10%
Relevance
 crossroads:
body, border, people, sexuality, transformation
genre (subgenre):
Visual Arts (drawing, graphic, installation art, object, performance, printmaking)
information provided by:
Visiting Arts
Tanya Abadjieva was born in 1969 in Bulgaria and studied graphics at the National Academy of Fine Arts. She now works in installation and performance art, as well as printing, drawing. Abadjieva´s installations encourage intensely physical responses by incorporating the viewer entirely: she allows... More Information |
10%
Relevance
|
crossroads:
body, censorship, dictatorship, interculturalism, people
genre (subgenre):
Film (author's film)
Media Arts (digital arts, video) Visual Arts (artefact, drawing, installation art, printmaking, text) information provided by:
Visiting Arts
Born in Romania in 1965, Bogdan Achimescu received his art education in Cluj, Romania and Kraków, Poland. Now a Polish citizen, he lives and works between Poland and the USA. He has held academic positions at several universities in the USA since 1997, currently Visiting Artist at the... More Information |
 |
10%
Relevance
|
additional names:
Nwankwo
, Chinedu
, Patrick
crossroads:
anxiety, beauty, birth, conflict, ecology, peace
genre (subgenre):
Design and Crafts (carving)
Visual Arts (drawing, environmental art, installation art, mural painting, painting, portrait, printmaking, sculpture) information provided by:
Visiting Arts
Chris Afuba is a sculptor who worked as a self-taught artist for seven years following the end of the Nigerian civil war in 1970 before deciding to undertake formal training. Concentrating his skills on wood-carving at the beginning of his career, he produced ornaments and jewellery but his... More Information |
 |
10%
Relevance
|
crossroads:
apartheid, history, identity, multi-culturalism
genre (subgenre):
Visual Arts (drawing, installation art, photomontage, sculpture, video art)
information provided by:
House of World Cultures
The South African artist Jane Alexander constructs creatures that seem kitschy at first glance, yet monstrous and mysterious at the second. As hybrid beings – human bodies with animal heads – they represent human thought and action. Their animal physiognomies embody the psychic state, the conditio... More Informationother language:
deutsch
Crossroads:
Apartheid, Geschichte, Identität, Multikulturalität
Genre (Subgenres):
Bildende Kunst (Bildhauerei, Fotomontage, Installation, Videokunst, Zeichnung)
Scheinbar kitschig auf den ersten, monströs und mysteriös auf den zweiten Blick, sind die Kreaturen der Südafrikanerin Jane Alexander. Als hybride Wesen – Menschenkörper mit Tierköpfen – sind sie Repräsentanten menschlichen Handelns und Fühlens. Ihre... Mehr Informationen |
10%
Relevance
|
crossroads:
conflict, heaven, love, mysticism, transformation
genre (subgenre):
Visual Arts (drawing, painting)
information provided by:
Visiting Arts
Based in Osijek, Croatia, Dragan Andjelic is a painter whose works deal with post-conflict disturbance through spirituality and transformation. More Information |
 |
10%
Relevance
|
Andere Namen:
Samta Ben Yahia
Crossroads:
Ambivalenz, Identität, Kontrast, Schönheit
Genre (Subgenres):
Bildende Kunst (Fotografie, Grafik, Installation, Zeichnung)
Veröffentlicht von:
House of World Cultures
Samta Benyahia wurde 1949 in Constantine/ Algerien geboren und lebt seit 1988 in Paris. In ihrem Werk, das meist aus orts-spezifischen Installationen besteht, thematisiert sie das Leben zwischen zwei Kulturen, der muslimisch geprägten in Algerien und der westlichen in Frankreich. Hierzu... Mehr Informationen |
10%
Relevance
|
crossroads:
civilisation, everyday life, metropolises, nature, water
genre (subgenre):
Visual Arts (curating art, drawing, installation art, object, photography, sculpture)
information provided by:
Intercult
When people migrate, thoughts, ideas, dreams and objects travel with them, all of which are important links with the past. Migrants become strangers to those they leave behind, and are strangers on arrival at their destination since migration produces loneliness. Migrants need thier own space, a... More Information |
 |
10%
Relevance
|
crossroads:
Buddhism, pain, tradition
genre (subgenre):
Visual Arts (drawing, installation art, painting, sculpture)
information provided by:
House of World Cultures
Montien Boonma was born in Bangkok, Thailand, in 1953, and received his BFA in Painting in 1978. He started exhibiting internationally in the late 1980s and became known as one the most important Thai artists of his generation. Although trained as a painter, Boonma became known for his sculptures... More Information |
10%
Relevance
|
crossroads:
colonialism, identity, writing
genre (subgenre):
Visual Arts (drawing)
information provided by:
House of World Cultures
The world, a huge text. In his drawings, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, born in 1923 and now living in Abidjan on the Ivory Coast, continually interlaces the small with the great. In the pattern of orange-peel he can discern the earth and the heavens, and to him every round form is... More Informationother language:
deutsch
Crossroads:
Identität, Kolonialismus, Schrift
Genre (Subgenres):
Bildende Kunst (Zeichnung)
Die Welt, ein großer Text: In seinen Zeichnungen verwebt der 1923 geborene Künstler Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, der in Abidjan an der Elfenbeinküste lebt, unentwegt das Kleine mit dem Großen. Im Muster von Orangenschalen kann er die Karten der Erde und des... Mehr Informationen |
10%
Relevance
|
crossroads:
dream, game of luck, love, water, writing
genre (subgenre):
Visual Arts (drawing, object, painting)
information provided by:
Visiting Arts
Inga Bruvere was born in 1963 in Riga, Latvia. She studied at the Latvian Academy of Art and lives and works in Riga. She is a painter who plays with time, illusion and reality in her work. She has exhibited extensively in the Baltic States with several solo exhibitions in Latvia and Lithuania... More Information |
 |
