Daniel Sadrowski initially studied social sciences with the aim of becoming a journalist. His passion for photography led him to study photo design in Dortmund, where he earned his diploma in 2003. 

The collective of Annabel Schouten, Jurriaan de Vos and Gemma Luz Bosch uses music, physical theatre, installation art and community art to offer physical experiences.

Safiya Yon ist Textilkünstlerin, systemische Beraterin mit Fokus Mental Health für Communities des globalen Südens, sowie systemische Supervisorin in Qualifizierung.

Since 2007, C:mone aka Tuincy Bright, has been enriching the Cologne music scene with her versatile DJ sets. With her roots in early hip-hop culture, her vinyl selection ranges from jazz, funk, soul and disco through to rap, R&B, house, Afrobeat and experimental sounds.

Cosima von Bonin is one of the most influential artists of her generation. She participated in documenta 12 in 2007 and the Venice Biennale in 2022.

Anael Berkovitz is an interdisciplinary artist, living and working between Brooklyn and Tel-Aviv. Berkoviz’s work draws on photography, film, installation and narration as means of examining the creation and perception of identity.

Jeanna Kolesova is a Berlin-based artist, filmmaker, and researcher. Their practice traces how narratives emerge and circulate over time, examining their inscription into memories, infrastructures, and landscapes. Through speculative documentary, Kolesova reveals the cyclical relationship between narratives and histories of control, exploring how these cycles might be disrupted.

Julia Schäfer is a Paris-based artist whose video works and site-specific installations explore narratives of loss by blurring documentary and fiction. Emerging from investigations into her family’s butchery, her work reflects on meat production as a metaphor for the dialectics of pleasure and pain, violence and sustenance.

Monika Rinck lives in Berlin and Cologne. She has been publishing poems, essays, and translations with various publishers since 1998. Her most recent publication is the poetry collection HÖLLENFAHRT & ENTENSTAAT. 

Julienne De Muirier is a writer of fiction and plays. Her stage texts have been produced by institutions including the Residenztheater Munich, the Hessisches Landestheater Marburg, and the Nationaltheater Weimar.