Julia Obleitner works in collaborations across spatial, image, and text practices, at the intersection of art and architecture. She co-founded Studio Paradox and the collective dasBAU and is currently a lecturer at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck. Her work engages with large-scale territories, addressing contemporary political, ecological, and urban issues.

Jeehee Park (b. 1984, Seoul) is a sculptor whose work explores the nature of modern buildings in relation to biology, anthropology, and the history of architecture. Her work engages an interest in the non-human, time, and history and their entanglement in modern buildings, in the process of de-centering anthropocentric events and meaning. Park has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris (2024) , the MAK Center, Los Angeles (2019) , The Glenfiddich Artist in Residence program, Scotland (2017) , and The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai (2018). She is the recipient of major grants, including the Samsung Foundation of Culture Grant (2024) and the Art and Technology Convergence Support grant (2021, 2022). Her accolades also include the MAK Schindler Scholarship (2018) and the Kenneth Armitage Young Sculpture Prize (2014). Park’s work has been exhibited in numerous venues nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Haneulhaneulhan, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul (2024) , and Drawing Elliptical Orbit 1., The Reference, Seoul (2022). She has also participated in significant group exhibitions such as Reference point, The Reference, Seoul (2023); Spinning East Asia Series II: A Net (Dis)entangled, CHAT, Hong Kong (2022) ; and Michael was a good neighbor, Mackey Apartment, Los Angeles (2019).

Markus Bühler is a Berlin based artist, actor and filmmaker who thrives on sediments and fragments of realities. He loves to explore and create characters, images, spaces and atmospheres. Sometimes serious, sometimes lightweight, yet always dense and done with dedication, virtuosity and a sense of humor.

Peter Behrbohm explores future conflicts and utopian societies through collaborative, site-specific and context-based research. His works are surgical interventions in public spaces, routines and discourses, often aiming at revealing the constructedness of realities and demonstrating the possibilities of alternative forms of coexistence.

Ovidiu Anton was born in 1982 in Timişoara, Romania; he lives and works in Vienna. He studied at École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Marseille and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He deals with film and video, performance, drawing and sculptural objects. His works often take on a political character. In his context, the artist concentrates on seeking and highlighting the paradoxical nuances of the surrounding world.

His solo exhibitions have been organised at Gallery 5020, Salzburg; Christine König Gallery, Vienna; Tobacco Cultural Centre, Ljubljana; König2 by_robbygreif, Vienna; Future Museum, Bucharest and G99 Gallery in Brno. He participated, among others, in group exhibitions at Frappant, Hamburg; MAK Vienna; MUMOK cinema, Vienna; Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein; Jewish Museum, Hohenems; City Gallery of Ljubljana; Karst Projects, Plymouth; Galeria Labirynt, Lublin and other institutions.

Philipp Timischl is an artist born in 1989 in Graz. Coming from the rural countryside of Austria he is now living and working in Paris, France. His practice spans various media such as video, sculpture, painting and photography, often combined with text and culminating in site-specific installations. A reoccuring theme in his work are power dynamics – often in relation to social classes, queerness, heritage and the art world.

Vienna-based Eva Engelbert addresses the de- and recomposition of historical narratives and existing norms through scale, mutability and appropriation. She studied at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna and the ENSBA Paris. Her work was recently shown as part of Wiener Festwochen; Galerija SC in Zagreb; Studio Kalahan in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; and Salzburger Kunstverein and Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna. In many cases, Engelbert has installed works outside of the gallery or museum: in a library, an observatory, a city forest, and in other semi-private and public spaces. She teaches at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

Jenni Tischer lives and works in Vienna. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Tischer worked as an editor for the Berlin art magazine Texte zur Kunst. She has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and, since 2019, at the University of Applied Arts Vienna at the Institute for Art and Society. 

Born in the former Yugoslavia, Berlin-based artist Aleksandra Domanović (b. 1981) has been exploring history, technology, and identity in her body of work for over a decade. Her work takes an insightful look at a wide range of phenomena of contemporary society, such as cultural techniques, scientific and technological developments, history and culture, popular culture, and the shaping of national and cultural identity. Domanović’s works are precisely conceived narratives, visualized using iconic images or illustrations taken from other contexts.

Gerry Bibby is an artist working across performance, sculpture, print and writing. Recent projects include Point Center for Contemporary Art Cyprus, The Showroom London, and Kunsthaus Bregenz. He is author of The Drumhead, Sternberg Press (2014).

Baptiste Penetticobra is a French director and photographer. His work primarily focuses on prosaic environments, their inhabitants, and their relationship to fiction, signs, and narrative.

Flora Hauser holds a Diploma in Media Art and Sculpture from University of Applied Arts, Vienna and studied graphic and communication design at the Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna.

Alina Schmuch (*1987) devises artist’s books and video installations. Her ongoing video series on water infrastructures explores the way landscapes, architecture, technology, and physical bodies intersect with visible and hidden infrastructures. Schmuch studied media art at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) and has been a fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. She was part of the Hydromedia artistic research project, the residency ALTERLIFE, and is currently participant of BPA // Berlin Program for Artists. Her work has featured in a variety of exhibitions and screenings, including at Urbane Künste Ruhr, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, the Akademie der Künste Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, Rupert in Vilnius, Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, PLATO in Ostrava, and the 15th Architecture Biennale in Venice. Among other awards she received the Award for Documentary Photography of the Wüstenrot Stiftung, the Bremen Award for Video Art and the Visual Arts work stipend of the Berlin Senate.

Anna Jermolaewa (b. 1970, Leningrad) works primarily in the mediums of photography, video, and installation. Her main interest is the analysis of functional structures of society and social systems in everyday life. She continually focuses on the basic conditions of human existence and the nature of man, capturing the relationship between the individual and the masses, freedom and restriction, power and powerlessness. Jermolaewa graduated from the University of Vienna in 1998, and the Vienna Art Academy in 2002. Since 2019, she has been a Professor for Experimental Art at University of Art and Design Linz, Austria. Anna Jermolaewa represented Austria at Biennale Arte 2024, and has had solo exhibitions throughout the country. Her works are part of various collections including the Stedelijk Museum, Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, MUMOK—Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Museum Startgalerie Artothek, Tyrolean State Museum, and the Vehbi Koc Foundation.

Anastasiya Yarovenko (*1983, UA/AT) lives and works in Vienna. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2015) and holds an MA in Theory of Literature and Comparative Studies (2006). Anastasiya has received several prizes and grants such as Prize of the Kunsthalle Wien, START scholarship of the Federal Ministry for Culture of Austria and she is also a recipient of the MAK Schindler Scholarship Program (USA). Yarovenko participated in School of Kyiv - Kyiv Biennial (UA) in 2015 and other international biennial. Her work has been presented at international exhibitions such as Lentos Kunstmuseum (AT), xhibit (AT), Köttinspektionen Uppsala (SE), Sculpture Park in Vienna MQ (AT), Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (DE), Mackey Apartments, Los Angeles (USA), Kunsthalle Wien (AT), Odessa Museum of Western and Oriental Art (UA), Nest (NL) and others. Anastasiya was a Guest Professor of the Experimental Art Class at the Art University Linz in 2023/2024.

Petrit Halilaj understands exhibitions as a way to alter the course of personal and collective histories, creating complex worlds that claim space for freedom, desire, intimacy, and identity. His work is deeply connected to the recent history of his native country Kosovo and the consequences of cultural and political tensions in the region, which he often takes as a starting point for igniting countercurrent poetics for the future. Rooted in his biography, the projects encompass a variety of media, including sculpture, drawing, text, and performance. Often incorporating materials from Kosovo and manifesting as ambitious spatial installations, his work transposes personal relationships, places and people into sculptural forms. Halilaj’s work can be seen as a playful and, at times, irreverent attempt to resist oppressive politics and social norms towards an untamed celebration of all forms of connectedness and freedom.

In 2013, Halilaj represented Kosovo for the country’s first appearance at the Venice Biennale. In 2017, he was invited to participate in the 57th Venice Biennale by the curator Christine Macel, where he was awarded Special Mention by the Jury. That same year, he was awarded the Mario Merz Prize, which resulted in a major commissioned project he presented in 2018 at the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern and at Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy. He also received the Kunstpreis Berlin granted by the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2023). He is member of the Akademie der Künste der Welt from Cologne, Germany. He is currently a professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris, France, where he shares his class with Alvaro Urbano.

Álvaro Urbano’s work involves an archeology of desires and past intentions. By creating atmospheres that replicate specific spaces and architectural gestures, the artist explores the narratives that are embedded in these built bodies. Urbano borrows strategies from theater and filmmaking–such as lighting, sound and costumes–in order to explore new formats of immersiveness, his projects are often structured as scenes or sequenced chapters. The interweaving of different media is used to generate situations that approach liminal and oniric dimensions transforming the exhibition space into a vessel of phantasms and apparitions. Álvaro Urbano lives and works between Berlin and Paris.

Nadim Vardag (b. 1980, Regensburg, Germany) is an artist living and working in Vienna. Recent solo exhibitions include "Facciata / Facade / Fassade" at Spazio Orr, Brescia (2024), "Condition" at Galerie Lombardi-Kargl, Vienna (2023), "Promo" at Stations, Berlin (2022) and "Speicher" at New Toni, Berlin (2021). He is also the founder of "Schleuse", an artist space in Vienna operating since 2018.

Kathi Hofer (b. 1981, Hallein, Austria) works conceptually across media. She is interested in forms of everyday creativity and their specific freedoms and constraints as well as in the relationship between artistic work and socio-economics. In her installations she integrates found objects, images, stories, and practices that have strongly determined the roles and values within the environments she grew up in or moves within today.

Thea Moeller (*1985 in Hanover) is a sculptor living and working in Vienna. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2014, after earlier studies in Nuremberg. She has received several residencies and fellowships, including the Lenikus Studio Grant (Vienna, 2014), the MAK Schindler Scholarship (Los Angeles, 2015/16), and the OOE Artist and Scientist in Residence Program at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Rome (2022).

Her work has been shown in solo and duo exhibitions at venues such as Wonnerth Dejaco and Stiege 13 in Vienna, Martinetz in Cologne, Deborah Schamoni in Munich, and Venice 6114 in Los Angeles. She has also participated in group exhibitions at the Basel Social Club, Salzburger Kunstverein, Center for Contemporary Art Tbilisi, OK Linz, and others.

Moeller occasionally teaches and curates. From 2012–19, she co-directed the artist-run space Ve.Sch, and initiated annual group exhibitions in unique locations, including in Vienna and Los Angeles. Additional projects emerged during her teaching at the University of Art and Design Linz (2017–2023).

Her practice, both sculptural and curatorial, often begins with loosely assembled materials. Drawing on references from everyday architecture, suburban spaces, and industrial design, her work explores disorder as a method—where the first attempt might just be the final one.