ART DÜSSELDORF 2023

AUSTIN EDDY

Since 2018 Austin Eddy (*1986, Boston, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) has dedicated himself to the motif of the bird. His painterly practice examines such universal dualities as freedom and containment, present and potential, or the known and unknown. Though always autobiographical in nature, Eddy’s work is not illustrative; it tells no concrete stories. Instead of narrative, the paintings and drawings exude a lyricism that is hard to pin down: calm yet playful, contoured yet open, bright yet muted.
Austin Eddy earned his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. Since graduating he has exhibited nationally and internationally. His most recent solo exhibitions include: Sad Landscapes, Le Consortium Dijon, Académie Conti, La Romanée-Conti, curated by Eric Troncy; Selected Poems, Eva Presenhuber, New York; Immutable Traveler, Knust Kunz, Munich; and Seeuferweg, Livie Gallery, Zurich.

ANYA  KIELAR

Anya Kielar (born 1978, New York, NY) earned a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art, New York and an MFA from Columbia University, New York. Kielar has presented solo exhibitions at venues such as Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York; Locust Projects, Miami; Casey Kaplan, New York; and Daniel Reich Gallery, New York. She has also been included in group exhibitions at the Rubell Family Collection, Miami; the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville; the FLAG Art Foundation, New York; White Columns, New York; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London, among others. In fall of 2022, Kielar presented a solo exhibition at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, curated by Gabriel Florenz. In n May 2023, her work will be part of the group exhibition “I’ve got a feeling, the 5 senses in contemporary art” at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Angers, France. Anya Kielar’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Dikeou Collection, Denver; the Christian Dior Art Collection, Paris; the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; the New Century Art Foundation, Singapore; the Rubell Family Collection, Miami; the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London. Kielar lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

MICHAEL SAILSTORFER

Michael Sailstorfer was born in 1979 in Velden, Germany. He currently lives and works in Berlin. From 1999-2005, he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, and received his MA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, London in 2004. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the world, including the recent exhibitions Heavy Eyes, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen; Tear Show, Galerie Perrotin, New York City; Clouds and Tears, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City; Hitzefrei, König Galerie, Berlin; Wiesen bei Nacht, Kunstverein Wiesen, Wiesen; Michael Sailstorfer, CentrePasquArt, Biel/Bienne; Breakwater, Loushy Art & Projects, Tel Aviv; It might as well be spring, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN, USA; Kopf und Körper, Museum Kurhaus Kleve – Ewald Mataré-Sammlung, Kleve; Forst, Vattenfall Contemporary, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Tornado, Public Art Fund New York, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York City, amongst many others.

JOHANNES VANDERBEEK

Johannes VanDerBeek (born 1982, Baltimore MD) earned a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and Science, New York, NY. He was the subject of solo exhibitions at Marinaro, New York, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, Halsey McKay Gallery, New York and Brand New Gallery, Milan. VanDerBeek participated in numerous group shows at the Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI, CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, among many others. His works are included in the permanent collections of Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS. VanDerBeek lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.