isil ezgi celik

isil ezgi celik

curator / writer

Isil is a Phd working on philosophy of art and marginalisation who has been living and curating in Europe, Middle-East and Japan.

şöyle böyle atölye

şöyle böyle atölye

puppet artist / activist

Şöyle Böyle Atölye is an activist puppet collective bringing together LGBTQ+ community, ecological activism, and democratisation of art in the centre of the industrial capital of contemporary Turkey.

michael odom

michael odom

artist

Michael lives in Tokyo exploring non-verbal expression as communicative tool in the ever smaller-growing global village.

selami gundogdu

selami gundogdu

street sweeper / artist

Selami is a city cowboy who has been sweeping the streets in an industrial Turkish city from evil spirits with the enchanted cleaning equipment that he created.

rosemarie koczy

rosemarie koczy

exile / artist

After being deported from her home at the age of 3 and surviving 2 concentration camps Koczy changed her nationality many times and kept depicting the same horrifying faces of death.

IM

IM

capitalist / artist

IM is a well-known capitalist who recently comes forward with conceptual artworks executed by his partner Queen E.

dion mckey

dion mckey

traveller / artist

Dion is a world traveler who ended up settling down in Japan where he climbs up mountains to drink 日本酒, namely Japanese rice wine, and paints.

catherine dupire

catherine dupire

artists / poet

Dupire is a French visual poet who combines text with drawing and paintings.

clary estes

clary estes

photographer / writer

Clary is a photographer and a writer who is travelling around the world to record stories of human condition.

kashinath chawan

kashinath chawan

shoe repairer / artist

Kashinath is a cobler by profession and an art brut creator who was discovered by Collection de l'Art Brut Lausanne after years of isolated artistic creation.

nek chan

nek chan

roads inspector / artist

Until his death in 2015, Nek Chan who is in Collection de l'Art Brut Lausanne, kept inspiring the world with his Rock Garden in India.

pushpa kumari

pushpa kumari

mithila painter / artist

Pushpa Kumari has created a unique artistic expression from the mithila tradition that she had learnt from her grandmother and practiced in isolation. (original photo:Hervé Perdriolle)

shyam thandar

shyam thandar

live-in security manager / artist

An old bus conductor, now a live-in security manager in India, Shyam Thandar thinks it is a fool's errand to ascribe an artist status to him and keeps painting.

maria koshenkova

maria koshenkova

artist

Maria is probing the frontiers between the physical and conceptual, between power and material. http://mariakoshenkova.com/

mitsuri tateishi

mitsuri tateishi

artist

Tateishi left Japan and ended up settling down in France without a visa and he decided to seek his artistic style in this alien country of which he didn't even know the language.

baba

baba

holy man / artist

Baba is a governmental award winning farmer who later became a holy man and started painting and gambling after having served sentence of ten years because of committing murder.