Maja Behrmann (*1994, lives and works in Leipzig) completed her degree in the Master Class in Painting and Graphic Arts with Christoph Ruckhäberle at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig in 2021. In her work, she takes up the challenge of putting together a repertoire of forms that she expands through their relationship with each other. Behrmann avoids restricting herself to one medium, using sculptures, textiles, and prints in equal measure. What thereby results are questions of relations and possibilities of bonds. What goes together how, and where lie previously invisible lines of relationship that become visible through overlappings and omissions? The patterns that result add ever-new outgrowths – for example in her first solo exhibition, which was held in January 2021 at the EIGEN + ART Lab.

Recent exhibitions include: fünfte saison, Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz, 2024, Gegen den Strich, Schloss Sacrow, Potsdam, 2024, Tetrachromat, a&o Kunsthalle, Leipzig, 2024, Pride & Prejudice, Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten, Wien, Austria, 2023, Arrangements: Erkundungsbohrungen, Galerie der Stadt Backnang, 2023, Findling, Galerie Eigen + Art, Leipzig, 2023, stages, Galaxie neuer Künste, Halle (Saale), 2023, relief feature ensemble, New Positions, Art Cologne/Galerie Eigen + Art, 2022

Isabella Fürnkäs (*1988, Tokyo, Japan) is an artist who works in a variety of media. The body of work involves equal shares of video, multi-media
installation, performance and drawing. She studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Keren Cytter and Andreas Gursky, where she finished as Meisterschülerin in 2017. In addition, she was a guest student at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Hito Steyerl. Previously, she studied art history and philosophy at the Universität zu Köln, the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, as well as fine arts at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien. She is the recipient of the CCA Artist-in-Residence Program in 2024 and the Berlin Masters Schliemann Residency in 2022. Furthermore, she is a scholar of the Akademie der Künste Berlin and the winner of the first prize of the strike a pose K21 Kunstsammlung NRW award in 2021. She has participated in numerous residency programs such as the Bronner Residency Tel Aviv (2019); the artist residency of the Goethe Institut Dakar (2018); and received a travel grant from the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (2017). In 2016 she received the Förderpreis des Landes NRW, as well as the Paris Cité Internationale des Arts Paris residency. Since 2023 she is a lecturer at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Braunschweig.

(b. 1988, New Jersey, USA, lives and works in Athens, Greece).

Selected exhibitions include: This mud-formed life, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway (2024) The Infinite Woman, Foundation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France (2024); The Eyes of the Beloved are Everywhere, Maureen Paley, Hove, UK (2023); Lay All Your Love On Me, Salon 94, New York, US (2021); Leave the thorns and take the rose, The Breeder Gallery, Athens, Greece (2020); Now I only believe in…Love, Fortnight Institute, New York, US (2020).

Her work can be found in the National Collection of Norway, the Whitney
Museum Collection, Perez Museum Collection, and the LACMA Collection.  In
2023 She was awarded the Ezra Jack Keat Honor Award for her illustrations for
Emile and the Field, written by Kevin Young, the director of the Smithsonian
Museum of African American History and published by Penguin-Random House in
2022. She is represented by Maureen Paley, London, UK

Born in Tamworth, UK, 1972.

David Risley was founding owner of David Risley Gallery for 20 years, 10 years in London and 10 in Copenhagen. He now works full time as an artist and occasionally writes, curates and teaches.

Education

Ba. Fine Art. Painting. Bath School of Art. 1991-1994.

Solo shows

Portraits. A Hug From the Artworld, NYC, 2025

Night is also a Sun, Hunted Projects, Edinburgh, 2024

Art.Work, Stine Goya Studio, 2024

Madame X, Outpost, Copenhagen, 2023

The Water or the Wave, Kostyal Gallery, Stockholm, 2022

Midnight Special - Gæsteværelset, Copenhagen Dec 4 - 29, 2021.

The River Doesn't Care, Ekely, Copenhagen, 2021

Our House. Vesterbrogade 77. Copenhagen. 2020