Nick Mauss has developed intimate ways of working with materials such as ceramic, textile, and reverse-painted glass to make works that catalyze cognitive and bodily shifts in the viewer. Mauss confronts his studio practice with histories of performance and staging. Proposing new relations between spectator, performer, artwork, and institution, his exhibitions include Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc. at Kunsthalle Basel; Transmissions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Intricate Others at Fundação de Serralves, Porto, and interventions including Transcorporealities at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Florine Stettheimer at the Lenbachhaus, Munich, and Designing Dreams: a Celebration of Léon Bakst as well as Eccentrique Bébé at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.

Ken Okiishi’s films, media artworks and paintings incite poetic fissures and new possibilities in how we form ideas of ourselves and others: from a crumbling space of images of the self, languages and global-city-forms in feedback-loops of translation and migration in (Goodbye to) Manhattan (2010); to the space of childhood in a "homeland" made perpetually "foreign" in A Model Childhood (2018); to a film, Vital Behaviors (2019), which finds an undoing of the suffocating space of social media in a miraculously sensitized re-performance; to a raw studio practice of painting, which first emerged publicly in the works from the series gesture/data (2013-), where painting, screens, and brain space collide in an entwined unraveling.