Noé Sendas (Brussels, Belgium, 1972) lives and works in Berlin, Madrid and Lisboa. Sendas began presenting his work in the late Nineties. Explicit and implicit references to artists and literary, cinematic or musical creations are part of his raw materials. Specific concerns about the reflection and practise of visual arts can also be added to his repertoire. These include: the body, as an entity that is simultaneously theoretical and material; the observer’s perception mechanisms; or the discursive potential of exhibition methods.

His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including CAV Center for the Visual Arts, Coimbra, PT; Contretype – Centre d’art contemporain pour la Photographie, Brussels.B; Porto’s Municipal Gallery, Porto, PT; Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM), Moscow; Maat Museum, Lisboa; Kunstraum Botschaft, Berlin Calouse Gulbenkian Museum, Lisboa; MEIAC Museu Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo Badajoz; C/O Berlin Foundation, Berlin; MNAC The National Museum of Contemporary Art-Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, DesignhausDarmstadt, Darmstadt, DE; VAC-Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas, Texas, USA; Patio de la Infanta - Ibercaja, Zaragoza, SP; Goethe-Institut/ Instituto Cervantes, Stockholm; TENT, Rotterdam, ND; CAHO-Centro de Artes Helio Oiticica, Río de Janeiro, BR; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa, La Coruña, SP; Museu Fundación ICO, Madrid.ES; Kunstmuseum Bonn, G; Akademie der Kunst, Berlin (a.o.)

Catarina Leitão (Stuttgart, 1970) is an artist working in drawing, sculpture, installation, and artist books. The artist has exhibited her work at P.S.1/MoMA, the Aldrich museum, Connecticut, Socrates Sculpture Park, Wavehill, Glyndor Gallery and Grounds, Andrea Rosen Gallery, the Bronx Museum, Pedro Cera Gallery, Carlos Carvalho Contemporary Art, among others. She had solo museum shows at the Berardo Collection, Sintra, and Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon, Portugal. Awards and residencies include The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2009, Center for Book Arts, 2007, The Triangle Arts Residency, 2006, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, 2004, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2003, and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2001, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Fundação Luso-Americana, 1997-1999. Catarina Leitão has an MFA from Hunter College (2000), and a Painting degree by the University of Lisbon, Portugal (1993).

Carla Cabanas’s (Lisboa, 1979) work revolves around the methodologies of stretching the defined borders of the photography medium while dwelling on the issues of collective and cultural memory. She has presented her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions including MAAT Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia, Lisbon (2020); Balcony Contemporary Art Gallery, Lisbon (2020); Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon (2020); Aa Collections Gallery, Vienna (2019); Sternstudio Gallery, Vienna (2019); Arquipélago – Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, Ribeira Grande, Açores (2019); Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisboa (2019); Biennale de l’Image Tangible, Paris (2018); Grimmmuseum, Berlin (2018); Centre D’art Contemporain, Meymac, France (2018); GlogauAIR, Berlin (2018); Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora (2017); Gallery Carlos Carvalho – Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2017); Castello Visconteo Di Legnano, Milan, Italy (2017); Panal 361, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2017); Ox Warehouse, Macau, China (2016); Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisboa (2015); Lisbon Municipal Photographic Archive, Lisbon (2014); City Museum, Lisbon (2014); 7ª Biennial São Tomé e Príncipe (2013); National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon (2012); Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (2012) and CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (2009).

Her work is held in prominent collections, including the National Gallery of Art Washington, DC; Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), Lisbon; LPS Collection (Stanislas y Leticia Poniatowski), Colección Kells, Santander; PLMJ Foundation Collection, Lisbon; Novo Banco Art Collection, Lisbon; Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild Europe, Lisbon; Lisbon City Hall, Lisbon; Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection, Lisbon; Marín Gaspar Collection, Lisbon; José Carlos Santana Pinto Collection, Lisbon; and other private collections.

Born in Cuxhaven, Germany, in 1970, and raised in an artistic family, Jessica Backhaus is regarded as one of the most distinguished voices in contemporary photography in Germany today. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin and the Kunsthalle Erfurt. To date, she has eight publications to her name; Jesus and the Cherries, 2005, What Still Remains, 2008, One Day in November, 2008, I Wanted to See the World, 2010, ONE DAY- 10 photographers, 2010, Once, still and forever, 2012, Six degrees of freedom, 2015 and A TRILOGY, 2017, all published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg/ Berlin. Her work is also featured in the book: Women Photographers by Boris Friedewald (Prestel Verlag 2014). Jessica Backhaus’ works are in many prominent art collections including Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Germany, ING Art Collection, Belgium, Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA and the Margulies Collection, Miami, USA. In 2012 FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam produced a short documentary “Wonder Jessica Backhaus”, a film by Willem Aerts.