EXHIBITION’S PARTICIPANTS

Richard Alexandersson (1982) works primarily with audio-video installation. Through the medium of 3D-animation and CGI he explores topics related to discrepancies between private and social domains, virtuality, and perceptions of truth and authenticity. His 3D-animated video installations combine imagery and concepts from both genre fiction and “kitchen sink realism”. Through fantasies of post-human utopias and concerns about contemporary digital life's effects on our perception, his slow-moving and open-ended animations contemplate ideas concerning addiction, self realisation, and responsibilities towards truth.

Alexandersson graduated with an MFA from KHiO/Statens Kunstakademi, Oslo in 2011, and has shown his works at, among others, Screen City Biennial 2019, Stavanger; Galleri 54, Gothenburg; Coast Contemporary, Norway; SOIL Gallery, Seattle; Interstitial, Seattle; Fotogalleriet, Oslo and Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm.

The Archeology of Photography Foundation (FAF) studies, works on, prepares and preserves archives of Polish photographers. It was founded in 2008 and today cares for the archives of 12 artists. Working with the archives is complex: they are organized, digitalized and made accessible on-line. The Foundation also has a gallery, conducts research projects, and organizes exhibitions, workshops, and lectures. FAF publishes photo books and books dedicated to the theory and history of photography. FAF works with contemporary artists and inspires them to approach historical photography in a new way and to look at contemporary photography through photographic archives.

Exhibitions based on collections prepared by FAF were presented in places such as Centre Pompidou in Paris, Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne and the Photoespaña Festival in Madrid. Wojciech Zamecznik. Photo-graphics was awarded as the best catalogue in The Paris Photo- Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award 2016. In 2013, the Foundation was also granted the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage award.

Archives: Zbigniew Dłubak, Zofia Chomętowska, Maria Chrząszczowa, Wojciech Zamecznik, Marek Piasecki, Tadeusz Sumiński, Jan Jastrzębski, Antoni Zdebiak, Andrzej Georgiew, Mariusz Hermanowicz, Władysław Lem, Danuta Rago

Joan Fontcuberta (1955) lives and works in Barcelona. With nearly four prolific decades dedication to photography he has developed both an artistic and theoretical work, which focuses on conflicts between nature, technology, photography, and truth. He has held solo shows at New York MoMA, Chicago Art Institute and Valencia IVAM, among others, and his work has been collected by numerous art institutions around the world.

Santa France (1993) is a digital artist, working with 3D software and exploring various ways of using it in web collage, video and creating animated GIF images and digital illustrations. The hyper-realistically sterile background and contrasting organic and man-made objects, typical for her compositions, reveal both the visual language peculiarities of the software used to create them and addresses problems of present-day existence: the digital culture, self- reflection, nostalgia and loneliness linked with life on-line.

Andrés Galeano (1980) was born in Barcelona but currently lives and works in Berlin. He holds degrees in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona, in Photography from FFS Stuttgart, and in Fine Arts from KHB Berlin. Galeano works with photography, video, installation, and performance, and has held exhibitions and performances throughout Europe, Latin America, USA, and Canada. His photographic work focuses on amateur use of photography and the democratization and expansion of the photographic dispositive. As a post-photographer, he recycles iconography and discovers moments (whether Kodak or Google) in which the photography – although seemingly naïve – reflects upon itself, creating an unexpected meta discourse. Highlights among Galeano’s current projects include ‘Afotos’, which investigates the concept of a non-photo, ‘Unknown Photographers’, which through an analogue photo album reflects on the desire of a photograph to transcend the moment, ‘Google in View’, which investigates the dispositive of Google, and its pretensions of omniscience and divine omnipotence (Godgle), and ‘The Eternal Photo’, which autopsies porcelain portraits of cemetery tombstones.

Toms Harjo (1996) turned to photography and visual art in his last year of secondary school when he, on his own initiative, took portraits of his classmates and teachers in the school environment and then designed the school yearbook.
In 2017, Harjo graduated from the ISSP school of photography. Working as an assistant to the editor of the magazine Foto Kvartāls, Toms Harjo began to direct, shoot, and edit short films about Latvian artists who work in photography.
In 2018, Harjo received an Open kim? Call, which was followed by his first solo exhibition Actually (Patiesībā) at kim? Contemporary Art Centre.
By now, he has had several solo exhibitions and has participated in group exhibitions. The most important of them are - solo exhibition Actually (Patiesībā, 2018) at kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Paris (JCE biennale, 2017), and Lisbon (Parallel Intersection, 2017).
Since September 2018, Toms Harjo has been studying acting under director Alvis Hermanis (Latvian Academy of Culture).

Artor Jesus Inkerö (1989) is a Helsinki and Amsterdam-based artist working in moving image and photography. Inkerö's ongoing 'holistic bodily project' attempts to transform their image into the most generic version of contemporary masculinity. Through the appropriation of masculine-coded attributes Inkerö's practice engages with questions of control, power, safety and privilege. Currently attending the Rijksakademie, they previously graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. Their work has been presented at New Museum, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, SALTS gallery, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art.

Jodi (Joan Heemskerk & Dirk Paesmans) is the artistic duo composed of Joan Heemskerk (1968) and Dirk Paesmans (1965). Jodi is considered to be pioneers of net art. Since the mid 1990s they have been making unsettling artworks that undermine the relationship between computers and their users. They light- heartedly play with the codes of video games (Wolfenstein 3D, Max Payne) and the conventions of the Web. Jodi makes fun of machines, obsessions with networks, and geeks.

Sveinn Fannar Johannsson (1977) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. His artistic practice involves photography, sculpture, curated projects and self-publishing. He studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, earning a diploma in Visual Art (2009). In recent years his projects have been exploring different themes in which instrumentality is juxtaposed with temporality, yet also infused with consumer aesthetics and technical misunderstandings. His work offers an alternative view of our surroundings, fuelled by the interactions and fluid connections between daily life, art-object and art-context, often combining different media and materials within one and the same body of work. As a platform for his artist’s books, Jóhannsson runs an independent small press under the imprint of Multinational Enterprises.

Evy Jokhova is an artist currently based between Lisbon, London & Vienna. Evy Jokhova graduated MA Political Communications, Goldsmiths College, MA Fine Arts, Royal College of Art, and BA Fine Arts, Central Saint Martins. Jokhova is the recipient of numerous awards including the Arts Council Individual Grants Award, Royal Academy Schools Fellowship, Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award, and Wien Kultur Funding and Amsterdam Fonds voor Kultur (AFK) Grant. Solo projects include: Between these lines I operate, Galeria Foco, Lisbon (2019); Weighed down by stones, Lily Brooke, London; I dance for you my edifice, l’etrangere, London (both 2018); The Shape of Ritual, commissioned by Belvedere Museum Vienna and sound:frame, Vienna (2017); Towering in the conditions of fragments, Passen-gers, London (2017); Staccato, Marcelle Joseph Projects, UK (2016).

Maren Dagny Juell (1976) works with moving image, VR and sculptural installations. She received her MA from Chelsea College of Art (London) and is currently based in Norway. She has exhibited widely in Norway, including solo shows at Atelier Nord Oslo; Trafo Kunsthal; Trøndelag Senter For Samtidskunst; Akershus Kunstnersenter and Podium Oslo. Group shows at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art and Stavanger Kunstmuseum, amongst others. Moving image works have been screened internationally including The Australian Video Biennial in Melbourne.
Juell co-runs SHE WILL art space in Ski Norway with Liv Tandrevold Eriksen.

Flo Kasearu (1985) is an artist based in Tallinn, Estonia. She studied painting (2004-2008) and photography (2008-2013) at the Estonian Academy of Arts. In 2006-2007 she was an exchange student at the Rebecca Horn studio at the Berlin University of Arts, where she began performance and video art. Kasearu’s earliest performances addressed tradition, national identity, and the academic environment of art schools. Her subsequent projects have dealt with local political and ideological contexts, the artist often working and exhibiting outside of the white cube gallery set up. Kasearu has shown works in various public spaces including her Tallinn home, which she transformed into a house museum (Flo Kasearu House Museum, 2013-ongoing). In 2012 Kasearu received the Köler Prize, the most prestigious contemporary art prize in Estonia.

Ode de Kort (1992) lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. In the practice of Ode de Kort, as consistent collaborators, O and U are (much more than only letters), companions with whom to think, exercise, and perform. By exercising and training with these characters they both generate (typo)graphic, performative and linguistic questions. In a continuous transposition between photography, installation, video, performance and text, De Kort's practice is a way to test sense-making and unmaking, shifting the relationship between language and the formation of the self.

Ode de Kort obtained her BA (2010-2013) and MFA (2013-2015) in Photography from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent. Recent shows, amongst others, include: UU TWOO solo show - De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL), TWOO UU solo show - SpazioA, Pistoia (IT), Presque Rien - Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp (BE), The Gulf Between - De Warande, Turnhout (BE) and La Lama di Procopio – Dolomiti Contemporanee, Casso (IT).

Margit Lõhmus (1985) is an artist based in Tartu, Estonia who mostly works with video and photography, also occasionally shifting to installation, painting, and literature. She has studied painting at the Estonian Academy of Arts at Tartu University and as an exchange student at the University of East London. Lõhmus’s master work at the Estonian Academy of Arts was a series of videos titled “The Room of Love” which later became the base material for several solo shows. The artist’s works are ambivalent, often depicting herself and seemingly telling stories about her, while actually being more about the spectator as voyeur. The photos that she takes are not so much planned as born out of the moment. In 2019 she published her first book of short stories, Sterne.

Tom Lovelace (1981) is a London based artist, working at the intersection of photography, sculpture and performance. Central themes to his research and visual inquiry encompass the collaborative histories of photography, the role of Minimalism within contemporary visual culture, and the semantics of the everyday. His practice explores materials, processes and histories that lie within the landscape of the commonplace. His work is underpinned by interventions and interruptions of the unexceptional.

Recent exhibitions include The Truth in Disguise, GESTE (Paris 2019), Present Tense, Materia Gallery (Rome 2019), Interval, Flowers Gallery (London 2019), Dazzle Site, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2017), On Board, Crispr (Bogota 2017), Paris Photo, Grand Palais (2016), Groundwork, The New Art Centre (Salisbury 2015), Sweep, Victoria and Albert Museum (London 2014), and Work Starts Here, Son Gallery (London 2012).

Lovelace is a tutor at the Royal College of Art, London. He studied Photography at the Arts, University Bournemouth, receiving BA First Class Honours before studying Art History and Curating at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Photo: Nina Manandhar

Siliang Ma (1979) is an artist currently based in Beijing. He studied Photography at Royal College of Art in London. His practice involves photography, sound and installation. Inspired by his years of advertising photography experience, the aesthetics of his works focus on exploring the rhetorical and metaphorical, as well as the instability of visual connotation. The use of photography in his practice has been a paradoxical finishing, it proves yet disproves authenticity, all at the same time. On the one hand, it visualizes a clue about the experience of being. On the other hand, it is manipulated and restricted within the two-dimensional surface through the intervention of consciousness. Recent exhibitions include Helsinki Photo Festival 2019 and Form 2019 at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Seoul.

Visvaldas Morkevičius (1990) is a Lithuanian photographer and media artist whose work is situated between the fields of fashion, documentary, and art. His visual regard holds interest in subcultural scenes, bodily identities, and urban lifestyles. Until now he has been primarily working in the fashion and advertising industries, collaborating with others as a photographer. Morkevičius has also been working on his own projects and publishing books. In 2015 he self-published his first book Public Secrets, which won best book in the artistic and documentary photography category awarded by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture at Art Book Contest 2015. It also won 1st place at the Kaunas Photo Festival. Works by Morkevičius have been included in the Lewben Art Foundation collection.

Kristina Õllek (1989) is a visual artist from Tallinn currently based in The Hague. She works in the field of photography, video, and installation, focusing on investigating representational processes, geological matter, and the man-made environment. Õllek is interested in stretching out the boundaries of what can be seen and used as an image and space, especially now in the age of rapidly developing and highly manipulative technology. Her work is often site- sensitive and analyses the location and format of exhibition-making, questioning the display and politics of installation in the perspective of a historical museum to an online space and future archaeology. She’s twice been the laureate of the Estonian Academy of Arts Young Artist Prize (BA 2013, MA 2016), and she recently received the ArtProof grant at Art Fair Foto Tallinn (2019). Her works have recently been shown in various international group and solo exhibitions in Estonia and abroad.

Kert Viiart (1989) is a graphic designer and visual artist from Tallinn currently based in The Hague. He is studying at the Department of Non-Linear Narratives (MA degree) at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. In his practice he deals with the influence of technological development on visual language by researching the relations of virtual representations to everyday objects and environments. Currently he is analysing the problematics of posthumous conditions and the age of plastic, seeking to explore the impact of the use and display of plastic, both as a material/tool and as an artefact in the methodologies of archaeology.

Kristina Õllek & Kert Viiart are life partners and have worked together since 2009. The first collaborative exhibition project was exhibit_onscroll (2016–2017), an online exhibition on Instagram, followed by the duo exhibition You Know You’ve Become Part of the View at Hobusepea gallery 2017.

Ingrīda Pičukāne (1978) is a feminist artist who focuses her art on analysis of the female perspective. She is interested in womens’ everyday life and stories ‒ personal histories that are so often omitted. Pičukāne holds two MA degrees from the Department of Animation of the Estonian Academy of Arts and the Department of Visual Communication of the Latvian Academy of Arts. Since 2007 her comic strips have been regularly published in the š! comic anthologies and shown at comic exhibitions abroad. The artist designed the Beautiful Mothers book by Jana Kukaine and illustrated a number of children’s books published by the “liels un mazs” publishing house. Ingrīda is editor and artist of the Samanta zine (first issue published in 2017) and has repeatedly contributed to the SURVIVAL KIT festival of contemporary art.

Catherine Rannou Catherine Rannou (1964) is an architect and multimedia artist. Her expeditions, constructions and installations explore questions of the environment and colonisation of natural or urban territories. Constructions made from materials collected from the surrounding landscape and self-construction produce alternative ways of occupying space. Using a protocol of digital correspondences, she creates a real-time cartography of the landscape she visits that is both logistical and fictional.

Tuomo Rainio (1983) is a visual artist based in Helsinki and currently working as a lecturer in art and technology at the Academy of Fine Arts at the Uniarts Helsinki. His art works often focus on transformations and transitions in the medium as well as in the subject matter. Rainio works with a wide range of lens-based media and live media performance. In his latest projects Rainio is especially interested in the intermedia between digital photography and programming, where his main focus is on the ontology of images and translations between concepts, code and images.

Tuomo Rainio’s works have been included in various group exhibitions such as Mutations II (Maison Européenne de la photo, Berlinische Galerie and Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome); Alice in Wonderland (ECCO); Dream machine (MAC Niteroi); Image and After (Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma) and Grey Matters (The Museum of Finnish Photography).

Mārtiņš Ratniks (1975) works in the fields of audio visual performance, installation and video art. He studied at the Visual Communication Department of the Art Academy of Latvia. He is a member of the new media culture centre “RIXC” in Riga. Since 1998 has been one of the participants in the artists’ group F5 (“Famous Five”). As a member of F5, he has taken part in several major international exhibitions, including representing Latvia at the 25th São Paulo Biennial (2002) and at the 51th Venice Biennale (2005). For over a decade, he has collaborated with the group Clausthome, creating audio visual performances. Currently, Ratniks is a lecturer in media art and graphic design at the Art Academy of Latvia.

Jodi Rose (1970) has travelled the world since 2002, creating Singing Bridges, a conceptual sound work using the cables of bridges as musical instruments on a global scale. Jodi is working with engineers, architects, software developers and musicians to link the sounds of bridges around the world in the ultimate live-networked Global Bridge Symphony, and writing a memoir of this quixotic philosophical journey in her award winning Travel Diary. She is a co-initiator, co-curator and editor of T.R.A.C.E.S, the Transcultural Research Exchange Series.

Jaanus Samma (1982) is a visual artist based in Tallinn, Estonia. He studied graphic art and visual art at the Estonian Academy of the Arts in Tallinn. His works include photographs, installations and videos centred around the study of our subjective experiences of urban space. Over the years Samma’s interests and research have become focused on gender studies and the representation of male sexuality. Investigating how these issues can be discussed and portrayed in art, Samma combines fieldwork – interviews and archival research – with subjective artistic practice based on his findings. In 2013 he was awarded the Köler Prize by the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia and in 2015 Samma represented Estonia at the 56th Venice Biennale.
Photo: Libor Galia

Joachim Schmid (1955) is Berlin-based artist who works with found photography. He studied Visual Communication at Fachhochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd and Berlin University of the Arts between 1976 and 1981. He began his career as a freelance writer and published Fotokritik, a journal focused on photography. Beginning in 1987 Schmid focused on producing his own art, primarily using found photography and public images. At the time he already had an extensive collection of images, largely sourced from flea markets, from which he developed his earliest works. Schmid’s focus on already existing images reflects his concern with photography as a widespread and ubiquitous social and aesthetic medium that appears in all sectors of public and private life. The artist’s works are held in the collections of many major international institutions.

Semiconductor is the UK artist duo Ruth Jarman (1973) and Joe Gerhardt (1972). Over twenty years they have become known for an innovative body of work, exploring the material nature of our world and how we experience it through the lenses of science and technology. They occupy a unique position in the art world, blending, in philosophically compelling ways, experimental moving image techniques, scientific research and digital technologies.

Man’s experience of the physical world is central to the work of Semiconductor; taking us beyond the everyday rigid, static matter bound by the limits of human perception. By extending vision, hearing, time and scale through the use of technologies and by transcending physical constraints, Semiconductor creates first person experiences. These disrupt our everyday assumptions about reality and encourage us to step outside our fixed vantage points in space and time to experience places that are in a constant state of flux. Through a contemporary reworking of the sublime the work is at once both humbling and captivating.

Eva Stenram (1976) is a Berlin-based artist whose work treats photographic archives as both a source of inspiration and as a library of raw materials from which to create new work. By muting and mutating her material, the original functions of the photographs are disrupted and often subverted. Her most recent solo exhibition, New Meridians, was exhibited at Literaturhaus, Berlin in 2019. Other important exhibitions include Golden Sunset at Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2017, Bodyfiction, the leading exhibition of the European Photography Month 2019 programme, and Home Sweet Home at the 2019 Rencontres d’Arles, France. In 2020 her work can be seen in "A Handful of Dust" at Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto and in "Biennale für Aktuelle Fotografie "in Ludwigshafen, Mannheim and Heidelberg. She was recently selected as one of the 100 Heroines of contemporary global photography by the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. She is a graduate of Photography at the Royal College of Art in London.

Andrejs Strokins (1984) is a photographer living and working in Riga. He works across documentary photography, as well as with vernacular images and found archives. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Latvia and abroad, including The Baltic Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2016), Unseen Amsterdam (2016), kim? Contemporary Art Centre (Riga, 2017), Latvian National Museum of Art (2017), Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (2018), and the contemporary art festival Survival Kit (2109). He has received numerous awards, including Foam Talents. In addition to pursuing his personal projects, Strokins works as a freelance photographer, concentrating on reportage and portraiture.

Iiu Susiraja (1975) is a Turku based artist who makes idiosyncratic and humorous photography and videos. Her work can be viewed as a collection of provocative performances, using her own self as a model. She plays with food, comes up with odd uses for everyday objects, and questions restrictive beauty ideals. Susiraja has degrees in textile design and photography from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Her work is included in the permanent collections of several Finnish and international institutions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Helsinki Art Museum – HAM, the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, the Gothenburg Museum of Art in Gothenburg, the Stavanger Art Museum in Stavanger, and the Rubell Family Collection in Miami. In 2019 Iiu Susiraja had an extensive solo show “Dry joy” in the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, which included both early works and more recent oeuvre.

Emilija Škarnulytė (1987) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Berlin and Tromsø. Between the fictive and documentary, she works primarily with deep time, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological and political. In conversations and collaborations with scientists and technologists, Škarnulytė explores the decommissioning of the Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania (a twin sister of Chernobyl), the Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory in Japan, the Antimatter Factory, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the Duga Radar and a Cold-War submarine base. Neutrino detectors and particular colliders spark to life, and post- human species swim through submarine tunnels above the Arctic Circle and crawl through tectonic fault lines in the Middle Eastern desert. Recent exhibitions include Hyperobjects at Ballroom Marfa, Texas; Moving Stones at the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; 95% of the Universe is Missing, Science Gallery, London, UK and the first Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art; as well as a new commission for Bold Tendencies, London and a solo show at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. A recent winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2019, Škarnulytė also represented Lithuania at the XXII Triennale di Milano, and had a commission at the First Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, Canada.

Her films have been shown at International Film Festival Rotterdam; Centre Pompidou; Mumok; Serpentine Galleries, UK; Baltic Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale; Whitechapel Gallery, London and the International Short Film Festival OBERHAUSEN. She was part of Berlinale Talents 2018. She is a founder and currently co-directs Polar Film Lab, a collective for analogue film practice located in Tromsø, Norway.
Photo: Monika Penkute

Diāna Tamane (1986) was born in Riga and currently lives and works in Tartu, Estonia. Her works are based on personal stories that take shape through collecting and assembling her own daily experiences, impressions, habits and memories, as well as those of her relatives. To carry out this anthropological activity the artist mostly uses photo and video cameras, documenting the protagonists of her stories and their living spaces. In several of her projects she has also used vernacular photography, memorabilia, or keepsakes as source material. In the artist’s works family albums, documents, and private correspondence are transformed into catalysts, making it possible to reveal not only touching autobiographical stories but also apt portrayals of society and recent history. In 2018 Tamane received the Riga Photography Biennial Award 2018 “Seeking the Latest in Photography”.

Rvīns Varde (1985) is a regular contributor to the Satori.lv online magazine, a column writer and transcriber for Rīgas Laiks magazine and has also written for publications like Benji Knewman and Domuzīme. His debut collection of short prose “Kas te notiek” (“What Is Happening Here”, Diena publishing house) was published last year. He dedicates his free time to bird photography, not aiming to capture as many species as possible but rather to expand the definition and vision of nature photography.

Saana Wang (1979) studied (MFA) in photography from Aalto University of Helsinki Finalnd, (BA) from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Netherlands. and School of Visual arts NYC. Wang’s photography and video works have been exhibited in museums galleries and festivals around Europe, including The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland ; The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark; Aperture Foundation Nyc USA; Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Scandinavia House, Nyc; Rencontres d’Arles Photographie, Arles, France; Astor Hall The National Library, New York USA 2013. Her work have been published magazines and newspapers few to mentioned : The New York Times, Modern Painters, Photography-Now, Regeneration 2. Wang has been the recipient of grants and scholarship from the Finnish Cultural foundation, Presidential Scholarship USA, and Arts Council of Finland.

Jeremy Wood (1976) is an artist and mapmaker. He pioneered GPS drawing to investigate the expressive qualities of digitally tracing his personal cartography. Wood specialises in public artworks and commissions with an original approach to the reading and writing of places. His work is exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collection of the London Transport Museum, the V&A, and the University of the Arts in London.