So this is us. Five artists, forming a fusion called KOLLEKTIV KORPA.
Nina Linde Läuger experiments with sound and video installations, which she combines with her intimate and political poetry. Her artistic roots lie in surrealist-immersive paintings. Her art was exhibited in Cologne (Please Come Home, 2022), Halle (Juicy Things, 2022), Leipzig (Baby don't hurt me, 2021), Amsterdam (Body Electric, 2022 and bathroom politics, 2024). She works as an editor at Hard//hoofd, a literary-political platform from Amsterdam that has been publishing her essays for several years.
Sophie Tichonenko creates spaces in which people can express themselves and be heard. The sociologist is interested in what connects people. With her experience as a freelance photojournalist for national and international magazines, she has made it her mission to capture and share fascinating stories. At karla magazine, she heads the citizens' editorial team with the aim of creating a platform of participatory journalism where the diversity of voices is respected.
Charlotte English designs, lives and works in Konstanz. In addition to the photographic medium and music, she is particularly focussed on working with textiles. Together with Nina Linde Läuger she has created her own clothing label, NICHA.reworked, which combines art and fashion and translates the former into everyday life. By presenting textile works as an artistic craft, she consciously sets an example against fast fashion.
Alexa Gieseler is a cultural worker in the field of material research and costume design. Through combining the unusual and clashing contrasts, she breaks with social expectations. With Charlotte English she exhibited a textile mural and installation as part of an exhibition in Konstanz (KlimaxKunst, 2022) on climate protests. As an assistance for costume design she worked for theatre plays at Kampnagel in Hamburg as well as Schauspielhaus Zürich.
Kiara Francke writes about the vulnerability and interconnectedness of bodies under social structures. While interweaving political issues with experimental rhythms of poetry and prose, she is searching for new forms of narration that put organisms into action. Besides she is working as a freelance journalist for cultural magazines and is part of a research project for contemporary literature at the University of Konstanz.