汉斯·欧普·德·贝克 Hans Op de Beeck （1969 - Turnhout, Belgium )
视觉艺术家汉斯·欧普·德·贝克1969年出生于比利時，目前生活和工作于布鲁塞尔。过去十多年来，他的艺术创作广泛的在国际上进行展出。他的作品包括雕塑、装置、录像作品、摄影、动画、素描、绘画和写作（短篇故事）。他追求以一种最有效的方式去呈现每件作品的思想和概念，这决定了艺术家最终选择多种媒介进行创作。作品尺寸从小幅水彩画到300平方米的大型三维装置作品。艺术家不仅采用了林林总总的媒介，而且刻意采用了不同的美学方式，从极简的视觉语言，到厚重而夸张的设计，始终以尽可能准确地表达作品的概念和内容为目的。
Visual artist Hans Op de Beeck lives and works in Brussels, where he has developed his career through international exhibitions over the past ten years. His work consists of sculptures, installations, video work, photography, animated films, drawings, paintings and writing (short stories). It is his quest for the most effective way of presenting the concrete contents of each work that determines the medium that the artist ultimately selects. The scale can vary from the size of a small watercolour to a large, three-dimensional installation of 300m2.The artist not only uses a very wide variety of media, but also deliberately employs a diversity of aesthetic forms, ranging from an economical, minimalist visual language to overloaded, exaggerated designs, always with the aim of articulating the content of the work as precisely as possible.
里奥·维拉里尔 Leo Villareal ( 1967 - Albuquerque, NM )
里奥·维拉里尔，1967年出生于美国新墨西哥州，目前生活和工作于美国。他的作品将LED灯和计算机的编译程序结合起来，以创造活力四射、拟真的光线雕塑和装置。维拉里尔在耶鲁大学获得学士学位，并在纽约大学蒂斯艺术学院获得交互通信专业的硕士学位。在其整个艺术创作生涯中，艺术家一直寻求使用最新的高科技来进行创作。在他创作的拟真光线雕塑中，结合了灯光、闪光灯、氖，以及艺术家自己定制的LED软件设置。作品的魅力来源于作品的动态效果，成千上万微小的LED灯通过LED控制形成全彩的LED显像，呈现极其华丽的光效。
Leo Villareal (1967, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American artist living and working in New York City. His work combines LED lights and encoded computer programming to create illuminated displays.Villareal received his BA from Yale University and his MPS from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Throughout his career, Villareal has sought to work with the newest developments in technology, beginning with strobe lights in 1997 and moving into the LEDs utilized in this exhibition.
莫娜·哈透姆 Mona Hatoum ( 1952- Palestinian, Beirut )
莫娜·哈透姆1952年出生于贝鲁特的一个巴勒斯坦家庭，目前生活和工作于伦敦和柏林。莫娜·哈透姆的作品充满了诗意和政治色彩，并采用多种非传统的媒介来实现。她的作品包括装置、雕塑、影像、摄影和纸上作品。1980年代，她开始涉足行为和录像，并着眼于对身体经验的探索。从1990年代开始，她的作品逐渐转向大型雕塑和装置，目的在于将观众置于期待与厌倦、恐惧与陶醉的矛盾情绪之中。在她的单件雕塑中，哈透姆通常将熟悉的日常家用品例如椅子、婴儿床和炊具改造成为陌生的、充满威胁和危险的物品。2011年2月，莫娜·哈透姆被授予2011胡安·米罗奖。
Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 and now lives and works in London and Berlin.Mona Hatoum’s poetic and political oeuvre is realised in a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installations, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper. She started her career making visceral performance art in the 1980s that focused with great intensity on the body. Since the beginning of the 1990s, however, her work moved increasingly towards large-scale installations that aimed to engage the viewer in conflicting emotions of desire and revulsion, fear and fascination. In her singular sculptures, Hatoum has transformed familiar, every-day, domestic objects such as chairs, cots and kitchen utensils into things foreign, threatening and dangerous. In Feb 2011, Mona Hatoum was awarded the 2011 Joan Miró Prize.
乌戈·罗迪尼 Ugo Rondinone ( 1963 - Brunnen, Switzerland )
乌戈·罗迪尼1964年出生于瑞士布鲁嫩。无论是在瑞士本土还是在国际上，他都享有盛名。1985年至1990年，他就读于维也纳实用艺术大学，师从恩斯特·卡拉梅勒（Ernst Caramelle）。90年代末期，他开始在纽约生活，并使用大量不同的媒介和艺术形式进行创作。他的创作涵盖了雕塑、绘画、声音装置以及装置、拼贴等，所有的作品都散发出一种诗意的气质。《触摸》展将他的三件作品一起展出，试图将精神、诗意同凡俗、日常并置起来，呈现艺术家对空间与时间、瞬间性的关系所进行的思考。
Ugo Rondinone was born in Brunnen, Switzerland, in 1964.Both nationally and internationally, Ugo Rondinone (b.1964) is one of the most noted contemporary Swiss artists. He was master student under Ernst Caramelle at the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst (University of Applied Arts) in Vienna from 1985 until 1990. Since the late 1990s he lives in New York He works in a variety of media and art forms – sculpture, painting, sound installation and installation art, collage, with his entire output being suffused by a sense of poetry. The exhibition ALMOST TANGIBLE brings together three of his works and the theme is the juxtaposition of the spiritual and the poetic with the banal and the everyday, revolving around a reflection on spatial aspects and the relationship to transience and time.
塞格多尔·古德扬森 Sigurdur Gudjonsson ( 1975 - Reykjavik, Iceland )
塞格多尔·古德扬森是一位来自冰岛的视觉艺术家，主要以录像装置和摄影进行创作。他曾就读于冰岛艺术学院以及维也纳实用艺术大学，这些经历似乎对他的想象力带来某种影响，他将祖国充满虚幻和童话色彩的风光同维也纳行动派的暗黑氛围结合起来。塞格多尔·古德扬森的录像叙事摒弃了以往的线性叙事，采用叠加剪辑来进行创作，拍摄时所录制的声音也成为打破叙事的一个重要元素。他同时也利用了冰岛自然风光中的光线变化以及天气的暴烈性来进行创作的游戏。塞格多尔•古德扬森目前生活和工作于冰岛的雷克雅未克。
Sigurdur Gudjonsson is a visual artist from Iceland, working primarily with video and photography for his installations. He studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, and this seems to have had an effect on his imagery, which mixes the mythical landscape of his native land with the dark atmosphere of Viennese aktionism. The video narratives of Sigurdur Gudjonsson refuse linearity and work with superimposing cuts in which sound, mostly taken while filming, becomes also an important element for his broken narratives. He plays with the games of light on the Icelandic landscape and the violence of the weather. Sigurdur Gudjonsson currently lives and works in Reykjavic.
