ANNA LIM
Anna Lim is a photographer based in Seoul, Korea. Her work has been presented in over 20 solo exhibitions and over 50 special exhibitions worldwide. In 2020 she won the Ilwoo Photography Award and prior to that the ARLES International Photography Festival Portfolio Award in 2019. Her images have been featured in international publications such as The New Yorker and the British Journal of Photography and within her own photo books, including Romantic Soldiers (2024), Anxiety ON/OFF (2021), and Frozen Heroes (2017). She earned her PhD from Hongik University in 2019 and is a professor of art photography at Sangmyung University in Korea.
BEAU WHITE
Beau White (b. 1978) is a hyperrealist and figurative oil painter based in Australia, who uses nightmarish imagery and absurdism to explore the darker side of the human condition. His work augments “real world” settings with grotesque and surprising handmade elements to create new perspectives on the everyday that are both comical and disturbing. He received his NMIT Diploma Of Arts in Illustration in 2008. White has exhibited locally and internationally and his work has appeared in such publications as Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, Dangerous Minds and Vice
CHARLIE ENGMAN
Charlie Engman is a Brooklyn-based photographer, director, and art director whose work is imbued with both the weird and wonderful. For nearly a decade, Engman has dedicated part of his practice to capturing his mother, sometimes willingly, sometimes hesitantly, in front of his camera.This quasi-collaborative, spectacularly particular relationship between mother and son culminated 2020 in the publishing of MOM (Edition Patrick Frey), Engman's book in which his mother is both muse and mannequin. Engman's work has been featured across AnOther Magazine, Dazed, Garage, POP, and T: The New York Times Style Magazine, among other publications. His commercial clients include Prada, Marni, Adidas, Hermès, Kenzo, Nike, Vivienne Westwood, and Stella McCartney
CHRISTIAN GOTTWALT
As a journalist, Christian Gottwalt concentrated on the short form. He once designed »Gemischtes Doppel« and »Sagen Sie jetzt nichts« for the SZ magazine. For Apollon, he started writing fables.
DALE LEWIS
Dale Lewis (*1980) grew up and continues to reside in Essex, near London. Over the past seven years, he has cultivated a distinctive style centered on monumental-sized paintings that draw inspiration from various sources, including Italian and Northern Renaissance art and the working-class environment of North East London. The artist aptly describes his practice as Social Painting, reflecting both the political consciousness embedded in his compositions and the relational aspect of his work, which captures life one story at a time. Lewis earned a BA in Fine Art from London Guildhall in 2002, an MFA from Brighton in 2006, and completed the Turps Studio Programme in 2015. Recent solo exhibitions include “No Place Like Home” at Block 336, London, UK (2021); “The Great Day” at Edel Assanti, London, UK (2020); “Free Range” at Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2019); and “Fat, Sugar, Salt” at Edel Assanti, London, UK (2018). His work is held in international collections, including The Arsenal, Montreal, Canada; By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China; David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK; Fundacion AMMA, Mexico; Government Art Collection, London, UK; Hort Foundation, New York, USA; and Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK.
DANIJELA PILIĆ
Danijela Pilić is a Munich based author, journalist and columnist. Born in Split, Croatia, she moved to Germany with her family at the age of 10. In her 20s, she spent six years studying and working in London. She has published three books and countless articles on fashion, beauty and lifestyle topics.
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
Douglas Rushkoff is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture and his advocacy of open-source solutions to social problems. In his most recent work, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires (2022), Rushkoff explored the calculus some of the extremely wealthy make in the recognition that their often single-minded pursuit of greater profits and better technology are creating an increasingly unstable world..
EFE
EFE is an artist based between the Dominican Republic and New York, whose practice spans across sculpture, architecture and design to reflect collectivity and struggle. His works are created using salvaged objects and other tropes of marginalized environments, which amplify the vernacular of his underprivileged focus, and highlight his regional investment in the Caribbean. Recent works include a commission (Cut & Shut, 2023) for New York-based gallery, Amanita; a site-specific sculpture (House on a Budget, 2023) for Proyecto Pikaro’s latest exhibition in Mexico City; and a proposal (Landfall, 2022) for Miami Art Basel.
FRANZ KAFKA
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Jewish novelist and writer from Prague. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic and typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. Kafka is the favorite writer of many, including the composer of Le Grand Macabre, György Ligeti. 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of Kafka's death.
GERHARD POLT
Gerhard Polt is a German cabaret artist, author, television and film actor. After studying political science at the Munich University of Politics and history at the University of Munich, Polt studied Scandinavian studies and Old Germanic from 1962 to 1968 in Gothenburg. In his acts, Polt often plays the narrow-minded and unreflective citizen who expresses his opinion very bluntly. He likes to use certain clichés: the intolerance of the Germans (»tolerance is not a German term«) and German xenophobia, and is a master in portraying intellectuals, nouveau riche, civil servants and politicians.
IAN CHILLAG
Ian Chillag is the creator and host of the award-winning podcast »Everything is Alive«. Previously he co-created and hosted the NPR podcast »How To Do Everything«, and produced the NPR programs »Fresh Air« and »Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me.« He is a writer and producer based in Brooklyn, NY, where he works across all media. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, the New York Times, A Public Space, Pop-Up Magazine, and more.
JOVANA REISINGER
Jovana Reisinger (* 1989 in Munich) is a German writer, filmmaker and visual artist. In 2017 she published her debut novel »Stil halten« (Verbrecher Verlag), in 2021 her second novel »Spitzenreiterinnen« (Verbrecher Verlag), and in 2022 the essayistic novel »Enjoy Schatz« (Korbinian Verlag). »Spitzenreiterinnen« was performed in 2023 at the Staatstheater Kassel and at the Residenztheater Munich, »Enjoy Schatz« at Schaubühne Berlin (2024). Since 2020 she has been writing the menstrual column »Bleeding Love« for Vogue Germany, since 2023 »Die Single Kolumne« for the FAZ.
JULIA WERNER
Julia Werner is a renown German journalist and book author. She focuses on contemporary culture at large and writes a regular fashion column for Süddeutsche Zeitung.
LILI RUGE
Lili Ruge is an Arts and Culture Journalist based in Munich. Usually she works in radio. But she happily left her familiar environment to write about a subject instead of fearing it: the end of the world in various scenarios.
ROBIN LOPVET
Robin Lopvet (*1990 in the Vosges) is a multimedia visual artist at the intersection of parody and play. Taking his twenty years of experience as a professional retoucher to a comical level, Lopvet has become part of the post-photographic wave which makes pictorial use of digital practices. Based in Arles, he exhibits regularly in France and internationally.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Samuel Beckett was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theater director, poet, and literary translator. His work features impersonal and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense. As his career progressed, Beckett became increasingly minimalist, involving more aesthetic and linguistic experimentation, with techniques of stream of consciousness repetition and self-reference. Therefore, he is considered one of the last modernist writers. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre for being a member of the French Resistance in 1949 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.
SARAH NEUMANN
Sarah Neumann (*1996) is currently studying painting in her seventh semester under the guidance of Gregor Hildebrandt at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In her works she addresses social issues such as the human body, gender, sexuality and violence. For this issue of Apollon Dossier, Neumann painted »Der Kübelreiter« with ink on Finnish wood cardboard. She works with different media, including painting, drawing and sculpture.
SEAN COLE
The American journalist and poet Sean Cole was born in 1971. In 1993 he graduated from Marlboro College in Vermont. The college awarded him an honorary doctorate in humane letters in 2019. He is the producer of the radio show and podcast »This American Life«. In May 2022, Cole released the poetry collection »After These Messages« on Lunar Chandelier press.