Hans-Peter Thomas aka Bara (b. 1968, Bonn, Germany) is an artist whose work moves between painting, music, performance, and installation. Over the past two decades he has developed a practice that interrogates the act of mark-making and authorship, beginning with early alphabet paintings (2003) and extending into monochrome canvases inscribed with scratches and cuts that probe the limits of painting’s surface. Working also under the pseudonym Bara, Thomas has produced music, collaborative performances, and experimental objects that explore identity through layered gestures of inscription and erasure.

Bernhard Wolf was born in 1965 and lives in Graz. He studied at the Free Academy in Moscow and is a member of FOND/Graz. From 2007 to 2010, he was director of Forum Stadtpark in Graz together with Carola Peschl. His work has been presented at venues including Kunsthaus Graz, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, NCCA Moscow, Mystetskyi Arsenal Kyiv, and in public commissions across Austria.

Rainer Prohaska, (*1966) lives & works in Vienna and Krems.

The artist Rainer Prohaska studied Experimental Media Art at the Angewandte in Vienna and is particularly interested in phenomena and objects of everyday life, which he puts into the art context in a humorous way and in adapted form.

Elke Uitentuis (1977) is a visual artist, human rights activist and mother. From 2005 until 2013, Elke was part of the artist duo Osterholt/Uitentuis. Osterholt/Uitentuis realised community projects with the aim to democratise people’s relationships with their direct surroundings.

At the time the collaboration between Osterholt and Uitentuis came to an end, the refugee collective We Are Here started their protest in Amsterdam. Elke got herself involved with this group of newcomers fighting for their basic rights. Together they founded Here to Support. This foundation set up the We Are Here Academy, a school for refugees in limbo, who have otherwise no access to education, and several art related projects like the theater play and a cooking project. Elke left Here to Support in 2017 to dedicate herself to the Vluchtmaat. This was a temporary shelter for 40 undocumented refugees and a workspace for artists and social entrepreneurs. Within the environment of the Vluchtmaat, the collective We Sell Reality came to life. We Sell Reality is a social rebellion label which is set up as a collective of both undocumented and documented artists. We Sell Reality makes products and installations and creates performative interventions in public space with the aim of providing insight into the lives of undocumented refugees.

Elke Uitentuis is also one of the participating artists of the exhibition Taking Stock (2021) at Framer Framed, Amsterdam.

Wouter Osterholt designs public interventions along the faultlines and breaking points of our (political) landscape where social injustices, conflicts or ecological problems come to light. Within his site-specific and interdisciplinary practice, he uses art to contribute to the social and ecological re-imagining of these exploited places by introducing a process in which local cultural and archaeological objects and/or social phenomena, such as rituals, are being used to recreate a sense of belonging.