Future Generation Art Prize 2021

Alex Baczynski-Jenkins

Artist and choreographer, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins engages with queer affect, embodiment and relationality. Through gesture, collectivity, touch and sensuality, his practice unfolds structures and politics of desire. His works trace the relations between sensation and sociality, embodied expression and alienation, textures of everyday experience, utopian and latent queer histories. Previous and solo exhibitions include: Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2019); Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2018); and Chisenhale Gallery, London (2017). Baczynski-Jenkins has also presented work at: Meetings on Art at the 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2017); Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, Νew York (2016). Baczynski-Jenkins is co-founder of Kem, a Warsaw based queer feminist collective focused on choreography, performance and sound at the interface with social practice.

Wendimagegn Belete

Wendimagegn Belete (b.1986, Ethiopia) received an MA in Contemporary Art from Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art, University of Tromsø, Norway in 2017, and BFA from ASFAD, Addis Abeba University, Ethiopia in 2012. He works across a variety of media, including video, painting, archival photography, text and found materials. Wendimagegn works are focus on how history, memory and identity are formed and constituted, with specific infancies on his own background as an Ethiopian. His approach is also concerned with appropriation and reinterpretation of historical archives. He's also fascinated by the idea of the epigenetic inheritance, this idea of a memory that transfers over generations. He has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions.

Minia Biabiany

Minia Biabiany (born in Guadeloupe, 1988) works between Mexico City and Guadeloupe. She uses the layering and the fragmentation of narrations, framed in the Caribbean context, to build ephemeral poetics of forms in installations, videos and drawings. She observes the interrelation between colonialism, the action of weaving and the notion of territory in oral and written languages. She initiated the artistic and pedagogical collective project Semillero Caribe in 2016 and continues with the ongoing project Doukou, to explore pedagogical decolonial practices with the body and from concepts of Caribbean authors. Her work has been shown in the Xth Biennale of Berlin, TEOR/éTica in Costa Rica, Witte de With in Rotterdam, Cràter Invertido in México, Prix Sc Po 2019 in Paris, SIGNAL in Malmö.

Aziz Hazara

Aziz Hazara (b. 1992, Wardak, Afghanistan. Lives and works in Kabul, Afghanistan and Ghent, Belgium) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Kabul and Ghent. He works across mediums including photography, video, sound, programming languages, text and multimedia installations, exploring questions of identity, memory, archive, conflict, surveillance and migration in the context of power relations, geopolitics and the panopticon. "The visual exploration of my work is deeply entrenched in the geopolitics and the never-ending conflict that afflicts my native Afghanistan. The relevance of such issues, however, overcomes geographical specificities and appeals to a contemporary condition that is globally shared."

Ho Rui An

Ho Rui An is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. Working primarily across the mediums of lecture, essay and film, he probes into the ways by which images are produced, circulate and disappear within contexts of globalism and governance. He has presented projects at the Asian Art Biennial (2019), Gwangju Biennale (2018), Jakarta Biennale (2017), Sharjah Biennial (2017), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2018), Haus de Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2017), Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Manila (2017), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2017) and Para Site, Hong Kong (2015). In 2019, he was awarded the International Film Critics' (FIPRESCI) Prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany. In 2018, he was a fellow of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm.

Agata Ingarden

Agata Ingarden (born '94, in Poland / lives and works in Paris, France) graduated from Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris (2018) and studied at The Cooper Union, New York (2016). Her practice is driven by material research as well as investigations in post-humanities, science fiction and mythical narratives. She works with multiple media including installation, sculpture and video. Her installations evoke the interrelationship between human and its surroundings, both living and nonliving. Playing with natural properties of organic materials Ingarden displaces common objects out of their usual contexts. She has exhibited in Europe and the United States with exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, Silesian Museum, Katowice, Künstlerhaus Wien, Mo.Co Montpellier Contemporain, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden.

Rindon Johnson

Rindon Johnson is an artist. His solo exhibitions in New York and London will open as a co-commission of Sculpture Center and Chisenhale Gallery in winter and fall of 2021. Johnson has participated in group exhibitions at Brooklyn Museum; Literaturhaus, Berlin; SculptureCenter; FACT Liverpool; National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne and HeK, Basel. Johnson has performed at Artists Space, MoMA PS1, Human Resources and The Poetry Project. He is the author of Nobody Sleeps Better Than White People (Inpatient, 2016), the VR book, Meet in the Corner (Publishing-House.Me, 2017) and Shade the King (Capricious, 2017). His most recent film, "Meat Growers: A Love Story" was commissioned by Rhizome and Tentacular. He lives in Berlin where he researches VR at the Universität der Künste, Berlin.

Bronwyn Katz

Bronwyn Katz is a multi-disciplinary artist. Incorporating sculpture, installation, video and storytelling, Katz's practice engages with concepts of mapping, memory and language relative to land and culture. Conceptually, her works refer to the political context of their making, embodying subtle acts of resistance that draw attention to the social constructions and boundaries that continue to define those spaces. Katz is also a founding member of iQhiya, an art collective and network of black women artists and cultural workers in South Africa and Botswana.

Lap-See Lam

Lap-See Lam, born 1990, based in Stockholm (SE). Lap-See Lam draws attention to the cultural history of increasingly-scarce Chinese restaurants in Sweden which are intimately intertwined with the imprints of the Hong Kong-Chinese diaspora across the world. Using fiction as a tool and the particular interior aesthetics of the restaurants as a formal language, Lam considers how the concept of a place constructs notions of cultural identity and belonging. Lam utilises technologies including VR, 3D-scanning and 3D-printing to create complex, immersive and poetic environments in her work. Recent exhibitions include: Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (2020), Uppsala Art Museum (2020), Performa 19 Biennial, NY (2019); Fondation Cartier, Paris (2019); Moderna Museet, Malmö (2019-2018) and Luleå Biennial (2018). Lam is a recipient of the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation Grant in 2017.

Mire Lee

Mire Lee (b. 1988) pursues an artistic process based on substances the act of "making." With a primary interest is in the material properties and movement of three-dimensional media, she explores affect and energy—including desire, sentimentality, vitality, and drive. She has taken part in various exhibitions, including the solo exhibition War Isn't Won by Soldiers It's Won by Sentiment (Insa Art Space) and the group exhibitions Moving / Image (Arko Art Center), 2016 Media City Seoul, NERIRI KIRURU HARARA (Seoul Museum of Art), 15th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, Where Water Comes Together with Other Water, etc.

Paul Maheke

Paul Maheke (b. 1985, Brive-la-Gaillarde, France) lives and works in London,UK. After studying at ENSAP-Cergy, Paris and Open School East, London, Paul Maheke's works and performances have been shown at Tate Modern, London; the 57th and 58th Venice Biennale; Centre Pompidou, Paris, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, Baltic Triennial 13, Tallinn, Manifesta 12, Palermo and Chisenhale Gallery, London, amongst others. With a focus on dance and through a varied and often collaborative body of work comprising performance, installation, sound and video, Maheke considers the potential of the body as an archive in order to examine how memory and identity are formed and constituted.

Lindsey Mendick

Lindsey Mendick is a London based artist who works with clay, a medium that is often associated with decoration and the domestic, subverting these historic connotations to create skilled monuments to 'low culture' and the contemporary female experience. Often culminating in elaborate installations, Mendick's autobiographical work offers a form of catharsis, encouraging the viewer to explore their own personal history through the revisionist lens of the artist. Her work challenges the male gaze, promoting instead an unapologetic, humorous and, at times, grotesque femininity.

Lindsey Mendick received an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London in 2017. She was the recipient of the Alexandra Reinhardt memorial award in 2018 and was also selected for Jerwood Survey 2019. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include: Eastside Projects, Birmingham; Castor Projects, London; Hannah Barry Gallery, London; The Turnpike, Leigh; Zabludowicz Collection, London; and Vitrine, Basel.

Henrike Naumann

Henrike Naumann was born in Zwickau, GDR in 1984. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She reflects socio-political problems on the level of interior design and domestic space and explores antagonistic political beliefs through the ambivalent aesthetics of personal taste. In her immersive installations she arranges furniture and home decor into scenographic spaces interspersed with video and sound work. Growing up in Eastern Germany, Naumann experienced extreme-right ideology as a predominant youth culture in the '90s. Therefore, she is interested in the mechanisms of radicalization and how they are linked to personal experience. Although rooted in her experiences in Germany, Naumann's work has addressed the global connectivity of youth cultures and their role in the process of cultural othering.

Pedro Neves Marques

Pedro Neves Marques is a visual artist, filmmaker, and writer. They have had solo shows at Castello di Rivoli, High Line, Pérez Art Museum of Miami, e-flux, Gasworks and Museu Colecção Berardo, and have shown at Tate Modern Film, Serpentine Cinema, Kadist, Fondación Botín, SculptureCenter, Matadero, VAC Foundation, Guangdong Times Museum, and in film festivals like TIFF and NYFF, Go Shorts, and IndieLisboa, among many others. They have published widely between art, anthropology and ecology; edited the anthology The Forest and The School (Archive Books, 2015) and guest-edited e-flux journal's special issue Supercommunity (2015). They are the author of two short story collections and their first poetry collection, Sex as Care and Other Viral Poems, is due 2020. They were awarded the Present Future Art Prize at Artissima in 2018. Forthcoming solo shows include at 1646, CA2M and CaixaForum, and the Liverpool Biennial and Gwangju Biennale. Born in Lisbon, Portugal, they have lived in London, São Paulo and New York.

Frida Orupabo

Frida Orupabo lives and works in Oslo, Norway. Orupabo's artworks denude and dismember the multifarious legacies of colonialism, controverting its still-engrained narratives of race, gender, and ownership. Historical photographs of black women provide her not only with source material and subject matter, but first-person narrators as well. The hierarchical relation between subject, viewer, and author — the latter two of which roles have been historically denied to black women — is destabilized, distinctions between the positions are blurred, reframed, and upended. Orupabo has shown her works at Gavin Brown's Enterprise (NYC and Rome), Portikus (Frankfurt am Main), Gallery Nordenhake (Berlin), amongst other venues. In 2019 she participated in the 58th Venice Biennale.

Andrés Pereira Paz

Andrés Pereira Paz (b. 1986, Bolivia) lives and works in Berlin. His work focuses on the tensions behind the construction of identity as a non-statistical process. Recent exhibitions include: ''Survival kit'' at the Latvian Center of Contemporary art, in Riga, Latvia; ''Radio Carabuco'' at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; ''Salón Santa Cruz'' at Kiosko Gallery, Santa Cruz de la Sierra; ''Blue Eyes'' at The Ryder Gallery, London; ''Rayo Purita'' at Crisis Gallery, Lima; ''I AM HE AS YOU ARE SHE AS YOU ARE ME" at House of Egorn, Berlin; "The Terrestrial Triangle" at the Cerrillos Cultural Center, Santiago, Chile; "Open Studios" at Gasworks London; Biennial of Contexts at the National Museum of Art, La Paz, among others. He is also part of the Bisagra team in Lima, Perú.

Teresa Solar

Teresa Solar is a Spanish-Egyptian sculptor based in Madrid. In recent years, Solar has developed large-format installations in which families of sister sculptures vary in shape and size, creating complex ecosystems of thought. The reflection about the great stories of progress in contemporary society are opposed to micro-narratives that have to do with her own body; in this sense, Solar approaches her sculptures and installations as corporeal functions that relate to the industrial world, where hybrid forms of existence are constantly produced; her objects, then, constitutea crossbreed between the manmade, the natural and the mythical. Recent exhibitions include Liverpool Biennial (2021), Index Foundation, Stockholm (2019); Galería Travesía Cuatro Ciudad de México, México (2019); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2018); and Der Tank, Basel (2018).

Trevor Yeung

The practice of Trevor Yeung (b. 1988, China) consistently excavates the inner logics of closed systems and the way in which such systems contain and create emotional and behavioural conditions. In his mixed-media works, carefully staged objects, animals, and plants function as aesthetic pretexts which delicately and ironically address notions of artificiality and the processes of human relations. Yeung has participated in biennials and exhibitions including "la biennale de Lyon 2019" (Lyon, France, 2019); the 38th EVA International Biennale (Limerick, Ireland, 2018); the 4th Dhaka Art Summit (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2018); "The Other Face of the Moon" (Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea, 2017); "Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs" (Para Site, Hong Kong, 2017); "Seal Pearl White Cloud" (4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Australia, 2016); and the 10th Shanghai Biennale (China, 2014). Trevor Yeung lives and works in Hong Kong.

Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff

The Berlin-based artist duo Calla Henkel (b. 1988, US) and Max Pitegoff (b. 1987, US) have been working together for over a decade. Together, they found and run venues as catalysts for collaborative artistic work. Their expanded documentation of these spaces traces the economic, structural and often personal systems that build shared spaces, taking form through photographs, texts and narratives. From 2013 to 2015 they ran New Theater, a storefront in Berlin-Kreuzberg where they wrote and produced plays with artists, writers and musicians. In 2017/18, they led the artistic direction of the Grüner Salon at the Volksbühne Theater in Berlin, staging their own original plays and commissioning performances by artists. Since 2019, they have been running TV – a bar, performance space and film studio in Berlin-Schöneberg. Recent solo exhibitions include Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg (2020), Kunstverein Hamburg (2018), and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2016).

Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk

Roman Khimei (born Kolomyya, Ukraine) and Yarema Malashchuk (born Kolomyya, Ukraine) both based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Graduated as a cinematographers from Institute of Screen Arts (Kyiv, Ukraine). Since 2013 working together on the edge of visual art and cinema as artists and filmmakers. In their work, they explore the image of the crowd, as a separate character in history and culture. Their films were screened and exhibited in Mexico, Italy, Germany, Austria, Canada. Awarded with Special Prize at PinchukArtCentre in 2018, Grand Prix at Young Ukrainian Artists Award (MUHi 2019), Best Short Documentary at Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México, Best Production Award at KIFFF Ukraine. Collaborated as a cinematographers with Dutch duo Metahaven ("Hometown", 2018) and Phillip Sotnychenko ("Son" Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand ISFF 2016, France; "Technical Break" Best Short Film at Tallinn "Black Nights" IFF 2018, Estonia). In 2020, Yarema and Roman won the Main Award at PinchukArtCentre Prize with work "Live Stream". This year their debut documentary feature film "New Jerusalem" premiered at Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.

Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings

Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings (Newcastle and London; both b.1991) are an artist duo based in London. Working across drawing, film, installation, performance and fresco, their practice examines the behaviours, history, politics, and artefacts of LQBTQ culture in the Western context. Quinlan and Hastings are committed to exposing nationalism, masculinity, and whiteness within the LGBTQ community and the effects on the community of state-led violence, including policing, gentrification, and austerity. Recent projects continue to be informed by The UK Gay Bar Directory (2016). Prompted by the rapid closure of gay bars, this work is a moving image archive featuring over 100 gay bars in the UK with duration of 4 hours. The artists are represented by Arcadia Missa, London and Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.

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