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David Goldenberg

(Hitchin, Hertfordshire, UK, 1956) is an important English conceptual artist.For years, his research has been concentrated on the Post Autonomy concept, which he has developed in a number of shows held at important international institutions, standouts amongst which are the recent Template – Mobile Documenta, Chisenhale Studios, London(2011), The Space of Post Autonomy, Arts Depot, Vienna (2011), Plausible Artworlds, Basekamp, Philadelphia (2010), Mobile Documenta, Fordham Gallery, London (2009), The Time of Post Autonomy is Now, Your space, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Holland (2009), The Space of Post Autonomy, Local Operations, Serpentine Gallery, London (2007). Goldenberg has participated in a number of Group shows of international stature, standouts amongst which are the Berlin Biennale (2012), the 1st Biennale of Mongolia (2010), the10th Istanbul Biennale (2007), and the 6th Biennale of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2003).To these must be added the exhibitions at international public institutions, such as JumpInto Cold Water, Shedhalle, Zurich (2006), Century City, Tate Modern, London (2001), Out of Space, Kolnischerkustverein, Germany (2000).

www.postautonomy.co.uk

 

Maureen Bachaus / The research of the human mind
In the year 2004, based upon the results of an extended e-mail inquiry, the Dutch multidisciplinary artist Maureen Bachaus built 5 different 'art-devices' -based upon Carl Gustav Jung's law of synchronicity- that could help people to cope with the stressful, superficial and capitalist life in Western Europe.
Since that time, Bachaus enlightens social themes through personal perspective; all her work is based on research of the personal thoughts of people from different cultures with different backgrounds.
Essential themes throughout Bachaus' work are the human psyche, the freedom of expression, the human identity.
The collected thoughts are translated into photography projects (e.g. the 'Identification Series'), interactive & international videoprojects (e.g. the 'One-question-series'), installations (e.g. the 'Landscape or wasted thoughts'), and sculptures (e.g. public space sculpture 'Cloud of Thoughts').

www.maureenbachaus.com

 

Jeton Muja

‘Investigation Continues’. My art practice has always been dedicated to investigation and research of different media, themes and ways of expression. Since 2004. My essential leitmotiv has been the syntagma “Investigation continues”, the slogan used in my home country for the people who disappeared during the war. I have been articulating the notion of investigation through drawings, videos, installations and performances. I used “Investigation continues” asa metaphor, based on the fact that in postwar and post-independence reality of Kosovo,unfortunately, investigations didn’t continue, there were only simulated. Later, the idea of “asylum” emerged. My personal exhibitions in France and Belgium, as well as my performance 'Enquete Continue' in front of the National Court for Emigration Right in Paris, (where I stayed as emigrant asking for asylum) have influenced reflections about contemporary emigrations, where as an actual challenge of every individual who lives in the country of 'Investigation continues' kind, the will to emigrate emerges for the only reason of not being a victim of this authoritative fixation on false security.

www.saatchiart.com/profile/96105

 

Ioana Pioaru

is a multidisciplinary Romanian artist currently living and working in London, U.K. Her recent works develop dematerialised post-conceptual practices looking at the role of art in society. Previous projects are constructed around the subject of otherness, investigating the relation between identity and perception in contemporary society. Since 2012 she has collaborated with David Goldenberg on various projects.

http://daltaleron.wordpress.com/

 

Bahram Khalilov

The connection of the functionality of art as the succumbed object of consumption on a social level and experiences in the process of creating it is quite difficult, for those approaches of perception belong to drastically different art comprehension categories.
Difficulty in acceptance of one view point by all three categories is in contradiction with their factual approach to art in reality. The meaning that art represents to a considering party changes with the category affirmation. The categories of art-biz professionals and theoreticians, viewers and, last but not least, artists themselves have various origins and aims. When we discuss art matters, we need to realize what category we belong to and which origin we represent.

http://bahramk.wix.com/bahram-khalil