Nicola Heim is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Bavarian alps. Her background in the advertising industry, working in Germany, Russia, Japan and Switzerland and her role as a qualitative researcher raised her awareness in women’s role in a patriarchal society.
When moving to the countryside in 2013 Nicola became interested in the the role of gender in livestock and the misuse of motherhood in the food industry. Based on this, nature, and motherhood to her are connected in their power to give life, but also in their vulnerability .
Nicola is inspired by the spirit of the inner and outer home, and the obligation humans have towards all living beings. She mixes photography and painting, natural /found materials and snow canvas (canvas that has been underneath the snow for at least one winter) and she includes writing, in the form of poetry and art journaling to explore the dimensions of her topics.
Nicola mainly works outside, experimenting with rain and snow and she “ages” or weathers the canvas to highlight the transformation of all living things.
To Nicola, art is as a tool or vehicle to look at the world and to create awareness and meaning for the future that is connected to our origin as being part of nature.
Joran van Soest‘s relationship to his surroundings has been the focal point of his research. From innocent origins to a complex adulthood, physical companionship to thoughtful contemplation and submissive power versus overriding dominance. Joran moves between these extremes and defining his own definition of Intersubjective Space. His work results in a journey existing of various layers of (un)intended confrontations with corporeality and the powerful visual language that demands and maintains the attention of the viewer.
The intersubjective space – what purpose does this space hold between us? Where do we draw our boundaries, transcend or penetrate another’s comfort zone. Would that be a comfortable, awkward or even challenging space to be in? The artist researches this ‘intersubjective space’ through the various media, combining drawing, painting, collage, photography, performance and film. Such an approach challenges spatial limits and the artist’s own individual constraints. The viewer is left with a confrontation between the space that is presented and how they may relate to it.
