Stefania Strouza (GR, 1982) lives and works in Athens. She studied at the Edinburgh College of Art (MFA in Environmental Art, 2010) and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (MFA in Textual Sculpture, 2015). Her practice explores how the cultural narratives of diverse origins, such as archaic cultures, indigenous cosmologies or European modernity, move across space to generate new cross-cultural syncretism. Her sculptures and installations combine material objects, both natural and artificial, that connect contemporary reality with forgotten or suppressed ways of human existence. Strouza reformulates historically specific forms—such as antique maps, architectural details, or textile designs— in non-representational, abstract ways, revealing unexpected meanings that cast doubt on established cultural hierarchies.

Sophie Durand (AU, 1993) lives and works in Reykjavik. She graduated with Honours in Fine Arts at the Curtin UniversityB in Bentley (Australia) in 2015. Her practice extends from the intersection of sculpture (a representation placed and situated physically in time) and performance (drawing on a formal model of theatre) and is interested in the transitionally of a theatre performance, amounting and then decaying as it comes into existence. Sophie’s works have their origin in anecdote, archive and memory; generally these are directly accessible to/collected by her, or based on her own experiences/observations and aim to activate new meanings and interact with new situations.

Billie Maya Johansen (DK, 1986) lives and works in Copenhagen and graduated (MFA) from the Städelschule in Frankfurt in 2014. Her practice includes video, installation and graphics, united through underplayed humour and a keen interest in contemporary socio-political conditions and phenomena. Her work investigates the human condition and the themes of social decay and weariness against automated relationship.

Berit Schneidereit (DE, 1988) lives and works in Düsseldorf. She obtained her MFA from the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf (Prof. Andreas Gursky / Prof. Hubert Kiecol) in 2017. Schneidereit’s hybrid images created from analogue and digital imaging processes alternate between pictorial narration and formal abstraction. In addition, she uses specific techniques such as photograms in her work. With this variety of forms of expression in photography the artist repeatedly challenges the pictorial space by enabling us to experience the depth of the image in a nearly sculptural way.