Meike Schmidt-Gleim was born in 1972 in Wolfsburg, Germany. From 1995 to 2000 she worked as a freelance art critic. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, she graduated with a doctorate in philosophy in 2005. From 2007 to 2008 she taught at the Kunstakademie Münster. She has been a research associate at Fulda University of Applied Sciences since 2019, specializing in democratic theory, critical theory, image theory, and gender studies.

Markus Schinwald's interdisciplinary body of work encompasses video, performance, dance, theatre, painting, photography, installation, and even puppetry. The artist creates mysterious and unsettling atmospheres that hint at their Viennese production context, through references to the austere Biedermeier style or to psychoanalysis. His work focuses on processes of manipulation and transformation of bodies and their environments. This emphasis is rooted in his early training in fashion and costume history, which not only awakened his general interest in clothing, but also drew his attention to the ways in which people are physically and emotionally limited by their cultural context.

Schinwald has declared himself a 'builder of prostheses for undefined cases', and alters 19th-century portraits by painting improbable apparatuses on the characters' faces and bodies, such as bandages, splints or wires that seem to fasten their limbs together. The artist has also developed a series of manipulated pieces of furniture, often using Biedermeier table or chair legs that are characteristic of the style valued by a growing middle-class in that period. He transforms these items by sawing off the legs and rearranging them in uncanny ways that often bring out their anthropomorphic qualities.

Birgitta Rottmann was born in Kufstein, Austria. She received a Master's degree in Architecture at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.