Annika Kahrs lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin. She has been awarded a number of prizes and scholarships including Villa Aurora, L.A., USA; VILA SUL, Brazil; Max-Pechstein-Förderpreis; Stiftung Kunstfonds; and the George-Maciunas-Förderpreis donated by René Block. Kahrs has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at the 16^th Lyon Biennale, at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin; 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art; Kunsthalle Bremerhaven; Savvy Contemporary, Berlin; On the Road exhibition project in Santiago de Compostela; the Bienal Internacional de Curitiba, Brazil; Hamburger Kunsthalle; Hybrid Art Festival in Moscow; KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin; Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Goldsmiths University of London; Flat Time House, London, and the Velada de Santa Lucia festival in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Christina Landbrecht is the director of the art program at the Schering Stiftung. Born in Munich, she moved to Berlin to study art history and business administration at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She subsequently worked as curatorial assistant at the Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art, where she later took the position of assistant to the director, Dr. Thomas Köhler. When the excellence cluster “Bild Wissen Gestaltung” (Image Knowledge Gestaltung) was established at Humboldt-Universität, she returned there as a research associate and to write her dissertation. Entitled “The Problem and Potential of Artistic Research,” the PhD-thesis deals with the relationship between the natural sciences and the visual arts since the 1990s. She puts this knowledge to good use for the Foundation, bringing together the expertise of both artists and scientists in productive ways and inspiring interdisciplinary dialogues and projects.

*1978, New Delhi, India, working with video, painting, printmaking, drawing, installation, and other mediums, Devasher maps the complexities of ecology, cosmology, and technology. The theoretical grounding of her work draws from the history of science, philosophy, speculative fiction, and eco-horror.

Her work has been shown recently at the Minnesota Street Project Foundation, San Francisco, CA; Kunsthalle Bern; Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht; Tai Kwun, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi; Rubin Museum of Art, New York; the Sea Art Festival, Busan; the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; Kunst Leuven City Festival; Sharjah Biennial 14; Kaserne Basel; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum; Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon; and ZKM Karlsruhe, among others.

Devasher was recently a 2023 dual resident in Arts at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, and at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) in Bengaluru.

Rohini Devasher holds a BFA in painting from New Delhi’s College of Art and an MFA in printmaking from the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton in the UK. She is co-represented by Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco, CA, and Project 88 in Mumbai.

Omar W. Nasim holds the Professorship for the History of Science at the University of Regensburg. He has taught and worked at major academic institutions in Oxford, Canterbury, Florence, Zurich, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Cleveland. Nasim is the author of the award winning book Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century (2013). His internationally acclaimed research focuses on the intersections and the processes shared between science and drawing practices, science and photography, as well as science and design, as evinced by his most recent book The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History (2021).