Chiefs & Spirits

1966 Born in Birkesdorf, Düren, Germany
1992 Apprentinceship certification exam as stone sculptor, since then work as a freelancer
1993 -  2004 Studied history of art / philosophy, 
2007 - 2009  Artistic employee of the Insitut für Kunstwissenschaft at the university in Koblenz, Germany
 
Now lives and works in Aachen Germany
 
After an education as a stonemason, Oliver Czarnetta (born 1966 in Dueren, Germany) studied history of art and philosophy. The work of about a hundred sculptures, created in the seven years from 2001-2008, consists mainly of human heads shown from the outside. Ultimately the perspective was not enough for Czarnetta, so since 2006 starting with his series SPEKTRUM he has been trying to look inside the heads as if they were Exposition. 

Czarnetta works has been shown in The USA, Germany, UK, Spain amd The netherlands

1961 Born in Hanover
1982-89 Studied fine arts at the Braunschweig
at Prof.Hinnerk Schrader and Alfred Winter RustDiploma, master class
1989/90 Grant from the state of Lower Saxony, Atelierhaus Worpswede
1991 Travel grant to Hokkaido / Japan
She lives in Hamburg
Exhibitions

2024 Art Karlsruhe
2023 Art Karlsruhe
2020 ARTLINE Borken @ OPEN ART GALLERY Borken, Germany
2020 Galerie Holzhauer, Hamburg
2020 Palm Beach Modern+Contemporary, Florida, USA - Chiefs & Spirits
2020 Art Karlsruhe, Germany - Chiefs & Spirits
2020 AAF Battersea LONDON - Chiefs & Spirits
2019 Los Angeles Art Show , CALIFORNIA - Chiefs & Spirits
2019 Context Art MIAMI - Chiefs & Spirits
2019 Art New York - Chiefs & Spirits

Stefan Gross, born in Bendorf Germany, apprenticed as a practitioner of stained glass manufacture. During his apprenticeship he was surrounded by coloured glass and learned to think in color. In 1988 he became a master of the practice and also concluded it by taking up studies of painting at art school HBK Saar, Saarbrücken. After his studies which he completed cum laude, he moved to the Netherlands. Here he lives and works, always seeking to develop new painting techniques. In ca. 2006 he developed a material of his own he now predominantly uses: "oil plastic". It results from dyeing an industrial plastic with classic oil paints. It is surface and paint in one and enables Stefan Gross to extend the painted surface three-dimensionally. "Oil plastic" is translucent and behaves, at a relatively low temperature, like glass. In his work, Stefan Gross depicts, in a colorful way, the fall of a society based on growth. "The world is a serious place these days. This is a problem I address in my work." He shows the beauty and potential of industrial production in a look back on the times in which we now live.

EXHIBITIONS

2024 Art Karlsruhe
2023 Art Palm Beach FL
2022 Palm Beach Modern+Contemporary, Florida, USA - Chiefs & Spirits
2020 Art Karlsruhe, Germany - Chiefs & Spirits
2020 AAF Battersea LONDON - Chiefs & Spirits
2019 Los Angeles Art Show , CALIFORNIA - Chiefs & Spirits
2019 Context Art MIAMI - Chiefs & Spirits
2019 Art New York - Chiefs & Spirits
2019 Position Munich, Germany - Chiefs & Spirits
2019 KunstRai, Amsterdam - Chiefs & Spirits
2019 Art Karlsruhe - Chiefs & Spirits

Monika Radhoff-Troll

Monika Radhoff-Troll's work is primarily specialized and focused on installations, objects and photography. She creates installations, as her artistic vision is influenced by political and ecological concerns. While not desiring to confront the viewer with horrific real life scenario, nevertheless she wants to disturb viewers and heighten their sensibility by building alienated, distorted situations, pseudoscientific assemblages and installations with recycled material. 

Monika studied art and textile design at RWTH Aachen / Fakultät VIII from 1978-83. Since 1987 she's working as an artist in Aachen. Work in public ownership are at Sparkasse Gelsenkirchen, Sparkasse Westmünsterland, Stadt Lohmar and Buxtehude, Kangaeru-Shirou kan Kawauchi mura, Fukushima, Japan, Geoje Haegeumgang Theme Museum, Yukyung Art Museum Geoje, South Korea and have been as a loan for four years at The Washington Post, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

Kerstin Vegelahn was born in 1965 in Hamburg, Germany.
After graduating in the Hamburg University of Applied Science she lived for 20 years in Paris, Barcelona, Manila and Hong Kong where she worked in Fashion Design. In 2002 she moved back to Spain and graduated with a Fine Arts degree from L’Escola superior d’Arts Aplicades y Oficis Artistics, La Llotja (Barcelona). In the Summer of 2005, she moved back to Hamburg where she currently works and lives.

Viewers would be astonished by Kerstin Vegelahn’s Hamburg origins, as her method of painting would not normally be associated with Northern Germany!
This is typified by her use of radiant areas of colours and amorphous structures, blended with coloured spots which elude to a precise arrangement. Coupled with this creation are smaller formations of different colours, which often offer a bold contrast to one another.

Kerstin’s many years of living and working in Asia, combined with her studies at the academy of Arts in Barcelona as well as her extensive cosmopolitan outlook, lay the foundations for this creative style. Her unique form of artistic expression is inspired by these extensive visual impressions absorbed during travel across diverse continents. She does not make it easy for herself, conversely she is a research minded artist who is at odds with herself in her desire to go beyond the normal limits.

Kerstin’s unique paints comprise of specialized pigments which are added to pure bees wax. Different colours are then applied layer by layer to the canvas. This creates layered coloured surfaces, which are then carefully exposed by using specially developed tools.

These numerous and elaborate steps take days and sometimes weeks to evolve, which in turn enables the artist to separate herself from her surroundings. This inspires a creative reading of the designs which prompt the viewer to question, whether these could be continents, computer circuit boards, a view into space or a journey into one’s own thoughts – ordered, confusing and yet lost at the same time.

The artist’s method of sculpturing into the material, creates openings of wonderful polychrome colours. These initially look like shiny colour glazed porcelain heads and immediately capture the attention of viewers. This ongoing obsession with the multilayered surface, into which the artist incorporates such exuberant creativity, offers observers an increasingly rare experience. When captured in the finished work of art, there are the emotions of reflection, discovery and the finally pure joy of realisation.

Those who engage with this radiance of colours may embark on a journey into their own fantasy world. Due to her extraordinary working techniques and beautiful colours, this Hamburg-based artist creates a surprisingly inspiring art experience.

Toyin Loye studied Fine Art at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile Ife. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Nigeria, Senegal, Argentina, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, United Kingdom, Australia, United States, Germany, Spain, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands. Toyin was commissioned by FIFA along with Andreas Gursky, Luo Brothers, Markus Lupetz and others to create the official Art Poster for the Germany 2006 World Cup. He lives and works in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Exhibitions

2020 ARTX Lagos with Kó Art Space, LAGOS
2020 ARTCO GALLERY in Berlin, Aachen, Cape Town
2020 Position Berlin with ARTCO GALLERY BERLIN
2020 ARTLINE Borken @ OPEN ART GALLERY Borken, Germany
2020 Palm Beach Modern+Contemporary, Florida, USA – Chiefs & Spirits
2020 Art Karlsruhe, Germany – Chiefs & Spirits
2020 AAF Battersea LONDON – Chiefs & Spirits
2019 Los Angeles Art Show , CALIFORNIA – Chiefs & Spirits

Edvardas Racevičius was born in 1974 in Lithuania and has long been fascinated by the traditional and folkloric representation of sculptures. After 10 years of art-oriented high school, he decided to enter the Catholic seminary, studying theology and social pedagogy at the University of Vilnius, planning to become a priest and change the world. He stayed there for three years. Since 2002, he has been living in Greifswald, a small university town in Germany, where he has been able to study Western approaches to sculpture. His artistic practice is inspired by the dialogue between his Lithuanian origins and his new home in Germany, connecting Eastern and Western traditions.

At the age of 17, he made his first sculpture in oak by drawing the shapes with an ax. This experience is dazzling for him and totally different from working with clay, plaster or stone. He is thrilled with the material and decides to work with wood from now on. At first, he begins to experiment with abstract sculptures, then with figurative. His work is progressive: it starts rather brutally, with a chainsaw, then uses more delicate tools to identify the forms and refine them. The figures of his pieces are connected to the base of the branch or trunk, and it may be thought that this connection is part of a larger truth in his artistic practice. The pieces of Edvardas Racevičius deal with the philosophical relationship between humans and nature.

In the series Trees and Humans, his figures are carved in a block of wood and are connected to the remaining branches and abstract forms divided. It is really important for the artist that wood, as a material, remains visible. The level of abstraction of the figures also becomes visible in the branches, bark and torn grain of the wood. Faced with the figure dissolved in the material, the spectator questions himself concerning the relationship between humans and nature: where does the wood finish and where does the human figure begin? Where does the border between the self and the world begin? Who are we?

Edvardas Racevičius unveiled his art for the first time at the Berliner List in 2013. The result was a success, many visitors having admired his sculptures, and he was able to establish new contacts with galleries and collectors.

PATRICK BERGSMA
1965 Purmerend
Currently lives and works in Heerhugowaard North Holland
Education
1992_ 1996 Royal Academy the Hague
Prices
1st price Winsor and Newton
2nd price Caran d‘Ache
1st price “East meets West”  Precious magazine Hong Kong
Nomination for the Rabobank Cultuurprijs
“Bold” MUGA Heerenveen
“The age of destuction” Galerie Franzis Engels Amsterdam
“Content craftmanship” Duane Reed gallery St. Louis
Solo exhibition Van Loon Galleries Vught
“The beauty of decay” Galerie Franzis Engels Amsterdam
“Wie wir im wald hineinrufen” Atelierhaus Aachen
“Expedition Nature” Coda museum Apeldoorn
“Amuse kunst” Galerie Wilms Venlo
“Invitation to transmutations” solo Suzanne Biederberg Gallery Amsterdam
“Ceramics Triennale” Coda museum Apeldoorn
“Hollands Glorie” De Groninger Kroon Finsterwolde
“It aint over yet” Stichting Kop Breda
“Butterfly Effect” solo Suzanne Biederberg Gallery Amsterdam
Several Art fairs;  Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Karlsruhe, Brussels, Hamburg, The Hague, San Francisco

Collections
Stedelijk Museum De prinsenhof Delft
Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar
Accenture Amsterdam
KPMG Amstelveen
ABN- AMRO
Deutsche Bank
Deloitte
The Drakes Collection Wassenaar
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kief

De natuur is een belangrijk thema in het veelzijdige oeuvre van Warffemius (Den Haag
1956). In veel van zijn werken zien we verwijzingen naar planten en bomen. Vaak is de
abstractie ver doorgevoerd met als resultaat eenvoudig gestileerde bomen en stammen met
enkele takken, soms met een blad eraan. Teruggebracht tot hun essentie.
Warffemius is een veelzijdig kunstenaar. Hij maakt beelden, tekeningen en schilderijen.
Sinds een paar jaar zijn Warffemius zijn ziijn schilderijen weer veel vrijer en opener
geworden. Hij maakt zich los van de strenge stilering en schildert in dunne transparante verf
tere twijgjes, stengels en paddestoelen. De recente schilderijen en tekeningen zijn wit en vol
poëzie. In zijn beelden blijft hij wel voortbouwen op de streng gestileerde vormen uit de
natuur. Deze werken zijn evenwichtig, sterk en poëtisch
Sinds 2005 is Warffemius lid van de Potsdamer Gruppe, een Duits Nederlandse groep
bevriende kunstenaars. Regelmatig exposeren ze samen. Lid zijn onder andere Hubertus von
der Golz, Frank Michael Zeidler, Armando en Sjoerd Buisman.
De laatste 4 jaar exposeert Warffemius regelmatig in musea in China.

Works in collection of:
Teylers Museum Haarlem
Museum Voorlinden Wassenaar
Ministery of Foreign Affairs
Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands
Oracle
Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Aegon
LCA Corporate Art Limited, Oslo Norway

1993 - 1997 ABK ROTTERDAM   -  3D AUTONOOM

1999 - 2013    INITIATOR CUCOSA FOUNDATION

2000  -  2005 MEMDER ART COMMISSION  CITY OF ROTTERDAM

2004  -  2005 STIPENDIUM MONDRIAAN FONDS

2006  A.ROLAND HOLST ART PRICE

2009  -   2010 STIPENDIUM MONDRIAAN FONDS

EXHIBITIONS:

2002  MUSEUM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN

2002 TALI IKAT  JAVA INDONESIA

2008 GALERIE PAUL ANDRIESSE, AMSTERDAM

2011  GALERIE RON MANDOS, AMSTERDAM

2013  STEDELIJK MUSEUM SCHIEDAM

2014 STAGE THEATER HAMBURG, VAN DE ENDEN ART-COLL.

2018 AAF NEW YORK

2018 NOUVELLE IMAGE ,THEHAQUE

2018 CONTEXT ART MIAMI

2019 STEDELIJK MUSEUM SCHIEDAM

2019 GALERIE FRANK TAAL

2020 DRIVE INN AHOY, MUS. BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN

2021 REEVALUATION LAB ,MUS. BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN

2021 GALERIE CHIEFS AND SPIRITS

2022 QUARTAIR , THEHAQUE 

2022 AAF HAMBURG

2022 ART MIAMI

2023 ART PALM BEACH

2023 AAF BRUSSEL




COLLECTIONS:

MUSEUM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN

STEDELIJK MUSEUM SCHIEDAM

NEWM LUXOR THEATER ROTTERDAM

VAN DEN ENDE ART COLLECTION

STAGE THEATER HAMBURG