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Leni Hoffmann

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.

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Veronika Spierenburg

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.

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Zara Pfeifer

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.

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