The people
behind the art

Smilte Svilapaite

Born in Lithuania, living and working in Berlin. Smilte paints clear geometric forms, reduced faces and bold, balanced color. Her portraits mix graphic precision with a soft, almost poetic calm: profiles, striking eyes and flat, minimal backgrounds you recognize at first sight.

Arielle Nikole

LatinX surreal painter from Miami, Florida. Arielle borrows the symbolic compositions and intentional color of art history and turns them into ethereal, dreamlike scenes, each with a message of its own.

Maxwell Rousso

American artist and filmmaker living in Berlin, with a background in production design and visual effects. Maxwell paints by intuition: raw, emotional works that confront you directly and make room for feelings we usually keep quiet, so the world feels a little less alone.

Bernd Knieriem

Born and based in Berlin. Bernd has painted since he was three and drew in perspective at four. He refuses to stick to one subject: his work jumps from figurative paintings to city maps, fractal worlds and scattered cubist pieces.

Karolin Steblau

Born and raised in Berlin. By day Karolin guides kids through their first creative steps at a primary school; the rest of the time she paints trippy, psychedelic worlds of free, organic forms, on canvas, in sketchbooks, on skateboards and guitars. Somewhere between reality and dream, structure and flow.

Thomas Hanusek

Thomas makes surreal, autobiographical acrylic paintings and digital illustrations about feelings he can't put into words. His style is a collage of objects, symbols and styles, and every piece becomes raw material for the next: games, art books, bigger paintings. Beauty, even in the absurd.

“True connection with the outside world requires an honest connection with oneself.”