Space Afrika, innovators in electronic music, fuse UK Dance, Ambient, Alternative, Trip-hop, Pop, Modern Classical, and Experimental genres. As producers, contemporary composers, visual artists, performers, and NTS Radio hosts, they are renowned for their genre-defying sound. The duo, comprised of Josh Inyang and Joshua Tarelle Reid, have released two critically acclaimed albums: Somewhere Decent To Live (sferic, 2018) and Honest Labour (Dais Records, 2021), the latter topping Resident Advisor’s Album of the Year chart and earning DJ Mag nominations for Best Live Act and Best Album. In 2021, Space Afrika expanded into film with Untitled (To Describe You), a collaboration with Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh, exploring their working-class Black British reality in Northern England. Their live performances gained further recognition, being named one of Mixmag’s Top 15 Live Acts of 2022 and featured on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6, and BBC Radio 3 Late Junction. They have performed at major venues and festivals across Europe and North America, including Gladstone Gallery (US), Southbank Centre (UK), and Berlin Atonal (DE). In 2023, the duo signed with Warp Publishing and appeared on the cover of The Face Magazine’s “The Sound of England” issue. 

FRANKIE or Franziska Aigner works at the intersection of music, performance, and philosophy. After studying at P.A.R.T.S., the school for choreography and dance in Brussels directed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, she worked with Anne Imhof on the performances Deal, Rage, Angst and Faust (awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale 2017) and Natures Mortes, as well as performing for William Forsythe, Mette Ingvartsen, Alexandra Bachzetsis and others. Her own works have been shown at Kunstenfestivaldesarts/Brussels, Die Liste/Basel, Theatre de la Bastille/Paris,The Place/London, brut/Vienna, HAU/Berlin etc. In 2019 the music for Faust (by Anne Imhof, Billy Bultheel, Franziska Aigner and Eliza Douglas) was released on the Berlin label PAN. Furthermore, Franziska Aigner was part of the Holly Herndon vocal ensemble, with whom she toured internationally. She performs her solo project (cello and vocals) under the name FRANKIE. Her two solo EPs STYX (2022) and HEAVEN/HELL (2023) were released on the label Shadow World. The EP Angelwhack together with Viola player Battle-Ax (Beatrix Curran) was released on Superpang in 2025. She stars in the feature film City Child (2025), directed by Austin Jack Lynch.

Avantgardo is the last graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute. His work is concerned with the commodification of subjectivity, the violence within advertisement, and the spirituality inherent to consumption.

Avantgardo (Christian Aguilera) lives in Mexico City and hosts an aviation-themed bar called Business, which he designed himself. Born in Mexico City in 1996, he is last in line to the legacy of one of Mexico’s most iconic cantinas. He grew up window shopping and taking arts and crafts lessons with elderly women. He dropped out of design school at 21 and graduated with honors from the New Genres department at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2020. Avantgardo currently lives in Mexico City, where he works in an abandoned laboratory with his muses. He has exhibited on several occasions at Salón Acme, Material Art Fair, and Basel Social Club and is represented by General Expenses, where he held his third solo show in fall 2023. Avantgardo’s work is part of the Taschen Collection and the Servais Family Collection, and he is reportedly the youngest artist to have been acquired by Fundación Jumex.

Kelman Duran is best known for his production and songwriting contributions to opening track “I’m That Girl” and “Heated” from Beyoncé’s 2022 album Renaissance, as well as his scoring work on 2022 film Rodeo. [Duran has created original edits and mixes for NTS Radio in London and has a monthly show titled EDITS. Duran was a Resident DJ at RAILUP, a monthly underground party in Los Angeles. Duran has performed at Mustache Mondays (LA), UNSOUND (PL), Le Guess Who? (Utrecht), ELECTRIFY 17 (Budapest), The Hammer Museum, MOCA in Los Angeles, No Sesso’s Club Night, PS1, Haus Der Kunst, and the Tate Modern in London. In terms of music, Duran released 1804 Kids in 2017 through Hundebiss Records in Milan. His 1st long form album was released in December of 2018 through Apocalipsis Records in New York, which was #28 on FACT magazine’s best albums of 2018 and #9 on Boomkat’s Top Releases of 2018. Ghost Ryder will debut in June of 2025. Duran produced “Bacardi Papi” for VV Pete which won FBi Radio’s SMAC Award for Next Big Thing in 2025 in Australia.

Rosalia Namsai Engchuan is a social anthropologist and filmmaker working with audio visual media creators in Southeast Asia. She holds an MA in Modern South- and Southeast Asian Studies from Humboldt University, Berlin and a BA in Asian Studies and Management from HTWG, Konstanz.

Rosalia is particularly interested in the ways filmmakers address social issues through their artistic practices. She herself uses video as a creative channel to contemplate on her theoretical research and experience of “reality”. Her work has been screened at the Asian Film Festival Berlin and the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival. Linking theoretical research and artistic practice, she is currently working on a multimedia project to explore the possibilities of making academic arguments using audio-visual languages.

Montika Kham-on is an artist and filmmaker working between Berlin and Bangkok. She explores her practice across various mediums including video, performance, installation, and sculpture. Her work investigates collective fear, speculative futures, and the struggle over definitions outside dominant narratives, centering emotional landscapes and embodied knowledge. Her works question traditional cinematic structures, developing post-tropical forms of thinking and acting that redefine emancipatory imagination and anticipate liberated futures.

Her recent works have been presented in exhibitions and screening programs across Asia and Europe, including Transmediale Berlin and ArtScience Museum Singapore. Her recent work, Afterlives (2025), imagines a post-tropical future and was commissioned by GHOST:2568. Beyond her video practice, Kham-on founded Phimailongweek, a site-specific art festival supporting emerging artists through experimental, context-responsive practices. She is the recipient of a DAAD scholarship (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) and is pursuing a Master’s degree at the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin).

Jeanne Penjan Lassus is an artist and filmmaker based in Bangkok. Their works draw from reflections on sensory perceptions and porosity of spaces and bodies. Enquiring how we – humans and other beings – sense and make sense of our environments, Lassus’ practice focuses on how our perceptions shape our experiences, languages, and the way we move and extend into space.

Lassus’ work has been shown in various festivals and art spaces, most notably Ghost 2568–a video and performance arts series; the 7th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival; EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul; the Alserkal Arts Foundation Dubai; and Bangkok Arts and Culture Center. They participated in the Ocean Fellowship 2020, organized by TBA21, and have received the Alserkal Art Foundation Research Grant 2020 and the Bangkok Art and Culture Center’ Early Years Projects Residency Grant 2019.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (b. 1967, Mexico City) is a media artist working at the intersection of architecture and performance, creating participatory works with technologies like robotic lights, digital fountains, and telematic networks. His light and shadow installations have been called “antimonuments for alien agency.”

He was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale (2007) and has exhibited at major biennials worldwide. His public commissions include the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City, the Vancouver Olympics, and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi pre-opening. Collections holding his work include MoMA, Guggenheim, Tate, SFMOMA, and Jumex.

Awards include two BAFTAs for Interactive Art, a Golden Nica, Wired’s “Artist of the Year,” and the Governor General’s Award (Canada). Recent solo exhibitions include the Hirshhorn Museum, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal/SFMOMA, Crystal Bridges Museum (“Listening Forest”), PACE Gallery New York, and Abu Dhabi (“Translation Island”). Notable projects include “Atmospheric Memory” and “Border Tuner,” connecting participants across the US-Mexico border via light.

Oat Montien (b. 1989) (he/him/they/them) is among Thailand’s most prominent queer artists. Montien was born in Bangkok, where his mother ran a successful brothel. Growing up around sex workers, he managed the lighting for their erotic shows. This experience is manifested in his works where he uses eroticism as poetic allegory for the complex experience of marginalized identities. his works span across various media including writing, drawing, moving image, site specific installation and performance.

In 2022, he was selected as first Southeast Asian artist for the residency program at the iconic Tom of Finland Foundation (LA).

Montien also founded the Boddhisattava Gallery, the first art space in Bangkok exclusively dedicated to South East Asian queer artists. In 2025 he was featured in Thailand Biennale 2025 and won “Pride Value Artist of the Year” award by Bangkok Pride for his contribution for Thai art and activism scene.

Born in 1976 in Singapore, where he lives and works.

Rooted in the histories, mythologies and political impulses of Southeast Asia, Ho Tzu Nyen’s multilayered audiovisual practice fuses scripted narratives and machine learning to shape environments that mine the region’s colonial legacies, their spirits of resistance and their strategies of ambiguity.

One-person exhibitions of his work have been held at Hamburger Kunsthalle (2025), LUMA Arles (2025), Mudam Museum of Modern Art (2025), Hessel Museum of Art (2024), Art Sonje Center (2024), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2024), Singapore Art Museum (2023), Hammer Museum (2022), Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (2021), Crow Museum of Asian Arts (2021), Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] (2021), Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art (Oldenburg, 2019), Kunstverein in Hamburg (2018), Ming Contemporary Art Museum [McaM] (Shanghai, 2018), Asia Art Archive (2017), Guggenheim Bilbao (2015), Mori Art Museum, (2012), The Substation (Singapore, 2003). He represented the Singapore Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011).

Ho Tzu Nyen has been appointed Artistic Director of the 2026 Gwangju Biennale.

Photo by Stefan Khoo. Courtesy of a+ Singapore.

Born in Chon Buri, Thailand, Tulapop Saenjaroen is an artist and filmmaker whose practice encompasses moving image, performance, and sound. His recent shorts interrogate the relationship between image production and the formation of subjectivity, as well as the paradoxes between control and freedom under late capitalism. Working through narrative, animation, and essay film, he explores themes such as tourism, self-care, mental illness, free labour, power relations in storytelling, metaphysical rupture, and cinema itself through processes of re-making and re-interpreting images and their networks.

Saenjaroen’s works have been shown  internationally including Berlinale, Locarno Film Festival;  New York Film Festival; Cinéma du réel, Paris; MoMA doc fortnight; DOK Leipzig; IFF Oberhausen; IFFR; European Media Art Festival; Carpenter Center, Harvard; REDCAT, Museum of the Moving Image, NYC; Ghost 2565: Live Without Dead Time; Abandon Normal Devices; e-flux screening room; M+, etc. 

Saenjaroen lives and works in Thailand.

Harit Srikhao (b. 1995, Bangkok) lives in Pathumtani. Rooted in photographic thinking, his practice spans multiple media and is anchored in the inherent relationships within the composition of image-making. Ranging from photographic diaries of fleeting moments to staged set-ups, Srikhao engages with interconnected themes spanning the aesthetics of power and bodily autonomy. 

For Srikhao, photography functions as a method for addressing the delays in understanding, coming to terms with, and recomposing relationships within the world. This approach is driven by an intense effort to grapple with his personal experience of being both subject and object: surrendering control over one’s image, struggling to reclaim one’s agency, and the process of giving it a body.

He completed a BFA at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang in Bangkok and an MFA at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. His work is held in various international museum collections including Musée de l’Elysée (Photo Elysée), Lausanne; Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam; and Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi.

Since 2007, Alessandro Sciarroni has been designing productions that blend performing and visual arts. Trained in fine arts and boasting extensive on-stage experience, he takes a conceptual and theatrical approach, incorporating techniques and practices derived from dance and related disciplines, including sports and circus arts. His works are grounded in the repetition of practices that try dancers’ physical endurance in an attempt to reveal the obsessions, fears, and fragility of performance. This process seeks to create a new time dimension and a bond of empathy between performers and spectators. A contributor to various international artistic projects and networks, Alessandro Sciarroni is regularly invited to present his pieces all over the world. He was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance at the 2019 Venice Biennale Danza. Alessandro Sciarroni is Associated Artist of MARCHE TEATRO.

Tino Sehgal (b. 1976, London) currently lives and works in Berlin. He is renowned for  his radical artistic practice that takes the form of “constructed situations”: live encounters between visitors and those enacting the work. Their ephemeral beauty rests in the fleeting specificity of the encounter, where players often engage the visitors with their active participation in constructing the piece. Sehgal’s abandoning of material production in favor of lived experience is nevertheless achieved with a sensitivity to classical considerations of form, composition and space, grounded not only in the history of dance but also western traditions of sculpture and painting. 

His projects include co-curating A Prelude to the Shed (2018) and solo exhibitions at major institutions such as De Pont Museum (2025), Centro Botín (2023), Remai Modern (2022), V-A-C Foundation (2017), Tate Modern (2012), and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2010).

Wannawat Suwannarath (based in Bangkok, Thailand) is an independent filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working primarily with moving image and sound. His practice explores transitional states, inner landscapes, and moments of instability through non-linear and atmospheric narratives. Through his work, he reflects on the fragile tension between stillness and change, presence and absence, often engaging with inner wounds that coexist with the persistence of the self.

Born in Poole, England, Melanie Smith received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Reading, where she studied painting. In 1989, she joined an international community of artists and writers in Mexico City. Her work was included in the first exhibition of installation art in Mexico, curated by Guillermo Santamarina at the Museo de Sitio del Ex Convento del Desierto de los Leones. Since then, the city has played an important role in her work; she has produced installations, videos, films, photographs, and paintings in which she considers Mexico City’s density of population and structures, its production of detritus, and its endless entropy and reconstruction. These concerns are balanced by Smith’s interest in the legacies of modernism and post-avant-garde movements as they manifest themselves in Latin America.

Melanie Smith’s work has been shown in major exhibitions including the Mexican Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2011); Farsa y Artificio, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain (2018); MUAC and Museo Amparo, Mexico (2019); MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico (2020); Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Florida, USA (2008); Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), California, USA (2004); and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts, USA (2009).

Her work is held in international collections including MoMA, New York; Tate Modern, London; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Instituto Inhotim, Brazil; and Daros Latinamerica, Zurich.

Kianí del Valle is a Berlin based dancer, choreographer, director and performance curator originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico with professional experience in New York, Montreal, London, Los Angeles and Copenhagen. Driven by anthropological, biological and sociological concepts, Kianí’s work merges the lines of contemporary dance and performance art within film, photography, architecture, pop culture, technology and sound. Her embodied practice is guided by the interdependence of the act of physical exhaustion, intuitive groove, movement meditation, ritualistic practices, migrational journeys and paranormal experiences. Kianí has been touring her solo works for the past decade and is the founder and artistic director of the KDV Performance Group.

Alexa West (born 1991, Houston, Texas) is a dance artist based in New York City.

West holds an MFA from Bard College and a BFA from The Cooper Union. Her work has been presented by SculptureCenter and the 2023 Performa Biennial, among others. She was a Dance Research Fellow at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library and a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. In addition, West is a co-founder of Pageant, a space in Brooklyn that presents performances by emerging choreographers.

Recent works include: Jawbreaker Part 1 Part 2 at 99 Canal, New York, NY (2025); Jawbreaker Part 1 Part 2 at Pageant, Brooklyn, NY (2025); Rehearsals: Alexa West at SculptureCenter, Queens, NY (2024); A Lounge, a Lobby at Lomex, New York, NY (2024); Gossip at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2024); Occasion, Occasion, Occasion at Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL (2023); Occasion, Occasion, Occasion at the Performa Biennial, New York, NY (2023); Department of Aging at 99 Canal, New York, NY (2023); Procession at Pageant, Brooklyn, NY (2023); and Pumpjack, presented by Octagon (Moira Sims) at 3390 Broadway, New York, NY (2022).

Photo credit: Renee Paule