Since they began working together in 2006, Eric Bell and Kristoffer Frick’s practice has evolved out of an ongoing dialogue and exchange of images, texts, and materials. A collaborative approach based on mutual influences and interests forms the foundation of their work, enabling them to give form to ideas that are not limited to a single artistic perspective. Spanning photography, video, and installation, their practice typically involves the presentation and staging of found objects, ranging from the ordinary to finely crafted cultural artefacts. Drawing from histories of cinema, advertising, and industrial photography, they create pictures that examine the codes and aesthetics of modern representation systems.

Björn Kämmerer creates sensuous yet rigorous visual explorations in 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm film, transforming captured imagery into abstract patterns with a strong emphasis on light and shape. Björn Kämmerer has exhibited work at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany; Mumok, Austria; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, among others.

Peter Jellitsch was born in Austria in 1982. After completing an apprenticeship as carpenter, he studied art and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, from where he graduated in 2010. His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe and can be found in collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten (MMKK), the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, and the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Pradeep Devadass is an architect and roboteer. He specialises in bridging the gap between architectural design and robotic construction. He is a Lecturer in Design for Manufacture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he has played a proactive role in advancing research in robotics and automation within architecture and construction. He also leads the B-made (Bartlett Manufacturing and Design Exchange) Robotics Lab overseeing strategic robotic infrastructure, teaching innovative robotic workflows in architecture, and driving collaborative research in advanced automation. He has led numerous successful research projects as Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Investigator (Co-I), securing funding from various competitive grants. His work has focused on sustainable materials and innovative robotic processes, including autonomous manufacturing of low-carbon materials like earth, stone, and timber.

Sushant Verma (M.Arch. Em.Tech. – AA London, B.Arch. SSAA New Delhi, MCoA India) is a Design Entrepreneur, Architect, Computational Designer & Educator, currently leading rat[LAB] Studio (Research in Architecture and Technology) that investigates intersections of design, art & technology through architecture, interior design and art installations.

Maria is originally from Sweden, and studied in Germany and Denmark, where she currently lives and works. Maria's first narrative feature film was Parents for director Christian Tafdrup.

Heidrun Holzfeind is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at Cooper Union in New York.

She is interested in how architecture interacts with people’s everyday life. Her works question immanent architectural and social utopias and explore the relationships between history and identity, individual histories and political narratives of the present.

Michael Hieslmair, born 1974 in Linz lives and works in Vienna. He studied architecture at the Graz University of Technology and Delft University of Technology. He was fellow at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Innsbruck and architect in residence at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture Los Angeles, taught at various universities, e.g. University for Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle an der Saale, Innsbruck University, Graz and Vienna Technical University. He collaborated on the research project "Crossing Munich, Places, Representations and Debates on Migration in Munich" (with Sabine Hess) which culminated in an exhibition at the Rathausgalerie. From 2014 to 2016 he was research associate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and co-head of research of "Stop and Go: Nodes of Transformation and Transition" investigating the production of space along pan-European Traffic Corridors in East Europe.

Christian Kosmas Mayer (b. 1976, Sigmaringen, Germany) lives and works in Vienna, Austria. His work produces and preserves a constellation of narratives about historical remains and representations that are often on the verge of disappearing, or have already been rendered imperceptible. Mayer’s projects, which are the outcome of extensive artistic research and close collaborations with specialists across various disciplines, transform the minor, forgotten, and obsolescent into material artifacts, discursive objects, multi-media installations, and performances. Linking technology to memory and care, his practice explores the methods by which important issues can be approached in conceptually and aesthetically surprising ways: techniques of reversal, of compressing and stretching time, of looking at things from both ends at once.

Johannes Zotter (*1980) is an Austrian-born architect and designer. Johannes Zotter studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna. During his studies he took part at several design/building projects, such as the "Orangefarm" project in Johannesburg which received the Austrian Building Award in 2006. After graduation he worked for various architects in Austria and Switzerland.

Deniz Sözen is of mixed Turkish-Austrian heritage and grew up between Turkey and Austria. She studied Fine Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at Goldsmiths, University of London and completed her practice-based PhD at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), the University of Westminster (2019).

Katrin Hornek (1983) lives and works in Vienna. She studied Performative Art and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her work playfully engages with the strange paradoxes and convergences of living in the age of the geologic Anthropocene, where the effects of capitalism, colonialism, and extractivism are written into the body of the earth. Both her artistic and her curatorial practice assert an understanding of the entwinement of nature and culture, implicitly arguing for more complex formulations ­– most recently, at secession, Vienna (2024), ar/ger Kunst, Bolzano (2021), Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (2021), the Riga Biennale (2020), Hysterical Mining at Kunsthalle Wien (2019), and I: project space, Beijing (2018).

Julia Wieger works in art and architecture. Her work is concerned with queer feminist productions of space, archive politics, and history writing, as well as collective approaches to research, knowledge production, and design. From 2015-18, she worked as senior scientist at the Institute for Art and Architecture and from 2014-16 for the transdisciplinary research project “Spaces of Commoning” at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 2012-17 she was a member of the board of VBKÖ – an artist run queer feminist art space in Vienna. Together with Nina Höchtl, she founded the working group Secretariat for Ghosts Archival Politics and Gaps in 2012.

Born in 1981 in Hamburg, Germany, Anahita Razmi is a digital and performance artist. She mines her Iranian cultural heritage and appropriates iconic works of art—particularly those of feminist artists—bringing to them a new Eastern context. She is best known for Roof Piece Tehran (2011), a video installation for which Razmi recreated Trisha Brown’s seminal 1971 work Roof Piece, filming 12 dancers not on the rooftops of New York but on those of Tehran—a reference to the rooftop demonstrations during Iran’s 2009 election protests. “My works are always conceptual and political but they also have a sense of humor,” she has said.

Benjamin Hirte’s work explores cultural history and the construction of public and private space. By modifying signs of use and consumption, his minimalist objects foreground materiality, function, and the coded nature of reality.

Benjamin Hirte, born in 1980 in Aschaffenburg, lives and works in Vienna and Berlin. His artistic practice encompasses sculpture and text. He has been a fellow of the Schindler Residency Program in Los Angeles and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. He also received the Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Arts and a residency grant at the ISCP in New York.

Eva Seiler (*1979 in Munich) studied scenography and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In her sculptures and spatial settings, she questions anthropocentrism and speculates on how the co-existence of human and non-human animals, nature and technology could be articulated in the future. She embraces hybrid modes of relationship in her practice, using both organic materials and industrially produced fabrics for her objects.

Lucie Stahl is an artist based in Vienna. Her works investigate the abstracted, psychologically fraud, relationship of humans to their environment. She is interested in a culture of extraction, obsessive use and the associated modes of production and consumption –mechanisms of sucking, pumping, flowing and converting liquid raw materials into energy, and how they relate to inner processes.

Anton Savov is an architect and postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich. His work focuses on developing architectural machine intelligence to enhance our creative capacities for designing and constructing the built environment.

Markus Krottendorfer is interested in the fragile foundations of our present, in misconceptions and failed ideas which still managed to give rise to the conquest of the world and which were with us for a while. With his special photographic method, he intervenes in places that still show traces of these often-odd ideas, places that beg questions regarding their (former) utopian potential and the way they resonate with the present.

Steffi Alte is a visual artist based in Vienna whose practice includes different formats and media, often merging installation with an aspect of participation. She studied fine arts at HfbK Dresden and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.