ABOUT

Studio Above&Below is an award winning London based art and technology duo made of Daria Jelonek (GER) and Perry-James Sugden (UK), established in 2018 after graduating from the Royal College of Art. The artists are pioneers within the field of generative and data driven art leading to groundbreakingimmersive art experiences across Digital and Mixed Reality environments.
Their work has been shown internationally at institutions and festivals including the Royal Academy, Tate Modern, V&A London, Nottingham Contemporary, Photophore during the Venice Biennale, HeK Basel, MEET Milan, NRW Forum, UCCA Shanghai, Today Art Museum, WRO Biennale, WIRED Japan, and Sonar+D.
Previous prizes and fundings include Lumen Prize (shortlisted), Bloomberg Bursary, the Battersea Sculpture Prize, Factory Berlin x Sonar+D Artist in Residency and the S+T+Arts x Nesta Italia City of the Future prize.
Their work has been published in magazines including the New York Times, MAXON, Arte, art – das Kunstmagazin and It’s Nice That. In 2022 Studio Above&Below has been invited to the Global Design Forum at the V&A.

BIO

Past Exhibitions:

This awarded artist duo has been exhibiting since 2017. Among the places we can highlight the following:

2017 – Central Space Gallery, London, UK; Hamiffal, Jerusalem, ISR; Archfilmfest, Istanbul, TUR; Spazio Ridotto, Venice, ITA; Royal Academy, London, UK;

2018 – 202 Gallery (Central Saint Martins), London, UK; International Shortfilm Festival, Oberhausen, GER; Sónar Festival, Barcelona, ES; Artburst, Berlin, GER; Electrofringe, Sydney, AUS; GAMMA Award Exhibition, Seoul, KOR; 

2019 – Aesthetica Art Prize, York, UK; Tate Exchange in collaboration with Her-vision, TATE Modern, London, GB; Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Zuecca Projects & the PhotoPhore,  Venice, ITA; WRO Biennale, WRO Art Center, Wrocław, POL; NKF – Nordic Art Association, Stockholm, SWE; HERE < / > THERE x Today Art Museum at SIA, Beijing, CHI; SPACE Gallery, London

2020 – Sensing Systems, Nottingham Contemporary, UK; Festival Zero1, La Rochelle, France; Broadway Gallery, Nottingham, UK; Fiber Festival, Amsterdam, NL; NODE Festival, Frankfurt, GER; Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk, POL; Factory Berlin x Sonar +D x by Beats by Dr. Dre, Berlin, GER; Shenzhen Bay STarts Festival (previously Shenzhen Media Art Festival), Shenzhen, CHI;

2021 – Arebyte Gallery, AR Workshop, London, UK; Shaping the Invisible World, HEK, Basel, SWI; ECCE, Ruhrarea, GER; OGR Nesta Italia + STARTS, Turin, ITA; FeralFile: The Long Cut, Online, worldwide; AR Biennale, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, GER; LACA Shard, London, UK; CIK Knivsta, Multuhuset Möbeln, Uppsala SWE; Postsensorium RIXC Art Science Festival, RIGA, LAT; Tieranatomisches Museum, Berlin, GER; Frequency Festival: Digital Democracies, Lincoln, UK; London Design Festival, V&A, London, UK; New Now, UNESCO Zeche Zollverein, Essen, GER.

2022 – ARTour, Basel, SWI; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK; Broadway Gallery, Nottingham, UK.

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