This international artist collaboration consists of five artists, who have met through their professional, site-responsive, nomadic, nature based arts practice. During the onset of the COVID pandemic, unable to travel, they connected virtually through weekly meetings and intensive exchanges. Meeting online they researched and brainstormed concepts in relation to their new confinement existence and the impacts on their own country’s ecology.
The five artists hail from Australia, Italy, Netherlands, Germany/Namibia and Spain.
Zest Artist Collective's inaugural project was launched in July 2020 at the Museum Schokland, Netherlands, followed by the International Biennale of Andorra 2021; and further projects in the OFF DakArt in Senegal (2022), Spain (2022) and RespirArt, Italy (2022).
The five artists hail from Australia, Italy, Netherlands, Germany/Namibia and Spain.
Zest Artist Collective's inaugural project was launched in July 2020 at the Museum Schokland, Netherlands, followed by the International Biennale of Andorra 2021; and further projects in the OFF DakArt in Senegal (2022), Spain (2022) and RespirArt, Italy (2022).
Artists
Imke Rust Namibia | Germany
Imke is a multidisciplinary Namibian artist, based in Germany. In her work she explores relationships between myth, reality, humans and nature. She challenges entrenched perceptions about being human and offers fresh perspectives. Her art making is deeply personal in an attempt to create meaning through process, narrative and material. Simultaneously she easily bridges the divides between cultures and continents, between history and the present and between humans and nature, establishing a universal narrative and understanding. Her works range from site-specific installations, lens-based performances to mixed media paintings and usually are process-orientated, site-responsive and often ephemeral.
Rust holds a BVA of Visual Arts Degree from the University of South Africa. www.imkerust.com |
Karin van der Molen Netherlands
Karin develops most of her environmental artwork on site, within exhibitions and artist residencies. Invited by the area, it’s natural possibilities and boundaries, it’s history and culture, her large ephemeral and semi-permanent works reflect a sense of place.
Karin van der Molen exhibited world wide, including in Japan, Mongolia, South Korea, USA, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Ivory Coast. She combines her sculptural work with photo performances and organising international art projects. www.karinvandermolen.nl |
Sally Kidall Australia | UK
Sally travels internationally creating her vast ephemeral interventions within challenging environments, buildings of interest and beyond the restraints of the gallery. She endeavours to inspire and challenge a wider audience, evoking thoughts/questions and stimulating discussion. With her background in sculpture and MA at Portsmouth Uni, UK, she has over 35 years of making her international environmental practise. She has exhibited throughout the UK & Australia, India, Spain, Ukraine, USA, South Korea, France, India, New Zealand, Netherlands, Andorra.
www.sallykidall.com |
Elena Redaelli Italy | Norway
In her projects, Elena Redaelli explores matter, transformation, processes of generation and decay involving different levels of control and challenging the boundaries of authorship and active intervention. Sometimes the material takes the lead, other times the participants or the environment itself does, resulting in a constant process of transformation, improvisation and exchange. The medium becomes a cross pollination of different techniques often taken from the domains of craft, sculpture, textile, drawings and relational aesthetics. The act of art making is an interrogative process within a new environment and her personal way to get closer to new cultures and people.
Redaelli holds a MA Fine Arts from UCA, London, UK and a MA Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Rome. Since 2010 she’s been living and exhibiting her works in different countries: Italy, Norway, Australia, USA, Japan, China, Taiwan (...) building her practice thanks to different AIR programs. www.elenaredaelli.com |
Lucia Loren Spain
For some years now, the art works of Madrid-born artist Lucia Loren have centred around addressing, from different perspectives and with diverse techniques, the interchangeable relations between human beings and the environment and landscape we live in. In all her art interventions, Loren uses the elements from the landscape to reflect on the concept of cultural landscape. She has made specific interventions in numerous natural environments in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland, Argentina or Western Sahara.
She has participated in numerous exhibitions both individual and collective in institutions and Museums of recognized prestige: CDAN, MUSAC, IVAM, CAB, ACVIC, Sala Tecla, Matadero, La Casa Encendida, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Estampa, Museo Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, La Panera, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Galería Estampa, Museo Provincial Bellas Artes de Tucumán, Jardín botánico de Bogotá, Palacio del Quintanar, Ap Gallery… www.lucialoren.com |
Previous Member:
Karen Macher Peru | Italy (from 2020 till July 2022)
Born in Lima, the capital of Perú. Karen has represented her country in several international Symposiums in Europe, Middle East, South and North America and Asia. In addition to sculpture, she creates drawings and installations connected with ecological materials and themes. An article of her work was published in 2013 in Art Nexus Magazine, in Arte al Límite Perú Magazine 2015 and her work was reviewed as one of the most standing in the Art Lima Art Fair 2013 (Lima, Perú) by the cultural editor of “El País” Newspaper, one of the most important in Spain. She also was invited to be part of the “Ojo Latino” exhibition, the art collection of Luciano Bennetton, presented in the frame of the Venice Biennal 2014. In 2018, as part of the World Youth Forum Egypt, as only representative of her country, she placed her artwork in permanent display in the Reviving Humanity Memorial in the desert of Sharm el Sheikh together with 72 other countries dedicated to those who lost their lives defending a noble purpose. Nowadays she has finished studies for professional ceramists at Sonia Cespedes Ceramic School. She lives and works in Lima.
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