Mark Van Yetter / Tex Rubinowitz / Ruth Noack / Valérie Jouve

Valérie Jouve, born in Saint-Étienne (FR) in 1964, lives in Paris. She has always worked with the 4.5 inch camera, because she sees it as a tool which can accommodate more than the purely optical view. She aims to combine elements to form an idea of human society. Photographer and filmaker, Valérie Jouve tirelessly browses the city in search of its inhabitants. Observer of the urban landscape, she captures a singular space in a particular time, questioning our way to look at things and perceive them. The photographic work of Valérie Jouve has developed two entities: humans and landscapes, and more generally the city and its outskirts. Each image is constructed around the notion of an encounter between bodies, whether they are individuals, architectures, or landscape components. It is a moving space, fluctuating and shared, that the artist highlights in her photographs. Tight frames, suspended bodies. The characters are neither caricatures nor anecdotal. When Valérie Jouve photographs people, while the image is the pretext for the meeting, in the end, it’s the meeting that becomes the pretext for the image. (www.xippas.com)
 

Exhibitions
2015 Corps en résistance, Jeu de Paume, Paris, Fundación Seoane, La Coruña (ES). 2014 5 femmes du pays de la lune, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC VAL), Paris. 2013 Un Etat, Galerie Xippas, Paris. 2010 En attente, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. 
 

Publications
Valérie Jouve. Corps en résistance, exh. cat. Jeu de Paume, Filigranes Éditions, Paris 2015.

Ute Eskildsen (ed.), Résonances, Steidl, Göttingen 2012.

Valérie Jouve. En attente, exh. cat. Centre Georges Pompidou, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris 2010.

• Web: www.valeriejouve.com
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Mark Van Yetter, born 1978 in Pennsylvania (US), lives and works in Berlin. He is co-founder of the exhibition space Marquise Dance Hall. His paintings have been presented internationally for over a decade. His work is firmly rooted in painting. Using both a figurative and an abstract language to address issues related to power and human interaction, his work often engages with macabre subject-matter while using a formal language that is both humorous and uplifting, creating an unsettling and complex dynamic. He recently won the 2016 Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch grant.
 

Solo exhibitions
2017 The Terrifying Abyss of Scepticism, Bridget Donahue, New York, NY (US). 2016 We are what we walk between, Micky Schubert, Berlin. The mere knowledge of a fact is pale, Kunsthall, Stavanger (NO). 2015 Relentless Compassion, VI VII, Oslo. 2011 Alex Zachary, New York. 2004 Direct from Poconos, StarShip, Berlin. 
 

Group exhibitions
2015 A Walk Down Sensitive Avenue, with Stefanie Popp, Kunstwerk EV, Cologne (DE). 2014 Don’t you feel me, Micky Schubert, Berlin. Eray Börtecene, Sonja Weissmann, Mark Van Yetter, Institut für Bienenzucht, Düsseldorf (DE). Touched, Apt. 302, Marseille (FR), Art Metropole, Toronto (CA). 2011 The Keno Twins 4, Villa Merkel, Esslingen (DE). 2009 Against Interpretation, Studio Voltaire, London. Ein Ding von Schönheit ein Glück auf immer, curated by Abel Auer, Corvi-Mora Gallery, London.

Publications
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, “The Nature of Imitation”, in: Mousse Magazine, no. 53,  April/May 2016, pp 78–85.
Melissa Canbaz, “Mark Van Yetter”, in: frieze magazine, issue 179, May 2016.
Mark Van Yetter & Mihaela Chiriac, “Picture Talk”, in: Starship 14, Spring 2016.
Heather Jones, “Interview with Mark Van Yetter”, 2016, https://kunsthallstavanger.no/en/blog/interview-mark-van-yetter, (retrieved 20 November 2016).

• Web: www.bridgetdonahue.nyc
  

Tex Rubinowitz, born in Hanover (DE) in 1961, has lived since 1984 in Vienna, where he studied at the University of Applied Arts with Professor Oswald Oberhuber. His cartoons have been published regularly in various newspapers since 1985. Recipient of the 2014 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, he also sings in the band Mäuse, has written several novels and non-fiction travel books, and held frequent exhibitions. His 2015 exhibition The Nul-Pointers, in the Leopold Museum, honoured those participants in the Eurovision Song Contest who, in the 60-year history of the competition, were awarded not a single point.
 

Exhibitions
2015 The Nul-Pointers, Leopold Museum, Vienna. Schnupfen gibt’s erst wieder im Herbst, Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach (AT). 2014 Du hast es vermasselt, Samstag-Shop, Vienna. 2013 Der Sommer soll warten, Kultur-Point Spittelau, Vienna. 2012 Beim DNA Test durchgefallen, Kunstverein Baden (AT). 2011 Sülze macht Asbest stumpf, Galerie Truk Tschechtarow, Munich (DE). BEND IT An exhibition on the role of music in the work of Gilbert & George, Christine König Galerie, Vienna.

Publications
Lass mich nicht allein mit ihr, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2017.
Irma, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2015.
Die sieben Plurale von Rhabarber, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013.
Rumgurken. Reisen ohne Plan, aber mit Ziel, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012.
Der Bremsenflüsterer. Nachrichten von unterwegs, Falter, Vienna 2009.
Ramses Müller, Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2009.

Ruth Noack, born in Heidelberg (DE) in 1964, trained as a visual artist and art historian; she has worked as author, art critic, university lecturer and exhibition-maker since the 1990s. Noack was curator of documenta 12 (2007). Head of the Curating Contemporary Art Programme, Royal College of Art, London (2012-13), she acted as Research Leader for the EU project MeLa - European Museums in an age of migrations. Noack was Šaloun professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (2013-14) and led the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course in 2014. Since 2015 she has been responsible for one of the DAI Roaming Academy trajectories.

Exhibitions

Sleeping with a Vengeance − Dreaming of a Life (upcoming). Fragments and Compounds, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich (upcoming). 2015 Notes on Crisis, Currency and Consumption, curated by_Vienna, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna. 2012 Not Dressed for Conquering - Ines Doujak's Loomshuttles/Warpaths, Royal College of Art, London. 2007 documenta 12 (curated with Roger M. Buergel), Kassel (DE). 2003-05 The Government (curated with Roger M. Buergel), Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (ES), Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL), MAC, Miami (US), Secession, Vienna. 2000 Things We Don't Understand (curated with Roger M. Buergel), Generali Foundation, Vienna. 1995 Scenes of a Theory (curated with Roger M. Buergel), Depot, Vienna.

Publications

The Art Educator's Talk, Interview with Ruth Noack, https://arteducatorstalk.net/?interview=ruth-noack-aktiv-anti-professionell, (retrieved 20 November 2016).
Ruth Noack, Sanja Ivekovic: Triangle, One Work Series, Afterall Books, London 2013.
Ruth Noack (ed.), Agency, Ambivalence, Analysis. Approaching the Museum with Migration in Mind, Politecnico di Milano, Milan 2013.