Bianca Silveira (1992, São Miguel, Azores) is a visual artist. She holds a degree in Fine Arts (Painting) from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and completed the Ceramics programme at Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual in Lisbon. Her practice is rooted in a relationship with landscape and the places she inhabits, moving between the immediacy of lived experience and the distance of memory.

Bruno is a queer Brazilian researcher, filmmaker, and visual artist whose work operates at the intersection of cinema, photography, and video art. His practice investigates the porous boundaries between documentary and autofiction, using intimate archives, personal narratives, and lived experience as starting points to engage with broader social, historical, and political questions. Through long-term projects, his works examine how private memory can become a site for collective reflection.

Cecília Canas was born in Lisbon and has lived in the Azores since 2024. She holds a degree in Applied Mathematics and studied Chaos Theory as part of her doctoral research. With experience and training in photography, she explores new forms of expression through the image, driven by an interest in human relationships and in the ways we perceive and make sense of the world.

Diogo da Cruz lives and works between Berlin and Lisbon. His practice spans sculpture, installation and film, using speculative fiction to examine the entanglements between ecology, colonial histories and extractive systems. He studied Sculpture in Lisbon and Munich. His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Serralves Museum, Kunstverein München and the B&M Theocharakis Foundation, and supported through residencies including Onassis AiR Athens, Pivô São Paulo and SES12NAUS Ibiza.

Inês Mendes Leal (b.1997) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is centered on the action that air has on things, thus exploring how to recreate this dynamic presence, which occurs outdoors and recreates it in the interior/exhibition space. This exploration is not limited to this movement alone, but extends to the incessant search for a possible image of that which, by it´s very nature, consists of a non-image. Her entire practice is touched by an attraction to the invisible.

Kateryna Kondratieva is a Ukrainian visual artist who currently lives and works in the Azores.
Kateryna’s art explores the connection between nature, in particular plants, with humans and their everyday life,  and with emotions and memory; the experience of emigration and adaptation in the new country by the drawing, painting, illustration and video art.

Lourenço Maçarico was born in Torres Vedras in 2008 and moved to the island of São Miguel, in the Azores, at the age of eight. From an early age, he developed an interest in the visual arts and in the possibilities of the image as a means of observation and expression, exploring different creative languages and media. He recently completed his studies at Escola Secundária Antero de Quental and enrolled at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, where he is currently pursuing a degree in Multimedia Art.

Margarida Tomé Ribeiro (1998) is an architect, holding a degree from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto. Her practice intersects architecture with other artistic disciplines and explores different forms of representing space. In recent years, she has turned to video as a tool for observation, focusing on everyday life and the relationship between space and those who inhabit it. She currently lives in São Miguel, Azores, where she collaborates with the studio Ilhéu.

Maria Rojas Arias is a filmmaker, visual artist and producer. She was selected for Berlinale Talents (2020), and was a MacDowell Fellow (2024). Her films have been screened at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic), the International Film Festival of Valdivia (Chile) and the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Denmark). In 2026, her latest film, Filme Pin, co-directed with Andrés Jurado, premiered at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale).

Andrés Jurado is an artist, filmmaker and researcher. A MacDowell Fellow (2025), he was awarded the Joaquim Jordà Residency at the Reina Sofía Museum. His films have premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), FIDMarseille and DocLisboa.

Nuno Cera is a photographer and video artist.Nuno Cera’s work operates at the intersection of art and documentary, and addresses three fundamental forms of change: natural, spatial and temporal. His long-term research projects involve different agents and collaborators, including scientists, actors, writers and critics. His work has been exhibited and published internationally at various cultural institutions.

Born in Lisbon in 1983, Nuno Lacerda graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon in 2008. Working across video, illustration, painting and photography, his practice explores the intersections between image, narrative and perception through a multidisciplinary approach. His work has been presented at numerous festivals, exhibitions and artistic platforms, including IndieLisboa – International Film Festival (2015) and Jeune Création Européenne (2013). He was a finalist at FUSO – Lisbon International Video Art Festival in 2011 and 2014, and was shortlisted for the Sonae Media Art Award in 2017.

Paula Mota was born in Porto. She holds a degree in Painting from ESBAP — the School of Fine Arts of Porto. She has lived on the island of São Miguel since the early 1990s. Her artistic practice explores different media and techniques, examining the mechanisms through which images attract and persuade, while reflecting on issues related to identity, memory, and the role of women in society.

Salomé Lamas is a Portuguese filmmaker, visual artist and educator. She studied cinema in Lisbon and Prague, visual arts in Amsterdam, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Contemporary Art Studies in Coimbra. Her work has been shown at Berlinale, Locarno, MoMA, Tate Modern, Reina Sofia, ICA London, Berlinische Galerie, Serralves, CPH: DOX and La Biennale di Venezia Architettura, among others. She has received fellowships from Harvard Film Study Center, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio, MacDowell, Sundance, Yaddo, Civitella Ranieri, Camargo Foundation and Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD. She teaches at FBAUL, is distributed internationally, and is represented in several public and private collections. salomelamas.info

Susanne S. D. Themlitz (Lisbon, 1968) is an artist of Portuguese and German nationality who lives and works in Lisbon, Sintra and Cologne.  Between 1987 and 1995, she studied at Ar.Co, the Royal College of Art and the Düsseldorf Academy. 

She has been exhibiting regularly since 1998. Her work is held in various institutional and private collections.

Tomás Sampaio is an artist from São Miguel with a particular interest in sound and music as forms of creation and expression. A composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, he takes part in various musical projects, creates soundtracks for short films, and has been developing his work as a solo artist. Driven by a constant curiosity about different artistic languages, he explores the relationship between sound, image and narrative, seeking new ways of experimenting and communicating.