Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ave Pildas, early in his career, worked as a photo stringer for Downbeat Magazine. In 1971 Pildas began working as the Art Director at Capitol Records in Hollywood where he designed and photographed album covers for the label’s recording artists. He launched a career as a freelance photographer and

Kylli Sparre (1980) lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia. Sparre’s work is influenced by her previous career as a ballet dancer. The artist desires to look beneath the surface, hear the unsaid words and study the relationships between people and their surroundings. Sparre tells you a story with her work, in which subject and surroundings

Interests, references, associations, energy: digital projection and painterly touch come together in a studio like setting in the work of Thijs van Geloven. Van Geloven connects his analog interests to the digital domain. With subtle microscopes, he literally zooms in on Beamer’s and projects their test texts and promotional images. In an intriguing fashion, Thijs van

Michan Mijsbergh explores the regions between fragmentation and unity. If we consider this unity forms a full body made up of fragments, these fragments cause aliention because not all the shapes and materials can be traced back to the human form. Uncanny liknesses develop; we can’t help but find a connection, it’s our only hope

Wouter Paijmans is a painter of a rare kind. While starting from charcoal sketches, and often drawing upon the pioneers of modern art, his actual pieces are often spatial installations. His drawings are based on what he finds around him; elements one finds in a painter’s studio. The aluminium objects that Paijmans carefully builds after them

At first glance you would not say it, but the work of Wouter Nijland (b. 1980) depends on chance. Literally. Just like everyday life, which is his main inspiration. The artist determines only the conditions of his paintings, such as size and grid. After that he leaves it all to chance. The slope of a

A maverick with a Sunday child’s charisma, Amsterdam-based Sander Dekker (b. 1980) is an unconventional photographer with a remarkable talent to capture magical moments. Candy for the eye with an appealing aesthetic quality, Sander’s photography is defined by humour, positive energy, and infinite freedom. Using photography as a tool to capture moments created through interaction and synergy, his

Guus Koenraads’ works are about abstraction, line, composition and form. They are about space, the space of the works themselves or the relationship with their environment. The coloured areas interact with each other, giving a dynamic effect. Koenraads’ works tell stories about stress and rest, about embrace and distance. But also about luxury and sobriety, about rhythm and melody.