Sarnt Utamachote & Naya de Souza (Bundaskanzlerin)

Followed by a talk with Naya de Souza and Sarnt Utamachote

Full details to be announced at sinematranstopia.com

Naya de Souza is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist. Working under different alter-egos like Lux Venérea and @Bundaskanzlerin, she transitions between disciplines such as performance art, comedy/stand-up, and cooking. Her online platform serves as a social media critique of Germany's exclusionary political/art world. As Lux Venérea, Naya's work has been showcased at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Hebbel Am Ufer, Kampnagel, Martin Gropius Bau and Gorki Theater, for example. She was a 2022 Berlin Art Prize finalist and won the TAG DER CLUBKULTUR prize in 2023. Trained as chef de cuisine with a degree in the field, she has cooked for Kin Dee Berlin and curated food-centered events at C/O Berlin and Coin Coin Zurich. As an educator and HIV rights advocate, she’s collaborated with AIDSHILFE, TriQ, and Les Migras, and lectured at institutions including UdK and Willem de Kooning Academy.

Sarnt Utamachote is a Southeast Asian nonbinary filmmaker and curator in Berlin. Their work explores the intersection between activism and contemporary art through intense archival research and community-based collaborations. They curated the exhibition “Young Birds From Strange Mountains” at Schwules Museum 2025 and “In Nobody’s Service” at Galerie Wedding 2024, dealing with traces of queer shamans and women migration from Southeast Asia. They furthermore research about exiled Cambodian artists who studied in East Germany, resulting in exhibition “Still, we sing” in D21 Leipzig 2022, and HKW Berlin 2024. They are part of collective Cruising Curators, currently with the project “Dissident Paths” at nGbK 2025-26, and collective un.thai.tled. They work as a film programmer for XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin, and Short Film Festival Hamburg. Their short film “I don’t want to be just a memory” premiered at the 74th Berlinale 2024.