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Katinka Bock was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1976. She studied in Berlin, Dresden, Paris, and then at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, before coming to Paris in 2007 for a residency lasting several months at the Cité des Arts. Although she was based in Berlin, circumstances have led her to stay on in the French capital. Sculpture has always been at the heart of her studies and interests, though she has also experimented extensively with video, performance art and projects for public spaces. Since coming to Paris, she has ceased to work on collaborative projects, and she finds that the most fertile place for her is not her studio or house, but her mind itself. [...]

Risk and Tension. It seems that Alejandro Almanza likes to keep viewers on their toes. Working mostly with construction materials and domestic interiors, Almanza creates situations of stress through sculpture and installations; a house of cards that precariously threatens to fall or break. Danger seems to be a constant in his work, as well as the exploration of materials and our perceptions of them. How can a set of light bulbs hold a cinderblock? Through his work we realize that the most fragile materials, can also be the strongest ones. [...]

Daniel Arsham, Curtain, 2007: EPS foam, plaster gauze: 6.9 ft x 48 3/4 in

Daniel Arsham‘s work oscillates between the sculptural, the architectural and the performative. His work examines the ways we relate to space and architecture, manipulating materials such as foam and plaster to create works that juxtapose the natural world with the manufactured one.[...]

Bojan Sarcevic work lies between the purely ornamental and the architectural. Through sculpture, video and collage, the artist creates structures that are approximations to architecture without ever building anything.[...]

Jeff Carter’s work is concerned with the exploration of ideas related with contemporary tourism and nomadism, frequently using ‘non-materials’ such as IKEA furnishings and crate boxes.[...]

Angela de la Cruz’s brutally forces us to consider the relationship between painting and scultpure, inserting a performative element with the destruction and/or transformation of the canvas.[...]

Steve Schepens’ current exhibition at Galerie Van de Weghe in Antwerp is perhaps all too horrifying, but in a good way. It’s not meant to create the type of horror or disgust we find in genre films, but more the kind related to the impalpable; the object and its relationship to space, and the ways we perceive it. In fact, all of Schepens’ work is titled HORROR, with some additional subtitles or numbers, but why this insistence?[...]

The happiest times of our lives are sometimes tarnished by society, making it harder for our youth to adjust. At times children make up invisible characters and construct masks so they can hide their fears. Personified in a cartoonish way, Jorge Pineda’s characters portray these violent and at sometimes destructive ways.[...]

Yoan Capote received his education in Painting at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. It was later that he introduced sculpture into his discourse, interested in the use of materials and the possiblities of interaction of public and object.[...]

Myeongbeom Kim is a creator of sculptures and installations, where man-made objects such as balloons, candles and glass are combined with nature to instill life into every object he constructs.[...]