Hans-Peter Thomas aka Bara (b. 1968, Bonn, Germany) is an artist whose work moves between painting, music, performance, and installation. Over the past two decades he has developed a practice that interrogates the act of mark-making and authorship, beginning with early alphabet paintings (2003) and extending into monochrome canvases inscribed with scratches and cuts that probe the limits of painting’s surface. Working also under the pseudonym Bara, Thomas has produced music, collaborative performances, and experimental objects that explore identity through layered gestures of inscription and erasure.

Bernhard Wolf was born in 1965 and lives in Graz. He studied at the Free Academy in Moscow and is a member of FOND/Graz. From 2007 to 2010, he was director of Forum Stadtpark in Graz together with Carola Peschl. His work has been presented at venues including Kunsthaus Graz, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, NCCA Moscow, Mystetskyi Arsenal Kyiv, and in public commissions across Austria.

Rainer Prohaska, (*1966) lives & works in Vienna and Krems.

The artist Rainer Prohaska studied Experimental Media Art at the Angewandte in Vienna and is particularly interested in phenomena and objects of everyday life, which he puts into the art context in a humorous way and in adapted form.

Elke Uitentuis (1977) is a visual artist, human rights activist and mother. From 2005 until 2013, Elke was part of the artist duo Osterholt/Uitentuis. Osterholt/Uitentuis realised community projects with the aim to democratise people’s relationships with their direct surroundings.

At the time the collaboration between Osterholt and Uitentuis came to an end, the refugee collective We Are Here started their protest in Amsterdam. Elke got herself involved with this group of newcomers fighting for their basic rights. Together they founded Here to Support. This foundation set up the We Are Here Academy, a school for refugees in limbo, who have otherwise no access to education, and several art related projects like the theater play and a cooking project. Elke left Here to Support in 2017 to dedicate herself to the Vluchtmaat. This was a temporary shelter for 40 undocumented refugees and a workspace for artists and social entrepreneurs. Within the environment of the Vluchtmaat, the collective We Sell Reality came to life. We Sell Reality is a social rebellion label which is set up as a collective of both undocumented and documented artists. We Sell Reality makes products and installations and creates performative interventions in public space with the aim of providing insight into the lives of undocumented refugees.

Elke Uitentuis is also one of the participating artists of the exhibition Taking Stock (2021) at Framer Framed, Amsterdam.

Wouter Osterholt designs public interventions along the faultlines and breaking points of our (political) landscape where social injustices, conflicts or ecological problems come to light. Within his site-specific and interdisciplinary practice, he uses art to contribute to the social and ecological re-imagining of these exploited places by introducing a process in which local cultural and archaeological objects and/or social phenomena, such as rituals, are being used to recreate a sense of belonging.

The artefacts created by Vienna-based artist duo Hanakam & Schuller are often shape-shifters, changing their external form and reappearing in different contexts. As artists and researchers, Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller redefine the rules of visual art and construct idiosyncratic orders and new world designs in videos and objects. In doing so, they repeatedly work with applied art forms. Their works have been exhibited at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Eyebeam Centre for Art + Technology in New York, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Culture in Moscow, the MAK in Vienna, the MAK Centre for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles and the National Art Centre in Tokyo, among others.

The artefacts created by Vienna-based artist duo Hanakam & Schuller are often shape-shifters, changing their external form and reappearing in different contexts. As artists and researchers, Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller redefine the rules of visual art and construct idiosyncratic orders and new world designs in videos and objects. In doing so, they repeatedly work with applied art forms. Their works have been exhibited at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Eyebeam Centre for Art + Technology in New York, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Culture in Moscow, the MAK in Vienna, the MAK Centre for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles and the National Art Centre in Tokyo, among others.

Stefan Rutzinger is professor for structure and design and head of i.sd at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Innsbruck. Since 2023 he is also head of the Department of Design. He is a principal investigator in the Special Research Project „Advanced Computational Design“ and co-project leader of the SFB subproject“Computational Immediacy“. Prior to his appointment at UIBK he was an interim professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and a guest professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He taught at the TU Vienna and the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL London where he led MArch Unit 15 together with Kristina Schinegger. Stefan Rutzinger is an architect, civil engineer and member of the Austrian chamber of architects. He is co-founder of soma architecture. The office has received numerous prizes in international competitions and has been shown in renowned exhibitions such as the such as the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010, Archilab 2013 „Naturalising Architecture“ or the TAB Tallinn Architecture Biennial 2019. soma has carried out international architecture projects, such as the Theme Pavilion for the EXPO 2012 in South-Korea and was commissioned to various design installations in art contexts, such as the MAK Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Museum Belvedere Vienna or the MAK Center in Los Angeles. Stefan Rutzinger received several prizes and awards e.g. the Recognition Award for Experimental Architecture and the TISCHE Grant by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture, or the MAK Schindler Scholarship. He studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Studio Prix) and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.

Kristina Schinegger is Professor for Structure and Design and Co-Head of the research group i.sd at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Innsbruck. She is a principal investigator in the Special Research Project Advanced Computational Design and co-project leader of the SFB subproject Computational Immediacy. From 2016 to 2022, she served as Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Architecture and, until 2022, as Scientific Director of the advanced studies program Designing Future Realities at the University of Innsbruck and Werkstätte Wattens.

Simon Fujiwara was born in London in 1982, and spent his childhood moving between Japan, Europe, and Africa. He received a BA in architecture from Cambridge University in 2005 and earned an MFA from the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in 2008. Fujiwara’s practice is markedly performative and interdisciplinary in nature, calling upon diverse disciplines and mediums as a means to both research and reinvent his own multilayered autobiography.

Alan Cicmak was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1976. He studied Film and Video at Merz-Academy Stuttgart and Art and Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. He lives and works in Stuttgart and Vienna.