Kris Lemsalu was born in 1985 in Tallinn, Estonia, and lives and works between Vienna and Tallin. She creates mixed-media sculptures, installations and performances with unexpected materials. Lemsalu’s pieces evoke the bestial side of human beings and civilizations, and are often underscored by feminist themes. Lemsalu has shown as part of Performa 17 (2017), DRAF performance night (2017), Bunshitu Gallery, Tokyo (2015), Ferdinand Bauman Gallery, Prague (2015) and is represented by Koppe Astner, Glasgow and Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn. Lemsalu will represent Estonia at the Venice Biennale 2019.

Michèle Pagel has been working as a freelance sculptress in Vienna since 2012. In 2015, they started teaching sculpture as an University Assistant at the ceramics department at the Art University in Linz, Austria. Pagel continued this teaching job until 2019, and also ventured a three month field trip to Uganda, Afrika in 2018. In 2021, they established a self-employed company in order to professionalize their artistic career and to concentrate exclusively on their own projects and exhibitions. The same year, Pagel started collaborating with the Viennese Gallery, MeyerKainer which is representing their work in solo exhibitions and art fairs. Pagel has participated in various international group shows and showcased their artworks in several European Museums and Institutions.

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Dominic Schwab studied art and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology. He is currently conducting doctoral research on the digital reconstruction of spatial narratives at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck, where he also taught as a University Assistant from 2020 to 2025. He has been a guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and regularly serves as a guest critic at academic institutions, including the Chair of Digital Architecture at ITA, ETH Zurich; the Institute of Architecture and Media at the University of Graz; and the Department of Architectural Theory and Philosophy of Technology at the Vienna University of Technology. He is a co-founder of VAS² – Vienna Architecture Summer School, the media art collective SO@P, and PARABOL – Association for Artistic Research. His work has been exhibited and published internationally. In 2023, he was awarded the MAK Schindler Scholarship at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles.

Uwe Brunner is an architect, educator, and researcher based in Vienna. He is a co-founder of SOAP, an online architecture practice, and a co-founder of the Vienna Architecture Summer School. Since 2019, he has been a faculty member at ./studio3, the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck. His current research explores the essay as a mode of critical spatial practice within digitally mediated environments. His work has been widely screened and exhibited, including at the New Media Art Museum La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, Ars Electronica in Linz, the Santa Mònica Arts Centre in Barcelona, CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, and the Goethe-Institut in Beijing, among others.

Bianca Gamser (b. 1984, Graz) is a Vienna-based architect and art historian working at the intersection of art and architecture. Trained at the Vienna University of Technology and the University of Vienna, she develops installations and interventions addressing social, emotional, and environmental issues. Often conceived as ephemeral and/or site-specific, her projects reveal overlooked grievances and hidden potentials within everyday spatial realities. In addition to her artistic practice, Gamser engages in collaborative collectives and has taught design studios at the Vienna University of Technology. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Vienna Biennale, Vienna Design Week, and the MAK Center Los Angeles.

Evan Ifekoya is an interdisciplinary artist seeking greater embodiment for all, through sound. Their work in community organizing, installation, performance, text and video is an extension of their calling as a spiritual practitioner. They view art as a site where resources can be both redistributed and renegotiated, whilst challenging the implicit rules and hierarchies of public and social space. Strategies of space holding through architectural interventions, ritual and immersive sonic installations enable them to make a practice of living in order not to turn to despair.

They established the collectively run and QTIBPOC (queer, trans*, intersex, black and people of color) led Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) in 2018. Upcoming presentations include immersive installations for ARoS Denmark (2023), Lagos Biennial and ICA VCU (both 2024). They have presented exhibitions, moving image and performances across UK, Europe and Internationally, most recently: Guest Artist Space Lagos (2023), a solo exhibition at Migros Museum, Zurich and a moving image commission with LUX in collaboration with University of Reading (2022); Herbert Art Gallery and Museum as nominees of the Turner Prize (with B.O.S.S. 2021); Gus Fischer New Zealand (2020); De Appel Netherlands (2019) and Gasworks London (2018).

Anna-Sophie Berger (b. 1989, Vienna, Austria) is an artist living and working in Vienna and Berlin. She studied fashion design and transmedia art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.