Wolfgang Guenther is a painter based in Berlin whose work centers on themes of transformation—across nature, human identity, and social systems. Inspired by the metamorphosis of insects, Guenther draws a poetic parallel between the cocoon and the human experience. His layered, textured paintings balance intuition with control, shifting between the playful and the melancholic. The figures in his work appear as quiet witnesses or uncertain protagonists, subtly reflecting the complexity of being human—with all its contradictions, desires and silent evolutions.

Rike Droescher lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. She graduated in 2020 from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, having studied in the classes of Professor Andreas Gursky, Alexandra Bircken, and Peter Piller. Rike creates objects and sculptural scenarios in which material, space, and body become part of an investigation into how we shape, and are shaped by, our surroundings. In her work, fragments of natural and domestic landscapes often merge into one another. Notions of inside and outside, protection and exposure, past and present collide, overlap, and coexist. Guided by a largely intuitive process, she weaves a dense web of associations within each scenario that is never fully decoded.

Rui Suzuki graduated in 2024 from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class of Tomma Abts. She works through repetition using watercolor, paper, drawing, and cutting to focus on the responses that emerge at the threshold of form. Rather than revealing the contours of a subject or the meaning of a scene, Suzuki’s paintings press into the subtle tremors that occur between the edges of color and the pressure of perception. Lines and planes, voids and dots interfere with one another, and form does not settle but instead organizes itself into structure. Rather than translating sensation into image, the artist adopts an attitude of waiting, allowing it to speak on its own.

Rui Suzuki graduated in 2024 from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class of Tomma Abts. She works through repetition using watercolor, paper, drawing, and cutting to focus on the responses that emerge at the threshold of form. Rather than revealing the contours of a subject or the meaning of a scene, Suzuki’s paintings press into the subtle tremors that occur between the edges of color and the pressure of perception. Lines and planes, voids and dots interfere with one another, and form does not settle but instead organizes itself into structure. Rather than translating sensation into image, the artist adopts an attitude of waiting, allowing it to speak on its own.

Jackson Joyce is a New York–based painter whose work centers on moments that linger for their quiet resonance. He pursues not representation but the felt truth of a scene—how a shadow advances across plaster, how muted light gathers behind a curtain, how the weight of an object holds a room. These images carry a charge of presence and absence, something sensed rather than fully seen. His process is deliberately attentive: he keeps records from morning walks as if collecting evidence; he leaves through second-hand books for images and sentiments, then at times wraps a book in canvas and paints it closed, allowing the source to remain present without illustration. Layer by layer, memory, perception, and feeling settle into the surface.

Jackson Joyce is a New York–based painter whose work centers on moments that linger for their quiet resonance. He pursues not representation but the felt truth of a scene—how a shadow advances across plaster, how muted light gathers behind a curtain, how the weight of an object holds a room. These images carry a charge of presence and absence, something sensed rather than fully seen. His process is deliberately attentive: he keeps records from morning walks as if collecting evidence; he leaves through second-hand books for images and sentiments, then at times wraps a book in canvas and paints it closed, allowing the source to remain present without illustration. Layer by layer, memory, perception, and feeling settle into the surface.

Jackson Joyce is a New York–based painter whose work centers on moments that linger for their quiet resonance. He pursues not representation but the felt truth of a scene—how a shadow advances across plaster, how muted light gathers behind a curtain, how the weight of an object holds a room. These images carry a charge of presence and absence, something sensed rather than fully seen. His process is deliberately attentive: he keeps records from morning walks as if collecting evidence; he leaves through second-hand books for images and sentiments, then at times wraps a book in canvas and paints it closed, allowing the source to remain present without illustration. Layer by layer, memory, perception, and feeling settle into the surface.

Rike Droescher lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. She graduated in 2020 from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, having studied in the classes of Professor Andreas Gursky, Alexandra Bircken, and Peter Piller. Rike creates objects and sculptural scenarios in which material, space, and body become part of an investigation into how we shape, and are shaped by, our surroundings. In her work, fragments of natural and domestic landscapes often merge into one another. Notions of inside and outside, protection and exposure, past and present collide, overlap, and coexist. Guided by a largely intuitive process, she weaves a dense web of associations within each scenario that is never fully decoded.

Rike Droescher lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. She graduated in 2020 from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, having studied in the classes of Professor Andreas Gursky, Alexandra Bircken, and Peter Piller. Rike creates objects and sculptural scenarios in which material, space, and body become part of an investigation into how we shape, and are shaped by, our surroundings. In her work, fragments of natural and domestic landscapes often merge into one another. Notions of inside and outside, protection and exposure, past and present collide, overlap, and coexist. Guided by a largely intuitive process, she weaves a dense web of associations within each scenario that is never fully decoded.

Rui Suzuki graduated in 2024 from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class of Tomma Abts. She works through repetition using watercolor, paper, drawing, and cutting to focus on the responses that emerge at the threshold of form. Rather than revealing the contours of a subject or the meaning of a scene, Suzuki’s paintings press into the subtle tremors that occur between the edges of color and the pressure of perception. Lines and planes, voids and dots interfere with one another, and form does not settle but instead organizes itself into structure. Rather than translating sensation into image, the artist adopts an attitude of waiting, allowing it to speak on its own.

Jackson Joyce is a New York–based painter whose work centers on moments that linger for their quiet resonance. He pursues not representation but the felt truth of a scene—how a shadow advances across plaster, how muted light gathers behind a curtain, how the weight of an object holds a room. These images carry a charge of presence and absence, something sensed rather than fully seen. His process is deliberately attentive: he keeps records from morning walks as if collecting evidence; he leaves through second-hand books for images and sentiments, then at times wraps a book in canvas and paints it closed, allowing the source to remain present without illustration. Layer by layer, memory, perception, and feeling settle into the surface.

Wolfgang Guenther is a painter based in Berlin whose work centers on themes of transformation—across nature, human identity, and social systems. Inspired by the metamorphosis of insects, Guenther draws a poetic parallel between the cocoon and the human experience. His layered, textured paintings balance intuition with control, shifting between the playful and the melancholic. The figures in his work appear as quiet witnesses or uncertain protagonists, subtly reflecting the complexity of being human—with all its contradictions, desires and silent evolutions.

Wolfgang Guenther is a painter based in Berlin whose work centers on themes of transformation—across nature, human identity, and social systems. Inspired by the metamorphosis of insects, Guenther draws a poetic parallel between the cocoon and the human experience. His layered, textured paintings balance intuition with control, shifting between the playful and the melancholic. The figures in his work appear as quiet witnesses or uncertain protagonists, subtly reflecting the complexity of being human—with all its contradictions, desires and silent evolutions.

Rui Suzuki graduated in 2024 from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class of Tomma Abts. She works through repetition using watercolor, paper, drawing, and cutting to focus on the responses that emerge at the threshold of form. Rather than revealing the contours of a subject or the meaning of a scene, Suzuki’s paintings press into the subtle tremors that occur between the edges of color and the pressure of perception. Lines and planes, voids and dots interfere with one another, and form does not settle but instead organizes itself into structure. Rather than translating sensation into image, the artist adopts an attitude of waiting, allowing it to speak on its own.

Clément Ecke lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. Ecke’s work explores process as a method to generate images from the subconscious. Paintings unfold as a dialogue with the image itself, responding to what emerges on the surface. The artist acts as a conduit rather than a director, with cycles of addition and negation guiding the painting’s development. Using visual tropes and logic from French comic books, Ecke develops a vocabulary of forms in his sketchbook, where motifs are continually revisited and transformed. Reoccurring themes of self alienation and relief reoccur throughout his work.

Emma Guareschi is an artist working across painting, printmaking, and photography. Guareschi explores the space between play and alienation, community and solitude with images that echo like mirrors: colors reversed, gestures fractured. Recurring themes such as circus and the carnivalesque serve as stages for investigating performance, emotion, and the construction of the self. Her poetic worlds where fantasy and melancholy intersect, reflect on how identity and belonging are shaped through spectacle and ritual.

Emma Guareschi is an artist working across painting, printmaking, and photography. Guareschi explores the space between play and alienation, community and solitude with images that echo like mirrors: colors reversed, gestures fractured. Recurring themes such as circus and the carnivalesque serve as stages for investigating performance, emotion, and the construction of the self. Her poetic worlds where fantasy and melancholy intersect, reflect on how identity and belonging are shaped through spectacle and ritual.

Emma Guareschi is an artist working across painting, printmaking, and photography. Guareschi explores the space between play and alienation, community and solitude with images that echo like mirrors: colors reversed, gestures fractured. Recurring themes such as circus and the carnivalesque serve as stages for investigating performance, emotion, and the construction of the self. Her poetic worlds where fantasy and melancholy intersect, reflect on how identity and belonging are shaped through spectacle and ritual.