Artists

> KEJOO PARK. BETWEEN THE WORLDS

Cultural diversity plays an important role in the biography of Kejoo Park. Born and raised in Korea, Kejoo left her homeland to study art at the Pratt Institute in the United States and later architecture and landscape architecture at the Cornell and Harvard Universities. This was followed by an international career as a landscape architect, eventually leading her to Europe. Since 2014 Kejoo works exclusively as an artist. She had exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland and the USA.

Linked to Taoist philosophy, Kejoo is concerned with the alienation of man and nature. Nature differentiates, on the one hand, into the "not created by humans, the opposite of the urban" and, on the other, into the "inner nature of man, as opposed to external, social structures".

Kejoo's art is a critical allusion to the loss of nature, and therefore of ourselves, in the modern world.

„Decisive for my artistic work are dualities that form a unity with their reciprocal relationships: interior and exterior world, nature and urbanity, silence and busyness.“

> ANWAR AL ATRASH. CULTURAL EMPATHY

Anwar al Atrash decided in 2016 to flee his terrible war-torn homeland. He had completed art studies at the University of Damascus about 10 years earlier and started a promising career in the arts with various gallery exhibitions in Syria, Lebanon, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Italy. Then the big cut!

Anwar's first stop in Germany was Chemnitz, which has not yet attracted attention through openness and tolerance. Only since moving to Berlin was Anwar able to find his way back to art through workshops and seminars. His works, which were created after 2017, have since been shown in galleries, at Museum Hamburger Bahnhof and at the Berlin Biennale.

„I am interested in the existential state of people in spaces and my emotional and intellectual involvement in them.“

> SEEMA PANDEY.

Seema Pandey lives and works in Delhi, India. On her series presented here she comments:

„It is the awareness of the past and the future which makes us see the possibilities and makes us Dream, makes us Desire. Through our human consciousness, we desire some transcendental experiences.

This series is about this desire to have one perfect home. I see home as a clear and comfortable sequential progression from public to private. If I talk about myself, out of all my tangible or intangible desires; having a house, my own personal space is probably the strongest, which can be referred to as joy, love, veneration, belonging, identity, independence, and peace.“