ANNA LAUDEL

Noah Becker was born in 1994 in Munich and grew up in Miami. He currently lives and works in Berlin. He channels his deep emotions into his paintings, and the outcome is always positive for him. For Noah, it's all about staying grounded and having a judgment-free zone—a space where he’s free to explore and create.

One of Noah's trademarks is his abstract, often colorful, large-format paintings on canvas. His works have been exhibited at Ludwig Museum Koblenz, in numerous galleries, major art fairs across Europe, and in cities such as Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, and Salzburg.

Noah says he began painting to calm his thoughts, which often collided in a mishmash of themes and textures. On the canvas, he paints the maps of these evolving processes—maps of environments he inhabits, people he meets, and ideas he develops. His work reflects feelings, experiences, memories, smells, and especially music.

How can one imagine such a creative process? "I never know in advance where the process will take me," Noah says.
"Sometimes it grows into a story, and sometimes it remains abstract. I zone out on a canvas with whatever I find around me—chalk, spray paint, acrylic, tape, or markers—those are the materials I use most often."

Born in 1988 in Manisa, Ramazan Can graduated from the Department of Fine Arts Education, Faculty of Education, Gazi University in 2011. He completed his master’s degree in the Department of Painting at the Institute of Fine Arts, Gazi University in 2015, and received his Proficiency in Arts degree from the same department in 2023. Currently, he is continuing his Proficiency in Arts program in the Department of Sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts, Hacettepe University, while also working as a Lecturer in the Department of Painting at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University’s Faculty of Fine Arts.
He continues his work in his studio in Ankara.

Shamanism and modern mysticism play an important role in Ramazan Can’s works. Although he frequently uses Anatolian motifs, he approaches these motifs distantly, blending them with neo-expressionist elements and detaching them from their historical context. His works, which encompass a wide variety of disciplines such as painting, collage, neon light installations, and sculpture, display great diversity. With works featured in prestigious collections, he has gained international attention and held solo exhibitions at Villa Merkel and Gustav-Lübcke Museums. His works, while political, convey deep narratives and reflections on history and modern society.

Ertuğrul Güngör
Born in Kütahya in 1994, Ertuğrul Güngör completed his studies in the Painting Department of Kütahya Fine Arts High School before continuing his education in the Ceramics Department of Akdeniz University’s Faculty of Fine Arts. While pursuing his master’s degree in ceramics at the same university, he creates contemporary works that merge traditional and pop culture.

Faruk Ertekin
Born in Kütahya in 1994, Faruk Ertekin graduated from the Painting Department of Kütahya Fine Arts High School and later completed his studies in the Graphic Design Department of Akdeniz University’s Faculty of Fine Arts. He has worked in fields such as illustration, mural art, and digital media design. By combining ceramics and digital media, he produces unique works.

The artist duo Ertuğrul Güngör & Faruk Ertekin, who grew up in Kütahya, reflect on the old memories of their city and the history of the ceramic materials they use. They seek a new language by using design elements relevant to the present. For Ertuğrul and Faruk, art represents a creative journey shaped by the desire to transcend traditional boundaries. Despite referencing the fragility of ceramic material, the duo balances strong foundations with historical and literary references, reflecting the equilibrium between the material and the style used. In their works, the artists use underglaze and overglaze painting techniques on tile and ceramic surfaces and three-dimensional forms, along with freehand techniques. Their works engage with traditional art motifs while establishing a mental dialogue with contemporary figures. Traditional patterns create new semantic layers on the surface of the works, while the figures offer viewers an intellectual exploration that pushes the boundaries of tradition.

Ardan Özmenoglu, Contemporary Artist and Academic. Born in 1979 in Turkey, Ardan Özmenoğlu obtained her BFA as well as her MFA in the Department of Art, Design, and Architecture from Bilkent University, Ankara. She was an Artist in Residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, Ateliergemeinschaft Milchhof e.V. Berlin, Frans Maserell Centrum in Belgium, Kulturkontakt Austria in Vienna, and Glasstress in Murano, Venice. Her exhibition "Oblici Ljubavi / Forms of Love," which was highlighted in 2024, was shown at the Gradski Muzej Krizevci in Križevci, Croatia.

Her recent work consists of site-specific installations combining screenprints in various formats and on different media and materials such as glass, neon tubes and lights as well as post-it notes. Playing with the formats of printmaking and sculpture she creates three dimensional, almost architectural shapes. Her works can be found in important collections worldwide, such as the Hort Collection NYC, Naked Heart Foundation, the Frankfurt Airport Collection, the Osthaus Museum Hagen Collection, the Kala Art Institute Collection, the UniCredit Bank Art collection, the Foundation Jan Michalski Collection, the Imoga Mundi (Benetton) Collection and the Istanbul Modern Museum Collection.

One of the striking features of Özmenoğlu’s oeuvre is her use of images of both Turkish and global popular culture, as well as commonly used colloquial expressions, that the artist reverses into self-ironic, sometimes even critical statements. Her neon sign sculptures are either letterings of expressions used in everyday language in Turkish, or, if more figurative in nature, they portray simple objects one might find in their own home, such as a vase of flowers or a coat rack with hangers. Özmenoğlu captures the fast changing, chaotic, and sometimes burdening reality of our present-day world. The information overload, the multi-facetted realities created by digitalization, she captures it all in sometimes almost endearing manner, yet always with an ironic subtext. Though arguably biographical in nature, Ardan Özmenoğlu sets an universal example of the artistic examination of national and cultural identity, individuality, and collective visual memory.
Ardan Özmenoglu lives and works in the studio inherited from her grandmother in Yeniköy, Istanbul.

Daniele Sigalot was born in Rome, in 1976. He started his creative career in the advertising field, working for leading agencies in Italy, Spain and the UK. In 2007 he left the agency Saatchi & Saatchi London to fully dedicate himself to an artistic project he had founded with Fabio La Fauci in 2005 called ‘Blue & Joy’- The project’s name became a nom de plume of the Sigalot/La Fauci duo, a collaboration which continued until 2013. One year later the duo dissolved their artistic and creative partnership and Daniele Sigalot went on to pursue a solo career, focusing on mixed media installations. At the heart of his working process and conception lies the ambiguity between the physical nature and the perception of the materials he uses.

His work is as much illusional as it is ironic. In 2022 he debuted with the solo show “Master of Mistakes” at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. Sigalot ran a workshop in Berlin between 2010 and 2018, which he almost self-ironically called “La Pizzeria”. In January 2019, he moved his studio to Naples. As of January 2023, he moved “La Pizzeria” to Rome, where he has since then been living and working. In 2024, Daniele Sigalot curated a dual exhibition of Paolo Angelucci and Lennart Brede, titled The Algorithm Told Me So, at KA32 Gallery in Berlin.

Ekin Su Koc was born in Istanbul in1986, gained her undergraduate degree from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and holds a Master’s degree in Painting from Işık University. Her artistic style is characterized by elements of collage on paper, painting on canvas and mixed media sculptures. In her work Ekin Su Koc explores what defines our sense of belonging and our sense of dislocation or bewilderment. She juxtaposes the native with the foreign, the local with the distant and the familiar with the alienated. She references her own past and present reality, yet in relation to a broader social context.

Exploring the themes of migration, gender, feminism, territoriality, alienation and familiarity, Ekin Su Koc presents the viewer with her own narrative of migration, all the while playing with these notions skillfully and with a hint of humour. The artist lives and works in Berlin, where she is also in the collection of the Zitadelle Spandau, Centre of Contemporary Art Museum.