Media artists Reportage
Tilo Baumgärtel is a German artist who lives and works in Leipzig.
His paintings go back to the works of social realism and large-format propaganda posters. The artist works with a variety of mediums and techniques. In addition to painting, he also uses lithography, drawings on paper, and video. Pictorial space and the creation of sometimes surrealistic landscapes is one of his central themes.
Tilo Baumgärtel also collaborates with theaters, developing sets and videos on scenography.
Miguel Rio Branco, full name Miguel da Silva Paranhos do Rio Branco, is a Brazilian photographer, artist, director and creator of multimedia installations.
His father was a diplomat and as a child Miguel lived in Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and the USA, now living and working in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After earning a degree in photography from the New York Institute of Photography, Miguel first worked as a cameraman and then worked with the Magnum agency. Miguel is known for exploring and crossing two different art forms: painting and photography. He has also shot 14 short films and eight long films, he is recognized in the world as one of the best color photojournalists.
Miguel Rio Branco's photographs are part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Andrzej Cisowski is a Polish multimedia artist and graphic artist.
Cisowski graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and was initially associated with the Neue Wilde movement (Neo-Fauvism). Over time he developed his own individual style on the border of figurative painting and new expression. The artist also created paintings based on old photographs.
Jörg Döring is a German mixed media artist, one of Germany's leading neo-pop artists. Using screen printing, silkscreening, photo collage, acrylic, spray paint and oil on canvas, Döring depicts various comic, cartoon characters and pop icons. The source materials for his work are photographs, books, old magazines, drafts, print samples, packaging, sketches and more, from which he creates large-scale and multimedia works.
Kriki, real name Christian Valée, is a French artist and musician who represents the punk culture in French contemporary art.
In his youth he created the electro-punk band Les Envahisseurs, and from 1984 he participated in the birth of street art.
In 1985 Kriki invents Fuzz, a half-robot, half-polymorphic fetish that appears as a virus that infects art history, and a sample of which will be published in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
Carmen Oberst is a German artist, graphic designer and photographer.
She has lived in Hamburg since 1980 and works as an independent photographic artist, curator and teacher of design using photographic media.
Carmen Oberst originally worked as a graphic designer. Since 1997 she has been active in photography and experimental film, holding numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. Back in the 1980s, she developed her own visual language based on analog black and white photography and photoalchemical experiments. And in 1996 she founded PHOTO.KUNST.RAUM, a center for fine art photography and fine art known outside Hamburg.
Carmen Oberst turns the world into a stage: she routinely uses found events and randomly present people to create a fantastical production from the group of works "Rods of Imagination - On the Road" through the medium of photography.