Performances
Søren Aagaard
Søren Aagaard (b. 1980, DK) is a trained chef and artist who works with video, sculpture, performance, and installation art. Especially food and the meal as a temporally and performative event are important parts of Aagard’s practice. Through his interest in specific products and cultural, sociological, and culinary history of different places, Aagaard speaks about phenomena of our time such as climate change, social hierarchies, and the worship of nostalgia and genius in the art and culinary world. Aagaard is educated from The Royal Danish Academy of Art in 2013 and has also studied at Malmö Art Academy. The last five years, he has shown his work and participated extensively in international exhibitions, cooking projects, and film festivals.
Juliette Blightman
Juliette Blightman’s practice is situated in ’time’. She is curious of retaining the idea of process, how light moves through a painting, like it might a window, film, or performance, and how painting performs in situ over time.
Blightman lives and works in London, she incorporates painting, photography, performance, text and video to explore the relationship between art and life. Her works create a portrait of contemporary communication and existence. Selected solo and group exhibitions include; 'Die stille Revolte der Dinge' Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven (2025) ‘IN.SIGHT’, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (2024); ‘Hierarchies’, Niru Ratnam, London (2024); ‘Aaahhh’, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (2024); ‘View’, dépendance, Brussels (2024); ‘Feaux d’Artifice/Burnout’, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2023); ‘One more…with feeling’, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2023).
Jacob Fabricius
Jacob Fabricius (Silkeborg, Denmark, 1970) is director at Art Hub Copenhagen, Denmark. Recently he was artistic director (with Seolhui Lee), KOO Jeong A, Odorama Cities, Korean Pavilion 2024, 60th Venice Biennale, Italy. Fabricius has been director at Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (2008–12), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark (2013–14) and Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark (2016–2021), where he has curated numerous international exhibitions. He has been the artistic director of biennales including Words at an Exhibition—An exhibition in ten chapters and five poems, Busan Biennale, South Korea (2020), and Leisure, Discipline and Punishment, 6th Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium (2013). Fabricius is the founder of the publishing company Pork Salad Press and the newspaper project Old News.
Some exhibitions in 2024–25: KOO Jeong A, EHM [Event Horizon Malmö], Malmö Konsthall, Sweden; Setting the Tone of the Exhibition – The Anatomy of Exhibition Openings, Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden; iwillmedievalfutureyou2, Lilith Performance Studio, Sweden.
Jules Fischer
Jules Fischer (b. 1988) is a Copenhagen-based artist creating large-scale performances. They hold both a BFA and MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2017) and have studied Dance and Choreography at The Danish National School of Performing Arts (2014) as well as Art and Social Practice at Portland State University (2012). Their recent performances have been shown at The National Gallery of Denmark, Glyptoteket (DK), UKS (NO), Tanzquartier Wien (AU), and Roskilde Festival (DK). Fischer’s work is characterized by an ambivalent, collage-like nature, using mood as material. Currently, their research delves into issues of intimacy, close relationships, and destructive emotional patterns.
Yujin Jung
Yujin Jung (b. 1988, KR) is a Copenhagen-based artist. She earned her BA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2013) and her MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (2021). She has presented her work at Roskilde Festival, UKS (Oslo), Nikolaj Kunsthal (Copenhagen), and various other international venues. By preserving intangible cultural practices as living archives, Jung explores oral transmission as both an acoustic phenomenon and an aesthetic form—toward new temporalities of resonance and wonder.
Éva Mag
Éva Mag (b. 1979) often examines the body—human and sculptural—through themes of form, balance, and transformation.
She draws on the history of sculpture, blending amorphous, organic shapes with geometric modernist precision. Her practice also includes documenting raw sculptural materials and exploring the social dimensions of art through workshops, choreography, and performance. Working across sculpture, photography, textiles, performance, and film, Mag uses materials like clay and fabric to create works that evolve through movement, embodying the tension between structure and fluidity.
Enad Marouf
Enad Marouf is a Syrian-German performance and video artist based in Berlin. He completed his Masters in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Gießen. He works with movement, text, video, and installation, focusing on the fragmentary nature of memory, loss, and desire—their temporality and how they are embodied through poetry, image, and choreography. His works have been shown at the Athens Biennale, Centre Français de Damas, Sophiensæle Berlin, Shedhalle Zurich, and Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, among others. In 2023, he was awarded the Will Grohmann Prize in visual arts.
Hyeji Nam
Hyeji Nam (b. 1993, Seoul) is a Vienna-based artist, musician and researcher. She earned a BA from Korea University Art & Design (2016) and a Diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2021). Shows include Gwangju Biennale, Belvedere 21, mumok, and CTM Festival. Her work rewrites history through embodied, glitch-led performance, sound, and installation.
Artist Talks & Panels
Peter Bläuer ran his own exhibition space before working as an independent curator from 1989 to 1996. In 1996, he co-founded Liste Art Fair with Peter Kilchmann and Eva Presenhuber. He was the director of the fair from its foundation until 2018. He also taught at the Basel School of Design between 1997 and 2017. Bläuer has received several awards, including the Basel-Stadt Culture Prize.
Eleanor Cayre is an art advisor and art collector in New York. She is the founder and principal of Cayre Art Group, an art advisory firm specializing in 20th and 21st century art. As a collector, she has been dedicated to the work of living artists, with a particular focus T in sculpture and painting that engages the subject of new technologies. She is also a curator, and has co-curated a major monographic survey exhibition David Hammons: Basketball & Kool-Aid, at Nahmad Contemporary. She has been serving as co-President of the board of Artists Space in New York for 10 years, and is currently on the board of Sculpture Center in New York.
Wilfried Cooreman studied economics and has been an internal auditor and financial and managing director in the pharmaceutical and logistics industries. He has presided over and been a board member for several cultural institutions, including Roomade, Kunsthal Extra City, Friends of S.M.A.K. and Kunstenpunt. He has collected art since 1972 with his wife Yannicke De Smedt.
Ann Demeester has been the director of Kunsthaus Zürich since October 2022. She previously led the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem and de Appel in Amsterdam. Demeester was also a curator at S.M.A.K. in Ghent and MARTa Herford in Herford, Germany, as well as a co-curator of the 2003 Tirana Biennale. Until 2022, she held a professorship in art and culture at Radboud University Nijmegen. She was knighted in 2022 by the Dutch royal family as Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. Demeester studied literature and linguistics and worked as an art critic in Belgium.
Joana Escoval is a Portuguese artist based in Lisbon. Recent exhibitions of her work have been held at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, the Berardo Collection Museum in Lisbon and the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover. Her artistic practice establishes an idiosyncratic relationship with nature in which the notion of transformation becomes essential.
Anna Roberta Goetz is a curator and researcher based between Switzerland and Mexico. She is part of the curatorial team of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo 2025. Recent exhibitions include Long Gone, Still Here at MARTa Herford and Genealogies in the Middle East and Latin America at Sharjah Art Foundation. Her research interests lie in artistic strategies that challenge prevailing hierarchies, narratives, and structures in society. She has been publishing extensively in international publications and art magazines and taught at various international art academies.
Lukas Jakob has been collecting contemporary art since 2016. His collection comprises over 100 works, including pieces by Natacha Donzé, Julian-Jakob Kneer, Thomas Liu Le Lann and Jaime Welsh. His collection has been exhibited on multiple occasions, most recently in 2023 at E-Werk Freiburg.
Hyunjin Kim is a Seoul-based curator and writer. She curated the Korean Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale and a three-year regional program for KADIST as Regional Lead Curator. She previously held the role of artistic director at Incheon Art Platform and ARKO Art Center, and she co-curated the 7th Gwangju Biennale in 2008.
Matylda Krzykowski directs, designs, writes and speaks about objects in space and ideas beyond it. Her transdisciplinary, geographically mobile practice resonates globally through exhibitions, installations, talks, texts, performances, workshops, juries and curatorial projects. As the artistic director of the CIVIC exhibition space at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, she fosters participation and exchange to deepen the understanding of contemporary art and design.
Chus Martínez is the director of the Institute of Art Gender Nature at Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, associate curator at the TBA21 Foundation and artistic director of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts. She is a board member of CIMAM and an advisor to several international art institutions. Martínez has organised numerous exhibitions and publications with contemporary artists. Her writings regularly appear in journals, catalogues and compilations of essays.
Robert McKenzie is an art advisor, writer and curator who was born in Melbourne and has lived in New York since 2008. He has worked as an advisor to a number of prominent art collections in America and Europe over the past 15 years. Mc Kenzie has written for art and design magazines including Starship, The Whitney Review of New Writing, and Pin-Up Magazine. Between 2015 and 2019 he was Artistic Director with Beata Von Oelreich of Rehnsgatan3 in Stockholm and has been a director at Cayre Art Group in New York since the beginning of 2023.
Trinidad Metz Brea is a Buenos Aires–based artist whose work delves into experimental practices that blend traditional and digital techniques in sculpture, drawing and printmaking. She addresses themes of survival, desire and rejection in emotionally charged scenarios and hybrid figures, exploring the possibility of a planetary existence that transcends our current reality. Brea holds a BFA from Universidad Nacional de Arte, Buenos Aires.
Sigit Nugroho is based in Jakarta and one of Indonesia’s most active art collectors, who began collecting in 2006 with a focus on contemporary art from Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia. Since 2014, he has expanded his collection internationally, acquiring works across diverse media such as painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation with a focus on works by emerging artists.
Mary Pakinee (Pakinee Srijaroensuk) is a Bangkok-based artist who explores the complexity of narratives, information consumption, and perception in her work. In 2024, her work was exhibited at Art Fair Asia Fukuoka and the 15th Gwangju Biennale. She holds a BFA from Bangkok University.
Francesca Pia founded Galerie Francesca Pia in 1990 in Bern. Ever since, she has consistently supported significant contemporary artists from the early stages of their careers. Among these artists are Betty Woodman, Thomas Hirschhorn, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Thomas Bayrle, Mai-Thu Perret, Wade Guyton, Vaclav Pozarek and Jutta Koether. After 16 years in Bern, the gallery moved to Zurich in 2007. Since 2012, Galerie Francesca Pia has been located in the historic Löwenbräu building.
Eva Presenhuber began her career in 1989 as the director of Galerie Walcheturm in Zurich. In 1996, she co-founded Liste Art Fair with Peter Kilchmann and Peter Bläuer. Following a five-year partnership with Hauser & Wirth, she established Galerie Eva Presenhuber in 2003. Many of the artists whose careers she helped launch – including Ugo Rondinone, Doug Aitken and Joe Bradley – remain part of the gallery’s programme today.As of June 2025, Galerie Eva Presenhuber operates two locations in Zurich and one in Vienna.
Inuuteq Storch is a Kalaallit (Greenlandic Inuit) artist who represented Denmark at the 2024 Venice Biennale. He studied photography in New York and Copenhagen. His recent work has been shown at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and Akureyri Art Museum in Iceland. Upcoming exhibitions of his work will be held at venues in the United States, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden.
Children's Workshop
Tina Braegger (b. 1985) is a conceptual artist whose practice explores questions of originality and repetition. Since 2017, she has focused on the image of the “dancing bear”, a bootleg symbol that became associated with the American rock band the Grateful Dead in the 1970s. Through this motif, Braegger investigates how a counterfeit icon can challenge notions of authorship, authenticity and appropriation. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including at Museum Bellpark in Kriens and Neuer Essener Kunstverein. Braegger lives and works in Basel.