Carl Fransson (*Stockholm, 1984) graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris Belleville and Edinburgh College of Art. He has also undertaken an MA in Aesthetic Theory at The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. Before founding studio nāv in 2013, he worked with Charles Pictet Architects, Switzerland and as an independent artist with exhibitions in UK, Sweden and Germany. He teaches at KTH School of Architecture and intermittently at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University.

Julia Hohenwarter’s installations, displays, and sculptures have been exhibited internationally, including at Kunsthalle Vienna, MAK Schindler House Los Angeles, Austrian Cultural Forum Tokio, The Tip Bangkok, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, 21er Haus Belvedere and Arcadia Missa London.

Julian Marcel Feritsch (born in Heidelberg, Germany) lives and works in Vienna. He graduated from the University of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied at the textual sculpture department with Heimo Zobernig.

Daniel Springer is an architect, educator, and artistic researcher based in Berlin. His studio practice is called Fragmentographic Studio, through which he pursues a transdisciplinary and pluriversal approach to designing, making, and thinking due to rapidly changing working environments. In his spatial and artistic practice, he explores the terrain of architecture and the arts through processual aesthetics, ad hoc appropriations of the pre-existing, and conceptual interpretations of the meaning of sculpture. Following his studies in architecture at the University of Technology Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart, he has collaborated on numerous projects with a variety of architecture and artist studios, as well as cultural institutions in Germany and abroad. He has received various scholarships for residency and research (e.g., MAK Schindler Scholarship, Bauhaus LAB Fellowship, DAAD), and his work has been published in several magazines (e.g., Bauhaus Taschenbuch, Horizonte Magazine, PLAT Journal). In addition to his professional experience, he has also worked as an assistant professor at two architecture faculties in Germany, the Leibniz University Hannover and the HafenCity University Hamburg, where he taught at the intersection of architecture and the arts. In 2025, he completed his Ph.D. in architecture and the arts, contributing to the field with a study on the aesthetics and epistemologies of fragments in artistic research.

Arnold Estefan and Anca Benera have collaborated as an artist duo since 2012, working between Vienna and Bucharest. Their practice spans multimedia installation, sculpture, and drawing, exploring how the military imagination shapes landscapes, climates, and communities, including its ties to extractive industries.

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.

Kerstin von Gabain, born 1979 in Palo Alto, California, lives and works in Vienna. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2003). Recent solo and duo exhibitions include Imitation, EXILE Vienna (2023); Compliments, Wieoftnoch, Karlsruhe (2021); Umeå, V.esch, Vienna (2021); I’ll see you when I see you, EXILE Vienna (2021); Dark Euphoria, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (2021); Happiness Machines (2020). She has been included in recent group exhibitions at Mumok, Vienna (2022); Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna (2022); Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (2022); Kunstverein Schattendorf, Schattendorf (2020); HAUS Wien 2020, Vienna (2020), among others. She is represented by EXILE Vienna.

Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan have collaborated as an artist duo since 2012, working between Vienna and Bucharest. Their practice spans multimedia installation, sculpture, and drawing, exploring how the military imagination shapes landscapes, climates, and communities, including its ties to extractive industries.

Robert Schwarz incorporates a background including computer music, sound studies and architecture into his installations, live performances and recorded music. With over 20 years of working in the field of sound, the Vienna-based sound artist approaches acoustic phenomena with an ear attuned to the inner systems of his subject, uncovering details normally hidden from perception. Crafting abstract structures through the interplay of field recordings and sound synthesis, his compositions suggest profound, dissociative states of listening and encourage a critical examination of our established listening practices.

Christoph Meier (b. 1980, Vienna) studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Glasgow School of Art. His internationally exhibited, installation-based work often engages with architectural and social spaces. Meier has participated in numerous exhibitions, including at the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Wiener Festwochen, Portland Institute of Art, Etablissement d’en face Brussels, and the Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul. He has presented solo exhibitions at venues such as Casino Luxembourg, Kiosk Gent, Kunstverein Hamburg, Kunsthaus Graz, and the Vienna Secession.

Andreas Bauer (born 16 June 1981, Böblingen) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart and the Stuttgart Academy for Communication Design and Multimedia. He has exhibited his work throughout Europe and the United States. His work is in the collections of the Beth deWoody Collection, New York, as well as private collections in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, and the United States. Bauer has received the prestigious Karin-Abt-Straubinger Stiftung award.

Lukas Stopczynski is an architect and artist based in Stuttgart and Berlin. He was trained at the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He has exhibited at venues such as Kronika Center for Contemporary Art (Bytom), ASK 2016 (Katowice), and Photosummer Stuttgart.

Monica Rizzolli is an artist-programmer from Brazil who has been fascinated with parametrically connecting programming with the natural world. She aims to create generative rules that mimic the growth and evolution of organisms and landscapes, an approach that she calls digital morphogenesis. Rizzolli attended IA-UNESP in São Paulo, Brazil, and the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany. Rizzolli has exhibited her work globally, including in the US, Brazil, Germany, China and Spain. She has also received several awards and scholarships, including the MAK Schindler Scholarship and the Sweet Home residency by Hablar En Arte, Madrid. Rizzolli also organizes projects celebrating and spreading code art, such as Noite de Processing and Processing Community Day Brasil.

A visual artist and researcher, Sofia Porto Bauchwitz is currently a professor in the area of Theory, Criticism, and History of Art at the Department of Visual Arts, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil. Her work focuses on creative processes and on (de)disciplining approaches to research. She holds a Master’s degree in Art Research and Creation (2013) and a PhD in Fine Arts (2017), both from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her doctoral thesis, “El Artista Errante y el Discurso como Cartografía en un Contexto Hispano-Brasileño” investigates contemporary artistic practices driven by an errant ethos. Her artistic practice engages with issues of memory, fiction, and the poetics of space. Her works have been exhibited at institutions such as the Arnheim Museum (Netherlands), MAK Center (Los Angeles, USA), Sala de Arte Joven de Madrid (Spain), Eugénio de Almeida Foundation (Évora, Portugal), Zeicheninstitut (Kassel, Germany), and Museo Murillo la Greca (Recife, Brazil), among others. She also writes critical texts and has been featured in exhibition catalogues such as Generaciones 2019 (La Casa Encendida, Spain) and À Nordeste (Sesc 24 de Maio, São Paulo).

Mirjam Thomann is an artist and lives in Berlin. She is interested in reflecting on and transcending architectural, social and institutional orders with the means of sculpture, installation, and text. In her works, she uses what is at hand at a certain site as an impetus, as material, space, and terrain, which she expands, supplements or comments on. This activation of what is there is combined with features such as reusability, combinability and movability of materials and fixtures.

Evelyn Temmel works in the fields of architecture and urban design. She studied architecture at the Graz University of Technology and the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura del Vallès in Barcelona. She has gained broad professional experience in several architecture offices in Graz and Vienna, as well as at OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen in Brussels.

Bernhard Luthringshausen works in the fields of architecture and urbanism.

As a MAK-Schindler Fellow, he collaborated with Evelyn Temmel on the project “Artifacts of a Parallel Ecology,” which examined the systematics of private backyards in Los Angeles. Artifacts of a Parallel Ecology, in which they analysed the urban morphology and domestic practices of backyard spaces.

In 2021, he founded the office BELT Architektur Buero together with Evelyn Temmel in Vienna. Their work range from urban planning and architectural design to interventions in and with existing structures. Their theoretical focus lies in the interplay between social transformation and the influence of socio-political frameworks on the built environment, as well as the evolution and adaptation of architectural typologies.

Josef Schroeck graduated from University of Innsbruck in 2010. He received a Master in Architecture with Disctinction. His Diploma Project “The Darwinian Monastery” was made under the supervision of Prof. Colin Fournier, UCL the Bartlett. He was awarded the “START Scholarship” (2013 with Elisabeth Haid) and the “Tische Scholarship” (2011) by the Austrian Ministry for Culture and Education, shortlisted for the Austrian Architectural “outstanding Artist Award 2012.” His work was exhibited at numerous locations like AFO Upper Austria and HDA Graz.

Elisabeth Haid studied art history and architecture in Innsbruck and Madrid. She works on architectural, curatorial and interdisciplinary artistic projects and is a research associate at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her work combines theoretical and practical approaches, exploring speculative ideas and tackling socio-cultural and environmental issues in the realms of architecture, urban studies and art. She has participated in exhibitions internationally and published various texts regarding architecture, contemporary art and urban studies. Her work has been recognized by multiple awards and scholarships. In 2015 she co-founded Kunstverein EXTRA.

Since they began working together in 2006, Kristoffer Frick and Eric Bell’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.