This week, repsychl shares a list of contemporary artists who deserve more attention, according to twin artists Nil and Karin Romano.

1. Ella Walker

Walker explores imagined worlds inspired by renaissance and medieval narrative and costume through painting, drawing, and fresco.

Young Eros (2020)

2. Sanya Kantarovsky

Kantarovsky explores alienation, intimacy, and desire in her works, bringing light and humour to existential cruelty and human melodrama.

Disease of the Eyes, view on Alma, 2018, Kunsthalle Basel, 2018. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

3. Lisa Brice

Brice was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She uses her works to expose and challenge the misogynistic nature of historical figuration, taking ownership of how women are portrayed.

After Embah, 2018

4. Solange Knopf

Knopf was born in 1957 in Brussels, Belgium. Drawing became a means of confronting and working through pain, depression, and confusion after experiencing personal tragedy.

Behind the Darkness No. 10, 2014 © Solange Knopf

5. Kai Althoff

Kai Althoff is a multimedia artist and painter born in Germany. His works borrow from moments of history, religious iconography, and counter-cultural movements,

Kai Althoff, Untitled, 2001, Boat varnish, watercolour, pen and pencil on board, 50 x 40cm

Who are some contemporary artists you believe deserve more attention? Leave us a comment with your thoughts

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