Philipp Fleischmann works as an artist and filmmaker in Vienna, Austria. Since 2014, he has been the artistic director of the School Friedl Kubelka for Independent Film, where he himself studied in 2006. Further studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Dorit Margreiter Choy and at the Royal Danish Art Academy with Gerard Byrne.

Simona Ferrari is an architect working across different scales and formats. Practicing both independently and collaboratively, her work explores architecture and the built environment through building, photography, drawing, and writing. Simona studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and the Technical University of Vienna and received her Master’s degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology as a Monbukagakusho fellow. She completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts. Alongside her practice, between 2017-2023, Simona taught and conducted research at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Chair of Architectural Behaviorology, where she co-authored the book “Swiss Window Journeys: Architectural Field Notes” (gta Verlag, 2023). She was assistant curator of the Japan Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018). Previously, she worked with Atelier Bow-Wow in Tokyo, leading several international projects, including the Search Library in Muharraq, Bahrain, installations and exhibitions at the Cultural Center of Chicago, Harvard GSD, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the MAXXI Museum in Rome, and the Triennale di Milano. Her project “Landscape In-Between,” for the former industrial site of Acetati in Verbania, Italy, carried out together with Metaxia Markaki, was awarded in the 15th edition of the Europan architectural competition and subsequently developed as an urban plan commissioned by the municipality and involving the local community. Simona was an architect-in-residence at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles and at the Charles Moore Foundation in Santa Monica to conduct a research on gardens.

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titre provisoire is a collaboration between the artists Cathleen Schuster and Marcel Dickhage. They live in Berlin and work from a conceptual approach in time-based media, with staged film, essay film and video installation. They are alumni of the Whitney Independent Study Program and the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Recent exhibitions include Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Singapore Biennale 2019, the public space of Semmering, Horse&Pony Berlin, D21 Leipzig, Sharjah Art Foundation, after the butcher Berlin, Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof Hamburg, Berlinische Galerie, GfZK Leipzig, Ludlow 38 New York, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, SAVVY Contemporary and the Kyiv Biennale 2015. Films they have worked on have been shown at Anthology Film Archives, Berwick Film Festival, FID Marseille and Prismatic Ground, among others. In 2022, they developed the online journal Rosa Mercedes Issue No. 4 „Coincidences in Prepositions“ in collaboration with Renan Laru-an, the Vargas Museum Manila and the Harun Farocki Institute Berlin. They have been invited for lectures/conversations at the forums of Impossible Dreams hosted by Patrick Flores in the Taiwan Pavillion at the 59th Venice Biennial or at the South London Gallery amongst others, and they have been teaching at Institute for Art and Art Theory, University of Cologne and at the Angewandte, Vienna.

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Melanie Ebenhoch (*1985) studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, at HKU Utrecht, and at the Sandberg Institute Amsterdam. She has exhibited at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Belvedere 21, Kunsthalle Wien, Galerie Martin Janda Vienna, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Union Pacific London, L’Inconnue Montreal, Heiligenkreuzerhof Vienna, Kevin Space Vienna, and Hester New York. She has upcoming exhibitions at KUnsthalle Bratislava, MQ Artbox Vienna, Kunstraum AA Bludenz, and the MAK Schindler Residency in Los Angeles.

Kamilla Bischof (*1986, Graz) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2009 - 2015). Recent solo exhibitions include Sandy Brown, Berlin; Boltenstern.Raum, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna; Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz; FIAC with Sandy Brown, Paris; and Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg. Select group exhibitions include Thunder in your throat, n.b.k., Berlin; Non-Player Character, Kunstverein Schwerin, Schwerin; Avantgarde und Gegenwart, Belvedere 21, Vienna; Ora et Lege, Broumov Monastery, Broumov; Ruinous Times, Lenbachhaus, Munich; Paint, also known as blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; and Der Hausfreund, Österreichisches Kulturforum Berlin and Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Vienna.

Robin Durand is a Umeå, Sweden, based architect and educator. He grows up in Tokyo, Japan and Umeå, Sweden, and studies in France and Belgium, graduating from the ENSA-Marseilles, France in 2013. After spending several years in European practices of various types, architecture, landscape, Robin now runs an independent practice in Umeå, Sweden, in parallel to his lecturing at Umeå School of Architecture. His practice ranges from project designs to research and exhibitions, working individually or collaboratively. He teaches architectural design at undergraduate and graduate level and architecture theory.

Emilija Škarnulytė (b. Vilnius, Lithuania 1987) is an artist and filmmaker. Working between documentary and the imaginary, Škarnulytė makes films and immersive installations exploring deep time and invisible structures, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological and political.

Helvijs Savickis’ research moves across spatial installations, architecture, and film. As co-founder of the Architecture Studio Paradox, his work explores the layered interplay between space and time through these mediums.

Manuel Gorkiewicz born in Graz lives in Vienna. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and studied at the University of Fine Arts. Numerous invitations to national and international solo and group exhibitions testify to the high regard in which his conceptual and multimedia oeuvre is held.

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.

Ting-Jung Chen's artistic practice focuses on the mapping of memory and identity in the acoustic territory and power system. She explores collective dialogue and tension under the influence of affective tonality through multi-channel sound, kinetic installation, and sculpture. Chen's work involves reinterpreting historical memories by deconstructing symbolic cultural artifacts and exploring the formation of discipline in the mapping process.

Veronika Eberhart is an artist, musician, and researcher working at the intersection of sculpture, text, sound, and moving image. Her practice unfolds through speculative gestures, navigating the space between archive and fiction. Grounded in feminist and class-based theories, her work draws on a background in sociology (University of Vienna and Copenhagen) and fine arts (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna).

Jakob Sellaoui is a US-born architect of Austrian and Algerian heritage who founded Studio Jakob Sellaoui in 2020. Within his practice the notion of collapse and crisis are reframed as opportunities for adaptation and change. The work explores the resulting spatial and material potentials he calls “Good-Enough Architecture”. Up to date the studio has realised projects in several scales and locations ranging from Nicaragua, Portugal, Austria, and the US.

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.