Contemporary Objects — Discoveries
Julia Lohmann is a German artist and sculptor who lives and works in Düsseldorf and Berlin.
Her work focuses on paintings, objects, installations and works on paper and aluminum, but she also creates photographs and films. Her three-dimensional multi-layered paintings on sheets of aluminum are abstractions of nature with parallel references to the world, society, and the conditions that these living spaces overlap.
Daniele Buetti is a Swiss visual artist who works in several modes including installation and intervention. The media he works with includes photography, sculpture, drawing, sound, video and digital forms. He is professor at University of Fine Arts Munster where he has taught since 2004. He lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland and Münster, Germany.
His work has been described as "an expression of world-weariness and the individual’s precarious existential orientation." In the 1990s Buetti's work served as a visual critiques of the consumption of beauty. This work often appropriated images of models and high-fashion consumer products from magazines that were pierced with a ballpoint pen.