Artists

Alex Margo Arden, Mikołaj Sobczak, Ant Łakomsk, Travis MacDonald, Gray Wielebinski, Heeja Lim, Nina Kintsurashvili, Reeha Lim, Rafał Zajko, Nana Wolke

Press release

The group exhibition Re/Enactments highlights ten practices that harness the visual as a site of transmission. Beginning with a slow, continuous, and at times, digestive relation to the image, the presented artists utilise processes of collaging, restaging, and repetition to explore how the visual constructs new sightlines on current and historical social and political realities and beliefs. Working within subjects such as microhistories, cultural mythologies, identity construction, post-colonial society, and queer life, each piece is interested in how these renewed pictorial and spatial approaches may proliferate, entering and travelling through vast loci and contexts. Re/Enactments is then a consideration of new acts of transfer: the exhibition is a proposition towards fuzzy, fragmented, and figurative enactments that drift and shift in a radical multiplication. Alex Margo Arden Alex Margo Arden (b. 1994, Croydon, UK) lives and works in London, United Kingdom. Arden used theatrical methodologies to interrogate the production, interpretation, restoration, and restaging of histories. Through her research projects, she often employs remaking and reperformance to question authority, authenticity, and labour. In 2025, she completed her postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy School, was nominated for The Times Breakthrough Award at the Sky Arts Awards, and won the inaugural Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation Prize at Frieze London. Ant Łakomsk Ant Łakomsk (b. Poland, 2001), lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. She is currently completing her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, which she will complete in 2025. Łakomsk creates paintings that narrate intuitive, mundane, and irrational emotions. Using ambiguous imagery, she often captures fleeting themes of memory and private mythology. She explores issues of identity and seeks to situate them within contemporary contexts. Despite the personal charge of her imagery, she avoids confessional language, aiming to create open narratives. Łakomsk combines the basic conventions of painting while exploring intermediate forms, allowing for transgressive interpretations of her chosen subject matter. Gray Wielebinski Gray Wielebinski (b. 1991, Dallas, US) lives and works in London, United Kingdom. He received a BA from Pomona College, Claremont, CA, in 2014, before completing an MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK, in 2018. Wielebinski's practice explores the role of power in historical and contemporary myth-making, examining how dominant narratives shape our understanding of ourselves, others, and the world. Working across video, collage, installation, sculpture, and performance, his process of reconfiguring iconography and visual codes interrogates prevailing belief systems and proposes alternatives, with recent work focusing on surveillance, strategy, and secrecy as they intersect with gender, sexuality, and the social. Heeja Lim Heejae Lim (b. 1993, Korea) lives and works in Seoul, Korea. She received her BFA and MFA from the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul in 2016 and 2020 respectively. Lim's painting practice explores the concept of nature as mediated through image — specifically through the lens of taxidermy and museum dioramas, where the act of specimen-making mirrors the painter's own desire to possess and translate the world. Rather than reproducing photographic sources directly, Heejae employs warped perspectives and shallow focal points to create a trembling, aquarium-like optical effect, shifting attention away from the specimens themselves and toward the glass, frames, and supporting structures that stage them. Mikołaj Sobczak Mikołaj Sobczak (b. 1989, Poznań, PL) lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. Sobczak works in the fields of video and painting; collaborative performative forms of expression are also an essential element of his artistic practice. Sobczak’s work depicts everyday scenes as well as alternative historical images; in his surreal, collaged pictorial narratives, he inserts protagonists from queer and transgender activism and countercultural emancipatory movements. Sobczak studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in Miroslaw Balka's Studio for Spatial Activities, was a scholarship holder at the Berlin University of the Arts, and graduated as a Master's student in 2019 at the Kunstakademie Münster. In 2021, he was awarded Poland's most prestigious art prize, the Paszport Polityki, and was most recently named a recipient of the Villa Romana Prize 2026. His work is currently on display in Moderna Museet’s group exhibition, House of Nisaba: New Stories of Painting. Nina Kintsurashvili Nina Kintsurashvili (b. 1992, Tbilisi, GE) lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Kintsurashvili's practice examines how artistic formation in peripheral geographical contexts is shaped by distance from dominant centres, where direct encounters with original artworks are replaced by mediated access through reproductions and printed images. Born in Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, she belongs to a “generation that inherited ruins.” Collaborating with Tbilisi's Bukinist networks to build a personal archive spanning archaeology, anthropology, and art history, and drawing on Édouard Glissant's concept of opacity to frame incomplete access as generative imaginative potential rather than a deficit. She earned her BFA in painting from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 2014 and her MFA in Intermedia & Sculpture from the University of Iowa in 2020 as a Fulbright Foreign Student. Reeha Lim Reeha Lim (b. 1994) is a Korean artist raised in China and currently based in the U.S. Her painting practice navigates the instability of perception, exploring the friction between spatial structures and bodily gestures, and tracing the tension between desire and architectural constraint. Reeha’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including Raster Gallery through Gallery Vacancy (Warsaw), Chilli Art Projects (London), TYA Gallery, Gallery 100_0, Gallery Euljiro OF, and Haeng-hwa-tang Art Space (Seoul). She will participate in upcoming exhibitions at James Cohan Gallery (New York) and the NADA Art Fair (New York) in 2025. She has been selected for residencies at NXTHVN (New Haven, 2024–25) and Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2017), and was featured in New American Paintings (Midwest Issue, 2024). Lim earned her BFA from Hongik University in 2021 and completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2024 as a Fulbright Scholar. Travis Macdonald Travis MacDonald (b. 1990, Bunnythorpe, NZ) lives and works between Berlin, Germany and Melbourne, Australia. MacDonald blends the personal and the universal in a visual world shaped by fragmented and contemplative narrative. His deliberately understated works often feature a muted palette and subjects oscillating between the mundane and the absurd. He captures fleeting moments of everyday life, revealing their melancholy, transience, and the inevitability of time passing. He completed his BFA at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (2011). He is the winner of the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize and has been awarded the Gary Grossbard Drawing Prize and the Lionel Gell Foundation Drawing Scholarship. Rafał Zajko Rafal Zajko (b. 1988, Poland), lives and works in London, England. He holds an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art, London, UK. He was recently awarded the Abbey Fellowship at the British School at Rome (Spring 2024). His sculptural commission, Bread and Milk, was shown in the Autumn of 2023 at Kunsthalle Wien in Austria. He has just opened his first UK institutional exhibition ‘Spin Off’, which will later be travelling to Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland. Nana Wolke Nana Wolke (b. 1994, Ljubljana, SI) lives and works in New York, United States. Her practice examines perception, tracing how desire, power, and control circulate within systems of access and visibility. Beginning on film-like sets where staged situations and improvised actions unfold across socially and architecturally charged environments, Wolke uses consumer-grade recording devices — CCTV cameras, home camcorders, intercom systems — to translate live scenarios into compressed atmospheres of painting, sound, and time-based media. Wolke’s work conjures a tension between observation and control, analysing the inextricability of actual and perceived realities. She holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2021) and a BFA with honours from the Academy of Visual Arts, Ljubljana (2017).