The Land Remembers
Artists
(he/him) is a Ghanaian artist working with textiles, portraiture, and reclaimed clothing and materials from Kantamanto. His practice reflects on overconsumption and its human impact, drawing
attention to those who work within the secondhand clothing economy.
Through layered, tactile works, he transforms
discarded garments into forms that carry lived experience, connecting material, memory, and shared realities embedded in circulation.
Studio Neida
is an interdisciplinary architecture, design, curatorial and research practice
based in Lomé, Berlin and Brussels. It was co-founded by Togolese-French architect and
lecturer Jeanne Autran-Edorh and Austrian curator and writer Fabiola Büchele. Studio NEiDA makes space for multitudes. Its work is committed to equitable production processes, contextual approaches, regenerative craftsmanship, and inclusive exchanges between disciplines, materials and geographies.
(they/them) is a Berlin-and London-based, Black visual artist working on simultaneity and connection through large-scale cardboard sculptures and expressive, often monochromatic oil paintings. Chie’s work is permeated by a
search for connection, not just with loved ones but community and ancestry, posing
questions of belonging and care in a world scattered by colonialism and capitalism.
Mona Okulla Obua
(she/her) is a German-Ugandan director, poet
and visual artist. She graduated from Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg in 2017. Topics of her work are diasporic identities, the filmic decolonisation of Black and biracial bodies, nature, spirituality and Afro-Surrealism. She explores the medium of film through an experimental lens, implementing poetry in images and words.
Her work has been shown at film festivals and cultural institutions in different parts of the world, like Zebra Poetry Film Festival Berlin, New York Tri-State, Film Africa London or KLA Art Kampala. Her most recent short film, INDIGO, centres the experience of Black German womxn in front and behind the camera.
Jamal Nxedlana
(he/him) is an artist and cultural worker from Durban, South Africa, who is currently based in Geneva. He is also the founder of the cultural organisation Bubblegum Club. His practice explores how the Black figure is materially and symbolically embodied and embraced, themes related to subcultures, consumerism, and racialised identity expressions in postcolonial contexts.
Jamal explores fashion as a domain of intellectual and cultural inquiry through individual and collective cultural identities in the Johannesburg metropolis as they intersect with geopolitical practices, technologies and infrastructural logistics. He has exhibited internationally in galleries, institutions, and independent spaces.
Jere Ikongio
Jere Ikongio is a Lagos/Berlin-based artist
working with performance and immersive art toexamine infrastructure, hyper-identity, margin-
alised histories, memory and the socio-politicallandscapes of cities through installations that recontextualise public and personal archives.
A practice with participatory performances,
audiovisual elements, and XR creating layered,interactive narratives highlighting informal resilience and individual stories.
Jere’s artworks blur the line between physical and digital, the past, present, and future, creating a non-linear blend that presents a critical exploration of existing archives and a reimagination of public spaces (physical and digital).
Rafael Kouto
(he/him), who lives and works between Lausanne, Zürich and Venice, is Swiss with Togolese origins. He is a creative director, fashion & textile designer, as well as a researcher in upcycling methods, sustainable and engaging strategies, with a particular focus on open source and craftsmanship.
In 2017, he founded his namesake brand, which is characterised by a distinctive, visionary and hybrid aesthetic merging West African and Swiss culture. The brand cultivates an uncompromised approach to sustainability as it exclusively uses thetechnique of pre- and post- consumer upcycling, sustainable fabrics to create new clothes and accessories.
(he/him), founder Eran Jije Project - a multidisciplinary artist based in Lagos, Nigeria exploring performance driven work, sound, upcycling practices, public art and materiality concepts within urban context of Lagos through a dynamic and community based approach, addressing environmental sustainability, climate issues, waste and resources mismanagements by foregrounding African indigenous models and reimagining the idea of modernism, development and futurism on African soil.
Ruby Okoro
(he/him) is a Nigerian visual artist, born in Enugu State and raised in Rome and Lagos. Completely self-taught, Ruby first explored his love of vibrant colors and grand composition in painting, which he then transposes into exquisitely composed, almost hyper-real scenes.
Mayila Khodadin
(she/her) is a French- Mauritian contemporary dancer and choreographer. She wants her voice as an artist to reflect the world around and believes in the power of dance as a medium for reflection, awareness and a vehicle for change.
Above all, Mayila values human connection in all
parts of the artistic process and sees the
importance of reaching and involving the
community in an inclusive and relatable way. Her work tends to merge different art forms, create multidisciplinary connections and invite the audience into a journey that bends the boundaries of dream and reality.
Marc Khafre
(he/him) is a Berlin-based artist
whose practice centres on transforming
discarded textiles and materials from luxury
industries into contemporary artworks.
He draws on a decade-long background in
fashion to create works that explore material
memory and aesthetic reinvention.
Working across textile, painting and sculpture, his
process-based approach reclaims remnants such as fabric swatches and packaging ribbons, elevating waste into visual narratives. Marc’s work serves as a commentary on overproduction, value systems and the potential for transformation embedded in discarded forms.
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