Ali Janka was born in 1970 and lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He is a member of Gelitin, a collective consisting of artists Ali Janka, Florian Reither, Tobias Urban, and Wolfgang Gantner, who first met at summer camp in 1978. They formed Gelitin in the mid-1990s in Vienna and began exhibiting internationally in 1993.

Johan Frid was born in 1971 in Malmoe, Sweden, and lives in Sandviken, Sweden. He received an MFA in Visual Art from Umea University, Sweden, in 1997.

Åse Frid (b. 1969, Uppsala, Sweden) holds an MFA from Umea Art Academy, Umea University, Sweden (1995-2000). Lives and works at Stockholm archipelago 1 hour north of Stockholm. She works with text-based watercolor and ink, film installations and poetry. Her work investigates relations between language, image, dream, humour and contemplation.

The white of the paper is saved out inside the little marker-written letters, the warp of the painting, to which she relates in time and with watercolor around the text. This way of writing and painting started in Los Angeles in 1997 where she started making meticulously painted travel letters to the king of Sweden and to Iggy Pop. Recently she has been copying letters and writings from Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) and other artists and writers and made watercolors starting from the quotations. She has also made works that starts with ”false friends”, a linguistic term for words from different languages that look the same but have different meanings, such as ”barn”; meaning child in Swedish, but something else in English. She encircles these words in repetitive painting.

She has made a film projected on a 10 meter watercolor paper roll, with text and painting.

Ase Frid describes her work as connected to the holy work of medieval monks, illuminating holy scriptures. The concentration and the endless work creates a dreamlike state, and merges with the chance of color spread on the paper. Her work involves her own writings and poetry, qoutations from books or newspapers and surrealistic writings.

Constanze Ruhm is an internationally renowned artist, filmmaker, author, and curator whose diverse practice transcends the boundaries between film, media art, and theoretical reflection. After studying Media Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the Institute for New Media at Städelschule Frankfurt am Main under Peter Weibel, she developed an internationally recognized artistic and theoretical practice.

Since 2006, she has held a professorship in Art and Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. As a curator, her significant projects include "FATE OF ALIEN MODES" at the Vienna Secession (2003) and "PUTTING REHEARSALS TO THE TEST" in Montreal (2016). Her works are regularly presented at renowned international festivals including the Berlinale, FID Marseille, Essay Film Festival London, Diagonale, and Viennale.

From a consistently feminist perspective, Ruhm examines the complex relationships between time-based media formats and representations of women. Her work deconstructs patriarchally shaped histories and theories, focusing particularly on rehearsal processes and casting formats as artistic procedures that question hegemonic forms of representation and develop alternative feminist performativities.

Ruhm develops innovative feminist strategies in dealing with found material to discover lost, excluded, and suppressed voices of women. Her works, situated between essay, fiction, and documentation, fundamentally question patriarchal narratives by extracting female film characters from male-dominated narrative structures and developing them into independent, complex subjects.

Film theorist Christa Blümlinger calls Ruhm's practice "film-related archive art" – an explicitly feminist approach that breaks up patriarchal correlations of cinema and media art. Ruhm is considered one of the most important representatives of critical, feministically grounded media art in the German-speaking world.

Anna Meyer was born in 1964 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and lives in Vienna, Austria. From 1983 to 1984, she attended the School of Design in Lucerne.

She has held several teaching positions, including a professorship at the Summer Academy in Salzburg from 2007 to 2008, and a lectureship in Painting/Digital Realities at the Lucerne University of Art from 2010 to 2012.

Marko Lulić lives and works in Vienna. He has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. His work deals intensively with topics such as architecture and modernism, the interweaving of ideology and aesthetics, and the contrast of bodies in flux with the motionlessness of monumental structures. In his artistic practice he makes use of a number of media including video, performance, photography and installation. In recent years he has also curated several exhibitions as part of his expanded artistic practice. For the past five years he has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Lulić’s work has been exhibited at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Kunsthalle Vienna; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; The Biennale of Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, Zurich; 12th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Biel / Bienne and the Frankfurter Kunstverein.

Gerry Ammann was born on April 18, 1962, in Bregenz, Austria. From 1984 to 1990, he studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in the master class of Bruno Gironcoli. In 1990, he received his diploma in sculpture. He lives and works in Vienna.

Noa Schiller is a professional photographer, born in 1968 in Hungary, now living in Budapest. She graduated from The Hungarian Journalist School. Working on personal and commissioned projects and she has worked as a photographer and picture editor since 1993. Since 1994, she got several prizes, also in Hungarian Pressphoto Competition, stipends and scholarship programs internationally.

Martin Liebscher was born in 1964 in Naumburg/Saale, Germany. He lives and works in Berlin and Offenbach, Germany.

Liebscher's works are created through the digital processing of scanned photographs that he takes of himself using an automatic shutter release. The figures in his images are not digitally manipulated; they are photographs of a real person in action. In his Family Pictures series, Liebscher consistently works within a specific architectural or social environment. The titles of his works are simply the names of the sites he "invades" as an omnipresent protagonist.

Isa Rosenberger (1969, Salzburg, Austria) studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at: 2023 Bauhaus Dessau Foundation; Kunsthaus Graz. 2020 Camera Austria, Graz. 2019 Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna. 2014 Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles. 2011 Grazer Kunstverein. 2009 Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg. 2008 Secession Vienna. In 2008 she received the Otto Mauer Prize and in 2012 the Outstanding Artist Award for Video and Media Art.

Rosenberger's works are held in permanent collections at Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz; Collection of Wien Museum, Vienna; Collection of Dom Museum Wien, OM Contemporary; Artothek – Collection of the Austrian Culture Office; Fotosammlung des Bundes – Museum der Moderne Salzburg; GfZK Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig.

Helena Huneke (1967–2012) was a German artist and designer whose practice deftly moved between industrial design, installation, performance, and collaborative projects. Born in Münster and educated at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, Huneke's approach integrated theoretical and spatial inquiries with a deep engagement in contemporary art and design culture. She earned her diploma in industrial design in 1995, with a focus on interior architecture, furniture design, and theory.

Martin Behr (1964, Graz) is a trained art historian and wears the multiple hats of a newspaper journalist, editor, curator, artist, and member of the G.R.A.M. artist collective. Behr lives in Graz.

Günther Holler-Schuster (*1963 Altneudörfl, lives in Graz) is an artist and art historian as well as collection curator and deputy department head of the Neue Galerie am Universalmuseum Joanneum. He studied art history and folklore at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz. In 1987 he was a founding member of the artists' group G.R.A.M., which he now runs together with Martin Behr. In his conceptual art, Holler-Schuster is concerned with the selective perception of images in photography, film and video, which he likes to examine for their historical references and current cross-references.

Christine Gloggengiesser was born in 1962 in Munich, Germany, and lives in Vienna. She studied Visual Media Design under Prof. Peter Weibel at the Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna, and received her M.A. in 1992.

Christof Schlegel (born 1968 in Innsbruck, Austria) works in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and art. Since 1992, he has developed works and projects addressing questions of urban representation, the politics of urban imagery, and the construction of the city image through various media.

He has carried out several projects in collaboration with Almut Rink and with the Office for Cognitive Urbanism (Christof Schlegel, Andreas Spiegl, Christian Teckert). These projects primarily explore the influence of media on urban perception and identity. Schlegel has developed numerous projects during long-term stays and residencies in Los Angeles (USA), Tokyo (Japan), and Nanjing (China).

Christian Teckert (1967) lives in Vienna and works on architectural, curatorial, and artistic projects. He lectures and writes in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and spatial theory.

Since 2006, he has been Professor for Spatial Strategies at the Muthesius University of Arts in Kiel, Germany. Since 2005, he has also been a regular lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He has served as a board member of the ÖGFA (Austrian Society for Architecture) and the Secession Vienna. He has received several awards, including the Dietrich Ecker Award from the House of Architecture (HdA) in Graz for architectural theory, the Bauwelt Award (with as-if), and an award from the German Architecture Prize. He was also an artist-in-residence in Fujino, Japan, and at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, USA.

Nicole Six and Paul Petritsch explore and traverse their environment with very concrete experiments. With expeditions into everyday life, across oceans, polar regions, through concrete deserts as well as lunar landscapes they explore the limits of our existence and perception. They locate themselves and spectators within art spaces, architecture and landscapes by means of interventions and experimental setups that sometimes turn towards the absurd and which, over the years, have resulted in an archive of poetic metaphors for human exposure in space. Time and again they put security and familiarity of our everyday lives to the test and challenge limits, also those of their own bodies.

Stephan Doesinger is an Austrian-born spatial designer, author, and educator based in Munich, Germany. His interdisciplinary approach is driven by the belief that architecture is fundamentally about storytelling and collective memory—captured by his guiding principle: “Form follows Story.”

Born 1971 in Austria, now living and working in Brooklyn, NY and Vienna, Austria, Ulrike Müller attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (1996) and the Whitney Independent Study Program. In addition to painting, her practice incorporates performance, publishing, and textiles. Müller has been a co-editor of the queer feminist journal LTTR and organized Herstory Inventory. 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists, which was shown at the Brooklyn Museum in 2012. In this exhibition, drawings by fellow artists based on image descriptions culled from a list taking inventory of a collection of feminist t-shirts in the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Park Slope were displayed together with objects from the museum collection. A version of this project was shown at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria. Originally from Austria, Müller represented that country in the Cairo Biennial in 2010 with an exhibition of enamel paintings and quilts. Fever 103, Franza, and Quilts, a catalog of her work, was recently published by Dancing Foxes Press and a catalog on Herstory Inventory is forthcoming in Spring 2014. Concurrent with the exhibition at the gallery, her work is on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas, and included in the upcoming White Columns Annual, selected by Pati Hertling.