Naya de Souza
©Eden Jetschmann
Naya de Souza was born in 1991 in the Caatinga region of Brazil and grew up between the borders of Bahia and Pernambuco. Working under different alter-egos like "LUX VENÉREA" and "@Bundaskanzlerin," she transitions between disciplines such as performance art, comedy/stand-up, and cooking. Multilingual by birth and transdisciplinary by heritage, Naya's body of work transcends traditional boundaries, whether between disciplines, countries, or institutions. She views art as a perpetual process of immigration and translation.
Based in Berlin since 2016, Naya has stormed the cultural scene with her multimedia cabaret performances and politically charged stand-up sets.
Alfredo ledesma quintana
©Alfredo Ledesma Quintana
Alfredo Ledesma Quintana (he/him) belongs to the third generation of a Peruvian silversmith family from the Andes. He also has roots in a peasant community in the "ceja de selva" of the region Amazonas in Peru. His families taught him art as a means of transmitting different visions of life in harmony with other living beings. Through decolonial relearning, he explores what forms of values, thoughts, ideas and visual perception, traditional cosmovisions and ways of life exist in Andean and Amazonian societies. Currently, he seeks this path as a PhD candidate within the programme PhD in Practice at the Academie of Fine Arts Vienna.