Delia Vico is an Italian artist whose practice moves between tattooing, mural painting, ceramic work, and calligraphy. Rooted in a fascination with letterforms, her early work centered on cursive scripts and Chicano styles, while her recent research focuses on Gothic typography. Through skin, walls, and ceramics, her work maintains colour black as a dominant force, reimaging text as a living, visual language.

Tonnus Oosterhoff is one of the most prominent Dutch poets at this moment. He basically received all the awards a poet can get in The Netherlands. But more importantly, he never stops innovating. Working from diverse sources – local anecdotes, newspaper articles, canonical poems – Oosterhoff’s innovative poetry is noted for its complex shifts in discursive register and for its exploration of mutability.

sven staelens is a Belgian visual poet, writer and educator whose work blurs the boundaries between text and image. Through books, installations, and performances, he explores the minimal, the fragmentary, and the playful intersections of language, literature and form. Sven’s practice invites audiences to experience poetry as a physical and immersive encounter beyond the printed pages.

Bart van Dongen is a versatile audio artist: composer, musician, organizer who has done numerous small and large scale projects over the years. He has been city composer of ‘s Hertogenbosch. He is founder of the Paviljoen Ongehoorde Muziek, a venue in Eindhoven for development and presentation of contemporary music in all its aspects.

Noam Youngrak Son is a communication designer, theorist, and cultural worker exploring publishing, speculative worldbuilding, workshops, and performative interventions. Their ongoing project, Archive of Patchy Studies, experiments with sustaining creative labor beyond institutional frameworks. As co-organizer of a queer publishing collective, Son bridges design and critical theory to question the ontologies of design, media, and material culture where they reimagine creative labor and its entanglements with power, identity, and more-than-human ecologies.

photo credits: Ieva Maslinskaitė

Marthe Koning is a hybrid performance artist who works both solo and in collective settings. Her artistic practice consist of her voice which is a direct form of communication but also is characterized by a continuous search for new forms of expression and interdisciplinary collaboration. She uses her voice as an undisguised and fearless foundation where she sharpens the tension between the emotional and cognitive worlds.

photo credits: Victoriano Moreno

Natalia Papaeva is a visual and performance artist exploring language, memory, and cultural identity. Raised in Buryatia(Eastern Siberia) and based in the Netherlands, her work brings the endangered Buryat language into public space, resisting its disappearance through voice, movement, and sound. Natalia transforms personal and collective histories into visceral performances that challenge ideas of belonging and cultural survival.

photo credits: Natascha Libbert

Changli Cui Luo is a transdisciplinary artist and storyteller whose work emerges from the experiences of ethnic minority women in southwest China. Moving through body, image, text, and ritual, she/they explore feminist futurities and embodied archives and imagination. Her practice seeks to construct a non-linear, embodied mode of knowledge production beyond patriarchal narratives.

Fatemeh Asiri is a researcher and artist exploring themes of identity and belonging within the MENA region, with a focus on Iran and Kuwait. Fatemeh explores various forms of storytelling such as installations, performance and writing to shift the audience's focus to polyphonic narratives. She tries to do so by bringing together a diverse range of experiences and perspectives to create a dialogue among artists, educators, and people alike.

Dean Bowen is a poet, writer, performer, critic and an educator whose work interrogates the dynamics of composite identity and its political and social implications. In his work Dean connects personal histories with collective struggles, creating lyrical and urgent texts that question power, belonging and multiplicity.

photo credits: Merlijn Doomernik

Fleur De Decker is a dancer and maker based in Belgium and the Netherlands. In her work she navigates themes of identity, social and political realities, and the complexities of the inner world. Fleur’s practice seeks to connect and unravel layered experiences through movement within a purposeful and reflective framework.

Sameepta Lamba is a dancer and choreographer based in the Netherlands whose practice draws from club and street styles, contemporary dance, and Indian classical forms. Sameepta’s work is rooted in musicality and storytelling, blending tradition and innovation to craft performances that evoke rhythm, history, and emotion.

Rachele Chinellato is an Italian dancer and performer based in Amsterdam. Her practice consist of dance performances, films, site-specific works, and operas, reflecting an international and collaborative approach. Known for her versatility and presence, Rachele explores the relationship between inner experience and physical expression, seeking authenticity as a mode of connection between self, others, and space.

photo credits: @edward.amsterdam

Revé Terborg is a versatile performer, choreographer, and movement artist whose career bridges contemporary dance, music, and embodied practices. Alongside her performance work, Revé develops Energy Systema, a methodology merging music and movement to restore vitality and foster self-expression. Through dance, DJ sets, and immersive events, she transforms movement into a tool for empowerment and personal growth.

Rohiet Tjon Poen Gie is a choreographer, performer, and teacher whose roots in Hip Hop and contemporary dance inform his multidisciplinary approach. Originally from Paramaribo, Suriname, and now based in the Netherlands, his work examines the lingering legacies of colonialism, bringing underrepresented perspectives to the stage. Through blending urban and contemporary vocabularies, Rohiet creates performances that challenge historical narratives to shed light on underexposed perspectives.

Anuschka Loose is a choreographer, performer, writer and a maker who approaches dance as an intuitive act of care and questioning. Her work unfolds between the everyday and the poetic, creating spaces where ambiguity becomes a language. Through movement, Anuschka invites audiences to encounter the unseen and the unspoken, meeting the body as a site of intimacy and transformation.

Berendine Venemans is an artist with a background in game design, which informs her exploration of interaction, play, and creativity. Before shifting her focus to art and education, she worked extensively in the gaming industry. Collaboration is central to her practice, alongside teaching and public speaking on creativity and design. Beyond her artistic work, Berendine has authored a cookbook and continuously seeks to collect and share unique life experiences.

Merijn Bisschops is a storytelling composer and composing filmmaker. He creates interdisciplinary performances, compositions for varying instrumentations, video-art and photography. His work is performed at the world’s leading festivals. With music and image as a basis, he creates ever new combinations with other art forms such as dance and literature.

photo credits: Roos Pierson

Zwerm is a Belgian electric guitar quartet founded in 2007. They explore multiple genres, varying from renaissance music to contemporary pop and rock. They work together with several (inter)national composers, performers, theatre makers and visual artists. They perform in renowned venues all over the world. For the project The Five which is based on a novel by A.H.J. Dautzenberg, they collaborate with Karen Willems, a Flemish percussionist who played together with Arno en Zita Swoon.

photo credits: Jostijn Ligtvoet Fotografie

Karolien Wauters is a dancer, actress, and emerging choreographer whose work moves between contemporary dance and theater. Driven by curiosity, she explores diverse styles, themes, and collaborative processes, often bringing language and movement into her practice. Her performances engage with youth audiences as well as broader communities, seeking to expand the ways stories are embodied and shared.

Sarah Prescimone is a Sicilian choreographer and performer based in the Netherlands whose work spans around absurdity, satire, and poetic tension. Through her performance company Honey, don’t spill! she experiments with diverse movement vocabularies to create sensory experiences that blur humor and critique. Sarah’s choreographic voice thrives on unpredictability, inviting audiences into layered worlds of complexity and wondering.

photo credits: Barend Verijzer

Abel Ton is a guitarist and interdisciplinary musician exploring sound beyond convention. His practice blends improvisation, composition, and technology to create immersive performances where music meets other forms of art in order to merge into a single whole. Through experimental techniques and collaboration, Abel seeks to transform listening into a multisensory experience, questioning boundaries between disciplines and audience expectations.