Location: Cologne

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T-60 seconds – The countdown for the young band KWINI is on.

Fresh modern Pop music meets the spheres of interesting Jazz harmonics and Soul – melting into a tasty mixture, guaranteeing the listener excitement and fun! Their music is inspired by artists like like Jamiroquai and Knower.

KWINI is convinced that the world needs a dancy parallel universe, so they put on their space suits and present an original liveshow with crisp arrangements, catchy sing-along parts and above all intoxicating energy.

Enter the space shuttle with Joshua Milo (Keys/Synthies), Clara Lucas (vocals), Tom Glaser (drums), Jan Seemann (bass), Carla Köllner (trombone), Pascal Klewer (trumpet) and Wim Schulze (sax) and enjoy an exciting ride into the spheres.

3….2….1….liftoff for KWINI!

Location: Cologne

About: Igor Kirillov is a composer for experimental electronic music, harpsichordist and classical pianist living in Cologne, Germany. Igor graduated with honors the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow (Prof. Andrej Khitruk). Then he studied with Prof. Deichmann at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen until 2005, where he completed his diploma examination. In 2008 he completed his concert exam at the International Anton Rubinstein Academy for Piano and Chamber Music in Düsseldorf (master class Alla Blatow). He played numerous classical concerts in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Russia and was many times a participant at International piano festival Lindar. As a theater musician and performer he worked in theaters in Leipzig, Frankfurt/Main, Mülheim/Ruhr, FFT Düsseldorf and Schauspielhaus Köln. In 2017 he started several solo projects in the field of experimental electronic and electroacoustic music, which contrast strongly with classical concerts.

Location: Cologne

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ℕ𝕖𝕠 𝔻𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠 – 𝔽𝕦𝕟𝕜 ℍ𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖 – 𝕊𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝔾𝕣𝕠𝕠𝕧𝕖

Location: Cologne

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Bruno Manguen was born in Mexico City in 1989. In 2010 he starts directing his own short films. In Mexico he studies photography, English literature, attends countless film directing workshops and works as first assistant director on more than 90 television commercials. In 2015 he moves to Germany, where he later begins postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. As part of this study program, he will spend a semester at Emerson College in Boston as a PROMOS scholarship holder. In summer 2019 he will shoot his graduation film “NO” in Mexico City. In October 2019 he will graduate with distinction from the Academy of Media Arts. He is currently developing his debut film, a tragedy set in Mexico City.

Location: Cologne

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Nausheen Javed graduated in Fine Arts from New Delhi. She pursued her Masters in Animation Film Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. ‘Her Long Nails’ in 2014 August was her first film, made for her final graduation at National Institute of Design. It was nominated at several Film festivals in Europe, Asia and in the U.S. She worked as a Broadcast Designer Star Network for an year, where she received few media awards for the animated promos and T.V channels she designed. She moved to Germany (Köln) in 2016 for further studies in Arts. Since she has been working on several experimental video installation formats and short animations, some were presented at EMAF and Chitrakatha in 2019. ‘Them people’, her diplom film at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln [KHM] is currently being sent to Film festivals around the globe. While she does graphic design, animation, illustrations for books and makes and sells zines online.

Location: Brussels

About: PETERMFRIESS was born in Munich, Germany and lives now in Brussels, Belgium. Nomadic by nature, he is familiar with many places in the world and takes his inspiration from there. While finishing Ph.D. studies in space technology and self-organising social systems in the Nineties, he also attended classes in visual composition with Paulwitz-Matthäiin Hamburg. Stimulated by theatre, contemporary dance, new technologies and philosophy, he mixes visual arts, installation practices, digital/net art and performance approaches for a participatory exchange with the audience. The focus is on the conceptual transformation of situations and questions about the evolution of our society into emotional and aesthetic values.

Location: Cologne

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I am an artist exploring how light and color change perception of space. I have also been developing works to deploy in public spaces. My installations involve appropriating electronic products as well as designing and building lights and circuitry. Most works bring Art and Science together, installations resemble open experimental setups more than they are traditional, closed artworks. Making the visitors notice and contemplate perception is a key aspect. In times of digital media the question of how the virtual and the real world are to be separated, and how they influence each other.

Location: Paris

About: Born in 1980, Yuri Z (Zupancic) is an artist from Kansas, USA now based in Paris, France. Largely self-taught, he draws inspiration from science, literature, and a life spent exploring international cities and natural landscapes. He came of age just as the internet radically transformed our world, and the existential questions posed by this development are pervasive in his work.