Harm van den Dorpel, Liliana Porter, Janina Roider: Munich

Berlin-based artist Harm van den Dorpel combines technology, aesthetics, and narration in his works. Using digital media such as algorithmic art and data-driven installations, van den Dorpel creates artworks that continuously renew themselves over time and develop their own "life" without altering the original artistic approach. His works explore the interaction between human existence and the digital sphere, raising questions about identity, vitality, and the influence of technology on our perception. His practice is dedicated to discovering emergent aesthetics through the composition of software and language, drawing from diverse fields such as genetics and blockchain.

A significant characteristic of the artistic practice of Argentine artist Liliana Porter is her assemblages, in which she stages everyday objects in an apparent momentary quality. Through humorous constellations of unusual objects, she questions the boundary between reality and lends her art significant depth. Over the years, Porter has amassed an extensive and idiosyncratic collection of figures, toys, and souvenirs from her global travels. These kitschy objects regularly find use in her works, inviting political, philosophical, and existential interpretations. Each individual object represents a different era and tells a cultural or historical story. In her works, the artist manipulates time, history, and reality by combining these objects in a timeless white space, allowing apparent dialogues to emerge between them.

Munich-based artist Janina Roider represents expressive painting, literally mixing painting digitally and exploring new realities. In her subjects, she effortlessly draws from both art historical icons and comic book characters, skillfully placing them in the context of current events. In her figures such as Super Woman, Botticelli's foam-born figure, or her alter ego Jay Roy, she merges fiction and reality. Roider engages with the constructions of gender roles and stereotypes, critically questioning the established norms and expectations associated with these role models. With expertise, she employs both analog and digital brushstrokes, equalizing them on the canvas.