The oeuvre of the Berlin-based artist David Zink Yi revolves around themes of creation, manifestation, and the construction of identity. Born in Lima in 1973, Zink Yi left Peru for Germany at the age of 16. Drawing inspiration from his own experiences, he interrogates the complex aspects of identity construction through his multi-disciplinary practice; encompassing film, photography, sculpture, performance, ceramics and multi-channel video installations, which all emphasize the social interrelation of the protagonists, as well as physiological aspects of musical perception.

Stefan Röhrle was born in Munich. After completing his A-levels, he studied Stage and Film Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Institute for Fine and Media Art. In 2002, he received his diploma with distinction. Since 1997, he has lived and worked in Vienna as an artist, stage designer, and costume designer. In 2005, he participated in the MAK-Schindler Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program at the Mackey Apartments in Los Angeles.

Vancouver- and Vienna based artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber collaborate on projects addressing the politics of how cities, architecture and urban territories are made into images. Mainly working in the media of photography and spatial installations their research-oriented practice engages with specific moments and logics of the global-urban change as they take shape in neighborhoods, architecture, and everyday life. Focusing architecture as a material frame for spatial, social, and cultural meaning, their ongoing research includes projects such as “Mapping as Shifting Perspectives”, “Educational Modernism,” “Performing Spaces of Radical Pedagogies”, and “Housing the Social.”

Exhibitions include: Künstlerhaus Wien, (2025); Austrian Cultural Forum Cairo, (2024); nGbK Berlin (2023); ACFNY, New York (2022); HKW Berlin, SAAG, Lethbridge (2021); Fotogalerie Wien; Republic Gallery, Vancouver (2019), Gallery Structura, Sofia, Bulgaria; Museum der Moderne Salzburg; Carinthian Museum of Modern Art, Klagenfurt; (2018)

Publications include: “encounter Educational Modernism”, “unsettling Educational Modernsim”, “Bildungsmoderne entzaubern”, “Making Ruins”, “Werkschau XXIII, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber”; “Front, Field, Line, Plane”, “The Militant Image Reader”, “Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade”, “BitterWeber: Live like this!”, “Caracas, Hecho en Venezuela”.

In 2004, they formed the urban research collective Urban Subjects with Canadian writer Jeff Derksen.

Sabine Bitter is Professor at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts in Vancouver, Canada.

Vancouver- and Vienna based artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber collaborate on projects addressing the politics of how cities, architecture and urban territories are made into images. Mainly working in the media of photography and spatial installations their research-oriented practice engages with specific moments and logics of the global-urban change as they take shape in neighborhoods, architecture, and everyday life. Focusing architecture as a material frame for spatial, social, and cultural meaning, their ongoing research includes projects such as “Mapping as Shifting Perspectives”, “Educational Modernism,” “Performing Spaces of Radical Pedagogies”, and “Housing the Social.”

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.

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.

Oliver Croy is based in Vienna, where he graduated from the University of Applied Arts. In the 1990s, he initiated the project Sondermodelle in collaboration with curator Oliver Elser. The project centers around 387 model houses created by the Austrian insurance clerk Peter Fritz, and has been exhibited at major international venues including the Venice Biennale, the New Museum in New York, and the Berlin Biennale. Croy is also the co-founder of Croy Nielsen, a contemporary art gallery established in Vienna in 2016.

Marlene Haring deals with the social construction of places and events. Her work — performance, intervention, installation — reflects and intervenes on the regulations and conventions which govern social relationships and behaviours. It stems from site-specific investigations in which she is both researcher and guinea pig. The social construction of relationships and identities is her material. Her work is performative because: it creates and alters situations. She makes artworks that do what they say, and a bit more. She has exhibited and performed internationally since 1998, among others at The Function Room London (2015, 2016); Künstlerhaus, Vienna (2014, 2011, 2009); Tenderpixel, London (2013); Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (2013, 2012); Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain (2012); Modern Art Oxford (2010); Berlin Biennale (2010) and at Secession, Vienna (2010), where she once presented Closed Because of Pubic Hair (2009) in lieu of a lecture.

Catrin Bolt (born 1979) lives and works in Breitenstein and Vienna. She studied from 1997 to 2003 under Peter Kogler in the media class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Corinne Rusch studied at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) from 1995 to 1996. She then studied at the University of Applied Arts (ZHdK) in Zurich, at the Institute for Fine and Media Arts, Stage and Film Design, and graduated with honors in 2001.

Suwan Laimanee’s art practice is founded upon the 2,500-year-old yoga-based Thai medical massage system. It is a Thai tradition of healing massage rooted in Indian philosophy, Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese medicine, and Buddhist spiritual practice. Thai massage is a combination of mind and body therapy, incorporating Hatha yoga, acupressure points, reflexology, meditation, and healing art.

Pia Rönicke was born in 1974 in Roskilde, Denmark. Her works are heterogeneous collages that combine music, photos, comics, magazine clippings, and drawings into investigations of urban planning and Modernist conceptions of the city. Her films are part of an ongoing investigation of the urban landscape and the relationship between architectural utopias and reality. Although her works formally revisit Dadaistic experiments and the critical montage practices of the 1960s and 1970s, they raise contemporary questions about the politics and conventions of familiar environments and their effects on everyday life. She is represented by gb agency in Paris and Andersen’s Contemporary Art in Copenhagen. Pia Rönicke lives and works in Los Angeles and Copenhagen.

Karina Nimmerfall is a visual artist whose work interweaves sculptural installation and language with various forms of photographic, computer-generated or moving imagery. Addressing the historicity of buildings and urban structures, as well as their representations within mediated imagery and the archive, she often confronts sections of a historical past with our present, blending documentary and speculative strategies that create various real and imagined time-space constellations. In this process, however, the imaginary is understood not as a contrast to reality, but as something that emerges in the interstices and becomes part of our lived world.

Karina Nimmerfall studied Visual Arts at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg and Art History at the University of Vienna. She is a recipient of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach-Foundation Contemporary German Photography Grant (2018), and was awarded several fellowships such as at the Tokyo and London Studio of the Federal Ministry for Arts Austria (2023 and 2015), the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2007) and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles (2002), amongst others. She has exhibited internationally including at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Camera Austria, Graz; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Kunsthaus Graz; Kunsthalle Mainz; BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna; Kasseler Kunstverein; AR/GE Kunst, Bolzano; Göteborgs Konsthall and Landesgalerie Linz (now Francisco Carolinum). Her work was also included in the Bucharest Biennale 3 (2008) and the 8th Havana Biennial (2003).

Luisa Lambri is an artist working with photography and film. She was born in Como, Italy, in 1969. Lambri currently lives in Milan. Her work has been exhibited at the Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art (2018), the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2017), the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art (2010) and the Venice Biennial (Architecture 2010 and 2004; Art 2003 and 1999).

Kobe Matthys (23 November 1970, Ghent – 18 May 2023, Tollembeek) was an artist. In 1992, he founded Agency, an agency for quasi-creations. He conducted long-term research on the practices of reappropriation and the public domain. He lived in Brussels.

Kobe Matthys regularly contributed to a community farming project in Brussels and was one of the driving forces behind State of the Arts, an action group that opposed culture cuts in Belgium in 2019. In 2021, Agency received the Flanders’ Ultima Awards for Visual Arts.

Richard Hoeck is a Vienna-based multimedia artist working in installation, sculpture, performance, photography and video. Hoeck's work explores worldviews, social conditions, and the possibilities of perception. In recent years, Hoeck has increasingly devoted his attention to the changing relationship between haptics and optics, between body and image. Together with his long-time collaborator John Miller, they use the inherent materiality of mannequins to explore bodies, surfaces, and transformation as displacement grows due to more of our life happening in the digital space.

Florian Pumhösl was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1971. From 1989 to 1997 he attended the Höhere Grafische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Vienna, and from 1989 to 1996 he studied graphic design at the University (then College) of Applied Arts in Vienna, from which he graduated with a diploma. In 2000, he was awarded the Otto Mauer Prize. In 2002 he was awarded the CENTRAL Prize of the Cologne Art Association and in 2006 the City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts. In 2012, he received the Teresa Bulgarini Prize.

Dorit Margreiter Choy (*1967, Vienna) is a photographer, video and installation artist. From 1988 to 1992 she studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Siggi Hofer was born on January 21, 1970, in Brunico, Italy. He studied at the Master School of Painting under Prof. Gerhart Lojen in Graz and at the University of Applied Arts under Prof. Mario Terzic in Vienna. He lives and works in Vienna.