Zenita Komad was born in 1980 in Klagenfurt, Austria. In 2004–2005, she was an Artist in Residence at the International Artist’s House Villa Concordia in Bamberg, Germany. In 2006, she received a scholarship from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. In 2007, she was awarded the MAK Schindler Scholarship at the Mackey House in Los Angeles, USA. In 2010, she received a one-year grant from the Arts Council of Austria (BMUKK). In 2014, she was honored with the Award of Sponsorship for Innovations in Science and Art by the City of Vienna.

Gerhard Treml is an American/Austrian artist based in Vienna. His practice explores narrative strategies in order to appropriate, investigate, and reconfigure spatial relations basic to our construction of reality. His work relies on scripting, drawing, staged photography, and installation. He directed the collaborative art-based research program “Eden’s Edge” in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Christina Linortner is an architect and university lecturer based in Vienna and Graz. She studied at the TU Vienna, the Tu Delft and Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, London. She is currently working on her PhD focusing on architecture and learning in non-institutional contexts. Since 2014 she has been serving as a board member at the Austrian Society for Architecture. Together with Petra Petersson she co-edited the most recent Graz Architecture Magazine's issue: Beyond the institution. Transforming the Learning Environment in Architectural Education.

In 2005 Peles Duo (formerly Peles Empire) began their collaboration by opening an illegal bar in Frankfurt’s red light district. The space featured wallpaper made of A3 colour copies reproducing, nearly to scale, a room of the 19th Century Peleș Castle, located in the foothills of Romania’s Carpathian Mountains. Peleș Castle is an historicist castle as each room is a copy of a different architectural style, which appears to anticipate postmodernism nearly one hundred and twenty years before it started. The same act of copying or translation that birthed Peleș Castle carries over to the artist’s own approach to studio production. What is realised in three-dimensions for one exhibition becomes the two-dimensional source material for the next period of production. The transition of material from 3D to 2D is simultaneously the content and material for their work. The process becomes, temporarily, the work. The act of copying is more important than the copy itself. Peles Duo dissect and reshuffle the supposedly original meaning of somewhere, something or someone, in order to question what time and culture has made of it.

In 2005 Peles Duo (formerly Peles Empire) began their collaboration by opening an illegal bar in Frankfurt’s red light district. The space featured wallpaper made of A3 colour copies reproducing, nearly to scale, a room of the 19th Century Peleș Castle, located in the foothills of Romania’s Carpathian Mountains. Peleș Castle is an historicist castle as each room is a copy of a different architectural style, which appears to anticipate postmodernism nearly one hundred and twenty years before it started. The same act of copying or translation that birthed Peleș Castle carries over to the artist’s own approach to studio production. What is realised in three-dimensions for one exhibition becomes the two-dimensional source material for the next period of production. The transition of material from 3D to 2D is simultaneously the content and material for their work. The process becomes, temporarily, the work. The act of copying is more important than the copy itself. Peles Duo dissect and reshuffle the supposedly original meaning of somewhere, something or someone, in order to question what time and culture has made of it.

Marc J. Cohen studied at the University College London from 2002 to 2006. In 2005, he was a guest student at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Staedelschule) in Frankfurt. In 2006, he received a First Class Diploma from Leiths School of Food and Wine.