Dietmar Brixy, Journey, 2023oil on nettle, 120cm x 300cm
Our Gallery is distinguished by a careful and curated selection of contemporary artists. We take particular pride in championing female artists, offering a platform for their works to be showcased alongside the great historical traditions of art. Each contemporary artist we present is chosen with the utmost consideration for their artistic merit, ensuring that their contributions reflect the same rigorous standards of quality that define our gallery’s reputation.
The following artists, from Saudi Arabia, Australia, Colombia, the Philippines, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Kazachstan, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, embrace the concept of ‘artistic pluralism’, the acceptance of a variety of artistic intentions and styles. Today’s artists work in and respond to a global environment that is culturally diverse, technologically advanced and multi-layered. The artists presented are united by the fact that they have internalised the present with all its facets and they take a critical look at today’s society, at the human as such and at what lies hidden within us.
Dietmar Brixy
The works of German born painter and sculptor Dietmar Brixy, who studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Professors Wilhelm Loth, Katharina Fritsch and Harald Klingelhöller, speak their own expressive language. Brixy has been moving between abstract action painting and figurative gestures and he has developed an unmistakable way of modeling multiple layers of paint into breathtaking and vibrant, mostly large-scale paintings as well as tondi, the so called ‘Bamboo Bubbles’.
Heba Ismail
Heba Ismail is a visual artist based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Originally trained in dental medicine, earning a doctorate before fully embracing her vocation in art, Ismail’s journey reflects an enduring creative impulse that traces back to her earliest childhood dreams. Deeply inspired by the works of Picasso and nurtured in an art-enriched household, her artistic path eventually led her to formal training at the esteemed Darat Safeya Binzagr — a renowned artistic institution founded by Saudi Arabia’s pioneering female artist Safeya Binzagr, the only artist in the Kingdom with a museum solely dedicated to her. This tutelage under Binzagr’s legacy — both technically and spiritually — profoundly influenced Ismail’s artistic language.
Brigitte Witzer
Brigitte Witzer, who lives and works in Berlin, describes herself as a “late developer” because her artistic career began after she had already reached her zenith as an author, manager, professor and executive coach. She began studying painting with Bernd Mechler in Düsseldorf, May Carro Cabaleiro in Berlin, Marianne Sinner in Zurich and Peter Hofmann in Leipzig – and felt she had arrived for the first time.
Monika Kus-Picco
Monika Kus-Picco, born in Vienna, the artist with Brazilian roots lives and works in Vienna, Lower Austria and Rio de Janeiro. Kus-Picco studied painting at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Her large-scale works are part of international Museum collections such as the Albertina Wien, Osthaus Museum Hagen and Academy Gallery – Academy of Art Düsseldorf, Germany.
Mariya Naydis
Mariya Naydis was born in Ukraine and has lived and worked in Munich since 1998. Inspired by her grandmother, a theatre actress, as a child she created worlds and new dimensions with stones and colourful pieces of glass or paper in the absence of elaborate toys. She found her professional approach to art by studying painting and graphics with Michael Tschernjavski.
Alexandra Kordas
Kordas, living and working in München, creates sculptures, installations and paintings in various materials that often appear on large surfaces or, as in her new works, on strips up to ten meter wide. She previously worked as an actress and screenwriter. Especially the work on a script set in the Second World War had a lasting impact on the artist and still occupies her today. Thats why current social and political hotspots in our world play a major role, as do current spiritual, emotional and intellectual influences.
Mr. Anjo
Melbourn-born visual artist Mr Anjo studied architecture, marketing and sociology at La Trobe and Deakin University, Australia. He created his own fashion brand and entered the high-end art trade as an art advisor. An emotional experience finally led him to find his own artistic path, which has manifested itself in an incomparable style based on elements of early 20th century art.
Bernd Guggenberger
Guggenberger, born in the Black Forest, Germany, lives and works in Berlin. His wide-ranging talent, his multi-talent, is a good prerequisite for the uncompromising pursuit of his art: as a university lecturer and director of the Lessing Academy in Berlin, he is an independent, freely creative artist who can do without conforming to fashion trends.
Igor Cvacho
Igor Cvacho is a Slovak visual artist, graphic designer and illustrator. He graduated from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, subsequently studying graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in the same city. However, the multi-talented artist’s work is not limited to visual art. He is also an author, songwriter and musician. He is renowned far beyond the borders of his homeland and is widely regarded as one of Slovakia’s most notable contemporary artists.
Ocean Saul
Ocean Saul was born in Slovakia, just 100 kilometres from the village from which Andy Warhol’s parents emigrated. He now lives and works as a journalist and photographer in Munich. His name, Ocean Saul, is an acronym for an art project encompassing several areas: People, architecture, landscapes, collages, hipsters, unique moments and a cool cat called ‘Angel Venus’. He wishes to remain anonymous so as not to influence the viewer’s perception of his work.
Kara Pangilinan
Filipino visual artist Kara Pangilinan is celebrated for her intricate pen-and-ink creations and inspiring journey from architecture to full-time art. She graduated at the University of the Philippines Diliman in Architecture and started her artistic career with stationery products and T-Shirts as well as commissioned artworks and wall murals. She worked for brands like Heineken, Johnnie Walker, Samsung, Youtube, Toblerone, and Google. In the meantime Kara veered away from commercial work and delved into painting to accomodate for bigger artwork subjects such as flora and fauna and detailed lace works.
Oana Farcas
Oana Farcas is a visual artist from Romania. She studied Art and Design at the University of Cluj-Napoca – with magna cum laude – and this academic journey was not just a formation of her technical skills but also an immersion in a philosophical quest about what it means to translate the complexity of human experience into art.
Alena Grom
Ukrainian artist and documentary photographer Alena Grom, who studied at the famous Viktor Marushchenko School of Photography, Kyiv, was born in Donetsk. In April 2014 she was forced to leave her hometown due to military events in Eastern Ukraine. Since 2017 she has lived in Bucha, a town outside of Kyiv. As a result of the full-scale invasion of Russia in February 2022, Grom and her family became refugees for the second time, but returned after the de-occupation of Bucha. These events largely affected her artistic practice. Photography became a salvation for Grom and a way to deal with the traumatic reality of war.
Constantin Schroeder
Schroeder, who was born in Hamburg and lives in Berlin, is a figurative painter with a classic academic education as he actually studied theology, philosophy and art history.
Armin Grässl
Grässl, born in Innsbruck/Austria and living and working in Switzerland, is a renowned photo artist who has had a long and varied career capturing beauty and style in different forms. He attended the School of Photography in Vevey and assisted several fashion photographers in the 80ies in New York City, where he honed his craft and developed his passion for photography.
Popo San Pascual
Manila born Popo San Pascual is an visual artist who graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines. He lives and works in the Philippines and is known for his vibrant colors, rich forms, and intricate abstract elements, often featuring geometric figures that evoke a sense of horror vacui, similar to Pollock’s style.
Ana Maria Devis
Devis is a multimedia artist living and working in Colombia. She is a Master of Fine Arts, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia with a deep knowledge of different materials and graphic methods she acquired during her courses, scholarships and residencies with J.C. Serroni, Sao Paulo, Brasil, at the University of Sao Paulo, Brasil, The Museums School of Arts in Boston, USA and the Camnitzer Studio, Lucca, Italy.
Lina Sinisterra
Sinisterra is a Colombian visual artist. Her installations, paintings and performances are of monumental dimensions and abundant colors.
Almagul Menlibayeva
Menlibayeva is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Germany and Kazakhstan and primarily makes site-specific multichannel videos, photographs, and mixed-media installations.
