Nadim Vardag (b. 1980, Regensburg, Germany) is an artist living and working in Vienna. Recent solo exhibitions include "Facciata / Facade / Fassade" at Spazio Orr, Brescia (2024), "Condition" at Galerie Lombardi-Kargl, Vienna (2023), "Promo" at Stations, Berlin (2022) and "Speicher" at New Toni, Berlin (2021). He is also the founder of "Schleuse", an artist space in Vienna operating since 2018.

Kathi Hofer (b. 1981, Hallein, Austria) works conceptually across media. She is interested in forms of everyday creativity and their specific freedoms and constraints as well as in the relationship between artistic work and socio-economics. In her installations she integrates found objects, images, stories, and practices that have strongly determined the roles and values within the environments she grew up in or moves within today.

Thomas Paltiel graduated with a Masters of Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art. He worked independently before founding studio nāv in 2013. In April 2018 he assisted Anne Holtrop for a short period at his studio in Bahrain. He teaches at the Department of Design, Interior Architecture & Visual Communication at Konstfack, and intermittently at at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University.

Carl Fransson (*Stockholm, 1984) graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris Belleville and Edinburgh College of Art. He has also undertaken an MA in Aesthetic Theory at The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. Before founding studio nāv in 2013, he worked with Charles Pictet Architects, Switzerland and as an independent artist with exhibitions in UK, Sweden and Germany. He teaches at KTH School of Architecture and intermittently at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University.

Julia Hohenwarter’s installations, displays, and sculptures have been exhibited internationally, including at Kunsthalle Vienna, MAK Schindler House Los Angeles, Austrian Cultural Forum Tokio, The Tip Bangkok, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, 21er Haus Belvedere and Arcadia Missa London.

Julian Marcel Feritsch (born in Heidelberg, Germany) lives and works in Vienna. He graduated from the University of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied at the textual sculpture department with Heimo Zobernig.

Daniel Springer is an architect, educator, and artistic researcher based in Berlin. His studio practice is called Fragmentographic Studio, through which he pursues a transdisciplinary and pluriversal approach to designing, making, and thinking due to rapidly changing working environments. In his spatial and artistic practice, he explores the terrain of architecture and the arts through processual aesthetics, ad hoc appropriations of the pre-existing, and conceptual interpretations of the meaning of sculpture. Following his studies in architecture at the University of Technology Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart, he has collaborated on numerous projects with a variety of architecture and artist studios, as well as cultural institutions in Germany and abroad. He has received various scholarships for residency and research (e.g., MAK Schindler Scholarship, Bauhaus LAB Fellowship, DAAD), and his work has been published in several magazines (e.g., Bauhaus Taschenbuch, Horizonte Magazine, PLAT Journal). In addition to his professional experience, he has also worked as an assistant professor at two architecture faculties in Germany, the Leibniz University Hannover and the HafenCity University Hamburg, where he taught at the intersection of architecture and the arts. In 2025, he completed his Ph.D. in architecture and the arts, contributing to the field with a study on the aesthetics and epistemologies of fragments in artistic research.

Arnold Estefan and Anca Benera have collaborated as an artist duo since 2012, working between Vienna and Bucharest. Their practice spans multimedia installation, sculpture, and drawing, exploring how the military imagination shapes landscapes, climates, and communities, including its ties to extractive industries.

Thea Moeller (*1985 in Hanover) is a sculptor living and working in Vienna. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2014, after earlier studies in Nuremberg. She has received several residencies and fellowships, including the Lenikus Studio Grant (Vienna, 2014), the MAK Schindler Scholarship (Los Angeles, 2015/16), and the OOE Artist and Scientist in Residence Program at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Rome (2022).

Her work has been shown in solo and duo exhibitions at venues such as Wonnerth Dejaco and Stiege 13 in Vienna, Martinetz in Cologne, Deborah Schamoni in Munich, and Venice 6114 in Los Angeles. She has also participated in group exhibitions at the Basel Social Club, Salzburger Kunstverein, Center for Contemporary Art Tbilisi, OK Linz, and others.

Moeller occasionally teaches and curates. From 2012–19, she co-directed the artist-run space Ve.Sch, and initiated annual group exhibitions in unique locations, including in Vienna and Los Angeles. Additional projects emerged during her teaching at the University of Art and Design Linz (2017–2023).

Her practice, both sculptural and curatorial, often begins with loosely assembled materials. Drawing on references from everyday architecture, suburban spaces, and industrial design, her work explores disorder as a method—where the first attempt might just be the final one.

Kerstin von Gabain, born 1979 in Palo Alto, California, lives and works in Vienna. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2003). Recent solo and duo exhibitions include Imitation, EXILE Vienna (2023); Compliments, Wieoftnoch, Karlsruhe (2021); Umeå, V.esch, Vienna (2021); I’ll see you when I see you, EXILE Vienna (2021); Dark Euphoria, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (2021); Happiness Machines (2020). She has been included in recent group exhibitions at Mumok, Vienna (2022); Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna (2022); Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (2022); Kunstverein Schattendorf, Schattendorf (2020); HAUS Wien 2020, Vienna (2020), among others. She is represented by EXILE Vienna.

Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan have collaborated as an artist duo since 2012, working between Vienna and Bucharest. Their practice spans multimedia installation, sculpture, and drawing, exploring how the military imagination shapes landscapes, climates, and communities, including its ties to extractive industries.