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Fellows of the Transcultural Academy 2023
Zohreh Deldadeh is a curator and art researcher based in Tehran and Paris. In her curatorial practice, she focuses mainly on social and political issues. She is currently focussing on working with archival material and collections as part of her interest in history as a central theme.
Barbara Marcel is a visual artist, filmmaker and researcher interested in the epistemological intersections between Brazil and Germany and the various colonialities that still permeate and exploit the Latin American territory today. At the same time, she regularly works with artists, researchers and activists on projects in the field of ecological relations and forms of thought and practice in times of increasing social inequalities and environmental crises. She lives in Berlin and is part of the Berlin Fellowship Programme for Artistic Research 2022 - 23.
Robert Ssempijja is an artist and researcher from Uganda. His work is influenced by the eras of post-colonialism and decolonisation. Ssempijja's work consists of research projects that translate into texts, films, installations and performances. He searches for a "regenerative art practice" that moves away from exploitative relationships. Through his work, he creates a bridge between the distorted past and the digital present.
To the Transcultural Academy 2023
Fellows of the Transcultural Academy 2022
Lizza May David, born in Quezon City, Philippines, lives and works in Berlin and studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nuremberg and at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Her works have been shown at Spheres of Interest, ifa Galerie, Berlin, in the Transition Exhibition at Brücke-Museum, Berlin and at The Vibration of Things, Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach.
Patricia Esquivias works as a research artist and lives in Madrid. She studied in London (1997-2001) and San Francisco (2005-2007). Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Dresden and Langenhagener Kunstverein, 2021, Centro Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, 2016, Kunsthalle Winterthur, 2013 and Museo Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, 2013, among others.
Choy Ka Fai is a Berlin-based artist from Singapore. His multidisciplinary art practice operates at the intersection of dance, media art and performance. Essential to his research is the constant exploration and investigation of the metaphysics of the human body. Through research expeditions, pseudo-scientific experiments and documentary performances, Ka Fai appropriates technologies and narratives to imagine new futures of the human body. His projects have been presented at Sadler's Wells, London, the ImPulsTanz Festival Vienna and Tanz im August in Berlin, among others.
Saba Innab is an architect, artist and urban researcher who works with historical research, drawing, mapping, modelling and spatial interventions. She explores borderline states between temporality and permanence through concepts such as dwelling and their political, spatial and poetic implications in language and architecture. She was a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme 2020 and recently had exhibitions at the ifa-Galerie Berlin and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
Tuan Mami is an interdisciplinary, experimental artist and is constantly exploring new methods to evolve through reflective questioning and social research. In recent years, he has begun to explore the concept of "humanity". In doing so, he observes and scrutinises social interactions between people and people with their environment in order to reconstruct social processes. His most recent exhibition participations include documenta 15 (2022) and the Prague Biennale (2020).
Agnieszka Roguski lives as a researcher, curator and author in Berlin. She is the artistic director of the M.1 Arthur Boskamp Foundation in Hohenlockstedt, Northern Germany. In her dissertation (Freie Universität Berlin), she analysed post-digital self-presentation as a curatorial act from a queer-feminist perspective. In 2022 she was Researcher in Residence at the MMCA Seoul, South Korea.
Sebastian-Manès Sprute is working together with the King Mayesse Foundation on their visibility and self-determined representation through the collection of the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony in order to overcome a Eurocentric view of Cameroonian objects in art history.
To the Transcultural Academy 2022
