ADRIANO AMARAL (b. 1982, Ribeirão Preto, BR) lives and works in Amsterdam and São Paulo. Amaralʼs work encompasses an examination of the nature of things – the stuff of the world; its substance, value, materiality and mutability. Blurring the boundaries between object and space, composition and dispersion, painting and sculpture, Amaral creates site-specific installations, responding to the spatial and architectural elements of the exhibition space or gallery. Adriano Amaral received his MA in Sculpture from The Royal College of Art, London, UK (2012-2014); currently he is an artist in residency at De Ateliers, in Amsterdam (2014-2016). In 2014 received the award of the Kenneth Armitage Young Sculptor Prize. Solo exhibitions include Galeria Transversal, São Paulo (2012); Space in Between, London (2014). A selection of group shows are In Conversation at Hilary Crisp Gallery, London (2013); Open Cube, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, White Cube Gallery, London (2013); Brutalidade Jardim curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli, Gallery Marília Razuk, São Paulo (2013); A Sense of Things,  Zabludowicz Collection, London (2014); Postcodes: Kind, Coletor, São Paulo (2014); Flet, SpazioA, Pistoia (2014); Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2015); Múrias Centeno, Porto (2015)

VANESSA BILLY (b 1978, Geneva, CH) in based in Zurich CH. She gained her BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art in 2001. Bringing together found objects such as rocks, with her own elements made in bronze, concrete, glass, resin, printed stickers or prints on paper, Billy creates conversation pieces. She explores combinations between the familiar and unfamiliar, while also aware that ‘natural’ has become a muddy and obscure term. In response, some of her sculptures appear to have aged naturally over time as if shaped by elemental forces, while others are formed or determined by her own body, and can be as delicate as a tied-up bag of water. Selected solo presentations include Where Is Wild?, C-o-m-p-o-s-i-t-e, Brussels BE (2015); GRANPALAZZO, Palazzo Rospiglioni, Zagarolo, Rome IT (2015); Stranded, Limoncello, London UK (2015); Permeate, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully CH (2014); Sustain, sustain, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh UK (2014); Clean Cold Fire, BolteLang, Zurich CH (2013); Empty the Earth to fill the Sky, Piano Nobile, Geneva CH (2013); Looking for the pool, Unosolo, Milan IT (2011); Not Taught, BolteLang, Zurich CH (2011); Three times a day, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel CH (2011); Natural means something like vegetables, Christina Wilson, Copenhagen DK (2011); Who Shapes What, Limoncello, London UK (2010); Surfaces for the Mind to Rest or Sink Into, as part of The Photographic Object, The Photographer’s Gallery Project Space, London, UK (2009). Selected group exhibitions from recent years Môtiers 2015 – Art en plein air, Môtiers CH (2015); Engagements, Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers FR (2015); Le Gestes des Materiaux, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble FR (2014); Swiss Art Awards, Basel CH (2014); Stadtbiotop, BolteLang CH (2014); Sculpture Triennale, Bex & Arts, Parc de Szilassy, Bex CH (2014); STONE, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland UK (2014); Thinking Things, Café Gallery, London UK (2014); La Jeunesse est un Art – Jübilaum Manor Kunstpreise, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau CH (2012); Utopraxia, The Art Foundation, Athens GR (2012); We love you, Limoncello, London UK (2012); Sun Neither Rise Nor Set, Royal College of Art, London UK (2010) and Double Object, Thomas Dane, London UK (2009).

PETRA FERIANCOVÁ (b 1977 Bratislava, SK) lives and works in Bratislava. She studied advertising art at SSUV from 1991 to1995. Subsequently, she was accepted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava SK, which she left for the Accademia delle Belle Arti, Roma IT, graduating in 2003. In 2011 she was a resident at ISCP, New York US. She is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Intermedia and Multimedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava SK. She often works with already existing images, texts, objects and collections, which she interprets and methodically interchanges. The main aim of this manipulation with a pictorial or discursive reference is to provide the spectator with the original affective reaction. Each new realisation leans towards an implied connection between the universe of unique personal experience, which is conditioned by civilisation, history and culture. Forms, images and vestiges of the fleeting past are embraced with the full awareness that their original meaning might have already degraded. Selected solo exhibitions from recent years are Vulnerable, Yet Everlasting,Viltin Gallery, Off Biennale Budapest HU (2015); Things that Happen, and Things that are Done. On Beginnings and Matter, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples IT (2014); Every Day has a Noon, AMT_project, Bratislava SK (2014); Birds, Myths an d Tusks, Frieze Frame London UK (2013); Still the Same Place, (with Zbyněk Baladrán), Czech and Slovak Pavilion, Venice Biennale IT (2013); ARCO, Madrid SP (2013); A Study of the Seconday Plan, Dumb, The House Of Arts, Brno CZ (2012); A Report on the Time Spending, Jiri Svestka, Berlin DE (2012); Postsriptum to Childe Harold’s Pilgrimge, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava SK (2011); Theory of a City or the Possibilities of an A4, ISCP, New York US (2011) and Exit Ghost, Valentina Moncada Gallery, Rome IT (2009). Selected group shows among many others are Empty Pedestal, Fantasmi del'Est Europa, Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna IT (2014); ReMap 4, In the Studio, Kunsthalle Athens GR (2013); Our Creatures, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Birmingham UK (2013); The Discovery Of Slowness, Tranzit, Bratislava SK (2012); Collector, Sabot, Cluj Napoca RO (2012); Where Do We Go From Here? Secession, Vienna (2010).

FALKE PISANO (b 1978 Amsterdam, NL) lives and works in Berlin DE. She attended the Art Academy of Utrecht NL and the postgraduate program at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht NL. In 2013, she was the recipient of the Prix de Rome. Her practice is based on the use of diagrammatic strategies and the exposure of a kind of loop, in which shifting abstract sculptural forms are conceived directly in relation to written and spoken language, implying an on-going and morphing production of meaning. A selection of recent solo exhibitions includes The value in mathematics, REDCAT, Los Angeles US (2015); Rehearsal I: Parts That Do Not Go Together and Rehearsal II: Heart Head Hold-up, PRAXES, Berlin DE (2014); The Body in Crisis; The Showroom, London UK (2013); Composition of The Voice, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo (2013); Disordered Bodies Fractured Minds, Hollybush Gardens, London UK (2012); The Body in Crisis, De Vleeshal, Middelburg NL (2012); The Body in Crisis (Distance, Repetition and Representation), Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam NL (2011) and Desert Solitaire, Benoît Maire & Falke Pisano, The Reading Room at CAC, Vilnius LT (2011); (conditions of agency), Extra City, Antwerpen BE (2010). Her recent group exhibition among many others include House, Hollybush Gardens, London UK (2014); Mammouth Treignac Projet, Treignac FR (2014); Per/Form. How to do things with[out] words, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid ES (2014); This Page Intentionally Left Blank, Akbank Art Center, Istanbul TR (2014); 13th Istanbul Biennial TR (2013); A House of Leaves. Third Movement, David Roberts Art Foundation, London UK (2012); Trabajo, Poder Y Control, MACBA, Barcelona ES (2012); 9th Shanghai Biennale CN (2012); The Body in Crisis (Housing, Treating and Depicting) performance at Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid ES (2012); Beyond Imagination, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NL (2012); For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking For the Black Cat That Isn’t There, ICA London UK / Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, US / De Appel, Amsterdam NL (2010); Modernologies, Muzeum Sztuki, Warsaw, PL (2010); Rehabilitation, WIELS, Brussels, BE (2010); Making Worlds, Venice Biennale IT (2009) and Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Manufactura Tabacchi, IT (2008).

YANN SÉRANDOUR (b 1974 Vannes, FR) lives and works in Rennes FR. His practice often refers to conceptual art from the sixties and seventies, periods of particular interest to him because of their copious diffusion in the form of publications and prints. In his recent work, he moves attention to other fields and times, such as archival photos of collective fascination with cacti, which together with a collection of gardening guides and bibliographies offer a public image to the passions and practices of these hobbyists, from which the story of devotion can be told. His recent solo exhibitions include A Figure Four Trap, Luis Adelantado, Valencia SP (2015); Cactus Cuttings, gb agency, Paris FR (2014); Yann Sérandour, Present Future, gb agency, Artissima 18, Turin IT (2011); Un temps nuageux avec la possibilité d’un rayon de soleil, gb agency, Paris FR (2011); Inside the White Cube, Module, Palais de Tokyo, Paris FR (2008). Among many others his recent group exhibitions include Individual Stories. Collecting as Portrait and Methodology, Kunsthalle Vienna AT (2015); Red Swan Hotel, MACRO, Rome IT (2015); Air de Jeu, Le Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris FR (2015); El Hotel Eléctrico, MUHKA, Antwerpen BE (2014). We get lighter and lighter, épisode 1, Cneai, Chatou FR (2014); Hotel Abisso, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva CH (2013); It Also Says Imperceptibly, Dolores, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam NL (2013); L’Origine des choses, Centre d’art Contemporain de la Ville de Bruxelles BE (2013); An exhibition to Hear Read, ICA Philadelphia US (2012); Les prairies, Les ateliers, Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Rennes FR (2012); Yann Sérandour & Omer Fast, Frieze Focus, New York US, with gb agency (2012); Incidents of Mirror Travels in Yucatan and other Places, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico MX (2011); Studies for an Exhibition, David Roberts Art Foundation, London UK (2011); The Way Beyond Art: Wide White Space, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco US (2011); Book Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham UK (2010); Chefs-d'œuvre?, Centre Pompidou-Metz FR (2010); Double Bind / Arrêtez d'essayer de me comprendre!, Villa Arson, Nice FR (2010) and Seconde Main, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris FR (2010).

IAN WHITTLESEA (b 1967 Isleworth, UK) lives and works in London. He receives a BA (Hons) degree in painting from the Chelsea College of Art, London UK in 1990, and obtained his MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London Uk in 1992. His work is concerned with words, and with the ability of text to transform the physical and psychic state of the viewer. It assumes many forms, from painstaking text paintings to printed books, ephemeral posters and transient projections, and explores the relationships between language, illustration and diagram both on the page and in the world. A selection of recent solo projects includes Breath is Life, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool UK (2015); Attaining Cosmic Consciousness, Tenderbooks, London UK (2014); A Breathing Bulb, Marlborough Contemporary, London UK (2014); Becoming Invisible, book launch with The Everyday Press, Marcus Campbell Art Books, London UK (2014); Seven Clouds Forming, Favourbrook, London UK (2014); Becoming Invisible, Marlborough Contemporary, London UK (2013) Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture, Barbican Centre, London UK (2012); Foundations of Judo, The Narrows, Melbourne AU (2010). Recent group exhibitions among others include Resource , The Bluecoat, Liverpool UK (2015); Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London UK (2015); Everything is About to Happen, Artists Space, New York US (2014) Everything is About to Happen, Greengrassi / Corvi-Mora, London UK (2014); INFRA, Westminster Reference Library, London UK (2014); The Art Brussels Colouring Book, Art Brussels BE (2014); More than I Dare to Think About, Marlborough Contemporary, London (2013); Collective Diary, Space Mass, Hal Project, Seoul KR (2013); and An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, MASS - MoCA / Cabinet, New York US (2011). Most important publications include INFRA (Playing Cards), Vision Forum, London UK (2014) Becoming Invisible, The Everyday Press, London UK (2014); Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture, Open Editions & Stanley Picker Gallery, London UK (2012) and The Foundations of Judo, Yves Klein, Published by Everyday Press, London UK (2009).