Artists

lives in Berlin and studies at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In her literary, academic, and artistic work, she explores themes such as diaspora, memory, and nation-state and urban development. Her work has been presented in Berlin, Amsterdam, and at Peking University in Beijing.

is an artist, writer and researcher who is interested in transversal affinities across Afro-Asian diasporas, in particular makeshift forms, archival glitches and expanded kinships in art, poetry and music videos. She is an editor of the Berlin Inter-Asian Diasporic Anthology and a member of the Asian Feminist Studio for Art & Research (AFSAR) study group on (listening to/sounding) embodied archives.

grew up in Berlin and studies psychology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her interests lie in studying cultural differences and community work and formation.

is an MA student in Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and gained international experience through stays in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing. Her research focus lies on Identity making and wellbeing.

is a Berlin-based student of English and Art History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research interests focus on border politics and the connections across cultural, linguistic, and social boundaries.

is an experimental artist originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, now living in Berlin. Her background is in motion pictures, sound editing, and literature.

 is a Berlin-based cultural worker. From a queer Southeast Asian positionality, she focuses on accessibility and empowerment in the arts and culture, specifically through transdisciplinary and intersectional approaches. Her graduation thesis is titled “Decolonizing Translation: Empowering Strategies through Cultural Perspectives—Three Case Studies from Vietnam.”

studies critical ethnography in Berlin. She does anthropological and ethnographic research with a creative, transformational, political, and ethical stance. Her main fields of interest are narratives and practices around migration(s) and borders; critical (de)colonial and queer-feminist theories and practices; and educational, artistic, and curational research.

is an MA student at Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She works with global history and seeks to unlearn dominant scripts through alternative ways of knowing and telling the past. Her research centers on the political, cultural, and epistemological hierarchies that have been shaped and reshaped in East Asia from the late 19th century to the present.

 is a student and artist. She is currently studying North American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute at Freie Universität and is part of the Jewish Art School’s Multimedia Class under the mentorship of Ilit Azoulay at the Institut für Neue Soziale Plastik. Her artistic and academic interests focus primarily on cultures living in diaspora and the subsequent fusion of home and host cultures. Halberstam’s last exhibition focused on the cultural significance of shrines for the Vietnamese diaspora living in Berlin.

is a master’s student in Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin’s Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, with a focus on German colonial history and West African literature.

is an undergraduate philosophy student at ität Berlin. Born and raised in Istanbul, he came to Berlin for their studies. His research interests e in political and social philosophy, with a focus on countercultures and resistance within Turkey, exploring how identity and dissent emerge in opposition to the current government.

is a creative and student currently working in a project for children’s rights at KidsCourage, based in Berlin. At the moment, they are volunteering at various Afro German associations, like the Initiative of Black People in Germany (ISD) and EMPOCA, which organizes outdoor camps for Black children and youth, while staying active with other political groups in Berlin and sometimes facilitating workshops and events for QTIBIPOC* people. They are a strong advocate for the needs of marginalized communities and try to be part of projects that create transformative change.

is an undergraduate student at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with Kurdish roots but born and raised in Germany. She approaches her research from an intersectional perspective, exploring identity, memory, and belonging. Her work reflects her journey of untangling inherited trauma and cultural displacement through both personal and academic lenses.

practices somatics with a background in somatic experiencing, trauma therapy, herbalism, homeopathy, activism and sociology. They approach somatic work from a queer feminist lens and with a commitment to decolonizing therapy. They are nonbinary who are raised as Kurdish and Turkish, moved by and move for collective liberation.

is pursuing a double major in European Ethnology and Cultural Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In addition to her academic pursuits, she is actively engaged in artistic and musical work as a DJ and event organizer, focusing on Afro-Caribbean music—an homage to her roots—and the tradition of Caribbean Carnival.

is an MA student in Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Middle East Technical University, where her research interests include diaspora and memory studies. She co-leads Understanding the Concept of Belonging Through Cinema: Crossing the Borders of Türkiye, offered at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin within the framework of the Berlin University Alliance. She is part of the TAM Museum oral history team.

is an undergraduate student at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In his studies, he focuses on Middle Eastern cinema, in particular Algerian cinema, during the crucial period of the 70s and 80s. He also works as a journalist on topics relating to labor migration and freelances as an editor and filmmaker.

is a master’s student in the GETMA program. She holds a bachelor’s degree in History of Asia and Africa. Her research focuses on migration and diaspora communities, with a particular interest in migration of Turkish nationals to Europe.

is studying film studies and art history at Freie Universität Berlin. His work is driven by a fascination with the absurd and the grotesque, focusing on how media reflects and shapes cultural transformation. Looking at these changes through the lens of architecture and the shifting cityscape of Berlin, he returns to the medium of ink drawings, which he worked extensively with before coming to Berlin.

is an MA student in Media & Political Communication at FU Berlin. After spending years on a small island in the North Atlantic, she’s trying to find her place in Berlin — often through photography, mixed media, and getting lost in buckets of clay.

is a Master’s student in Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Born in Germany, she grew up between Germany and Syria until the war in 2011. As a Syrian shaped by both places, she focuses on migration, hybrid identities, diaspora, and postcolonial theory. She loves everything from old cheesy Arab soap operas to Gen Z Arab pop.

studies Art History and Cultural Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and she relies on friendship.

studies Embedded Systems at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik, has an interest in analog photography. Alongside his professional travels—often to unexpected destinations—he explores the art of film photography. His work captures the contrast between the calculated process of shooting on film and the highly digitized, technical environments in which it takes place, creating a dialogue between precision and visual introspection.

is an Erasmus student in the social sciences from Ireland, studying in the UK. Her work brings a transnational perspective to questions of identity, culture, and community.

is an Electrical Engineer from Technische Universität Berlin. She brings a lens to interdisciplinary collaborations, bridging the gap between technic and self-representation.

is a student of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Her work explores the layered and evolving meanings of belonging, drawing on diverse cultural and academic perspectives.

Since 2017, I have been based in Berlin, where I am currently completing my Master’s degree in Art in Context at the Universität der Künste (UDK). Alongside my academic work, I continue to experiment in my studio across various media, including performance, installation, and painting. I also lead regular intuitive art workshops that engage participants in creative exploration beyond traditional methods.

My work has been presented in various festivals, museums, galleries, and informal art spaces both locally and internationally.

is a master's student of urban geography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research interests lie in the spatial relations and local specificities of urban history, politics and culture dynamics. From a personal perspective, her work has been guided by a desire to navigate the experiences of being mixed-race and a second-generation immigrant in Germany.

is an MSc student in the Geographies of Global Inequalities program at Freie Universität Berlin. With a background in psychology and film studies, their academic and creative work centers on critical migration and border studies. As a queer migrant and activist, they engage with questions of (un)belonging, displacement and resistance both in theory and in practice.

 is a Computer Science student at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Born and raised in Ankara, she moved to Berlin in her early adolescence. Her project explores the duality of feeling at home in two places while simultaneously feeling disconnected from both—a tension she has long contemplated.

is an Erasmus undergraduate student at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she is studying within the Media Studies department. Originally from Istanbul, she studies Radio, Television and Cinema at Kadir Has University. Her academic and creative interests focus on themes of belonging, observation, and everyday life in urban environments.

is a Master’s Student at the IfEE (Institut für Europäische Ethnologie). She holds a bachelor’s degree in German literature. Her work focuses on the mundane, aiming to explore belonging through an anthropological lens.

is studying psychology. She is interested in how different cultures come together in a city, the influences they have, and the traces they leave behind—as symbols of diversity, commonality, resistance, and identity.