Simay Keles is a painter based in Berlin, Germany. Born in Izmir, Turkey, she moved to Germany to pursue her studies when she was 18. Working in series, Keles’ work responds to nature, migration and human experience. Keles is profoundly inspired by her travels. Changing places and traveling through the cultures have always been a part of her life. She paints what she recognizes and witnesses as beautiful and in danger of erosion…

Farokh Falsafi is an interdisciplinary, research-based artist and architect based in Berlin. With background in architecture, his work is grounded in a sustained inquiry into space as both a material and political condition. Through his practice, he investigates how power is produced, embedded, and negotiated through spatial configurations in contemporary society. His work moves across language, constructed environments, and mechanisms of social control…

Olivia Kassaei is an Austrian-Iranian writer and artist based in Berlin. Her background in art criticism and cinema studies informs both her artistic research and material explorations. She wanders through the world like a detective, turning to the subtle, the quiet, and sometimes the blinding. More recently this has meant exploring fragments from (family) archives, working through video and sculpture. Her work lingers on the forgotten…

My name is Hamza Mohammed Beg, I’m a Muslim and an artist by accident. The work I produce is always grounded by my training as a poet and informed by an academic background in history, archive, visual narrative and non-Western modes. My practice is defined by large works of fiction that are borne out between mediums held together by workshops and discussions. Expect poetry, video, and sound work often tied together by performance. The themes of my work…

Özlem Yılmaz is a Berlin-based musician, nay player and instructor and researcher of Islamic studies whose work unfolds at the intersection of sound, spirituality, and intercultural dialogue. She combines academic research on Islamic philosophy and Sufi traditions with an active musical practice rooted in the maqam systems of the Middle East, focusing especially on Istanbul soundscape. A ney player since her early years…

Melisa Yağmur Saydı works primarily with video, with a practice spanning performance, installation, printmaking, and writing. Her work explores how current events and dominant political narratives echo through social and individual psychology. She brings different layers into contact to examine movement between the personal and the collective, the physical and the digital. In her animations, documentary elements merge with surreal worlds…

Yoav Hainebach is a visual artist based in Berlin since 2020, a return enabled by historical justice and family origin. Hainebach was born in Tel Aviv, and has lived, studied, and worked in Beijing, New York and Boston. Hainebach works on, with, and in paper, using painting, printmaking, drawing, embossing, water-marking and paper-making to play with the space between reference and its visual abstraction. Hainebach’s work is often self-reflective of the material…

A(Viv) Maoz Haggiag was born in Libya and fled with her family to Rome, Italy, as a refugee at the age of three. At eighteen, A(Viv) migrated to Israel. In 2013, A(Viv) moved to Berlin, where she lives and works today. Working across photography, sculpture, and installation, A(Viv) integrates digital media and video to create hybrid visual environments. Shaped by early cross-cultural experiences, A(Viv)’s practice explores themes of borders, migration, origin, time, and refuge…

Born (1992) Fairfax, Virginia USA
Based in Berlin, Germany
Billie Clarken is a multidisciplinary artist whose work directs referential signs and objects in a satirical performance of the immortal image. Often returning to tropes in television culture, Clarken points out the paradoxes of a projected identity in the search for inauthenticity. Their work captures and appropriates use-objects and borrowed…

Jeremy Steinberger is a filmmaker and journalist whose work explores the politics of belonging. Moving between documentary filmmaking and cultural journalism, he focuses on people who transform unfamiliar environments into spaces of belonging through art, music, and community. Across his projects, he is interested in how identities shaped by migration, exile, and cultural rupture can become the basis for solidarity and collective liberation rather than nationalism…

Alexandru Gavriel Ganea (born 1990, Jerusalem) is a sculptor living and working in Berlin, Germany and Carrara, Italy. He holds a Masterʼs degree in Fine Arts which he acquired at the Weissensee Academy of Fine arts and Design in Berlin, under the guidance of Prof. Else Gabriel. Ganea works predominantly with marble and wood, creating sculptures that explore tension, duality and spatial relationships. His practice is guided by an intuitive, material led process; allowing…