Nicole Doth
Nicole Doth is a versatile artist, designer, and master carpenter from southern Germany near Stuttgart. As an independent entrepreneur, she moves effortlessly between the worlds of art, design, craftsmanship, interior architecture, spatial composition, and exclusive lifestyle.
Her unique creations are defined by high-quality, sustainable materials, innovative ideas, and a distinctive, unmistakable style. Nicole Doth’s work is recognized both in the art world and in the realms of design and luxury.
Her artistic journey is closely intertwined with her personal biography. Growing up in a designer family with its own furniture manufactory in southern Germany, she was introduced early on to the fundamentals of artistic thinking and developed a deep understanding of materiality and form. During her training as a carpenter and later as a master furniture maker, she quickly realized that success in a profession traditionally dominated by men requires perseverance and assertiveness.
To this day, the theme of perception remains a central focus of her work. Questions about how we perceive the world and position ourselves within it continue to shape her artistic practice.
Blue & Joy
Blue & Joy
Blue & Joy is an Italian artist duo, consisting of Fabio La Fauci (born 1977 in Milan) and Daniele Sigalot (born 1976 in Rome).
The central idea behind their works revolves around two figures – Blue and Joy. Both are characterized by a deliberate contrast between outward appearance and inner emotional state:
Blue often carries a tear or a broken heart, appearing sad – yet paradoxically showing great joy within. Joy, on the other hand, appears cheerful with a broad smile and open arms, but deep inside is sad and melancholic.
Their art is marked by pop-like irony, emotional depth, and a playful reflection on advertising, consumerism, and emotional contradictions. Both previously worked in the advertising industry – their characters and art emerged as a counter-design to exaggerated, “sunshiney” advertising messages.
Their works include comics, graphics, installations, sculptures, mosaics, and spray paintings – often on a large scale, varied in materials and media.
Angelo Donnermann
Angelo Donnermann
Angelo Donnermann is a titan of contemporary art.
He was born in 1975 as the child of two parents, somewhere in the habitable zone of the solar system.
He soon discovered that he enjoys sitting around and doing nothing. He grew up until he finally gave himself the green light and subsequently exerted a huge influence on cartoonists like himself and other guys who draw big noses.
His greatest dream is not to be hit on the head and to refuse the Nobel Prize someday.
He has accomplished many things in life – he is especially proud of Captain Picard calling him “Hey, you!” – which is, of course, imaginary.
He runs a solo music project called Brackwasser Knipp, which will influence Mozart once Donnermann invents a time machine.
He thinks a lot with his brain in order to become a decision-maker and holds a very strong opinion about climate change. His net worth is estimated at €24.
Moritz Thoma
Moritz Thoma
Moritz Thoma was born and works in Munich. During his art education studies, he began working as a freelance artist, developing his craft as a self-taught autodidact. Always in search of new techniques and materials, he explores mediums such as copper, wax, and stone. Despite his innovative approach, he remains loyal to traditional oil techniques, preparing pigments and mixing primers by hand. Recently, he has begun painting on plaster, using walls as his canvas.
The human being is always at the center of Thoma's work, focusing on the exploration of human existence and the connection between physical and psychological dimensions. He depicts humans as physical entities within a mental space. Currently, the symbol of the circle plays a prominent role in his work. The circle is not just a symbol of infinity but represents our mental space, embodying our goals, dreams, fears, and burdens. It can provide comfort and stability or be confining and burdensome. Thoma's aim is to make this "circle" as comfortable as possible for ourselves.
Thoma's dedication to his craft and his constant pursuit of new artistic expressions define his journey as an artist. His work invites viewers to reflect on their own mental spaces and the balance between comfort and challenge within their personal circles.
Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst
The new-pop icon of postmodernity is Damien Hirst, a British artist (1965) who has become famous for two works in particular. The first is a sculpture displaying a tiger shark of over four metres suspended in a tank of formaldehyde in front of whose open jaws the viewer finds it hard to believe that it is lifeless. The spectacular and very expensive operation subtends a message, namely the transience of the animal's life and body and thus by translation also of the human body.
In the second very famous work, ‘For the love of God’ of 2007, the seventeenth-century theme of Vanitas is explicitly made evident by an authentic human skull cast in platinum and made pop by the equally real diamonds that stud it (for an objective value of £14 million). A sedative metaphor, apotropaic but at the same time pulp, the work is the visual paradox of the only absolute value acknowledged to man by the globalised consumer civilisation, namely the capacity for boundless and narcissistic accumulation of wealth, as opposed to the greatest taboo of our society. Inside the exhibition we find a silkscreen with enamel and diamond powder that replicates the image of this famous work.
Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey
Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is an American contemporary artist, activist and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He fuses political activism with eye-catching images of great impact that challenge societal clichés. Coming from a background influenced by skate culture and the punk scene, Fairey has made a significant contribution to the Street Art movement by encouraging artists to use the urban landscape as a canvas and tool for social criticism and change.
Roberto Matta
Roberto Matta
Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art across America and Europe.
Born in 1935 in Santiago de Chile, he studied architecture and interior design at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago and graduated in 1935. That spring, he travelled from Peru to Panama and completed surreal drawings of many of the geographical features he witnessed. He first encountered Europe while serving in the Merchant Marine after graduating. His travels in Europe and the USA led him to meet artists such as Arshile Gorky, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, André Breton, and Le Corbusier.
In his art Matta creates new dimensions in a blend of organic and cosmic lifeforms. He was one of the first artists to take this abstract leap (biomorphism). Throughout his life, Matta worked with many different types of media, including ceramic, photography, screen printing, lithography, and video production. Matta died in Civitavecchia, Italy on 23 November 2002, eleven days after his 91st birthday.
Banksy
Banksy
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based Street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls, and bridges throughout the world. His work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist and founding member of the musical group Massive Attack.
Urs Lüthi
Urs Lüthi
Urs Lüthi (*1947) is a Swiss conceptual artist. Noted for using his body and alter ego as the subject of his artworks, he has worked in photography, sculpture, performance, silk-screen, video and painting. Since 1994, Lüthi has worked as university professor in Kassel, Germany and in 2009 Kassel gave Lüthi the Arnold Bode award.
Lüthi and other artists of this period influenced Lou Reed. He is mentioned as an influence in Reed's Transformer album, which contains the hit drag anthem “Walk on the Wild Side”. Lüthi was part of a group of Continental European artists who were interested in, and “voiced, in their work, a desire for a utopian conception of androgyny, in which they would embody a unified ambisexuality or realize a perfect union with their lover.”
Lüthi describes the most significant aspect of their work as "ambivalence...Objectivity is not very important to me: all is objective just as all could be subjective. Therefore, one must take reality into account and actually my awareness of the real, depending on my mood, has thousands of facets."
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics.
Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City.
When he graduated from college with his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1949, Warhol moved to New York City to pursue a career as a commercial artist. He landed a job with Glamour magazine in September and went on to become one of the most successful commercial artists of the 1950s. He won frequent awards for his uniquely whimsical style, using his own blotted line technique and rubber stamps to create his drawings.
