ATA MACIAS
ATA MACIAS
(*1968, Frankfurt am Main) is a DJ, operator of the club Robert Johnson (founded in 1999 in Offenbach), co-founder of the label Playhouse, as well as a café and restaurant owner. Like almost no one else he has placed his mark on the club culture of the Rhine-Main district. The Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt devoted the exhibition GIVE LOVE BACK to him in September 2014 and shed light on the so-called “Ata Principle”.
Due to Corona restrictions, the Robert Johnson Club, like other cafés, clubs and bars, is closed. “… when everything is finally back to normal, we will open again. Not with masks and not limited. A club, namely, needs the sweat and the closeness on the dance floor. We have a responsibility towards our fellow creatures. The worst thing would be that the Robert Johnson would become a super-spreader. We won’t do that, that would be unthinkable” (quoted from the interview by Moritz Serif, Frankfurter Rundschau, 9.11.2020).
HEINRICH VÖLKEL
(*1974, Moscow) studied photography from 1996–1999 at the Lette Verein, Berlin. Member of OSTKREUZ since 2004. His works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions and published in books: TIRANA — MON AMOUR (2009) in Studio im Hochhaus, Berlin; 7KM — FELD DER WUNDER/THE TERRIBLE CITY — GAZA 2009, with Kirill Golovchenko in 2010 in the Freelens Galerie, Hamburg; ALBANIA — GERMANY: A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY, Tirana Art Lab, Albania; TALES FROM THE BANKS OF THE JORDAN, Jordan National Museum Amman, Jordan. In 2010 and 2017 he received the VG Photo Art Scholarship, followed in 2010 by a solo exhibition. In 2011 his works appeared in the book EMERGE 011, emerge Verlag, Berlin. 2013 Audience Prize of the International Welde Art Prize for Photography. 2014 solo exhibition. 2017 publication PROVINTSIYA, ROUND-NOT-SQUARE, Berlin.