• Year
  2025
• Exhibition
  Up Close – Goldrausch 2025
• Publication
  Transformaciones de Silencios / Transformationen des Schweigens

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Brenda Alamilla

Brenda Alamilla (* 1987 in Mexico City) is a transdisciplinary visual artist. She studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig with Prof. Tina Bara and at the Neue Schule für Fotografie in Berlin. In her work, encompassing photography, performance, and writing, she explores violence and its relation to power structures on both personal and systemic levels, drawing on decolonial and feminist approaches. Her work has been published in Der Greif and Magnum Photos and exhibited internationally, including at the F/STOP Festival in Leipzig, Zentrale für Kunst in Chemnitz, Errant Sound, Haus Kunst Mitte, Spoiler, and ZK/U in Berlin, where she co-curated the series Rehearsing Moves on Hazy Paths.

• Year
  2025
• Exhibition
  Up Close – Goldrausch 2025
• Publication
  Schiefe Portale: Das Nichts bewohnen / Slanted Portals: Inhabiting the None

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Yedam Ann

Yedam Ann (* 1992 in Seoul) studied Fine Art at the Kunstakademie Münster, where she earned the title of Meisterschülerin in 2023 under the mentorship of Aernout Mik. She previously completed studies in TV & Film and in History at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. In her installation-based and dramaturgical works, she explores urban spaces and technologies. She has presented solo exhibitions at Post Territory Ujeongguk in Seoul and at the Wewerka Pavillon in Münster. Her work has been shown at KIT – Kunst im Tunnel in Düsseldorf, the Impakt Festival in Utrecht, Ars Electronica in Linz, and Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten in Berlin.

• Year
  2025
• Exhibition
  Up Close – Goldrausch 2025
• Publication
  Care Mechanics

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Mara Kirchberg

Mara Kirchberg (* 1994 in Frankfurt am Main) creates expansive scenes through sculpture, installations, and site-specific interventions, exploring concepts such as efficiency and exhaustion as well as their impact on bodily systems. She studied Contemporary Art at the Eesti Kunstiakadeemia in Tallinn, and Choreography and Performance at the Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft in Gießen. Her work has been exhibited in Germany and across the Nordic-Baltic region and has received numerous accolades, including the Grand Prix of the Nordic & Baltic Young Artist Award, the Young Sculptor Award of the Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, and the Eduard Wiiralt Scholarship from the Estonian Ministry of Culture.

• Year
  2025
• Exhibition
  Up Close – Goldrausch 2025
• Publication
  The Space between us

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Kodac Ko

Kodac Ko (*1986 in Jeju, South Korea) is an audiovisual artist. She studied in the Printmaking Department of Hongik University in Seoul, the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. Her work explores diverse forms of communication, and drawing on her own experience of migration, she demonstrates how language can either bridge or amplify distance. Her work has been exhibited at the Fotomuseum Braunschweig, the Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten in Marl, Germany, and the Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea, as well as being shown at the 10th Cairo Video Festival and the 41st Kasseler Dokfest.

• Year
  2025
• Exhibition
  Up Close – Goldrausch 2025
• Publication
  Pinching Gesture

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Malin Kuht

Malin Kuht (* 1994 in Augsburg) is a video artist and educator. They studied Political Science at the Universität Kassel and Pedagogy and Visual Communication at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Against the backdrop of a contemporary world shaped by digital infrastructure, their art revisits the origins and legacy of digital cultures, seeking emancipatory and queer-feminist approaches to technology. Their work has been shown at Kunstraum Dock 20 in Lustenau, Austria, the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, and the Kasseler Dokfest. Since 2023, they have been teaching in the master’s programe in Art Education at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and are a founding member of para-education, a Hamburg-based association.

• Year
  2025
• Exhibition
  Up Close – Goldrausch 2025
• Publication
  Abolition Garden: Chapter V – Intuition Frees Imagination

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muSa michelle mattiuzzi

muSa michelle mattiuzzi (*1983 in São Paulo) is a Berlin-based performer, visual artist, writer, and filmmaker. She considers herself a citizen of the world, and works across a wide range of media and modalities—often with the body and voice—in an exploration of presence, physicality, and communication. Unspoken contracts, colonial violence, the plantation system, official archives, intimate fictions—these are a few of the elements that find their way into her work. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, most recently in the Tiroler Kunstpavillon in Innsbruck (2025), the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence – Max Planck Institute (2024–2026), the Brücke-Museum in Berlin (2021), the 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021), and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin (2018/2019).

• Year
  2025
• Exhibition
  Up Close – Goldrausch 2025
• Publication
  sensational view, tired screams

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Sarah Reva Mohr

Which memories do we carry with us into the future? Which stories fade into silence? Sarah Reva Mohr (* 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans film, installation, and writing. She explores the power dynamics that emanate from specific groups and spaces, using moving image and sculpture to investigate the factors that shape how we view the world and how it affects us. Her works have been exhibited at Synnika in Frankfurt am Main, Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, Mountains in Berlin, Space One in Seoul, NoDepressionRoom in Munich, the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main (with Open Creek Hotel), Basis e.V. in Frankfurt am Main, and Klingspor Museum in Offenbach.

• Year
  2025
• Exhibition
  Up Close – Goldrausch 2025
• Publication
  sprach│los

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Mio Okido

Mio Okido (* 1986 in Niigata, Japan) explores cultures of collective remembrance in a global context. She received a bachelor’s degree from Tokyo University of the Arts, spending a year abroad at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, before continuing her education at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, where she earned a Diplom (equivalent to an MA), and at the Institut für Kunst im Kontext at the Universität der Künste Berlin, where she received her MA. In 2023, she was a fellow at the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in Berlin, researching the imperial context of its Japanese collection, which resulted in a 2024 solo exhibition. That same year, in the group exhibition ÜberGrenzen at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, she displayed works which explored stories of migration in the GDR.

• Year
  2025
• Exhibition
  Up Close – Goldrausch 2025
• Publication
  Kein Raum ohne Konflikt

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Paulette Penje

Paulette Penje (* 1984 in Berlin) studied Sculpture and Public Art at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, Saarbrücken, and participated in the MFA Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts, New York. After having completed her studies, she received a fellowship from the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. As a performance artist, Penje explores site-specific experimental art. She has developed works both for public spaces and for institutions, including projects for Mayer Pavillon, Berlin, DIEresidenz in Die, France, the Saarland Museum – Moderne Galerie, the World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte, BETON Berlin, the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, and Random Institute, Zurich. She is a recipient of the X-treme Women Art Prize, Berlin, and has been nominated for the 2025 Robert Schuman Art Prize.

• Year
  2025
• Exhibition
  Up Close – Goldrausch 2025
• Publication
  Posnansky Ausgraben

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Belén Resnikowski

Belén Resnikowski (* 1989 in Bolivia) studied Fine Arts at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin from 2017 to 2023. She gained international recognition in 2021 at the Non-Syntax Experimental Image Festival in Tokyo (Calm & Punk Gallery) and in 2024 at the Every Woman Biennial in New York (La MaMa Galleria). Her work has been exhibited across Europe, and she has been awarded the Cusanuswerk scholarship and the Mart Stam Prize. In her multimedia practice, she explores memory, migration, and identity, creating poetic liminal spaces where personal and collective blend.

• Year
  2025
• Exhibition
  Up Close – Goldrausch 2025
• Publication
  Sweat, eggs, and onions

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Aura Roig

Aura Roig (* 1994 in Tortosa, Spain) studied Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona. Through painting, Roig blends humor, struggles, and personal experiences into a magical realism where bodies merge with objects and vegetables to explore themes of care, gender, and family roles. Roig’s recent exhibitions have included Fight or Flight II at StadtWERKSTATT Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin (2025), the Mèdol Centre d’Arts Contemporànies, Tarragona, Centre de Lectura, Reus, 101 Projectspace, Berlin (all 2024), Lo Pati Centre d’Art, Amposta, Culterim Gallery, Berlin (2023), and Museu de Tortosa (2022).

• Year
  2025
• Exhibition
  Up Close – Goldrausch 2025
• Publication
  Archaeology of Progress

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Victoria Sarangova

Victoria Sarangova (* 1985 in Kalmykia, a south-western Russian republic) works with sound, video, text, and embroidery. Her often site-specific installations explore progress, memory, and identity, rooted in her homeland and informed by her family archive as well as her personal history. She graduated with a BA in Performance: Design and Practice from Central Saint Martins, London (2014), and an MA in Art in Context from the Universität der Künste Berlin (2020). Her work has been shown at venues and festivals such as CTM 2024, Ringtheater, and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin, and Sound/Image 2023 in London. Sarangova is a co-founder of the MU Collective, a group of artists from Kalmykia.

• Year
  2025
• Exhibition
  
• Publication
  Prestige Obelisk

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Sophia Tabatadze

Sophia Tabatadze (* 1977 in Tbilisi, Georgia) graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (2002), and completed the CuratorLab curatorial programme at Konstfack, Stockholm (2018). Tabatadze’s drawings blend imaginary and real worlds, embracing the unpredictability of their outcomes. In 2007, she represented Georgia at the Venice Biennale and was also part of the Istanbul Biennale. Her work has been exhibited at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, Tartu Kunstimuuseum, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and Tbilisi History Museum.

• Year
  2025
• Exhibition
  Up Close – Goldrausch 2025
• Publication
  Here, there, care

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Saša Tatić

Saša Tatić (* 1991 in Bosnia and Herzegovina) makes transparent the social roles she carries – as a daughter, heiress and member of the diaspora – in order to explore concepts of home, belonging, and identity. Using text as a tool to convey meaning within her multimedia practice, Tatić opens up diverse pathways for engaging with identity. She is a graduate of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Academy of Arts of the University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has been the recipient of numerous accolades and prizes, and her work has been exhibited internationally – including at Summerhall in Edinburgh, the Kunstmuseum Bochum, and the WRO Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw.

• Year
  2025
• Exhibition
  Up Close – Goldrausch 2025
• Publication
  Küchensituationen

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Marie Zbikowska

Marie Zbikowska (* 1978 in Potsdam) studied Fine Art at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart from 2016 to 2022. She then went on to complete her master studies under Ricarda Roggan, Sofia Hultén, and Bertram Kaschek. Her work has been exhibited at the Goethe-Institut in Tel Aviv, Villa Merkel in Esslingen, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, and Parrotta Contemporary Art in Cologne. Zbikowska received project grants from the Internationale Maifestspiele of Staatstheater Wiesbaden and from Kulturamt Wiesbaden, and was nominated for the Foundation Prize for Photographic Art of Sammlung Klein. Using the mediums of photography, video, and performance, and the materials of wax and plaster, she explores time, energy, and the conditions of artistic productivity amid daily life, care work, and studio practice.