is a curator, artist and writer, interested in ecosophy, indisciplinary research, labour and infrastructures, based between Berlin, Germany, Bangkok, Thailand and Seoul, South Korea.

ist freier Schriftsteller in New York. Zuvor war er Chefredakteur und außerordentlicher Kurator am damaligen Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, dem heutigen Kunstinstituut Melly.

is an independent curator, researcher and writer. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics and one in Art History from the University of Bucharest and a Master of Fine Arts in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London.

(b. 1995) is an Iranian-Swedish artist based in Berlin and Stockholm, who creates performances and installations informed by processes of hybridization in migratory cultures.

is a writer, contributes to Artforum & Calvert Journal, author of Poor but Sexy. Culture Clashes in Europe East and West (2013) and a memoir A Girl & a Gun (2020). She lives in Warsaw.

is an editor and art critic based in Rome. Her writings about art, performance, and film can be found on her blog: Conversation Pieces.

lebt und arbeitet in Berlin an der Schnittstelle von Forschung und Kuratorischem. Sie versteht ihr Wissen als Praxis – und umgekehrt.

rocznik 1972, jest dziennikarką i komentatorką polskiej prasy lewicowej na stałe związaną z „Tygodnikiem NIE”.

is a media artist, blogger, and researcher with a diverse background. He earned a degree in Physics from the University of Khartoum and Visual Communication at Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.

Ahmed Naji is a writer from Egypt, currently a fellow writer at BMI in Las Vegas. Among his books are Using Life (2014), Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in Prison (2019), And Tigers to my Room (2020). ILLUSTRATON .

Die rund 220 in der deutschen AICA-Sektion zusammengeschlossenen Autor*innen, Kritiker*innen, Journalist*innen und Publizist*innen vergeben jedes Jahr die Auszeichnungen „Museum des Jahres“, „Ausstellung des Jahres“ und „Besondere Ausstellung“.

is a practicing designer, researcher, theorist, strategist, and project developer, who advocates relationship-focused design as a strategy to redesign, re-engineer, and reimagine the relationship between technology and society.

geboren in Slowenien und wohnhaft in Berlin, studierte Architektur und arbeitet als Kulturmanagerin sowie Kuratorin mit Schwerpunkt auf Krisengeografien und Critical Curating.

is a philosopher and researcher based in Berlin. Alessandro's research explores subversive uses of technology, cooperative economic models, and cultural mutations in the age of digital networks.

(*1997) is a Polish-German writer and scholar of art history in a global context at Freie Universität Berlin.

Alexander Kolesnikov ist investigativer Journalist aus Minsk, Weißrussland.

is fed up and starved by the system at the same time. Years later, still.

is a curator based in Frankfurt am Main. With a background in fashion, textiles and discourses around the body, he is invested in craft and material-based practices in contemporary art. He is artistic co-director of the Kunstverein Göttingen.

lives in Mexico City as a curator, art historian, and poet. She is the deputy director of the Museum Reina Sofia.

born in Buffalo, NY, is driven by questions of ethics, capitalism, and class in classical music. Growing up in a largely workingpoor city, Paruta experienced feelings of alienation after crossing the socioeconomic wealth gap in order to study music.

is an Anthropologist, living in Guayaquil, Ecuador. She was part of the Workshop for Creative Writing held at the MAAC Guayaquil, in August 2024

is an artist, editor and organizer researching methodologies of collectives. She is working with AWC, Archive Books, the Collective Commune/ الكوميونة (Cairo and Berlin) and the association Membrane e.V..

is a visual artist. Her artistic work is not directly related to this text, but has been affected and disrupted by its topics.

is a curator and full time faculty at Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Garzón is the editor of post(s), and creative director of Khôra, a non-profit space.

is a writer and editor.

is an anarchist dissident, historian, and author of Don’t Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia, and Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History.

is part of SOMOS TODXS, a task force rebuilding Ecuador after its complete breakdown. He is part of IMF and of the redesign of SDR, shaping the creation of the new official global currency.

Andries de Lange is a social-spatial practitioner based in Berlin and Eindhoven. A member of ConstructLab, he collaborated on Atelier 3 during KOKO. Isobel Mills is a spatial practitioner from East London.

is an author, curator, and researcher based in Pescia and Berlin. From 2006-2022 she directed the Künstlerhaus Villa Romana in Florence, and, before that, the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe.

(she/her) works as a writer, curator, editor, researcher and occasionally performer in Amsterdam and her birthplace Crete.

is a Catalan-American writer and curator currently based in Terrassa, Catalonia. She writes on curatorial and institutional ethics and organises exhibitions internationally.

Geb. 1994 in Biberach an der Riß. Studierte Kulturwissenschaft und Area Studies in Berlin und Yogyakarta. Nach einer Zwischenstation beim Goethe-Institut Bangkok nun wieder zurück in Berlin (wer orientierungslos ist, kommt viel mehr rum).

works in transdisciplinary artistic practice with a focus on research and mediation.

Anna Muchin (b.1985, GR/FR) is a music, poetry and photography artist.

is Research Associate Professor at the University of Cyprus and Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant Soundscapes of Trauma: Music, Sound, and the Ethics of Witnessing (MUTE).

geboren im Ruhrgebiet. Ihr Studium führt sie von der Philosophie zur Fotografie, von Düsseldorf über Potsdam nach London zum LCP und Central Saint Martins.

geboren 1981 in Wasserburg am Inn, DE, lebt und arbeitet in Wien, AT Ihre zentrale Frage ist, wie gesellschaftliche Konventionen die Subjektbildung beeinflussen. Wie werden wir zu dem, was wir sind? Was wollen wir, was können wir sein?

is an architect and researcher interested in power relations and decolonial spatial strategies. A PhD update in Neuroscience was uploaded to her mind through Youtube in 2031.

is an NGO founder, writer, and activist, living in Berlin since 2008. The text is an excerpt from the book “Borderland: A European Mosaic of Walls and Welcomes”.

is a historian, artistic director, performer, and curator from Salvador, Brazil.

arbeitet als Journalistin und Autorin. Sie wurde in Dresden geboren, studierte in Berlin und Paris Literatur- und Musikwissenschaften sowie Kulturjournalismus.

is a researcher and curator based in Berlin and Rio de Janeiro.

is a curator, researcher and writer born to southern Italy and currently based in Berlin, where she is Artistic co-Director of SAVVY Contemporary. She is also on the curatorial team of the quadrennial sonsbeek2020-2024.

is an artistic venture born from the residual creative vapors of INDEX:Records. Its curation: music that hangs weightless between experimental electronica, future-breaks and ambient-lucidity.

is a museologist and art historian, currently based in Berlin.

Arash Shahali is one of the hottest and most efficient press agents in the so-called art world, currently based in Copenhagen. He enjoys a variety of activities ranging from gold to miniature golf.

is an artist, writer, and dramaturge from Tehran whose works integrate literature, performing arts, and film. He started his career in Tehran’s independent theatre scene in the 2010s, working as a playwright and director in mainly student projects.

ist Autorin, Kuratorin, Filmemacherin und Theoretikerin in Fotografie und visueller Kultur.

is the author of Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World (University of Chicago Press, 2022).

is an independent curator and contributor for various specialized magazines including Flash Art, L'Essenziale Studio and Artribune. Braho is co-founder of the curatorial platform Sa.turn of the Provinciale11 collective.

An ongoing collection of work and thoughts from artists around the world during the time of COVID-19. Edited by Hallie Frost

is Professor of Environmental Humanities at the Graduate Center/City University of New York and the College of Staten Island.

is the author of eight books, novels, novellas, poetic prose and essays and has worked as a columnist for various national and international papers. Her works have been adapted for theatre, ballet, radio and film.

is dancefloor mystique, cosmic healer and socialist agitator. She is currently based in Berlin.

holds a Masters in Journalism. She cofounded and curated Armenia’s first Design Pavillion.

lives, works, and writes in London and Athens. Her practice focuses on formal stylistic experiments in short prose and interrogates themes of belonging and alienation, exploring ways in which people connect, repel, and reconnect.

is a writer, director and language service provider. She studied philosophy, history of science and photography. She lives in Berlin and/or in Hamburg.

in solidarity with the art workers initiative against the Kunsthalle Berlin.

is a writer, independent curator and educator based in Milan, where she teaches at Brera art academy.

is a queer interdisciplinary anti-work art collective. We hate working, hustling, neoliberal self-improvement, wage labour and surplus value, private property, how work eats into our time, our love, and our ability to make things in earnest.

BEN LIVNE WEITZMAN is a curator and writer invested in augmented interventions, sonic compositions, blurred poetic clearings and bonfire communal gatherings. Born in Jerusalem and currently living in Frankfurt am Main.

Ben Miller is a writer and historian. He is a doctoral fellow in Global Intellectual History at the Freie Universität Berlin and a member of the board of Berlin’s queer museum.

Benjamin T. Busch (*1987, Kansas City) is an American visual artist and architect living in Berlin. Spanning art, architecture, curating, and writing, his work deals with the aesthetics/politics of space.

stands for a cultural programme where the new becomes visible.

is a visual artist and writer born in Iskenderun, Turkey, living and working in Berlin. She studied MA Spatial Strategies at Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin, Germany.

(1994) lives in between Prishtina and Prizren. She has studied Psychology at the University of Prishtina. Previously, she worked as a researcher in the artistic project Shkreptima, and lead the Communication Department at DokuFest for two years.

Bojana Piškur is a writer and curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana.

is a curator and writer. She works as curator and deputy director for IKOB, a museum of contemporary art in Eupen, Belgium, and is a co-founder of celador, an independent space in Brussels.