ART DÜSSELDORF 2024

Sarah Bogner (*1980 Munich, Germany, lives and works in Vienna, Austria) is a painter, part of the publishing house Harpune Vienna, and musician. In the years 2004-2006 she studied at the Institute for Electroacoustic and Composition at Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Vienna, and graduated from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich in 2008. Her most recent solo exhibitions include Unter der Sonne wie im Schatten at Kunstverein Heppenheim, Germany (with publication); Arrière Garde at Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich (with publication); Contemporary Dialogue with Tobias Hantmann and René Luckhardt, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria; Sein wie ein Stein, denken wie ein Pferd at Milchstrasse 4, Munich (with publication); Liebe und Blamage at KiS, Seefeld in Tyrol, Austria (with publication); Sarah Bogner, André Butzer with André Butzer at Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria; Parade at MQ Art Box, Museumsquartier, Vienna. She has also been included in various group exhibitions at Secci Gallery in Florence, Ehrhardt Floréz in Madrid, Spurs Gallery in Bejing, Mauer in Cologne, Casa Manno in Alghero, Italy. The solo exhibition Freunde des Lichts is taking place at Livie Gallery, Zurich until end of May 2024.

Austin Eddy (*1986, Boston, MA, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) earned his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Since graduating he has exhibited nationally and internationally. His most recent solo exhibitions include: Songs for the sun, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna; Sad Landscapes, Académie Conti, Consortium, Dijon; Immutable Traveller, Galerie Knust Kunz, Munich; Selected Poems, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, NY; Seeuferweg and In The Off-Hours. at Livie Gallery, Zurich. He has also had solo exhibitions at The Horticultural Society of New York, The University of Kentucky Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, Half Gallery, New York, and SoCo Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina. He has also been included in various group exhibitions at Berggruen Gallery San Francisco, The Pit Los Angeles, Shrine Gallery, New York, Alexander Berggruen, New York, Adams And Ollman, Portland, Oregon, Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg, Sweden. He has also been included in group exhibitions at The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia; The New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit MI.

Esther Mathis (*1985 Winterthur, Switzerland, lives and works in Zurich) studied photography at the IED in Milan, where she was awarded a scholarship to the SVA in New York, completing her Master’s in Fine Arts at ZHdK in Zurich in 2015. Mathis received a grant of the city of Winterthur in 2014, and in 2019/20 she was awarded a grant for “Visual Arts” by UBS Kulturstiftung as well as the work grant of the canton of Zurich. Since 2020 the artist has been commissioned with several art in architecture projects which will be realized in the coming years. Mathis has been featured in solo and two person shows in Switzerland and abroad, including “DOings & kNOTs” at Kunsthalle Tallinn, Estonia, in 2015, “Phaenomena Materiae“ together with Brigham Baker at Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Germany, in 2017, “Angles of Coincidence” at Kunsthalle Arbon, Switzerland, in 2017, “Luminaire” in the summer of 2021 at BINZ39 Foundation Zurich, “Nightshades” at Livie Gallery, Zurich in 2021, and “Fenster” at Livie Gallery, Zurich in 2023. Her work was part of numerous group shows including the Shenzhen Photo Biennale, China, in 2016, the sculpture biennial Weiertal “Paradise, lost” in Winterthur, Switzerland, curated by Christoph Doswald in 2019, “The Big Rip, Bounce, Chill or Crunch?” at Last Tango in 2019, the “Werkschau” at Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland in 2016, 2017 and 2019, “Focus” and various other group exhibitions at Kunst Museum Winterthur from 2011-2022, “Weit” at Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil, Switzerland in 2020, and “Werk- und Atelierstipendien der Stadt Zürich” at Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland in 2021, among others. Mathis’ works are included in several institutional and corporate collections in Switzerland. An exhibition at Spazi Spescha in Trun, Switzerland, curated by Seraina Peer will open in May 2024.

Michael Sailstorfer (*1979 Velden, Vils, Germany, lives and works in Berlin). He studied from 1999 till 2005 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 Batterie, Livie Gallery, Zurich; Clearing, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City; Heavy Eyes Dubai, Carbon 12, Dubai; Heavy Eyes Seoul, König Seoul; Plumbum, Livie Gallery, Zurich; 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.

Installation views: Roman Häbler and Lars-Ole Bastar