THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to participate in the 2024 edition of Westbund Art & Design at Booth B301, featuring a group exhibition by artists Sebastian Burger, Sam Creasey, Paul Robas, Victor Lim Seaward, and Shi Zheng.

Sebastian Burger (b. 1980, Magdeburg) is an artist living and working in Leipzig and Berlin. Burger studied fine arts in Vienna and Leipzig. After graduating from the Academy of Visual Arts, he was a master student with Professor Neo Rauch until 2012. He deals with issues such as the integrity of the body, its fragmentation, and artificiality in an increasingly indirect, digital perception of reality. Despite contemporary digitally generated aesthetics, Burger’s practice is rooted in the tradition of western Renaissance and icon painting.

Sam Creasey (b. 1993) is a British artist originally from Maidstone and now working in London. He received his MA in Painting from Royal College of Art in 2020. His paintings explore the synthesis distinctly British populaces have with their built surroundings and their contributing socio-political inclinations. The art of Sam Creasey emerges as a profound exploration of the intricate relationship between human emotion and the surrounding architecture, infrastructure, and socio-political systems. Through a distinctive blend of painting and ceramics, Creasey delves into the enigmatic realms of construction, gentrification, alienation, and British politics, weaving distinct narratives that are at once jaded and surreal.

Paul Robas (b. 1989) is a Romanian artist currently living and working in Vienna. He obtained a BFA from the University of Arts and Design Cluj, Romania (2011) and an MFA from the Academy of fine Arts Vienna, Austria (2018). His work has been shown across Europe with his latest solo show taking place at Galleria Solito in Naples (IT) in 2023. His work featured in group shows at Monti8 Latina (IT); JVDW Düsseldorf (DE); NewNow Artspace, Frankfurt (DE); Elektrohalle Rohmberg, Salzburg (AT); New Jörg, Vienna (AT); and FunfzigZwanzig, Salzburg, (AT) amongst others.

Victor Lim Seaward (b. 1988) is an artist living and working in London. He received his MA in Painting from Royal College of Art in 2018. His work is rooted in materiality, technological manufacture, and the agency of objects. Mining a broad spectrum of material culture, Seaward juxtaposes utilitarian materials with high-tech manufactured components and objects of historical significance - in order to investigate authorship, commodity, and the fluid nature of time and permanence.