Keiken & Gabriel Massan

Keiken

Founded in 2015 by Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori, and Isabel Ramos, the artist collective Keiken works collaboratively to build and imagine speculative futures. Through filmmaking, gaming, installation, XR, blockchain, and performance, their aim is to test-drive new ways of existing.

Keiken received The Lumen Prize in 2024, and the Chanel Next Prize in 2021). They are currently artists in residence at Somerset House in London. Keiken’s work has been included in exhibitions at Le Cube Garges (FR), Zeppelin Museum (DE), Amos Rex, Helsinki (FL), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (JP), KANAL–Centre Pompidou, Brussels (BE), Helsinki Biennial (FL), HAU, Berlin (DE) (2023), CO Berlin (DE); Wellcome Collection, London (UK); ARKO Art Centre, Seoul (KR); Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf (DE); Onassis, Athens (GR) (2022); Thailand Biennale, Korat (TH); HEK, Basel (CH); 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice (IT); Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo (JP) (2021); FACT, Liverpool (UK); transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt HKW, Berlin (DE) (2020); ICA, London (UK); Jerwood Arts, London (UK) (2019).

Gabriel Massan

Gabriel Massan (b. 1996, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Berlin-based, mixed-format digital artist. Combining storytelling and world-building techniques, Massan creates and narrates situations of inequality which are simulated by the live performances of his digital sculptures in a virtual environment. His work includes 3D animation, digital sculpting and painting, single-player games, virtual reality, and augmented reality.

Massan was a 2019 resident at ETOPIA - Center for Art & Technology, an invited artist of the 2020 "IMS Convida" program at Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), selected for the Circa "Class Of 2021" program in partnership with Dazed, a 2022 commissioned artist by the "Artist World" series at Serpentine Galleries, and a contributor to the "Rotten TV" online research platform supported by The British Council Digital Collaboration Fund.Bold Text