2021: Re:present
featured artists
Ghizlaine Agzenai
Halfstudio
Isakov
JuMu
Said Dokins
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jolly Schwarz, Tim König
Totem Lovegate. Ghizlaine created an artwork that would bring a sense of harmony and interconnection to the public and that with a wide color palette where each color comes to complete the others.
“I’ve chosen a very wide color palette where each color comes to complete the others. The geometric shapes are all symmetrical to create a perfect balance and are disposed around a centered shape. I wanted the public to have a sensation of positive vibes radiating from the center of the artwork. Totem LoveGate is an invitation to spread a positive message of Love, Light and Unity.” - Ghizlaine Agenzai
Marocco
Rise Up. We are watching an increase in the social polarisation, xenophobia and racism all over the world therefore we must stop watching and be part of the change.
Let’s rise up our voices and be present in that change and in the search for harmony and equality.
Portugal
Halfstudio is a Portuguese lettering and sign painting studio established by Mariana Branco (b. 1986) and Emanuel Barreira (b. 1986) which develops projects in various creative fields always with lettering as the central element.
Their visual language is characterised by the use of three-dimensional letters and dynamic layouts with striking messages and vibrant colours. In their murals and urban art interventions the message is always inspired by the community where the work takes place.
Zabor. The relationship between architecture and ornamentation inspires Alexander Isakov—across national borders. Filigree patterns, architectural structures, and accentuated colors give his art its character.
Germany
The most diverse building cultures in our history, their structure, and the compositions that old masters created in them serve as his greatest inspiration.
It is above all the details and sections of a building that Alexander Isakov incorporates into his work. The aim is to combine a wide variety of elements into new abstract structures and to continuously pick up new forms that, in interaction with given forms, colors, and compositions, create new perspectives. In this way, his influences mix into something new, fictional, and utopian.
Germany
Rompe las cadenas del pasad.
A representation of feminist post-colonial Latin American history and its discourse
a strong woman wearing a boat with a broken anchor as a hat, which is connected to nature and protects us in the here and now and on our journey through life.
Forgetting the colonial past is not an option, so it shows us the possibility of a better future in which we have broken the chains of the past without forgetting them—but also the chains of patriarchy that are broken.
For a long time, women were not recognized as active subjects in historiography, so it signals to us that overcoming colonialism and gender are intertwined.
The bird, a condor, represents the sacred, the spirituality, the here and now and the future, but also the journey between this world and the hereafter, life and death, a central point of the worldview of indigenous communities in Latin America.
In her hand, she’s holding a plant, which represents her connection to nature and the process of growing and changing.
Mexico
Eclipse. Said Dokins refers to the multiplicity of possible definitions of a city like Vienna, asking passers-by to define or tell a story of their own experience in the place using a single word. Each word that people provide, which Dokins integrates into his mural intervention, creates a single collective definition of Vienna from the multiplicity of definitions, encrypted in his personal calligraphic style. In this work, Dokins shows that there is no single vision of the city or the world, that there is no uniqueness to reality, but that the agency of art could be precisely articulating or harmonizing polyphony.
