Naomi Kallenberg Luccarini, 22, born in Basel and raised in the French Alsace, right across the border. With an Italian mother and a Swiss/German father, she grew up between cultures — a perspective that shaped the way she sees the world. Multidisciplinary artist, Media & Culture Student, curator and founder of JONA, a cultural, social, and political association based in Basel. Working across image and text as an author, photographer, filmmaker, and painter, she explores human perception, identity, and vulnerability through absurdity and distortion.
Her practice examines the tensions between intimacy and distance, control and release, while questioning social structures, inequalities, and the ways we relate to one another. Through JONA, she creates immersive and accessible spaces for artists, where art becomes a bridge between people, ideas, and societal change—amplifying voices and making space for connections.
Driven by curiosity rather than a claim of talent, she sees her work as part of a larger collective history, shaped by the people and ideas that came before and around her, with the responsibility to give back through creation.
"It begins with attention — observing, questioning, and seeing beyond the obvious.
Inspired by dreams, contradictions, and surrealism, the work explores the different realities we carry and the stories hidden within each perspective.
I don’t believe in one fixed path. Life is about letting things transform — like perfect al dente spaghetti: soft, resilient, and alive."- Naomi
Portrait/Full Body
Surreallistic
Photography becomes a way of observing the world beyond words. Through the camera, details, textures, and fleeting moments gain attention.
The connection between nature, portraiture, and surrealism reveals different layers of identity, emotion, and the human experience.
Some feelings exist beyond language. Photography gives them form, creating a space between memory, perception, and imagination.
Photography
Quiet pictures
Portrait/Full Body
Creations
Drawings
Paintings
Sculptures
Painting and object-making become a way to give form to feelings, thoughts, and the unseen.
Working intuitively with shapes, colors, and textures, the process is guided by honesty rather than perfection.
Minimal, raw, and direct, each piece captures a moment of instinct and presence.
Book
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some poetries
Inspired by the Ubuntu philosophy — “I am because you are” — it explores the connection between personal experience and universal human questions.
Blending poetry, art, and psychology, the book was created through intuitive writing and drawing. It reflects on identity, perception, and the stories we tell ourselves. What shapes us as a human being from a 18-22 years old perspective.
Not a self-help book, but an invitation to reflect, connect, and recognize ourselves through vulnerability.
Synapase When communication breaks down, silence grows.
Project Synapse stands for connection: between mental and physical health, science and humanity and the struggles that are too often ignored.
Between the heart and the brain exists a constant battle. The heart represents passion and who we truly are, while the brain carries fear and pressure.
To often, brain disorders, heart diseases, and mental health struggles are reduced to diagnoses and clinical numbers.
It became normal to don't follow our path or to hear someone talk about self-harm, suicidal thoughts, emotional numbness, burnout and instead of concern from where it does come from, the response became: "That's just how life works".
The project brings attention not only to neurological and heart conditions, but also to the psychological battles between survival and emotional truth.
Director
Writer & Producer
Don't Let Your Coffee Get Cold is an essayistic short film exploring the invisible spaces within ourselves, where memories, fears, and desires coexist. Through fragmented moments of everyday life, the film reveals hidden emotional landscapes of isolation, disconnection, and the search for belonging.
Inspired by the metaphor of a coffee cup — the body holding the soul, while rising steam represents dreams and passions — the film reflects on the importance of expressing what lives within us before it disappears under pressure and fear.
Based on Naomi Kallenberg Luccarini’s book of poetry, texts, drawings, and audio fragments, the film transforms personal memories into a visual exploration of identity, human connection, and healing. Meaning emerges through bodies, spaces, rhythm, and sound, allowing the unseen to become visible.
Don't let your coffee get cold
Synapse
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