Shunsaku Hayashi
Shunsaku Hayashi is a filmmaker and visual artist. In his work, he merges painting, animation, and experimental film into a multi-layered, poetic form of expression. His films are composed of hand-painted frames, carefully sequenced into animated compositions. Shunsaku Hayashi employs cinematic techniques such as editing, rhythm, and temporal manipulation not just to depict motion, but […]
Hira Nabi
Hira Nabi is an artist who works with moving images, performance, and writing. In her artistic practice, she collaborates with others to reflect on the disappearance and erasure of multiple worlds—afterlives, parallel temporalities, labour infrastructures, and beauty found in unexpected places. She is particularly concerned with connecting the histories of colonial extraction to ongoing structures […]
Madeleine Kelly
Madeleine Kelly‘s multifaceted practice spans painting, sculpture, and installation. Her work moves fluidly between figuration and abstraction, weaving together art historical, scientific, and ecological concerns. Recurring motifs such as birds and light serve as symbols of communication, kinship, and the interconnectedness of natural and cultural systems. During her residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Madeleine Kelly is […]
Miles Friday
Miles Jefferson Friday is an artist who focuses on sound as his primary medium. Building new instruments, composing music, designing sound sculptures, and creating immersive sonic installations, his practice invites us to reconsider how we hear and listen. Through his pieces, Miles Friday creates spaces where people can come together and listen, exploring how sonic […]
Marusya Syroechkovskaya
Marusya Syroechkovskaya is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work moves deftly between intimate storytelling and incisive political critique. Her films weave together personal experience and collective memory while engaging with the realities of contemporary Russia—a landscape where personal freedom and artistic expression are under mounting pressure. Within this tension, they navigate feelings of confinement, […]
Aileen Bahmanipour
Aileen Bahmanipour’s work engages with contemporary iconoclasm—not as the mere destruction of images, but as a radical redefinition of their meaning and function. Traditionally, iconoclasm refers to the deliberate destruction or rejection of images, often driven by political or religious motives. In a contemporary context, the artist adopts this strategy to rethink and reveal the […]
Gili Avissar
Gili Avissar works interdisciplinarily at the intersection of painting, sculpture, video, performance, and dance. He originally intended to study fashion design but chose instead to pursue fine arts in Jerusalem, Glasgow, and Tel Aviv, seeking greater freedom of artistic expression. A consistent thread throughout Gili Avissar’s practice is his work with textiles. Using weaving, knotting, […]
Lojithan Ram
Lojithan Ram’s practice, rooted in archival explorations and textual analysis, emerges from an intimate confrontation with estrangment—both lived and inherited. Rather than finding anchor solely in his own story and familial experiences, he turns toward the broader, collective narrative of dislocation and rootlessness experienced by his community in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, finding […]
Tracey Snelling
Through sculpture, photography, video and installation, Tracey Snelling conveys an impression of a particular socio-topographical place, its people and its atmosphere. Her immersive works often reflect environments that are under threat – be it through gentrification, political unrest or erasure. Snelling’s key strength as an artist lies in her ability to capture the essence of […]
Peng Yi-Hang
Peng Yi-hang is a contemporary artist specializing in conceptual photography. His work explores the essence of the photographic medium, spiritual belief systems, and local cultural phenomena. The resulting images challenge perception and make the invisible visible. His artistic practice began with the series Midnight Stroll, a meditative nighttime photo series that later evolved into Ghost […]