Yana Kadykova

Yana Kadykova is an art theorist and curator based in Switzerland and Germany. She serves as an Assistant Curator at Kunsthalle Basel and holds an engagement as curator at 47m Contemporary Leipzig. Her practice moves between exhibitions, listening formats, and editorial work, with a sustained focus on migration, language, and the politics of knowledge-making. She researches how different formats–readers, symposia, translation, and text–produce meaning and make contested social experiences discussable. She is currently developing a multilingual reader gathering voices from artists of first and second migrant generations across Europe.

alfatih

Lives and works in Egg, Switzerland.

“alfatih's works require a counterpart. Not in the sense of an audience that observes, but rather a structural prerequisite. The work becomes complete only in the moment of encounter. It is the active passage through the work, the act of engaging with it through specific actions or movement, that sets it in motion. His practice brings people together and breaks down the distance sometimes found in passive contemplation. Guided by expectation and irritation, familiar objects lose their original function and slip into the absurd. There lies its humor, and perhaps that is also where its joy comes from.”

Artwork Image: Untitled, 2025; rotating light box. Photograph Sandra Pointet.

Anna Ehrenstein

Born 1993 in Tirana, Albania. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

“Anna Ehrenstein works from a position she must continuously relocate. Moving between different cultures, across shifting power structures, she has come to understand collaboration not as a romantic ideal but as a matter of honest positioning. Her practice is fundamentally relational, built on the inclusion of people and the reciprocal work of learning from one another. What becomes visible is only ever the surface of something far more layered. Through an opulent material language, she traces and negotiates the flows that circulate between bodies and systems. Permeated by multinational codes, her work unfolds differently depending on who encounters it and from which position. No single interpretation exhausts it.”

Artwork Image: Doom Scroll Djinn Tapestries, 2025; series of tapestries with prayer rugs and hand embroidery.

Tianyi Sun

b. 1996. Lives and works in New York, NY. 2022 MFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.

“As a multidisciplinary artist, Tianyi Sun contextualises the dilemma of a generation drifting into the technosphere, unwilling to relinquish what it means to be human. The shifting of her media seems as a position. Operating within a language that moves between the Symbolic, the Real and the Imaginary, transparency becomes central in any medium, both in materiality and semantics. Preservation and processing appear at once as liberation and confinement, as the question of what one chooses, and until which moment choice remains possible, stays inscribed.”

Artwork Image: Remote Viewing 2:16, 2025; epoxy resin, ink, wax, American ginseng, red beans, spirulina, silk, digital print transfer, acrylic polymer.