isil ezgi celik
curator / writer
Isil is a curator of liminal spaces, whose practice unfolds across Europe, the Middle East, and Japan.
şöyle böyle atölye
puppet artist / activist
Şöyle Böyle Atölye is an activist puppet collective bringing together LGBTQ+ community, ecological activism, and democratisation of art.
michael odom
artist
Michael lives in Tokyo exploring non-verbal expression as communicative tool in the ever smaller-growing global village.
selami gundogdu
street sweeper / artist
Selami is a city cowboy who sweeps the streets of an industrial Turkish city of evil spirits using enchanted cleaning equipment he created.
rosemarie koczy
exile / artist
Deported from her home at the age of three and a survivor of two concentration camps, Koczy changed her nationality many times, repeatedly depicting the same horrifying faces of death.
IM
capitalist / artist
IM is a well-known capitalist who recently comes forward with conceptual artworks executed by his partner Queen E.
dion mckey
traveller / artist
Dion is a world traveller who has settled in Japan, where he climbs mountains, drinks 日本酒(Japanese rice wine), and paints.
catherine dupire
artists / poet
Dupire is a French visual poet who combines text with drawing and paintings.
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
shoe repairer / artist
Kashinath is a cobler by profession and an art brut creator who was discovered by outsider art market after years of isolated artistic creation.
nek chan
roads inspector / artist
Until his death in 2015, Nek Chan kept inspiring the world with his Rock Garden in India.
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
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
artist
Maria is probing the frontiers between the physical and conceptual, between power and material. http://mariakoshenkova.com/
mitsuri tateishi
artist
Tateishi left Japan and eventually settled in France without a visa, deciding to develop his artistic style in a country whose language he did not even speak.
baba
holy man / artist
Baba is a government award–winning farmer who later became a holy man and began painting and gambling after serving a ten-year prison sentence for murder.