Mapping My Way to Borderless Echoes

Ishita Chakraborty is an artist living and working between Möriken, Switzerland, and India. Represented by Gallery Espace in New Delhi and Galerie Peter Kilchmann in Zurich, she holds two MFAs, from the Zurich University of the Arts (2021) and Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata (2013).
She taught Fine Arts as an Assistant Professor at Amity University, Kolkata (2016–2018). Her work, featured in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including at Kunsthaus Zürich, Kunsthalle Charlottenborg, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Aargauer Kunsthaus, among others, explores themes of memory, nature, and the human experience.

Recipient of several awards and residencies, including the Manor Prize (2024) and the Pro Helvetia Residency in Brazil (2024), she is actively engaged in artistic projects and international conferences.

Nina Emge is a Zurich-based artist whose work explores the social dimensions of sound, voice, silence, and listening practices. Her research focuses on decentralization, collaborative working methods, and redistribution, themes that are reflected both in her installations and drawings, as well as in the processes behind her artistic production.

An active member of the Transnational Sound Initiative, Nina Emge has exhibited at the Lagos Biennial, Biennale Son Valais, WAF Vienna, Kunsthalle Zürich, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Kunsthalle Bern, Istituto Svizzero in Rome and Palermo, Frac Bretagne, the Swiss Cultural Center in Paris, Uferhallen Berlin, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Helmhaus Zürich, and other national and international institutions. She is also affiliated with the Art in Space and Time Chair at ETH Zurich.