries, museums and festivals. Exhibitions include the Lyon Biennial, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Bärenzwinger Berlin, CCBB Rio de Janeiro, Loop Discover Award and Sundance Film Festival. They live in Berlin.

Selma Köran’s works explore the mythological realm of narration and examine the state of humanity according to it.

Putting herself in the shoes of a dilletante archeologist, she dissects the body of western narrative in order to pastiche and mock the traditional anticipation of archetypological roles within our society. By deconstructing and re-staging these narratives our perspective on the normative and hierarchical is called into question. Her work understands itself as a repairwork in the past.

Selma Köran is a Berlin based artist. Most recently her work has been shown in Folkwang Museum, Essen, HKW, Hamburg and at Art Athina, Athens.

DENKEN IM BESTAND V – THINKING IN THE EXISTENCE V

Almut Hilf studied History of Art at the universities of Karlsruhe and Florence and Fine Arts at the HGB Leipzig, M.A. HFBK Hamburg. For her conceptual group of works „Denken im Bestand I-V“ she received the International Marianne Brandt Prize in 2016 and the Aenne Biermann Prize for Contemporary Photography in 2017. In 2019 and 2022, she was a fellow of the Stiftung Kunstfonds. Her work is part of the Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The immovability of roots in contrast to the lightness of feathers is the core of my work.

Plüme Ferberger has studied at University of Applied Arts Vienna and worked in fashion for Raf Simons and Viktor&Rolf. Previous exhibitions include „an ephemeral exhibition“, at Belvedere 21, Vienna, curated by Nicolas Jasmin in 2019 and „Kommst Du von dann oder von dann“, at New Viewings, curated by Wilhelm Schürmann in 2020.

Jack Burton’s work uses ideas from Economics, Historical reference points, and the European Project in particular, as subject matters.

Jack Burton grew up in South Wales, in an ex-coal-shipping town called Barry. The culture of Wales, its post industrial history, and the Welsh language and legends, still influence his work to this day. He now lives in Brussels, having been there for four years now. About the city he says: „I often describe Brussels as a B-side city, which is to say, it’s where you find the long experimental tracks that were too weird to put on the A-side of an album, and that’s why I moved here.“ Burton did his BA in fine art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, graduating in 2010, then did a cultural studies MA at the London consortium, graduating in 2011. He then worked for a few years in mainland Europe before returning to London to study at the Royal Academy of Arts, graduating in 2017.