Lina Ehrentraut (*1993) lives and works in Leipzig. Their work combines comics, fashion, performative readings, illustration, and painting. Thematically, Lina explores everyday, social, and emotional aspects of human relationships, touching on sex and loneliness, often mixed with sci-fi elements. As part of the artist collective SQUASH, Lina publishes and organizes the Snail Eye comic festival as well as regular exhibitions and readings in Leipzig. In 2023, Lina co-founded the publishing house ROTORPRESS together with the bookstore ROTORBOOKS. Lina’s most recent publications include the comic Melek+ich (Max and Moritz Award for Best Debut, 2021, Edition Moderne) and DOGGY STYLE (2024, ROTORPRESS). A new book is coming this fall! :•)

Molina is the Danish-Chilean producer and composer—full name Rebecca Molina (b. 1992)—living in Copenhagen. Her music flows from an interest in combining digital, sample-based production with organic, hand-played instrumentation. Her compositions create wide and woozy landscapes: a pixelating sunset coming in and out of focus and Guitars that blur the lines with jagged textures and splattered muck. 
 When You Wake Up (label: Escho), the debut full-length from Molina, is a record of presence—a collage of time spent slowing down and being attuned to life’s cycles and changes. “It's a record where I focused on the accidental and immediate,” Molina shares, letting these qualities “become the center of the songs.” Molina pushed herself to try playing instruments with which she had less experience to capture a sense of unpolishedness and spontaneity in the recordings. “I hoped that would create some immediate and unintended material that I had no control over,” she says, “which, for me, is being present.” In this way, Molina’s music welcomes listeners to a surrealist universe of fuzzed-out guitars, ethereal vocals, and layered samples. Live, she performs in a trio setup where she manage samples, synth and sing with Collider guitarist Troels Damgaard-Christensen on guitar and Benedicte Pierleoni on drums.

LINA EHRENTRAUT