NADA Miami 2025
Group presentation with Adam Cruces, Anne de Vries, Julian-Jakob Kneer, Marie Matusz, Mónica Mays, Sibylle Ruppert (estate), Marius Steiger, Johnathan Wilborn 

For our participation at NADA Miami, we are delighted to present new works by Adam Cruces, Anne de Vries, Julian-Jakob Kneer, Marie Matusz, Mónica Mays, Sibylle Ruppert (estate), Marius Steiger and Johnathan Wilborn.

Adam Cruces (b. 1985, USA) investigates how objects acquire new meaning through subtle, often ironic acts of transformation, probing the tensions between function, perception, and the routines of contemporary life. For Nada Miami 2025, he presents a new series of pastel-on-velvet works that engage with the history and standardization of illumination.

Anne de Vries (b. 1977, NL) is an artist whose practice spans video installations, dioramas, sculptures, mixed-media collages, publications, inventions, and interventions. His work weaves a labyrinth of interconnected narratives, drawing on popular culture, subcultures, and self-invented characters and themes. His iconic knight figures—playful miniatures—resonate with contemporary tensions surrounding sincerity, heroism, and political defeatism.

Julian-Jakob Kneer (b. 1992, CH) explores the complexities of contemporary culture, drawing on pop imagery and political contradictions to probe moral ambiguity and human psychology. In series such as BASTARDS, he blurs the line between reality and illusion, inviting reflection on the ways societal norms and collective anxieties shape the entertainment industry.

Marie Matusz (b. 1994, FR) creates sculptural works that probe the interplay of form, space, and language, exploring how bodily and mental presence is shaped by socioeconomic contexts. Her wall pieces—crafted from veneer, metal, and construction-derived composites assembled with domestic care—evoke an ambivalent space where structure intersects with ornament, and industrial fragments unfold into intimate atmospheres.

Mónica Mays (b. 1990, ES) investigates the cultural and material histories embedded in everyday objects, transforming found and fragmented materials into sculptures that explore identity, memory, and domesticity. In her Shadow Boxes series, reclaimed taxonomical drawers are populated with silkworm cocoons, evoking the complexities and latent violence inherent in processes of reproduction and classification.

German artist Sibylle Ruppert (1942–2011, DE) produced a radical body of work—spanning paintings, drawings, and collages—throughout the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. Her uncompromising aesthetic navigates the space between dark surrealism, eroticism, and an intimate yet fierce engagement with her own personal traumas.

Marius Steiger (b. 1999, CH) is a London-based painter who uses digitally generated 3D renderings as models, translating them into oil-painted canvases that merge classical vanitas and still-life motifs with contemporary virtuality. His works explore the absurdities of modern comfort, suspending nature and objects on immaculate, synthetic surfaces that defy their own inescapable obsolescence.

Johnathan Wilborn (b. 1994, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York, working across painting, sculpture, video, and installation. His practice investigates the intersections of perception and bodily experience, using color and quotidian forms to challenge our assumptions about subjecthood and temporality. His panel paintings engage with phenomenologies of perception and consciousness, while subtly exploring themes of alienation and identity.