Stefanie Schneider and Tao Ruspoli prepping the exhibition. Tao: “This idea of Bombay Beach Biennale popped in my head because rather than play up the sadness of the place,” he said, “I thought it would be more interesting to play on the surrealness of the place.” He added, “It’s such a mixture of contradictions, of natural and unnatural, of beautiful and ugly.” Tao partnered with two friends, Stefan Ashkenazy, an art lover and hotelier, and Lily Johnson White.

Welcome please come in. View the exhibition with Carmen de Vos, Sven van Driessche, Julia Beyer, Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde and Stefanie Schneider.

Stefanie Schneider - Blue House (29 Palms, CA)

Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerdeis - Spiked

Stefanie Schneider's '29 Palms, CA' and Carmen de Vos's 'Odd Stories'

Stefanie Schneider - Green Chair, Blue Water Pistol (only one part of the dyptych) from the 29 Palms, CA series

Stefanie Schneider - Male Nude, Airstream, Max in Pool, White Trash Beautiful I (29 Palms, CA)

Stefanie Schneider - White Trash Beautiful I, Carmen de Vos - Bambi Pang Pang - The Bride, Lourdes

Carmen De Vos is a slow photographer. She registers, portrays and thinks up odd stories. She shoots Polaroids to frame these mental escapades, they get so easily out of hand. 1 Bambi Pang Pang - The Bride (Odd Stories) 2 Lourdes (Odd Stories) 3 Remote Controll (Odd Stories)

Sven van Driessche - Jurassic Park

Sven van Driessche - One Day I fly away

Sven van Driessche - Joshua Muse, Angel of the Waterfall

Sven van Driessche - Whether in color and black and white, van Driessche’s photos marry the atmospheric qualities of integral and instant pack films with the sensuality of his models.

Julia Beyer - Generation A

Julia Beyer is an analogue photographer from Germany. She mainly works with instant film to express her inner visions that often show dreamlike landscapes and surreal atmospheres. Since 2017, she is a member of the renowned “12:12 Project”, a worldwide collective of female Polaroid photographers.

Julia Beyer - Forever and ever

Julia Beyer - The Trick is to keep Breathing

Stefanie Schneider - California Badlands: California Badlands II, My Summer Vacation, Broken Promises...

Stefanie Schneider - California Badlands: Magic Mountain, Bombay Beach, Slab City Bible Belt I’

Stefanie Schneider - California Badlands: Salton Sea Harbour

Stefanie Schneider - Salton Sea Destruction I + II (California Badlands)

Stefanie Schneider - Salt'n Sea (California Badlands)

Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerdeis - Day and Night

Kirsten only dreams of two things: traveling round the world at least twice before she dies, with her Polaroid cameras of course, and a new fridge big enough to store her rapidly growing stash of Polaroid film.

Stefanie Schneider - Salt'n Sea (California Badlands)

Stefanie Schneider's California Badlands

Stefanie Schneider - Salton Sea Beach, Salton Sea Beach Marina (California Badlands)

Stefanie Schneider - Hide Out, Slab City Bible Belt II (California Badlands)

Stefanie Schneider - Seaside Baptists (California Badlands)

Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerdeis - Salt on my Skin

Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerdeis - Weight of the World, Salt on my Skin

Stefanie Schneider - North Shore Yard Club (California Badlands)