Boban Andjelkovic examines the conditions of painting and its significance as a contemporary medium. He combines figurative elements with abstract compositions to reflect personal experiences, phenomena from art history and pop culture or current social issues. Fragments of figures are removed from their context and reassembled as pictorial elements to create pictorial structures that follow an inner logic. His motifs often originate from the world of comics, graffiti or fashion and take up the visual language of the Internet.

Caro Jost preserves traces of the past in a conceptual approach in which the appropriation of marginal stories and memories plays a central role. Drawing on a complex archive of material, Jost transfers found fragments onto canvas and deconstructs their message. For her specially developed image type “Streetprint”, she uses the image carrier to take street prints from places with personal, social or (art) historical significance. The series of small street prints were created at the former home of the Scholl siblings in Munich. The date of June 6 alludes to the historic D-Day.

Olga Migliaressi-Phoca creates narratives that reflect today’s popular culture and address current attitudes in Western society. In her text-based works, the artist transforms iconic logos into thought-provoking puns. Recognizable, familiar signs that have become an everyday part of the vocabulary are transformed into a new narrative. Driven by humor and irony, the works aim to grab the viewer’s attention and playfully reflect current issues.

Laura Ní Fhlaibhín works with materials in the context of healing and care. She creates complex material scenarios that include sculptural constellations, drawings, text and performance. Her triptych shows the vision of a journey into an ecstatic world after death. In her edition, she combines references to Hieronymus Bosch, variations on the willow tree and allusions to the cartoon Care Bears (Glücksbärchis). In her works on paper, the artist combines pencil or watercolor with self-made inks, lubricants and medicinal ointments.

Patrick Ostrowsky combines sculpture, object, performance and installation based on a critical examination of (temporary) architecture and natural spaces, material and ritual. Ostrowsky focuses on material aspects of places and phenomena of abstract imprints in the urban landscape to transfer structures of urban life and strategies of temporary architecture to sculpture. The wall works of the “reliefs” series consist of cast layers of different materials on wooden panels and form semi-transparent abstract painting-sculptures.

Paul Valentin’s multidisciplinary practice includes video, animation, installation, sculpture and sound. His works are based on paradoxes, philosophical dilemmas and classical themes of metaphysics. The CG (computer graphics) based works on display are drawn from an extensive science fiction universe created by the artist, most recently exploring the philosophical question of Munchausen’s Trilemma. “The Dualistic Trial” is part of a series of video loops and refers to the well-known wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics.

Youjin Yi combines representational references and abstract, painterly structures in her multi-layered artistic language. Her works show landscapes occupied by people, animals, objects or intermediate beings. Seemingly dematerialized, they merge with their surroundings or take on form. Yi regards her works as metaphors for unconscious images and manifestations of ideas. Her art is characterized by the variation of graphic and painterly qualities and the principle of the open juxtaposition of opposites.