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Séverine Bascouert and Sammy Stein often work together. The results of their research take the form of fanzines or books, collages, and installations. Through writing, archival documents, comics, and photos, they produce narratives based on both real and fictional events. In 2014, accompanied by other artist friends, they founded LAGON, an annual bilingual magazine focusing on new forms of graphic storytelling. In 2025, a new series of zines has been launched. In France Atlantide Séverine Bascouert and Sammy Stein explore places occupied by individuals whose ideas, beliefs, convictions or visions transcend common reason.

institutserigraphique.incongru.org
sammystein.fr
revuelagon.com

Valentijn Goethals is a graphic designer, visual artist, and musician based in Ghent, Belgium. He graduated from the Werkplaats Typografie (Arnhem, NL) in 2013 and works across the fields of contemporary art, design, publishing and education. Collaboration is central to his practice, which often unfolds within collective structures and long-term partnerships.
He is a founding member of both 019 and Kunsthal Gent, two organisations that have helped shape Ghent’s cultural landscape. At Kunsthal Gent, Valentijn has been part of the artistic coordination team since its inception, contributing to the curatorial and visual identity of the institution. Within 019, he is actively involved in developing experimental exhibition formats, spatial interventions, and collaborative design strategies—always in close dialogue with others. Since 2022, he has also been the coordinator of the Graphic Design Studio at the Design Museum Gent—an educational initiative rethinking the future identity of the institution through experimentation, self-initiated projects, and internal assignments.
Valentijn is the initiator of the Ghent Art Book Fair and has worked on numerous publications as both editor and designer, often in collaboration with artists, institutions, and publishers.

019-ghent.org
kunsthal.gent

Laura Pappa is a freelance graphic designer based in Amsterdam. She works both on commissioned and self-initiated projects. Her clients include Valiz, Van Abbemuseum, Rozenstraat — a rose is a rose is a rose, Kunstverein Toronto, and the Museum of Estonian Architecture. She teaches Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. She has previously taught at the Royal Art Academy in the Hague and ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem and has taught workshops and been a guest critic in various academies in Europe. She is the publisher of the pamphlet series Exercises in Practical Mischievery. She has her mind set on writing a book but hasn’t really gotten around to it yet.

www.laurapappa.biz

Building Fictions (BF) is a publishing project that sets out to explore ‘building’ as a methodology, with the intent to highlight the potential of storytelling within practices at the intersection of art, design, architecture, literature. Not limited by the first definition of a building as a space, BF is interested in collaboration as an assembling, layering process. The projects published often are the result of collaborative work from which emerge questions on the established relation between text and image as autonomous yet related languages. While investigating fictional strategies and their potential within artistic production, BF wants to find out where those strategies are at play in the context of real constructions, could those be made of concrete or be more ephemeral, metaphorical, thus anchoring the effects of fictions within the real world.

www.buildingfictions.com

Launched from Palestine during the first global lockdown in March 2020, Radio Alhara is an online radio station encompassing the idea of a public space that aims to blend the limits between producers and listeners. The radio is constantly reshaped by its community and its needs as well as questioning the political relevance of sonic content in general. The radio focuses primarily on sounds and hosts music mixes, album releases, podcasts, cooking shows, talk shows and radio plays.

radioalhara.net

Vela Arbutina works across disciplines on commissioned and self-initiated projects. She explores the representation of contents, images as materiality, and forms of display in her works. Content, processes, details, technical aspects, and production are equally important, and according to the projects, her working methods can be conceptual, editorial, and formal.
She studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), and at the Basel Academy of Art and Design. She has been an independent graphic designer for over twenty years and has worked in Amsterdam, London, Berlin, and Switzerland. She designs art books and identities for art institutions, was art director at the magazines Blend and Girls Like Us, and has collaborated with various artists and institutions, in particular Christina Li, Adam Szymczyk, the Cabaret Voltaire, the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Ludlow 38, the nGbK Berlin, Tanya Leighton, and the Swiss Institute. Her publications WIR SPIELEN (WE PLAY), Schätze der Erinnerung 2014–2015. The Weather in Zürich 2013–2014, Pilvi Takala. Close Watch and Daphne Ahlers. Die Würflerin, were named Most Beautiful Swiss Books between 2013 and 2024. She is the winner of the Jan Tschichold Prize 2025.

velaarbutina.com

Sean Yendrys is an independent graphic designer and teacher from Montreal, currently based between Berlin and Tallinn. He has been head of the MA curriculum in graphic design at the Estonian Academy of Arts since the program opened in 2020.

He is responsible for the visual identity and ongoing communication materials of the Bonner Kunstverein (w/ Björn Giesecke); and is currently co-editing and organizing (w/ Alexandra Margetic) a book series which invites graphic designers to make sense of the research produced during the process of making their applied work.

www.seanyendrys.com