Onyis Martin was born in Kisumu, Kenya in 1987 and moved to Nairobi when he was six. Growing up, aside from school he kept himself out of trouble playing football and practising art. He rejected his father’s wish for him to go to university, but instead, he launched himself into fine art, which he initially developed through apprenticeships at the Godown Arts Centre and Kuona Trust in Nairobi.

He is now based at Kobo Trust, where he mentors other artists and facilitates workshops for artists who want to develop & hone their talent.

Experimenting with a wide range of materials, Onyis explores the human condition and the global geopolitical interface, specifically through issues surrounding human trafficking, migration, corruption, and displacement. He additionally explores matters surrounding communication, the rapidly changing technological environment and the consumerism that surrounds it.

Referencing from his personal experience as a point of departure, he interweaves individual and collective experiences highlighting the varying, yet similar experiences people have in different places globally. In his most recent group of works, Talking Walls (2016), Martin extended his exploration of how information depends on and is influenced by freedom and social structure towards investigating the rise of consumerism.

She’s a contemporary visual artist, from the Dominica West Indies, currently living and working in both Vienna and Dominica. She completed her studies in Fine Art at University for Applied and Contemporary Arts in Vienna, Austria, where she obtained an MFA in Painting, Graphics and Trick Film Animation.

Marcelle’s body of work engages painting, sculpture, and video, reflecting the thematic subject of human encounters, her work also describes the basis of a repopulated space and its displaced attributes, the nomadic properties of living and giving mobility, making each image an island surrounded by diverse environmental capabilities.

Marcelle touches on themes of capitalistic modes of production, transportation of goods and people, and sustainability of environmental values and labels.

She adapts digital collages to painterly parameters, transforming them into pictorial form, continually entering into relations, composing, and recomposing relations.

Pauline’s artworks have been presented at various exhibitions and are sitting at various collections including:

1. The World Bank Art Collection Washington DC, USA
2. MONA Museum of New Art Detroit the USA
3. The Essl Collection of Contemporary Art Austria Ministry of Culture, City of Vienna
4. Exhibitions: (2021) CHRONICLES: Wolkersdorf Castle Wolkersdorf/Austria,(2021) UNTITLED, ART OVR: WHO I AM Gallery Miami (2021) COSMOSCOW: International Artfair Moscow, Russia (2019) ART AUCTION FOR CHILDREN: Albertina Museum Vienna/Austria INSIDE OUT – OUTSIDE ME: DAL Foundation Vienna/Austria (2018) AUCTION ART FOR CHILDREN: Lisa Kandlhofer Gallery Vienna/Austria, (2017) Art Olympia Award Tokyo Japan, (2016) DAKAR BIENNALE: Austrian Pavilion Dakar/Senegal, (2010) Bag Factory Residency Johannesburg South Africa,

Phumlani Ntuli was born in 1986, in Soweto Johannesburg, obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art degree in 2012 from the University of Johannesburg, where he majored in sculpture.

He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Arts Public Sphere from (ECAV) Ecole Cantonale D’Art du Valais in Sierre- Switzerland. Phumlani was awarded a Prix-excellence for his ongoing research project Permutations of an event centred around notions of archives and surveillance.

His work merges the ambit of artistic research, sculpture, video installations and performative practices. He consistently engages diverse publics and audiences and attempts to make visible the gaps, breaks, silences, pauses and remnants in history.

His work figures around fictional geographies, simulation, archive, and representation.

He explores these concerns through a collision between documentary and fiction using collages, performance, and video installation. His work addresses and questions the format of lens-based media in telling historical events and situations within geopolitical imaginaries.

As an artist and practitioner Phumlani has presented and or contributed work within the context of the Spier Light Art Festival 2021, Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival 2020, Young Congo Biennale 2019, Live Works V6 curated by Simone Frangi and Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Kampala Biennale 2016, in Uganda curated by Elise Atangana, the Bone Performance Festival 2016, Bern Switzerland, curated by Valerian Maly and performed in the Act Festival 2016 in Geneva, Basel, Sierre and Zurich.

During the aforementioned year, Ntuli participated in residencies/workshops at the Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella Italy and the Alps Art Academy in Chur Switzerland. This was his third solo exhibition, after two solo performance projects at Alps Art Academy in Chur Switzerland in 2016 – 2017, Umjondolo at Goethe- Institut Johannesburg, Thupelo in Cape town and Infecting the city in Johannesburg 2012 – 2014.

She’s a South African born contemporary multidisciplinary visual artist and curator currently residing and working in Johannesburg.De Vos received her BA Technologies degree from the Tshwane University of Technology where she majored in glass blowing, sculpture and figure drawing.

In her practice she investigates the physical human form and basic human experience, her artworks serve as a call for closeness, through her well-executed mixed media drawings.

She aims to depict the human body in its most fundamental form central to the human experience, calling for an emergence of a new lens of viewing and relating to one another.

In her practice, she observes how preconceived notions of identity, cultural and traditional values, set morals and racial, gendered and societal ideologies tend to govern how we relate to one another. She achieves further contrast through her use of mediums as she juxtapositions soft and hard mediums in one artwork, where the softness of charcoal is contrasted with the hardness of nails and staples, creating a dynamic and multidimensional visual experience. De Vos’s body of work centres around the emotional, psychological and social wellbeing of individuals advocating for new positive ways of relating to one another.