Zeren Oruc is an independent curator focusing on ecocriticism, alternative art production and overlooked cultural elements in postmodern society.

Yukiko Nagakura (she/her) was born in Shizuoka, Japan and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Yero Adugna Eticha is a Berlin-based photographer from Oromia, Ethiopia, whose work focuses on the stories, perspectives and visions of Black and African people.

Artist and scientist. Yara's work is based on sound as an essential tool of vision, always drawing on socio-philosophical research.

Umut Azad Akkel is a product designer and artist from Berlin. He curates cultural seminars (such as “Fava Connection” and “Iran 101”) and is one of the co-founders of the IDA (Intersectionality / Diversity / Antidiscrimination) initiative at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Thierno's focus is on architecture, fashion and art, especially from Africa. He tries to combine old traditions, myths and handicrafts with modern and contemporary elements. The medium for the work are items of clothing, scarves, pictures, drawings and spaces such as installations.

Ahmed Elbukhari and Tazir are co-founders of the NGO Telephassa. Telephassa is a non-profit cultural organization based in Berlin that aims to create new platforms for overlooked minorities.

Divine Umulisa, known by her pseudonym Tete Loeper, is a Rwandan-German author, actress and educational consultant.

Salima Hamrini (she/her) was born in Casablanca, Morocco. In 2015, she discovered photography and began using it as a medium to express herself. As a self-taught photographer, Salima has created a visual language that bridges the world of documentary photography and artistic expression in cinema.

Same Ahmed Ibrahim, known as “Sedo”, was born in Sudan and grew up in Qatar. As a teenager, the prospective dentist Sedo discovered his passion for photography. With his photos he wants to express the beauty of this world.

Sanni Est is a multidisciplinary artist and community organizer with roots in the northeast of Brazil, and has been based in Berlin since 2007. She analyzes biographical episodes on the basis of sociological, philosophical and etymological aspects and thus brings together different art forms to create comparisons of meaning and to represent the complexity of their emotionality and to contribute to the empowerment of oppressed groups, whose DNA runs parallel to the artist herself.

Sarah El Hamed is a Franco-Algerian performance artist, director and mixed media storyteller.

Selim Özadar is from Izmir and currently resides in Berlin. He works as a project manager at MitOst, a civil society organization fostering cultural exchange across borders among Europe and neighboring regions.

Senait is a theater educator. She works with children and young people, speaking in visual language is her way of communicating. To bring things into shape for oneself in order to then be able to express them. You are interested in implementing (serious) topics with ease. To dig in layer by layer and to come across what is to be told and implemented. She finds texts, stories and poems exciting.

Multimedia artist from Kyrgyzstan. Shaarbek combines conceptual approaches with deep connections to traditional, local customs and practices.

Artist, photographer, curator from Tehran. Shaghayegh works on war, conflict and identity, also with game design and participatory methods. She is part of the New Media Society.

Located in Boday near Baalbek / Lebanon, Shahraban is a laboratory for knowledge and experiments on environmental and sustainability issues between innovation and tradition.

Shahry Dasht is a Persian musician and songwriter. In 2022/23 he was a Fellow at Oyoun. Shahry currently lives in Cologne and works as a media designer for image and sound.

Visual artist from Tehran. In addition to photography and video, Siavash also works with animation, artificial intelligence and film. He is part of the New Media Society.

Syrine is an architect and project manager. Her work focuses on the interplay of contemporary art, sociocultural interventions, and socioeconomic impacts.

Feminist activist, writer and doctor from Sudan. Rayan, who grew up in Saudi Arabia, is involved in anti-discrimination work and is part of the Baab collective.

Artist, director and producer from Istanbul, lives in Berlin. Rüzgâr works with printmaking, performance, video and film about the body and identity as social constructs.

Peimaneh works in her studies on feminist philosophy and is primarily concerned with the interface between social justice and education, which is hardly considered at German institutions. In addition to her studies, she works in political education at schools on topics such as gender and gender discrimination, various forms of injustice, sexual diversity, solidarity, responsibility and intersectionality.

Sculptor and interdisciplinary artist. In his alienation-based exploration of human nature, Ozan takes an anti-anthropocentric approach.

Nadja Makhlouf is a French-Algerian photographer and film director. She deals with social issues such as the position of women in Algeria.

Nedim Zlatar graduated in comparative literature and has been working as a freelance musician and producer since 2004.

Nestor Siré is a freelance artist with Cuban roots, with a focus on digital art.

The constantly growing scene of new media art in Iran has had a central platform in this Tehran project space with archive since 2014, which organizes numerous events.

Nicole Wolf is a researcher, author and senior lecturer in visual cultures, based in Berlin and London, and is white and queer.

Scientists working interdisciplinary between humanism, feminism, digital technologies, activism and artistic practice. Nishant lives in the Netherlands.

Sudanese feminist with a degree in economics. Nour is interested in the development of the communities in Sudan, especially women's issues. She is part of the Baab collective.

Madhumita Nandi is an Indian visual artist, researcher and curator exploring the intersections of memory culture, archival practices and ecology. She is part of the Oyoun team.

Dr. Maiada Aboud deals in her work with the way in which social and religious structures are connected with one another and influence the individual.

Mai El-Gammal is a cultural figure and works in the film industry. Her experience ranges from the promotion and distribution of films to the management of film training programs and program design in the film sector with a total of 10 years of experience in the Middle East and Germany.

Maneo Refiloe Mohale is a South African editor, feminist writer and poet.

Maya Inès Touam conducts anthropological and dreamlike research using different media such as photographs, drawings, sculptures and personal or symbolic objects.

Merve Namlı is a Berlin-based queer-feminist journalist for the Henrich Böll Foundation, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, taz blogs, Missy Mag, and for various international media.

Award-winning artist (digital and new media art) from Shiraz / Iran. Milad, who exhibits internationally, is co-founder of the Dar-Al-Hokoomeh (DAH) project for new media art.

Artist, designer, curator from Shiraz, Iran. Mohsen, who curated important art events in Iran, is co-founder of the Dar-Al-Hokoomeh (DAH) project for new media art.

Mojisola Adebayo is a Black British performer, playwright, director, producer, workshop leader and teacher of Nigerian (Yoruba) and Danish origin.

After living in Sudan for a while, photographer Muayad Alob moved to Ukraine to study medicine. Because of the war, however, he had to leave his adopted country and came to Germany. In his art, he mainly deals with portrait photography.

Lea Nassim Tajbakhsh is a herbalist, horticulturist, perennial gardener & pedagogue for wild plants, who works in fields of urban gardening, environmental education, and indoor greenery.

Liaam is a multifaceted singer, composer, percussionist and Reiki practitioner of Algerian and Kabyle descent.

Lora Krasteva is a Bulgarian artist living in Sheffield, United Kingdom. Her experiences of migrating to six different countries and her recent insights from applying for British citizenship led her to this project.

Kenza Mala Badi was born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1992 and currently lives in Amsterdam. Her performances and installations are a manifestation of her position on violence, collective trauma and separation, as well as on the possibilities of collective healing and the notion of liberation. 

Ina and Nhu, two ceramics enthusiasts, have together created Ceramics Club - a pottery course for everyone. They volunteer time for Ceramics Club and thus pass on their knowledge. 

Konstantin Dupelius is a composer and pianist and as such has been involved in numerous (theater) productions.

Founded in 2018 in Casablanca, Morocco, the cultural platform aims to create space for exchange and knowledge, enable social contacts and support the development of creative and critical skills.

Jihen Saoudi, from Tunisia, graduated in 2018 with a degree in German as a foreign language. In 2022 she was accepted as a trainee for the project “Gemeinsam VOLUNTEERING” in Berlin. There she supported the Oyoun for three months.

Jingyun Li is a dramaturge, director, producer.

Polish sociologist and political activist, trained in Warsaw, Paris and Harvard. Joanna headed the Center for Internet and Human Rights at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder.

jô osbórnia is a poet, performer. Translator.

Independent visual artist from Lagos / Nigeria. Ifebusola is dedicated to educating people about the power and importance of self-expression and picture making.

Ilgaz Yalçınoğlu is a music researcher born in Turkey who continues his research in Berlin.

In their Hamam Talk podcast, Sarah and Linda talk about racism, politics, culture, society, identity and sexuality.

Photographer and video artist from Lebanon. Hamza founded a research center on hemp seeds, a traditional product of his homeland, and is part of Shahraban.

Hope Azeda is a director, writer and founder of Mashirika Performing Arts and Media Company.

Houaïda is a producer, composer and performer and has an MA in astrophysics. She pursues an intensive, interdisciplinary approach to address and change rigid structures in sound, music and performance, and dreams of a poétique de la relation in a speculative place that she calls hybrid-space. Houaïda lives in Berlin and works internationally. In addition to her solo appearances as Houaïda or Miss Machine and her appearances in the Talking Straight collective, she previously worked as a composer and performer in various theater and dance performances, including at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, the Maxim Gorki Theater or the Gropiusbau in Berlin. She is also a live musician with the Berlin-based indie band Allie and a member of the Holly Herndon Ensemble.

Farokh Falsafi is an architect and researcher working between architecture and art in public space and the urban landscape.

Fernande Njonkou Njanjo is an architect and photographer by training who grew up between Cameroon, France and the Netherlands and is currently based in Paris.

Choreographer, studies choreography, dance and context in Berlin. Forugh's work revolves around the concept of "fear". She is part of the New Media Society.

Artist and media scientist from Istanbul. Eda studied in Istanbul and Chicago and uses modern technologies in her interdisciplinary work on gender, culture, race and humanism.

Elif Çelik was born in Ulm in 1997 and has been studying Fine Art at the Stuttgart Art Academy since 2016. She is currently in Alisa Margolis' class. 

Photographer and filmmaker from Sudan and part of the Baab collective. Elsadig uses filmmaking and photography as tools to enter into dialogue with a distant audience.

Emina Omerović is involved as a dramaturge in numerous theater and film projects.

Shiraz in the south of Iran also has a center for new media art. This is where international events take place at the interface between culture, art and technology.

Named after its location in Izmir, the art platform Darağaç organizes artistic activities in public spaces and promotes dialogue between artists and local residents.

Dariushka Alexander is a Mexican-Iranian artist currently based in Mexico City. Dariushka's approach to art is a multifaceted and flowing search influenced by their mixed heritage constructed on a complex cultural legacy.

Visual artist from İzmir. Cenkhan is a member of the 6x6x6-Izmir initiative and the Karantina Mekân collective and co-founder of the Darağaç collective.

Cornelia Becker lives in Berlin. Freelance writer. Writes stories, radio plays and short lyric prose, which she publishes in literary magazines and on the radio.

Diverse signals of change are emanating from Khartoum: the Baab collective networks civil society actors and opens the door (Arabic: Baab) to a self-determined future.

Emerging from the Tunisian music underground, Badiâa Bouhrizi is a powerful-voiced singer and songwriter. She has developed her own style by skillfully combining jazz, soul, reggae and electronic elements with her sensitive, socially conscious and politically engaged lyrics.

Lawyer, publicist and translator from Sudan, part of the Baab collective. Co-founder of the Assistance Center for Legal Advice and Representation in Khartoum.

Bernard Hage, commonly known as “The Art of Boo”, is a Lebanese illustrator, musician and political cartoonist based in Berlin.

Benjamin Bajramović is a Bosnian writer and actor. In his career he has acted in many Bosnian and international theater productions.

Bruna Amaro is an Afro-Brazilian artist, performer, educator, researcher and percussionist based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Based in Cairo, the foundation promotes and documents technology-based artistic activities and projects by collectives, initiatives and groups from the Arab world.

Employee from the very beginning at the Arab Digital Expression Foundation. Ahmad examines the role of Arabic wikis and trains bloggers in cybersecurity.

Ahmet Onat is a sociocultural anthropology researcher born and living in Turkey. At the broadest level, his works engaged debates around late liberal security discourses, ephemeral archives, refugee hood and politics of gender and sexuality in Turkey and Germany.

Akinbode Akinbiyi is a Nigerian-British photographer. In his works, Akinbiyi portrays megacities, with a focus on the African cities of Lagos, Cairo, Kinshasa and Johannesburg.

Media and communication scientist and photographer. Ali is currently doing her PhD in Thessaloniki on audiovisual propaganda methods. He is a founding member of the Darağaç collective.

Philosopher, Jewish theologian, author and publicist. Armin is currently doing his PhD in Rabbinical Studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia and in Sociology at the HU Berlin.

A fusion of dance, music and drama that creates universes on stage and helps other artists to illustrate their sounds, to raise awareness through writing. Part of the moderators and curators of Cult 'Sup'.

Working in tandem, Dawkins and Annabell explore the various impacts of colonial history on our present and engage with decolonial processes in our society.