Simon Senn
At first sight, Simon Senn’s work sometimes gives the impression that he is a socially engaged artist speaking out against a certain type of injustice. However, his work reveals a more ambiguous approach. Even though to a certain extent it is primarily based on reality, there is always a layer of fiction that is interposed. Simon Senn (born in 1986) lives in Geneva. He has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the HEAD in Geneva (Haute école d’art et de design) and a Masters at Goldsmiths College in London. Simon Senn’s visual art is represented by Galerie Nicola Von Senger in Zurich, and his work L’hôtel des sapins is part of the Kunsthaus Zürich collection. He has exhibited at the Liverpool Biennial, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and the Kunstmuseum Bern, and has won several prizes including the Swiss Performance Art Award, Swiss Art Award, and the Kiefer Hablitzel Award.
 
Sotiris Roumeliotis
Sotiris Roumeliotis (born in 1992) works as a director, performer, lighting designer and theatre-pedagogue. He is a dux graduate of the School of Primary Education (Faculty of Pedagogy) and the School of Drama (Faculty of Fine Arts) of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His directing approach focuses on ensembles’ creation and collective narration, as well as on the pursuit of a “handmade theatricality” that makes all stage materials and mechanisms visible to the audience. He also experiments with mixing diverse narrative techniques, acting styles and aesthetic forms.
He has collaborated with the Experimental Stage of Emerging Artists of the National Theatre of Greece, where he directed the performance “The Final Tholuthion”, based on contemporary surrealistic greek stories. He is a founding member of Male di Luna theatre/performance collective. His latest work, “Dreameater” (2023) based on Japanese stories by Lafcadio Hearn and Ryunosuke Akutagawa, was funded by the Greek Ministry of Culture. Among his other works are: “Mother of the dog” (2022) based on the same-titled acclaimed greek novel by Pavlos Matesis, KILLING LONELINES (2021) an adaptation of Martin McDonough’s play “The Lonesome West”, “A.TO.RO.QO: an elusive image of freedom” (2020) a devised theatre piece negotiating gender issues via science fiction, “Doe: a stage poem for Clytemnestra” (2019) a creation based on texts about Clytemnestra, “Chaos” (2019) inspired by Luigi Pirandello’s short stories. Sotiris Roumeliotis has also collaborated with National Theatre of Northern Greece and many theatre/performance collectives like: Rimini Protokoll, Angelus Novus, Theatre Τ, etc.