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Julia Born is a Swiss graphic designer who studied at Amsterdam’s Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Her practice encapsulates an inquiry into the formats of editorial and exhibition design, challenging them and expanding the notion of design across media and disciplines. Language and its ambiguous qualities are at the center of her project, which she explores through commissioned and independent work, in close dialogue with artists, curators, and cultural institutions. Born teaches editorial design at Master Type Design at ECAL in Lausanne, and is a visiting lecturer at international art and design institutes. Solo exhibitions include All Capitals (MACRO—Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, 2022) and Title of the Show (Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, 2009). She is the recipient of the Swiss Grand Award for Design, awarded by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture in 2021.

Sereina Rothenberger runs the graphic design studio Hammer in Zurich since 2008, together with David Schatz and Jana Hofmann. She held a professorship at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 2013 to 2019, latterly serving as a head of department. She a faculty member at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the US since 2015 and has also been joint head of the programme. Since 2020 she is an advisor at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and since 2021 she is the jury president of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books Competition.

Tan Wälchli is a historian and writer who received a PhD from the University of Zurich in 2006. He conceived a trilogy of booklets about controversial concepts from art theory under the name Whyart with Aude Lehmann (2004–08), as well as three Most Beautiful Swiss Books catalogues with Laurenz Brunner (2008–10). A Post-Doc at the University of Chicago (2008–12) and the University of Basel (2012–14), he has been a regular contributor to the Most Beautiful Swiss Books catalogues since 2011. Since 2016, he has been teaching in the BA Visual Communication at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), and he has been a researcher and writer at Lineto.com since 2019.

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Farida Sedoc is a visual artist based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She works in diverse mediums creating two- and three-dimensional works.
Exploring and questioning intersectionality and the influence of monetary economics, heritage and politics on the future of globalism and community life.

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Josse Pyl explores language as a material element in our surroundings to reveal the systems behind the signs and sounds that connect one person to another. He investigates how we communicate in ways that go beyond just words, examining the connections between what can be read, sensed, and what is left unspoken. Pyl explores how words and texts pass through human and other bodies, how language and speech form and disintegrate in a process similar to digestion. He reveals this interconnected system through drawings, sculptures, and videos that come together in installations where language, bodies, and knowledge come to life, move, and get lost. By distorting codes and signals we often take for granted, his work offers new perspectives on how we perceive and shape our understanding of the world.

Josse Pyl studied at Werkplaats Typografie (NL) before completing a residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (NL). Recent exhibitions include Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2024); Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (2024); Ornamenta Biennale, Pforzheim (2024); Culture Station Seoul 284 (2023); Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna (2022); AT Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (2019); and 019, Ghent (2018).

Nieves is a publishing house based in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 2001, Nieves publishes artists' books and zines.

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BLESS is a visionary substitute to make the near future worth living for. She is an outspoken female – more woman than girl. She’s not a chosen beauty but doesn’t go unnoticed. Without a definite age she could be more between her mid-twenties and forties. B. hangs around with a special style of man. She has no nationality and thinks that sport is quite nice. She’s always attracted by temptations and loves change. She lives right now, and her surroundings are charged by her presence. She tends to be future orientated. BLESS is a project that presents ideal and artistic values by products to the public.

Studio Manuel Raeder is an interdisciplinary design studio based in Berlin since 2003. Its activities include a wide range of formats, exploring the boundaries between exhibitions, ephemera, books, type design, editing and publishing to furniture design, as well as curatorial praxis.

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Espace Ness is a graphic design studio based in Paris and founded in 2018 by Émilie Ferrat, Julie Héneault and Sophie Rentien Lando. After studying at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and working as independents, they started mutualising their practices and knowledge in a common space. Their graphic design takes the shape of identities, websites, books or catalogs, and aims to be developed in close collaboration with the institutions, artists and researchers involved. They teach graphic design at Ensba, Lyon (Fr) and KASK, Ghent (Be). Espace Ness hosts book launches, exhibitions and various small events. Ness Books is an eclectic non-profit editorial platform publishing the works of emerging artists, researchers and writers.

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Anna-Mariia Kucherenko (b. 2001) is a researcher and curator born and based in Kyiv, Ukraine. She studied art history at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. In 2021, she started the Archive of Forms project, which focuses on image gathering from various books, archives and collections, both online and physical. Mainly highlighting underrepresented Ukrainian visual language and culture, which has primarily been seen as peripheral to both Europe and the Russian Empire, the Archive of Forms also showcases objects and images that remain in the shadow of their collections and archives, their interconnections, that challenge the dominant narratives.

Since 2022, Anna-Mariia has also worked at the MOCA NGO (Kyiv), where she is a curator and collection coordinator. She has co-curated several exhibitions, both in Ukraine and abroad. She is currently co-curating The Wartime Art Archive, a digital archive that documents artworks created after the full-scale Russian invasion. As a researcher, Anna-Mariia is interested in the study of space, participatory art, and the archival turn in contemporary art.