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Nazara Matos

Biography Based in Minneapolis, Nazara Matos is a professional photographer, mother of two, swing dancer, and devoted community advocate. With a degree in Studio Arts, she brings both technical expertise and creative vision to her work, which has been showcased in prestigious venues such as Smithsonian Magazine, the Gordon Parks Gallery, Listen 2 Us Studios, […]

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Claudi Piripippi

Biography Born in Germany raised in Italy, my cultural formation developed at the University of Genoa in Italy, at the London Metropolitan University in the UK, and at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. But my academic experience could not be complete without the knowledge gathered from nature and from an […]

Curatorial reviews

Claudi Piripippi

Curatorial Reviewby Oleksandr Dyvnich Claudi Piripippi’s practice has long treated the environmental crisis as inseparable from the self, and the recent turn announced in the artist’s statement — from ecology as external subject to the “inner environment” as terrain — reads less like a rupture than a deepening of a position already visible in the […]

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Matthew Morpheus

Biography Matthew Morpheus (Serhii Matveichenko) is a Ukrainian conceptual artist based in the United Kingdom. Working across digital collage, painting, drawing, and installation, his practice explores political mythology, power structures, collective memory, and the construction of reality in contemporary media culture.Drawing on experiences of living in Ukraine, Israel, Germany, and the UK, Morpheus creates layered […]

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Luciano Caggianello

Biography Luciano Caggianello born in Siena in 1959, is an artist and designer who began his activity in the 1980s interacting with different professional fields: Advertising, Illustration, Graphics and Design (industrial and car-design). At the same time he embarked on a path of artistic research which, after initial and assiduous frequentations at the Academy as […]

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Leah Oates

Biography Leah Oates has a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and a M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Fulbright Fellow for graduate study at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Oates has had solo shows in the NYC area at Susan Eley Fine Art, The […]

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Petr Václavek ( PBV )

Curatorial Reviewby Oleksandr Dyvnich Cycle of Civilization is a series of graphite drawings made in 2023 by Czech self-taught artist Petr Václavek, working under the name PBV. The series carries a double origin: a meditation on civilisational decline and, beneath that, the intimate crisis of accompanying a daughter through her final hours. This layering — […]

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Tea Lazić

Biography I am Tea Lazić, an artist from Croatia. I hold a master’s degree in Comparative Literature and Sociology, as well as a high school diploma in Interior Design, and through my art I try to weave together all of my passions and the skills I’ve gained throughout my education.I am in love with exploring […]

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Esther Wiederhold

Curatorial Reviewby Oleksandr Dyvnich Esther Wiederhold has developed a practice with a genuinely unusual premise: she hangs her paintings on trees in the forest, photographs them in situ, and works from those images. This is not merely an eccentric method but a conceptual proposition — that a painting and its natural context are in active […]

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Esther Wiederhold

Biography I was born on December 6, 1965. After graduating from high school, I studied art education at the Kassel School of Art and Design (Hesse). I have been a teacher in the Hessian school system since 1991.Exhibitions: Double-page spread in Visual Art Magazine, nature trail in Knüllwald (34593), Künstlertreff 2025 exhibition, Billboard New York […]

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