Lasse Schmidt Hansen (b. 1978 Albertslund, Denmark) studied at the State College of Fine Arts with Tobias Rehberger from 2003 until 2006. Selected exhibitions include Galerie Reinhard Hauff; Grazer Kunstverein, Graz; Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main; and Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York. He is represented by Galerie Reinhard Hauff in Stuttgart. Lasse Schmidt Hansen lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany.

Johann Lurf (born in 1982) was educated as a film director at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. He is known as an experimental filmmaker who cannot easily be subsumed under one style or category.

Borjana Ventzislavova (borjana.net) born in Sofia (Bulgaria), based in Vienna (Austria), moving in-between cultures, languages and contexts I’m interested in traveling through time and in the exploration of the complex play between past and present, individual and society, between modern and ancient concepts, relationships, medias, materials, techniques and energies. In my cross-disciplinary works in the fields of film/video, installation, photography, performative and new media art, I analyse stereotypical roles and models of representations and the impact of political and social power structures and control mechanisms on our existence. I am mainly interested in the processes of mobility and crossing of socio-geographical, cultural and psychological borders and how to deal with the complexity of communication and translation. I often blur the boundaries between documentary and fiction in order to question the status quo and to test the line between personal and collective, social, political and artistic, in the context of current events and history. Focusing on documentary and narrative structures and constructions, I exchange roles and identities, mix stages and situations, different styles, texts and sounds into cases and stories.

My works have been exhibited internationally in numerous solo and group shows as well as at media art and film festivals such as National Gallery Sofia, Kunstforum Wien, Belvedere 21, MAK Vienna, MAK Los Angeles, Lentos Linz, Salzburger Kunstverein, Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, Museum of Modern Art - Esterházy Foundation, MUSA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sofia City Art Gallery, Landesgalerie Linz, Essl Museum, k/haus, quartier21, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Austrian Cultural Forum Washigton DC and London, ICA London, ICA Sofia, Art Today Plovdiv, Hunt gallery, St. Louis, US, Cologne Conference, IDFA, Diagonale, EMAF, transmediale, filmwinter Stuttgart, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Berwick Film and Media Arts Fest., Moscow Int. Filmfest., Int. Short Film Fest. Istanbul, Split Film Fest., etc.

I was granted many awards, grants and received a number of international scholarships. I received working scholarship for film 2023, the promotion award by the City of Vienna 2017, the Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Art 2013, Start Scholarship for Fine Art 2009, winner of Top Ten Nonfiction film Award at Cologne Film Festival 2006, Otto Prutscher Fonds Award 2006, Susmannstiftung Award 2005, recognitions at Art in Motion 2002, Los Angeles, Ars Electronica, 2002, Linz, CYNETart 2001, Dresden.

I was artist in residence in London (ACF), Rom (BKA), Newcastle (D6), Berkeley (CEC Artslink), Los Angeles (MAK Schindler), Chicago (BKA), Athens (Snehta), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (BKA), NYC (ISCP / BKA), CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Tokyo (Tokas) a.o.

My works are part of private and public collections.

Peter Fritzenwallner is well known for his unconventional performances, which consist of sculptural and installation elements made from simple materials. At first glance, his art provokes irritation, is not self-explanatory, it poses questions – and awakens the interest and curiosity of the audience. The audience’s reaction and participation make them part of the performance.

Dennis Loesch dissolves images into strips of information. His methodical process can be seen as an extension of geometric minimalism with a strong appreciation for pop-culture appropriation. The conceptual focus of Loesch is the interplay between digital data and physical object-hood, both de- and re-contextualizing contents from intimate and public sources. From 2000 to 2005, Loesch co-directed with Michael Riedel Oskar-von-Miller Strasse 16, an experimental art space in Frankfurt that re-staged cultural events. Dennis Loesch was trained in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in 2001-2006. In 2010, he was awarded the prestigious Schindler Stipendium from the MAK Center for Arts and Architecture, in Vienna.

Patrycja German was born in 1979 in Wroclaw, Poland. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany. She has received several grants and awards including the Schindler- Stipendium (Los Angeles); Artists and Architects in Residency Program of MAK (Vienna, 2010); HAP Grieshaber – Preis (2009); Saar- Ferngas – 1st Preis for Young Art (2008); and Kunststiftung Baden (Württemberg, 2007). Since 2002, she has been focusing on creating live performance and performance for the camera. Her work has been exhibited throughout Germany, Poland, and in Europe.

Mandla Reuter works in between places

Many of the themes in Ortmeyer’s work draw from her keen interest in — and uncanny understanding of — cultural, human, and political interrelations, whether contemporary or historic, highbrow or lowbrow, academic or punk. Years of working on her publications about chess have taken her on a world library tour de force (Mexico City, New York, Reykjavík, Paris) and have equipped her with a scientific rigor that is rare among contemporary artists. But rather than taking a purely analytical approach, Ortmeyer marries her scholarly inclinations with an inquisitive and sometimes biting naïveté, allowing her to effortlessly break down the most complex intricacies of the human psyche in what may otherwise seem benign or platitudinous contexts. And in all her ongoing quest to discover deeper universal truths, she never compromises her unapologetic passion for beauty … and for love.

Ortmeyer’s solo exhibitions were shown in Kunstverein München, MoMA P.S.1. (New York City), 21er Haus (Vienna), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), among others. She was part of various group exhibitions, including in the Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), Kunsthalle Zürich (Zürich), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw); Palais de Tokyo (Paris); MAK Center (Los Angeles), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Stedelijk Museum Bureau (Amsterdam), Monnaie de Paris (Paris), Swiss Institute (New York). During her career, Ortmeyer won numerous awards and prizes, e.g.; the MAK-Schindler Scholarship (Los Angeles), Stiftung Kunstfond (Bonn, Germany). Her works are featured in the collections of the MoMA, (New York), Belvedere Museum (Vienna), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin) and FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais.

Felix Burrichter is a New York-based creative director, curator, editor, and publisher. Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, he was trained as an architect in Paris and New York. In 2006 Felix founded the multimedia platform PIN–UP, a self-described “Magazine for Architectural Entertainment” with a biannual print edition, of which he is the editorial and creative director. In addition to PIN–UP, Burrichter curates exhibitions and consults on design and architecture projects for various design brands. Burrichter has edited a number of design and art books including Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey(Mattel/FEBU), Cassina: This Will Be The Place (Rizzoli), Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau: A 21st Century Show Home (Karma), Rafael de Cárdenas: Architecture at Large (Rizzoli), PIN–UP Interviews(powerHouse), and Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Studio Work (Familiar). His curatorial projects include: Paper Weight, an exhibition on the culture of independent publishing (Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2013); Pavillon De L’Esprit Nouveau: A 21st-Century Show Home (Annual Architecture and Design Series, Swiss Institute, New York, 2015); Superbenches, a project for the permanent installation of 10 public park benches (Stockholm, 2017); and Blow Up, a group show on design and scale (Friedman Benda gallery, in New York, 2019). In 2022 he founded the platform for contemporary home accessories, PIN–UP HOME.

Maruša Sagadin was born in 1978 in Ljubljana, Slovenia and is based in Vienna, Austria. She studied architecture at TU Graz before transitioning to performative arts and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2015/2016, she participated in the ISCP Grant in New York City (USA), and in 2010, she was awarded the Schindler Grant at the MAK – Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles (USA). From 2011 – 2017 she was Assistant Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in the department for Performative Arts and Sculpture.

Stephan Lugbauer, born in 1976, now lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna and received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, New Media Department, Vienna. He was a fellow of the MAK Schindler Residency in Los Angeles, the BMUKK Studio Residency in Mexico City, and the Cité des Arts in Paris.

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.

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.

The artefacts created by Vienna-based artist duo Hanakam & Schuller are often shape-shifters, changing their external form and reappearing in different contexts. As artists and researchers, Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller redefine the rules of visual art and construct idiosyncratic orders and new world designs in videos and objects. In doing so, they repeatedly work with applied art forms. Their works have been exhibited at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Eyebeam Centre for Art + Technology in New York, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Culture in Moscow, the MAK in Vienna, the MAK Centre for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles and the National Art Centre in Tokyo, among others.

The artefacts created by Vienna-based artist duo Hanakam & Schuller are often shape-shifters, changing their external form and reappearing in different contexts. As artists and researchers, Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller redefine the rules of visual art and construct idiosyncratic orders and new world designs in videos and objects. In doing so, they repeatedly work with applied art forms. Their works have been exhibited at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Eyebeam Centre for Art + Technology in New York, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Culture in Moscow, the MAK in Vienna, the MAK Centre for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles and the National Art Centre in Tokyo, among others.

Simon Fujiwara was born in London in 1982, and spent his childhood moving between Japan, Europe, and Africa. He received a BA in architecture from Cambridge University in 2005 and earned an MFA from the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in 2008. Fujiwara’s practice is markedly performative and interdisciplinary in nature, calling upon diverse disciplines and mediums as a means to both research and reinvent his own multilayered autobiography.

Alan Cicmak was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1976. He studied Film and Video at Merz-Academy Stuttgart and Art and Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. He lives and works in Stuttgart and Vienna.

Born in Vienna in 1974. Lives and works in Vienna as a visual artist and as curator at the ZOOM Children's Museum.

Raimund Pleschberger's sculptural and photographic work focuses on the functioning of traditional forms of representation in different cultural and historical contexts.