Carl Schaeffer was born in 1973 in Mittersill, Austria. From 1988 to 1993, he attended high school for fashion design. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna from 1993 to 1995 and continued his architecture studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1995 to 1998.

Walter Kraeutler was born in 1974 in Hohenems, Austria. From 1992 to 1995, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna. From 1995 to 1998, he continued his studies in architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Prof. Fuksas and Prof. Penttilä.

Tobias Urban was born in 1966 and lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He is a member of Gelitin, a collective consisting of artists Ali Janka, Florian Reither, Tobias Urban, and Wolfgang Gantner, who first met at summer camp in 1978. They formed Gelitin in the mid-1990s in Vienna and began exhibiting internationally in 1993.

Ali Janka was born in 1970 and lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He is a member of Gelitin, a collective consisting of artists Ali Janka, Florian Reither, Tobias Urban, and Wolfgang Gantner, who first met at summer camp in 1978. They formed Gelitin in the mid-1990s in Vienna and began exhibiting internationally in 1993.

Johan Frid was born in 1971 in Malmoe, Sweden, and lives in Sandviken, Sweden. He received an MFA in Visual Art from Umea University, Sweden, in 1997.

Åse Frid (b. 1969, Uppsala, Sweden) holds an MFA from Umea Art Academy, Umea University, Sweden (1995-2000). Lives and works at Stockholm archipelago 1 hour north of Stockholm. She works with text-based watercolor and ink, film installations and poetry. Her work investigates relations between language, image, dream, humour and contemplation.

The white of the paper is saved out inside the little marker-written letters, the warp of the painting, to which she relates in time and with watercolor around the text. This way of writing and painting started in Los Angeles in 1997 where she started making meticulously painted travel letters to the king of Sweden and to Iggy Pop. Recently she has been copying letters and writings from Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) and other artists and writers and made watercolors starting from the quotations. She has also made works that starts with ”false friends”, a linguistic term for words from different languages that look the same but have different meanings, such as ”barn”; meaning child in Swedish, but something else in English. She encircles these words in repetitive painting.

She has made a film projected on a 10 meter watercolor paper roll, with text and painting.

Ase Frid describes her work as connected to the holy work of medieval monks, illuminating holy scriptures. The concentration and the endless work creates a dreamlike state, and merges with the chance of color spread on the paper. Her work involves her own writings and poetry, qoutations from books or newspapers and surrealistic writings.

Anna Meyer was born in 1964 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and lives in Vienna, Austria. From 1983 to 1984, she attended the School of Design in Lucerne.

She has held several teaching positions, including a professorship at the Summer Academy in Salzburg from 2007 to 2008, and a lectureship in Painting/Digital Realities at the Lucerne University of Art from 2010 to 2012.