From 1991–1996 Hans Schabus studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, since 2014 he is professor of sculpture and spatial design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Hans Schabus’ works are immediately related to a spatial thinking and experience; his sculptures and interventions often refer directly to the artist’s mental and physical surroundings, especially to his atelier and the material to be processed there. The place where art is created is investigated in terms of its analogy potential with respect to life. The works can be read as a meditation on the creative act, its aspirations, but also on the difference from everyday activity. The film works that deal with traveling, speed and non-goal-oriented movement refer to the significance of an interdisciplinary reflection for art.

Milica Topalovic is Associate Professor of Architecture and Territorial Planning at the ETH Department of Architecture. From 2011-15 she held research professorship at the ETH Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore, studying the relationship between a city and its hinterland. In 2006 she joined the ETH as head of research at Studio Basel Contemporary City Institute and the professorial chairs held by Diener and Meili, where she taught research studios on cities and on territories such as Hong Kong and the Nile Valley. Milica graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and received Master’s degree from the Dutch Berlage Institute for her thesis on Belgrade’s post-socialist urban transformation. Since 2000, she worked on projects in different spatial scales and visual media. With Studio Basel she authored and edited Belgrade. Formal / Informal: A Research on Urban Transformation, and The Inevitable Specificity of Cities. She contributes essays on urbanism, architecture and art to various magazines and publications.

Bas Princen trained as an industrial designer and architect before earning an international reputation for his photographic work, particularly for reflecting the transformation of urban space. In his projects, he focuses on the frictions between designed surfaces of cities and a “natural” landscape.

Christoph Kaltenbrunner has been head of the Department of Design, Architecture and Environment (DAE) of the Institute of Art Sciences and Art Education at University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2014. He studied mechanical engineering, techni- cal physics, product design and architecture. He received several scholarships to study in Japan, England and the USA. In 1994 he co-founded the internationally known award-winning architecture studio propeller z in Vienna, which he left in 2013 to fully concentrate on research and education. Besides numerous teaching activities including exhibitions, workshops and lecture events, he is responsible for the development of the Bachelor- Master curriculum for the teaching professions at the Angewandte. He was project leader of Conceptual Joining.

In recent years, the artistic work of Songül Boyraz has focused on her own hair in order to explore the experiences of women in public and everyday life (family, religion, hierarchical and social constraints etc.), whose lives are rejected, questioned, and forced to exist within the boundaries set by others in positions of authority. These experiences consist of examples that fundamentally harm human life through physical and psychological violence. The artist’s work, therefore, aims to reflect the destruction and consequences of both psychological and physical bullying from her own perspective.

The oeuvre of the Berlin-based artist David Zink Yi revolves around themes of creation, manifestation, and the construction of identity. Born in Lima in 1973, Zink Yi left Peru for Germany at the age of 16. Drawing inspiration from his own experiences, he interrogates the complex aspects of identity construction through his multi-disciplinary practice; encompassing film, photography, sculpture, performance, ceramics and multi-channel video installations, which all emphasize the social interrelation of the protagonists, as well as physiological aspects of musical perception.

Stefan Röhrle was born in Munich. After completing his A-levels, he studied Stage and Film Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Institute for Fine and Media Art. In 2002, he received his diploma with distinction. Since 1997, he has lived and worked in Vienna as an artist, stage designer, and costume designer. In 2005, he participated in the MAK-Schindler Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program at the Mackey Apartments in Los Angeles.

Dariusz Krzeczek lives and works in Vienna. He studied New Media Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna under Prof. T. Fürstner and Prof. P. Weibel, receiving his diploma in 2004. He received an Honorable Mention for Unterwerk at Ars Electronica 2000 in Linz, the Special Award in the Short Competition at the Split Film Festival for Luukkaankangas – updated, revisited in 2005, and the Golden Impakt Award at the Impakt Film Festival for the same work in 2006. In 2005, he participated in the MAK Schindler Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program in Los Angeles. His practice includes video, installation, and audiovisual performance.

Annja Krautgasser was born in 1971 in Hall in Tirol and lives and works in Vienna. She studied Visual Media Design under Prof. Peter Weibel at the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 1990 to 1998, and Architecture at the University of Innsbruck under Prof. Volker Giencke and at the Technical University of Vienna from 1996 to 2002.

Vancouver- and Vienna based artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber collaborate on projects addressing the politics of how cities, architecture and urban territories are made into images. Mainly working in the media of photography and spatial installations their research-oriented practice engages with specific moments and logics of the global-urban change as they take shape in neighborhoods, architecture, and everyday life. Focusing architecture as a material frame for spatial, social, and cultural meaning, their ongoing research includes projects such as “Mapping as Shifting Perspectives”, “Educational Modernism,” “Performing Spaces of Radical Pedagogies”, and “Housing the Social.”

Exhibitions include: Künstlerhaus Wien, (2025); Austrian Cultural Forum Cairo, (2024); nGbK Berlin (2023); ACFNY, New York (2022); HKW Berlin, SAAG, Lethbridge (2021); Fotogalerie Wien; Republic Gallery, Vancouver (2019), Gallery Structura, Sofia, Bulgaria; Museum der Moderne Salzburg; Carinthian Museum of Modern Art, Klagenfurt; (2018)

Publications include: “encounter Educational Modernism”, “unsettling Educational Modernsim”, “Bildungsmoderne entzaubern”, “Making Ruins”, “Werkschau XXIII, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber”; “Front, Field, Line, Plane”, “The Militant Image Reader”, “Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade”, “BitterWeber: Live like this!”, “Caracas, Hecho en Venezuela”.

In 2004, they formed the urban research collective Urban Subjects with Canadian writer Jeff Derksen.

Sabine Bitter is Professor at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts in Vancouver, Canada.

Vancouver- and Vienna based artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber collaborate on projects addressing the politics of how cities, architecture and urban territories are made into images. Mainly working in the media of photography and spatial installations their research-oriented practice engages with specific moments and logics of the global-urban change as they take shape in neighborhoods, architecture, and everyday life. Focusing architecture as a material frame for spatial, social, and cultural meaning, their ongoing research includes projects such as “Mapping as Shifting Perspectives”, “Educational Modernism,” “Performing Spaces of Radical Pedagogies”, and “Housing the Social.”