Mazen Alsafadi, 25-year-old Lebanese poet and environmental science master’s student who moves between the worlds of art and science, finding fulfillment in both. Previously organized open mics at Riwaq and now hosting Poetry Nights at Heiners, warm, welcoming evenings of poetry and connection.

Jorge Hernández is a Mexican artist, musician and producer.

Stephan White (aka Artboydancing) explores visual and non-verbal art through sculpture, collage, and painting. Born in 1973, he divides his time between New York City and Berlin, inspired by each city’s unique character. He earned his MFA from SUNY Albany State University in 2004.

As an artist with Autism and other cognitive learning disabilities, Stephan uses art as a liberating, non-verbal medium to express his experiences. The circle symbolizes his journey, drawing viewers into the composition’s complex story. He explores the intersection of the sacred and psychological through textured layers, avoiding direct grasping of these themes. Colors are dark, saturated with muted hues, reflecting his Synesthesia and the challenges of bright colors. Circles, shapes he perceives in people and the world, are prevalent in his work, reflecting his struggle to understand social cues. Recycled materials like cardboard, fabrics, jars, and tin cans are incorporated, emphasizing the value of repurposing waste.

For this artist spotlight, host, Savanna Fortgang, will be interviewing Niko. He has operated as Fringe Society/Modern Ruin for the better part of the last decade. He had dealings and a “career””” in music before but his path in music has evolved in many ways throughout the decades. We will be discussing his many musical projections, including his most recent creation "f0ment." It’s a 2 year old project but it has been a long time coming and as he put its "probably my final form." Nike is Greek born but has lived in the UK and Germany since 2000. He is a father of 3 kids so apart from anything else, he is a parent, which he intrinsically links to his art. Niko is classically trained musician and a percussionist, guitar player, piano player, he also works heavily with synthesis but his style is to combine everything.

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Nate Helmerick is a Berlin based multi disciplinary artist. He explores a vast array of mediums including photography, sound based art and performance as well as painting and sculpture.His visual painting based work comes from a realm of chathartic and therapeutic release. Channeling and following the flow state, the pieces have an abstract and ritualistic quality. Earthly and grounding, yet somehow offering a psychedelic and rich stimulation to the senses.

My name is Ruben Balthasar Bütterich, and I have been living in Berlin for four years. Since 2021, I have been studying product design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. During my studies, I have particularly developed myself in the field of textiles and deepened my knowledge in this area. In addition to numerous other projects, I am dedicated to fashion, performance, and art. I have extensive experience in planning and implementing photo and video shoots, as well as in conceptual work. Furthermore, I have taken on the leadership of productions for installations.

Aka Rachel McCollum (b. New York, 1983) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Berlin. She explores how form operates in nature through painting and construction with materials. Using graphic lines and a saturated palette, she references patterns, symbols, traditional art, and craft. She makes street art as Intervention, considering its playful, accessible qualities to be inherently democratic. Her recent work involves sculptural installation that utilizes a light source to influence contour and emphasize the tactility and transparency of non woven textiles.

Kerima Elfaza is a freelance 3D fashion and costume designer based in Bremen, Germany. After completing her bachelor degree in Fashion Design at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle and Royal Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen, she studied Integrated Design at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen to take her master’s degree. At this stage, her work is most focused on interdisciplinary projects in the field of 3D art, performances, textile and fashion design.

Nipuna Jayasekera, (b. 1990) in Sri Lanka, developed an interest in art and music from a young age. When given a cricket bat as a child, he chose instead to play it as a guitar. During childhood in Sri Lanka, Nipuna often played with tuning dials on old radios, surfing the Am/Fm frequencies. Discovering the recording functions of subsequent hi-fi systems sparked a lifelong fascination with music, sound recording, and sampling. Years later, Nipuna attended art school in Melbourne, Australia, to study media arts, although he decided to drop out in the final year. Despite leaving a formal education in Fine Arts, his interest in Media Arts, especially working with found footage and editing, remained. Subsequently, Nipuna pursued studies in Music Industry, with a focus on sound design. Nipuna's record label, ‘ERF Records,’ is dedicated to the proliferation of conceptually driven media and music. His most recent work combines interests in both experimental video art and sound design while exploring elements of post-art, philosophy, and poetry. These works often skirt the boundaries between post- & meta-irony, featuring soundtracks that range from hypnagogic ambience to powerful dramaturgic synth ballads. Nipuna’s work covers contemporary issues such as technologically mediated alienation, mental illness, consumption, and dissolution.

Jude Vadée is a Berlin based french photographer and visual artist born in 1996. At the intersection between fashion and documentary, his work contributes to archiving queer and non-normatives existences. He has been documenting Berlin’s trans community, drag scene, and queer nightlife for the past couple years, and collecting portraits of lgbtq+ individuals since the start of his photography practice. His images, honest, raw and intimate, explore notions of gender and sexuality, identity and performance, intimacy and relationships. Photography appears as a tool to explore individual and collective identity, and enables him to find community through portraiture.