EMANUELE CROTTI

is a visual artist, actor, set designer and director. He studied theatre direction at the Scuola Civica P. Grassi in Milan and has been on or behind the stage of many companies for more than a decade. “Big theatres … taught me to dream big. Small theatres taught me that, whatever happens, the show must go on.”

In 2008 he moved to Berlin and began working as a visual artist. His metamorphic works are inspired by Greek mythology and far-eastern philosophy and are shown in Berlin galleries, but also in institutions like Columbia University in New York. “Of the many lessons I received in my travels and artistic career, one never abandoned me: ‘Remember – he whispered – whatever form it takes, Art is all about enchanting Time.’”

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SEBASTIAN WELLS

(*1996, Königs Wusterhausen) studied photography from 2015–2018 at the Ostkreuz School of Photography, Berlin, with Werner Mahler, Ute Mahler and others. He has received numerous awards for his work: VDS Sport Photo of the Year (2016), the DuMont Journalist Prize in the category Young Talent (2017), first prize at the FOLA Photobook Award in Buenos Aires (2018), and was the prize-winner of the art competition of the Willi Münzenberg Forum, Berlin (2018) and finalist for the Leica Oscar Barnack Award (2019). He has been a member of OSTKREUZ since 2019. He has been represented in many group and solo exhibitions including the solo show ANHÄNGER in 2016 in the Galerie Fenster in Eberswalde and the group exhibition FRAMING IDENTITY in 2020 in the Museum for Photography in Braunschweig.