The aim of the NEXUS Collective is to provide an open platform for young creatives from diverse disciplines to connect and learn from one another. Through transdisciplinary collaboration, both on individual projects and long-term initiatives, a wide variety of projects can emerge. As a collective, we continuously learn and evolve through our exchange with each other.
This website is developing organically into a living archive and a space for sharing ideas and creative impulses. With a transdisciplinary and holistic approach, it seeks to provide diverse insights into key cultural, social, and ecological issues of our time, and to spark unexpected connections between topics, ideas, and practices.
Basel/Zurich 2024
(1) Nexus comes from Latin and means: connection, link, intertwining, to bind together, network.
The core team, however, is not fixed and can adapt depending on capacity, with new members always welcome.
Mira Mercan (she/her)
Is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Art Education at the Basel Academy of Art and Design.
Her interests lie in culinary arts and exploring how food culture can serve as an expression of creativity and identity. She aims to create spaces that foster dialogue about taste and aesthetics, bringing people together through shared culinary experiences.
Fabienne Schoch (she/her or none)
After completing her Bachelor's degree in Art History and Media Studies at the University of Basel, she is now studying at the Basel Academy of Art and Design at the Institute for Art Education. Her interests lie in the transformative potential of collective practices and the creation of spaces that foster exchange and bring people together.
Nina Šikić (she/her)
Is studying Art Education in the Bachelor's program at the Basel Academy of Art and Design.
Her artistic practice is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach, focusing on the transformative power of craftsmanship and the intentional use of materials. She is particularly interested in how new realities can emerge through collaborative work and collective practices. Her work explores how communal processes create spaces for cooperation and make cultural values and forms of resistance tangible.
Stéphanie Binet (she/her or none)
Completed her studies in Art History and Communication Studies at the University of Zurich in 2022 and is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree at the Institute for Art and Design Education at the Basel Academy of Art and Design. Her work focuses on how creative processes can drive social change and critically engage with existing structures. Adopting a transdisciplinary approach, she integrates theory and practice to develop innovative perspectives on creative and societal forms of design, participation, and collaboration.
Lara Odermatt (she/her)
Is pursuing Bachelor's degree in Art Education at the Basel Academy of Art and Design. Her practice combines material research and sustainable recycling with a mediating, collective approach. She is interested in processes in which different strengths and forms of expression come together aesthetically, creating moments between the finished and the unfinished.