PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Allison Kaufman

Allison Kaufman is a NYC-based artist working in video, photography, and installation. She received her BFA in Film and Television Production from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and her MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. Her solo exhibition, Smooth Confident Perfection, was recently on view at the Shirley Project Space in Brooklyn, NY. Solo exhibitions of her work have also been held at Trestle Projects in Brooklyn, HERE Arts Center in New York City, Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT, and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Her work has also been exhibited at Julie Saul Gallery, Hendershot Gallery, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Moore College of Art, and the Wassaic Project, among other locations. Kaufman is the recipient of the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award and an Alumni Scholarship Award from the School of Visual Arts and has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, CATWALK Institute, Trestle Gallery, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and Penland School of Crafts. Her work has been reviewed in the Huffington Post, the L Magazine, Musee Magazine, the Pittsburgh-Tribune Review, and Bomb Magazine’s BOMBlog. Kaufman teaches in the Undergraduate Film and Television Department at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.

Andrei Nacu

Andrei Nacu (b. 1984) lives and works in London, U.K., and Iasi, Romania. In 2013, he graduated with an MA in Documentary Photography from the University of Wales, Newport, and previously studied Photography and Video at the George Enescu National University of Arts, Iasi, Romania. In 2015, he was nominated for the Magnum Graduate Photographers Award and shortlisted for the Bar Tur Photobook Prize. In 2013, he was selected for the FreshFaced+WildEyed exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery, London. His work has been exhibited in venues such as the Kyiv Biennial 2023, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, AT; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO (2023, 2020); Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest, RO (2020); Timisoara Art Encounters Biennale, RO (2017, 2025); Tranzit.ro/Iasi, RO (2020); Le MiLL, La Louvière, BE (2019); Getty Images Gallery, London, U.K. (2015); Four Corners Gallery, London, U.K. (2014); The Photographers’ Gallery, London, U.K. (2013); Ffotogallery, Cardiff, U.K. (2013).

Andrew Demirjian

Andrew Demirjian builds linguistic, sonic, and visual environments that disrupt habituated ways of reading, hearing, and seeing. His interdisciplinary artistic practice examines the structures that shape consciousness and perception, questioning the frameworks that sustain the status quo and limit thought. The works are often presented in non-traditional spaces and take the form of mixed-media installations, generative artworks, video poems, augmented reality apps, and live performances.

Andrew’s work has been exhibited at The Museum of the Moving Image, The New Museum – First Look: New Art Online, The Arab American National Museum, The Newark Museum, Fridman Gallery, Transformer Gallery, Eyebeam, The Ford Foundation Gallery, White Box, the Center for Book Arts, Locust Projects, and many other galleries, festivals, and museums. The Smithsonian, MacDowell, Nokia Bell Labs, MIT Open Documentary Lab, Puffin Foundation, Artslink, Harvestworks, Rhizome, Diapason, The Experimental Television Center, The Bemis Center, LMCC Swing Space, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts are among some of the organizations that have supported his work. Andrew teaches theory and production courses in emerging media in the Film and Media Department and the Integrated Media Arts MFA program at Hunter College.

Beatriz Bellorín

Beatriz Bellorín is a Venezuelan-American photo-video artist and documentary filmmaker whose work explores identity, memory, displacement, diaspora, and womanhood. Combining anthropological research with autobiography, she uses archival documents and memorabilia to investigate the entanglements of memory and nostalgia, focusing on their emotional impact. Her latest works—spanning photography, video, installation, and cyanotypes—explore the enduring bond between mother and daughter. Driven by a desire to preserve the ephemeral, Beatriz collects, catalogs, and classifies personal and collective memories, ecofacts, family archives, and inherited objects as anchors of past experiences. She recreates a grounding space to reflect on her shifting identity by bringing together fragments of these objects and archives. Bellorín holds an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in Sociology from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas. She studied photography at the Nelson Garrido Organization (Caracas) and participated in the artistic training program Ecosistema de Afectos (Buenos Aires). Her work has been exhibited in Inted States, Venezuela, England, and Argentina. Bellorín's work has been featured in Visions of Motherhood, La fotografía impresa en Venezuela, Sur Revista de foto libros latinoamericanos, and Clap10x10: Contemporary Latin American Photobooks.

Camille Soulat

Camille Soulat grew up in Montluçon. Self-taught, she uses media such as digital painting, writing, and video installation. Her practice revolves around an intimate form of narration. She concentrates on subjects and scenes with supernatural undertones. Through the diffuse shapes and silhouettes of her digital paintings, Camille expresses a fascination with the transformation of ordinary moments into events. Interested in notions such as marginality, geek culture, and adolescence, she directs her practice around an interpretation and a celebration of the codes associated with both pop culture and counterculture.

Eleni Kamma

Eleni Kamma (Athens, 1973) is a visual artist, researcher, and educator. She holds a PhD from the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts at Leiden University (2016-2021). In 2008/2009, she was a Fine Art Researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht.

 Kamma’s practice circulates from her as an individual artist (through drawings and objects), to dialogic collaborations (films, performative events, journals) and back again, by writing about it and further developing this practice with others. Recent Solo exhibitions venues include n0dine, Brussels (2024); Bærum Kunsthall, Fornebu (2024); Kunsthal Gent (2023); Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image Imprimée, La Louvière (2022); Odapark, Venray, (2022); West Den Haag (2021); SPACE, Liege (2021); ArBA-EsA, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (2018); Netwerk, Aalst (2015), Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2013); NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (2012); Alex Mylona Athens (2012); Wiels, Brussels (2011). Her work has been presented at various exhibition venues, film and performance festivals worldwide, including, among others, Kunsthal Gent; 10th International Istanbul Biennial; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht; IASPIS, Stockholm; SALT, Istanbul; Cittadellarte –Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella; Kristianstads konsthall, Kristianstad; Transmediale, Berlin; Museum-M, Leuven. Kamma is a team member at the Academy of Arts Maastricht. She was a mentor for the Visual Arts SNF Artist Fellowship Program 2022, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens, and a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK) and LUCA School of Arts, Brussels. Kamma lives and works in Brussels and Maastricht.

Holly Harrell

The artist is a Los Angeles–based video and performance artist originally from upstate New York. The artist completed an MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 2020 and holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2015, the artist received a grant from the Roger Brown Study Collection to re-enact tours of the White House as Jackie O at different vernacular art environments throughout the Midwest, as well as junkyards and grocery stores. The artist has performed at Dfbrl8r and Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago and has participated in screenings throughout New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, the artist has performed and exhibited at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Cirrus Gallery, Human Resources, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Sebastian Gladstone Gallery, and various project spaces. The artist received the REEF residency and grant with a collaborator in 2020, during which they used the awarded funds to develop a research journal on how the presentation of fiction as fact in traditional media shapes the production of social realities. Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) acquired the journal and facilitated a joint release event and panel discussion. In the summer of 2023, the artist attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in rural Maine and followed it with a second performance series at Human Resources. Most recently, the artist wrote and directed The Darkest Valley, a performance project at Sebastian Gladstone Gallery. A large-scale cooling tower sculpture was built in the gallery space as a part of the performance.

Katharina Gruzei

Katharina Gruzei is an independent artist working in photography, video, film, sound, and installation. In her artistic practice, she traces societal tendencies and addresses socio-cultural issues ranging from gender-related topics to questions arising in urban settings. Another focus is feminist topics and her work in public space, which she mostly implements site-specifically.

Her works were shown in international exhibitions, biennials, and festivals, and she was awarded with numerous prizes, residencies, and scholarships. She participated in the 2016 Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. In 2018, she had her first institutional solo show at the Lentos Museum for Contemporary Art Linz and presented her works in a group exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum. She had a solo show at the Cabinet of the Salzburger Kunstverein (2020), and in 2021, she published her long-term project Mir Metro with Hatje Cantz Berlin.

In 2022, she organized a project titled “Right Time, Right Place” about informal art in public space in New York City. She curated an exhibition at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City and held a panel discussion at the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC with participating artists and the associate curator at the High Line NY.

Mădălina Zaharia

Mădălina Zaharia is a Romanian visual artist and filmmaker based in London. She was a 2023 fellow in residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, and her films have been included in the official selection of the BFI London Film Festival (Experimenta Strand), Aesthetica Film Festival (York), Bucharest Experimental Film Festival, GRRL HAUS CINEMA (Boston), Tourne-Films Festival Lausanne, and many more. Her film, Public Figure – made in collaboration with poet and performer Ryan Ormonde – was awarded the prize for 'The best film in the national competition' at Bucharest International Dance Film Festival in 2021. Recent exhibitions include: aDigital Perspective, Galleria GOCAT/Piramida e Tiranës, curated by Spazio Taverna in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes of Belgrade, Bucharest and Tirana; The house, the paste, the weather (Part 1), BINZ39, Zürich 2024; Variables as Absence of Uniformity, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm 2024; I will not be sad in this world, filmlounge 2023, Sehsaal, Vienna; Inventory of the Week, Sala Omnia, The National Center for Dance Bucharest 2023; PULS 22, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest 2023; VIDEO+RADIO+LIVE, Casa Artelor (Collateral event of the Art Encounters Biennial 2021), Timisoara.

Matias Mariani  w/Guilherme Peters and Roberto Winter

Matias Mariani (b. 1980), Guilherme Peters (b. 1987), and Roberto Winter (b. 1983) are Brazilian artists and filmmakers whose practices intersect visual art, cinema, and critical inquiry. Their work explores the ideological, technological, and historical forces that shape contemporary society, employing a range of media including film, video, performance, and installation. Peters and Winter collaborated on projects that investigate the structures underlying digital culture, surveillance, and power. Winter, with a background in physics, applies a systems-based approach to ideological critique, while Peters engages with history and performance to examine political and social narratives. Their works, such as “Reverse Proxy” (2015), interrogate the role of technology in shaping perception and control. Mariani, a filmmaker and producer, brings a cinematic dimension to these explorations. His films, including “Shine Your Eyes” (2020), which Winter collaborated on, often navigate themes of identity, migration, and the intersection of personal and systemic narratives. Together, the three artists work at the intersection of film and contemporary art, using cinematic and digital tools to deconstruct historical and technological paradigms. Their collaborative projects push the boundaries between narrative and theory, making visible the hidden structures that govern both individual experience and collective consciousness.

Rodrigo Azaola

Rodrigo Azaola’s work is ongoing research into financial structures and their real-world repercussions for biological timelines and entities. Among the artist’s recent projects are Impunity Landscapes, Casa del Lago, Mexico City (2025); Liquidity in Kaugummi im Motherboard, Gr_und x Erratum, Berlin (2024); Debt Architecture, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin; Microtransactions (MoneyLab #13), NeMe Arts Center, Limassol; Tremor (Systèmes de circulation), La Chaufferie, Montréal (2023); HCRH 1947-2017, Museo del Eco (2022); Impunity Landscapes, École Supérieure d'Art et de Design d'Orléans (2020); Armida, C3 Contemporary, Melbourne (2019), among others.

Stanislava Pinchuk

Stanislava Pinchuk is an artist working with data-mapping the changing topographies of war & conflict zones. Her work is produced in full independence, and surveys how landscape holds memory and testament to political events – spanning drawing, architecture, installation, tattooing, film & sculpture. Her work has been collected & exhibited by Manifesta Biennial, the HE Museum, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Kosovo, Dallas Contemporary Museum of Art, ACMI, the National Gallery of Victoria & Art Basel Hong Kong (Encounters Commission), and includes career surveys at Heide MoMA & FAC.

Sutanu Panigrahi

Painter/Illustrator/Textile printmaker.  Sutanu's mythical worlds are populated with animals, birds, insects, and flowers. The animals are part totem, part pet. The flora and fauna are characters in the dramas of carefully etched lives of his enigmatic figures who are nevertheless immediately recognisable and quotidian. You know them, you know their stories, but they become mysterious. You become mysterious to yourself. This is the de-familiarising quality of Sutanu's art. The paintings catch them, catch you in a moment, but they stay with you a long time. There is movement, duration, something moves, something changes in both the canvas and in you, almost imperceptibly, gently, as if the hands of the figures are being held, as if Sutanu is holding your hand. Most of the figures in Sutanu's paintings appear solitary, unmoving, stuck in their own stories. But they move, you move too. The question you ask of them and of yourself is: What are you in the process of becoming?

Yue Nakayama

Yue Nakayama works with video, text, and installation. Her practice is centered on reinterpreting minor histories, memories, and personal anecdotes to stage an absurd intervention that disrupts our social expectations and perceptions. Using narrative as a foundation, her projects encompass diverse topics, with recurring themes including belief systems, power dynamics, and issues surrounding cultural, gender, and societal identities.

Her work has been exhibited and screened at museums and film festivals, including AVIFF le festival du film d’artiste, Onion City Film Festival, IL, White Columns, NY, Diverse Works, TX, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, LA, Visual Art Center UT Austin, TX, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX, and ICA Philadelphia, PA. She is the recipient of the Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship from the Houston Center of Photography, the Programmer’s Award from the Athens International Film Festival, Prix Coup Coeur from AVIFF le festival du film d’artiste, the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund from the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. The fellowships and residencies she has attended include Skowhegan, the Core Program, Vermont Studio Center, OX-Bow, and Lighthouse Works. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Peripheral Visions, and Glasstire.

Elena Knox

Elena Knox lives and works in Tokyo. Her projects present ultra-contemporary scenarios in which humans live in deep enmeshment with synthetic things. Some recent works use frontier Japanese robots to audition roles of identity and belief in techno-science futures. Others explore new visions of gender and cyber-organics in dreamlike, stripped-back situations.

Knox won the 2022 International Open Call for curatorship at Apex Art New York. Recent exhibitions include: Seoul International New Media Festival (2024); Ars Electronica (2023); Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition (2023); Spectra, Australian Network for Art & Technology (2023); Foundation, Videotage (2023); Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (2022); ICC Annual, Tokyo Opera City (2022); Open Site, Tokyo Arts & Space (2021–22); Bangkok Art Biennale (2020); Yokohama Triennale (2020); Future and the Arts, Mori Art Museum (2019–20), AS-HELIX, National Museum of China (2019); and Beijing Media Art Biennale (2018–19). Artist residencies include Echigo-Tsumari Art Field (Japan, 2019); Galleri Svalbard (Norway, 2019); Koganecho Bazaar (Japan, 2019); and K11 Art Foundation (China, 2016).

Knox is a researcher at Waseda University, Japan, and holds a PhD in Media Art from UNSW Australia Art & Design. She performs solo and collaboratively as a musician, spanning sound improvisation, electronic pop, and noise.

Olena Newkryta

Olena Newkryta is a visual artist based in Vienna. Rooted in moving images and multimedia installations, her research-based practice investigates the material, historical, socio-political, and emotional dimensions of the techno-social environment we inhabit, specifically addressing the incorporation of human labour into technological infrastructures. Inspired by techno-feminist perspectives and the emancipatory potential of communal practice, Olena seeks to unravel hegemonic narratives and open realms of seeing otherwise.

Olena studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and was an artist-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions and screenings, including WRO Media Art Biennale Wrocław, EYE Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Kunsthalle Wien Vienna, Duisburger Filmwoche, Singapore International Film Festival, Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Filmmuseum Wien Vienna, Kunsthaus Graz, Kunstraum Lakeside Klagenfurt, Central Museum of Textiles Łódź, and A Tale of A Tub Rotterdam. Most recently, Olena's work has been awarded the joined production residency “Afterlife” by Sonic Acts, Amsterdam and Rupert, Vilnius (2026), the Pixel, Bytes + Film scholarship (2025), the Outstanding Artist Award for Media Arts (2024), the Price of the City Duisburg for the Best Short and Middle Length Documentary Film (2023).