Gluklya, also known as Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya, is an artist working in Amsterdam and various other places , for now in Bishkek .
Her practice moves between performance, video, and social engagement — exploring how art can become a tool for care and gentle resistance.
Gluklya is known for her concept of fragility — not as weakness, but as an invisible force that unites people in times of injustice.
Through collective actions, she brings together artists, workers, and migrants to imagine new forms of solidarity.
In her current project, Carnival of Monsters, developed in Bishkek, Gluklya collaborates with sewing workers to explore automation, fear, and the meaning of care.
The women create textile sculptures and “inner dresses” — symbols of resilience, transformation, and tenderness amidst precarity.
Her previous works include The Utopian Unemployment Union and The Carnival of the Oppressed Feelings, presented at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, and at the 56th Venice Biennale curated by Okwui Enwezor.
Across all her projects, Gluklya invites us to listen — to the quiet voices of those who are rarely heard — and to dream of a world where care becomes a radical, collective act.

Sharareh Bajracharya is an art educator and currently the Director of Srijanalaya, an organization that works in arts education. She looks for systemic ways for the arts to foster the curiosities and joy of young children, young adults, and communities around them. She teaches at Kathmandu University Department of Art and Design, leading the specialization in the MFA program entitled Arts, Pedagogies, and Public Engagement. She has a passion for editing/producing picture books as counternarratives that build community and dissent. She was the past Director of the nonprofit art exhibition Kathmandu Triennale 2077 which took place in 2022.

Period of stay: 30 September 2025 - 5 October 2025

Gracey Zhang is an award-winning illustrator, author, and animator with a BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. She received the Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Award for her debut picture book, Lala’s Words. Her clients include The New York Times, NBC, NPR, VICE, and others. Gracey has also illustrated The Big Bath House, Nigel and The Moon, and The Upside Down Hat which was a recipient of The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book of 2022.

Born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, she has participated in artist residencies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Angoulême, France. Gracey is now based in New York where she can be found working from her Brooklyn studio.

Anton Karmonov is artist and a multi-practitioner, living and working in Novosibirsk, Russia.
He has an education in political science and philosophy and practices music and theatre. Karmonov studied in The Rodchenko Art School in Moscow and in the Chto Delat School for Engaged Art in St. Petersburg. He is the co-founder and member of the cooperative На дне [Na dne, the Lower Depths] in Novosibirsk and an adviser to the city council of Novosibirsk (Urban planning). Karmonov is a member of Unmapping Eurasia.

Anton Polsky (Make) is an artist and academic interested in street art and socially engaged art practices. He teaches Art History at the Russian State University for the Humanities and is a co-founder and editor at Partizaning.org.

sTo Len is a genre-fluid artist working in printmaking, installation, sound, video, and performance. He experiments with Suminagashi and Gyotaku techniques, turning them into collaborations with nature and platforms for environmental activism. His projects include working with rivers, transforming public spaces, recycling waste, and performing at Superfund sites. Based in Queens, NY, with roots in Vietnam and Virginia, Len weaves their histories, politics, and environments into his work. He was the first artist in residence at AlexRenew and a Public Artist in Residence at NYC’s sanitation department.
His work has been shown in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia. In 2004 he co-founded Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn, curating hundreds of shows and publishing zines. As a sound performer, he’s appeared at venues including MOMA PS1, New Museum, St. Marks Church, and Roulette in New York, as well as Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Hanoi stages.

Oksana Kapishnikova is an art historian, artist, researcher, and curator of art exhibitions. She works in the field of new museology (participatory museum) and research exhibition practice. During her career, Oksana has realized more than 20 research, exhibition, and educational projects. She is a co-founder of the Bishkek School of Contemporary Art. She is currently working as a curator at the Museum of Feminine and Queer Art. Since 2019, Oksana has served as the Executive Secretary of the National Committee of the International Council of Museums in Kyrgyzstan. Oksana’s interests include museums, art history, eco-art, cultural memory, and crafts.

Ilya Sibiryakov is a Russian architect and artist who participates in various environmental exhibitions and biennales. Among them: the International Biennale of Environmental Art in Nizhny Novgorod, the Children's Archstoyanie, the St. Petersburg Economic Forum and others.
Ilya Sibiryakov actively uses an interdisciplinary approach, combining architecture, art and design to draw attention to environmental issues and search for innovative solutions in the field of sustainable development.
His works are often interactive, experimental in nature and aimed at involving viewers in the creative process.
The geography of creative and educational projects includes Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Sakhalin, Baskunchak, Vladikavkaz...), Estonia (Tallinn), Kyrgyzstan, South Korea (Ansan), Montenegro.

Educational activities: He conducts creative workshops and webinars aimed at developing spatial and constructive thinking, as well as collective architectural and abstract performances to create art objects from various improvised materials.
Since 2018, he has been teaching regular online lessons for students from various countries in his fields of activity: spatial design, creation of art objects, and creative development.