Sarah Silbernagel studied architecture at Bauhaus University Weimar, where she received her Bachelor of Architecture (2016-2019), and completed her Master of Architecture at the University of the Arts Berlin (2022-2025). Her studies included an exchange semester at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2024-2025) joining the class of Prof. Constanze Ruhm; and a Project Mobility semester at ETH Zurich (2025), where she completed her master thesis "Building on Documents" under the supervision of Prof. Anna Puigjaner.

Axel Koschier is an Austrian contemporary artist known for sculpture, installation, and mixed-media works exploring materiality and space. He studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Technical University Vienna and Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, and has held scholarships and residences in Tokyo, Berlin, Mexico City, New York and São Paulo, supported by Austrian and international arts programs. Koschier’s solo shows include A EL at Wonnerth Dejaco (Vienna) and an exhibition at Animal House Fine Arts (Melbourne), recently he presented yongryang (mountain–river) at Art Sonje Center Seoul (2026).

Alexandra Kahl lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She studied Textil.Art.Design and Sculpture at the University of Art and Design Linz, Austria. Her works range from posters, collages, flags, and artist books to video works and installations. Kahl has received several recognitions for her work, including the OÖ AIR.GOV residency at the Austrian Cultural Forum Rome (2023)and the Sponsorship Award of the Diocese of Linz (2023).Recent exhibitions include Moments of Transition (Ursulinenkirche, Linz, 2025), Invisible Inquiry (MAERZ, Linz, 2025), Night Shift (Charim Factory, Vienna, 2025) and OÖ AIR: Die Ausstellung (OK, Linz, 2024).

Leni Hoffmann lives in Düsseldorf / Karlsruhe and works in situ. They create site-specific projects that engage with architecture, often unfolding through time-based interventions. Hoffmann graduated as Meisterschüler of Georg Karl Pfahler at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. Since 2002, they have held a professorship in painting and graphic arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.

Hoffmann’s work has been exhibited widely throughout Europe and Australia, including at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Ludwig Köln, Städel Museum Frankfurt, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Palazzo delle Papesse Siena, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, and the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe. They participated in the 3rd Moscow Biennale and has received numerous awards, including the Gabriele Münter Prize and the Villa Massimo Rome Prize.

Veronika Spierenburg is a Swiss-Dutch artist working across sound, movement, and architecture. She is interested in how spatial perception can be explored through movement and sound, and she often collaborates with dancers, environmental scientist, and researchers from fields such as dance studies and architecture. Her long-term, research-based projects frequently culminate in film works. She is currently working on a film about the Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara and preparing a book with MACK (London) on the Swiss architect Flora Ruchat-Roncati, to be published IN 2027.

Zara Pfeifer was born on November 25, 1984, in Cologne, Germany. She studied architecture at the Technical University Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as photography at the Friedl Kubelka School for Artistic Photography in Vienna. Pfeifer works as an artist between Berlin and Vienna and teaches a seminar on photography in architecture at the Technical University Vienna. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, the Academy of Arts in Berlin, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. She has received numerous honors, including a studio grant from the Austrian Federal Government at ISCP New York and the MAK Schindler Scholarship in Los Angeles for 2025/26.

Ella Eßlinger is a trained architect. She holds a B.A. from TU Munich and an M.Sc. from ETH Zurich. In 2023–24, she joined the curatorial internship program at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). As a member of ZAS*, she was a visiting lecturer at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich in 2024. She also collaborated with the team of the Swiss Pavillon at the Venice Biennale 2025. Her work has been shown at gta exhibitions (2023) and the Swiss Art Awards (finalist 2025), among others.

Paulina Nolte studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich. Her work threads together a range of mediums, often ending in a performative piece. Her last solo show Persimone at Kunstpavillon in Munich was based on a soundpiece of hers, initially streamed by PlusX on Radio Cashmere in Berlin and then released on New York tape label Decontrol. In 2024 she exhibited with artist Manuela Gernedel in the two person show O/U at Galerie Françoise Heitsch. She has performed solo at Pool for SAA in Brooklyn, Kallio-Kuninkala in Helsinki, Blitz Club in Munich and for Ruine München at Lenbachhaus. She also performs collaboratively and in projects by fellow artists like Anna McCarthy at the Münchner Kammerspiele or with Rosanna Graf at Kunstmuseum Bochum.

Valentina Triet works with the medium of video. In her practice she deals with questions of how forms (of movement, orientation, of landscapes, architecture, capital, cultural and societal production) come into being. She completed her studies in Textual Sculpture under Heimo Zobernig at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Triet has held solo exhibitions at institutions such as Kunsthalle Winterthur, Neuer Essener Kunstverein in Essen, Forde in Geneva, and Felix Gaudlitz in Vienna. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at Galerie Neu and Sweetwater in Berlin, Alienze in Vienna, The Wig in Berlin, mumok in Vienna.

Paula Strunden is a transdisciplinary artist who studied architecture in Vienna, Paris and London and has worked for Raumlabor Berlin and Herzog & de Meuron Basel. She completed her design-led PhD within the European research network 'TACK - Communities of Tacit Knowledge' and received the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Prize for Best Research Work 2023/24 for her dissertation on multisensory perception through Extended Reality (XR) models. Her XR installations have been exhibited internationally, including at the Royal Academy of Arts London, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam and Museum der Moderne Salzburg, and have been nominated twice for the Dutch Film Award 'Gouden Calf'. As part of her research into female pioneers in the history of virtual technologies, Paula founded the xR Atlas educational platform and has lectured at the Architectural Association London, Bartlett UCL, Bauhaus University Weimar and the Academy van Bouwkunst Amsterdam, as well as running xR workshops at the V&A, Whitechapel Gallery London, UdK Berlin and Kunsthalle Vienna.

Ursula Mayer is an Austrian artist who completed her MFA at Goldsmiths University London. She is the recipient of the Film London Jarman Award and the Otto Mauer Prize. Her practice interweaves myth, biopolitics, and the semiotics of cinema to visualize and reflect on future posthuman ontology. Since 2021 she has been leading the PEEK research project MTLS funded by the Austrian Science Fund at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Artor Jesus Inkerö is a Finnish visual artist whose works have been exhibited in New Museum in New York, NOON Projects in Los Angeles, Beursschouwburg in Brussels and Helsinki Contemporary in Helsinki. They have participated in artist residencies, such as the Somerset House in London and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In their art practice, Artor Jesus Inkerö focuses on topics of queer identity and belonging through exhibitions, performances and public art works and projects.

Kris Lemsalu was born in 1985 in Tallinn, Estonia, and lives and works between Vienna and Tallin. She creates mixed-media sculptures, installations and performances with unexpected materials. Lemsalu’s pieces evoke the bestial side of human beings and civilizations, and are often underscored by feminist themes. Lemsalu has shown as part of Performa 17 (2017), DRAF performance night (2017), Bunshitu Gallery, Tokyo (2015), Ferdinand Bauman Gallery, Prague (2015) and is represented by Koppe Astner, Glasgow and Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn. Lemsalu will represent Estonia at the Venice Biennale 2019.

Michèle Pagel has been working as a freelance sculptress in Vienna since 2012. In 2015, they started teaching sculpture as an University Assistant at the ceramics department at the Art University in Linz, Austria. Pagel continued this teaching job until 2019, and also ventured a three month field trip to Uganda, Afrika in 2018. In 2021, they established a self-employed company in order to professionalize their artistic career and to concentrate exclusively on their own projects and exhibitions. The same year, Pagel started collaborating with the Viennese Gallery, MeyerKainer which is representing their work in solo exhibitions and art fairs. Pagel has participated in various international group shows and showcased their artworks in several European Museums and Institutions.

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Dominic Schwab studied art and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology. He is currently conducting doctoral research on the digital reconstruction of spatial narratives at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck, where he also taught as a University Assistant from 2020 to 2025. He has been a guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and regularly serves as a guest critic at academic institutions, including the Chair of Digital Architecture at ITA, ETH Zurich; the Institute of Architecture and Media at the University of Graz; and the Department of Architectural Theory and Philosophy of Technology at the Vienna University of Technology. He is a co-founder of VAS² – Vienna Architecture Summer School, the media art collective SO@P, and PARABOL – Association for Artistic Research. His work has been exhibited and published internationally. In 2023, he was awarded the MAK Schindler Scholarship at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles.

Uwe Brunner is an architect, educator, and researcher based in Vienna. He is a co-founder of SOAP, an online architecture practice, and a co-founder of the Vienna Architecture Summer School. Since 2019, he has been a faculty member at ./studio3, the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck. His current research explores the essay as a mode of critical spatial practice within digitally mediated environments. His work has been widely screened and exhibited, including at the New Media Art Museum La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, Ars Electronica in Linz, the Santa Mònica Arts Centre in Barcelona, CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, and the Goethe-Institut in Beijing, among others.

Bianca Gamser (b. 1984, Graz) is a Vienna-based architect and art historian working at the intersection of art and architecture. Trained at the Vienna University of Technology and the University of Vienna, she develops installations and interventions addressing social, emotional, and environmental issues. Often conceived as ephemeral and/or site-specific, her projects reveal overlooked grievances and hidden potentials within everyday spatial realities. In addition to her artistic practice, Gamser engages in collaborative collectives and has taught design studios at the Vienna University of Technology. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Vienna Biennale, Vienna Design Week, and the MAK Center Los Angeles.

Evan Ifekoya is an interdisciplinary artist seeking greater embodiment for all, through sound. Their work in community organizing, installation, performance, text and video is an extension of their calling as a spiritual practitioner. They view art as a site where resources can be both redistributed and renegotiated, whilst challenging the implicit rules and hierarchies of public and social space. Strategies of space holding through architectural interventions, ritual and immersive sonic installations enable them to make a practice of living in order not to turn to despair.

They established the collectively run and QTIBPOC (queer, trans*, intersex, black and people of color) led Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) in 2018. Upcoming presentations include immersive installations for ARoS Denmark (2023), Lagos Biennial and ICA VCU (both 2024). They have presented exhibitions, moving image and performances across UK, Europe and Internationally, most recently: Guest Artist Space Lagos (2023), a solo exhibition at Migros Museum, Zurich and a moving image commission with LUX in collaboration with University of Reading (2022); Herbert Art Gallery and Museum as nominees of the Turner Prize (with B.O.S.S. 2021); Gus Fischer New Zealand (2020); De Appel Netherlands (2019) and Gasworks London (2018).

Anna-Sophie Berger (b. 1989, Vienna, Austria) is an artist living and working in Vienna and Berlin. She studied fashion design and transmedia art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.