Painting

INTERVIEW | Ko Smith

INTERVIEW | Ko Smith

Ko Smith is a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His works embrace the complexity of personal histories and examine the narratives and psychological habits that have brought us to our present juncture. Smith's work has been presented and exhibited at NYC venues, numerous art fairs in NY and Florida, and international residencies in France and Italy.

INTERVIEW | Joas Nebe

INTERVIEW | Joas Nebe

Joas Nebe is a self-taught artist, born in Hamburg but now located in South Germany. By turning his film cabinet of curiosity into an intriguing jigsaw puzzle of hybrid geometric patterns, Joas Nebe teases the viewer into accessing his game. He believes that "Riddle games of this kind spark creativity and pass on the role of the artist to the viewer."

INTERVIEW | Kiki Klimt

INTERVIEW | Kiki Klimt

Kiki Klimt is a contemporary painter based in Ljubljana. Over the years, she experimented on conceptual art, photography, performance, installation, illustration, and design. In the last years, she is returning to the tradition of painting, developing a unique way of painting based on ancient knowledge, contemporary science, and her own study and experience.

INTERVIEW | Khaldun Oluwa

INTERVIEW | Khaldun Oluwa

Khaldun Oluwa of Eternal Blackness Art is an Atlanta based oil painter, community builder, and activist. His paintings are suffused with ancient African iconography fused with empowering Black imagery. Painting in a figurative style and integrating surrealist elements, Oluwa's art bridges past and present, proving that we still have much to learn from our collective history.

INTERVIEW | Clara Lemos

INTERVIEW | Clara Lemos

Clara Lemos built a scientific career working as a cancer researcher for more than 15 years, before approaching painting and deciding to start creating her own art. Clara’s work is an attempt to express her subjective concept of beauty – it takes a great deal of inspiration from her emotional states and the most ordinary and mundane little things. It is about giving context and meaning to all the forgotten details.

INTERVIEW | German Bustamante

INTERVIEW | German Bustamante

Santiago-based, German Bustamante is a self-taught abstract artist. Abstraction has allowed him to express his own spiritual vision of life represented by symbolic imagery that deals with ethereal planes, astral projections, primeval feelings, mental and emotional journeys and other intangible human issues. For him, each painting is a journey into his inner self.

INTERVIEW | Hamida Ouassini

INTERVIEW | Hamida Ouassini

Hamida Ouassini’s work is a questioning on the perception of a world which puts us at a distance from what we think and we see. It’s the perception of harmony emerging from the apparent disorganization of the whole; perception of a structure shaping chaos. Curve and straight lines breathe, then doze off. And the spectator cannot contain this curious need to tell a story.