Founded in 2017 by Ariel William Orah, soydivision is a Berlin-based collaborative platform and artist collective shaped by diasporic lived experiences. Initially composed of Indonesian diaspora artists, it has since expanded to include artists of the global majority based in Germany. Rooted in questions of displacement, identity, and cultural hybridity, soydivision operates at the intersection of art and activism. To date, soydivision has curated and participated in more than 250 projects, ranging from exhibitions, festivals, and workshops to film screenings, residencies, and discourse programs. As an ensemble, the group creates experimental theatre works, participatory installations, and multimedia performances. Emphasizing grassroots and community-based practices, soydivision foregrounds catharsis, critical inquiry, and healing as strategies for collective reflection. Through a diasporic lens, it offers alternative perspectives on contemporary issues, reimagining belonging and amplifying marginalized voices.
🔗 soydivision.berlin/
Moving Poets e.V. is an international non-profit arts organization founded in 1996 by choreographer Till Schmidt Rimpler and artist MyLoan Dinh. Based between Charlotte (USA) and Berlin (Germany), it fosters cross-disciplinary collaborations in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts. Since 2014, Moving Poets has anchored NOVILLA in Berlin-Schöneweide, transforming the former GDR cultural house into a hub for experimental performance, exhibitions, and community-oriented art projects that bridge local and global contexts.
🔗 movingpoets.org
Zoé Febvre–Utrilla aka Dolores is an experimental musician working across sound, video, and installation. 2020 Art graduate from ENSAD Nancy, her work draws from pop, underground, and internet cultures to explore how they shape us, emotionally and in terms of identity. She repurposes vocal AI, glitch, sampling, and montage to expose the fragility of algorithmic and performative perfection. Her works reflect a critical exploration of cultural appropriation, exchange, and transformation. At its core, her practice is driven by a deep, almost obsessive love for fan culture; because what is music if not an elaborate form of stan behavior?
Born in Bangkok in 1986, Pisitakun Kuantalaeng is a Berlin-based artist working across sound, installation, and performance. With a background in sculpture, his practice addresses political speculation, cultural critique, and alternative futures. His music has been released on international experimental labels such as Chinabot, and he was a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.
🔗 berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/artist/pisitakun-kuantalaeng
Samuel Johnstone is a UK/Germany–based sound artist and composer whose work combines ecological research with experimental sound practices. Using field recordings, generative systems, and live processing, Johnstone explores how human activity is entangled with environmental systems. He holds a Master’s in Composition from Hochschule für Musik Dresden and is an Artistic Research Associate at KreativInstitut.OWL.
🔗 kreativ.institute/de/ueber-kio/team/samuel-johnstone
Sebastian Körbs is a German visual artist working in painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation. His practice explores abstraction, ornament, and the interplay of pattern and structure, often merging surface with figuration. Körbs has presented projects in galleries and institutional contexts, including the exhibition Gloria at KWS Biotechnikum.
🔗 sebastian-koerbs.de
Sofia Fernández is a German–Uruguayan product designer and researcher based in Berlin-Schöneweide. Her practice explores bio-digital crafts, combining sustainable materials with digital fabrication. She is currently pursuing a PhD on fungal mycelium materials and digital fabrication at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and works as a research associate in Product Design at weißensee kunsthochschule berlin. An alumna of KISD (BA) and Folkwang University of the Arts (MA), she also runs an independent studio and the sustainable design label soft matter.
🔗 sofiafernandez.de/about
Tatiana Heuman is an Argentinian-born, Berlin-based artist working with sound, performance, and installation. Known also as QEEI, she creates affective sonic environments through improvisation, speculative fiction, and vocal experimentation. Her practice investigates bodily memory, transformation, and the construction of alternative imaginaries.
🔗 tatianaheuman.com
Asarela (Arel) Dewi is a Berlin-based performer, filmmaker, and theatre artist from Indonesia. Their work focuses on migration, diaspora, and intercultural identity, often through collaborations with post-migrant theatre institutions such as Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. As a guest professor at HTW Berlin Schöneweide, Dewi connects artistic research with pedagogy, while performances and films explore belonging, language, and collective experience.
🔗 asareladewi.myportfolio.com
MyLoan Dinh is a Vietnamese American multidisciplinary artist based between Charlotte, North Carolina and Berlin, Germany. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, she explores the porous boundary between personal and collective histories through sculpture, painting, installation and performance. Drawing from geographic and cultural confluences, she deconstructs materials and images to (re)construct narratives that weave together photographs, text, video, sound and Southeast Asian and Western symbols. Through investigations into material culture, she repurposes eggshells, fabric, paper and everyday objects to explore identity, memory, displacement, and the experiences and erasure of Asian American and Vietnamese diaspora narratives. She is co-founder of Moving Poets.
🔗 myloandinh.com
Ariel William Orah is a Berlin-based multimedia and sound artist from Bandung, Indonesia, and the founder of soydivision. His practice spans performance, socially engaged art, and sound research, engaging with themes of memory, identity, and climate injustice. Orah was an Artistic Research Fellow at the Akademie der Künste Berlin and connects artistic inquiry with community building and diasporic exchange. With a background in sustainability management and design thinking, Orah bridges artistic practice with critical social engagement.
🔗 arielorah.com