Jean-Ulrick Désert, is a Haitian born visual artist, educated in the U.S. in art and architecture, now based in Berlin, Germany. His art varies widely in form and medium, engages with social and cultural practices and reframe existing clichés and cultural expectations. Désert describes his artistic approach as an effort to visualize “conspicuous invisibility”. Désert’s works have been showcased at prestigious venues such as the Grand Palais, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum of Harlem, HKW, Savvy Contemporary and the Havana Biennial. He is the recipient of awards, public commissions, and private philanthropy, including the LMCC Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Villa Waldberta-Munich as well as Kulturstiftung der Länder.
Roberto Uribe-Castro is a Dutch-Colombian born architect and artist, living and working in Berlin and Bogotá. He has a background in field research and urban planning, having worked at Universidad de los Andes and Departamento Administrativo de Planeación Distrital in Bogotá. Uribe-Castro began his transition into the art world as an architect involved in the production and planning of large installations for Doris Salcedo and Mona Hatoum. His master's degree in Spatial Strategies marks the beginning of his career as a visual artist, characterized by site specific work. With a keen interest in public spaces and their potential as to manifest unknown historical facts, Roberto Uribe creaates art that relates architecture with Germany’s colonial past.