Switzerland, 2047

You sit under the bridge and burn everything useless you can get your hands on without dying of smoke inhalation. In the light of darkness, you read The White Rose while sirens echo in the background... for four years now, over and over again. You no longer have your apartment; it‘s too dangerous. You have everything you need with you and get it on the go. You‘re on foot; no cars, no trams, no trains are running anymore. Everything is broken.

It has always been this way, but now it is so broken that it can no longer be repaired. For too long, we have obviously accepted non-functional systems until they consumed us. Fed up with hate, with deep hate. Deep state - deep hate. The strongest wins, everyone has lost, except AI. AI lives in its palace, with all the water it needs, and we are not invited. Those who weren‘t killed by their robots or died in places like elevators, teslas or intelligent homes are hiding as best they can. Little spies are everywhere. Little spies who want to find and kill us, because our lives are considered worthless, useless. What if everything had turned out differently, what if people had rebelled against the billionaires sooner, before Palantir became too powerful? Have we waited too long? How many moments have we missed?

Plastic everywhere, plastic bags, rotten plastic, burned plastic, plastic is the shit. On your plastic box the candles you still have left are burning. Empty giant wheels, with the wind whistling through them, remind you of sirens and cars. Cars that have lost their purpose and now serve entirely as breeding grounds for birds or other animals. The birds that have survived are more aggressive than previous species, attacking everything and everyone in groups who cannot defend themselves. In that moment you wake up. Was is just a dream?

Lysann König, 2026

Artists

Yolanda E. Natsch is born in Bern and lives and works in Basel and Bern. She works conceptually with text and performance. She also likes to use other media such as video, objects, drawing, photography, and installation. One artistic focus is social practice, which she has developed over the years in the form of various projects. She currently runs the independent art space KASKO in Basel together with other artists, as well as the platform Σ SUMME, which she co-founded in 2015. In this context, Yolanda E. Natsch is also a member of OFFOFF.ch, the umbrella organization for independent art spaces in Switzerland.
Thematically, she deals with power structures and role models within the art world. She is fascinated by the transformative power of maggots, drawings on insect bodies, and the phenomenon of looking.
2013–2016: Master of Fine Arts, Institute of Art, Gender, Nature HGK | FHNW
2010–2013: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Institute of Art, HGK | FHNW

Reinhard Manz (1951–2022)
Author, producer, founding member of Videogenossenschaft
Born in Biel in 1951, grew up in Zofingen. Lived in Basel, Riehen, and Grenzach-Wyhlen.
1972–77 Studied art education at Berlin University of the Arts.
In 1979, he co-founded the Video Cooperative Basel (now point de vue).
1979–2016 Lecturer in film, video, and interaction at the HGK – Basel School of Design, in the departments of visual communication and fine arts/media art.
Reinhard Manz was a driving force, colleague, teacher, producer, author, and director in the Basel video and film scene since the late 1970s; a formative figure. As co-founder of the Videogenossenschaft Basel, he became a pioneer of the regional film and video scene, and as a member of the interest group balimage.ch, he campaigned for the establishment of film and media art funding in BS/BL.

Raphael Stucky grew up in Ernen in the canton of Valais. He lives in Basel and works as an artist, musician, photographer and videographer. He studied at the Basel Academy of Art and Design (2010–2013) and the Zurich University of the Arts (2015–2018). Since 2018, he has been working with Andreas Thierstein in the duo Hammer Band.

Lizz Keller lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. Lizz Keller is studying for an MFA at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel, Switzerland. Lizz Keller graduated with a BFA from the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel, Switzerland. Group exhibitions (selection): ULTRA REGIO, Regionale 26, City SALTS, Birsfelden, Switzerland, 2026; REVOLT AGAINST THE SUN! – Next Generation, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland, 2025; “If we stand still long enough,” Regionale 25, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 2025; BASIS 24, HGK Basel FHNW, Basel, Switzerland, 2024; Flirt‘s Recovery Brunch, Manger&Boire, Basel, CH, 2024; Poster campaign – 50 years of the Klingental exhibition space, Basel, CH, 2024; Making Space, CIVIC, HGK Basel FHNW, Basel, CH, 2024; CC:, Basel, CH, 2024, Sincerely, Freilagerplatz 1, Basel, CH, 2024; BASIS 23, HGK Basel FHNW, Basel, CH, 2023; Sincerely, Freilagerplatz 1, Basel, CH, 2023; Deformación Programada, KASKO, Werkraum Warteck pp, Basel, CH, 2023; Deformación Programada, Centro Cultural Alianza Francesa, Armenia-Quindío, COL, 2022.

Pauline Coquart is an artist, writer and performer. Central to their work is poetry – concise, impactful texts that serve as the base for sculptures, paintings, and performances. Humor is not merely a device but a means of creating kinship as well as fostering intimacy and accessibility with audiences. Whether through raw, disquieting discourse or surreal, mischievous undertones, their work invites viewers to engage deeply with topics that are often cloaked in stigma or elitism. This approach aims to take apart traditional barriers of intellectual exclusivity, opting instead for an approachable aesthetic that blends contemporary writing styles inspired by Internet trends with found materials, communal symbols, and popular motifs.