Borjana Ventzislavova (borjana.net) born in Sofia (Bulgaria), based in Vienna (Austria), moving in-between cultures, languages and contexts I’m interested in traveling through time and in the exploration of the complex play between past and present, individual and society, between modern and ancient concepts, relationships, medias, materials, techniques and energies. In my cross-disciplinary works in the fields of film/video, installation, photography, performative and new media art, I analyse stereotypical roles and models of representations and the impact of political and social power structures and control mechanisms on our existence. I am mainly interested in the processes of mobility and crossing of socio-geographical, cultural and psychological borders and how to deal with the complexity of communication and translation. I often blur the boundaries between documentary and fiction in order to question the status quo and to test the line between personal and collective, social, political and artistic, in the context of current events and history. Focusing on documentary and narrative structures and constructions, I exchange roles and identities, mix stages and situations, different styles, texts and sounds into cases and stories.

My works have been exhibited internationally in numerous solo and group shows as well as at media art and film festivals such as National Gallery Sofia, Kunstforum Wien, Belvedere 21, MAK Vienna, MAK Los Angeles, Lentos Linz, Salzburger Kunstverein, Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, Museum of Modern Art - Esterházy Foundation, MUSA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sofia City Art Gallery, Landesgalerie Linz, Essl Museum, k/haus, quartier21, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Austrian Cultural Forum Washigton DC and London, ICA London, ICA Sofia, Art Today Plovdiv, Hunt gallery, St. Louis, US, Cologne Conference, IDFA, Diagonale, EMAF, transmediale, filmwinter Stuttgart, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Berwick Film and Media Arts Fest., Moscow Int. Filmfest., Int. Short Film Fest. Istanbul, Split Film Fest., etc.

I was granted many awards, grants and received a number of international scholarships. I received working scholarship for film 2023, the promotion award by the City of Vienna 2017, the Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Art 2013, Start Scholarship for Fine Art 2009, winner of Top Ten Nonfiction film Award at Cologne Film Festival 2006, Otto Prutscher Fonds Award 2006, Susmannstiftung Award 2005, recognitions at Art in Motion 2002, Los Angeles, Ars Electronica, 2002, Linz, CYNETart 2001, Dresden.

I was artist in residence in London (ACF), Rom (BKA), Newcastle (D6), Berkeley (CEC Artslink), Los Angeles (MAK Schindler), Chicago (BKA), Athens (Snehta), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (BKA), NYC (ISCP / BKA), CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Tokyo (Tokas) a.o.

My works are part of private and public collections.

Jae Rhim Lee is a visual artist, designer, and researcher whose work proposes unorthodox relationships between the mind/body/self and the built and natural environment. Jae Rhim’s work follows a research methodology which includes self-examination, transdisciplinary immersion and dialogue, and diy design, ultimately taking the form of living units, furniture, wearables, recycling systems, and personal and social interventions.

Florian Schafschetzy is a registered architect and a member of IG Architektur. He studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and completed his graduate studies under the tutelage of Wolf D. Prix. He has worked as project architect and design architect for Franz Sam, Vienna. He also worked for Coop Himmelb(l)au, Delugan & Meissl AA and Wolfgang Tschapeller. He was awarded a merit prize for Experimental Tendencies in 2004 and works he collaborated on were exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennial 2006. Florian was selected for the MAK Los Angeles Schindler residency 2011. In 2018, Florian co-founded Magazin, an exhibition space for contemporary architecture in Vienna.

Gregor Holzinger, born 1981, lives and works in Vienna, Austria; graduated in Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, studied Scenic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and was visiting student within a collaboration project at Institute of Applied Theatre Studies, University of Gießen, Germany. Several international cooperations, e. g. with Peter Sellars (Los Angeles), Lebbeus Woods (New York) and Lead Pencil Studio – Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo (Seattle, WA and Portland, OR).

Peter Fritzenwallner is well known for his unconventional performances, which consist of sculptural and installation elements made from simple materials. At first glance, his art provokes irritation, is not self-explanatory, it poses questions – and awakens the interest and curiosity of the audience. The audience’s reaction and participation make them part of the performance.

Eva Sommeregger is a Vienna-based architectural researcher employing both arts-based and theoretical methods. Through writing, curating and the development of experimental digital spaces, her practice explores under-examined spatial aspects of media culture, examining entangled power relations and bodily forms of resistance.

Dennis Loesch dissolves images into strips of information. His methodical process can be seen as an extension of geometric minimalism with a strong appreciation for pop-culture appropriation. The conceptual focus of Loesch is the interplay between digital data and physical object-hood, both de- and re-contextualizing contents from intimate and public sources. From 2000 to 2005, Loesch co-directed with Michael Riedel Oskar-von-Miller Strasse 16, an experimental art space in Frankfurt that re-staged cultural events. Dennis Loesch was trained in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in 2001-2006. In 2010, he was awarded the prestigious Schindler Stipendium from the MAK Center for Arts and Architecture, in Vienna.

Patrycja German was born in 1979 in Wroclaw, Poland. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany. She has received several grants and awards including the Schindler- Stipendium (Los Angeles); Artists and Architects in Residency Program of MAK (Vienna, 2010); HAP Grieshaber – Preis (2009); Saar- Ferngas – 1st Preis for Young Art (2008); and Kunststiftung Baden (Württemberg, 2007). Since 2002, she has been focusing on creating live performance and performance for the camera. Her work has been exhibited throughout Germany, Poland, and in Europe.

Ivan Niedermair was born in 1983 in Bressanone/Brixen, Italy. In 2003, he began his studies in architecture at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck, spending semesters in Vienna and at the IUAV in Venice. He has worked in Rome, Graz, and Johannesburg. In 2008, he won First Prize at the Bombay Sapphire Designer Class Competition Austria. His exhibitions include DMY Berlin (2009), the London Design Festival (2008), Galerie Museum Bozen (2008), and Architekturzentrum Wien (2006). From 2010 to 2011, he was awarded the MAK-Schindler Scholarship for the Artists and Architects in Residence Program in Los Angeles.

Adam Vukmanov is an award-winning, creative architect and designer with over 15 years of experience in building construction, interior architecture, and production design. Since 2018, as a core member of Studio Taktonika, his focus has mainly been on developing innovative spaces in the workplace, healthcare, and residential design. After graduating from dieAngewandte, Adam has worked for Span-Arch in Vienna, completing the Austrian pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, and later joined Acme in London, where he realized several large-scale projects in the UK and the Middle East. His interdisciplinary approach to design, focus on high-end craft, and advanced fabrication brought him into the set design and concept art environment in the film and advertising industry, where he was nominated for the 18th USA Art Directors Guild Award in the category of production design. His clients include Renault, Nissan, Genesis, and PlayStation, among others. Adam has taught architectural design at UMPRUM and ARCHIP in Prague, Lund School of Architecture, CITA Kadk in Copenhagen, and Architectural Association Global School in Paris. His research work and the work with his students have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, as well as many galleries and conferences across Europe and the US. Influenced by his stay at the MAK Schindler Artist and Architect in residency program, Adam pursued a passion for photography and works as a professional photographer specializing in landscape photography, fashion, and architecture. Adam is currently based in Prague, Czech Republic.

Julia Koerner is an award-winning Austrian designer working at the convergence of architecture, product and fashion design, specialized in 3D-printing. She is the founder of JK Design GmbH /JK3D and a professor at UCLA. Her recent collaborations include 3D-Printed Haute Couture and costumes for Marvel’s Hollywood blockbuster ‘Black Panther’ earning two Academy Awards.