BBA 2020

Chirag Jindal
Jindal’s research-based practice operates at the intersection of documentary journalism, new media and contemporary cartography. Produced using terrestrial LiDAR, no.12 The Uncanny documents an unseen, dilapidated lava cave underneath Auckland, and offers a forensic orthograph of an otherwise fictionalised landscape. The work is part of his debut ongoing series “Into The Underworld.”

Diana Wolzak
Diana Wolzak is a multi-disciplinary artist, making sculptures, drawings and prints confronting the materiality of the discarded or overlooked. Her art practice is embedded in personal, art historical, feminist and political narratives. For this exhibition Wolzak shows 3 works; ‘White Flow’ and ‘Pink bends in grass’ and ‘pink star standing’ which explore her method of appropriating from consumer and popular culture.

Giulietta Coates
Giulietta Coates photographic work explores the relationship between beauty and different states of melancholy and dread. In this show she presents 2 works from the cycle ‘Recalling the Punctum’ in which she attempts to re-articulate Roland Barthes renowned concept of subjective obsession in the photographic image.

Marina Roca Die
Marina Roca Die works with painting and drawing, always transforming the human body and mixing it with its natural surroundings. Marina presents two works from her series “Scent”, which is a visual poem about the nature of having a body. The works “Under and Orange Night” and “I Can Hear Your Touch” show human bodies accepting the smell, color and shape of flowers and merging with them. Marina creates a garden of entangled and mutated forms where the dissipating borders of flesh and petals create a colorful but unsettling ambiguity.

Nele Ouwens
Nele Ouwens’ paintings drift between realism and surrealism and evolve from an eclectic process of collecting and combining references. The Greta painting is titled with a sarcastic Trump tweet about the activist. The painting reflects the iconic, angry UN speech the activist gave in 2019 - the colors on the edges of the canvas referencing the pink shirt she wore and the blue background of the podium. ‘Out of the woods’ is influenced by pagan ritual costumes that are meant to scare away evil spirits as well as drag culture and therefore reflecting types of masks and costumes as cultural representations of the Unknown, playing upon the philosophical term of the Other.

Nicolas Vionnet
Nicolas Vionnet is fascinated by irritations: interventions in public space that approach and create a non-hierarchical dialogue with the environment. This dialogue opens up a field of tension, which allows the viewer an intensive glimpse of both these phenomena. Vionnet uses the same approach and the same strategy for his objects; Irritation and integration. For the sculpture series shown in the exhibition Vionnet combines everyday objects. In doing so, he works with carefully selected materials and manages to merge different elements into a natural unit.

Olivia Lennon
By geographical accident, the majority of the marble quarried in Europe comes from those same areas along the E.U’s Mediterranean border (the most deadly border in the world) where unknown numbers of people have attempted to flee war, famine and persecution.The fact that some refugee camps are actually situated in marble quarries, where the mourning-work of hewing gravestones takes place deepens this relationship further. Olivia Lennon's Borderstone water-colour seriesdepicts barricades of marble - the literal ‘stuff-of-this-place’- constructed in order to obstruct the entry of those who are seen as ‘not-of-this-place’.

Silvia Binda Heiserova
Silvia Binda Heiserova’s artistic interest lies in the analysis of modern power structures, symbols and vestiges. Representations of superiority and authority encoded as a repetitive pattern, how they manifest and vary in our daily experience are foundational concepts in her practice. In her current artistic research, Silvia investigates the urban memory of western metropolises from a critical feminist perspective. Silvia’s imagery draws upon her vision of the urban space as a political arena, where the struggle for power and control is embodied in architecture. Silvia experiments with fragmentation, hybridisation of elements, colors and forms

Stine Nielsen Ljungdalh / C. Bergson
Stine Nielsen Ljungdalh is an artist researcher and curator working conceptually across the disciplines of photography, objects, installations (architectural fragments), film and text. Ljungdalh’s research is concerned with “imagination” and its relation to knowledge production, and in particular with imagination as a shared faculty often principal in the development of working methods for both Scientists and Artists. The work Meetings with KA #1 and KA #, is C. Bersons voyage into the Alchemical archive. Using B/W photography as representing the Alchemical stage of mercury, in the alchemical transmutation – Reflected in the aesthetic code of language often used in b/w cinema.

Susanne Piotter
Susanne Piotter is a multi-disciplinary artist, working in the fields of printmaking, sculpture and installation. She is interested in change processes relating to architecture and urban development. The series of concrete sculptures called Artifacts evoke an impression of architecture, they are reminiscent of building shells and architectural failures although they are not related to specific buildings. The sculptures are autonomous objects who can be positioned differently, there is no up and down.

Vishal Shah
As a multi-disciplinary artist and creative art director. Vishal presents the fine art print ‘Won’t Go Pop’ from his latest solo show exploring the sweet spot where many dare not tread - the powerful and irreconcilable tension between commercial advertising and fine art. His work combines different disciplines and talents together from moving image, art, design, music, writing and technology.

Renata Kudlacek
‘Blue Velvet’ screen-print and drawing on paper inspired by the theme of Garden of Eden, the place where humanity lost their innocence, is part of a greater project which emphasizes the science of life whilst raising the question of life and its origin. Aesthetic experience is closely related to ethical experience. The use of symbolic motifs of flowers, butterflies, snakes etc. within traditional interpretation and mythologies is integral to the work.