Pavel Büchler (b. 1952, Prague) lives and works in Manchester, UK. He studied at the Institute of Applied Arts and the School of Graphic Arts, Prague. He is the recipient of the Northern Art Prize, 2009, and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, 2012. Selected solo exhibitions include: Künstlerhaus Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz (2014); Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2013); Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, St. Louis (2011); Kunstparterre, Munich (2010); and DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (2010). Selected group exhibtions include: Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London (2015); Speaking in Tongues, CCA, Glasgow (2014); Postscript: Writing after Conceptual Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2012); Dot.Systems, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen (2012); Les Marques Aveugles, Centre D'Art Contemporain, Geneva (2011); From Trash to Treasure, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel (2011); Image to be projected until it vanishes, Museion, Bolzano (2011); Luc Tuymans: A Vision of Central Europe; The Reality of the Lowest Rank, Aurentshuis, Bruges (2010); Under Destruction, Tinguely Museum, Basel (2010); History of Art, The David Roberts Foundation, London (2010); Modern Dialect, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (2010); and FischGrätenMelkStand, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin (2010). He is represented by Max Wigram Gallery, London; Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin; and by annex14, Zurich.

Matias Faldbakken (b. 1973, Denmark) lives and works in Oslo. He studied at the Academy of Fine Art, Bergen, Norway and at the Academy of Fine Art, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Faldbakken’s practice holds in perpetual tension the forces of proposition and cancellation, vandalism and erasure, aesthetic generosity and conceptual restraint, the possibility of language and its abstraction into illegibility. IN recent works, mass-produced containers are subjected to various manipulations and often rendered useless. The objects he adapts often veer between the iconic and the almost painfully generic. Residencies include: IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden (2004), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2002-03), and NIFCA Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art,Helsinki, Finland (2001). Select solo exhibitions include: Matias Faldbakken, Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2013); Intervention #21: Matias Faldbakken, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2012); Portrait Portrait of of a a Generation Generation, OCA, Oslo, Norway & Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium (2012); Matias Faldbakken, The Power Station, Dallas, TX (2011); That Death of Which One Does Not Die, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2010); and Shocked into Abstraction, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK & National Museum of Oslo, Norway (2009). Selected group exhibitions include: El Rey de Icod, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Spain (2014); Chat Jet (Part 2) Sculpture in Reflection, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria (2014); Take Liberty!, The National Museum of Art, Design & Architecture, Oslo, Norway (2014); The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2014); and Marking Language, Drawing Room, London (2013). Faldbakken has work in many public collections, including: FRAC, Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkerque; DekaBank, Frankfurt am Main; The Dmitris Daskalopoulos Collection, Athens; Jumex Collection, Mexico City; The National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Oslo; The Speyer Family Collection, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and The Rubell Family Collection, Miami. He is represented by Simon Lee Gallery, London / Hong Kong; Standard (OSLO), Oslo, Norway; Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH; and Paula Cooper, New York, NY.

Karl Holmqvist (b. Vasteras, Sweden, 1964) lives and works in Berlin. Selected solo exhibitions include: Naked Chess, Dependance, Brussels (2013); Give Poetry A Try, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2013); dépendance, Brussels (2013); Galerie Neu, Berlin (2013); Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (2012); Education Is a Right, Hollybush Gardens, London (2011); Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2010); OFF WITH THEIR 'EADS, White Cubicle, London (2009); and I'LL MAKE THE WORLD EXPLODE, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin (2009). Selected group exhibitions include: House, Hollybush Gardens, London (2014); The Crime was Almost Perfect, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2014); Looking Back: The Eighth White Columns Annual, White Column, New York (2013); Doppelgänger–The Separate, European Centre for Contemporary Art Projects, Strasbourg (2013); Words Are People, Kunsternes Hus, Oslo (2013); Marking Language, Drawing Room, London (2013); 54th Biennale Venice (2011); Manifesta 8, Murcia / Northern Africa (2010);The Moderna Exhibition, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2010); Swedish Conceptual Art, Kalmar Konstmuseum (2010); The Malady of Writing. A project on text and speculative imagination, MACBA Barcelona (2009); and poor. old. tired. horse, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2009).

Bernardo Ortiz (b. 1972, Bogotá, Colombia) lives and works in Bogotá. From 1990-1995 he studied for a BFA in Visual Arts from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá and an Associate Degree in Literature from University of the Andes, Bogotá, followed by a MA in Philosophy at Universidad del Valle, Cali (2000-2002). His recent solo shows include Essay, Casas Riegner, Bogotá (2013); Game Piece, with Erick Beltrán, Casas Riegner, Bogotá and Volt, Bergen (2013); Ephemeropterae, TBA 21, Vienna (2013); Drawings, Casas Riegner, Bogotá (2011); and Model No2. Fragment of Oct.12, 2011, Frieze Art Fair, Frame, Casas Riegner Gallery, London (2011). Ortiz's recent group exhibitions include Secret Codes, Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo (2013); The Circle walked Casually, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin (2013); Ignoring Saber, 43 room (Inter) National Artists, Medellín (2013); Nominees Canson Prix Exhibition, Petit Palais, Paris (2013); Music, Casas Riegner, Bogotá (2013); Marking Language, Drawing Room, London (2013); 30th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2012); Modern Fictions, Bogota Chamber of Commerce, Bogotá (2012); Empathy, Houses Riegner Gallery, Bogotá (2012); Modelling Standard, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona (2012); and Air de Lyon, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (2012).