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Constanze Schweiger

Constanze Schweiger portrays people in staged situations providing space for an encounter. The presence of the models is to be understood as a personal gesture and is a subjective contribution to the resulting artwork: Anything someone does becomes significant. On a formal level personal interaction becomes abstract and generates meaning.

In her work she deals with the possibilities within the individual's sphere of influence, especially with the formal aspects of ordinary actions and decisions. Two activities are therefore brought together—sharing a social moment and painting.

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Barbara Holub

Barbara Holub is an artist, researcher and curator, based in Vienna. In 1999 she founded transparadiso with architect and urbanist Paul Rajakovics as a transdisciplinary practice between art, architecture, urbanism and research.

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Florian Hecker

Florian Hecker was born in 1975 in Augsburg, Germany. In his sound installations and live performances, he deals with specific compositional developments of post-war modernity, electro-acoustic music, and other, non-musical disciplines. He dramatizes space, time and self-perception in his sonic works by isolating specific auditory events in their singularity, thus stretching the boundaries of their materialization. Their objectual autonomy is exposed while simultaneously evoking sensations, memories, and associations in an immersive intensity. Hecker studied Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics at Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Munich and Fine Arts at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, where he received his diploma.

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Miriam Bajtala

Miriam Bajtala, visual artist and filmmaker. The themes of her artistic exploration revolve around perception, space, memory, (self-)empowerment, witnessing, representation and the power of poetry. Her works can be seen in exhibitions and at film festivals.

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Paul Rajakovics

Paul Rajakovics is an architect and urbanist, based in Vienna. In 1999 Barbara Holub and Paul Rajakovics founded transparadiso that operates at the intersection of art, architecture and urban intervention and developed the method of direct urbanism – as socially engaged urbanism.

Paul Rajakovics is vice president of the ZV/ Central Association of Architects Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland. He was co-secretary of EUROPAN Austria (2004–2007) and co-advisor for architecture, Forum Stadtpark, Graz (1996-1997). Since 2017 he has been Expert for Urban Design of Styria, Austria. He has been a member of the editorial board of the urban research journal "dérive", Vienna (since 2001), and partner of the EU project SPACEX—Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture for Empathetic Exchange (2022–2025).

Since 1997 Paul Rajakovics has been lecturing, given workshops and was guest critic at various universities including UMPRUM, Prague (CZ); IUAV, Venice (I); Valand Academy of Fine Arts, Gothenburg (Sweden); Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; University of Arts, Linz; Academy of Fine Arts Bratislava (SK); Universidad Tecnica/ Valparaíso and Universidad Católica, Valparaíso (Chile).
He was Professor of Transformation Design at the HbK/ Academy of Fine Arts Braunschweig, Germany (2022-2023), and assistant professor at the Dept. of Housing and Design/ Vienna University of Technology (1997-2003; 2009-2017), where he is currently lecturing.

Paul Rajakovics was awarded the Austrian National Art Award (2018), the Otto Wagner Prize for Urban Design (2007), the Schindler Grant of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (2004), and the Tische-Grant of the Austrian Federal Chancellery (1994) at Agence Jean Nouvel, Paris, 1995.

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