Featured artist: Visual Arts

Merike has represented Estonia in a series of group exhibitions, among them the Prague biennale, the Biennale of Young Artists in Tallinn, “No Borders” organised by the International Association of Art Critics in Belgium, Greece and Spain, the contemporary Estonian art exhibition in Guangzhou, China and many more, and has won a number of international prizes. 

She has exhibited internationally in venues like Ars Electronica, Fischer Museum,  Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Photon Gallery, SciArt Initiative, DC I/O, Culture Hub LA, FakeMeHard, Gogbot, Currents New Media, xCoax, DA Fest, Sariev Contemporary and Queensland Center for Photography. She has been a resident artist at STEAM Imaging III with Ars Electronica & Fraunhofer MEVIS, Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, Photo+Sphere and a member of UCLA Art Sci Center | Lab.

You will see a giant owl split in half on the façade of the College of Arts at the University of Coimbra – just one work of the “Big Trash Animals – Neutral” series, which Bordalo uses to attract attention to the climate change problem and the sustainability goal. 

Bordalo`s artwork shows the destruction and beauty in nature itself. He says: “I think that art is a very powerful tool to achieve this.” His work has been exhibited all over the world in New York, Tel Aviv, Paris, Barcelona, and Berlin just to name a few cities”.

At present Dulk switches between urban art, drawing, painting, sculpture and advertising and each of these media is a challenge he takes with eagerness and imagination. He participated in a lot of group shows around the world in cities as Vancouver, Miami, New York, Brussels, Paris or Chicago. Urban art and mural painting are perhaps what he is most famous for, as well as the expression of his strong ecological conviction to defend ecosystems and the most vulnerable species.

Zuzanna’s practice is always tied to various political discourses.

She believes artists have the obligation to be critical to the prevalent pursuit of nationalist and economic interests and highlight the absurdity of rigidity and intolerance.

Her own works often blur the lines between commercial products, architectural relic and artistic production and turn the gallery space into a dystopian lounge.