Christin Behrend
Christin Behrend attended the Summer School of Art at Middlesex University in London in 1997. From 2001 to 2019, she taught art at the Wolfbuschschule in Stuttgart. In 2013, she took part in an exhibition accompanied by a poetry reading at the Italian Cultural Institute in Stuttgart, together with the Italian poet Barbara Golini. In 2014, the book “emozioni al femminile” was published, featuring illustrations by Christin Behrend and poems by Barbara Golini. In 2019, she exhibited in Verona at the Church of San Domenico together with the artist Monica Schlüter. From 2020 to 2022, Christin Behrend participated in numerous exhibitions, including in Milan at Galleria Cael, in Genoa at Palazzo Ducale (“Sky”), in Paris at the International Art Fair, in Alicante at the Museo Santa Pola, and in Rome at the Medina Art Gallery. In 2022, she also presented a solo exhibition there entitled “Point to Head (Above)”. In 2023, she held another solo exhibition in Genoa at the Showroom CAD Creativity Art Design and took part in the Esposizione Triennale di Arti Visive 2023 at the San Salvatore in Lauro Museums in Rome. In 2024, her work was presented as part of the “Atlante Arte Contemporanea 2024” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, represented by the painting “Sunrise”. In the same year, she presented the exhibition “Forever Sunrise” at Galleria Massella in Verona and showed the work “Sunrise” at the Galleria dei Miracoli in Rome, where the painting was also exhibited. She also participated in Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2024 (Start Group booth), curated by Stefania Pieralice and Daniele Radini Tedeschi at the Miami Beach Convention Center. In 2025, she held another exhibition in Florence as part of the Biennale “Light and Darkness”.
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Franca Fabrizio
Franca Fabrizio has been painting since childhood, creating imaginative and fantastical scenarios. She began dedicating herself entirely to painting after her debut at PaviArt in 2022. Her works belong to an imaginary world that runs parallel to everyday reality. Colors, harmoniously blended, seem to dance across the canvas, generating shapes, figures, symbols, and letters that aim to evoke emotions, convey messages about contemporary issues, and engage the viewer in a playful way. The observer is thus drawn into a search for the hidden “meaning” within each work. A self-taught artist, Fabrizio expresses herself through a highly personal and almost magical language that speaks more to the soul than to reason. Her repertoire of techniques and styles is very diverse, reflecting her constant desire to explore and experiment. Franca Fabrizio is a complex artist whose works represent a synthesis of rationality and imagination, emotions and profound reflections, dreams and desires. Her mastery of various techniques and tools reveals an insatiable need for renewal, driven by her lively curiosity. This has also led her toward a form of three-dimensional painting in which objects from everyday life are elevated from the status of “waste” to that of artistic material. The artist has participated in numerous international group exhibitions in cities such as Moscow, Paris, Eggedal (Oslo), Brussels, Vienna, New York, London, Budapest, Baden-Baden, and Art Basel Miami, as well as in many Italian cities including Aosta, Milan, Rome, Florence, Venice, Turin, Bologna, Palermo, Naples, Pavia, Padua, Taormina, Noli, Genoa, Belgioioso (Pavia), and Imperia. She has exhibited at the Triennale 2023 in Rome (Musei di San Salvatore in Lauro), in Taormina (Palazzo dei Duchi di Santo Stefano), at the eCampus University in Rome, and at the Mazzoleni Foundation in Alzano (Bergamo). She has also held solo exhibitions in Vienna, Paris, Rome, Alzano (Bergamo), Aosta, and other cities. Since 2023, the artist has received several awards and mentions. In 2025 she was selected to participate in the Venice Biennale 2026.
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Yang YeXin
Yang Yexin was born in Zhejiang, China in 1973 and graduated from the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in 1997. He is a representative figure of contemporary Chinese performance art and socially participatory art, widely known for his innovative works with strong social awareness. His works are often characterized by intense social critique and provoke discussion among the public and critics through distinctive conceptual art forms. In his artistic practice, Yang frequently explores social issues and reflects upon social phenomena through art. For example, his 2012 performance LV Is Only Worth 100 Yuan! LV Is Only Sold for 100 Yuan! used irony to criticize “conspicuous consumption,” attracting significant public attention and debate. In 2014, Yang invited 100 young artists to participate in Don’t Speak Today, a project that criticized the Shanghai Biennale and became one of the most influential art events of that year. In 2021, his performance We Don’t Waste Food, We Only Waste Gold, created in Shanghai, caused a major sensation and was listed among the Top Ten Hot Topics of the year in China’s art and museum circles. In 2025, his solo exhibition and public art project Golden Grains Rush, launched in Beijing, generated widespread attention and controversy, becoming one of the most talked-about art events of the year. Among the major solo exhibitions: 2026 — Red Traces, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts; 2025 — Golden Grains Rush, Contemporary Art Research Center, Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; 2024 — TRACES OR TRACK, Ulisse Gallery, Rome; 2024 — We Are All Autists; Traces I Leave in This World, Forest Young Art Center, Shanghai; 2026 — The Man Who Threw Away Golden Rice, Venice Biennale.