NEXUS CollectiveAbout

The NEXUS (1) Collective was founded in 2024 out of a shared passion for design and the drive to rethink societal structures. We explore how collective creative processes can help challenge existing norms and create and communicate new, alternative realities, as we perceive the dominant concept of reality as oppressive and exploitative.

Through interdisciplinary collaboration among people who work together both on a project basis and in the long term, a variety of projects are expected to emerge. As a collective, we continuously learn and grow through our exchange with one another.

The goal of the NEXUS Collective is to serve as a platform for young, creative individuals to connect and learn from one another. We promote the exchange and collaboration of people from different disciplines to develop joint projects.

This website is organically evolving into a living archive and a space for exchanging ideas and creative impulses. With a transdisciplinary and holistic approach, it aims to provide diverse insights into central cultural, social, and ecological issues of our time and to stimulate unexpected connections between themes, ideas, and practices.

(1) Nexus comes from Latin and means: connection, link, intertwining, to bind together, network.


Basel/Zurich 2024
NEXUS Collective -
Not a Manifesto
Like a digital server, the NEXUS Collective is a network in which information, knowledge, and ideas can be safely shared and shaped. The NEXUS Collective therefore adopts parts of the “Transfeminist servers…”* (manifesto) and modifies them in certain ways.


The NEXUS Collective...
...is organized by and for communities that enable its existence.
...is committed to an intersectional engagement with worldly and transcendent circumstances.
...knows that art is political and can be uncomfortable.
...works with the willingness to reveal its own insecurities.
...understands art as a bodily practice.
...exists in the process between the "Past" and the "Yet to Come."
...shares its processes, tools, habits, patterns, and memories, circulating them with the awareness that these do not always need to be understood.
...knows that network-based work is, in fact, a parasitic, promiscuous, and sometimes uncomfortable practice.
...can dynamically change depending on available resources.


This is not a manifesto. It is a living document, constantly expanded by the voices and experiences of all involved.