Artspeak

• Chto delat / What is to be done?

  Chto delat / What is to be done? is a collective whose name derives from a novel by the Russian author Nikolai Chernyshevsky, as well as from Lenin’s political text Chto delat from 1902. The collective acts at the intersection of political theory, art, and political activism, and includes artists, critics, philosophers, and writers. Since 2003, Chto delat has been publishing an English-Russian newspaper examining the re-politicization of Russian intellectual culture in its broader international context.

• Isabelle Cornaro

  Isabelle Cornaro was born in 1974. She lives and works in Paris. She studied at the Fine Arts School of Paris and at the Royal College of Arts in London. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris; Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart; Drawing Center, New York. In 2008 she had solo shows at the art center of Noisiel La Ferme du Buisson, and at the Düsseldorf Kunstverein. Her work is represented by Galerie Balice Hertling in Paris.

• Keren Cytter

  Keren Cytter is a Berlin based artist whose film work has been shown widely, including at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo; Kunsthalle Zurich; Frankfurter Kunstverein; and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Cytter is also a writer and has published three novels.

• Tarje Eikanger Gullaksen

  Tarje Eikanger Gullaksen is a Norwegian artist currently living and working in Berlin. He studied Fine Art and Art Theory at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and his artistic practice includes text, photo, film, installation, and sculpture. His work investigates objects and signs in relation to concepts such as language, transgression, representation, transformation, and loss. He has recently shown works at Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg; Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin; and Bastarden, Oslo. In 2010 he will have a solo presentation of his work at UKS, Oslo.

• Susan Hiller

  Susan Hiller is an American born artist based in the UK. Her practice encompasses installation, video, photography, performance, and writing. She describes her work as a kind of ‘archaeological investigation, uncovering something to make a different kind of sense of it’. The Tate Gallery (London), will initiate a major mid-career retrospective of her work next year. A new book entitled The Provisional Texture of Reality provides insights into her influential practice.

• Renske Janssen

  Renske Janssen is a Rotterdam based curator. She has been curator at the Witte de With since 2006. She has a Masters title in Contemporary Art Theory and Dutch Art Policy from the University of Utrecht. She collaborated on For Real (2000), Display (2001) and Life in a Glass House (2002) at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. At the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam she organized Bantar Gebang (De Rijke/De Rooij) and Mindset (Saskia Olde Wolbers).
For the Witte de With she has curated solo exhibitions of the work of Mathias Poledna (2006), Tris Vonna-Michell (2007) and Ian Wallace (2008). For the Kunstverein fuer die Rheinlande und Westfalen she recently curated Aesthetics as a way of Survival with Germaine Kruip (2009). She is currently developing a three day cycle on the idea of performance for Witte de With’s Morality program under the working title Let Us Compare Mythologies.

• Eliza Newman-Saul

  Eliza Newman-Saul is an artist based in Amsterdam. She completed de ateliers in Amsterdam in 2009. She is currently in residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin). Her work has been commissioned by SKOR’s de Inkijk (Amsterdam) and Corcoran’s Project for the Arts (Washington, DC). Her work was selected for Explum ’09 (Murcia, Spain), the 2007 Scope Art Fair (New York), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn), and PS1/MOMA Contemporary Art Center in conjunction with N+1 (Queens, NY). Her lectures have appeared in Performance Research Journal (Routledge Press) and N+1’s first pamphlet publication (N+1 Research Branch).