With works by SULTAN ÇOBAN, SAMUEL HAITZ, SEDA MIMAROĞLU & RALUCA POPA and FEDERICO PROTTO

As we move from place to place, crossing language barriers and nation states, our motions are inscribed in the objects, stories, accents and friends that we gather along the way as well as those that we leave behind. The artistic works assembled in the group exhibition EN/COUNTERS trace such transcultural connections and confrontations and their multivalent forms of belonging.

EN/COUNTERS is curated by LISA DEML and MARIE-SOPHIE DORSCH.


The exhibition is funded by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Karin und Uwe Hollweg Stiftung. The annual programme at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. is supported by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Lüneburgischer Landschaftsverband, and Hansestadt Lüneburg.

SULTAN ÇOBAN lives and works in Zurich. Through her performative and installation-based practice, she explores how cultural identity is constructed and staged. Her works have been shown at Schauspielhaus Zurich (Switzerland, 2024), Kunsthaus Zurich (Switzerland, 2023) and the Berliner Festspiele (Germany, 2022), among others. In 2023, she received the Kiefer Hablitzel Göhner Prize at the Swiss Art Awards in Basel.

SAMUEL HAITZ lives and works in Zurich. His work considers the legacies and concepts of artistic practice as well as desire and its various projections. He often draws on existing materials to question the relevance of authorship and originality. After studying at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Zurich University of the Arts, he has exhibited at Grotto (Berlin, Germany, 2024), Il Triangolo Galleria d'Arte (Cremona, Italy, 2024), Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich, Switzerland, 2021) and Plattform21 | MASI Lugano (Switzerland, 2021).

SEDA MIMAROĞLU lives and works in Berlin. Drawing on her studies in law, comparative literature, art history and philosophy, she interweaves literature, poetry, music and imagery in her artistic practice. Mimaroğlu has participated in numerous exhibitions in various constellations and collaborations, including at stations (Berlin, Germany, 2023), Kunstraum Kreuzberg (Berlin, Germany, 2023), and daadgalerie (Berlin, Germany, 2022). She has also published the poetry collection Loose Leaves as an audio cassette (Wanda, 2019) and the book Love Songs (Blue Figure Press, 2021).

RALUCA POPA lives and works in Berlin. The starting point for her artistic practice are often personal archives that bear traces of their creation, use and preservation. In combination with other objects, Popa reveals this hidden documentary potential and acknowledges it through careful interventions of reconstruction and repair. Her works have been presented at the 17th Jogja Biennale (Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2023), the 8th Sinopale (Sinop, Turkey, 2022), Tranzit (Bucharest, Romania, 2020) and MG+MSUM (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2020), among others.

FEDERICO PROTTO lives and works in Brussels. His work encompasses choreography, music, text, textiles and installation, through which he explores transcultural and transgenerational narratives of migration and potential forms of cross-continental kinship. His projects have been presented at Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (Paris, France, 2025), DeSingel (Antwerp, Belgium, 2024), Centro Cultural de España (Montevideo, Uruguay, 2023) and Volksroom (Brussels, Belgium, 2021), among others.