Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell

Ryan Koopmans (b. 1986) and Alice Wexell (b. 1992) are Stockholm-based artists whose collaborative practice explores the evolving relationship between architecture, nature, and time. Working together for over fifteen years, they create immersive artworks that merge photography, motion, and digital sculpture to reimagine the built environment as a living and transformative space.

Koopmans is a Dutch-Canadian lens-based artist with a BA and MFA whose work examines the intersection of architecture, society, and the natural world. Drawing from studies in geography, art history, and psychology, his practice has been exhibited internationally since 2007 and is represented in major private and institutional collections. His monograph Vantage (Black Dog Press, 2019) reflects his long-standing fascination with geometry, repetition, and the poetry of form within urban landscapes.

Wexell is a Swedish digital artist with a multidisciplinary background in animation, coding, and emerging technologies. Educated at Lund and Uppsala Universities and twice a graduate of Hyper Island, she integrates technical experimentation with poetic world-building, creating environments that blur the boundary between the real and the imagined.

Together, they are best known for The Wild Within, an acclaimed body of work that digitally revives historically significant and often abandoned interiors through the introduction of vegetation, light, and subtle motion. Their works have been exhibited and collected internationally, including presentations at Christie’s London, Sotheby’s France, and the Francisco Carolinum Museum in Linz, Austria, among others.

Photoville

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NYC Parks

NYC Parks is the steward of more than 30,000 acres of land — 14 percent of New York City — including more than 5,000 individual properties ranging from Coney Island Beach and Central Park to community gardens  and Greenstreets. We operate more than 800 athletic fields and nearly 1,000 playgrounds, 1,800 basketball courts, 550 tennis courts, 65 public pools, 51 recreational facilities, 15 nature centers, 14 golf courses, and 14 miles of beaches. We care for 1,200 monuments and 23 historic house museums. We look after 600,000 street trees, and two million more in parks. We are New York City’s principal providers of recreational and athletic facilities and programs. We are home to free concerts, world-class sports events, and cultural festivals.