Coffee Stories, Virtual Show

Unfortunately, our long anticipated live exhibition Coffee Stories can't happen because of the current situation with pandemic. So, we have to keep it virtual in a hope that next year will bring a relief, and our physical reality will return and take new roots. We are also working on a possible TV run.

We are happy to introduce the work of international artists Jamika Ajalon (Germany), Joseph Ayerle (Germany), Anabela Costa (Portugal/France), Ebba Jan (Germany), Natalia Jezova (UK/Russia), Bob Lawson (UK), and Alfred Schupler (Romania). All artists took on the theme in a unique way. Jamika Ajalon and Ebba Jahn pieces are images interwoven with poems; Joseph Ayerle piece is a tribute to AI and virtual existence of our time; Anabela Costa and Bob Lawson ambient pieces exploring abstract imagery; Natalia Jezova's poetic tongue-in-cheek piece explores intricacies of human relationship while bringing objects into visual storytelling, as does Alfred Schupler with his piece Nacafa. All the stories are different, but in all of them coffee takes either a leading or background roles. Learn more about the artists and enjoy the show!

https://vimeo.com/661602989

Participating artists:

Jamika Ajalon - Interdisciplinary artist and lecturer, Jamika Ajalon defines herself as a creative polymath; writer at base (poet, novelist essayist), she uses a melange of interdisciplinary practice as her pen, ( filmmaker, producer, songwriter, electronic/digital artist/archivist). She has a ba film/video, Columbia University, Chicago / MA Communications in culture and society, Goldsmiths University, London. Her novel Skye Papers was featured in New York Times Jamika as one of the best books of 2021. Jamika exhibits internationally.

Joseph Ayerle - An artist and a photographer Joseph Ayerle, is interested in exploring moving image tempered by contemporary technology. His interest in image mapping, distortion effects and AI expand the digital palette he uses while exploring the themes of superimposition of times and realities.

Anabela Costa is born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal this visual artist studied Fine Arts at Lisbon Fine Arts University and since 2000 she has been experimenting with film, making animation, combining two research areas: web, time, liquid state, and landscape. She has been awarded in international film festivals, animation and video art.Living in Paris since 2010, Costa continues her artistic and technology research by working with experimental software in the generation of still and moving images.

Ebba Jahn graduated from the Film and TV Academy Berlin, Germany (DFFB) and has worked as a 16 mm filmmaker and cinematographer, with Jazzfilm RISING TONES CROSS (111 min.)being the widest known one.She moved to New York City from 1991 until 2010, where she also studied again towards a BA in Fine Arts. Back in Berlin, Germany she organized from 2017-2019 the traveling art exhibition PAPER PAIRS with artworks by 20 intl. artists, including her own.2019 her focus shifted to where it began - short film, now short video collages, crated with original sounds and contemporary music, own and found footage, artworks, photos, and poetic texts. These experimental, musical, poetic documentaries and poetry films are shown by intl. film festivals, video programs, and art exhibitions.

Natalia Jezova is a Russian born UK based visual artist. Natalia’s philosophical inspiration is based on the concept of the collective memory. Her work tends to be multilayered and to have various encoded meanings using symbolisms of objects and colors. Most of Natalia’s projects have undercurrents of semantic meaning that invite the viewer to participate in ‘decoding’ the symbolic messages contained within her work. Educated in Russia and UK, Natalia holds DFA from University of East London and exhibits internationally.

Robert Lawson is an international abstract expressionist painter based in the UK who works primarily with industrial paint. The nature of his art making technique prompted him experiment with moving image art. He has exhibited internationally and took part in numerous international art shows including London Art Week and Venice Biennale.

Alfred Schupler is a Romanian artist, whose practice include photography, cinematic editing and movie making, to "which he adds philosophical nuances meant to bridge the gap between the audience and the underlying layers of the screening. The artist makes reference to history as to describe the dialogue of the subject with the surrounding atmosphere and with his inner self. The discovery (of his inner self, and of the tandem between what is seen and what is hidden) is the pretext that places the artist each, single time, in the role of the anthropologist or of the philosopher in the pursuit of measuring the levels of reality and the theoretical underlying layers which establish the principles of human existence." - Alfred Shupler