Marina Naprushkina is an interdisciplinary Belarussian artist whose work frequently deals with self-organization, care networks, and feminist narratives. Her hallmark is her commitment to social justice and her engagement with power structures, both in Belarus and around the world. Using painting, video, and text, Naprushkina creates interactive spaces that concentrate on the dialogue between different communities and cultural contexts. As co-founder of the “Neue Nachbarschaft / Moabit” initiative, she demonstrates her deep connection to social and ecological issues. Moreover, she is keenly interested in the interfaces of art, ecology, and gender. Marina Naprushkina studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt with, among others, Martha Rosler and has shown her work at renowned institutions and exhibitions such as the Berliner Herbstsalon at the Gorki (2015), the Kyiv Biennial (2017), and Kunsthalle Wien (2020). She lives and works in Berlin.

Sophie Seita is an artist and researcher. She studies materiality, gestures, and the speculative potential of archives. She exhibits her cross-media work internationally, publishes artist’s books, creates textile works and graphic notations, and directs experimental workshops on topics such as voice, touch, translation, and queer performance. She teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. Together with Naomi Woo, she runs The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions, a feminist and queer gardening society inspired by the German abbess Hildegard von Bingen (ca. 1098-1179). The collaboration takes the forms of a joint speculative art and research project focused on the decolonisation and queering of gardening history. So far, the society has presented its work in the form of a solo exhibition at Mimosa House, a zine called The Minutes, and various performances, rituals, and workshops at Nottingham Contemporary, Grand Union, the Cockpit Theatre, the Centre for Art and Ecology (Goldsmiths), and Ruta del Castor (Mexico City).

Philine Griem is a cultural studies scholar and artistic director of the Künstlerhäuser Worpswede. In her research, teaching, and practice, she works at the intersections of art, politics, and society. She studied cultural studies as well as philosophy, literature, and aesthetics at the European University Viadrina and is currently pursuing a PhD on the role of arts funding as a form of intervention – at the Institute for Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim under Prof. Dr. Julius Heinicke and at ETH Zurich under Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung. Alongside her academic work, she has been involved in various cultural projects, including as a co-founder of the Berlin-based cultural venue MenschMeier.