The Polish avantguarde group Karbido (authors of well-known soundworks such as »The Table« or »Music4buildings Series«), which has existed since 2003 and is made up of bassist Marek Otwinowski (Poland), guitarist Igor Gawlikowski (Poland), sound producer and multi-instrumentalist Tomasz Sikora (Poland) and drummer Peter Conradin Zumthor (Switzerland), have committed themselves
Johanna Sinisalo born in 1958 in Sodankylä, writes novels in the »Finnish Weird« style, a style that unites Finnish writers who have turned down the realistic tradition. Her debut novel »Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi« (2000; En. »Not Before Sundown «) was awarded the Finlandia Literature Prize. Sinisalo’s books have been
born in Swiss Niederbipp, she is a painter and photographer. She studied at the Zurich College of Art and Design and has worked in Dresden since 1991. Her artwork has recently been shown at the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett and, in connection with a residence grant, at the Leipzig Baumwollspinnerei. She is
born in Lübeck in 1946, studied at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin. His image compositions and installations have been exhibited in numerous cities. At EXPO 2000 in Hanover he was responsible for setting the stages for the theatre in the German pavilion. Mattner designed the exhibition »View into the Sun«
was born in Siegen, Germany in 1974 and studied Graphic Design at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin. After working as art director for the advertising agency Gruppe 96, he became a freelance photo designer in 1975. From 1994-97 he was guest professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig.
born 1960 in Offenbach, she studied Photography at Kunsthochschule Kassel in the 1980s. She then attended a painting class at the Staatlichen Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Fritz Schwegler). In addition, she received many scholarships, such as the DAAD scholarship USA, the Peter Mertes grant and for Villa Massimo, Deutsche Akademie Rom. She
Kai Pfeiffer was born in Berlin in 1975. From 1996 to 2003 he studied at the Academy of Art in Berlin-Weißensee, including as a protégé of Nanne Meyer. In 1999, together with fellow students, he founded the artist group and the publishing house monogatari, which significantly influenced the genre of
Born in 1968, David Vander Meulen is a French-speaking Belgian comic book writer and illustrator. After studying art and art history, he opened an underground cafe theatre in Brussels with a friend and created his first self-published comics. His drawing style of this period is characteristic of the École Marcinelle,
Andreas Rötzer, born in 1971, studies cultural studies and philosophy in Passau and Paris. From 1999 he worked as a bookkeeper at small Munich publisher Matthes & Seitz, which he took charge of in 2004 and relocated it to Berlin. Before he began to become successful by including contemporary German
