Artist Radar 13: Maria Luz, Seung-yeon Jung, Stefan Bakmand

Lisbon’s Maria Luz turns everyday objects into clear studies of color and light through oil painting and film photography.
Vienna’s Seung-yeon Jung works across painting, performance, and ceramics to explore how bodies share space and belong.
Copenhagen’s Stefan Bakmand draws neon spores and tender diagrams, mapping paper-sized cosmologies that read like weather.


Maria Luz – Painting and film photography from Lisbon

Maria Luz works across oil painting and film photography, turning everyday city objects into clear studies of color and light.

Her images connect street observation with studio precision, focusing on chairs, nets, bags, and other modest forms. The result is a calm, attentive register where color, shape, and surface become the subject.

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Maria Luz: Contemporary painting and film photography of everyday objects in Lisbon
Maria Luz paints and photographs everyday urban objects with clear light and exact color, turning overlooked scenes into calm, durable images.

Seung-yeon Jung – Painting, performance, and ceramics from Vienna

Seung-yeon Jung builds quiet ecologies across painting, performance, and ceramics, exploring how bodies share space and belong.

Her practice links gesture with installation, moving from intimate materials to situations that unfold in time. Works often invite a slower reading, where relation and proximity become visible.

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Seung-yeon Jung: Between Bodies and the Spaces They Share
Seung-yeon Jung builds quiet ecologies of belonging, turning distance and dialogue into painting, performance, and lived experience.

Stefan Bakmand – Neon ink drawings from Copenhagen

Stefan Bakmand draws tender diagrams and spore-like forms in neon and ink, mapping living systems on paper.

His drawings trace networks that feel part botanical and part cosmological, shifting between chart, organism, and weather. Each sheet reads like a field note from an invented climate.

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Stefan Bakmand: Neon Spores, Tender Diagrams
Stefan Bakmand maps a mycelial cosmology in neon and ink, where spores turn into myths and paper feels alive.

Three precise approaches, three clear voices. Explore Maria Luz, Seung-yeon Jung, and Stefan Bakmand, then open their full features.

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