to stay afloat, in these highly politicallyunstable countries.
Through this initiative, we hope to support
the positive growth of young lives in diresituations, as well as artists who haveexperienced their own struggles, during thepandemic.
Workshops will be held in English and inGerman, with cross language translations,where needed.

Horizons
4th March 2nd April 2022
Galerie Katapult, Basel

http://ramski.net/Horizons_EN.html
The 'Horizons' art exhibition aims to open
our eyes to new horizons, visually andthrough new insights. We hope to raise
funds for the development organisation
Horyzon, which supports sociallydisadvantaged youth in Colombia, Haiti,
Palestine, South Sudan and Uganda.
Horyzon has been committed to helping
young people affected by violence, poverty
and exclusion for over 50 years.

Many thanks to Klara Stracuk who started
this initiative, to Mario Pennetta who got theball rolling and introduced us to Diana fromGalerie Katapult who made her glass-front
gallery space. in the city of Basel available tous, to Alexandra Stäheli for her professional
support and the integration of her wonderfulinitiative Sharing Stories. A big thank you
also goes to Margarit Lehmann for setting
up the exhibition with her curatorial skills
and to all the great artists and helpers who
assisted in getting the show together.
Another big thank you goes to Vini D'Amatofor sponsoring their fabulous wines andHoryzon for their support with the apéro andcountry focus events.

The exhibition will feature works ranging
from abstract paintings, photographs,
figurative works, photo collages, ink
drawings, as well as sculptures of artists fromEngland, India, Italy, Japan, South Africa andSwitzerland. These artists express theirglobal solidarity to support the plight of theyouth, struggling at an existential minimum,
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Artists and their works
https://www.brendhandickerson.com/#/home1Brendhan Dickerson

Performance and Sculpture
Born in Johannesburg. Living in Basel,
Switzerland. Brendhan Dickerson has amasters degree in sculpture from theUniversity of Cape Town.
He has worked primarily in wrought iron,often in combination with wood or bronze.
The intense, almost alchemical process oftransforming metal in its malleable heatedstate, resonates with his quest for innertransmutation.
Although he often seeks to articulate lyrical,
ironic or satirical perspectives through hiswork, it is his perception of sculpture as
fundamentally performative that drives hisformal choices and animates his practice.
In the 1990s, in parallel with his studio work,
he began an exploration of performative
Fire- Sculpture. For him, there is somethingatavistic about fire-sculpture, something
primal and fascinating in its immediacy andtransience. Ephemeral and irretrievable, it is acounterpoint to the permanence of iron andbronze sculpture.

Artwork: 16Title: Dance of velvet Darkness
Description: Sculpture 1,Figure hanging from the ceiling on a red
ribbonMaterial: Bronze, ribbon

Artwork: 24
Title: Flying gilded mouse
Description: Sculpture 2,Figure hanging from the ceiling
Material: Cast, gilded, lead, wrought iron

Artwork: 26
Title: You Are a Ghost under a Willow Tree
Description: Sculpture 1,Figure hanging from the ceiling on a red
ribbonMaterial: Wrought iron

In recent years he has immersed himself
more deeply in performance art. Merging thedurable and ephemeral aspects of hispractice. The work that emerges from thisshift explores the intersection of performative
sculptural objects with the performing
body, with the enigma of embodied presence
and communion.
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Eva Borner

Photography and Photomontage
Eva Borner, born in Switzerland, lives and works
in many places. She studied media art at theUniversity of Applied Sciences Northwestern
Switzerland in Aarau and received her diploma
with distinction in 2003.
She works in the field of video installation andsound, and also with photography and objects.
Exhibitions at national and international levelshow her current work. She has received
numerous awards and grants.
Exhibition participation at the 6th Thessaloniki
Biennale, in France for the Lectoure Summer
Photography Festival, as well as in Sedan (F), atthe Spinnerei/Werkschau in Leipzig, Kunsthalle
Wil, Northwest University Museum, Xian (China)
and in Pafos (Cyprus) for the European Capital ofCulture Year 2017, FRAC Alsace and Museum
Maxxi in Rome- to name just a few stations.
Her residencies include Swatch Art Peace Hotel
Shanghai, LIA in Leipzig, Cité Internationale desArts Paris, Goethe Institut Thessaloniki, Centre forContemporary Art NAIRS in Engadin, and theAtelier Mondiale Basel awarded her a travel grantto Greece two years ago.
In her artistic work, Eva Borner engages with thequestion of the presence of absence. She brings
experiences that have shaped her personally intoa wider context and pursues the concept of homein multifaceted ways. Borner’s media art is not
only distinguishable due to its interaction withother areas such as film, photography, sculpture,music or dance. It is touching because it always
aims to link technical media and a concrete
vision. It emerges from the direct confrontation
with its environment, whether through encounterswith people or by addressing political and social
circumstances.

Her works awaken memories and associations in
the viewer in a poetic or narrative way. In
impressive video, sound and object installations
she gives 'speechless' people a voice, thephysical absence of the protagonists being
characteristic of their work. Voyeuristic looking is
far from the artist's intention; rather, through hercautious stagings, she wants to bring us closer tothe difficult and often gruelling reality of thoseaffected.
„Borner’s installation works present asaesthetically subtle, emotionally touching andsocially relevant contemporary projects. They areat the same time immensely tender andprofound.“http://www.evaborner.ch/

Artworks: 28 -33
Title: Floating
Description: Photography 1 - 6
Material: Colour pigment on Hahnemühle,on aluminium
Dimensions: 42 x 28 cm

Artwork: 23
Title: I want a truth that is invented
Description: Photomontage 7, Chair in aroom
Material: Colour pigment on Hahnemühle,on aluminium
Dimensions: 60 x 80 cm

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Margarit Lehmann

Drawings and Printworks
Margarit Lehmann was born in Switzerland.
Studied art at the Massana, Centre d'Art i
Disseny Barcelona. After graduating, she
lived and worked in Barcelona from 1985 to2012. Further training at La Llotja, l'Escola
Superior de Disseny i Art, at the Universitat
de Barcelona - Facultad de Filosofía andGrisArt, Escola superior de fotografía inBarcelona.
In 2012, she moved to Basel and founded
the print art project Edition/Basel together
with Megan Adie, San Francisco.
http://margaritlehmann.eu
From the archive, drawings 2001 to 2012
Margarit Lehmann's ink pictures.
People who wear glasses have the advantageof being able to see pictures in two ways:
sharply or if they take off their glasses blurred, pleasantly blurred. Margarit
Lehmann's ink paintings can be seen in twoways: sharply or even sharper. Seen up close,
they reveal their essence, which resembles afever dream. What, from a distance, causesthat flickering that characterises the art of thisfine mechanic of the ink pen, turns out to be
the result of tremendous work, often lasting
months, done with a magnifying glass. Upclose, however, we realise what it means tobe a speck of dust lost in the cosmos. For
that is what we undoubtedly are, dust grains
lost in the cosmos. Or particles of a wave
crashing on some shore.

Artwork: 17
Title: UNIDOS (2002)
Description: Drawing 1, it is a Spanish word
and means united or together in German.
The word „dos“ means two
The word „nido“ means nest
Material: Ink on canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 163 cm, framed
Artwork: 18
Title: REZIPROK (2011)
Description: Drawing 2
Material: Ink on canvas
Dimensions: 122 x 89 cm
Artwork: 19
Title: Ohne Titel (2006)
Description: Drawing 3
Material: Ink on paper
Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm, framed
Artwork: 21
Title: Ohne Titel (2001)
Description: Drawing 4
Material: Ink on paper
Dimensions: 22 x 21.5 cm, framed
Artwork: 22
Title: ENCRUCIJADA 2 (2006)
Description: Drawing 5
Material: Ink on paper
Dimensions: 30 x 40 cm, framed
Artwork: 27
Title: Hub 2 (2012)
Description: Drawing 6
Material: Ink on paper
Dimensions: 14 x 15 cm, framed

Markus Jakob, Barcelona
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Mario Pennetta
Painting

Born in Italy in 1958. He has lived in Baselsince 1979. Participation in various courses
on classical and modern art and participation
in workshops with local artists.
Since 1999 he has been creating multilayered acrylic paintings. His paintings focus
on the abstract figure. Since 2015, he has
increasingly devoted himself to non-objective
painting, having acquired new ideas for thedissolution of the figurative during a threeyear training course at NetzWerk Malerei inMünchen- stein. In Mario Pennetta's studio in
Basel's Gundeli district, he creates mediumto large-format abstract paintings withcaptivatingly colourful accents. The artist
from Oberwil mainly paints with pigments,acrylic and ink. Mario Pennetta's works are
dynamic and multi-layered: he combines
spirited surfaces of intense colour with finelines.

Artwork: 1Title: Opera 213
Description: Painting 1
Material: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 190 x 140 cm

Artwork: 2Title: Opera 216
Description: Painting 2
Material: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 140 x 140 cm

Artwork: 3Title: Opera 207
Description: Painting 3
Material: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 140 x 140 cm

The art historian Murielle Cornut writes: "Oncloser inspection, the paintings reveal a
process-oriented character through thevisibility of the paint application, which
reveals fleeting traces of thought. A multilayered interplay of indeterminacy andsharpness as well as emptiness and fullness
unfolds on the canvas, which makes theviewer linger in front of the works for a longtime.

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5Rama Kalidindi
Painting

Rama is a curator, artist, yogi, computerscientist, mother and a dog walker.
She had many years of experience with
Informatics projects and more than a decadeago she started her journey in the field ofvisual arts. After completion of her
Foundation Art and Design course at theBasel School of Design and embarking on an
MFA in Graphic Design at the HGK in Basel,she has been working as a freelance graphic
artist, web designer and as a visualcommunicator. Her work is inter-disciplinary,she enjoys painting, drawing, installation,
performance and a smattering of digitisedart.
In 2019, she was prolific in a multitude ofexhibitions; two solo and two groupexhibitions, three of which she curated andexhibited her own work and one of which she
was invited to participate in Delhi, India.
In 2020 and 2021, she was part of threegroup exhibitions, two of which she featured
her work as an artist, as part of her art
cooperative and the last one in 2021
‘Mother Earth Calling’, consisted of 17 artists
which she curated and participated in as avisual artist and performer.

Artworks: 7-13
Title: Surya (2018), Avatars of the sun
Description: Paintings 1-8 depicting themany forms of the sun; sunrise and sunset,
independent of religion or belief, dictating
the cycles of life, organic growth andexistence itself.
Material: Aquarelle on Paper
Dimensions: various 30/50 x 30/50 cm,framed

Artworks: 34-45
Title: Horizons (2012)
Description: Silkscreen Prints 1-12, acelebration of the many horizons of colour,
shape and form that a cut and torn andoverlaid.
Material: Gouache on Paper
Dimensions: 20 x 20 cm, framed

Artworks: 46-53
Title: Earth to Earth (2012)
Description: Handworks 1-8, interwoven,interlaced and interconnected biodegradable
materials that come from the earth and go
back to the earth, bearing qualities akin to an
existential minimum, under-processed andperturbed by synthesis and huge man-madeinterventions.
Material: wood, metal and jute interwoven
works
Dimensions: 10 x 10 cm, framed

http://ramski.net/

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6Artwork: 54
Title: Yellow Excitement
Description: Sculpture 1
Material: Lackered steel
Dimensions: 30 x 21 x 10 cm

Robert Kunz
Sculpture

Robert Vincent Kunz is a Swiss-Canadian
sculptor.
1955, born in New York, since 1968 in
Switzerland.
1973-1977, apprenticeship as mechanicaldraftsman, courses at the School of DesignZurich
1978-1980, travels through North andCentral America, Asia and New Zealand
1982-1986, free spatial design class(sculpture class) with Johannes Burla at theBasel School of Design
1984, study visit at the Cooper Union ArtCollege New York
1984, work scholarship of the Canton ofZurich
1988, scholarship of the Steo Foundation
ZurichWorks in public space:

Artwork: 55
Title: Torso
Description: Sculpture 2
Material: Bronze
Dimensions: 20 x 10 x 10 cm

Artwork: 56
Title: Yellow Noise
Description: Sculpture 3
Material: Lackered steel
Dimensions: 130 x 84 x 13 cm

Artwork: 20
Title: Untitled
Description: Sculpture 4
Material: Lackered steel
Dimensions: 64 x 28 x 22 cm"Blitz II" Ebenrain Castle Park, Sissach BL"Blitz 85" Fällanden community center,Zurich"Fossil Highway" Cantonal Museum BL,Liestal

https://robertkunz.work

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Artwork: 4
Description: Photograph 1
Title: Karneval, Jacmel, Haiti (2013)
Dimensions: 50 x 50 cm, framed

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Thomas Kern
Photographer

Thomas Kern is a documentary photographer
and artist, based in Switzerland.
Thomas Kern was born in Switzerland in
1965. He trained as a photographer in Zürich
and started working as a photojournalist in
1989. He was a founder of the Swiss
photographer’s agency Lookat Photos in1990. A central theme of his work has been
the effects of war and conflict on everyday
life, for example in Northern Ireland,Kurdistan, the former Yugoslavia andHaiti. Thomas Kern has won a World Press
Award twice and has been awarded several
Swiss national scholarships. His work has
been widely exhibited and is represented invarious collections.
Kern is self-represented and takes clients on
a limited basis. Please inquire about hisavailability.

https://www.thomaskern.ch

Thomas Kern,Sandhübelweg 21,5103 Möriken
Phone +41 62 893 21 20
Mobile +41 79 744 60 84

Artwork: 5
Description: Photograph 2Title: Le Lambi, Carrefour (2004)
Dimensions: 50 x 50 cm, framed

Artwork: 6
Description: Photograph 3
Title: Jérémie, (2010)
Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm, framed

Artwork: 14
Description: Photograph 4Title: Route National 2, Cavaillon, Haiti(2015)
Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm, framed

Artwork: 15
Description: Photograph 5Title: Bord de Mer Limonade, Haiti, (2008)
Dimensions: 50 x 50 cm, framed

Artwork: 57
Description: Photograph 6Title: Plaine du Nord, Haiti (2008)
Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm, framedMaterial: Pigment print on Innova natural
white cotton

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8Tomoko Hashimoto
Drawing and Film

Tomoko is a painter, living and working inChiba, Japan. In 1996 she completed
Master's Degree Course, Graduate School ofTama Art University (MFA) and in 2002 shereceived the 17th Received the 17th Holbein
Scholarship Grant. In 2003 she was Selectedin the 6th Art Documents Support Programby SHISEIDO, then in 2019 she was an Artistin-Residence at Atelier Mondial, Basel,
Switzerland.
Tomoko has a many years of experience as apainter and a long portfolio of solo, groupexhibitions as well and her works being partof public collections and being involved inmany other illustrative works.

Artwork: 25
Description: Painting
Title: Walk along the River: The Birs
Material: Watercolour, Persimmon Tannin on
Paper
Dimensions: 78×56 cm, framed

Tomoko paints plants and rivers. Plants
symbolise life, rivers symbolise death. At firstglance, life and death appear totally
opposite. However, there is death because
there is life, therefore there is life because
there is death. That is, life includes death.
Plants are kept alive by water. The rain thathas fallen on the plants sinks deep into thesoil. Then it turns into a river and flows into
the sea. The sea creates water vapour, andrain, which then falls on the plants.
Everything is connected in the same circle.
That is reincarnation.

She creates oil paintings from motifs ofnature, such as apples, camellias or rivers on
huge canvases, or paints on panels whichhave been cut in the shape of the motif,
using these to produce installations within anexhibit space. In this exhibition, she presents
2 works, a drawing and video slides. This
motif of works is the Birs River in Basel. She
stayed in Basel on her Art Residency atAtelier Mondial in 2019 and walked along theBirs River for many days.

http://hashimoto-tomoko.com

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