Sonia Jia Era Gallery

Sonia Jia, The blue grass in the forest, 2021, Era Gallery

Sonia Jia was born in Odessa, Ukraine in 2000. Sonia’s work surveys and discusses many areas, including Bataille’s philosophy, Hedonism, Feminism, LGBTQIA+, Psychology and Sociology. She is currently studying in the master’s program at the Royal College of Art after completing her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her major interests are filmmaking and fine arts.

Kati Heck Tim Van Laere Gallery

Kati Heck, Must be the Truth, 2023, Tim Van Laere Gallery

Kati Heck was born in Düsseldorf in 1979 and lives and works in Pulle, Belgium. She articulates her lucid and enigmatic paintings, on which realism is transformed from a representational category to a fluid process, in different categories: literature, art history, folklore and lived experience form simultaneous and indivisible strands. Her practice also includes sculpture, performance, film and photography. 

Pieter Vermeersch Perrotin

Pieter Vermeersch, Untitled, 2023, Perrotin

Pieter Vermeersch was born in Kortrijk, Belgium, in 1973. In his artistic investigation, Vermeersch expands beyond the boundaries of the canvas and often into large spatial interventions which constantly subvert territory, whether conceived for an exhibition space or adapted to a pre-existing architectural site. With representation and abstraction as parameters, Vermeersch’s work triggers infinitesimal perceptual experiences, presenting us with a sense of color that relates to the gap between appearance and disappearance. That gap where the divisions between two- and three-dimensional, immaterial and tangible, time and space blur. Besides immersive, painterly installations and shaded wall paintings, his work also includes a series of ephemeral zero-degree paintings on canvas. The pieces are made concrete by the irreversible process of chiseling and milling natural stone. His works are complemented by a series of photographic prints or marble slabs reactivated with delicate touches of paint, a stroke of the brush or gradual planes of color. Vermeersch lives and works between Turin, Italy and Antwerp, Belgium.

Miguel Cárdenas Kendall Koppe 

Miguel Cárdenas, Encounter at The Summit, 2022, Kendall Koppe 

Miguel Cárdenas was born in Bogotá, Colombia and lives and works between Bogotá and New York. He holds an MFA from Columbia University in 2005 and a BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 1996. He exhibited in solo shows at Licenciado, Mexico City (2021); La Balsa Arte, Bogotá (2020); and with Koppe Astner, Glasgow, at Metro Pictures, New York as part of Condo New York 2019. His work has been displayed widely in Colombia and is included in the permanent collections of the Luis Angel Arango Library, Bogotá, Colombia; Museo de Arte de Pereira, Colombia; and Museo de Arte Moderno de Cartagena, Colombia. Cárdenas renders his subjects in such impossible views, setting up otherworldly stages for his creatures and imaginary vegetation to come to life. Cárdenas combines painting, drawing, sculpture, video animation and murals to create immersive environments, rich with historical references from ancient pre-Columbian times and European modernism, his work blends elements of realism and abstraction to create mysteriously futuristic compositions. 

Marcello Maloberti  Galleria Raffaella Cortese

Marcello Maloberti, Gli sbagli si infilano come perle, Raffaella Cortese

Marcello Maloberti was born in Codogno, Lodi in 1966 and lives and works in Milan. Maloberti’s artistic research draws inspiration from urban contexts and ordinary events, with a focus on precarious states of life. Through an often alienating and visionary neorealistic approach, his observations go beyond the description of everyday experience. The artist combines an extremely condensed theatrical narrative with atmospheres of suspense that the viewer can observe and experience. His multimedia performances and installations are performed in both private and public spaces and have a powerful interactive impact on the audience. Maloberti emphasizes the relationship between art and life by seeking new approaches to photography, video, performance, installation, sculpture and drawing to form a contemporary gesamtkunstwerk.