Lukas Pusch / Sabrina Steinek / Sabine B. Vogel / Melissa Gordon

Melissa Gordon born in Boston (US) in 1981, lives and works in London. She is a painter, printmaker and editor, whose work encompasses painted and silkscreened objects, installations, performances and feminist magazines. In painting and silkscreen series that play with forms of abstraction, by mimicking residual marks on studio surfaces or forensically investigating ageing male modernist paintings, Gordon’s work turns the question of abstraction and gesture on its head. Her installations and architectural interventions in exhibitions are concerned with the “staging” of objects. Gordon is the editor of an ongoing series of feminist publications and events. She is a lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University, London.
 

Solo exhibitions
2016 Painting Behind Itself, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf. Routine Pleasures, Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL). Derivative Value, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck (DE). Fallible Space, The Bluecoat, Liverpool (UK). 2015 WE (Not I), Artists Space, New York, NY (US). 2014 Mimetic Pleasures, Boesky East, New York. ZOOOOOM, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam (NL). 2013 Material Evidence, Spike Island, Bristol (UK). 
 

Group exhibitions
2016 Modern Talk, Deweer Gallery, Otegem (BE). 2014 During the exhibition, the studio will be close, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels. 2013 HERstories, Bonner Kunstverein (DE). Specific Collisions, Marianne Boesky, New York. 2012 Parallax Curtain, S1 Artspace, Sheffield (UK). Art & Press, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (DE), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.
 

Publications
Roos Gortzak, Oliver Zybok (eds.), Painting Behind Itself, Revolver Press, Berlin 2016.

Lorenzo Benedetti, Caroline Dumalin (eds.), During the exhibition, the studio will be close, Motto Books, Berlin 2014.

Marie-Anne McQuay (ed.), Material Evidence, Sternberg Press, Berlin 2014.

Melissa Gordon and Marina Vishmidt (eds.), PERSONA, Archive Books, Berlin 2013.

Will Holder and Melissa Gordon (eds.), Specific Collisions, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York 2013.

• Web: www.melissagordon.info
  www.marianneboeskygallery.com
  www.juliettejongma.com
  www.cosarhmt.com
  

Lukas Pusch, born in Vienna in 1970, studied painting at the Vienna University of Applied Arts, the Surikov Institute in Moscow and the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Although his works are frequently seen as provocative, his primary concern is image-finding and artistic autonomy. His working method may be described as a combination of research and psychoanalytical free association. His most spectacular works, recognised worldwide, include the founding of Siberia’s first centre for contemporary art (2008) and of Slum TV (2006) a local broadcasting station in Mathare, Nairobi – one of the largest slums in the whole of Africa. The Christmas edition of the daily newspaper Die Presse (2010), illustrated with Pusch woodcuts, received the European Press Award twice in succession.
 

Solo exhibitions
2015 Deutsche Moscheen, CAT, Cologne (DE). Shanghai Boogie Woogie, Halle, MQ, Vienna. Soumission, weltecho. Galerie, Chemnitz (DE). 2014 Arbeiten eines Jungvaters, Lust Gallery, Vienna. 1. Wiener Luftausstellung, public space, Vienna. 2013 Kunstdiskurs mit einer sibirischen Kuh, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein (DE). 2012 Siberian White Cube goes Art Cologne, main entrance, ART Cologne. 2011 Die Presse Künstlermappe, Albertina, Vienna. Neues Tahiti, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna.
 

Group exhibitions
2014 In Search of the Horizon, Institute for Contemporary Art, Riga. 2011 Gute Aussichten, special project at the 4th Moscow Biennial, Haus am Ufer, Moscow. 2010 Lebt und arbeitet in Wien III, Kunsthalle, Vienna. 2009 Ferne – 8th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Museum Centre and public space, Krasnoyarsk (RU).
 

Publications
Lukas Pusch & TOMAK (eds.), der Antist, self-published, Vienna 2015 and 2016.
Deutsche Moscheen, exh. cat. CAT Cologne, 2015.
Hurra! 1914–1918, Zucker Art Books, New York 2014.
Kunstdiskurs mit einer sibirischen Kuh, exh. cat. Kunstverein Pfaffenhofen, 2013.
ZIL-130, Sensationsverlag, Waldhausen 2013.

• Web: www.lukaspusch.net
  

Sabrina Steinek (Sabrina Möller), born 1986 in Lingen (DE), studied History of Art with Friedrich Teja Bach at the University of Vienna. While still an undergraduate, she established a successful art blog entitled art and signature, and in summer 2016 she founded the art magazine keen on – the first online interactive art magazine distinguished by innovative design and a new kind of application for the user. Its contributors include internationally eminent curators and critics. Apart from her focus on digital media, Sabrina Möller writes for various magazines in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
 

Since studying History of Art at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Sabine B. Vogel has worked as a freelance art critic and curator. She gained a doctorate at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna with a thesis entitled “Biennalen – Kunst im Weltformat”. She has held a post as lecturer at the University of Applied Arts since 2003, and has been president of the AICA AUSTRIA (International Association of Art Critics) since 2008. She writes for Kunstforum, NZZ and Die Presse. Since 1996 she has run independent weblogs, the most recent being www.kunstundbücher.at for book reviews, and has posted picture series, exhibition reviews, news and interviews online at sabinebvogel.at since 2012.
 

Publications
Sabine B. Vogel (ed.), Neue Auftragskunst, Kunstforum International, vol. 244, Jan–Feb, 2017.

Sabine B. Vogel (ed.), Grenzenlose Skulptur: ein Überblick über das skulpturale Heute, Kunstforum International, vol. 229, Okt–Nov, 2014.

Sabine B. Vogel (ed.), Political Patterns. Ornament im Wandel, exh. cat. ifa-Galerie Berlin, Stuttgart, 2011.

Sabine B. Vogel (ed.), Die Macht des Ornaments, exh. cat. Belvedere, Vienna 2009.

• Web: www.keenonmag.com
  www.sabinebvogel.at