Oreet Ashery is a visual artist whose work spans video, performance, images and assemblage, exploring bodies, worldbuilding, gender, and technology through speculative fiction and humour. A Turner Bursary recipient (2020) and Jarman Film Award winner (2017), Ashery’s acclaimed projects include Revisiting Genesis, a web series on digital death, and the book How We Die Is How We Live Only More So (2019). Recent film commissions include Selfish Road (KW Institute, 2022) and Dying Under Your Eyes (Wellcome Collection, 2019), featured in Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence & Oreet Ashery. Recently they have been engaged with precarious environmental communities and farms. Ashery is a professor of contemporary art, directing the MFA program at the Ruskin School of Art.

Caspar Heinemann (b. 1994, London) is an artist and writer living in Glasgow. Solo exhibitions have included Édouard Montassut, Paris (2024); Cabinet, London (2022); Outpost Gallery, Norwich (2018); Almanac, London (2017); and Kevin Space, Vienna (2016). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Casa di Goethe, Rome (2024); Maureen Paley: Morena di Luna, Hove (2024) EACC, Castellón (2023); ICA, Los Angeles (2022); ICA, London (2019); and Cabinet, London (2019). Heinemann participated in the 2019 Bergen Assembly, and has held readings of his writing at Spike Island, Bristol; Camden Arts Centre, London; Partly, Copenhagen; Sussex Poetry Festival, Brighton; and Tate Modern, London. His first poetry collection, Novelty Theory, was published in 2019 by The 87 Press.

If you have any questions or need assistance with your visit, please feel welcome to contact us at +44 (0) 20 7622 1294 or info@studiovoltaire.org. Read Studio Voltaire's full access information here.

Images courtesy of the artists