PARIS.- With its group exhibition Inside / Outside, Priska Pasquer Paris is showcasing the sheer diversity of its gallery programme in a multimedial dialogue with 16 international artists. At the same time, three new artists – Daniel Mebarek, François Ronsiaux and Achim Mohné – will be joining its ranks. The exhibition shows the broad spectrum of work covered by the gallery. Originally focusing primarily on photography, it gradually included more and more intermedia works from the fields of painting, sculpture, performance, installation, virtual and augmented reality, audio and video. All of the artists take a pioneering approach to exploring the radical changes of our age.

Under the title Inside / Outside, the exhibition explores the many different dimensions and the interplay between the inside and the outside conjured up by the fast-moving, globally networked present: spatial / architectural; private / public; analogue / digital; closed / open; alone / together; body / machine; visible / invisible, past / future. Since opening its French branch in January 2023, the gallery’s monthly individual exhibitions have provided in-depth insights into its extensive programme. With Inside / Outside, PRISKA PASQUER PARIS is celebrating its first six months in the historic Marais district of Paris.

Artists: Aljoscha, Banz & Bowinkel, Jane Benson, Ornella Fieres, Fabian Herkenhoener, Pieter Hugo, Daniel Mebarek, Radenko Milak, Achim Mohné, Johanna Reich, François Ronsiaux, Albrecht Schäfer, Charlie Stein, Genaro Strobel, Fiona Valentine Thomann, Charlotte Triebus.

ALJOSCHA

Aljoscha was born in 1974 in Lozova, a city in eastern Ukraine. For more than 20 years now, he has been living and working in Düsseldorf, where he studied under Konrad Klapheck at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 2006, he took part in the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg with Shirin Neshat. In 2008, he took first prize in sculpture at the XXXV. Premio Bancaja in Valencia, Spain, and won the sculpture award “Schlosspark 2009” in Cologne, Germany. In 2010 he organised the “bioism uprooting populus” installation project, which was sponsored by the Karin Abt-Straubinger Stiftung foundation in Stuttgart, Germany. In November 2018, Aljoscha represented Ukraine in the exhibition “1914/1918 – Not Then, Not Now, Not Ever” in the German Bundestag that was held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. His works are represented in countless private collections and museums, including the Getty Center in Los Angeles, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, and the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki.

BANZ & BOWINKEL

Giulia Bowinkel and Friedemann Banz live in Berlin and have been working together under the name Banz & Bowinkel since 2009. In 2007 they graduated from the Art Academy with Albert Oehlen and started making art with computers. Their work includes computer-generated imagery, animation, augmented imagery, virtual realities, and installations. The award-winning works of Giulia Bowinkel and Friedemann Banz have been exhibited among others in the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, in the Haus Esters/Haus Lange, at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld, at the Haus of the electronic arts in Basel, in the Halle für Kunst & Medien in Graz, at the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen and at the NRW-Kunstforum Düsseldorf. Her works are in the collections of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld, the Museum Kunstpalast and the Kunsthaus NRW.

JANE BENSON

Jane Benson works in various media such as installation, sculpture, drawing, video, music and literature, which she often interweaves in very idiosyncratic ways. Her works deal with destruction and loss, but also discover hidden (aesthetic) potential and possibilities of healing in the damage. This principle affects physical materials as well as aesthetic identities. She has exhibited at national and internationally venues, including MoMA PS1 Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York;Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia or Kunsthalle Emden. Recent solo exhibitions have taken place at Paula Cooper Gallery, Palm Beach Florida; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati.

ORNELLA FIERES

The artist Ornella Fieres (*1984 in Frankfurt) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at Macquarie University in Sydney and at the HfG Offenbach, where she is currently working on her PhD in media studies. Fieres's multimedia installations have been exhibited internationally at The Centre Pompidou in Paris, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Goethe Institut Toronto, Literaturhaus Berlin, NurtureArt Gallery New York, Kunstverein Speyer and Fotografie Forum Frankfurt. She has given lectures and presentations at Volksbühne Berlin, Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach and at New Lab New York, where she had a research residency in 2017.

FABIAN HERKENHOENER

Fabian Herkenhoener was born in Troisdorf, Germany, in 1984 and studied at Düsseldorf Art Academy between 2006 and 2014, graduating as a master student of Tal R. After a spell in Berlin and Amsterdam, he now lives and works in Cologne. Herkenhoener has developed his own signature style with his text images, which read as reflective, often ironic comments on the status quo. The narratives are woven like collages of painting, performance and text. The artist himself describes his approach as an anthropological stocktaking of an unhinged world. This is because the images result from what the artist reads, writes and experiences and can be interpreted as autobiographical ciphers of the reality he sees. In this process, the language ultimately finds its own way: the text images become a psychological map between the artist and his outside world.

PIETER HUGO

Hugo (born 1976 in Johannesburg) is a photographic artist living in Cape Town.
Major museum solo exhibitions have taken place at Museu Coleção Berardo; the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; the Hague Museum of Photography, Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Fotografiska in Stockholm, MAXXI in Rome and the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, among others. Hugo has participated in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Barbican Art Gallery, Tate Modern, the Folkwang Museum, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and the São Paulo Biennale. His work is represented in prominent public and private collections, among them Centre Pompidou, Rijksmuesum, the Museum of Modern Art, V&A Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, J Paul Getty Museum, Walther Collection, Deutsche Börse Group, Folkwang Museum and Huis Marseille. Hugo received the Discovery Award at the Rencontres d'Arles Festival and the KLM Paul Huf Award in 2008, the Seydou Keita Award at the Rencontres de Bamako African Photography Biennial in 2011, and was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2012. In 2015 he was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet and was chosen as the ‘In Focus’ artist for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

DANIEL MEBAREK

Daniel Mebarek (b. 1993) is a Bolivian artist based in Paris, France. He graduated from Sciences Po Paris, the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Photography Department of the Université de Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis. Drawing from his academic background in social sciences, his artistic practice examines the relationship between personal and collective memory as well as the function of archives in the writing of history. His work has been exhibited in the United States, France and the United Kingdom. He has been recognized with prizes, grants, and residencies from organizations such as Magnum Photos, Aperture, PHmuseum, Photolucida, the Cité international des arts and the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP).

RADENKO MILAK

Radenko Milak (born in 1980 in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, lives in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina) studied at University of Banja Luka Academy of Arts as well as Belgrade University of Art in Serbia. His first major solo exhibition in Germany was hosted in 2014 by Kunsthalle Darmstadt. In 2017, Milak developed the multidisciplinary project University of Disaster for his solo exhibition at the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. The centerpiece comprised four large-format, complex watercolors depicting various disasters caused by humans; they are now in the collection of Museum Folkwang in Essen. In 2019, works by Milak were included in the large show HYPER! A Journey into Art and Music at Deichtorhallen Hamburg. In 2020, Radenko Milak held a solo exhibition entitled Disaster of the Unseen (October 15 – November 29, 2020) at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. A selection of his works was also included in the exhibition Deceptive Images – Playing with Painting and Photography at Marta Herford (October 30, 2020 – August 15, 2021). Just recently, Albertina Museum in Vienna acquired a series of works by Radenko Milak.

ACHIM MOHNÉ

Achim, 1964 in Aachen, Germany, lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Achim Mohné's interdisciplinary, media-artistic research on the extension of photography and its paradigmatic transformation through digitality is constantly evolving with new media and their apparatuses. He demands a critical distance from the authenticity of the post-photographic image in multimedia installations, sculptures, performances, sound and video works, interactive 3D visualizations with augmented reality or in VR game engines, as well as sculptural translations between digital and real spaces, walk-in works in public spaces and publications. His complex interventions deal with media-immanent issues of surveillance, manipulability, artificial intelligence, virtuality and review our approach to the world in terms of pressing social, technological, geo-political, ecological or cultural issues, with a particular focus on issues of nature and environmental protection.

JOHANNA REICH

Born in Minden, Germany, in 1977, lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
Johanna Reich has been exploring many subjects for years in various ways through painting, video, performance, photography, sculpture and holographic projections.
Among other prizes, she has won the Nam June Paik Award (2006), the Japanese Excellence Prize for Media Art (2007), the Funding Award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for Media Art (2009), the Konrad von Soest Award (2011) and the Luise Straus Award. Her work is included in international collections such as the Jerry Speyer Collection New York, the Goetz Collection Munich and the Museum Ludwig Collection Cologne.

FRANCOIS RONSIAUX

Born in 1974 in France, lives and works in Paris. Visual artist and photographer, head of the Plateforme gallery in Paris, initiator of the Biennale de l'Image tangible and president of the L'entreprise association for the promotion of contemporary art. François Ronsiaux is one of those artists with a protean creative style, working on themes such as the engineering of propaganda, modern ideologies and environmental change. Through his experiences, he constructs a jigsaw puzzle in which chance and his own spiritual search for a relationship with the world are intertwined. Using contemporary technologies and materials, François Ronsiaux, originally a photographer, creates installations, performances, visual and sound projects on the edge of balance, allegorising the reappropriation of the essential laws of nature.

ALBRECHT SCHÄFER

Born in Stuttgart in 1967, lives and works in Berlin. Albrecht Schäfer studied at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK), at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. The work of ALBRECHT SCHÄFER is characterised by minimal intervention and reduced means. With a sure feel for objects, he explores their inner logic and the aesthetic potential of their materials while invalidating conventional usage patterns. He is not interested in appropriating “everyday objects” for art or in using his art for the purposes of provocation. Rather, SCHÄFER examines objects with attention, respect and curiosity.

CHARLIE STEIN

Charlie Stein holds a postgraduate degree in Fine Art from the State Academy of Fine Art where she studied at the classes of Christian Jankowski and Rainer Ganahl in Stuttgart, as well as the class of Gerhard Merz in Munich. Stein has been selected for the ISCP New York in 2023. In 2020 she was nominated for the Villa Aurora Grant in Los Angeles and she has been a recipient of a DAAD scholarship in 2010 to reside in Beijing, China. She also was awarded the painting prize of the City of Limburg and a scholarship from Stiftung Kunstfonds in 2022. Stein lives and works in Berlin.

GENARO STROBEL

Genaro Strobel (born 1984 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany lives in Berlin, Germany) studied at the University of the Arts Berlin, the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin and the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany. From 2018 to 2020, he was the Charlotte Prinz Fellow of the Science City of Darmstadt. Notable recent exhibitions were 'Size' at Kunsthalle Darmstadt (2021), 'Shining Bright' at PRISKA PASQUER GALLERY, Cologne (2022) and ‚Everyday to Come‘ with Jane Benson at PRISKA PASQUER GALLERY, Paris (2023). His works are included in the Museum Collections of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and Unesco World Heritage Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany. Publications: León Krempel (ed.), Size. Genaro Strobel', Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2021.

FIONA VALENTINE THOMANN

Fiona Valentine Thomann (*1987), lives and works in Paris, France, creates the work Tracker, a 3D model, similar to a physical sculpture, freely drawn by the artist in the digital space. The Trackers are collages on mirrors. Their Augmented Reality version is accessible by scanning the collages with the smartphone by using ARFVT app, (available on Google Play and Apple Store) At first glance Tracker looks abstract, but then reveals a variety of references to the current digital culture, from the Human Color Wheel made by Neil Harbisson, the first cyborg that only sees black and white and listens to color, to the Canadian company Vitalic’s pure oxygen bottles ready to be sent to China for 20 dollars per bottle. Thomann's multimedia installations have been exhibited in two solo shows at Exgirlfriend Gallery in Berlin, at Château du Fey, France (2018), Haus der Electronichen Künste in Basel (2018), Centro Cultural B Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilia, y Sao Paulo ( 2018). She has been recognized with the Linossier Prize, France (2012), the New Positions in Art Cologne, Germany (2019).

CHARLOTTE TRIEBUS

CHARLOTTE TRIEBUS works as a performance artist and multidisciplinary art director. The main focus of her work is on examining the potential of interfaces between art, dance and technology. In 2018, she founded the New Human Body Society. In her mixed media installation “is a rose”, CHARLOTTE TRIEBUS addresses romanticised images of monitoring and the controversial question, much debated in sociological circles, as to whether authority to act can be given to non-human organisms and inanimate objects. The installation consists of nine hanging plants, the roots of which are growing in a ball of moss, and of a tracking system and LED monitor. The plants register the movement of visitors through their leaves. A monitor records these seismographic impressions of the plants and, from these, modulates in real time a raster graphic depicting a sphere turning on its own axis.

Priska Pasquer Paris
'Inside / Outside'
July 15th, 2023 - August 20th, 2023