Ella Eßlinger is a trained architect with an independent and collaborative practice. She holds a B.A. from TU Munich and an M.Sc. from ETH Zurich. In 2023–24 she was part of the curatorial internship program at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). As a member of ZAS*, she taught a visiting studio at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich in 2024. Together with Clara Richard Gostynski she developed the editorial project Nachglühen / Afterglow, (vol.1, 2022; vol. 2, 2024; Zurich: women writing architecture publishing). Her work has been exhibited at gta exhibitions (2023) and Swiss Art Awards (finalist 2025) among others.

Paulina Nolte studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich. Her work threads together a range of mediums, often ending in a performative piece. Her last solo show Persimone at Kunstpavillon in Munich was based on a soundpiece of hers, initially streamed by PlusX on Radio Cashmere in Berlin and then released on New York tape label Decontrol. In 2024 she exhibited with artist Manuela Gernedel in the two person show O/U at Galerie Françoise Heitsch. She has performed solo at Pool for SAA in Brooklyn, Kallio-Kuninkala in Helsinki, Blitz Club in Munich and for Ruine München at Lenbachhaus. She also performs collaboratively and in projects by fellow artists like Anna McCarthy at the Münchner Kammerspiele or with Rosanna Graf at Kunstmuseum Bochum.

Valentina Triet works with the medium of video. In her practice she deals with questions of how forms (of movement, orientation, of landscapes, architecture, capital, cultural and societal production) come into being. She completed her studies in Textual Sculpture under Heimo Zobernig at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Triet has held solo exhibitions at institutions such as Kunsthalle Winterthur, Neuer Essener Kunstverein in Essen, Forde in Geneva, and Felix Gaudlitz in Vienna. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at Galerie Neu and Sweetwater in Berlin, Alienze in Vienna, The Wig in Berlin, mumok in Vienna.

Paula Strunden is a transdisciplinary artist who studied architecture in Vienna, Paris and London and has worked for Raumlabor Berlin and Herzog & de Meuron Basel. She completed her design-led PhD within the European research network 'TACK - Communities of Tacit Knowledge' and received the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Prize for Best Research Work 2023/24 for her dissertation on multisensory perception through Extended Reality (XR) models. Her XR installations have been exhibited internationally, including at the Royal Academy of Arts London, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam and Museum der Moderne Salzburg, and have been nominated twice for the Dutch Film Award 'Gouden Calf'. As part of her research into female pioneers in the history of virtual technologies, Paula founded the xR Atlas educational platform and has lectured at the Architectural Association London, Bartlett UCL, Bauhaus University Weimar and the Academy van Bouwkunst Amsterdam, as well as running xR workshops at the V&A, Whitechapel Gallery London, UdK Berlin and Kunsthalle Vienna.

Ursula Mayer is an Austrian artist who completed her MFA at Goldsmiths University London. She is the recipient of the Film London Jarman Award and the Otto Mauer Prize. Her practice interweaves myth, biopolitics, and the semiotics of cinema to visualize and reflect on future posthuman ontology. Since 2021 she has been leading the PEEK research project MTLS funded by the Austrian Science Fund at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Artor Jesus Inkerö is a Finnish visual artist whose works have been exhibited in New Museum in New York, NOON Projects in Los Angeles, Beursschouwburg in Brussels and Helsinki Contemporary in Helsinki. They have participated in artist residencies, such as the Somerset House in London and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In their art practice, Artor Jesus Inkerö focuses on topics of queer identity and belonging through exhibitions, performances and public art works and projects.