Nina, born in 1983 in Nuremberg, spends most of her time at a daycare center for autistic adults. Since 2015 she works as a regular at KUNSTRAUM's studio, three days a week. 

In her images human characters often appear in strange, enclosed rooms. Walls define not only a strict area but eternal variety of space. They evoke thoughts about border lines as well as about certain possibilities. This imaginary chambers become habitat for a rather odd population but also a display for fear, lust, invention and desire. Enigmatic messages sometimes occur in speech bubbles or as a part of the picture's composition. Even at a closer look, the meaning remains cryptic for the recipient. 

Nina was invited to participate at ‘zona deformabile’ exhibition at kunst galerie fuerth (curated and documented by Natalie de Ligt, Fuerth, 2018). In 2019 her work was shown at Paris Outsider Art Fair.

Nuremberg born Maaz Ali (*1994) feels incredibly familiar with pencil and paper since his early life. He is excited about remarkable architecture, underground or street car stations and railway tracks. Also the vehicles of public transport regularly occur in his drawings: trains, street cars, buses and what not.

He often adds different sorts of drawing paper, assembles ample structures, several meters wide. He produces a sort of patchwork in a steady progress. The matter is being glued, drawn on, endlessly folded and unfolded, stuffed into bags and being transported home and back to the studio, perpetually. This work can be continued for months and provides the material with a patina we know from strongly used legal notes: small cracks and stains, softened folding and crinkles, smudges colors and lines become part of the pictures characteristic. In this way Maaz step by step generates surfaces on which we’re about to recognize a typical process of urban life: growth and expansion on the one hand as well as aging and abrasion on the other. 

Since we never know, when a specific work of art is finished, we find ourselves maneuvered in an uncertain position, because he might pick up one of his papers at any moment and change it the way he wants to. There is also no direction, from which to survey his pictures correctly, because things, figures and lettering often appear from different angles or will probably be shown from several perspectives at the same time. 

Since he usually works on both sides of his papers, no one can be sure what will be the front or the backside of his drawing or rather which side shall preferably be shown.

In 2015 Maaz started to work at KUNSTRAUM studio of WerkStadt Lebenshilfe Nürnberg. In 2018 he was invited to participate at ‘zona deformabile’ exhibition at kunst galerie fuerth, curated and documented by Natalie de Ligt.

Effi was born in 1977 in Nuremberg. She was with the first artists that worked at the KUNSTRAUM studio. During her first years she used to work in an ongoing ritual-like pattern: drawn circles crossed by vertical lines, colored by brush-strips of thinned acrylic paint on paper. Thus she created thousands of images during the years. Even if her expression has gradually changed recently, the serial and ritual manner still appears in her artwork, now in an advanced variety. 

On the first glance, the blend of abstract and figural subjects appears not to be designed. With a closer inspection at her work process and by a look on recurrence and reproduction of her subjects it becomes clear, that her results will not come into existence by mere chance.

Sometimes her urge to create pictures gets so strong, that it doesn’t matter for her on what specific ground she’s painting.

Today Effi’s artwork is part of numerous collections. In 2016 the interior design of bfw-Building in Bamberg was based on her patterns. In 2019 her pictures were shown at the Outsider Art Fair in Paris.