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Aïcha Ouattara is a multidisciplinary Belgo-Malian artist born and based in Brussels. A self-taught visual artist and plastician, she is also a performer trained in contemporary dance at Danscentrum Jette and a somatic practitioner in Fasciatherapy & Dance. Her practice engages with the cultural legacies of animist West African societies. Through sculpture, painting, photography, collage, textile, and installation, she explores the relationship between humans and their natural environment. Situated at the intersection of art, ecology, spirituality, and somatic practices, her work unfolds through immersive, sensitive, and poetic forms.

Annelotte Lammertse is a Brussels-based visual artist and researcher. Through weaving, natural dyeing, film, photography, performance, and printmaking, she focuses on the multilayered relationships and connections that are made in our direct natural surroundings, taking flora and other non-human organisms as guides and storytellers. She responds to the ways we constantly try to control, categorise, and capture the ecologies around us. In these works, different forms of collaboration, knowledge production, and precarity are researched.

Amber Vanluffelen is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, digital image-making, sculpture, poetry, and installation. Their practice builds worlds where symbols, gestures, and objects move between physical and virtual realms. Drawing from nightlife, anime, sports, video games, and spiritual inquiry, they turn cultural and personal references into images, sculptures, and performances, often in open structures that invite activation and respond to specific conditions. Inspired by thinkers such as I.K. Taimni and Karen Barad, Vanluffelen explores how consciousness takes form through material, image, and movement. They have also performed in projects by other artists, including Ula Sickle and Hannah De Meyer.

Anima O. Cassamajor

Camille Dufour combines printmaking, painting, installation, and performance to question the dynamics of disappearance that mark our century.  She hand-prints proof after proof until the ink is exhausted, treating each multiple as an original. From threats to biodiversity and the depletion of resources to melting glaciers, armed conflicts, and migratory crises, her work emerges as an attempt at collective repair in response to the state of the world. She has received several distinctions, including the Prix de la gravure et de l’image imprimée (2017) and the Prix Jeunes Artistes (2024). Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, notably at the Fondation Boghossian, WIELS, and Bozar. She is represented by the Belgian Gallery.

Since 2016, Chloé Clément has been developing life experiences lasting from one to several weeks. These retreats are motivated by the need to escape human agitation in order to question our lifestyles and our relationship with everyday life. In this context, they slowly build with what they gather from their surroundings. The resulting forms are marked by the places where they are produced; they thus seek to explore the possibilities of creating a work without money, using the waste and scraps of our consumerist society.

Delphine Somers is a Brussels-based artist, working at the intersection of folklore, myths, rituals, magic, and dreamworlds, and the acutely contemporary, societal, and culturally specific. She explores the human unconscious alongside complex social reality, and the interplay between the two. Her work has been shown at ABBY museum (Kortrijk, BE), Museum M (Leuven, BE) and Huis van het Boek (The Hague, NL), among others.

Elli Vassalou is a Brussels-based transdisciplinary artist, architect, and researcher. Her work grows from lived experience, collective memory, and long-term collaborations with communities. Working across film, spatial design, movement, food, storytelling, ritual, and participatory ethnographic tools, she creates spaces for reflection, knowledge production, and imagination. Her recent work includes platforms such as The Post Collective, Metaspora, and Some Dances Last Longer Than Castles: Çiftetelli, and explores migration, displacement, and the embodied knowledge of the East Mediterranean peoples.

Ernst Maréchal is an audiovisual artist, performer, and singer-songwriter. With his work, he seeks to address, understand, and (re)imagine issues of (in)equality, diversity, and commonality. He is interested in the ethics of engaging with the voices he meets: how direction and meaning can be given and positions taken – together – around shared interests that he alone cannot embody. As an artistic (PhD) researcher at the RITCS School of Arts/VUB, he develops Social Recordings, a process-based practice that gathers (in musical assemblies) field recordings, sonic encounters, and improvisations created in diverse social, pedagogical, and artistic contexts, in collaboration with artists and non-artists of all ages.

Federico Protto is a Uruguayan artist based in Brussels. His work encompasses performance, textiles, music, and research. Through it, he explores transcultural and transgenerational experiences of migration. He is interested in understanding multidisciplinary formats as tools for rematriation. His projects have been shown at Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers (FR), DeSingel (BE), Centro Cultural de España de Montevideo (UY), and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg (DE), among others. He studied fashion design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and artistic research at a.pass in Brussels.

Jori Galama

Maliza Kiasuwa is a visual artist whose practice investigates the fragile interdependence between human societies and natural ecosystems. Using abstract forms inspired by organic structures and animal life, she reflects on how human activity transforms the living world. At the intersection of art and science, she imagines speculative futures that shift between poetic emergence and dystopian mutation. Through a combination of collage and sculptural processes, she employs materials that evoke both vulnerability and resilience, echoing biological systems, ecological cycles, and adaptive mechanisms found in nature. Her work has been shown internationally, including at AKAA (Also Known As Africa), the Congo Biennale, the Strasbourg Art Fair, and PRISM ART FAIR.

Marjolijn Dijkman lives and works in Brussels and Lahaymeix, France. She is a research-led, multidisciplinary artist working with film, photography, sculpture, and installation. Her practice explores the intersection of culture and other fields of inquiry, with a strong focus on the rapidly changing environment and its human and non-human interdependencies. In 2005, she co-founded the artist-run organization Enough Room for Space together with Maarten Vanden Eynde. She is currently a PhD researcher at LUCA/KU Leuven (2023–2027).

Mathias Mu is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Antwerp. In his practice, Mu embraces speculative world-building, neo-folklore, techno-romanticism, and convivial objects. Mu creates objects, installations, and sound works. Using a combination of digital fabrication techniques such as 3D printing, and engaging with evolving technological developments, his practice explores softer expressions of technology and spaces where ambiguity can flourish, with digital elements that almost dissolve and become tactile. Driven by an interest in syncretic belief systems and symbolic traditions, his practice dwells in a space between the organic and the synthetic.

Nele Möller is currently working towards a PhD in the Arts at KU Leuven and LUCA Brussels. Her research project, The Forest Echoes Back, oscillates around the Thuringian Forest in Germany, which is severely impacted by monoculture plantings, climate change, and bark beetle outbreaks, exploring ways to retrace and react to these ongoing changes using field recording, live audio streaming, listening, and mimicry as central methodologies.

Pedro Riofrio is a visual artist, musician, and researcher who explores intersections between biomaterials, technological innovation, and the physicality of sound resonances. His work is deeply influenced by his dual cultural perspective, and is rooted in themes of interconnectedness, transformation, and the cyclical nature of life. He seeks to explore the origins of matter, the passage of time, and ongoing changes within natural phenomena. Pedro emphasizes the shared essence of all beings – that we are all composed of the same matter, resonating and interacting within a rhizomatic system devoid of hierarchies. This perspective challenges conventional ideas of separation and hierarchy, aiming instead to reveal the profound interdependence of all things.

Samah Hijawi is a multimedia artist based in Brussels. Her projects are research-based and deeply rooted in historical narrative. From ancient history, she takes inspiration for re-staging and representing contemporary life beyond the limited, polarized discourses that direct our lives today. Her recent works explore astrology, ancient mythology, and farming as ways of looking at the larger web of life we are interconnected with. She is a tutor at DAS Arts in Amsterdam.

Soukaï̈na Aziz El Idrissi lives and works as a visual artist and surface designer in Casablanca. She studied at Central Saint Martins in London, where she spent nine years (2005–2014) studying, teaching, and taking part in artistic events, seminars, and symposia. Since her return to her motherland, she has extended her research on plastic waste as a social phenomenon. She explores all the possibilities that this material – deemed waste – has to offer, aiming to interrogate its value of use and perceptions of it. A large range of techniques, often experimental, are used to comprehend the material and present it in a new light.

Tim Theo Deceuninck is a photography-based artist who works at the intersection between landscape representation and regenerative ecologies. He explores landscape as a collaboration with non-human entities, creating images that move between nature and culture. Using botanical tinctures, he develops rooted photographs with low-tech ‘land cameras’, each a camera obscura built from the environment that it portrays.