Featuring Aaron Moulton

Selected profiles

• Jasmin Werner ^(DE/PH)

  Jasmin Werner is a German-Filipino artist based in Berlin. In her practice, she explores architectures of power and objects of status. Werner draws attention to transnational movements as she occupies spaces of production and consumption. In this way, Jasmin Werner explores historical analyses, ideologies, and individual desire. Within these, she creates her own systems by connecting different cultures and eras in a non-hierarchical way. Her sculptures scrutinize economic, social, and intellectual structures that are geared towards constant growth.

• Niels Munk Plum ^(DK)

  Niels Munk Plum (b. 1992, he/him) is a visual artist who after completing his BFA, received one of the FKDS studios at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo in 2020-21. In 2022 he obtained his MFA at Malmö Art Academy, with his graduation show RIGID ROOM, which traveled to Stockholm to be a part of “Konstväxlingar”, the ongoing exhibition-series showing work from newly graduated nordic artists at Odenplan Metroplatform.  He was successively one of three artists to receive a commission for a new performance work as part of the opening exhibition I Call It Art at the National Museum in Oslo 2022.  Currently based in Copenhagen, Niels works with staging the body and language in a performance – and participatory-based discourse where the aim is to queer the self from the use of already existing logic.  Recently he has been behind the performance-based initiative SPIRAL PRAKSIS in collaboration with Sigrid Lerche. In the spring his first solo show EASY FORM HARD was open at Galleri REDAN in Malmö. He is currently working on the exhibition LOOMING/LOOPING in collaboration with Damien Ajavon, curated by Håkon Lillegraven, that will open in January at BO-Billedkunstnere in Oslo and move to Collega in Copenhagen in June. 

• Kirstine Aarkrog ^(DK)

  Kirstine Aarkrog is a visual artist working with sculpture. A central part of her practice is making invisible structures physical and concrete, especially structures which we as a society repress or ignore, such as for instance nuclear power, abuse, addiction, intimacy, sexuality, violence, weapons, mining, grief etc. Aarkrog’s work is often based on a kind of field work. She places herself in a given environment and in the investigation of it. She tries to avoid prejudice by being a kind of actor and break into a system so to speak. The purpose of this field work is not conclusions but artworks. Kirstine Aarkrog work with sculpture because sculpture is related to what is physically possible. It is able to express the opposite – like humans. Functionality and technique are common trait in her sculptures. They are often tools or devices for potential actions. In the work, she treats the elements equally – social relations equally with plaster etc.

• Michiel Ceulers ^(BE)

  Michiel Ceulers’ (1986, Belgium) paintings have a focus on being foremost objects. They embody sculptural and tactile qualities. His imagery explores the spaces between hardcore abstraction and mundane figurative motifs. Michiel Ceulers was awarded with the Gaverprijs and nominated for the Prix Jeune Peinture. His work was shown in exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, M HKA, Antwerp, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Castilla y León, Kunstmusem Den Haag, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.

• Jan S. Hansen ^(DK)

  Jan S. Hansen (1980, Denmark) is a visual artist based in Copenhagen. He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts in Copenhagen, and has studied at Copenhagen University, Faculty of Humanities, Philosophy of Mind and at The European Graduate School, Division of Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought in Saas-Fee. His work employs diverse mediums like ceramics, laser cutting, 3D printing, maquettes, mannequins and altered found objects from daily life, that is often presented within larger installations, creating environments or scenographies. In his practice he explores concepts such as time, space, and the complexities of (human) consciousness, as well as the impact of technological advancements on the human mind. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality, his work prompts reflection on the intricacies and makeup of reality. Amongst others, he has exhibited at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; O–Overgaden, Copenhagen; Simian, Copenhagen; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro and Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg. He is co-founder and co-director of Simian, a non-profit artist-run art space in Copenhagen. Simian collaborates with Danish and international artists to produce exhibitions that highlight new artistic tendencies and pressing societal discourses.   This profile is last updated on 15 May 2024.

• Bita Razavi ^(IR/FI)

  Bita Razavi (b. 1983, Tehran) is a multidisciplinary artist known for her autofictional practice centered around sociopolitical observations of everyday situations. While working as a cleaner in Helsinki, Razavi photographed design objects in Finnish homes, observing them as a manifestation of national identity. She married her schoolmate in her studio at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts to address Finnish immigration policies and spent four years renovating two houses in Estonia to study the Soviet renovation practices through years of changing economic and political situations. Razavi’s works have been extensively exhibited worldwide. She represented Estonia at the 59th Venice Biennale and received the Oskar Öflund’s grand prix in 2017.   This profile was last updated on 15 May 2024.