Eclipse

Artists:

Rheim Alkadhi is a visual artist whose practice comprises a living research. As in many of her immersive research endeavors, materials are collected from the contextual field, and concepts are expanded to a “living scale,” reflecting contemporary conditions of environment, uprooting, and militarism. Field studies have been conducted in Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, and along Europe’s watery borders. Recent projects include Display of the Remains, Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil-Jona (2026); Templates for Liberation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2024); and Devastation on Your Beautiful Eyes, Beirut Art Center, Beirut (2022). Her writing has been featured in cultural journals and scholarly publications. The artist monograph Majnoon Field Guide was published by Archive Books in 2023.

Lani Maestro was born in Manila, Philippines, where she began working professionally as an artist in the late 1970s at the height of the Marcos dictatorship. She later continued further art studies and immigrated to Canada. In the early 1990s, her collaborative engagement with artist and critic Stephen Horne launched Harbour Magazine of Art and Everyday Life, a journal of writing and artworks by artists, which she co-edited and designed. This editorial project expanded to produce burning books, artists’ books that also accompanied works in exhibition at galerie burning, an itinerant gallery space which she co-directed in Montreal, Canada. Maestro has taught extensively in the graduate programme and art departments of several Canadian universities. She is a recipient of the prestigious Hnatyshyn Award for outstanding achievement by a Canadian artist (2012) and received an honorary doctorate (honoris causa) from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, in 2018.

Prajakta Potnis’s work digs deeper into the nexus between the frailty of a human body and the greed of a capitalist state. Through multiple media, she draws a portrait of the present moment of anxiousness and uncertainty, carved against the backdrop of humanitarian and climate crises. Here are moments of pause and restlessness, of despair and dissent. Her works draw upon the chasm witnessed within the everyday domestic in the context of gender and social divides. Prajakta is the recipient of the LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award for an international artist residency (2024–2025). She was part of the 15th Sharjah Biennial, Thinking Historically in the Present, conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi (2023). Her photographic works were part of Imagined Documents, curated by Ravi Agarwal at Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (2022). She was invited to open a virtual solo exhibition titled The Slow Burn at the New Media Artspace, Baruch College, CUNY, New York (2021). 

Lenka Vítková is a Czech contemporary artist, curator, and educator currently living and working in Prague. Her multidisciplinary practice spans painted canvases, small plaster objects, fragmented texts, performance, and site-specific installations. Vítková’s work, rooted in the traditions of conceptual and post-conceptual art, balances a reductive, minimalist approach with an omnipresent lyricism and quiet wit. She holds a master’s degree in Czech Philology and Fine Arts from Palacký University in Olomouc and a PhD from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where she studied under Vladimír Skrepl. Alongside her active exhibition career, she is a collaborator and curator. Her recent work includes her participation in the experimental project Side Path (2025), the publication of her artist book First Book of Emblems (2022), and her appointment as the head of the Studio of Fine Arts II at UMPRUM in Prague. Vítková also co-publishes the Czech-French poetry zine Mamka, and her texts have been featured in several contemporary art anthologies.

Wu Mali is a celebrated conceptual artist, researcher, teacher, curator, and pioneer of socially engaged art in Taiwan. Wu’s works act to resist and challenge authoritarian and patriarchal mindsets; notably, she has introduced a more feminist mindset into a phallocentric society, allowing tolerant, collaborative, intersubjective practices to gradually engage art as a form of social interaction in Taiwan. She is also a writer and researcher and a former professor at the Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan.

Renan Laru-an is a Berlin-based curator and theorist of the artistic contemporary. He initiated Soil-beings, a long-term research program and a pavilion presented at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Formerly artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary, he founded DiscLab | Research and Criticism and jointly established the Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN), where he led the Public Engagement and Artistic Formation program at the University of the Philippines Vargas Museum. His curatorial projects include the 2nd Biennale Matter of Art in Prague and the 6th Singapore Biennale, both co-curated, as well as the 8th OK.Video – Indonesia Media Arts Festival. He has developed exhibitions and public programs with Sharjah Art Foundation, Harun Farocki Institut, and TPAM – Yokohama Performing Arts Meeting.
Education and institutional sustainability are integral to his practice. A former visiting lecturer at Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK), he currently teaches at the University of Hamburg’s Institute for Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia. He edited Writing Presently (2019) and Rosa Mercedes Journal IV. His forthcoming books are General Nourishment: The Aga Khan Museum of Islamic Arts in Marawi and Exhibitionary Heritage.