A multidisciplinary artist who has exhibited in major museums and art galleries worldwide. She has been an artist-in-residence in many countries and participated in numerous workshops and seminars. In 2019, she represented Malta at the Venice Biennale with the multimedia installation Atlantropa-X. Her exhibited work received extensive coverage and was ranked in the top 6 of the Biennale participations by numerous magazines and journals.

In the work proposed for the Loop Festival, Hydor-Is-Land/The Invaders, Klitsa, whose approach to the project is inextricably linked to her sense of belonging to the Mediterranean Sea, addresses the issue of the Lessepsian Migration, the invasion of alien species to the coast of Cyprus – as a result of climate change and human activities.

Lisa Boostani, a French director, photographer, and performance artist of Iranian and Spanish heritage, thrives on crafting vivid cinematic scenes and ethereal environments. Her toolbox encompasses movement, dance, and intricate soundscapes. In her diverse artistic journey, she places herself centre stage, prodding at and reshaping concepts of identity and its visual portrayal. She deftly employs symbols and archetypes, weaving the mythical into a tapestry of playful absurdity and whimsical fantasy.

Based in Barcelona, Lisa has made her mark in the realms of fashion, advertising, and photography. Her creations have graced esteemed venues such as Centre Pompidou, Rencontres d’Arles, Villa Noailles, BMW Art Markers, Revelations Emerige, and Bourse de Paris. Her clientele boasts renowned names like Gucci, Desigual, Bershka, La Manso, Ader Error, Lolita Lempicka, Greygooze, and Fuuucking Young.

Drawing inspiration from a medieval alchemical manuscript, Lisa Boostani’s work, titled Alchimies (from the larger project Aurora Consurgens), beckons forth the elements. It extends an invitation to reconnect with the realm of senses and life, with the nature that encompasses us and the essence we, in turn, embody.

Anne Commet works on the experience of the landscape that she constructs in ordinary territories through an intimate connection and through repetitive wandering. By crossing the landscape and allowing herself to be crossed by it, the artist confronts her own interiority with that of the territory.

Through different mediums, such as painting, photography, and video, she bears witness to a past time and to what persists in our memories and through trails. Anne Commet has developed various projects in residence, notably at the Manoir de Mouthier Haute-Pierre with the DRAC Franche-Comté and since 2020 at POUSH Manifesto. She has participated in several exhibitions in France and abroad, including the ones at Crous de Paris, Guoyi Art Museum Beijing, Kunstverein Unna (Germany), La Nuit Blanche Paris, Galerie Sono, See Galerie.

For LOOP, Anne proposes her project Les Vagues, where the artist confronts two fixed shots in which wind and light strike the forest and the sea, inviting you to join their dance.

Kalie Granier is a French interdisciplinary artist based in California. Her artistic practice explores life below the surface and the interdependence between humans and non-hu- mans through Ecofeminist values. She questions the links between our underwater environ- ments, their ecosystems, and our human bodies in the Capitalocene era to raise awareness of social and ecological imbalances, while imagining alternative narratives for a more equitable future. Her research lies at the intersection of art, science, and activism, with a focus on marine plants and relies on a close dialogue between scientists and environmentalists. Her ecological commitment is omnipresent in her creative process as she experiments with video, performance, up-cycling of local natural material gleaned from the beach, and the use of raw pigments in earth-based pain- ting. Using emotions as a guideline, Kalie Granier pursues a quest for collective consciousness and regenerative togetherness.

She is the co-founder of Loud Spring, an Ecofeminist Art Tank based in San Francisco.

Kalie graduated (MA) from the ESAG, Penninghen School of Visual Art in Paris. Her work has been exhibited in several Galleries and Museums in the US and Europe, ProArts Gallery (Oakland California), The MAH Museum and Radius Gallery (Santa Cruz, California), 836M Gallery (San Francisco), Galerie Linz (Paris, France), and more recently at Museum Centre del Carme (Valen- cia, Spain), Es Baluard Museum (Palma, Sapin), Loop Festival (Barcelona, Spain) and LA NAU Cultural Center (University of Valencia, Spain)…

Medusa is a project based on the reinvented Greek myth of Gorgon Medusa inspired from a legend of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Masha Pangilinan is a Russian-Filipino artist, based in Paris, who creates visual narratives that are an exploration of paradise, a place beyond space and time. She obtained her art education at the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts named after V. Surikov in 2013. After moving to Paris in 2014, the artist began experimenting with inventing her own artistic language and the creation of her world. In 2020 she joins POUSH art centre, where she works on her new projects.

In her work L’amputée she challenges the place of the reified body in the history of art, through her unique artistic vision.

Numerous important galleries and museums such as Kewenig, Berlin have featured Sergei Rostropovich’s work in the past.

Sergei Rostropovich’s video This Corrosion travels from the canals of hard-clubbing Berlin to the underwater archaeological park of Baia, a sunken city where the Romans of the imperial era partied. From the residues of Berlin’s nightlife to the ancient ruins, water has suspended, eaten away, attacked, but also paradoxically preserved everything in a moment of suspension, off the cycle of time.

The video is set to music composed for the occasion and inspired by the gabber style, early hardcore techno music from the 90’s, where the hakken is performed, a syncopated dance at 170 bpm.

Elena Posokhova is a producer and curator of contemporary art projects. She holds a master’s degree in Art History and Cultural Studies from the Kuban State University in Russia and has also studied contemporary art at the Louvre School. Elena specialises in studying the Mediterranean region and its natural and cultural relationships. She has completed a Master’s degree in MAVI at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Since 2014, Elena has been working with contemporary artists, proposing artistic projects developed in collaboration with scientists, ecologists, and artisans. In this context, the art residencies organised by Elena initiate and support the production of new works by artists and their exhibitions in cultural institutions and various art festivals (such as Musee Es Baluard in Mallorca, Goodplanet in Paris, Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporania in Valencia, Loop Barcelona, etc.).

Currently, Elena is working on the MARLANDS project  which explores the Mediterranean Islands through contemporary art and multidisciplinary collaboration. This project is supported by the European Union, the United Nations, and several prominent Mediterranean research institutes, art museums, and cultural centres. 

Elena, a resident curator at the Thinkers Bureau in Poush, Art Center in Paris, recently curated the exhibition There is no lonesome wave.