Sophie Jung (living in London and Basel) works across text, sculpture, and performance, navigating the politics of re/presentation and problematizing the selective silencing that occurs with conclusions. She employs humor, shame, absurdity, raw anger, rhythm and rhyme, slapstick, difficulties, friendship, and a constant flow of shifts. Her sculptural work consists of bodies made up of found and randomly produced attributes, presenting as a network of constant incompleteness, a continuously evolving chorus of urgencies and pleasures, traumas and manifestations that alternate between dominant and minor themes. Jung aspires to impious alliances, intermaterial solidarity, and assemblages that defy resolution. Her approach to “things”—both readable tools and metaphorical apparitions—sits halfway between materialist responsibility and wild becoming. Her writing falls within the tradition of écriture féminine and exists as a polyvocal collage, often materialized and extended in collaboration. Her recent solo exhibitions include Sanetroyem at E. A. Shared Space in Tbilisi, Unsetting at the Istituto Svizzero in Milan, Sincerity Condition at Casino Luxembourg, Taxpayer’s Money for Frieze LIVE, Dramatis Personae at JOAN in Los Angeles, The Bigger Sleep at Kunstmuseum Basel, Come Fresh Hell or Fresh High Water at Blain Southern in London, and Producing My Credentials at Kunstraum in London. She is currently working on her first monograph with Mousse Publishing. In 2016 and 2019, she won the Swiss Art Awards, and in 2018, she received the Manor Kunstpreis. She serves on the board of Kunsthalle Basel, mentors externally at Institut Kunst in Basel, and holds a teaching assignment in performance at Kunstakademie Karlsruhe.

Francesca Pionati is an artist who gathers meanings and images from the past to re-signify them through processual and collective practices. She is interested in examining the tensions between “on & off stage” through moving images, experimental theater, performance, and editorial work. Since 2020, she has been part of the artist duo VEGA with Tommaso Arnaldi. In 2021, Pionati co-founded the curatorial and research platform Iniziative di II, to explore the relationship between performativity and public space. From this experience, the periodic publication II Magazine was born. The editorial project explores the existing codes and methodologies within publishing and its dialectical relationship with archiving, as well as the correlations with less visible or permanent forms of expression and dissemination. In 2022, Francesca joined the Dutch Art Institute, a nomadic program positioned between artistic practice and theoretical research, aimed at expanding pedagogical methodologies and temporary communities. Pionati’s research has been exhibited at MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, MA*GA Museum, Triennale Milano, Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Rome, Manifattura Tabacchi, Fondazione smART, Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, and MEGA. She has participated in residency programs such as La Quarta Parete by Romeo Castellucci at the Triennale Milano, Prender-si Cura at MATTATOIO, VISIO by Lo Schermo dell’Arte, and FONDAMENTA at Teatro India. In 2022, she won the Francesco Fabbri Prize for Contemporary Arts and the National Visual Arts Prize of the City of Gallarate.

Born in Diyarbakir, Ahmet Ogut currently lives in Berlin, Amsterdam, and Istanbul. He obtained a degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Hacettepe University in Ankara in 2003 and a master’s degree from the Faculty of Art and Design at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul in 2006. He works with a wide range of media, including video, photography, installations, drawing, and print. He is the initiator of “The Silent University,” a program for and with asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants to hold and attend courses. Ahmet Öğüt was a guest artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2007-2008. In 2009, Öğüt represented Turkey with Banu Cennetoğlu at the 53rd Venice Biennale. He has recently exhibited in solo shows at MoCA Skopje, Kunstverein Dresden, Van Abbemuseum, and Chisenhale Gallery. Selected group exhibitions include the 17th Istanbul Biennial, the 7th Liverpool Biennial, the 12th Istanbul Biennial, the 4th Moscow Biennale, Performa 09 in New York, and the 5th Berlin Biennale.

Liliana Moro vLiliana Moro lives and works in Milan. She graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied with Luciano Fabro. In 1989, together with other artists, she founded an artist space on Via Lazzaro Palazzi in Milan, which was active until 1993. Encountering Liliana Moro’s works, one perceives that only the bare essentials are present. Sounds, words, sculptures, objects, and performances compose a world that “stages” a reality that is both raw and poetic. A prominent element in Liliana Moro’s research is the political dimension, not translated into the illustration of content, but connected to the forms with which she addresses the audience; for example, by placing her works on the ground, she implicitly asks the viewer to bend down to see them. Liliana Moro has exhibited in important international group exhibitions, including Documenta IX, Kassel; Aperto XLV Venice Biennale; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Quadriennale of Rome; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; PS1, New York; De Appel, Amsterdam; La Triennale; MAXXI, Rome; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte, Rome; 58th Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion.

Chris Rawcliffe was born in Paris and currently lives and works in London, where he is the artistic director of Forma, a leading artist-led non-profit contemporary art organization. At Forma, Chris and his team commission and produce ambitious exhibitions, including Abbas Zahedi’s “Waiting With {Sonic Support}” for the 2022 Frieze Artist Award; Alberta Whittle’s film “Lagareh – The Last Born,” created for the 2022 Venice Biennale; Sung Tieu’s “Moving Target Shadow Detection”; and Oliver Chanarin’s “A Perfect Sentence,” which is currently touring six museums in the UK that will acquire 72 works for posterity. Before working for Forma, Chris organized independent exhibitions at organizations such as Open Source, Arebyte Gallery, and SPACE, showcasing works by artists like Joan Jonas, Guy Ben-Ner, and Jade Monserrat. From 2010 to 2016, Chris directed Pro Numb, a non-profit art gallery he founded in Hackney, East London, where he exhibited specially commissioned works by artists such as Lawrence Weiner, Peles Empire, Benedict Drew, Liam Gillick, Heather Phillipson, Jesse Darling, Anne Hardy, and Larry Achiampong. Chris has also worked at the Outpost Gallery, Arts Council England, Art Monthly, and in the commercial sector.