Revolution I Love You

ARTISTS

Zanny Begg is a Sydney based conceptual artist and theorist. She is active in the global justice movement and is currently writing her PhD (Art Theory) on art, globalisation and new social subjects. She has exhibited widely and her writings have been published in Third Text, borderlands, Moscow Art Magazine.
www.zannybegg.com

Heath Bunting was born in 1966 and is based in Bristol. He is a co-founder of both net.art and sport-art movements and is banned for life from entering the USA for his anti-GM work. His self taught and authentically independent work is direct and uncomplicated and has never been awarded a prize or been bought or sold. He is currently preparing works examining borders and identity to be shown at both the Institute of Contemporary Arts London and Tate Modern in 2008.

Nancy Davenport was born in 1965 in Canada and lives in New York City. She is a graduate of York University, Toronto and the School of the Visual Arts in New York. She uses photography to explore symbolic architectural forms, the failure of rigid ideologies and the shifting relations between individuals and institutions. She has exhibited widely, including at the Istanbul Biennial 2007, John Hansard Gallery Southampton, the 25th Sao Paulo Biennial and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery New York.

Miklos Erhardt was born in 1966 and is based in Budapest. He is a graduate of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. In 1998 he founded the group Big Hope with Dominic Hislop, which dealt with issues such as homelessness, resistance, immigration and the social effects of economic globalisation through collaborative and community-based projects. Selected group exhibitions include After the Wall: Art and Culture in post-Communist Europe, Stockholm, E.U. Positive, Berlin, On Mobility, Vienna and Budapest and Permanent Productive, Vienna.
 
Jean-Baptiste Ganne was born in 1972 and lives in Nice, where he studied at Villa Arson. Through various modes of expression, including photography, writing, performances, video and installations, his work addresses the representation of politics and the politic of representations. He has exhibited widely including at the San Francisco Art Institute, W139 Amsterdam and the Istanbul Biennial 2007.

Tamás Kaszás was born 1976 in Dunaújváros and graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 2003. His practice regularly involves collaborations with groups of artists and activists, including Intercultural Information Service, RandomRoutines, the June 21 Collective and RugaNegra, through which he explores the boundaries between art and activism. The Fist Collection is a collaboration with the RugaNegra autonomous group. Kaszás has recently exhibited at Kunsthalle Budapest, Kunstverein Stuttgart and Rotor Graz.

Zofia Kulik was born in 1947 in Wroclaw and lives in Lomianki. She studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. From 1970 to 1987 she collaborated with Przemyslav Kwiek as the artistic duo Kwiekulik. Her work deals with the visual dictionary of the language of totalitarianism, oppression and authority. She has participated in the Venice Biennial and Dokumenta XII, among other major exhibitions.

Marko Lulić was born in Vienna in 1972. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1997. Investigating utopian moments of modernism in his videos, installations and sculptures, he explores the connections between ideology, architecture, public space and society. He has exhibited widely, including at Kunstverein Heilbronn, Frankfurt Kunstverein, and Kunsthaus Bregenz.

Csaba Nemes was born in 1966 and is based in Budapest. He studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. In his practice, through various media, he investigates the notion of communist heritage, contemporary nationalism and the role of the mass media. He has exhibited in Rotor Graz, Ludwig Museum Budapest and Hans Knoll Gallery Vienna.

Oliver Ressler was born in 1970 and lives in Vienna, where he graduated from the University of Applied Arts. His artistic practice includes theme specific exhibitions, projects in public space, and videos on issues of racism, migration, genetic engineering, economics, forms of resistance and social alternatives. He has recently shown at the Moscow Biennial, Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven, Rotor Graz and De Appel in Amsterdam www.ressler.at

Fia–Stina Sandlund is a Swedish artist born in 1973. She graduated from Konstfack Stockholm in 2003. Her work explores the social structures of power and the concept of normality, questions existing systems and repudiates all forms of repression and inequality. Her practice includes radio and sound pieces, film, performances and protest actions. She has recently exhibited at The Gothenburg Biennial, Moderna Museet Stockholm and De Appel Amsterdam.

Mladen Stilinović was born in 1947 and lives in Zagreb. His work criticises political speech by using irony, paradox and manipulation and frequently deals with popular contemporary myths around time, money, work and communications. He has exhibited widely including at Tate Modern, Van Abbe Museum, the Venice Biennial and Documenta XII.

Tamás St.Auby was born in 1944 and lives in Budapest. In 1968 he founded IPUT (International Parallel Union of Telecommunications). He was censored for his artistic radicalism, promotion of art strikes and questioning of ideology and forced to leave Hungary in the mid-1970s. Since returning from Geneva in 1991, St.Auby has lectured at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. He recently exhibited in Fluxus East, while his Portable Intelligence Increase Museum has been presented widely.

Stefanos Tsivopoulos is a Greek artist, born in Prague in 1973 and based in Amsterdam. He received his artistic education at the Athens School of Fine Arts and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. Working primarily through video, he poses questions about the mechanisms of re-enactment and powers of memory. He has recently exhibited at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, the First Athens Biennial and CCS Bard, New York.