Gizem Erdem is an artist and illustrator from Ankara, Turkey, currently based in Cologne. Her artistic focus lies in figurative illustrations, character designs, print design and positive abstractions of everyday life.

Jan Bauer, born in Schwerin in 1972, spent the 2000s in Berlin. He currently lives and works in Bavaria. From 1993 to 2000, Bauer completed his studies in Leipzig at the Academy of Fine Arts (specialist class A. Klein). In

Pietro Ruffo (*1978, Rome) studied Architecture at the University of Rome before receiving a reasearch fellowship at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, New York, in 2010. He won the Cairo Prize in 2009 and the New

The Berlin-based Dutch illustrator, graphic designer, comic artist, muralist Niels Popkema has been developing characters, comics and illustrations for many years and is the creator of his own comic book series. His personal work features colourful, doodly and funky characters