Imagined Sanctuaries: Lisa Etterich’s Worlds of Matter and Mystery
Lisa Etterich is a German painter whose work moves freely between abstraction, landscape, material experimentation and spiritual reflection. Born in Dülmen, where she continues to live and work, she studied design at the “Münster University of Applied Sciences” (Fachhochschule Münster) from 1971 to 1974. She subsequently pursued art studies through the “Hamburg School of Art” […]
Olena Linse: The Female Body as Labyrinth, Language and Source of Power
Introduction Born in 1978, Olena Linse is a Swiss artist whose paintings explore femininity, identity, sensuality and the inner life of the body. She began studying drawing and painting at a young age and later completed studies in urban planning at the Technical University of Rivne. After periods in the Czech Republic and Austria, she […]
Ambro Louwe: The Instability of Form
Across painting, sculpture, glass, spatial intervention, education, and embodied practice, Ambro Louwe has developed an art centered on a persistent question: how does form change when it is placed under pressure? A Life Shaped by Learning Ambro Louwe’s career does not follow the familiar route from art academy to studio, gallery, and museum. Born in […]
Kiko Morales: The Architecture of Endurance
Introduction Kiko Morales, born Francisco Morales Muñoz in Doña Mencía, Spain, in 1996, is a contemporary figurative artist trained at the Alonso Cano Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Granada. His practice is centred primarily on drawing on paper, combining black pen, coloured pencil, and restrained applications of acrylic. From an early stage, […]
Andreas Schmidt: Transforming Vinyl, Memory, and Identity
Origins: Displacement and Identity Transformation is central to Andreas Schmidt’s artistic practice. Working mainly with discarded vinyl records, he explores memory, migration, perception, renewal, and the possibility of giving new meaning to overlooked materials. Although his work is associated with sustainability and technical innovation, its deeper source is a life shaped by displacement and cultural […]
Yaya Bela Roth: Color, Thought, and the Landscapes Within
Farbfelder 221 – Oil on canvas – 140 x 100cm – 2024
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“Art in Bloom” Opens in Chongqing, Presenting the Work of 46 International Artists
Chongqing, China — July 30, 2026 — The 2026 Jiangjin International Painting Exhibition opens on July 30, 2026, at the Hongyi Jiuzhou International Culture and Art Center in Jiangjin District, Chongqing. Presented under the theme “Art in Bloom: New Visions for a New Audience,” the exhibition will continue through September 25, 2026. Curated by Nour […]
Echoes of Empire: Kendra Troschel and the Memory of Cyrus the Great
© of all images belongs to Kendra Troschel Civilizations survive not only through monuments and texts, but through the stories that later generations choose to remember. Few figures embody this process more profoundly than Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire and one of antiquity’s most enduring rulers. More than twenty-five centuries after his […]
Speculative Architecture
Ultimates from scaling as limes-εἴδη analogous to ‘minima moralia’ of World Reason (عِلْم ˁilm) –? proerga micra in relation to futuristic (mundane, prorso-) mythologisation strategies concerning the condicio noetica (Part 1) by Andreas Ehlers, Hamburg, Germany Maximisation, carried through to its pure conclusion, is not to be feared. Is not Venice the Serenissima unsurpassed: her intensification of the ‘Stato’ concept, her nómos bíou, rendered real beyond […]
Being and Art: A Modern Aristotelian View on an Old Problem
By Nikolas van der Koelen What constitutes a work of art? Aristotle’s aperçufrom his Metaphysics XII, nóēsis noéseōs nóēsis, or “awareness [is] awareness of awareness,” allows for a surprisingly modern and profound, even refreshing view of the problem, in spite of it being the central insight in one of the most-discussed works of European philosophy. This […]