Joachim Koester Work from their oeuvre. There is also a great overview of Koester’s work from Nicolai Wallner. “Joachim Koester uses strategies of montage, archiving and storytelling to illuminate and complicate historical events that form a collective mythical construction of the recent past. His works explore the legacies and mine the fictions that form around […]

Dione Lee Work from Trap and Lean-to at Lightwork. “Oakland, California-based artist Dionne Lee employs video, collage, photography, and sculpture to explore American landscape and her place within its complex history. As an African American woman, she sees the natural world as both a place of refuge and tranquility, but also the location of racial […]

Awoiska van der Molen Work from The Living Mountain. “…Awoiska van der Molen’s audiovisual installation The Living Mountain (2022) shows the grand landscapes of the Südtirol Alps in Austria, the homeland of Thomas Larcher, composer of the accompanying music. In this compelling work, Van der Molen’s atmospheric black-and-white photography and the experimental score merge as […]

Mark Ruwedel Work from Westward. “Ruwedel is an artist who has been photographing American deserts and other remote locations for over 25 years, pursuing epic-scaled projects on railroad construction, Pre-Columbian sites, the landscapes of nuclear weapons, and more recently, failed attempts to live in the harsh environment of the desert. With an affinity for stark, […]