is a Dutch-born, Berlin-based artist working with moving image. She explores current social issues, addressing them with her keen sense of aesthetic to create thought-provoking work. Using moving image, she engages with social and political topics to reframe these matters in new ways and seeks to examine structures of representation through a transnational perspective while staying in constant dialog with the context from which the work is derived.
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Mika Maruyama
is a writer, curator, and researcher with an extensive interdisciplinary practice. Her work spans a broad range of collaborative artistic practices, such as curating and zine-making, aimed at exploring subversive forms, transcultural representation, and aesthetics that challenge dominant historical narratives and normativity. She co-founded the queer feminist art zine “MultipleSpirits” with Mai Endo in 2018 and has been a board member of VBKÖ since 2020. She holds a master’s degree from Yokohama National University and is in a doctoral program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Maxime Jean-Baptiste
is a filmmaker based between Brussels and Paris. He was born and raised in the context of the Guyanese and Antillean diaspora in France to a French mother and a Guyanese father. His interest as an artist is to dig inside the complexity of Western colonial history by detecting the survival of traumas from the past in the present. His audiovisual and performance work is focused on archives and forms of reenactment as a perspective to conceive a vivid and embodied memory.
Manuel Embalse
is an artist, amateur archeologist, and film worker. He is a member of the collective Antes Muerto Cine. He has a degree in Audiovisual Arts from the UNA (Universidad Nacional del Arte). Since 2014, he has coordinated a tutorial workshop for documentary and experimental projects. He participated in 2019 in Berlinale Talents BA and in 2022 in Berlinale Talents Berlin as Editor. He builds and destroys sounds and images in every possible way. Self-manager since always, he writes, assists, produces, edits, and is also a musician and sound designer.
Ivana Šerić
is a Croatia-based visual artist with a background in animation and film. She is currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where she pursues a BA in Animation and New Media. In her practice, she explores combining digital media with analogue practices, e.g. digital animation and embroidery. While her focus has long been animated music videos, she is increasingly interested in artistic research pertaining to public and private archives.
David Wilhelm
has been studying New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Zagreb since 2020. He has exhibited at group exhibitions in Zadar and Zagreb, and participated in 2022 in the “Garden of Eden” residency in Bale and “What’s Masc?” residency in Berlin. In his artistic practice, he explores the relationship between the digital and the physical, between queer identity, spaces, and experiments in sound, text, and video.