Zoe Strauss

Zoe Strauss is an autodidactic artist who describes herself as a lesbian anarchist from Philadelphia and is widely recognized as one of the most respected street photographers in the world. Her project is the production of images within the structure of an epic poem that can be read in both directions. It begins and ends at home, moving from the specific to the universal and back again. It begins and ends with determination and a ten year work plan that transformed an unused local space into an illegal exhibition that offered an honest portrait of human failures, triumphs and joy in an epic narrative, which forcefully brings forward the struggles and beauty of everyday life. For 10 consecutive years, Strauss’s photographic work culminated in a yearly “Under I-95” show, which took place beneath the Interstate highway in South Philadelphia where she displayed her photographs on concrete pillars under the highway in an abandoned space that she and her wife (and later an increasing group of volunteers) scrubbed clean to welcome guests.

This work is currently on display as part of Ms. Strauss’ mid-career retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) and on 54 site-specific billboards around the city. True to the nature of I-95, photocopies of the images accessioned by the PMA are available in the gallery for 5 euro. Please inquire for information about other available work.

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Isaac Cordal

Isaac Cordal (Spain, 1974) studied Fine Art at the University of Vigo and earned an MA in Digital Arts at the Camberwell University of Arts in London.

Isaac currently lives and works in Brussels. He will have his first solo exhibition with the gallery in October 2012. Between March 31st and September 30th, his work can be viewed as part of the Beaufort Triennial. For this exhibition, he created a work titled ‘Waiting for Climate Change’ that includes photography, ephemeral installations and hundreds of cynical, yet humorous, concrete sculptures. This work belongs to one of his broader projects: “Cement Eclipses: Small Interventions in the Big City”.

Admir Jahic

Following several photography and conceptual awards, Swiss Croatian artist Admir Jahic has more recently earned international acclaim for his role in the Invisible Heroes and their widely successful projects “Without You Baby There Ain’t No US,” “For Big Mistakes,” and “In God We Trust.” He has exhibited works in Switzerland, Germany, France, England, Portugal, Italy, Kuwait and across the United States.

Stefan Gross

Stefan Gross is the recipient of the AEG Art prize, the Kunstverein Drawing Prize and the Frits Philips Art Prize. He has been awarded funding for his ‘art you can hit’ project with Stella Boess (Love, Hate, Punch) by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. In 2009, he participated to the ‘Inside Job’ Group Exhibition at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam, curated by Jeroen Jongeleen).

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No New Enemies Network

The No New Enemies network is an international Non-Profit network created by Harlan Levey and Ruggero Lala in 2004. NNE acts as support system, sourcing tool and catalyst to support creative actions and the communication of artistic ideas. Since launching, NNE has organized more than 20 exhibitions, served as a consultant to clients in both private and public sectors and assisted members in producing installations, interventions and self-published book projects. While NNE continues to grow, it has organically become a vast talent pool for HLP.

The members listed on this page are those currently involved in HLP projects or with pieces in the HLP collection. You will find some of the available works in the images below. Contact us for more information about works from any specific member.

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Will Barras

Marcus Galmacci

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Vincent Skoglund

Since 1996, Vincent Skoglund has been continuously working on personal or purely experimental projects, as well as a string of strong commercial endeavors, developing an intimate and comprehensive relationship with his tools and a unique manner of bringing forward a story in a single image. In his work we begin to understand that a camera is not something to be used, but something to be lived.

Regardless of the subject matter or nature of the work, there is a strong recognizable style: photographer as narrator and not simply silent observer. This is the case, whether the image was taken on location or in the studio; whether he was occupied with a massive landscape or a minute still life.

The diversity in his work, as well as the recognizable style, can to a small extent be linked to the frequent travels (and necessary tribulations) the young photographer embarked on before currently settling closer to home in Stockholm, Sweden. At one point he was traveling more than 300 a days a year. Like so many of his generation, he ventured out to see the world and follow what intrigued him, developing his own way of seeing and sharing. This aesthetic is a powerful and informed one.

One of Sweden’s most respected photographers, Vincent’s remarkable depictions of the then emerging snowboard scene, set his name on the world map in the early 90’s. Since then he has received numerous honors, been featured in galleries and art fairs, while professionally covering various areas of fashion, action sports, music and art.

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Willehad Eilers

Willehad of Bremen Eilers (1981, Peine Ger.) goes by the name Wayne Horse and many many others. With his videos, animations, paintings, drawings, performances and installations related to graffiti and comic-culture, he gives an often mocking, ironic commentary on society. He works tirelessly and presents a rapidly expanding body of work that arose from the need to tell stories, developing characters and new worlds. Besides a caustic, sharp humor, his work also contains a childlike playfulness.

Eilers began his career in the German graffiti scene. During his studies at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (2001-2005) he broadened his horizons and began to experiment with other media such as video and animation. A clip from his graduation project, a short film called Elefantos earned award at the One Minute Awards in 2005, as Eilers managed to produce a full short film based on the main character, a sad, sensitive boy, growing up with an elephant’s head.

When Eilers presented his work at the national academy in the end of 2009, it mainly consisted of sharp social criticism where drawings simultaneously evoked associations with the sensational nature of bad B movies. His handwriting is described as a “graffiti style developed by: hard, sharp lines and aggressive themes that sometimes nice spinning out. Disturbing, violent depictions of Ku Klux Klan among others-like figures, sado masochism, torture, and a fitness obsessive culture came together in this presentation. At the end of this year Eilers plans to release a movie, which is currently in production.

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Abner Preis

Abner Preis (1975 USA) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Rotterdam.

Preis works as a storyteller and social sculptor, creating participatory works of art that develop characters and objects that reinforce their aesthetic languages. By manipulating the world as it is experienced, he generates a new series of parallel realities that allow the audience to alter emotional and cognitive positions towards their own lives. This is realized through a mixture of video, installation, performance, photography, drawing, sculpture and audience interaction that speak of the world and how we perceive it.

Since arriving in Rotterdam (2008), his work has been exhibited in the Showroom Mama, the Rotterdam Film Festival, at the Rotterdam Kunsthal, the Dordrecht Museum, Tent and in 2009 was the featured artist at Art Rotterdam. The recipient of three prestigious residencies, Preis has appeared in solo and group exhibitions as well as an impressive list of performances around the world.

Abner Preis is represented by Harlan Levey Projects.

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Jeroen Jongeleen

Born in 1968 in the Netherlands, Jeroen Jongeleen lives and works in Paris and Rotterdam. Jongeleen’s work evolves out of an on-going engagement with the public space and activist practices. It primarily takes the form of subtle interventions within the urban fabric targeting advertisements, architectural structures and signs, which regulate public behavior. Utilizing means and visual forms associated with guerilla protest – graffiti, stickers and placard cut-outs – his interventions draw attention to a particular form of militant activism while questioning the nature, value and transformative potential of artistic production. Jongeleen labors under the alias “influenza”, which connotes his repeated attacks on the well-oiled social body, while qualifying the development of his artistic practice as a self-reflexive exercise engaged in feeding its own momentum. Jongeleen also produces text pieces that critically address the economic underpinnings of contemporary art, framing the latter as a complex system of patronage that forges its own exclusive habitus.

Jeroen Jongeleen has recently presented solo exhibitions such as “Influenza / SNEEZE! (great details)” at Galeria Stereo, Poznan (2009) and Upstream Gallery (2008). His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, notably “Crop rotation” at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York (2008), “Umbau” at Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (2007), “SCAPE 06”, the Biennial of Art in Public Space, Christchurch, New Zealand (2006), “That was then, this is now” at De Appel, Amsterdam (2006), “Project Rotterdam” at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2005), Pague Biennale 1 (2003) and “Hardcore” at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2003).

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