Annabel Zoe Paran is a multidisciplinary artist born in Jerusalem and based in Berlin. Her practice often translates embodied research—through dance, ritual, and site-specific work —into sculpture, painting, installation, and video. Engaging with ecological grief, geopolitical trauma, and the mysticism of human-nature encounters, she explores the coexistence of beauty and violence, rupture and tenderness, the intimate and the abject. Paran’s work navigates contradiction, queering binaries and inhabiting liminal states. Her installations often involve sustainable materials and…

Cory Tamler is a writer, dramaturg, and interdisciplinary artist. Her ongoing artistic research with Alex Viteri develops and applies water dramaturgies to performance, teaching, and writing, currently in the context of the Helenesee, a sinking lake in Brandenburg. Since 2019, Cory co-creates with In Kinship Collective, making work with rivers in Wabanaki/Maine alongside human and nonhuman, Native and settler collaborators following the tradition of Native guiding. She has created and participated in research-based performance projects in the United States, Germany, and Serbia, and…

Farah Bouamar is a literary scholar, filmmaker, and co-founder of Lost Film, a nonprofit organisazion based in Berlin working at the intersection of genre cinema, art, politics, and society. Her work explores aesthetics of horror, memory, and resistance from power-critical perspectives. Drawing on horror and speculative storytelling, she reimagines the present and envisions transformative futures. Farah studied philosophy and literature and is currently pursuing a PhD in literary studies. Her recent projects include the short films I CAN HEAL YOU (2021) and DIE LIEFERUNG (2024), as well as the publication…

Guli Dolev-Hashiloni (1999, Tel-Aviv) is an Israeli writer living in Berlin since 2021. His works, exploring themes of migration and resilience, reflect on political themes and draw extensively from Yiddish literature. In 2021 he self-published "From Worse to Worse", co-written with poet Emanual Yitzhak Levi as an attempt to create a collaborative novel. Dolev-Hashiloni had worked in aid organizations for African asylum seekers in Tel-Aviv, and his experiences in the NGO world were the background for his novel Tsulul (Pardes Publishing, 2025). His stories have been published in various Hebrew journals...

Hümeyra is a self-taught painter based in Berlin-Kreuzberg with a background in psychology. Since childhood, she has maintained a deeply intuitive and personal relationship with painting. While she developed technical skills in acrylic and oil painting through community art courses, her practice has primarily evolved through self-directed exploration alongside her academic studies in which she focuses on the psychological mechanisms of racist socialization…

Ioana Lungu is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist and mixed-media storyteller whose practice spans film photography, archival research, video, and writing. Her work explores the intersections of light, emotion, identity, and place, often re/mapping memory through personal and collective histories.Born and raised in Bucharest, she lived in Addis Ababa from 2018 to 2024 before relocating to Berlin. Moving between image and words, she weaves narratives that meditate on diasporic dislocation, cultural memory, and beauty as a form of resistance. Her practice is informed by decolonial…

Mudassir Sheikh is a Berlin-based musician and multidisciplinary artist of Pakistani origin. His practice spans sound, video, performance, text, and radio, engaging with themes of collective trauma, mythology, ecological collapse, ancestral memories, and ways of remembering. Using interdisciplinary methods, he addresses socio-political issues in South Asia—countering amnesia and censorship through sonic and playful resistance. Raised in Karachi, his compositions blend field recordings, instruments, and voice, often presented in immersive installations or…

Nazanin Bahrami is a performance artist and theater maker whose work unfolds at the intersection of performance, collage, and painting. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Acting and Directing from the University of Tehran and a Master’s in Applied Theatre Studies from Justus Liebig University Giessen. In 2017, she founded the research-based art collective “Un-formula,” which cultivates dialogue between performance and visual art while embracing social and cultural practices. Committed to examining art’s role in society, she deepened her expertise through the “Art as Social Practice”…

Nicole Wysokikamien (Montevideo, 1994) is a Uruguayan dance artist and researcher based in Berlin. She is a graduate of the Contemporary Dance Division at Uruguay’s National Dance School. She holds a BA in Literature (Uruguay), a Diploma in Theory, Criticism, and Analysis of Contemporary Performing Arts (Chile), and is a graduate of the MA SODA (Solo/Dance/Authorship) from the Hochschulübergreifende Zentrum Tanz Berlin (Universität der Künste, Berlin). From 2022 to 2024, she was a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) fellow. Her work explores the intersection…

Nimrod Astarhan is an artist, technologist, and educator. Their practice is based on a post-conceptual approach toward sculpture, installation, and media art, utilizing collaborations, digital technology, and electronic mechanisms. Their research-creation is re-earthing computational media and speculative history. It involves activating non-visible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum contextualized through material, diasporical, historical, and philosophical lenses. Recent showings include the Gwangju Biennial Pavilion Project, Ars Electronica, ISEA, The Ammerman Center Biennial…

From fiction films created with communities, to interactive documentaries and public interventions, Ruth explores what makes it possible for us to move from an inner realm of thought, dream or feeling to an exterior world of public action. 

Ruth is the creator of large scale community interventions, Chalk and Voices of 9.11 and the founder of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), New-York Historical Society and 3LD Art + Technology Center. Her work has won support from the NYS Council on the Arts, Jerome Foundation and the…