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, City of Women festival in Ljubljana, CPH:DOX Copenhagen, 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.

Roey Victoria Heifetz lives and works in Berlin. Heifetz creates large-scale, textured drawings of people who identify as transgender, often layering portraits of acquaintances with fictional subjects, and exaggerating human features such as skin and muscles. She poses intimate questions in her practice about the body, gender, desire, insecurities, and regrets. Heifetz deals with the mental and physical transitions she is experienced, transitioning from a man’s body to a woman’s body.

Heifetz has already exhibited in numerous international groups and solo exhibitions around the world such as The Leslie Lohman Museum, New York, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and Venice Biennale in 2019. in 2018 Heifetz was awarded the Ann and Ari Rosenblatt Award for visual artists and was nominated among the finalist for Marianne Werefkin Award for women artist in Germany.

Heifetz studied at the Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design in Jerusalem (BFA, MFA) and at the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, USA.

Perel is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is centered on disability and queerness as they relate to care, consent, sexuality, and personal and historic trauma. Utilizing choreography to examine power exchange between the artist and audience, “Perel is a master at timing, of tension, relief, and intimacy while creating a space of learning and unlearning.” (Victoria DeJaco, Spike Magazine).

Their work includes performance, installation, criticism and curatorial projects. They often use collaboration as a platform for the exchange of disciplines, working methods and discourses with other choreographers, composers and visual artists. Perel asks, “How do we move across space and time with respect to our collected histories?” Their work has been shown for more than a decade at numerous galleries, theaters and performance spaces in the U.S. and abroad. Perel tours and teaches internationally, as a university lecturer and mentor to emerging disabled artists at organizations in New York and Berlin.

Alex Stolze is an EastBerlin-born violinist and producer, with a well-deserved reputation, both as composer and collaborator. Shifting seamlessly between stark modern classical works and fiercely intelligent electronica he manages to craft his own consistent sound throughout. Middle-Eastern scales, plaid on his 5-string violin, create a beguiling tonal landscape. Complex polyrhythms and unusual time signatures are turned into addictive, danceable beats, while he is recording his violin live on stage to create a multilayered string sound on his looper. He has toured widely across Europe. Past concerts include e.g. Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), Cirque Electrique (Paris), Union Chapel (London), Volksbühne (Berlin) His emergence as a solo artist, collaborator and as initiator of music label collective Nonostar have opened up a range of new cooperations. The Nonostar label , on which artists like Anne Müller, Ben Osborn, Qrauer and Field Kit have released so far, is based at his remote creative workspace on the German-Polish border. The self renovated ruins recently developed into an international artist village that connects music, art, poetry, dance and circus.

Ryan (Yebu-Tonu) is a 3D and new media artist from Toronto, Canada. Originally starting his career-path in brain research, Ryan graduated from the University of Guelph with a major in psychology and minor in neuroscience. In 2017 he withdrew from graduate school in neuroscience, as his academic interests turned more towards a growing desire to experiment with subjectivity through art. He has exhibited globally across digital art-focused exhibitions including Blue \x80 (2018), Fu:bar (2019), Signal Flo (2019), and A Strange World (2022). His works are inspired by his interest in psychoanalysis and trauma, both as a tool in aesthetic expression, and as a history married to modern art. He currently resides in Berlin, Germany, where he facilitates an online Freud reading group, and is working on a visual mini-series inspired by Remedios Varo.

Gal Ovadia Naor Magenn is a Berlin-based Sign-Language interpreter, performer, choreographer, theater maker, mind-body researcher, and founder of The progressive wave GbR. Gal was born in Israel in 1986. He graduated from the theater department of Thelma-Yellin High School of Arts in 2004. In 2010, Gal graduated from a four-year performance studies program at the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem. In 2011, he received his diploma in Israeli-Sign-Language-Interpretation at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel. Later that year, Gal moved to Berlin. in 2014, he founded The progressive wave GbR with choreographer Matan Zamir. Their multidisciplinary and inclusive approach interfaces dance and visual art with sociopolitical content and consciousness studies. Since 2004, Gal has been studying Jewish secret mysticism, a.k.a Kabbalah (also means “Acceptance” in Hebrew) in a unifying prism, decoding the ancient wisdom into an up-to-date comprehensive practice to (re)claim religious ideas to the queer and secular communities.

Ella is a multilingual visual artist who was born in Moscow, immigrated to Israel in 1991 and since 2016 lives and works in Berlin. Her own hybrid identity drives her to inspect cultural self-definition in individuals and in communities. In her work she explores and contemplates manifestations of migration and integration processes through visualisation of language. She studied in Bezalel Academy of Arts Jerusalem and in the School of Visual Arts NY City. In 2022 she represented the Yiddish culture in the frame of the Yiddishland Pavilion in the Venice art biennale. Ella believes that connecting a particular text to a place is a form of art. She creates interventions in public space and site-specific murals in public locations such as Klingspor Museum Offenbach am Main, the Jerusalem Biennale, Antique Toy Museum Mexico City, ZK/U Berlin and Kindl Brauerei Berlin. Paper installations were shown in Jaffa Museum, Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Culture Be'er Sheva, Root Division gallery San Francisco, Literaturhaus Berlin, Mazeh 9 Gallery Tel Aviv and more. Work is included in the collection of Klingspor Museum Offenbach am Main. Reviews and interviews have been published in numerous media channels, including the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Germany, Der Tagesspiegel, the Jüdische Allgemeine, In Geveb, Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Issues - Indiana University Press, Asymptote Journal and others.

Wal Solon is an interdisciplinary artist working across filmmaking, visual arts, literature and music. Wal earned a BA in Social Sciences at the University of São Paulo, with study abroad semesters in Paris and Cologne. In 2014, he enrolled at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, on a DAAD scholarship, spending a semester at Art Center in Pasadena, California. In 2021, he went back to Brazil to record his first album, Foundation, singing songs about family taboos around HIV, survival, trauma and suicide. The project developed from a residency at Pivô, Sao Paulo, supported by Goethe-Institut and Kunststiftung NRW. Wal's films and installations have been shown at Goethe Institut Beijing, Art Sonje Center Seoul, the Thessaloniki Biennale, Oberhausen Short Film Festival and Kassel DokFest. His current project is a satirical short-film exposing the rituals of corruption and reparation between a former Nazi armament manufacturer and its new clients, Israel among them.

Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus is an Israeli-born author, poet and translator. Hebrew is his native language, yet he has lived in Berlin for over a decade and writes mainly in German. He holds a BA and MA degrees from the Free University of Berlin, both in Comparative Literature and Philosophy, his MA-thesis presented a research into the singularities of the letter O and will soon be published in the coming summer as a book of essays. His recent translations from German to Hebrew include Walter Benjamin and Mascha Kaleko. in recent years he has published poetry in literary journals. Dotan-Dreyfus received a working stipend of the Berliner Senate for German-language writers in 2020 for his first novel Birobidzhan, a post-apocalyptic story set in a yiddish speaking town in Siberia, the novel will be published by Voland & Quist Verlag in 2023. He received a 2022 stipend of the German writers association (VG Wort) for his second novel. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Tomer is leading a seminar online, which researches the language used in apocalyptic literature.

Julia is a writer originally from Ojai, California. Her work has appeared in publications such as BOMB, VICE, Guernica, and the Believer, among others. She received a BA and MFA from Columbia University in creative writing and has taught at the Cooper Union, Columbia University, and Baruch College. The recipient of a Fulbright Grant, she has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center, Monson Arts, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and the Catwalk Institute. She currently resides in Berlin, Germany, where she is at work on a novel about the life and journalism of Joseph Roth.

Noa is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist. Heyne works in sculpture, performance, and animation; she creates installations that emphasize the physical involvement of the viewers and are influenced by marionette theater and architecture. Heyne studied painting and comparative literature in Jerusalem, and received her MFA in sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2017), where she also held a position as an adjunct professor in 2018. She is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, among them the ZK/U residency, Berlin (2019); Culture Zone residency, Wroclaw, Poland (2020); Sculpture Space, Utica, NY (2021).

Rachel was born in Prague and grew up in Munich, where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1993 she has been living in Berlin as a freelance sculptor and has been supported by the Künstlerförderung Berlin and the Stiftung Zurückgeben. In 2009 she constructed a memorial for murdered children of forced labourers in Otterndorf, Lower Saxony and in 2016 a 12 meter high installation in the Jewish community hall in Nuremberg. A lot of her Judaica has been given to german politicians as gifts from Jewish organisations. Rachel has been on the board of the Frauenmuseum Berlin since 2007 and member of BBK Berlin, Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867 and sculpture network. In 2020 she co-founded the activist group fair share for women artists.

Tomer is a Berlin-based Israeli choreographer, director, performer and teacher. After graduating from School of Dance Arts at the Kibbutzim College, Tel-Aviv, he moved to Germany in 2013, where he founded the Tomer Zirkilevich Company. He is actively involved in the German independent dance scene, creating and producing most of his works between Berlin and Munich. His works have been shown in various festivals and venues around Europe including: My David & SODOM; Infidelity: A love story; Like Father Likes Son (part 2); Auf Wiedersehn and more. His video dance Sachliche Romanze won several prizes in festivals around the world. Tomer works in the fields of physical theater, screen-stage performance and video dance. His pieces deal with conflicts of values and social norms.

Gur is an Israeli Jazz guitar player and composer based in Berlin. Gur majored in Jazz at the prestigious Thelma Yellin High School, before taking up the classical guitar for his studies in Jerusalem. In 2013 after studying with Jazz guitar legend Peter Bernstein in New York, Gur moved to Berlin and soon became involved in its rapidly evolving Jazz scene. He performs and records regularly with some of the scene’s most promising musicians, as well as in his hometown of Tel-Aviv and around Europe. He also studied Literary studies at the JFK institute at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Anna was born in Moscow and immigrated to Israel in 1992, living and working in Berlin since 2018. She merges different disciplines and mediums in her practice combining; painting, drawing, textile, new media, installations, and performance, with participatory and community-based projects. Her work explores collective sub consciousness and individual self-identity, as they appear in cultural structures and everyday situations. Her solo exhibitions include: ‘Right of Passage’ in Haifa Museum of Art, IL, 2012. ‘Wasteland’ representing the Israeli embassy in Art Beijing art Fair, CHN, 2013. ‘Layer No 2’ Beeri Gallery, accompanied by an exhibition catalogue, IL, 2017. And ‘Layer No 5’ at ‘Ha Hader’ project space, TLV, IL, 2019.

Rachel is a multidisciplinary artist whose research-based practice examines the construction of history and the enduring power of images. Working across collage, installation, video and performance, Libeskind appropriates and recontextualizes images in order to disrupt imposed boundaries – between the personal and public, ancient and contemporary, societal and cultural – and reveal unexpected parallels. Libeskind has presented solo exhibitions, installations and performances at Center for Jewish History, New York; Watermill Center, Long Island; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn; Bombay Beach Biennale; Mana Contemporary, Miami. She holds a B.A. with honors from Harvard University.

Zero is a gender-bending, accordion-playing storyteller from São Paulo, Brazil. As an actor and writer, Zero aims to provoke audiences through performances that subvert the norm. They graduated from California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in acting and creative writing. Currently in development are "Brutes", a dystopic queer Spaghetti Western TV series, among other projects for stage and screen. You can also catch them performing regularly in Drag King stages throughout Berlin as Mojo, the Sword Swallower of Switzerland. Zero’s “27 Club – a quarter-life crisis rock ‘n’ roll funeral” was performed twice to a full house in early December at Framed in Friedrichshain.