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Jeehee Park
Jeehee Park (b. 1984, Seoul) is a sculptor whose work explores the nature of modern buildings in relation to biology, anthropology, and the history of architecture. Her work engages an interest in the non-human, time, and history and their entanglement in modern buildings, in the process of de-centering anthropocentric events and meaning. Park has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris (2024) , the MAK Center, Los Angeles (2019) , The Glenfiddich Artist in Residence program, Scotland (2017) , and The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai (2018). She is the recipient of major grants, including the Samsung Foundation of Culture Grant (2024) and the Art and Technology Convergence Support grant (2021, 2022). Her accolades also include the MAK Schindler Scholarship (2018) and the Kenneth Armitage Young Sculpture Prize (2014). Park’s work has been exhibited in numerous venues nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Haneulhaneulhan, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul (2024) , and Drawing Elliptical Orbit 1., The Reference, Seoul (2022). She has also participated in significant group exhibitions such as Reference point, The Reference, Seoul (2023); Spinning East Asia Series II: A Net (Dis)entangled, CHAT, Hong Kong (2022) ; and Michael was a good neighbor, Mackey Apartment, Los Angeles (2019).
Markus Bühler
Markus Bühler is a Berlin based artist, actor and filmmaker who thrives on sediments and fragments of realities. He loves to explore and create characters, images, spaces and atmospheres. Sometimes serious, sometimes lightweight, yet always dense and done with dedication, virtuosity and a sense of humor.
Peter Behrbohm
Peter Behrbohm explores future conflicts and utopian societies through collaborative, site-specific and context-based research. His works are surgical interventions in public spaces, routines and discourses, often aiming at revealing the constructedness of realities and demonstrating the possibilities of alternative forms of coexistence.
Ovidiu Anton
Ovidiu Anton was born in 1982 in Timişoara, Romania; he lives and works in Vienna. He studied at École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Marseille and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He deals with film and video, performance, drawing and sculptural objects. His works often take on a political character. In his context, the artist concentrates on seeking and highlighting the paradoxical nuances of the surrounding world.
His solo exhibitions have been organised at Gallery 5020, Salzburg; Christine König Gallery, Vienna; Tobacco Cultural Centre, Ljubljana; König2 by_robbygreif, Vienna; Future Museum, Bucharest and G99 Gallery in Brno. He participated, among others, in group exhibitions at Frappant, Hamburg; MAK Vienna; MUMOK cinema, Vienna; Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein; Jewish Museum, Hohenems; City Gallery of Ljubljana; Karst Projects, Plymouth; Galeria Labirynt, Lublin and other institutions.
Philipp Timischl
Philipp Timischl is an artist born in 1989 in Graz. Coming from the rural countryside of Austria he is now living and working in Paris, France. His practice spans various media such as video, sculpture, painting and photography, often combined with text and culminating in site-specific installations. A reoccuring theme in his work are power dynamics – often in relation to social classes, queerness, heritage and the art world.
Eva Engelbert
Vienna-based Eva Engelbert addresses the de- and recomposition of historical narratives and existing norms through scale, mutability and appropriation. She studied at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna and the ENSBA Paris. Her work was recently shown as part of Wiener Festwochen; Galerija SC in Zagreb; Studio Kalahan in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; and Salzburger Kunstverein and Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna. In many cases, Engelbert has installed works outside of the gallery or museum: in a library, an observatory, a city forest, and in other semi-private and public spaces. She teaches at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Jenni Tischer
Jenni Tischer lives and works in Vienna. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Tischer worked as an editor for the Berlin art magazine Texte zur Kunst. She has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and, since 2019, at the University of Applied Arts Vienna at the Institute for Art and Society.