Community
Feel invited to create a new, trans-territorial horizon of cultural imagination with us.
Alison Darby
Artist
Alison Darby is a British-Luxembourg artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her installations explore surfaces, urban archaeologies and territories that bear traces of human activity. Using forms and materials, she questions what is fundamental and formative to this society, and what patterns and mechanisms lie beneath the surface.
Anett Simon
Artist
Anett Simon lives and works in Groß Kiesow, near Greifswald. The theme of her work is the human being and its relationships within and to its environment. Her works are an attempt to enable a different way of seeing and recognizing this interconnectedness. To this end, she consistently explores the specific aesthetic properties of materials and techniques.
Carla Macchiavello
Art Historian
Carla Macchiavello is an art historian and educator, whose research centers on Latin American contemporary art with a decolonial approach; networks of solidarity and resistance; and art practices and experimental pedagogies aimed at social and environmental change. Since 2014, Carla is part of the editorial duo CM2 with Camila Marambio, co-editing the periodical Más allá del fin/Beyond the End for Ensayos.
Christy Gast
Artist
Christy Gast is an artist whose cross-media work is based on extensive research and visits to places she considers “contested landscapes”. Since 2010, she has been working with Ensayos, a collective research project that deals with questions of political ecology in Tierra del Fuego and other archipelagos.
Jasmina Al-Qaisi
Artist and poet
Jasmina Al-Qaisi is a poet who writes for voice and paper, articulates and performs language with sound, food or care practices towards uncontainable forms of literature. When writing with sound, Jasmina shape-shifts in inexistant institutional forms, invents jobs, engages in human and more than human relations and broadcasts temporarily or mobile on free and public radios.
Jeanna Kolesova
Artist
Jeanna Kolesova is an artist who works at the intersection of artistic research, environmental history and speculative storytelling, exploring the manipulation of history, information, and imperial technologies' impact on human and non-human bodies. Their practice includes film, digital installations, performance lectures, and web projects, examining how narratives shape perception and imprint on landscapes and memories.
Juliane Tübke
Artist
Juliane Tübke lives and works in Berlin. In her artistic practice, she delves into how we perceive and value nature in urban settings. She is currently exploring the sensory interaction between water, weather, and both human and more-than-human beings through various media.
Karolin Tampere
Artist and curator
Karolin Tampere is an artist and curator based in Romsa/Tromsø, Sápmi. She has a particular interest in collaborative and socially engaged practices, sound and listening. Since 2004 she has regularly contributed to Sørfinnset skole/the nord land and together with Åse Løvgren the ongoing collaboration Rakett begun in 2003. Karolin is since 2011 part of Ensayos and is currently a PhD Research fellow at Tromsø Art Academy, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway and Faculty of Fine Art, University of Bergen. Tampere is part of the research group Worlding Northern Art (WONA) at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway.
Lene Schwarz
Artist
Lene Schwarz, freelance painter, lives and works in and around Greifswald. She studied at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen and the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle (Saale) and translates nature, landscape, village and urban forms into watercolor – preferably en plein air. By the means of her paintings she investigates the sublime and non-visible within the ordinary.
Philipp Modersohn
Artist
Philipp Modersohn's sculptures and animated films highlight the vibrancy of things and matter. By confronting these with human-made structures and systems of social organization, he questions the division between biology and geology,life and non-life, and the resulting hierarchy of forms of existence.
Rosario Ureta
Designer
Rosario is a comprehensive designer based in Santiago, Chile. In her work she conceives design as a flexible tool that adapts to different needs and disciplines and takes graphic, spatial, digital, and sculptural forms. All these expressions emerge within a framework of dedication, craft, and care.
Her work often unfolds in collaboration with projects that intersect contemporary art, craft, and decolonial thought.
Siljarosa Schletterer
Artist
Siljarosa Schletterer lives and works in Tyrol. She focuses on the interplay between society, nature and language, as well as the communication of (contemporary) poetry. In “azur ton nähe - flussdiktate” (published by Limbus Lyrik in 2022), she directs her attention to the socio-ecological weight of bodies of water.
Collaborators
Camila Marambio
Curator
Steering Group Member, Ensayos
Camila Marambio is a transdisciplinary curator, storyteller, and private investigator. Her writing, research, and various projects traverse the fields of environmental humanities, decolonial nature conservation, contemporary art, and performance studies. In 2010, she founded Ensayos in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society of Chile. Ensayos is a collective research practice that brings together artists, scientists, and activists to conceptualize long-term, process-based projects focused on eco-cultural conservation work in Tierra del Fuego and other archipelagos. Since 2011, she has been experimenting with performance, creating solo and collaborative pieces dealing mostly with human and non-human health. Her writing has been published in Third Text, Australian Feminist Studies, Discipline, The River Rail, Art+ Australia, and Kerb Journal, among others. I am co-author of Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja with Cecilia Vicuña (Errant Bodies Press, 2019) and the forthcoming Cancer Ecologies: A Queer Femme Proposition (Bloomsbury 2025).
Jan Peters
Ecologist
Managing Director at the Michael Succow Foundation, Greifswald Mire Centre; Sensing Peat Project Lead; Steering Group Member.
As a landscape ecologist by training, he acts as managing director at Michael Succow Foundation, Partner in the Greifswald Mire Centre. His work focuses on peatlands and climate change with main expertise on policy analysis and advocacy, peatland management strategies incl. paludiculture and stakeholder co-creation processes. He holds rich experiences in national and international projects on climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity conservation and development cooperation connected to peatlands in Europe (e.g. Germany, Baltic States), Asia, Africa, and South America. Additionally, he is chair of the board of Wetlands International European Association.
Nicole Püschel Hoeneisen
Environmental Biologist
Steering Group Member, Wildlife Conservation Society Chile
Nicole Püschel Hoeneisen is a mother, daughter, sister, and wife, born and raised in southern Chile. Nicole is an environmental biologist by training from the University of Chile and holds a Master's degree in Conservation Science from Imperial College London. She has developed an interdisciplinary theoretical and practical understanding of conservation during her professional career, focusing on early planning and engagement with society. Her current work focuses on climate change integration into conservation planning. In her workspace at Wildlife Conservation Society Chile, Nicole has been able to deepen her technical knowledge around peatlands, which, together with her deep love for these ecosystems, she makes available by working for the local and global protection of these important wetlands.
Susanne Abel
Biologist
Sensing Peat Initiator, Biologist at the Michael Succow Foundation, Greifswald Mire Centre
Susanne Abel is a biologist and has been working for 15 years at the Greifswald Mire Centre (GMC) as a scientist and project coordinator on the subject of peatland and climate protection and paludiculture. She analyzes the challenges in the implementation of peatland protection in Germany and how we can work with the locals, the practitioners and politicians to find solutions for implementation. She developed the Database of potential paludiculture plants (DPPP) and initiated several art and peatland collaborations of the GMC.
Suza Husse
Curator
Sensing Peat Project Coordinator, Research Associate at the Michael Succow Foundation, Greifswald Mire Centre (since 2024)
Suza Husse is a curator, researcher and writer with a focus on visual and performative cultures of memory, resistance and re/imagination. Their work is based in queer, feminist and anti-colonial approaches, collaborative processes, co-learning and transdisciplinary research across different fields of knowledge and practice, multiple authorship and politics of listening, speculation and embodied narratives. Since 2012, Suza has been co-shaping the arts and community space District * School Without Center in Berlin with an emphasis on artistic and activist research and pedagogies of political imagination. In 2016 Suza co-founded the collective The Many Headed Hydra whose arts and publishing work interconnects dissident mythmaking, queer ecologies and transformative practices that emanate from bodies of water.
Ulrike Gerhardt
Scientist and curator
Sensing Peat Former Project Coordinator and Research Associate at the Michael Succow Foundation, Greifswald Mire Centre (2023-2024)
Ulrike Gerhardt is an art and cultural scientist and curator who researches on endangered ecosystems, intergenerational memory transmission, and unsettling materialities after 1989/1991 from an alter-global, horizontal and feminist perspective. Until spring 2024, she worked as a project coordinator for Sensing Peat at the Michael Succow Foundation / Greifswald Mire Centre, initiating multiple international collaborations, workshops and exchange formats with different ecological communities of theory and practice. Currently she is researching virtual reality art at the Institute for Art and Visual Culture at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. In 2024, her dissertation on Easternfuturist memory practices within post-socialist video art will be published (Berlin: De Gruyter). Together with art scholar Julia Wolf, she also works on an upcoming issue on Troubled Matter for the INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries publication platform.