Manuela Mark is a Vienna-based artist. She studied Scenic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Visual Media/Transmedial Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 2008 she was awarded the MAK-Schindler Scholarship in Los Angeles, followed by studio residencies in Tokyo (2011) and Krumau (2015).

Mark’s work has been exhibited widely, with presentations at MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Kunst Raum Niederösterreich, Vienna; Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck; Tokyo Wondersite; and MMKK, Klagenfurt. She has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Artist Award (BMUKK, 2009) and the Tiroler Förderpreis für zeitgenössische Kunst (2008).

James Paul Dallas is a writer and filmmaker based in New York City. He has produced high profile documentaries for CNN Films, Amazon Studios, YouTube Originals, Field of Vision, and the Luma Foundation. These films have screened at major international festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, San Francisco, Berlinale, Viennale, Visions du Reél, CPH:DOX, and New Directors/New Films.

His writing on film has been published in Artforum, BOMB, Brooklyn Magazine, Cinema Scope, Film Comment, Filmmaker Magazine, Interview Magazine, the Village Voice and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor for the art journal Extra Extra Magazine and he has curated film series for the Guggenheim Museum, Maysles Cinema, and UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art. He is a graduate of Cooper Union's School of Architecture.

Hank Schmidt in der Beek was born in 1978 in Munich, Germany. He lives and works as an artist in Berlin, where he has been based since 2006.

From 1999 to 2005, he studied Fine Arts at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main and, in 2003–2004, at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium.

He has received several awards and scholarships, including the Schindler Scholarship in Los Angeles (2008–2009), the Szpilman Award for Ephemeral Art (2009), and the Villa Waldberta Scholarship in Feldafing (2016).

Johann Neumeister, born on August 16, 1976, in Vienna, studied Sculpture and New Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Electroacoustic Composition and Computer Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts.

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.

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.

Julien Diehn, born in 1975 in Berlin, Germany, lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He studied Stage Design at the Institute for Media Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2004, and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, in 2002.

Nine Budde finished her MFA for public art and new artistic strategies at Bauhaus University Weimar and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Since the end of the 90’s she produces social- and site-specific photographies, videos, performances and installations. The artist won numerous resdincies and art prices, such as MAK-Schindler Residency in Los Angeles and Villa Romana Price in Florence. Her work is nationally and internationally shown.

Nine Budde lives and works in Berlin.

Sonja Vordermaier, born 1973 in Munich, lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. In 2002 she got her master in fine arts at the Art Academy in Hamburg and had numerous shows in Germany, Switzerland and the USA. She won prizes and scholarships, like the Hector Art-prize in Mannheim, the MAK Schindler Scholarship in Los Angeles, or the Hamburg Grant.

Andreas Fogarasi uses forms of display that are reminiscent of minimalism and conceptual art to explore questions of space and representation. Being situated between a documentary and a sculptural practice, his works critically analyse the aesthetisation and economisation of urban space and the role of architecture and the cultural field in contemporary society. Incorporating video, sculpture and installation in wide-sweeping discursive webs, Fogarasi confronts the viewer with fault lines in history, image politics and cultural identities.

Alfredo Barsuglia, born 1980 in Graz, lives and works in Vienna / Austria. Barsuglia has received numerous awards and scholarships, including the Monsignor Otto Mauer Prize (2019), the State Scholarship for Fine Arts (2017), the Art Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna (2015), the Theodor Körner Prize (2013), the Art Promotion Prize of the City of Graz (2007), and the MAK-Schindler Fellowship in Los Angeles (2006).

David Moises studied at the University for Arts and Industrial Design 1995-2002, Linz, Austria and the Humboldt University, Berlin Germany 1998-1999.

Moises’s has exhibited widely in Austria, Germany, Italy and elsewhere including the Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien,Karlsruhe, Kunsthalle, Wien (2004), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Schindler House, Los Angeles (2006), Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2008), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2015).

He lives and works in Vienna.

Elena Kovylina studied at the Academy of Arts in Moscow, at the Art and Media School in Zurich, and at the Moscow Center of Modern Art. Since 1999, she has been a member of the Russian Professional Union of Artists and Graphic Designers.

Kovylina has participated in numerous exhibitions and performances, including The Babel Tower (performance, Art Museum, Samara, 2001), Partnership of Art (APT, Moscow, 2001), The Moment of Glory (Et setera Theater, Moscow, 2000), Freedom for the Butterflies (Contemporary Art Institute, Moscow, 2000), and Social Machine – Money (Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, 1999). She has also been published in numerous Russian and international art magazines.

Milica Topalovic is Associate Professor of Architecture and Territorial Planning at the ETH Department of Architecture. From 2011-15 she held research professorship at the ETH Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore, studying the relationship between a city and its hinterland. In 2006 she joined the ETH as head of research at Studio Basel Contemporary City Institute and the professorial chairs held by Diener and Meili, where she taught research studios on cities and on territories such as Hong Kong and the Nile Valley. Milica graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and received Master’s degree from the Dutch Berlage Institute for her thesis on Belgrade’s post-socialist urban transformation. Since 2000, she worked on projects in different spatial scales and visual media. With Studio Basel she authored and edited Belgrade. Formal / Informal: A Research on Urban Transformation, and The Inevitable Specificity of Cities. She contributes essays on urbanism, architecture and art to various magazines and publications.

Bas Princen trained as an industrial designer and architect before earning an international reputation for his photographic work, particularly for reflecting the transformation of urban space. In his projects, he focuses on the frictions between designed surfaces of cities and a “natural” landscape.

In recent years, the artistic work of Songül Boyraz has focused on her own hair in order to explore the experiences of women in public and everyday life (family, religion, hierarchical and social constraints etc.), whose lives are rejected, questioned, and forced to exist within the boundaries set by others in positions of authority. These experiences consist of examples that fundamentally harm human life through physical and psychological violence. The artist’s work, therefore, aims to reflect the destruction and consequences of both psychological and physical bullying from her own perspective.