!Mediengruppe Bitnik (Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo)
Berlin, Germany
!Mediengruppe Bitnik is a post-conceptual artist and hacker duo who work on and with the internet as a medium. Their work engages with many of the core tenets of the post-internet age, in particular challenging notions of surveillance, algorithms, technofascism, internet consumerism and social media interaction. Their practice often crosses over from the digital to affect physical spaces, pushing the limits of software and hardware to challenge established structures and mechanisms.
Selected exhibitions: Fondazione Prada, Milan; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Louisa Clement (b. 1987)
Bonn, Germany
Louisa Clemens explores the merging of human presence within the artificial and the artificial within the human. Through photography, video, sculpture, installation and VR, her practice questions physicality and interaction in an age where the virtual has long outgrown its own sphere. Clemens’ work explores the tensions between the potentials of artificial intelligence and machine learning but also the consequential loss of identity and knowledge for wider humanity.
Selected exhibitions: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn; Sprengel Museum, Hanover; Ludwig Forum, Aachen; and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo.
Marc Lee (b. 1969)
Zurich, Switzerland
Over the last two decades, Marc Lee has become known for immersive, network-oriented installations experimenting with information and communication technologies. His practice spans interactive installations, media art, internet art, performance, video, augmented reality (AR), VR and mobile apps which enable audiences to collaboratively create the immediate content of the work. He critically engages with the creative, cultural, social, ecological and political concerns of an information society.
Selected exhibitions: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul; ZKM, Karlsruhe; New Museum, New York; Nam June Paik Art Center, South Korea; and HEK, Basel.
Jonas Lund (b. 1984)
Amsterdam, Netherlands and London, UK
Across paintings, sculpture, photography, websites, video animation and performances, Jonas Lund critically reflects on contemporary networked systems and power structures. His artistic practice involves creating systems that often require engagement from the viewer, resulting in performative artworks where tasks are executed according to algorithms or a set of rules. In this way, he questions authorship and artistic agency in an increasingly digital society and also challenges the value-making practices of the art market.
Selected exhibitions: Busan Museum of Art, South Korea; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; New Museum, New York; Whitechapel Gallery, London; and ZKM, Karlsruhe.
Signe Pierce (b. 1988)
Los Angeles, California
Signe Pierce is a contemporary artist whose extensive oeuvre spans video, performance, installation, writing and music, often combining them to create immersive experiences. Taking reality itself as her medium, she mediates it through technical tools, hyperreal technicolour palettes, and digital manipulation and editing. Concerned with interrogating the rawness of human experience and the impact of digital culture on everyday life, Pierce’s works highlight the conditions that shape how we see and act in an increasingly technologically mediated society.
Selected exhibitions: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; and the New Museum, New York.
Karin Sander (b. 1957)
Berlin, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland
Across a prolific career spanning almost five decades, Karin Sander’s œuvre encompasses sculpture, performance, architecture, photography and video. As an acclaimed conceptual artist, her work employs existing objects, spaces and environments. Through minimal intervention, such as the simple act of removal or addition, these are transformed to alter perspectives on the familiar and everyday, bring attention to the environment, or to expose the underlying political nature of institutional space.
Selected exhibitions: Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; and Kunstmuseum Basel. In 2023, she also represented Switzerland at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Ziyang Wu (b. 1990)
Hangzou, China and New York, USA
Ziyang Wu is an artist and curator who examines how current technologies affect society and politics across cultures, both the visible and unseen connections between global systems the ways people encounter them in everyday life. His projects explore algorithmic control and bias, alternative networks and infrastructures, digital labour rights, AI archaeology and world-building. He develops these ideas through cutting-edge media, including animated video, augmented reality, interactive video installations, video games and AI simulations.
Selected exhibitions: M+, Hong Kong; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Rhizome at the New Museum, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; and UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.
