Minor Alexander

Minor Alexander works in the border area between art and nature, industry and manual labour as well as reality and illusion. He creates foreign worlds, forms nature from synthetic materials and works on this with industrial procedure technologies like isolation and surface protection. Besides, originates from electrostatic flocking a velvet-soft structure which seems to come from the nature and reminds of moss-covered stones. Minor associates them with the underwater world which he experienced as a child at diving in the Ukraine.

Marie Aly

The paintings of Marie Aly are like dreams in which faces appear and come to life. During the act of painting, where she is mostly guided by intuition, the image pushes itself forward through the many layers of paint. Aly is interested in the history and the role of the iconic image. From the past to the present. From the religious, to the secular renaissance portrait. From the LP cover to the fashion shoot. From the stock photo to the Instagram selfie. Aly’s gang of outsiders also do not show you much personal emotions, but they still tell you a very personal story, they perfectly reflect the contemporary perspective on different cultures, fashion, music, art, private identity, and gender that converge in the panorama of our futureless reality where even the obvious historical referencing assumes a timeless dimension.

Nicole Bianchet

Reality is a credible fiction.
I’m interested in the detectable errors: the flaws in the matrix; the boring beauty contrasting the brute; the plausible lies feeding the implausible truth. Daily consumer culture strengthens individual truism pampered by social media. Stroboscopic scraps of horror, desire, happiness and politics are mending to a highly manipulative reality. We no longer believe in fairy tales – and yet we believe in the greatest fable of all time.

Isabelle Borges

Bram Braam

Visual artist Bram Braam (NL, 1980) is captivated by the makeability of our daily surroundings. Apart from his photos, collages and assemblages Bram focusses on sculptural works of a subtle or –juxtaposing– monumental scale. Many influences can be found in these works: the American minimalism of Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt, the utopian thinking of architects as Le Corbusier, yet also the modernism of Bauhaus and De Stijl. In his work the schematic clarity of the Dutch landscape meets with the raw, urban chaos of Braam’s place of residence Berlin.

Rafa de Corral

Janine Eggert

Wolfgang Flad

He does not attempt to reproduce an accurate representation of the visual reality, instead, he uses upcycling materials such as art magazines and art books among others to create his abstract sculptures.

The balance between matter and empty space in between elements reminds us of nerve cells. Intentionally or not they are made out of information. Dozens of art magazines are crushed into small pieces and mixed with glue to give form to the basic structure of his art works.

Heike Gallmeier

Heike Gallmeier combines elements of sculpture, painting and photography to form installations.

She uses space as a painting ground, as it were, to construct perspective with the aid of various objects. Depending on the viewer’s perspective, compositions dissolve and reform. Her installations and photographs not only thematize their being constructed; rather, they are also always poised on the precarious line between consistency and contingency, between context and collapse.

Wolfgang Ganter

Christian Henkel

Vanessa Henn

Handrails mark the physical point of contact between man and architecture. The hand touches the railing, which is anchored in the wall. This is where the direct contact takes place, and this is where my artistic interest begins. My work often refers to the architecture and the nature of a particular place; to relationships between people and their surroundings and how people design their living space.

Mathias Hornung

1988 – 93 free studies in set and costume design at Staatliche Hochschule der bildenden Kuenste Stuttgart Weissenhof, Prof.Peter Grau and Prof. Jürgen Rose
1988 career guidance period , Paris , France
1986-88 training mechanics for industry , Reutlingen , Germany
1971-84 high school diploma Abitur , Friedrich-List-Gymnasium , Reutlingen

ACTIVITIES
1992-today free artist in Berlin mainly working in wooden relief , sculpture drawing, wood printing

Isabel Kerkermeier

Kanta Kimura

Jerry Kowalsky

The dutch artist Jerry Kowalsky – a pseudonym – is something of a scavenger: firstly in materials, scouring his environment for discarded cardboard packaging and old merchant posters and secondly of inspiration, the absurd and extraordinary, from voodoo to science fiction to urban mythology. (text: Kurt Beers).

Elena Marti Manzanares

Sandra Meisel

since 1990 several extended visits to foreign countries and internships in different media

1991-95 University of Communication and Design
(New Media, Photography/Text), Wuerzburg, Germany (BFA in 1995)

1995 ZKM Karlsruhe
(Center for Art & Media-Technology), Karlsruhe, Germany

Lea Asja Pagenkemper

Manfred Peckl

Jose Antonio Picazo 

Influenced by the the industrial and architectural revolution in our world the work presented here talks about the rhythms inherited, our daily life, about a reality that seems intangible.
The work presented has the universal language of painting, it speaks of repetitions, of saturations, of structures but also of depth, of space, of emptiness, of future, of finally uniting the background with the form.
This work wants to be a representation of the current structures of our lives, with the industrial aesthetics that we have inherited. It also wants to show another way where we can dilute the present structures in another project of society, where the natural environment that surrounds us has more importance, and likewise changing the environment we will be able to progress towards another identity.
In short, it is an exercise in pictorial experimentation, where texture, depth, expansion and layers are studied. It is an attempt to break with the traditional rules in order to find new solutions.

Paul Pretzer

Anja Schwörer

Caro Suerkemper

1984–90 studied at the Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe with Peter Dreher

Carmen Bonet

Co-organiser of the “Clash Valencia Berlin” Exhibition on behalf of Sporting Club Russafa, Carmen worked for many years as a cultural manager, performing arts programmer and public relations manager. Her life at Sporting Club Russafa involves working with various artists and being surrounded by paintings, sculptures and art installations. Carmen, an actress and dancer by profession,  has been a cultural agitator in the Ruzafa district. She is driven by her love of the arts since she was a child and her different experiences and encounters have led her to this wonderful project. She met Ricardo de Larrea a few years ago in Berlin and approached him with her interest in producing conjointly this edition of “Clash Exhibitions” in Valencia.

Ricardo de Larrea Remiro

Founder, curator and organiser of the “Clash” Exhibitions.  Ricardo de Larrea born in Heilbronn, Germany to spanish parents has always kept a close tie to his spanish roots. Coming from a strong artistic influenced family, his father being a visual artist and his grandfather a musicologist, art has always been a part of his life. In 2010, Ricardo moved to Berlin where he currently resides after having lived in the south of Germany and Barcelona. He founded BcmA, an organization facilitating art projects and curating international exhibitions. Since 2012, BcmA found its permanent space in the heart of culturally vibrant Berlin-Kreuzberg. Ricardo lives and works between Berlin and Valencia, with frequent trips in Europe curious to meet new artists and grow his international network of collaborators.

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