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Sebastian Heine, born in Wesel in 1987, has been playing minigolf professionally since 2003 and is a multiple European champion.

Sebastian Sowa and Gianluca Torini work as SOWATORINI Landschaft between garden, landscape and art.

Stefan Seifert has been playing club mini golf since 2013 and currently works for BGV Backumer Tal Herten e. V.

Tunay Önder works at the interface of text, performance and discourse, with a focus on emancipatory struggles in the migration society.

The RuhrgebietsSpatzen, Pani Kostka & Mercedes Tuccini, combine entertainment and art by examining social issues and historical perspectives of the Ruhr region.

Tim Holland, author and co-publisher, deals with visions of the future and speculative writing in his poetry collection “wir zaudern, wir brennen”.

Caren Jeß, born in Eckernförde in 1985, studied German philology and modern German literature in Freiburg i.Br. and Berlin. 

Nikita Teryoshin, photographs defense exhibitions worldwide. His award-winning book “Nothing Personal” was published in 2024.

Mona Schulzek is a visual artist from Berlin and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She trained as a radio operator for her artistic research.

In her artistic practice, Marlin de Haan deals with the tensions between bodies and objects in space as well as the possibilities and limits of action areas, performance and narrative formats.

Jonas Leifert's work addresses social issues from the perspective of the Ruhr area, Franziska Pierwoss develops site-specific installations that question personal and political relationships.

In her artistic practice, Paula Pedraza is concerned with decolonial and feminist theories, surveillance architecture and is interested in experimental design and hybrid spatial constructions.

Anna Haifisch writes and draws comics, works as an illustrator for national and international media and designs print series, posters and design products.

Anna R. Winder (*1995 in Aarhus) is part of the b_books collective, which runs a bookshop and a publishing house and is a co-editor of wormhole newspaper.

In her practice, Tekla Aslanishvili observes the shifting relations between governments, people, and their territories through the lens of large-scale infrastructure projects.

Borjana Ventzislavova (born in Sofia, Bulgaria) lives in Vienna and works with video, film, photography, installation and often works in public space.

Working between documentary and speculative fiction, Emilija Škarnulytė's video works take viewers through nuclear power plants, deep-sea data storage units and uncanny natural phenomena.

The ruїns collective was founded by Oleg Isakov, Elias Parvulesco and Teta Tsybulnyk in 2017 in Kyiv and is a film and art union.

In his work artist Asad Raza often explores dialogic exchange and rejects disciplinary boundaries. Raza conceives of art as a metabolic, active experience combining human, non-human beings.

In June 2022, Irena Haiduk opens the exhibition Healing Complex (2018—ongoing) in the former church of St. Bonifatius, which is becoming a new meeting and community place in Gelsenkirchen.