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About the artists

ANA ALENSO lives and works in Berlin
Ana Alenso’s artistic practice addresses the social and environmental impacts of extractivism, global resource politics, and the trade of precious metals and fossil fuels. Her installations, often temporary and closed-circuit assemblages, consist of sculptures, photographs, sound, and video made from industrial materials intentionally sourced from recycled, reused, and repurposed sources. Her poetic yet darkly dystopian work is usually preceded by extensive research and field studies.
Ana Alenso’s recent solo exhibitions include MAD RUSH (2022) at Nkrumah Volini in Tamale (GH) and The mine gives, the mine takes (2020/21) at Galerie Wedding in Berlin.

EREN İLERI lives and works in Berlin and Vienna.
Eren İleri is a researcher, publicist and artist. His artistic and academic research focuses on manifestations of disembodied masculinities and race in the cultural production of space in contemporary science fiction video games.
Together with Ipek Burcak, Eren İleri is the co-founder of the Vienna and Berlinbased publishing house Well Gedacht Publishing, which produces publications in collaboration with artists from diasporic communities.

DINA KHOURI lives and works in Berlin.
Dina Khouri works primarily with painting. As the title Paintings at a Loss (2017-2020) suggests, it is the intersection of the two that informs her practice. The geometric steel grid serves as a recurring artistic material for Khouri, allowing her to incorporate alongside oil paint, light and shadow into her work. Her installations often refer to the architectural context in which they are located.
Khouri’s work has most recently been exhibited at the Lagos Biennale (NGA, 2019), Klosterruine Berlin (2021), and as part of the Berlin Program for Artists at Gropius Bau at Martin Gropius Bau (2020).

JOSÉ MONTEALEGRE lives and works in Berlin.
José Montealegre develops poetic collages and sculptures from images and texts he finds in historical books and antiquarian documents. Responding to its surroundings, Montealegre’s installation art is relational and concerned with worldbuilding. He is currently working on a series of copper reproductions of plant illustrations from a 16th century encyclopedia.
José Montealegre’s work has recently been shown in solo exhibitions at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2022), Klosterruine and Mountains in Berlin (both 2021).

ELISA STRINNA lives and works in Rotterdam.
Elisa Strinna works conceptually on long-term research projects on ecosystems, exploring the relationship between nature, man and technology. Strinna’s artistic research results in immersive, atmospheric installations of sculpture, video and sound. She presents hybrid worlds that make it impossible to separate the natural, the cultural and the artificial.
Elisa Strinna’s last solo exhibitions were two iteration of Blind Sun (2019/2021) at Tale of a Tub in Rotterdam (NL) and Culturgest in Porto (PT). Her work My Body is a Plant – roots my nervous system (2022) was also shown at documenta 15 in Kassel.

Team

Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Community: Multi-Sector Funding, Exhibition Fund Municipal Galleries and Fund Exhibition Fees for Visual Artists.

Galerie im Turm is a facility of the municipality department office Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.