"STRATUM" by Amir Ahmadoghlu | Iran

Amir Ahmadoghlu is a transdisciplinary designer, artist and visual storyteller specializing in motion design, animation and transmedia narratives. His work explores the intersections of design, technology and visual culture through experimental projects focused on cultural heritage, immersive media and interdisciplinary design methodologies. His works have been exhibited internationally, including in Berlin, New York, Beijing, Toyama, Venice, Mexico City and Istanbul, and have been selected by renowned juries, including Taiwan Design Week and the Toyama Modern Art Museum in Japan.

"STRATUM" is an interdisciplinary video mapping and stop-motion animation project designed for the facade of the Haus der Weimarer Republik in Weimar. Moving beyond a conventional digital projection, the project serves as an architectural anatomy that uncovers democracy’s visual memory, layer by layer, across a 2,000-year timeline.

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"Fragĭlis" by Rita Reis | Portugal

Rita Reis is a Portuguese multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans illustration, sculpture, installation, scenography and video mapping. Through her projects, she addresses socially relevant issues, using art as a catalyst for individual and collective reflection and for imagining fairer futures. Her work has been presented at international festivals in France, Spain, Brazil, China, the United States and Portugal.

Projected onto Schiller's House, "Fragĭlis" uses lace as a metaphor for democracy—a delicate structure whose strength depends on the interconnectedness of every thread. The work reflects on the gradual erosion of freedom and shows how the loss of individual rights can weaken the democratic whole. At the same time, the traces of decay and the spaces left behind suggest the possibility of renewal and collective reconstruction.

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"Temple of Voices: An Unfinished Common Script" by AOTOO | China

AOTOO, a new media art studio based in Chongqing, China, specializes in immersive projections and light art. Their work has received multiple awards, including recognition at the China Chongqing International Light Art Festival and the One Minute Projection Mapping Competition.

Drawing on the Niketemple's history as a place of public exchange and communication, the projection "Temple of Voices: An Unfinished Common Script" explores democracy as a continuous process of listening, participation and negotiation. Combining text, data streams, sound waves and faint human whispers, the work transforms the Niketemple into a "Hall of Voices" that, having endured periods of noise and voicelessness, has once again regained its capacity to listen.

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