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Ksenia Popova

Heinali

The Distant Mirror

Born in Kyiv, Heinali gained international recognition with Madrigals (2020), which blends period-instrument improvisations with quasi-Renaissance polyphony generated on modular synthesizer. His 2023 album Kyiv Eternal, described by The New York Times as “a ravishing audioscape,” is a hauntological portrait of his home city under attack, layering prewar field recordings with ambient memory loops from →

Mahesh Subramaniam

Tomorrow Morning, I’m Leaving

Writer and filmmaker Mahesh Subramaniam’s practice spans experimental documentary, short fiction, and installation based on research, rumor, and invention. Raised on folktales and half-remembered films, he works in the overlooked places where myth enters ordinary life. His project Tomorrow Morning, I’m Leaving is a hybrid film taking place on a man’s last day in Bengaluru, →

FORECAST 11: THE SELECTED MENTEES 2026

Meet the Six Mentees in Forecast’s 11th Edition

The final productions will premiere at partner institutions in Berlin and beyond. →

Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa

Playing With Risk

“If I were to describe what I do, I’d say it’s a form of memoir to some extent,” he says. “I care a lot about applying the craft of stand-up to the things I have to say.” As a mentor, Bandara Rajapaksa is looking for applicants who engage with the challenge of “properly expressing a →

Poyuan Juan

Stanford Bunny and the Memorial Site

Poyuan Juan investigates the cultural afterlives of digital platforms, focusing on online games, virtual environments, and technological obsolescence. At the intersection of digital archaeology and new media, Juan uses game engines and 3D-imaging tools to explore cyberqueer narratives and the material conditions of virtual experience. The project Stanford Bunny And The Memorial Site explores digital →

Forecast Festival 2026

Where Ideas Find Their Future

Marking its 10th anniversary, the Forecast Festival returns to Radialsystem from July 16–19. →

Lucy McRae

Introspective Futurism

McRae pioneers new narratives about how future technologies may transform human intimacy, reproduction, biology, and health, while foregrounding the ethical implications of genetic engineering. Through speculative, world-building approaches, her work uses hypothesis as a tool to question who we are, how we relate to our bodies, and where we may be headed.   Based in →

Hsiang-Sheng Teng

Liminal

Hsiang-Sheng Teng, also known as Shawn, is a London-based artist and researcher from Taiwan with a background in anthropology. His boundary defying works include magic, theater, film, photography, installation, documentary, and audio-visual art. In this performance Liminal, Hsiang-Sheng challenges and transforms so-called silk magic—a subgenre of performance magic—by re-examining it through the frameworks of live →

Almagul Menlibayeva

Unruly Images

Menlibayeva has exhibited internationally at major biennials including, among others, at Venice, Sydney, South Korea, Thailand, and Ulaanbaatar. She held the solo exhibition Transformation at the Grand Palais, Paris (2016). Recent projects include a major multi-channel video installation on the Kazakh Famine at the 2023 Sharjah Biennale, and participation in the 2025 Digital Biennale Hamburg →

Mariana Carrilho

Flor Do Ibo

Mariana Carrilho is a Mozambican artist and operatic singer exploring the voice as a vessel for the unseen. Her work across music, poetry, audiovisual media, and performance is shaped by classical training and hybrid processes. Flor Do Ibo centers on original music, sound, and memory, with the female voice as a site of continuity and →

Tom Cassani

Authentic Deception

Tom Cassani is an award-winning performance maker working with magic and the body. His ongoing artistic explorations draw on an expanded approach to magic, using strategies of Live Art, techniques of circus sideshow, and methods of illusion to create almost impossible performance art. Cassani is known for illusory texts, imagery, and physical skills that expose →

Xabiso Vili

The Past Is in Every Direction

Moving between poetic monologue, stand-up comedy, storytelling, and moments of theatrical rupture, Xabiso Vili revisits recurring selves from across his life: the shy library child, the black nerd, the private school boy, the “coconut,” the performer, the lover, the world champion, and the poet. These do not appear as contradictions, but as different attempts at →

Lena Becerra

Gestational Interface

Lena Becerra explores prosthetic ecologies and speculative anatomies at the intersection of art, philosophy, science, and technology. Her immersive installation Gestational Interface is composed of bodyscale prosthetic ecosystems that circulate, leak, and respond to proximity. Wearable elements extend the body, linking sensation and movement to a larger responsive system. Through sensors and feedbackloops, the work →

Keren Cytter

Constructing Delusions

Stylistically, Cytter embraces constraint and apparent simplicity: sparse settings, minimal props, frontal staging, and economical editing. These decisions heighten attention to rhythm, timing, and repetition, allowing subtle formal shifts to generate significant emotional and conceptual impact. Her films often resist narrative closure, instead exposing the mechanics of filmmaking—editing, scripting, acting—as active forces shaping perception.

Forecast 11: The Call for Ideas Has Ended

The Nominees Will Be Announced on April 15 →

Mentors Lucy McRae, Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa, Tom Cassani, Keren Cytter, Almagul Menlibayeva, Heinali.

Forecast 11

Our Call for Ideas for Forecast's 2026-27 Edition Is Open!

We’re delighted to announce the new mentors and open call for applications for the 11th Forecast Festival. Send us your project ideas by Monday, February 16, at 11:59pm CET. →

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