AG18 will present Fuko Katsuda and Alexander Föllenz at the Art Düsseldorf Artfair 2026.

Address
ART DÜSSELDORF
Areal Böhler
Hansaallee 321
40549 Düsseldorf

Thursday / Preview Day
2026, April 16
VIP Preview: 12 noon – 4 PM
Official Opening: 4 PM – 8 PM

Friday
2026, April 17
12 noon – 7 PM

Saturday
2026, April 18
11 AM – 7 PM

Sunday
2026, April 19
11 AM – 6 PM

Fuko Katsuda,
born in 1995 in Osaka (JP), lives and works in Vienna (AT). She studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design at the University of the Arts London and at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
In her works, we encounter humanoid protagonists in scenes that appear both mystical and mundane. Her visual language can be understood as a stoic vision of a cosmic connection between the human and the more-than-human in a post-humanist sense. We are asked: What does it mean to be human?
Katudas’ figures have no clear gender assignment. They are not even unambiguously human. They are embedded in vegetation, in forests and wilderness and are – according to the artist – “simply part of the landscape in which they exist. They know that they belong to the earth and the universe and that everything is temporary.”
A ghostly glow lends her figures an air that is both haunting and fleeting—as if they might drift by at any moment or merge with the background. Katsuda navigates the flow of the universe—captured in moments.

Alexander Föllenz, born in 1986 in Koblenz, lives and works in Düsseldorf. He studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Prof. Lucy Mckenzie and became a master student of Prof. Andreas Gursky.

His sculptures evoke iconic motifs from art history and convey timeless themes of humanity. Föllenz joyfully draws upon heroic mythologies to create allegories linked to modern superheroes.“Devotion” reflects the constraints in which people find themselves trapped in the here and now, shackling their own talents and ambitions.

Föllenz creates abstract prototypes, cyborg- like figures: heroes who must suffer for their hubris. In this way, he explores themes such as violence and suffering, Eros and Thanatos, vanitas, power and powerlessness, cult, self- image, and identity. Figures who repeatedly lose their balance and must reposition themselves. And „Icarus“ strong-willed, undeterred – and ultimately failed through hubris.