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.

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.

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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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.

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titre provisoire is a collaboration between the artists Cathleen Schuster and Marcel Dickhage. They live in Berlin and work from a conceptual approach in time-based media, with staged film, essay film and video installation. They are alumni of the Whitney Independent Study Program and the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Recent exhibitions include Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Singapore Biennale 2019, the public space of Semmering, Horse&Pony Berlin, D21 Leipzig, Sharjah Art Foundation, after the butcher Berlin, Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof Hamburg, Berlinische Galerie, GfZK Leipzig, Ludlow 38 New York, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, SAVVY Contemporary and the Kyiv Biennale 2015. Films they have worked on have been shown at Anthology Film Archives, Berwick Film Festival, FID Marseille and Prismatic Ground, among others. In 2022, they developed the online journal Rosa Mercedes Issue No. 4 „Coincidences in Prepositions“ in collaboration with Renan Laru-an, the Vargas Museum Manila and the Harun Farocki Institute Berlin. They have been invited for lectures/conversations at the forums of Impossible Dreams hosted by Patrick Flores in the Taiwan Pavillion at the 59th Venice Biennial or at the South London Gallery amongst others, and they have been teaching at Institute for Art and Art Theory, University of Cologne and at the Angewandte, Vienna.

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Melanie Ebenhoch (*1985) studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, at HKU Utrecht, and at the Sandberg Institute Amsterdam. She has exhibited at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Belvedere 21, Kunsthalle Wien, Galerie Martin Janda Vienna, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Union Pacific London, L’Inconnue Montreal, Heiligenkreuzerhof Vienna, Kevin Space Vienna, and Hester New York. She has upcoming exhibitions at KUnsthalle Bratislava, MQ Artbox Vienna, Kunstraum AA Bludenz, and the MAK Schindler Residency in Los Angeles.

Kamilla Bischof (*1986, Graz) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2009 - 2015). Recent solo exhibitions include Sandy Brown, Berlin; Boltenstern.Raum, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna; Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz; FIAC with Sandy Brown, Paris; and Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg. Select group exhibitions include Thunder in your throat, n.b.k., Berlin; Non-Player Character, Kunstverein Schwerin, Schwerin; Avantgarde und Gegenwart, Belvedere 21, Vienna; Ora et Lege, Broumov Monastery, Broumov; Ruinous Times, Lenbachhaus, Munich; Paint, also known as blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; and Der Hausfreund, Österreichisches Kulturforum Berlin and Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Vienna.

Robin Durand is a Umeå, Sweden, based architect and educator. He grows up in Tokyo, Japan and Umeå, Sweden, and studies in France and Belgium, graduating from the ENSA-Marseilles, France in 2013. After spending several years in European practices of various types, architecture, landscape, Robin now runs an independent practice in Umeå, Sweden, in parallel to his lecturing at Umeå School of Architecture. His practice ranges from project designs to research and exhibitions, working individually or collaboratively. He teaches architectural design at undergraduate and graduate level and architecture theory.

Emilija Škarnulytė (b. Vilnius, Lithuania 1987) is an artist and filmmaker. Working between documentary and the imaginary, Škarnulytė makes films and immersive installations exploring deep time and invisible structures, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological and political.