We are happy to present the artists from Baar Art Joruney, that whill be exhibited from the 13th of June until the 18th.

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Alfred Müller (b.1960 in Kenzingen, Germany) - fell in love with painting when he was seventeen. Georg Baselitz was his teacher, who would frequently take his students to his exhibitions and to the studio of Gerhard Richter. After Alfred’s studies he spent almost ten years painting in Berlin, and shared a studio with Michel Majerus. In 2017 he visited Yucatan, Mexico, and as a result, his creative technique changed.  Prior to his time spent in Mexico, he sprayed his oil paintings with silver after finishing them. This technique hid all the colours on the canvas.


Cory Ford (b. 1982 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a self taught artist who is captivated by life and all that surrounds him. He captures this in his artwork. Cory was introduced to more formal techniques of drawing and art history while attending the Visual and Performing Arts program at New Jersey City University. Since then, he has furthered his practice of working in acrylic, his preferred medium, often adding paper to create the urban landscape fitting for his subject matter. A few of Cory’s artistic inspirations are: Earnie Barnes, Pablo Picasso, René François Ghislain Magritte, Barkley Hendricks, and Michaelangelo.


Francisco “TOTEM” Perez (b.1978 in Santiago, Chile) trained in acting and theater prior to pursuing his visual art career. He brings his emotions, thoughts and city pulse that Berlin possesses into his artworks. He describes his work as abstract.  The characters seen in his paintings are expressions of his view of our society and its current state of affairs. TOTEM uses recycled materials to create his works and utilizes various construction materials and treasures found around the city.

Okedoyin Oluwatosin Luli (b. 1996 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a contemporary artist whose works are represented abstractly by human forms and colors. As a graduate of Lagos polytechnic, Luli paints with precision and dimension utilizing acrylics as his medium of choice. His paintings are typically imaginative and surrealist
mostly surrealist. The usage of distorted strokes and lines makes his works striking.

Luli creates an illusionary bridge in-between the African traditional art and the European contemporary art.  He found an intrest in making use of the West African traditional damask and Gele to create a cloth like effect on each of my paintings. Luli’s works document peculiar stories that resonate and connect to his audience’s memories. Dreams and trances play an essential role in the creative process of  Luli’s work, which is evident in his use of bold colors and distorted representation of his subjects.


Dior Thiam (b.1993 in Berlin, Germany ) is a multidisciplinary artist. By utilizing broadly different mediums, she explores untold histories, exoticism and the specific historical knowledge held by social and individual bodies. Drawing inspiration from historical events and occurrences, from poetry, prose and personal experiences, her work raises questions around the localities of knowledge as well as memory and remembrance. Through a research - and process-based approach of layering, interweaving, fragmenting, collecting and reassembling she extracts and re/arranges seemingly disparate pieces of research to form new frameworks of meaning. Through her work the artist deliberately challenges the viewer in their relation to the image. She plays with notions of voyeurism, desire, nostalgia and sentimentality nudging the viewer to position themselves anew to what and how they are seeing.


Dior’s work has been exhibited at G2 Kunsthalle Leipzig, Savvy Contemporary Berlin, Institut Français Dakar and as part of the art festival “Gorée Regards Sur Cours” on Gorée Island in Senegal. She has collaborated with and been featured online by Galerie Le Manège Dakar, Garageland Magazine, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA) and ContemporaryAnd (C&). Her poetry was first published in print in 2021 in the book “Sisters & Souls 2”, edited by Dr. Natasha A. Kelly. She has completed the inaugural residency of the project "Dekoloniale-memory culture in the city” in 2021 and was represented in two exhibitions of the 14th edition of the Dakar Biennale in 2022. Her work was displayed at Galérie Cécile Fakhoury in Abidjan until September 2022 and as part of the exhibition "A Different Now is Close Enough to Exhale on You" curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung at Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg until January 2023.



Rafaella Braga (b. 1998 in Goiânia, Brazil) began tracing her own path in arts through graffiti and later finding herself in painting, exploring it freely and without any pre-conception. She has been developing and materializing her ideas mostly on large scale canvases that can take up entire walls, revealing a physically intense working method. And also exploring other fields such as installation, performance and sculpture.
Using the canvas as a diary, her practice has the body as primer matter, investigating the self outlined by her vulnerabilities and secrets, and revolves around the interplay between reality and fantasy, identity and time, offering a dreamlike alternative to reality. The artist has been developing her own projects, collaborating with international initiatives as group and solo exhibition.