During his life, working mainly in his studios in Berlin, Germany and Nong Khai, Thailand, Albrecht Genin (Oldenburg 1945 - Berlin 2013) created an impressive oeuvre. Far from artistic trends, museums, art critics and galleries Genin was able to translate what he considered to be the absurd reality of life into a liveable fantasy.

Right from the start Genin chose printed matter like Bibles, law books, maps, sheet music and ledgers to work on.

When you consider all the techniques and materials...

Renato Nicolodi seeks to evoke a universal sacrality in his work. His sculptures and paintings imagine spaces with corridors and stairs leading to closed-off passageways. Light and shade draw the gaze of the spectator to the inside of the construction, which remains invisible. The core of the work seems to conserve some sort of emptiness. The artist refers to archetypical buildings from past times and cultures, stripping them of their original function, ornament, and dogma.

This special secon...

Beeldend kunstenaar Caspar Berger (Utrecht, 1965) maakt kunst waarin de actualiteit en de kunsthistorische canon een belangrijke rol spelen. Het zelfportret en zijn eigen lichaam zijn daarin vaak het vertrekpunt voor omvattende thema’s als vrijheid, sterfelijkheid en politieke (geloofs)systemen. Berger maakt voor zijn beelden gebruik van een diversiteit aan materialen, waaronder brons, zilver, goud, siliconen, epoxy, hout en vilt, maar ook video en multimedia of een combinatie daarvan.

Casp...

Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-1684) was one of the best still-life painters of the seventeenth century. His work, which is enchanting to the eye, has always enjoyed international fame. Throughout his painting career of nearly sixty-years, de Heem continued to search for new and better ways to depict his subjects. He trained several pupils and had countless followers and imitators, in the Netherlands as well as abroad, and throughout the centuries. The fact that he was active in both the Northern...

In 2023 Samah received an invitation from Jeroen Dijkstra at the Livingstone Gallery in The Hague to take up a

three-month residency at the Livingstone Projects studio in Berlin. During this period, she produced a new body of work that unfolded much like a diary.

Her earlier memories - the familiar landscapes portraying the land of origin of her grandparents in Mi’ar - were blended with new ones. The residency prompted a new series capturing the essence of other villages in the Mi’ar re...