CARSTEN NICOLAI

(*1965, Karl-Marx-Stadt) is an artist and musician. He creates his works on the interface between the visual arts, music and the natural sciences. His hybrid objects transform scientific phenomena that are barely visible to the human eye into aesthetic images of cool beauty and minimalistic elegance. He has participated in the internationally important exhibitions documenta X and the 49^th and 50^th Art Biennale in Venice, and his works have been shown worldwide in solo and group exhibitions. For his musical oeuvre he uses the pseudonym Alva Noto. Together with Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider he founded the label “raster-noton. archiv für ton und nichtton”. Carsten Nicolai composed the music for the multiple Oscar-nominated film THE REVENANT, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritus.

MAURICE WEISS

(*1964, Perpignan/France) studied photography, film and design from 1989–1993 with Ulrich Mack and Arno Fischer at the film academy in Dortmund. Member of OSTKREUZ since 1995. In 2004 TABORI ZIEHT UM. WIE SOLL MAN EINE WOHNUNG FINDEN, WENN ES REGNET? was published by Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra. 2005 Hansel Mieth Prize. From 2008–2013 steady freelance photographer for Der Spiegel, concentrating on politics. He has done commissioned work for German and international publications, including Le Monde on political and social topics, mostly in the Mediterranean region about the political upheavals there. Since 2011 he is a guest professor at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts in Lebanon on the importance of photography as a mechanism of memory and on the responsibility of photographers for their pictures. His series SI JAMAIS ILS REVIENNENT on the legacies of the Second World War in Europe was shown in 2020 at the Akademie der Künste Berlin.