Ella Eßlinger is a trained architect with an independent and collaborative practice. She holds a B.A. from TU Munich and an M.Sc. from ETH Zurich. In 2023–24 she was part of the curatorial internship program at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). As a member of ZAS*, she taught a visiting studio at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich in 2024. Together with Clara Richard Gostynski she developed the editorial project Nachglühen / Afterglow, (vol.1, 2022; vol. 2, 2024; Zurich: women writing architecture publishing). Her work has been exhibited at gta exhibitions (2023) and 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.

Philipp Fleischmann works as an artist and filmmaker in Vienna, Austria. Since 2014, he has been the artistic director of the School Friedl Kubelka for Independent Film, where he himself studied in 2006. Further studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Dorit Margreiter Choy and at the Royal Danish Art Academy with Gerard Byrne.

Simona Ferrari is an architect working across different scales and formats. Practicing both independently and collaboratively, her work explores architecture and the built environment through building, photography, drawing, and writing. Simona studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and the Technical University of Vienna and received her Master’s degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology as a Monbukagakusho fellow. She completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts. Alongside her practice, between 2017-2023, Simona taught and conducted research at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Chair of Architectural Behaviorology, where she co-authored the book “Swiss Window Journeys: Architectural Field Notes” (gta Verlag, 2023). She was assistant curator of the Japan Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018). Previously, she worked with Atelier Bow-Wow in Tokyo, leading several international projects, including the Search Library in Muharraq, Bahrain, installations and exhibitions at the Cultural Center of Chicago, Harvard GSD, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the MAXXI Museum in Rome, and the Triennale di Milano. Her project “Landscape In-Between,” for the former industrial site of Acetati in Verbania, Italy, carried out together with Metaxia Markaki, was awarded in the 15th edition of the Europan architectural competition and subsequently developed as an urban plan commissioned by the municipality and involving the local community. Simona was an architect-in-residence at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles and at the Charles Moore Foundation in Santa Monica to conduct a research on gardens.

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