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Zoe Antypa
Greece, 1998
Born in 1998 in Patras GR and graduated from Department of Visual and Applied Arts at the University of Western Macedonia. Multiple identities, as result of the complexity and fluidity of existence, are the core of her research. Through performance, video and writing constructs images and spaces that reflect the surrealism of being. In 2018 she participated in Criss-Cross 1 Open Workshop by A.S.F.A. In 2019 took part at “Silence, and Silence” workshop during the 7th Biennale of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki GR at Experimental Centre of Arts. In 2020 participated with EN-FLO team in Platforms Project and that year, in the workshop and exhibition of Inspire Project “Dream Archive: Dreams as a primal material for artistic creation and practice” at the Experimental Centre of Arts in Thessaloniki GR, where in 2021 her artwork was part of “Together, so far so close”.
Lucia Bricco
Italy, 1988
Lucia Bricco is an Italian artist based in Rome. She lived and worked in Athens (GR) from 2018 to 2023.
She studied Fine Arts in Turin (IT), Madrid (ES), and Rome (IT), getting her master’s degree in 2015 with a study examining the perception of collective space as mediated by individual experiences of physical trauma.
She employs surprise as a means to unveil a sharper, universal form of fundamental knowledge.
Through performance art, installation, and drawing, she constructs alternative realities whose internal systems are governed by a synthesis born not from the exclusion of the superfluous, but from the convergence of details.
If it were politics, it would be a utopian democracy of excess — a system in which interactions among parts emerge from the sum of exceptions rather than from the pursuit of a common perspective.
Her work explores fragmentation, repetition, and the precariousness of the elements that shape human existence.
Since 2020, co-founder of the art platform BEDS, a collective and changing body of artists, which promotes forms, combinations and different levels of international collaboration and participation.
Since 2015 she has taken part in several residencies, exhibitions, and performance festivals in Europe and Asia.
Website: www.luciabricco.com
Antonìn Brinda
Czech Republic, 1986
Antonín Brinda, a Czech artist based in Europe, works in the fields of performance / urban / walking / body art. He creates minimalist, conceptual, long durational works exploring areas such as urbanism, transportation infrastructure, political geography, or international mobility. To balance the serious topics, he also likes to present other types of performances that are more personal and humorous. He is a graduate from different fields of art and art theory.
Apart from an artist, he is also an organizer/curator of various (performance) art events and festivals. Examples of past and present events include Performance Crossings (Prague, CZ), Performensk (Minsk, BY), Wärmflasche (Berlin, DE – Vernéřovice, CZ), Perform – or not (Tallinn, EE), Carbonarium (Kyiv, UA) or New Performance Turku Festival (Turku, FI). Since the beginning of 2021, he is co-running a series of monthly performance events SPA – Studio Performance Art in Prague.
Since 2011, his performances were presented in various galleries and festivals as well as in less traditional venues within Europe and beyond (Mongolia, China, Thailand, Russia,…).
Website: www.antoninbrinda.com
Iulia Ghiță
Romania, 1986
Iulia Ghiță (Romania, 1986) works with a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, photography, and video. The artist is interested in the unlimited nature of the human being.She explores subliminal ways of knowledge including dreams, revelations, and premonitions.
Recent solo exhibitions include Ex Elettrofonica (2022) and AlbumArte (2021). Her work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions, including Mole Vanvitelliana (2025), Complesso Monumentale di San Giovanni (2025), Nuovo Spazio di Casso (2025), Centrul de Interes (2024), Thedas Theatre, Barker Theatre, and Titanik Gallery (2023), as well as Cosmo Trastevere (2023), Palazzo Odescalchi (2023), La Nube de Oort (2023), Museo Bilotti (2021), Palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco (2021), and BEDS, Athens (2021). Her work has been included in publications such as Iulia Ghiță. He Failed To Save The One He Loved Most, Erratica; A Journey through Italian Art between the 20th and 21st Centuries; the Panorama Quadriennale di Roma; and 222 Emerging Artists to Invest In / 2024. She is co-founder of BEDS (2020), an evolving artistic project grounded in a non-hierarchical approach to collective practice. She has contributed to seminars and lectures in various academic contexts, including RUFA University in Rome, the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca, Babeș-Bolyai University (Theatre, Film and Media), LUISS Business School in Rome, and the University of Western Macedonia in Florina.
Sandra Johnston
Northern Ireland, 1968
Sandra Johnston is a visual artist from Northern Ireland active internationally since 1992, working predominantly in the areas of site-responsive performance and installation. Johnston’s actions have often involved exploring the aftermath of trauma through developing acts of commemoration that exist as forms of testimony and empathetic encounter. Johnston has held several teaching and research posts since 2002, including an AHRC Research Fellowship at the University Of Ulster in Belfast, investigating issues of ‘trauma of place’. In 2007, she was the ‘Ré Soupault’ Guest Professor at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. Currently, Course Leader of the BxNU MFA at Northumbria University in England. In 2013, Johnston published a PhD research project entitled, Beyond Reasonable Doubt: An Investigation into Concepts of Doubt, Risk and Testimony Explored Through Consideration of Performance Art Processes in Relation to Systems of Legal Justice.Several artworks have developed through intensive collaborative processes, most notably over the last decade with Alastair MacLennan and Dominic Thorpe. Additionally, Johnston has been committed long-term to the development of performance art networks.
Melissa Jolma
Finland, 1994
Melissa Jolma is a Helsinki based finnish dancer/dance teacher who graduated from Arts Academy of Turku University of Applied Sciences with a BA degree in dance pedagogy in 2018. During her studies she participated in the Erasmus Exchange programme studying dance in Escola Superior de Danca in Lisbon during spring and summer semester of 2016. After graduation Jolma has been working more in the field of theater than just dance both on and off stage. As an artist (and in general) Jolma is interested in how personal, intimate and political intersect in everyday life, what kinds of forces drive changes in societal level and how to find pleasure and sustainability in the precariousness of current ways of living.
In autumn 2022 she is part of a working group creating a performance art piece Baby Judo at Tehdas -theater
in Turku and splitting her time between working as a freelance artist and as a student in the faculty of social
sciences in University of Helsinki.
Jade Kallio
Finland, 1978
Jade Kallio (they/them) is an artist and filmmaker who works with a variety of media, including experimental cinema, performance, and installation. Kallio's personal and collaborative works blend documentary and speculative fiction and they explores buildings and the human-modified environment as metaphors for bodily existence and the processes through which bodies and identities are shaped.
Kallio’s works has been presented at festivals and institutions such as Europian Media Art Festival (2019, 2017), Beursschouwburg Art Center Brussels (2019), Kunsthalle Osnabrueck (2019), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2019, 2017), CCA derry (2016), HAM gallery (2017), Turku Art Museum (2017), Gallery Sinne (2017, 2022)
Website: www.jadekallio.com
Macklin Kowal
USA, 1990
Macklin Kowal is a curator and academic based in Athens, Greece. A Ph.D. candidate in Political Theory at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, his dissertation analyzes contemporary far-right nationalisms of the Euro-Atlantic through the frames of discourse theory and theories of performativity. He has been additionally Founding Director of Sub Rosa Space, an independent platform for performance art located in central Athens. His academic and curatorial work convene around questions of testimony and cultures of public opinion, with particular focus on queer and anti-colonial perspectives. Kowal has presented his research throughout Europe and North America, in both conventional and performative lecture form. Previously a dance artist, he held the danceWEB scholarship at ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival (Vienna) and was choreographer-in-residence at the Meridian Gallery (San Francisco).
LukasKolm
Lithuania, 1979
LukasKolm has been working in the field of visual and performance art since 2006.
He lives and works as an art teacher in Kaunas.
Responsible for 'Visual Arts Studio - Creativity Island' (kurybossala.lt).
Author of numerous exhibitions in art spaces in Lithuania and abroad, including Art Park Gallery, No Name Studio, Hommo Ludens Gallery, Ukmergė Art Gallery.
His work, with a strong installation and performance character, investigates time and memory inherent in objects and their transience in relation to human life.
Website: www.lukaskolm.com
Antti-Juhani Manninen
Finland, 1977
Antti-Juhani Manninen is a multi-disciplinary artist, working mainly with sound and live performance.
He works with wide range of artists from differend fields of art: visual artists, dancers, actors and puppeteers. Manninen has lately been interested in the absurdity of human behavior and modern condition, the unheimlich, performing less, performer’s presence and absence. He designs and performs pieces that investigate the unavoidable essentials of performing and the stage, the possibilities of performing, use of text in performance, questions of dissociation and alienation, care and empathy, some cake and a variety of neoprene shorts. His works have lately been seen at Salon de Normandy by The Community (Paris), Performensk (Minsk), Art Lab Gnesta (Gnesta), Spectaculo Intresse (Ostrava, Czech), Nordic Performing Arts Days (Odense, Denmark), Helsinki Festival (Helsinki), Tampere Theatre Festival (Tampere), Kiasma museum of contemporary art (Helsinki), Mad House (Helsinki), Tallinn Teater Treff (Tallinn), Publics (Helsinki) and Ruisrock (Turku). Website:www.anttijuhani.tumblr.com
Yaryna Shumska
Ucraine, 1989
Yaryna Shumska is a Ukrainian interdisciplinary artist, performer, curator, researcher and lecturer. Her practice integrates live art performance, painting, object, installation and text. She explores the concept of presence through the optics of absence and loss, using the physical body as a visual sign of communication. The intersection of memory, place, and bodily presence reveals in a form of the site-responsive works.
A graduate of the Lviv National Academy of Arts (LNAA), Shumska was a grantee of the Gaude Polonia Scholarship program of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. She has presented solo projects and participated in major exhibitions, festivals and conferences across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including the Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF), Belfast International Festival of Performance Art (BIFPA), Arctic Action, Venice International Performance Art Week.
She is a co-founder of the Department of Contemporary Art Practices at LNAA (2018), and has co-curated key initiatives, including the School of Performance (2019), the Performance Archive. Ukraine (2021), and the International Festival Days of Performance Art in Lviv in collaboration with the Czech FNAF (2024–2025). Participant ща BED’s since 2025.
Website: yarynashumska.com
Eglė Šimėnaitė
Lithuania, 1992
Eglė Šimėnaitė is a Lithuanian interdisciplinary artist, performance maker, and film actress based in Helsinki, Finland, and occasionally in Prague, Czech Republic. Her artistic practice revolves around the felt—textures of touch, light, sound, absence, and bodies in space—offering a direct way of exploring humanity and its relationship to the environment, and opening new, altered worlds through the senses. In her recent performances, she has been investigating the materiality of seemingly immaterial phenomena: light as a physical entity, humanity as a sonic phenomenon, and color as an experiential quality.
She is a graduate of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where she earned a degree in Directing Devised Theatre and Contemporary Performance. Drawing on her previous studies in Acting and Directing of Drama Theatre, as well as her work in Lithuania, she has developed a diverse background that includes acting in classical and contemporary theatre, performing in independent and interdisciplinary productions, and appearing in films and video projects.
Website: www.eglesimenaite.com
Antti Turkko
Finland, 1980
Antti Turkko is an artist and architect. He is interested in e.g. the ways and narratives through which space is
experienced and produced. His works combine architectural objects, image, space and text. His works have
been lately seen for example in HAM gallery (Helsinki Art Museum), SIC gallery (Helsinki), Sandstorm environmental art show (Pori) and Salon de Normandy by the Community (Paris).
Website: http: www.anttiturkko.net
Tuğba Varol
France, 1993
Tuğba Varol graduated from the Institute of Fine Art of Besançon (France) in 2017. She is a multimedia artist who approaches the realm of images as a planet of infinite contours. Her research focuses on pictorial sacralization, the contemporary place of sacrifice, cultural archetypes, and mental images. In her installations, she complicates visual perception in order to make the experience of the image a physical reality. The motivation that ties each of her projects together: to consider the organ of imagination as vital, for which it is necessary to develop processes of stimulation.
Her work has been presented at various art centers and contemporary art fairs, such as the Independent Art Fair Platforms Project (GR), Istanbul Photography Festival 2016 (TR), Le Générateur (FR), Le Granit (FR), Beton7 Arts Center (GR), Excentricité Performance Festival (FR).
From 2017 to 2021 she co-founded and runs, with artist Adrien Chevrier, the independent art space Come alone in Athens, Greece. The space was conceived as a living work in collaboration with international artists.
Since 2026 she co-developed a sound performance project with Adrien Chevrier operating under the name Cohérence Cosmique.
Portfolio here
Ximan Wang
China, 1990
Ximan Wang is a Chinese Performance artist, video maker, also works with installation. Currently lives and works in Rome. Graduated in 2016 with Master degree at Academy of Fine Arts of Rome. During the period of academy she started to work on identity and genderfluidity. She is still seeking the width of possibility and the limit of realizability. In 2015 she participated the workshop and the Exhibition of Scuola di disegno with Cesare Pietroiusti (IT) in Rome. At the same year in Kvilda Czech Republic, she participated the workshop led by Marin Zet (CZ). In 2016 she performed at Sense Sound/Sound Sense at Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. Being nominated and exhibited the neon installation "My Love Can Be Bought" at Talent Award 2016 at MACRO Testaccio in Rome. In 2017 participated the performance workshop at Lublin in Poland led by Jügen Friz (DE). In 2018 participated the Transart Communication (kassák Centre) Performance Train performance workshop by Marylin Arsem traveling between Budapest-Prague-KrakowBratislava. In 2019 first solo exhibition of performance at GESSOISLAND Shenyang in China. Performed RED at ZABIH Performance Art Festival 2019, Lviv, Ukraine.
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