The participating artists

Bios and Backgrounds


 

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LIZ DAWSON

Liz Dawson began her studies at Winchester School of Art, completing a BA in Fine Art (Painting) in 1998. After moving to London and completing a residency at the Florence Trust, she went on to obtain an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2004. She has exhibited widely in London, participating in shows at, among others, the Jerwood Space, One in the Other and The Pump House Gallery. Her work has also been shown at art fairs such as PULSE New York, The Zoo Art Fair in London and the Toronto International Art Fair. She moved to Hamburg, Germany, in 2011, where she was an active member of the artist-run space nachtspeicher23. Liz exhibited her drawings in the solo exhibition ″Fragment″ at Werkstadt, Berlin, in 2016 and has lived in Berlin since 2018.
https://www.instagram.com/lizdawsonberlin/
http://www.lizdawson.com/

 

GABRIEL SANTAMARINA

born in Mexico City, 1971. Journalist/writer turned into filmmaker turned into
psychotherapist. Director of three documentary films on Japanese Shamanism (The Blue Speck of the Unknown-2007, The Voice of Abyss-2010, Kamidaari-2015) . Author of ″Kamidaari, Voz del Abismo″, on the shamanic transition in Miyako Island, Okinawa. His research on shamanism led him to the practice of Transpersonal Psychology and the therapeutic methods of Serbian psychologist Zivorad M. Slavinski. His films and videoinstallations have been shown in film festivals and exhibitions in the UK, Spain, Japan, USA and Mexico. Lives and works in Mexico City.
http://instagram.com/gnixel

 

MANUELA JOHANNA COVINI

Covini (born in Germany, 1960) always saw work on art as fundamental work on knowledge. Since 2000, participation in exhibitions. Always on the side, because the production of explicitly artistic works was important to her, but not the motivation of her work. She worked a long time as TV journalist in Switzerland. Basically, Covini sees her artistic work as an irritating interaction that tells how life goes beyond its own subjective limits. The digital image, in particular, allows her to present those dimensions in her own visual vocabulary (as an aesthetically resilient material). She lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City.
http://kulturstadt.org/
http://covini.com/
http://mentalmetropolis.com/


THOMAS ZETZMANN

Thomas Zetzmann works as an Ayurveda and hypnotherapist in Berlin and South America. He regularly writes articles on health and psychology, combining them with Indian philosophy and the latest medical knowledge. In the 1980s he swam for the GDR national team, worked in the 90is as a swim trainer in Austria/ASKö and the USA/University of Texas and has worked as a massage therapist in Berlin since 1995. In 2014 he completed the first 2-day hypnosis workshop (Winkels Akandemie/Berlin), in 2018 he received state approval as natural practicioner/ HP. In 2019 he opened a private practice in Berlin/ West and 2020 completetd a one-year extra-occupational specialist course in hypnotherapy/ hynopracticioner (Hypnovita).
www.hypnose.dgaam.de

 

 

JOSE FLORES CASTILLO

is a painter, draughtsman, sculptor and craftsman born in the vicinity of Mexico City, academically trained in a school of applied arts, which was created to give continuous training to workers in the publishing industry.
Jose continued his artistic training independently with different teachers, all of them active artists. The technique he have developed serves his aesthetic needs.

https://www.instagram.com/sabelius_


 

JUANPABLO AVENDANO AVILA

Juanpablo Avendaño Ávila (Mexico City, 1978) is an artist and cultural producer who develops his practice through different supports and media such as drawing, design, the intervention of spaces, performance and publishing. He has recently participated in a seminar on hermeneutics for cultural action and in the first diploma course on narrative practices in Mexico, in response to the need to investigate forms of articulation between different media. Since 2006 he has worked independently and participates in different projects related to the design and production of cultural contents, among which the most recent is the project of the gallery-workshop Otra cosa sin nombre, a place for the exhibition-sale and production of work, with artistic residencies on the street, in whose development it is important to include the creative relationship in the face of the immediate.
www.instagram.com/otra_cosa_sin_nombre

 

TOM DRANSFIELD

lives and works in Berlin for just over 20 years. Born in Yorkshire England but raised in both England and Scotland respectively. He is artist and therapist.
https://art.tdransfeld.de
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mDJTAel5I

 

 

CLAUDIA MARTíNEZ SANCHEZ

Artist Claudia Martínez is also a human rights defender, activist and journalist. Her her work for the human rights of indigenous people in the Sierra Negra of Puebla and the voice she has given them in the international in the international media in the United States, as a correspondent for the United States, has led her to be one of the most She is one of the journalists persecuted and threatened with death in Mexico. Claudia Martínez lived through a forced displacement due to the violence against Mexican journalists who do not
Mexican journalists who do not censor the truth.
Claudia's work is now her main source of income to continue doing independent journalism, in addition to her work as a human rights human rights defender for indigenous peoples and journalists as director of the Colectivo Nacional Alerta Temprana de Periodistas y Colectivo Nacional Alerta Temprana de Periodistas y Defensores (National Early Warning Collective of Journalists and Defenders). safeguarding journalists and defenders who have been violated in Mexico.st.

https://angelmetropolitano.com.mx/la-periodista-claudia-martinez-sanchez-es-amenazada-en-puebla-por-gobierno-de-barbosa