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SHIMABUKU
was born in Kobe in 1969. Lives and works in Berlin since 2004. SHIMABUKU has been mainly working on site-specific art projects and performances at various locations inside and outside Japan.

Selected Solo Exhibitions: ”KONNICHIWA”, Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan (1993); ”I'm traveling with 165-metre mermaid”, DAZIBAO, Montreal, Canada (1999); “The Octopus Returns”, Kobe Art Village Center, Japan (2001); “Watching the River Flow : What an artist and a gallery can do together for tomorrow”, SHUGOARTS, Tokyo, Japan (2003); “Swansea Jack Memorial Dog Swimming Competition”, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, U.K (2003); “Catching octopus with self-made ceramic pots”, Air de Paris, France (2004).
Selected Group Exhibitions: Biennale of Sydney (1998); “Elysian Fields”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2000); Yokohama 2001:International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan (2001); “Utopia Station”, 50th Venezia Biennale, Italy (2003); Liverpool Biennial, U.K (2006); XXVII Sao Paolo Biennial (2006).

He is one of the most expected artists in the world. He is going to actively participate to many exhibitions e.g. an opening exhibition of Okinawa… as well as exhibitions in Korea, China, and U.K. His recent activities are not only art exhibitions in museums or galleries, but varied to children’s picture books, essays, lectures and workshops in all over the world.

Artist Books: “In Search of Deer” (Artist’s Private Book); “With Birds at Dawn” (On Sundays); “SHIMABUKU 2001” (Kobe Art Village Center); “Cucumber Journey” (Shogakukan).

Born in Johannesburg, 1972. Based in Berlin.
Professor of Fine Art at the Braunschweig University of Art since 2007.

Education
1998 - 2002 Doctoral Candidate in Art History - Columbia University (New York)
1997 Whitney Independent Studio Program – Whitney Museum (New York)
1997 M.Phil. Art History - Columbia University (New York)
1995 M.A. Art History – University of Chicago (Chicago)
1993 B.A. (Fine Arts) - University of the Witwatersrand
(Johannesburg)

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Since 1993 artist and musician David Cunningham has created a continuing series of installation works based on real time exploration of acoustics. 

 'The Listening Room', Biennale of Sydney (1998) was followed by installation works in The Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain 2003 and subsequent installations at ICC Tokyo, Ikon Birmingham, Camden Arts Centre London and Carter Presents London.

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He was born in 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen.　Currently based in Berlin and Copenhagen.

He creates work dealing with natural phenomena. He works closely with architects and scientists.
He has been showing his work internationally.

Selected solo exhibitions are Kunsthalle Basel (1997), ICA Boston (2000), Kunstlerhaus Bregenz (2001), and Tate Modern Turbine Hall [The Weather Project] (2003). Group exhibitions include Johannesburg Biennale (1997), Istanbul Biennale (1997), Sydney Biennale (1998), Sao Paulo Biennale (1998) and the Venice Biennale (1999 and 2003).

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Born in 1968 in Karachi, Pakistan.

Lives and works in Berlin. She received her B.A. from Goldsmiths College, in London, in 1994. A multimedia artist working in video, sound and light projection, works on paper, and sculpture.

She has been in exhibitions at Kunsthalle Dusseldorf; Esther Schipper, Berlin; Portikus, Frankfurt; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Casey Kaplan, New York; Kunsthalle Bern; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; and in London at Lisson Gallery, Tate Britain, and Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA).

1950 Born in Nagoya
1975 Graduated from Department of Musicology of Osaka University of Arts
Lives in Osaka

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He was born in 1963 in Brussels. Currently lives in Stockholm.
He studied agricultural sciences, and earned his Ph.D in insect behavior.
He has shown his work internationally over the last decade, including important one-man exhibitions at Fondazione Prada, Milan; Musee d'Art Contemporain, Marseille; Mass MoCA; and Tate Modern Turbine Hall in 2006.
He also represented Sweden, with Miriam Backström, at the 51st Venice Biennal.

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Detailed bio (English): Air de Paris

Born 1970 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Lives and works in London.
Received her BA from Middlesex University/Manchester Metropolitan University and MPhil from the Royal College of Art, London.

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London-based Danish artists Nina Beier and Marie Lund both studied at the Royal College of Art, and have worked as a duo since 2003.

They have held regular solo shows at M+R Gallery in London and in V1 Gallery in Copenhagen and larger solo shows at art spaces such as Spacex Gallery in Exeter, Åarhus Center for Contemporary Art and Overgaden- Institute of Contemporary Art in Denmark.

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(b. 1961 and pronounced RICK-rit Tira-VAN-it) is a Buenos Aires-born contemporary artist who divides his time in New York, Berlin and Bangkok.

His early installations involved cooking meals for gallery-goers. Tiravanija's artwork, which explores the social role of the artist, is described by Nicolas Bourriaud as having a "relational aesthetics." His installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals, cooking, reading, playing music. Architecture or structures for living and socializing are a core element in his work. He is represented by the Gavin Brown Gallery in New York.

In 2004 he was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize by the Guggenheim Museum, "in recognition of his profound contribution to contemporary art."