Iveta Gabalina

Julia Gaisbacher (*1983) lives and works in Vienna (AT). She studied art history at the University of Graz (AT) and sculpture at the Dresden University of Fine Arts (DE), as well as the Sint-Lukas School of Arts in Brussels (BE). At the center of her working method are extensive research and long-term observations that focus on the urban landscape as a human living environment. The starting point is always photography. Her final works manifest in the forms of prints, installations, films and photobooks, with the latter having become an important part of her artistic practice. Her latest book, “Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg”, was published by Hatje Cantz in 2025.

Thérèse Anna Rafter (b. 1989, Dublin, Ireland) is an artist and researcher working across photography and installation. Her practice investigates how the living world is mediated within Western visual culture, with particular attention to institutional modes of representation and display. Engaging critically with the legacies of natural history, museum practices, and photographic visual regimes, Rafter’s work explores the boundaries through which human–animal–land relations are constructed and maintained. Characterised by a measured tension between restraint and sensitivity, her work is articulated through a rigorous analogue approach to material, form, and production. By foregrounding processes of framing, preservation, and visibility, Rafter challenges anthropocentric ways of seeing and considers how knowledge of nonhuman life is produced and encountered. Rafter holds a BA in Photography and completed an MA in Visual Arts in 2024. She is currently undertaking a research Master’s at Sint Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp, Belgium.

Eslam Abd El Salam is a visual artist based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His work focuses on walking as a pedagogical practice and is centered around the body: the body in motion, in contact with nature, and in the presence of other bodies. Through the mediums of analogue photography, Polaroids, text, moving image, and mixed media, Eslam considers notions of synchronicity, specifically in relation to friendship and serendipitous encounters with others. Other recurring themes in his work include family archives, time, and displacement. He is keen to visually find the common thread between the personal and collective within his artistic practice. Originally from Cairo, Egypt, and based in Belfast since 2022, Eslam's journey to Ireland began in March 2019 as an artist-in-residence at The Curfew Tower in Cushendall. His work has been exhibited internationally in Finland, France, Latvia, Egypt, and the UK. Most recently, he has worked with Kunstverein Aughrim on developing a long-term photographic and installation project called Can You See with Your Heart? that was exhibited during Craic in the Granite Music & Arts Festival on the 27th of June 2025.

Pierre Vanneste is a Belgian photographer and filmmaker based between Brussels and Dakar,specializing in long-term reportage and documentary projects. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries (Biennale ofDakar Contemporary Art, Musée de la Photographie de Charleroi, FoMu,Zone i) and published in media outlets such as Médiapart,Libération, DOC! Photo Magazine, Courrier International (webversion), De Standaard, Tchak, Equal Times, and Alter Echo. In 2018, he co-directed "Bargny, the real face of economic emergence"a transmedia documentary (photos, videos, and texts) about thedesignation of land for industrial purposes. The project wasshortlisted for the Visa d'Or for Digital Information 2019 (Visa pourl'image festival). His project "DREMMWEL" (a photo project with enrichedvideo content) was published in 2020 by Éditions Yellow Now. It is along-term project on the extractivist model through fishing andoverfishing. This project has been exhibited in France, Belgium,Senegal, and Canada. One of the photographs from the project is nowpart of the permanent collection at the Musée de la Photographie deCharleroi. He received the 2019 Photographic Grant from the FondationJean-Luc Lagardère for his project "P2O5, the Toxic Impact ofPhosphate" which he co-directed with author-journalist Laurence Grun. Since 2022, he has been working on various videographic andphotographic documentary projects in Senegal.

My name is Claude. As an interdisciplinary artist, I mainly use the media of photography and sound. I am based in Lichtensteig in Toggenburg, Switzerland. I grew up in the 90‘s in a small village on the Swiss side of Lake Constance and was socialised in the environment of the Catholic Church. Today, after studying analogue photography at Ostkreuzschule in Berlin and living in various house and farm projects, I no longer feel that I belong there.

However, the themes in my artistic practice today are still characterised by a tightly structured childhood, youth and apprenticeship: in my work, I have been exploring the concepts of collectivity and intimacy for several years. I am always looking for liberating and solidary acts in performative moments and arts production. My image- and sound-based practice reveals my great affinity for technology, the exploration of boundaries and needs in dialogue and the creation of trusting connections and learning spaces in my collaborations.

As a child of the working class, I am concerned with my own role as an artist in society and what (political) room for manoeuvre this opens up for me. The problem of self-exploitation, especially - but not only - with a body read as female, is a recurring theme in my artistic practice.

Since 2019, the Salon Vert has been a network of artists, a laboratory for sound research and a place for interdisciplinary dialogue. The Salon Vert has found a new home in my studio in Lichtensteig in 2023. I am also co-founder of the audiovisual Glitch Festival in St.Gallen and music editor at the community radio station Stadtfilter in Winterthur.

I am a Danish-American documentary photographer and visual artist dedicated to creating space for Black interiority and complexity. With a BA in photojournalism, I approach photography through storytelling with the awareness of genuine representation. Navigating from this perspective, I aim to capture the spaces where we are closest to our authentic self. As I turn my camera towards the reality of everyday-Black-existence in its simplicity and extraordinary, I want to uplift the voices and stories of afrodiasporic individuals. As I turn the camera on myself, I explore both personal and collective history. Raised between Copenhagen and Hamburg with African American heritage, I work across local and global contexts, using my practice as a language through which I connect with and express Black existence.

Peter Pflügler (b. 1987) is an Austrian visual storyteller based in the Netherlands. He holds a BA in Photography from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Pflügler’s work centres on the dynamics of secrets, intergenerational trauma and silence. With the help of photography, video and text, he aims to resurrect the unseen, the unknown and the hidden. His Now is not the right time project has been shown at numerous festivals and exhibitions throughout Europe, whilst the dummy was nominated for several international prizes, including the Kassel Dummy Award.Website: peterpflugler.com

Viacheslav Poliakov is a visual artist, photographer, graphic designer. He was born in 1986 in Kherson, Ukraine. Obtained a master’s degree in art education from Kherson State University. Now based in Lviv, Ukraine. His art practice exists on the intersection of documentary photography and design. He's interested in objects and spaces made by people, the historic background behind the urban landscape. Viacheslav is a finalist of Foam Talents, Vienna Photobook Festival, Circulations, Krakow Photomonth Showoff, Fotofestival Lodz Grand Prix, Prix Levallois. His works were published in the Foam Magazine, The British Journal of Photography, GUP magazine, Lensculture, The Washington Post.

Johanna Hullár is a Zurich-based visual artist working with photography, video installations and timebased sculptures. She graduated from the HTW Berlin with a degree in communication design and holds a master’s degree in photography from ECAL, University of Art and Design Lausanne. Hullár’s practice explores themes of connection, materiality, time and perception. She investigates new ways of mixing still and moving images, playing with notions of surreality and reality, and generated objects to reflect on possible futures and the interaction of (wo)man-made and natural materials, presented through a humorous and feminine prism. Hullár’s transdisciplinary approach opens up new visual spaces, offering visitors a sensory experience with sculptural arrangements frozen in ice, constantly in motion and changing state. Laureate of the Swiss Design Awards 2024 and Prix de l’ECAL 2020, and nominee for the Prix Mobilière 2024, Hullár made her institutional debut at Kunsthalle Mannheim in 2021, followed by the solo shows Floral Landscape (2021), Burning Desires (2022) and Material Landscape (2023) held in Zurich. She has exhibited internationally, including at Swiss House Milano (2022), Jungkunst Winterthur (2021), Tokyo Photographic Research (2019), Biennale dell’Immagine Chiasso (2019) and Paris Photo (2018). In 2023, she was resident at La Becque artist residency and in 2025 at Plateforme 10 x Fiminco Fondation in Paris.