Katrin Hornek (1983) lives and works in Vienna. She studied Performative Art and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her work playfully engages with the strange paradoxes and convergences of living in the age of the geologic Anthropocene, where the effects of capitalism, colonialism, and extractivism are written into the body of the earth. Both her artistic and her curatorial practice assert an understanding of the entwinement of nature and culture, implicitly arguing for more complex formulations ­– most recently, at secession, Vienna (2024), ar/ger Kunst, Bolzano (2021), Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (2021), the Riga Biennale (2020), Hysterical Mining at Kunsthalle Wien (2019), and I: project space, Beijing (2018).

Julia Wieger works in art and architecture. Her work is concerned with queer feminist productions of space, archive politics, and history writing, as well as collective approaches to research, knowledge production, and design. From 2015-18, she worked as senior scientist at the Institute for Art and Architecture and from 2014-16 for the transdisciplinary research project “Spaces of Commoning” at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 2012-17 she was a member of the board of VBKÖ – an artist run queer feminist art space in Vienna. Together with Nina Höchtl, she founded the working group Secretariat for Ghosts Archival Politics and Gaps in 2012.

Born in 1981 in Hamburg, Germany, Anahita Razmi is a digital and performance artist. She mines her Iranian cultural heritage and appropriates iconic works of art—particularly those of feminist artists—bringing to them a new Eastern context. She is best known for Roof Piece Tehran (2011), a video installation for which Razmi recreated Trisha Brown’s seminal 1971 work Roof Piece, filming 12 dancers not on the rooftops of New York but on those of Tehran—a reference to the rooftop demonstrations during Iran’s 2009 election protests. “My works are always conceptual and political but they also have a sense of humor,” she has said.

Benjamin Hirte’s work explores cultural history and the construction of public and private space. By modifying signs of use and consumption, his minimalist objects foreground materiality, function, and the coded nature of reality.

Benjamin Hirte, born in 1980 in Aschaffenburg, lives and works in Vienna and Berlin. His artistic practice encompasses sculpture and text. He has been a fellow of the Schindler Residency Program in Los Angeles and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. He also received the Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Arts and a residency grant at the ISCP in New York.

Eva Seiler (*1979 in Munich) studied scenography and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In her sculptures and spatial settings, she questions anthropocentrism and speculates on how the co-existence of human and non-human animals, nature and technology could be articulated in the future. She embraces hybrid modes of relationship in her practice, using both organic materials and industrially produced fabrics for her objects.

Lucie Stahl is an artist based in Vienna. Her works investigate the abstracted, psychologically fraud, relationship of humans to their environment. She is interested in a culture of extraction, obsessive use and the associated modes of production and consumption –mechanisms of sucking, pumping, flowing and converting liquid raw materials into energy, and how they relate to inner processes.

Anton Savov is an architect and postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich. His work focuses on developing architectural machine intelligence to enhance our creative capacities for designing and constructing the built environment.

Markus Krottendorfer is interested in the fragile foundations of our present, in misconceptions and failed ideas which still managed to give rise to the conquest of the world and which were with us for a while. With his special photographic method, he intervenes in places that still show traces of these often-odd ideas, places that beg questions regarding their (former) utopian potential and the way they resonate with the present.

Steffi Alte is a visual artist based in Vienna whose practice includes different formats and media, often merging installation with an aspect of participation. She studied fine arts at HfbK Dresden and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.