Dr.  Alma Itzhaky is an artist and scholar based in Berlin and Tel-Aviv. Rooted in painting and drawing, her work addresses questions of place and locality, of urban environment and nature, and the relations between humans and nature. Alongside her work as an artist, Itzhaky is a researcher in both political and art philosophy. Her PhD dissertation discusses political action in contemporary art in light of Hannah Arendt’s philosophy of action. She is currently a Minerva Fellow at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, where she explores environmental imaginaries in Palestinian and Israeli art – the engagement between contemporary art and collective perceptions of  the local environment and its history.

Itzhaky exhibited numerous group and solo exhibitions, including the Tel Aviv museum, the Hertzelia museum, and Hezi Cohen Gallery. Her residency programs include the NARS foundation residency and the Drawing Center viewing program – both in NYC. She’s won notable prizes including the Rappaport Prize for a Young Artist (2014), and the Osnat Mozes Painting Prize (2012). Itzhaky taught at Shankar College and at the Tel Aviv university.

Hagar Ophir is an artist, costume designer, and performer. Trained as a historian, stage, designer and dancer, her works establish history as a space for action and imagination of possible presents beyond separations of time, nation-states and ideologies. She is currently working on her solo exhibition Bound in the Bundled of The Living (working title) at Soma Art, Berlin (April-May 2023). Her recent works include “Recalling History I,” a performative intervention in the production of knowledge (Fundació Tàpies, Barcelona), and “It Is Only Through Your Thoughts That I Can Remember Who I Am” (in collaboration with Hakim Bishara) (Kunsthall 3.14, Bergen). Hagar’s works as an independent artist and a member of Public Movement (2008-2019) were performed and shown worldwide, including at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main, Asian Art Biennial Taipei, Santarcangelo festival.

Working collaboratively in creating knowledge through art and education is part of her practice. In 2020, with five artists and teachers, they founded the Berlin-based collective: mitkollektiv, where she was a co-director of the art and education project Reimagine Jetzt! (funded by the PFCB 2020-2021)

Anisia Affek (1989, Ukraine) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. She holds a BA degree from Shenkar College for Art and Design in Tel-Aviv and a MA degree from Weißensee Academy of Art in Berlin. Affek’s practice concerns issues of cultural erasure and the survival of identity in oppressive environments.

Deeply influenced by her Ukrainian-Russian-Mongolian heritage, Affek works mainly on handmade, large-scale embroidery pieces that push the boundaries of the traditional craft. While using embroidery both as a form of expression and as an object of research, Affek evokes a spiritual space that reaches beyond the Western notions of belonging and the suffocating dichotomy of «us» versus «them.»

Anisia Affek’s artistic practice has won several awards and fellowships, including Stiftung Schöppingen in Germany, (2021), Ateljé Stundars residency in Finland (2021), Young Artist Award from America Israel Cultural Foundation, USA, (2016). Her work has been shown in independent venues and galleries around Ukraine, Israel, Germany, Finland, and Australia. In 2021, she formed a female art space—«A Room of Her Own» in Berlin.

David Krippendorff is a US/German interdisciplinary artist and experimental filmmaker. Currently based in Berlin, he grew up in Rome, Italy, and studied art at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin, where he graduated with a Masters degree in 1997. His works, films and videos have been shown internationally, including: the New Museum (New York), ICA (London), Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg), Museum on the Seam (Jerusalem). He has participated in five Biennials (Prague, Poznan, Tel Aviv, Belgrade and Asunción), as well as in many international art and film festivals worldwide. His works are included in many contemporary art collections, museums and institutions.

The son of a Holocaust survivor and the grandchild of practicing Nazis, cultural contradiction and dislocation shaped Krippendorff’s experience early on. His artistic practice inquires into this state of being a “permanent foreigner” and explores resulting questions of home, national and cultural identity, and belonging.

Jordan Lee Schnee / דזשאָרדן לי שניי is a writer, musician, and translator based in Berlin, where he is pursuing a doctorate in comparative literature at the Freie Universität. His PhD project examines the concordant poetics of Kabbalah and OuLiPo texts. Schnee’s music projects include Robert Hand, בלינדער שניי, and the Rixdorf Rounders. Schnee has translated many writers from Yiddishland, Europe, and South America and worked closely with the Eloísa Cartonera publishing project in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a part of the arts and literature collective Yiddish.Berlin. Recent publications of his own work include Unapprehension / Entfassung (Propeller, 2019/2021) and “טײַטשװערטער / denotations” (Aphaia, 2021).

Kari Rosenfeld  (b. Houston, TX) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Engaging with ontology, political and social affect, religious and mythological narratives, image, and genre, their work affirms the heartbreaks, fantasies, and complications of attachment.

They have degrees in American Studies and Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA in Art Praxis from Dutch Art Institute. They co-founded the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Science-Alexandria, were a resident of Spring Sessions (Amman, Jordan), and have had their work recently exhibited at Gasworks, London, Humberstreet Gallery, Hull, and Motto Books, Berlin.

Michaela Kobsa-Mark is a U.S.-German documentary filmmaker based in Berlin. Her work focuses on diaspora identity in Germany and takes a participative, humorous and intimate approach. She is interested in examining political issues through the complexity, contrasts and contradictions of peoples’ lived experiences. Her work is influenced by ethnographic practices, her run ‘n gun background, and her general search for things that are too difficult to be fully grasped. She has worked on a number of documentary and participatory projects in Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East. These projects have been shown in international film festivals, community screenings and in educational settings. She currently studies documentary directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.

Liad Hussein Kantorowicz is a performance artist, musician, perpetual migrant and master of the margins. Her Performances de-exotify and de-mystify the positions of so-called sexual and political deviants. In them, the body is used as a tool of education, resistance, a platform to display vulnerabilities and as means of transgressing the boundaries of the public spaces while calling for a revolution. Her current research topic is knowledge extraction from the experience of the professionally displaced.

Her work has been shown at the 10th Berlin Biennale, Impulstanz Festival in Vienna, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Sommerfestival in Kampnagel, Hamburg, City of Women festival in Ljubljana, CPH:DOX Copenhagen, Schwules Museum Berlin, Arcola Theatre and ICA, London, and in queer and punk bars and live on the street across Palestine, Europe and North America. She’s a graduate of the Solo/Dance/authorship MA program at HZT/UDK Berlin. Her work and world view is informed by years of organizing Palestinian-Israeli direct actions in the West Bank, Palestine, in building radical queer community in Palestine through political actions and cultural events, and decades of organizing for sex workers’ rights across three continents. ‘Nothing to Declare’, the debut album of Liad’s musical project Liadland is set for release this May.