Shortlisted Artists 2022 We are delighted to announce the Shortlisted Artists for the 2022 edition of the Allegro Prize

We are delighted to announce the Shortlisted Artists for the 2022 edition of the Allegro Prize. Among the shortlisted artists presented here in alphabetic order, our esteemed panel of the jury (Joanna Kamm, Slavs and Tatars, Ksenia Malykh, Anja Rubik, Dorian Batycka, Karolina Miszczak (Allegro), Dobromiła Błaszczyk & Sylwia Krasoń (Contemporary Lynx), will award 3 cash prizes of PLN 25,000 each, as well as 10 honourable mentions. In addition, the winners will have the opportunity to present their art in a dedicated article about their work in Contemporary Lynx Magazine.

AKWASI AFRANE

Kumasi, Ghana

Akwasi Bediako Afrane is Ghanaian artist and a PhD student at the department of Painting and Sculpture of the Kwame Nkrumah University of science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. His works explore the idea of augmentation or extensions between consumer technological gadgets and humans. He works with discarded electronic gadgets which he refers to as “amputees”, and he refashions and repurposes these amputees into machines and micro-organisms he describes as “TRONS”.

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ALEKSANDRA SKA

Poznań, Poland

Aleksandra Ska is a head of the Studio of Art in Social Spaces at Academy of Art in Szczecin, Poland. In her artistic practice she undermines the socially and culturally established models of sexual identification, emotional expression, interpersonal relations and life roles. She treats installations, video and object. Her works were presented at many group shows including: Manifesta 14 Prishtina, Kosovo (2022), Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2019), Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warszawa (2017), Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India, (2016), and many others.

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ALEXIA VENOT

Paris, France

Alexia Venot is an artist, designer and graduate of Ensad Paris. She continued her training with a research-creation course where she developed transdisciplinary projects. She participated in the coordination, curation and pedagogical development of the European research program at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris from 2018 to 2021. She has received several awards for her project Hay & Husk, and her work has been exhibited and presented in several French and European institutions (United Kingdom, Switzerland, Denmark, Portugal, Finland).

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ALICJA ROGALSKA

Berlin, Germany

Alicja Rogalska is Polish-British interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin and working internationally. Her practice is research-led and focuses on social structures and the political subtext of the everyday. She mainly works in specific contexts making situations, performances, videos and installations in collaboration with others. She graduated with an MA in Cultural Studies from Warsaw University and an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, where she is currently a PhD researcher. She recently presented her work at Manifesta 14 (Prishtina, 2022), Temporary Gallery (Cologne, 2021-22), Kunsthalle Bratislava (2021), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, 2020-21), OFF Biennale (Budapest, 2020-21), Tabakalera (San Sebastian, 2020), VBKÖ (Vienna, 2019), Art Encounters Biennale (Timișoara, 2019), Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2019), Biennale Warszawa (2019), Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw, 2019), Kyoto Art Centre (2019) and Muzeum Sztuki (Łódź, 2019). She is currently an artist in residence at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Essex University (2019-22) and she was the DAAD artists-in-Berlin program 2020-21 fellow. Recent residencies include the City of Women Festival (Ljubljana, 2019) and Stuart Hall Library (London, 2019).

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ANDREEA ANGHEL

Wrocław, Poland

Andreea Anghel is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Romania. While her work may vary in terms of style from one show to the next, the underlying theme tends to aggregate around subverting standard formal preconceptions, mixing ready-mades with time-consuming manual and emotional labour. She studied at the University of Art and Design Cluj Napoca and the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Selected shows: The Well-Upholstered Nightmare – solo show at Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca (2022); The Current Affair of Some Young Romanian Artists – a group show at Ivan Gallery, Bucharest (2021). Among others, her works are in private and public art collections – MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest.

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ANJAN MODAK

Kalkota, India

Anjan Modak studied painting at Rabindra Bharati University. His recent work is closely associated with the life of working class people, the struggles and survivals of the migrant workers in the big cities of India. He has been participating in solo shows at Emami Art (2016 and 2020). His work has also been featured in group exhibitions at Tamarind Art Gallery, NY, USA (2008, 2010); Habitat Foundation, New Delhi (2008); and Rajya Charukala Parshad, Kolkata (2014-2017); CIMA Gallery, Kolkata (2017, 2019); ICCR, Kolkata (2014); among others.

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BEATRICE SCHUETT MOUMDJIAN

Berlin, Germany

Beatrice Schuett Moumdjian is working intersectionally and multi-disciplinary, and uses among others archival and literature research, photography, film and text in her practice. She is examining historic facts, situations, natures, technologies, cultures and traditions, and their fields of tensions, by extracting their elements from their context and scaling them in new playful circumstances, interweaving them with personal experiences of racialization, othering, ableism in post-socialist disintegrated East-Berlin as a Bulgarian immigrant with Ottoman Armenian roots. She studied at the KABK in The Hague (NL), Bauhaus-University in Weimar (DE) and graduated in Media Arts/expanded cinema in 2020 at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (DE), since 2022 she is Meisterschülerin (post-grad honors years) in Photography at the same academy. Winner of Art in the Underground by the nGbK Berlin (2019), finalist and runner-up in invited site-specific competition Kunst im Stadtraum “Karl Marx Allee” (2020). In 2021, Research Fellowship Fine Arts by the Berlin Cultural Senate, 2022 fellowship by Stiftung Kunstfonds x Neustart Kultur, since 2022 Saxony federal scholarship for graduates and post-grad honors students. She has co-founded and co-directs the new research residency “ost in space” about Eastern culture, debuting 2023. Exhibitions include Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, nGbK Berlin, Goethe Institut Montréal, MdbK Leipzig, Galerie Bernau, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, screenings e.g. in 2018 at Kasseler Dokfest and interfilm Berlin.

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DANIIL REVKOVSKIY & ANDRIY RACHINSKIY

Kharkiv, Ukraine

Daniil Revkovskiy and Andriy Rachinskiy is a Kharkiv artists who are fusing different formats of artistic practices (installations, reenactment, video, archives), researching the contexts and landscapes of the industrial regions of Ukraine. Graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, majoring in Graphic design. Shortlisted for PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2018, 2020 and 2022 holders of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020 public choice award for “Hooligans” project.

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DOROTA GAWEDA & EGLE KULBOKAITE

Basel, Switzerland

Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė are an artist duo living and working in Basel. Both graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2012. Their collaborative work spans performance, sculpture, photography, painting and video. They are the founders of the YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP (2013–2021). They have exhibited internationally including at: Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna (2022); Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2022); Kunstverein Hamburg (2021); Istituto Svizzero, Palermo and Milan (2021); Kunstverein Leipzig (2021); Swiss Institute, New York (2020); Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (2020); FriArt – Kunsthalle Fribourg (2020); Futura, Prague (2019); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); Cell Project Space, London (2018); 6th Athens Biennale (2018); Kunsthalle Basel (2017); ICA, London (2017); MOMA, Warsaw (2016); Berlin Biennale 9 (2016); MaM, Paris (2015) among others. They are the recipients of the CERN Collide Residency 2022 and laureates of the Swiss Performance Art Award 2021.

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FILIPKA RUTKOWSKA

Warsaw, Poland

Filipka Rutkowska is a multidisciplinary artist working with performance, video and drawing. Her educational background is based on Art History and Culture Studies. Her work is primarily focused on gender, society and identity. She collaborated as an actress and performer with numerous artists including Piotr Uklański and Alex Baczyński-Jenkins as well as movie makers such as Małgorzata Szumowska and Dawid Nickel.

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GEORG PINTERITSCH

Linz, Austria

Georg Pinteritsch is a visual artist working with various mediums. He participated in many art residencies across Europe such as Cité internationale des arts in Paris. He presented his works at many group and solo shows in Austria, Czech Republic, Portugal, Norway, UK and Poland, among others. He was awarded with STRABAG Artaward, Klemens Brosch award, Bank-Austria art award and many others.

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ISAAC CHONG WAI

Berlin, Germany

Isaac Chong Wai is an artist working across a range of media, comprising performance, sculpture, video, painting and photography. The conceptual, political, and performative qualities of Isaac Chong Wai’s practice are incorporated by an interdisciplinary approach, processing the exigency of societal shifts and global phenomena. He had solo exhibitions at, among others, Zilberman Selected, Istanbul and Una Boccata d’Arte, commissioned by Fondazione Elpis in collaboration with Galleria Continua, Castiglione di Sicilia (2022); Bilsart, Istanbul (2021); Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2019); Zilberman, Berlin (2019); Kunstraum München, Munich (2018).

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JESÚS HDEZ-GÜERO

Havana, Cuba

Jesús Hdez-Güero is visual artist and his work is not limited to a specific artistic medium, but depends on the idea to be developed. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts “San Alejandro”, Havana (1999-2003). He obtained his degree in Fine Arts from the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) in Havana. He also studied Professional Photography at EFTI-International Center of Photography and Cinema of Madrid (2018-2019). His works have been included in: 1st Bienal de Karachi, Pakistan; 3rd “Desde Aquí” Biennial, Colombia; 9th and 12th ma Havana Biennial, Cuba; 10ma Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom; 7th Gwangju Biennial, Corea del Sur. He has exhibited his work in: Le Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France; ESMoA, California, United States; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen, Germany; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO) among others. He has had several important awards such as: V Jacobo Tosio Scholarship, EFTI / International Center of Photography and Cinema, Madrid, Spain; Jalisco, Mexico; 1st Prize of Photography in the “International Contemporary Art Competition 2017″among others.

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JOZEF PILÁT

Šuňava, Slovakia

Jozef Pilát is a visual and conceptual artist. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and is currently studying at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. In his work, he isn’t limited to only one medium. The way of his expression is more like swinging between different means of communication. He participated in many group and solo exhibitions through Europe: in gallery Promocyjna in Warsaw, IZONE in Kyiv, Rantakasarmi Gallery in Helsinki, gallery Mlady in Prague and many others.

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LAURE CATUGIER

Berlin, Germany

Laure Catugier is a visual artist with a background in architecture. She works with mediums such as photography, video and performance. She completed her studies in Art and Design at École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse in France and, among others, a post-master programme at Royal Art Academy Stockholm. She participated in residencies in Israël, Egypt, Iran, Russia, Japan, Czech Republic, Poland and Austria and took part in many solo and group exhibitions worldwide.

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MADZIA ZALEWA

Prague, Czech Republic

Madzia Zalewa is an intermedia artist, yoga teacher and amateur baker, currently pursuing a Master’s degree at the Academy of Arts Architecture and Design in Prague. Her practice is rooted in multispecies ethnography, folklore, and food preservation as a means to facilitate community healing and resistance. Through material experiments and fairytales, she imagines a future embedded in interconnectedness and care. Her recent works have been exhibited in independent cultural spaces and art galleries in Prague (Žižkovšiška, GRID, Intersensual Resonance), Brno (Industra, Diagnostika) and London (Luva, Ineffable), as well as published in “Blossom”, a book by the Something Else collective. In 2022, she supplemented her academic education by completing a curatorial internship at Entrance Gallery, the first Prague art space whose program is dedicated to the issue of ecological sustainability and environmental care. This summer, she floated down the Vistula with FLOW/PRZEPLYW, a mobile residency on board of the barge “Solny”, centered around transdisciplinary open-air artistic acts and the sharing of indigenous knowledge.

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MARTA BOGDAŃSKA

Warsaw, Poland

Marta Bogdańska is a visual artist, photographer, cultural manager, and filmmaker. She graduated from the University of Warsaw. She studied with Anton Vidolkle at the Home Workspace Program in Beirut in 2013. She graduated from the Academy of Photography, the School of Looking at the Institute of Photography Fort and Open Institute at Powszechny Theater in Warsaw. Currently she is participating in an experimental art program School of Ecopoetics (2022-2023). She is a member of Women Photograph, Futures Photography & Archive of Public Protests. Marta’s recent exhibitions include “SHIFTERS” at Landskrona Photo Days (September 2022), “HYBRIDS: FORGING NEW REALITIES AS COUNTER-NARRATIVE” at PHOTOESPANA in Madrid (June-September 2022), “SHIFTERS” at BELFAST PHOTO FESTIVAL in Botanic Gardens (June 2022), “SHIFTERS” at ATHENS PHOTO FESTIVAL in Benaki Museum (June – July 2022), and “COEXIST: LIBERTY, EQUALITY, BIODI VERSITY” at FOTOFESTIVAL ŁÓDŹ in Łódź (June 2022). In 2022 Marta’s book SHIFTERS won the PHOTOESPANA Best International Photography Book of the Year, and got a special mention at Polish Best Photobook of the Year. Earlier it was shortlisted for LUMA RENCONTRES ARLES DUMMY AWARD, KASSEL DUMMY AWARD, and for MACK FIRST BOOK AWARD.

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MATEUSZ SAREŁŁO

Jadwisin, Poland

Mateusz Sarełło is a photographer, author and editor of photo books. A Resident of Cite des Arts in Paris in the framework of the City of Paris Grant. His book “Swell” was chosen as a finalist in Pictures of the Year International and also earned a honourable mention in the Best Photography Book from Central and Eastern Europe. He received awards and distinctions in numerous competitions: Prix Photo La Quatrieme Image, Center Santa Fe Awards, Lucie Foundation Scholarship, Celeste Prize, FotoVisura Grant, Photolucida Critical Mass. Previously, associated with the Instytut Kultury Wizualnej in Warsaw. Curator of ShowOFF section at Krakow Photomonth. Juror of competitions, among others Grand Press Photo.

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MONIKA CZYŻYK

Helsinki, Finland

Monika Czyżyk is a visual artist based in Helsinki. She received her MFA in Painting from the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 2014, and a BFA / MFA in Time and Space Arts from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2017. She primarily works with moving images in the context of experimental documentaries and socially engaged projects. She has shown in exhibitions including Hippolyte gallery, Helsinki, Finland, 2022, Bilsart, Istanbul, Turkey, 2022, Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, 2020, C5 Art Space, Beijing, China, 2019, African Artist Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria, 2018. Her videos have been screened at Ann Arbor film Festival, Michigan, USA 2021, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 2019, New Media Society, Tehran, Iran, 2019; WRO Biennale, Wrocław, Poland, 2017, UnionDocs, New York, USA, 2017. She is a grant recipient of Arts Promotion Centre 2022, Kone Foundation 2020. She was a resident at Amant Foundation Siena, 2021, and Institute for Provocation, Beijing, China, 2019.

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MOUMITA BASAK

Purba Bardhaman District, West Bengal, India

Moumita Basak is a multidisciplinary artist from India. In her practice she uses various techniques to talk about memories, her own experience and familiar surroundings. She graduated from the Governmental Collage of Art and Craft / the Calcutta University (2022). She participated in solo and group exhibitions: KCC Art Fair (2019), GCAC Annual Exhibition (2017 – 2019), World Within World Without, group show at Bikaner House, New Delhi, 2022. She is a recipient of Shilpachariya Zainul Abedin Scholarship of GCAC Annual Exhibition (2018-19) and Khoj Peers Residency (2022).

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NATALIA KARCZEWSKA

Poznań, Poland

Natalia Karczewska is visual artist working with site-specific installations. She graduated from the Faculty of Animation (2017) and the Faculty of Intermedia Art (2019) at the University of Arts in Poznań. Her diploma project was presented at the Maria Dokowicz Competition for the Best Diploma Project and received an award from “Czas Kultury” quarterly (2019). She has presented her works in The Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznań (2020); Skala Gallery, Poznań (2018); Re Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków (2017); lokal_30, Warsaw (2017); BWA Zielona Góra (2017), and internationally: Villa Vertua Masolo, Milan (2020), Foothold, L.A.L.D., Polignano a Mare (2019). Since 2019 she has been part of Sandra Art Gallery – a collective and nomadic space. Currently represented by Stereo Gallery from Warsaw.

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REXY TSENG

Taipei, Taiwan

Rexy Tseng is a visual artist who works primarily in painting and installation. His art practice derives from the dark humor and unrequited desires found within contemporary living conditions. He received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, he attended MFA at UCLA and MFA at University of Oxford. Tseng has exhibited in Armenia, China, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Russia, Taiwan, the U.K., and the U.S.. He has received awards and recognition from Charlottenborg Foundation, Tomorrow Sculpture Awards, Asia Digital Art Award Fukuoka, Ministry of Culture of Taiwan, Taipei City Government, and others.

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RUTI DE VRIES

Tel Aviv, Israel

Ruti de Vries lives and works in Tel Aviv and Paris. She holds a B.ED in Education and Fine Arts from Hamidrasha, Beit Berl College, Israel; a MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Israel and participated in an exchange programme, Atelier Pascal-Marthine Tayou – Beaux-Arts Paris, France. She has participated in solo and group shows at Schimmel Art Center, Dresden; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya; Arts des Internationale Cite in Paris; French Institute in Tel Aviv and more. In addition, she is a recipient of many grants and awards, among others, the Prize Rappaport 2020 by Museum Ten Aviv and The Israeli Lottery Council in 2019.

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SAGG NAPOLI

Napoli, Italy

SAGG NAPOLI (an acronym for Sofia Ginevra Gianni, b.1991, Naples) is a multidisciplinary artist working with video, performance, print and sculptures. In her work, she uses narration as a tool to examine complex socio-political situations. Placing the body within a specific time and context, she reflects on notions of productivity, self-control, and achievement. She is a graduate of Camberwell College of Arts in London. She has exhibited widely across Europe with solo exhibitions including DRAMA with Stefania Batoeva, Import Export (2021); Pride and Prejudice: new practices of dignity, Departament Obecności, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (2018); Fake Things are Flammable, Polignano a Mare (2018); You’re a lie with smooth thighs and painted nails, Jupiter Woods, London (2017). Group exhibitions include Too Much (Too Little Too Late), Glasgow International, 2021; Radical Self Love, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna (2019); All Small Things, Milan (2019); Unbothered and Moisturised, Eaton Workshop, Hong Kong (2019); Blade Runner, Sprint independent publishing fair, Milan (2017).

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SURESH KUMAR SINGHA

Katwa, India

Suresh Kumar Singha is an artist whose practice is closely involved in the aspect of the personal narrative of space that translates an image that forms his surroundings. He has a B. F. A. (Painting) from Rabindra Bharati University (Kolkata) and an M. F. A. (Painting) from S N School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad. He is a recipient of different awards and has exhibited his works at different galleries in India.

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TURNUS

Warsaw, Poland

Turnus Collective is a curatorial-tourist-artistic-play group founded by Kamila Falęcka, Marcelina Gorczyńska and Michalina Sobieraj. It was created for cooperation and fun. Their main goal was to bring young artists together and give them the opportunity to present their works in comfortable and friendly conditions. Turnus gives space for free expression and art-making without any restrictions.

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VERONIKA CHEREDNYCHENKO

Lviv, Ukraine

Veronika Cherednychenko is a painter and a graphic artist working in the genres of nonfigurative art. From 2017 to 2018, she studied at the Warsaw Academy of Arts. In 2020, she graduated from the Lviv National Academy of Arts, monumental painting department. She won Art Biennale ‘VIA Carpatia’, the Main Prize 2022, Stary Sącz/Poland; Visual Arts Contest named after Nathan Altman, First Prize, 2019, Vinnytsia/Ukraine. She is also a Laureate of the festival “NONSTOPMedia”, Kharkiv and the Finalist of the Krivolap Prize, Kyiv. Her solo exhibitions include: Die Erste Woche’, SLP Gallery, 2022, Berlin/Germany, ‘The First Week’, GODO Gallery, 2022, Vilnius/Lithuania, ‘Idol’, Contemporary Art Center, 2022, Ivano-Frankivsk/Ukraine.

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YANA KONONOVA

Ukraine

Yana Kononova is an artist with an academic background in philosophy (PhD). Yana graduated from the Photoschool of Viktor Marushchenko and then studied the photography course during the long term programme from Image Threads Collective (USA). She won the ‘Bird in Flight Prize’ in Emerging photographer nomination in 2019. Her solo exhibition took place at the Dymchuk Gallery in Kyiv in 2019. She also participated in the ‘Piazza Uckraina’ pavilion at the Venice Biennale, exhibitions at the Stimultania gallery in Strasbourg, France; Con-temporary Art Observatorium in Lavagna, Italy; Penumbra Foundation, New York, USA and many others. She was awarded grants from IWM, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, research grants from EEP Berlin, Kyiv Biennale and NGO Museum of Contemporary Art.

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YURIY BILEY

Wrocław, Poland

Yuriy Biley is a visual artist and curator. He graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Lviv. The artist’s practice focuses on themes related to the experience of emigration. In 2011 together with Pavlo Kovach and Stanislav Turina he created an art gallery in Lviv named “Detenpyla gallery” which focuses on the work of Ukrainian and foreign contemporary artists. The artist’s individual works are in the collections of the Labirynt gallery, Lublin (Poland), Museum of Contemporary Art in Kherson (Ukraine) and in private collections.

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ZUZANNA CZEBATUL

Berlin, Germany

Zuzanna Czebatul completed her studies fine arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main and later attended the MFA program at Hunter College in New York on a Fulbright scholarship. She has had numerous international solo exhibitions, among them at Kunstpalais Erlangen, CAC Synagogue Delme in 2020, CCA Futura Prague in 2019 and MINI/Goethe Institute Ludlow 38, New York in 2015. Her work was included in group exhibitions like the Baltic Triennale BT 14 in Vilnius, the Athens Biennale AB7 and the Wroclaw Biennale in 2021, amongst others. Currently she is in New York City with a travel grant by the Hessische Kulturstiftung.