meet the artists of 2026
Aksel Striim
meet Aksel in "House for Homeless grief" Aksel Striim is a Danish multi-instrumentalist, composer, and master of the wind harp, working across theatre, folk, and improvisational music. He performs with Teater Viva and several renowned ensembles.
meet Agnieszka in "In the Hollow We Remember" and "House for Homeless Grief"Agnieszka Bułacik
Agnieszka Bułacik is an artist, researcher and facilitator working with voice, collective singing, and embodied performance. Trained in visual arts, her practice has shifted toward sound and performance as tools for exploring relationality, presence, and collective experience. She is a co-founder of new visions, an arts and education collective supporting women and queer artists from Eastern Europe. Bułacik holds an MA in Cultural Studies and is currently a PhD candidate in Arts & Education at the University of Barcelona, where her research focuses on collective artistic practices and embodied learning.
Andrea Momme
meet Andrea in "Plant Prayers" & "The Oaklings"Andrea has worked for many years within the field of theater and performance.
Crafting and shaping with her hands. Giving life to materials, scenography and
costumes. In private, nature has always been a friend and ally. Emerging in her professional work is a need to also craft for nature. Not just from it.
Alaa Abu Asad
meet Alaa in "Wild Plants of Palestine" and "The Dog Chased its Tail to Bite it off"Alaa Abu Asad is an artist and photographer whose work takes the form of images and writing. Language and plants are central themes through which he develops alternative trajectories where values of (re)presentation, translation, viewing, reading, and understanding can come together.
meet Anja in “Humans and Plants in Dialogue - How would my way of living change if I developed a deeper connection and understanding of edible plants?"Anja Perl
Anja lives on a farm in Stevns, Denmark, together with animals, humans and other plant and nature beings. Rooted in an animistic understanding, Anja experiences the world as living and ensouled - a community in which humans and the more-than-human world support and shape one another. She strives to live by the ‘Principles of Life’, drawing strength from community and listening to the wisdom of ecosystems that existed long before us. Just as nature holds cycles, diversity, and regeneration, so does our inner world. She loves weaving together nature therapy, creativity, self-sufficiency, workshops, and the visible and invisible dimensions of life to create spaces where nourishment, connectedness, and purpose can grow.
Anika Spindelmann
meet Anika in "Baltic Correspondences"
Anika is a poet, writer & artist, independent researcher. Her work invites into a space of curiosity, intimate encounters and visioning with the land and beings through eco-poetic writing, carrier-bag-like foraging and weaving, multispecies perspectives and observations. She explores the inner and outer landscapes in the currents of climate collapse, connecting themes of solastalgia, (un)seasonality, rituals, wildness, and the possibilities for planetary intimacies and ecofeminist futures.
Borys Słowikowski
meet Borys in "Phytosomatic Dance Party"Borys Slowikowski is a musician, educator, and psychologist from Poland. Makes music with a drum, voice, and computer. His interests span raw folk, experimental music, and dance.
meet Carolina in "Sojourn"Carolina Marcos
Carolina (1989) born in Madeira Island (Portugal) has an academic background in Psychological Sciences, Communication and Creative Advertising. Her passion for working with words and images brought her to Denmark in 2024 to study Visual Anthropology (at Aarhus University), where she’s been carrying out a research project featuring multispecies ethnographic ventures, focused on more-than-human entanglements and migratory deroutes.. In her practice, she works with film, photography, and poetic approaches to analog and digital archives.
Christine Fentz is a performing artist, working with the living world from an animist worldview, by creating participatory performing arts through Secret Hotel and by hosting at Earthwise Residency, in Mols Bjerge.
Both organisations work with and for the more-than-human in performances, residencies, various collaborations, food gardens, the biannual Earthbound symposium, and different events. Focus is sharing care and reconnection with the living world.
meet Christine in “Opening Ceremony” and “Sink in – Rest(ing) Soil”
Christine Fentz
Clare Archibald
meet Clare in "Lone Women in Flashes of Wilderness"Clare Archibald is a Scottish multidisciplinary writer/artist whose diverse, multi-layered experimental practice has place, transformation, connection, learning, encounter, situation, and reoccurrence as foundational concepts. Her practice spans remote forest broadcasts, performance, walking/psychogeography, movement, curation/chairing of events/anthologies, objects, stand-up comedy, experimental weaving, puppet-making, drawing, vocals and more.
Crying Choir
meet the Crying Choir in "House for Homeless grief"Annette Rana Petersen, Anne Mette Nørgaard, Aleksandra Klitgaard, Bodil Kruse, Klaus Karrebæk, Anna Nyskov Irgens-Møller, Katharina Jespersen, Iona Reid-Dalglish, Lisbeth Frandsen, Johanne Baadsgaard Lange
Dominika Szelążek
meet Dominika in "Soil Punk"Dominika Szelążek (echo|echo) - a musician, cultural anthropologist, graphic designer, culture animator and educator based in Poznań, Poland. Dominika’s practice combines musical improvisation, deep listening, eco-somatic practices and cultural anthropology. Dominika engages with more-than-human perspectives, treating sound as a medium for interspecies dialogue. Dominika investigates places of ecological, social, economic decline and life emerging on capitalist ruins.
Dorota Michalak
Dorota Michalak is a choreographer, dancer, somatic educator and organizer of Polish origins. In her choreographic, communal and pedagogic projects, she approaches dance and music as a biotechnology operating between fantasy, physicality, and heritage. Member of Doom Mood and Otucha collectives bringing together people of different backgrounds and generations around dance and music.
meet Dorota in "Phytosomatic Dance Party"
meet Fabula in “Tending Towards Relational Landscapes”
Fabula
Fabula brings together design, multispecies discourse, social participation, ecology, and pedagogy to create caring and convivial futures.
Hanna Grześkiewicz
Hanna Grześkiewicz is a curator, researcher and artist whose work explores the intersections of sound, social movements, feminist thought, ecology, and border politics. She works across participatory and public discourse formats, performance, sound installations, writing, and radio work. As an organiser, she supports internationalist solidarity-building between feminist activists, especially in Eastern Europe, and is currently the Programme Director at filia.die frauenstiftung.
meet Hanna in "In he Hollow We Remember"
Ida Lod
Ida Lod is a Stockholm-based interdisciplinary artist and holistic voice therapist whose performances combine song, spoken word, violin, and movement to explore transformation, archetypes, and embodied voice practices.
meet Ida in "House for Homeless Grief"
Jaquita
Rooted in the Aarhus underground, Irish-born DJ Jaquita crafts landscapes that breathe with the rhythm of the natural world. Her sets are a living botanical journey, where music blooms in response to the environment and the shifting moods of the elements of her Irish heritage, while allowing her sound to be cross-pollinated by the mythologies and traditions of other cultures. Like a global ecosystem, her performance weaves together textures and organic rhythms, creating a lush, ever-evolving tapestry of sound that is as diverse as the earth itself.
meet Jaquita in "Mná Ceoil Bláthanna" DJ and VJ set 
film director -"Light Needs"Jesse Mclean
.Jesse McLean has dedicated her creative research and art practice to exploring what it is to be human in relation to what is not. Her films reveal the deep intimacies and connections formed through these relationships and contrast the finite capacities of the nonhuman with infinite human desires.
Katrine Faber is a performance and vocal artist, singer, composer, storyteller, director and installation artist. She is the artistic director of Teater Viva, exploring theatre as a resonant space between humans and their living surroundings. Her artistic research focuses on the expressive power of the voice, especially crying, grief, and voices often left unheard, including those of the non-human realm.
meet Katrine in "House for Homeless Grief"Katrine Faber
Liene Jurgelāne
meet Liene in "House for Homeless Grief", "Birch Time Listenings" and "In the Hollow We Remember"Liene Jurgelāne is an artist, a curator, a holder of spaces, a plant ally and the founder & artistic director of ROOTED Festival. Her practice is rooted in sound, ritual, and participatory performance, that explores temporalities of plants and multispecies relationships. She creates participatory spaces where ecological awareness can meet emotional depth as a way to repair the broken threads between humans and land.
Linnea Slipsager
meet Linnea in "Plant Tempo"Linnea Slipsager’s practice explores the relationship between place, community, and the natural environment. Through an interdisciplinary approach, she combines visual art with community engagement and environmental awareness. Rooted in a background in graphic design and organic farming, her work bridges artistic crafts with a deep attentiveness to local landscapes. Guided by deep listening, she creates visual artworks that arise from the stories and ecologies of each location. Rather than imposing an image, she allows the work to
emerge in dialogue with its surroundings. Through her practice, she seeks to strengthen connection - to land, to heritage, and to one another - creating spaces where people can feel rooted, seen, and reminded of the richness that already surrounds them.
Louise is an Aarhus-based artist working between landscape, performative practices and plant-based material exploration. Through photography and attentive presence, she investigates the relationships between people, place and the more-than-human, creating poetic, pictures and narratives rooted in the rhythms of the natural world. This has sparked her work with plant pigment in a quest to make organic art materials for her work..
meet Louise in "Plant Ink workshop"Louise Kirkegaard
Mina Đorđević is a Berlin-based sound artist whose work weaves voice, rhythm, and
resonance into immersive landscapes of healing and transformation. Drawing on singing, drumming, and ceremonial sound, her practice explores the liminal - where death meets dream, and the human dissolves into the more-than-human. Her performances are rooted in deep listening and embodied presence—inviting audiences into states of attunement with nature, and spirit. She is the creator of Illuminate Healing Arts, and a member of Otucha singing Collective.
meet Mina in "Maple Songs"Mina Đorđević
Monika Szuba
meet Monika in "Baltic Correspondences"Monika Szuba is a literary scholar, translator, associate professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, and Head of the Literary Studies in English at the University of Gdańsk. Author of two monographs: Landscape Poetics: Scottish Textual Practice, 1928-Present (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) and Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Monika’s on Bluesky: @monikaszuba.bsky.social
Nat Skoczylas
Nat Skoczylas is a genderqueer artist, anarchist witch and activist/organiser, living between Berlin and Massia(ru), Estonia. They are part of new visions (an interdisciplinary collective of eastern European and Baltic folks working on inner transformation and interdisciplinary collective processes), Massia (boiler janitor, prefigurative organiser, fermenter, gardener, cook and community weaver), Casino for Social Medicine (an experiment in mutual aid and solidarity located on Sonnenallee, where they do bar shifts, build community, fix the plumbing, and co-develop the socio-political and actual menu). They initiated femAle, a queer feminist, anarchist brewing project, which was part of the Circles UBI experiment in Berlin for some years.
meet Nat in "Nettle Bar"
Ola Zielińska is a vocal artist and author of sound projects, radio pieces, and performances. Her current practice and research explore collective singing traditions from so-called Eastern Europe from the somatic perspective, focusing on the socio-political connections between sound, spaces and body memory.
She is a member of vocal ensemble Otucha Collective, part of the group Draźnięta i Czahary, and co-founder of the electroacoustic project Nuvola. She is a member of SAVVY ZAAR Radio team and curator of music projects at SAVVY Contemporary.
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meet Ola in "Maple Songs"Ola Zielińska
meet Rikke in “Remembering Place, Remembering Me”
Rikke Otto
Rikke Otte is a creative maker and ecological thinker, exploring human connections with the more-than-human. Her work carries a particular interest in embodied knowledge, memory and the interwoven relationality of different lifeforms, times and places. She holds a specialist education in visual design (Kolding School of Design, DK) and a master within environmental humanities (Schumacher College, UK). When not exploring own projects, she teaches courses that connect creative making and scientific topics/
QT Carter
meet QT Carter in "Mná Ceoil Bláthanna" DJ and VJ set
QT Carter is a Danish-Irish visual artist, representing all things living, heaving, breathing and being. Meet her at the place where biophilic corporality and slick and shivering digitality meld and mesh on the dance floor.
Salomé Jashi
Salomé, the director, who was filming for two years, she says: “I would travel with my small team to the coast each month to try to capture elements for the film. It was a challenging process as nothing was properly planned. We were dependent on the natural elements like wind, rain, unexpected circumstances in the workers’ routine, even the general political situation of the day. The process of transplanting trees was very slow and key elements would happen very fast. But the biggest challenge was connected to the local inhabitants. Since the wealthy man behind the scenes is also the most politically powerful man in the country, they were often scared to even appear in front of the camera fearing possible consequences, the fear which we, like other fragile democracies, have in our blood.”
film director "Taming the Garden"
Sarafina facilitates co-creative communities for growing pleasurable, just and sustainable lives. Their work focuses on building local community and resources through skill-sharing, and often features circles of humans, jars of microbes, digital ecosystems, singing, dancing, storytelling and visual art.
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meet Sarafina in "The Story Kitchen workshop“
Sarafina McPherson Kimø
meet Silje in “WHAT IS SOIL?”
Silje Erøy Sollien
Silje Erøy Sollien is an architectural researcher, compost coach and explorer of regenerative worldings, in close partnership with soil.
Siegmar is a performance artist, researcher, herbalist, and end-of-life doula working with grief, regeneration, and collective transformation. Born in Romania and based in Berlin, Siegmar’s practice is rooted in plant knowledge passed down by her mother and aunt, guiding how she listens to plants as ancestors, teachers and allies.
Through performances and collective encounter spaces, she explores grief as a shared metabolism.
meet Siegmar in “Where the Breath Catches: Knots, Plants, and Other Portals”
Siegmar Zacharias
Upē
Upē is a singing collective based in Institut for (X). They sing together as a practice of collective healing, connection, and ritual and are practicing to be song carriers - learning songs and singing exercises that we can bring further to other communities. They sing songs which originate in Europe, where all members are located, along with the songs people bring from their own lineage and culture from anywhere in the world. Upē means in the river in Latvian. So the name is an invitation to step into the river of all songs and sing from this place.
meet Upē in "Closing Ritual"
WunschMachine
WunschMachine is popular avant-garde. Performing arts rooted in the rituals of the past, disguised in a contemporary form. In WunschMachine, the ordinary becomes magical – the bird. The moped. The garden. The plants. Humans stand face to face with other species and with one another. WunschMachine works site-specifically in collaboration
meet WunschMachine in "Haven" 
Xanthe Gresham Knight is a performance storyteller and author whose work spans theatre, museums, universities, and international festivals. Her practice centers around mythology, sacred healing plants, goddesses, and storytelling traditions, including the Iranian Shahnameh.
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meet Xanthe in "House for Homeless grief"Xanthe Gresham Knight
Yeong Ran Suh
meet Ran in“We/Re Confess Our Faith”
Yeong Ran Suh is a choreographer and artistic researcher in Copenhagen and Seoul. She created multidisciplinary performances based on ethnographic research about Korean shamanism and traditional dance. Her current artistic research focuses on the intersection of mechanical rice agriculture and animist rituals through non-secular multispecies ethnography and artistic intervention of Co-Future Weaving workshops. She is a member of <Becoming Species>, a climate-activism performance collective, and <Nubim Art Connection>, a community-oriented artist association.
Wendy Wuyts is a Belgian ecofeminist scholar, writer, and facilitator working at the intersection of care, ecology, and systemic transformation. She describes herself as a “serial rooter,” with bacteria of Norwegian, Japanese, Czech, Austrian and Thai soils in her body. She moves fluidly between academia and the circular startup world, contributing to European innovation projects, successful grant-writing teams, and collaborations with global experts on ecosystem frameworks and business model innovation.
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meet Wendy in "Writing (with) Plants"