The curatorial program of ESCAPEMENT ART is designed to enhance your understanding of today’s art market, art mediums, and art historical discourse.

TINGWEI LI (*1989) is a mid-career known artist, residing both in Berlin and Shanghai. She studied at the Arts University (UdK) in Berlin, Hunter College in New York and Tongji University in Shanghai.

LI XINMO / 李心沫 (*1976) is an established artist, critic, and feminist theory researcher. She was born in Yilan county in Heilongjiang, the PRC. In 2008, she obtained her MA from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. Li’s works were based on a variety of media, including performance, painting, video, photography, and installations.

MA YANHONG / 马延红 (*1977) was born in Baoji, Shanxi Province in the PRC. In 1997, she graduated from School of Fine Arts affiliated to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. In 2002, She obtained her BA degree from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. She currently lives and works in Beijing and Yokohama.

YOH NAGAO / 長尾 洋(*1981) is a Yokohama born and Nagoya raised Japanese contemporary artist who is passionate to pursue his artistic and philosophical theme “We will be the indigenous people of the future” by combining painting and collage in his art pieces. Nagao is one of Japan's leading international artists and since his much acclaimed solo exhibition in Hong Kong in 2009, his works have been exhibited around the world including Switzerland, London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Spain, Tokyo, Miami, Los Angeles and Mexico.

Abi Sheng (*1994) is a body engineer whose work is devoted to rebuilding the identity system and constructing a utopia for equality by offering a system for customizable, transformative physical appearances. Her digital work is a visual reflection of the evolving present, an artist’s approach to encoding realities. She is developing a healing process to expand consciousness through recreating psychedelic experiences and meditation in the virtual world.

XIAO SE (*1970) grew up in Beijing in the second half of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). He experienced the tumultuous socio-political and cultural climate during the 1978 liberalist economic reform and the late ’80s student movements. He is best known for his surrealist paintings, which skillfully fuse religious motifs in the early Renaissance masterpieces into realistic portrayals of individuals’ living conditions in postsocialist China.

NESTOR ENGELKE (*1983) was born in St. Petersburg (former Leningrad), where he lives and works. Nestor positions himself as artist, architect, wood-painter and driver of Oka 11113. Co-founder and participant of art group and art gallery SEVER-7.

NICI JOST (*1984) is a conceptual and multimedia artist and photographer. In 2004, she worked as an intern for Pipilotti Rist. Nici's photographs and installations are incorporated in private and public collections in Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, the United States, Mexico and China.

NADYA KOSINSKAYA (*1981) lives and works in St. Petersburg. Nadya works with metal (nails), textiles, embroidery. Her works are part of collection of the State Russian Museum, Street Art Museum, Erzya Museum, Saransk. Nadya is a Sergey Kuryokhin Prize nominee (as part of a group).

ASYA MARAKULINA (*1988) lives and works in Saint Petersburg. Fellowship holder of the program to support young Russian artists by the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in 2015-2016.

SEMYON MOTOLYANETS (*1982) Semyon was a participant of Moscow International Biennale for Young Art; Ural Industrial Biennial; and CEC Artslink Program (New York). He had residence at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

VERONIKA MOSHNIKOVA (*1989) was born and grew up in Yalta (Crimea, Ukraine). She is currently based in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2020, she earned her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Painting and Drawing at the UAP, Poland.

YURY SHTAPAKOV (*1958) was born in St. Petersburg. Yury has exhibited his work in more than 250 shows in Russia, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, and France.His works are part of the collection at the State Hermitage Museum, the Russian Museum and the National Public Library.

IVAN TUZOV (*1984) lives and works in Saint Petersburg and Montenegro. Ivan is a member of the art group "PARAZIT" since 2008. In 2010-2012 he worked as a cartoon artist at "Kikoriki" studio. He is primarily known for his works in pixel-art style. 

LADA UCHAEVA (*1992) lives and works in Saint Petersburg. She is graduate from the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design.

HIROSHI ŌNISHI (1961-2011) was a Professor at the Department of Oil Painting, Technique and Material at the Tokyo University of Arts Geidai.