Yasmo is a Vienna-based rapper and poet who has been taking stages by storm since 2007. In 2009, she made history as the first Austrian woman to win the German-language U20 Poetry Slam, and in 2013, the first woman to win the Austrian national championship.  She has been touring internationally with her lyrics ever since. With her band “Yasmo & die Klangkantine,” she released her sixth studio album, “Augen auf und durch,” in 2025. She also co-curated Popfest Wien 2019 and the Kultursommer in 2021 and 2022.

www.lenskuehleitner.com

Lens Kühleitner lives in Vienna. As a performance artist and musician, they work with sound, composition and movement in theatre, dance and performance. In addition to completing residencies with Olivia Hild at Im_flieger, Dansverkstæðið Reykjavík and ImPulsTanz (TURBO Research Residencies), they worked with Mzamo Nondlwana, Lau Lukkarila & Luca Bonamore, Oneka von Schrader, Sunggu Hong & So Young Park, Shabnam Chamani, Claire Lefèvre and Veza Fernández at Tanzquartier Wien, ImPulsTanz, Kosmos Theater, Schauspielhaus Wien, the Slovak National Theatre, brut Wien, Köttinspektionen Dans and Tdk Zurich. As Lan Rex, Lens Kühleitner has published three EPs at Tender Matter and an album with Manu Mayr as TEARING (Ventil Records). Lens Kühleitner is part of Pink Noise and was a member of the PARASOL Dance Company in 2023.

www.mip.at

museum in progress is a non-profit art initiative, established in Vienna in 1990, which has collaborated with more than 700 artists to date. The exhibition activity of museum in progress concentrates on contemporary art in media, public and virtual spaces. For example newspapers, magazines, billboards, building fronts, flag poles, television, concert halls and the Internet are used. In this way museum in progress reaches a far larger public than traditional museums. As an immaterial museum that is still “in progress”, its context-dependent and temporary art projects aim at the interface between art and everyday life. The concept of the Viennese initiative therefore has an inherent social dimension, with a particular commitment to the diversity and freedom of contemporary art production, while at the same time fostering public social discourse.

Actress working at the intersection of theatre, performance, live art, film, and music. Studied acting at the Mozarteum Salzburg; permanent engagements at Schauspielhaus Graz, Residenztheater Munich, and Burgtheater Vienna. Freelance for several years—regularly with Norton Commander Productions and Schauplatz International; founder of the artists’ collective HOR; and, since 2003, repeated collaborations with Christine Gaigg, 2nd nature. Numerous world premieres of works by Elfriede Jelinek—with Nicolas Stemann (Theatertreffen 2003), Ernst M. Binder, at steirischer herbst.

www.theaterpunkt.com/en/sabine-mitterecker

Born in Austria, Master´s degree philosophy, has been director since the late 90ies. After her first years working in Germany, back to Vienna she founded the label www.theaterpunkt.com. Since then (co-)producer and director in Vienna and abroad (Berlin, Gdansk, Hamburg, Linz, London, Luxembourg, New York, Sarajevo, Tirana…). Favourite authors: Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Marlen Haushofer, Elfriede Jelinek, Sarah Kane, Kleist, Molière, contemporary drama. Nestroy Theatre Award in 2000 and 2010

BC-A, short for Barbara Caroline A., is a DJ, promoter, and co-founder of EAT network based in Innsbruck. With a definite soft spot for all things bassy and breaky, she explores the boundaries of techno in her sets, blending percussive grooves with broken beats and heavy basslines, while increasingly embracing ambient soundscapes – and the occasional hardcore or gabber outburst when the moment calls for it. She has played in various cities and venues, including Tresor Berlin, Corsica Studios London, Museion Bolzano, Grelle Forelle Vienna, and has been featured on radio stations like Rinse, Res Radio, and Radio Rudina. In 2020, she became a part of the multi-genre collective Inseminoid, a non-profit cultural association that emphasizes live performances and visual art, with a strong commitment to prioritizing FLINTA* artists in its programming.
Firmly opposing gendered power dynamics in nightlife, Barbara co-founded the FLINTA* network EAT in 2022 and is a proud member since. Barbara is a cultural worker at TKI – Tiroler Kulturinitiativen, focusing on climate culture by bridging the pressing issues of climate protection and justice with the transformative potential of arts and culture. She also serves on the board of IG Kultur Österreich and works as a technician at Theater praesent. Guided by feminist values, she emphasizes solidarity, community, and a deep respect for the environment in all her endeavors, hoping to create and sustain cultural spaces for collective well-being.

Guillermo Tellechea is a media artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. His practice operates at the intersection of analog film, digital post-production, and performative projection formats. Through serial portraits as well as filmic, photographic, and site-specific works, he explores encounters between people, questions of belonging, imaginations of future ways of living, and the fragile materiality of moving images. A central focus lies in long-term portrait projects that understand filmmaking as an open, continuous process and as a space for exchange, empathy, and resistance.

https://www.isaacchongwai.com/

Isaac Chong Wai is a Berlin-Hong Kong artist. Chong was a participating artist in the 60th Venice Biennale, Foreigners Everywhere,  curated by Adriano Pedrosa. He uses glass, drawing, photography, video and performance as mediators to investigate contemporary global phenomena. His practice transforms the emotions, tensions, and memories of human interactions into performative materiality and immersive forms. His work addresses queer identity politics, Asian diasporic histories, and systemic racism to imagine alternative microcosms of human relationality. His works have gained recognition at prominent venues, including Innsbruck International Biennial of the Arts, Innsbruck; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Bundeskunsthalle Bonn; MMCA, Seoul; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and Liste Art Fair Basel. His works are featured in notable collections including Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin; Kadist, Paris and San Francisco; Burger Collection and Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong; White Rabbit Collection, Sydney. He received the New York Désirée & Hans Michael Jebsen Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council and was a fellow of the Kulturakademie Tarabya. In 2024, he was selected as one of the TOP 100 most important cultural figures in Berlin by Tagesspiegel.

www.flavouramabattle.com

www.potpourri.dance

OLIVIA MITTERHUEMER, based in Salzburg, is a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher with a focus on House Dance and Hip Hop Freestyle. Her curiosity for African-American dance styles brought her to various productions and to stages and festivals such as brut Vienna, ImpulsTanz Vienna, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, Dock11 Berlin, DANCENET Sweden or KoresponDance Prague. She has worked with Marinella Senatore, Julia Schwarzbach, Valentin Alfery, Cornelia Böhnisch and more. With her company Potpourri Dance, she has created her own pieces Houseward Bound, 4 A.M. (in co-production with brut Wien), Friend.shift, PUSH (with Offensive Tanz Berlin) and VAKUUM (co-production with SZENE Salzburg) since 2019. She deepened her artistic work during residencies in St. Gallen, Dakar, Paris and Vienna. She has shared her passion for teaching internationally, including in Cape Town, Colombo and Manila, as well as in Austria at Salzburg Festival, ImpulsTanz and the ORFF Institute.
More recently, her focus has shifted toward academic and research-based contexts: Olivia teaches at SEAD, has been invited as a guest lecturer at the University of Salzburg and the Mozarteum, and in 2025 she contributed to the scientific study Tanz Mit! on dance, health and social participation. As co-founder of the internationally renowned Hip Hop & House Dance festival Flavourama in Salzburg, she also travels throughout Europe as an opinion leader, sharing her experiences as both a female organizer and artist. Collaborations have taken place with La Place Paris, Streetstar Stockholm and Pure House Vilnius.
In 2020 Olivia Mitterhuemer was awarded the annual scholarship for performance of the Country of Salzburg, in 2022 the start-up grant for music and performing arts by BMKÖS. In 2024, Farah Deen and Olivia Mitterhuemer received the City of Salzburg’s award for art and culture for their year-long work.

www.flavouramabattle.com

www.potpourri.dance

Farah Deen is a passionate and dynamic dancer and choreographer specializing in House Dance. Over the past 20 years, her style has been shaped by a variety of dance forms, including Hip Hop, Breaking, Waacking and many other Contemporary Dances. Farah is the founder and artistic director of Flavourama Festival, a prominent platform for Hip Hop and House Dance in Europe for the past 17 years. She also leads the dance company Potpourri, where she has created several productions that push the boundaries of movement and expression. With extensive experience in both teaching and performing, Farah brings a unique fusion of techniques and cultural influences to her work. Known for her infectious energy and dedication to individual expression, she creates a welcoming and inclusive environment for dancers of all levels. Her classes focus on building confidence, creativity, and community, helping each participant discover their unique dance voice and find both an individual and collective groove.

www.sandale-vibes.com

A collective of three, SanDaLe vibes draws on the individual influences of its members to create a versatile and collaborative musical identity. Their sets thrive on contrasts – playful and open one moment, dense and uncompromising the next. Seamlessly transitioning between analog and digital, their groovy, dance-driven sound weaves through House, Funk, Ambient, and Disco, blending into a unique, electronically infused soundscape.

www.wendelienvanoldenborgh.info

Wendelien van Oldenborgh develops works, whereby the cinematic format is used as a methodology for production and as the basic language for various forms of presentation, collaborating with participants in different scenarios, to co-produce the script. With these works, always shown in specially developed architectural settings, she shows widely in the art context. Recent solo presentations include Dance Floor as Study Room, 2024/25 at YCAM, Yamaguchi; unset on-set at Museum of Contemporary art Tokyo (MOT) 2022/23; tono lengua boca at CA2M Madrid 2019-20; Cinema Olanda, at the Dutch Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennial 2017. Her work was recently included in Aloha Nō at the Hawaii Triennial 2025, Delinking and Relinking, collection presentation van Abbemuseum 2021-2026; Sonsbeek 20->24, Arnhem 2021; of bread, wine, cars, security and peace… at Kunsthalle Wien, 2020; Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019, Singapore Biennial 2019. Her films Two Stones (2019), Hier. (2021), of girls (2023) and A Prelude (2025) premiered in the International Competition of FID Marseille.
Van Oldenborgh is currently professor of Art and Intervention | Concept at the Academy of Fine Art, Vienna and member of the (Dutch) Society for Arts.

www.felixkramer.at

Felix Kramer is a Viennese songwriter from Ottakring, a Viennese district known for its Heuriger taverns and its brewery.
He plays on the dark strings of life and sings heart-wrenching songs of heartbreak and abandonment. His debut album Wahrnehmungssache (“matter of perception”) is heavy despite its sparse instrumentation. He gets a few things off his chest through his songs, when he sings of the callousness and brutalization of society and the current government.
Kramer’s 2018 performance at Popfest Wien introduced him to a wider audience and brought him coverage in local press and radio stations such as Ö1, FM4 and BR, followed by a Top 20 chart placement in Austria for his debut. In 2019, he performed at Haldern Pop (DE) and Kaltern Pop Festival (IT), Winterthurer Musikfestwochen as well as Heimatsound Festival. His latest album, Oh Wie Schön das Leben Is, was released in May 2023 on Phat Penguin Records.

www.leannherlihy.com

Léann Herlihy (they/them) is an artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin. Their practice is informed by trans*, queer ecological, feminist and abolitionist theoretical frameworks which deploys alternative modalities of expression through an array of mediums including live performance, video, billboards, sculpture, text, workshops and radical pedagogies. Rigorously and creatively critiquing the positioning of Otherness in a heteronormative society, Léann actively transgresses beyond ‘Other’ as another tick-box option to choose from and moves to explore the generative capacity of collective engagement and resistance when we abolish colonial and capitalist prescriptions of personhood, the body and gender. Refusing disciplinary coherence, their research dwells in the often incompatible and unarchived fragments physically found at the back of storage rooms or virtually spiraling down the threads of online forums as they scavenge for remnants of those who have been deliberately or accidentally excluded from society.
Léann Herlihy is a lecturer in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. They are the recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award (2022), Visual Arts Bursary (2021, 2023, 2024, 2025) & Project Award (2024). Select solo exhibitions include the middle of nowhere, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2022); Beyond Survival School Bus, Dublin Fringe Festival (2022). Select two person shows include pass the baton, Galway Arts Centre (2025); False Start, GOMA, Waterford (2025). Select group shows include EXPO CHICAGO, Central America (2026); Innsbruck International Biennial, Austria (2026); Staying with the Trouble, Irish Museum of Modern Art (2025); Dreamtime Ireland, VISUAL Carlow (202)]; Precarious Joys, Toronto Biennial of Art (2024); The Salvage Agency, TULCA (2024); The Gleaners Society, 40th EVA International (2023); Reflex Blue, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (2023).
They are a Member Studio Artist (2024-2)] at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.

www.oliverhangl.com

Performance/media artist, curator, and urban activist, Hangl pushes the boundaries between physical and psychological spaces. His work takes place in real and fictional settings. With the public space as his stage, he playfully embeds a site and context-responsive set of experiences and interactions for both planned and incidental audiences. Director of project space k48 – offensive for contemporary perception in Vienna and founder, artistic director of WIENER BESCHWERDECHOR.

www.cousines-like-sh.it

Cousines Like Shit is the band project of the two Austrian cousins Laura and Hannah Breitfuss, known for their “Avant Trash” sound—A mix of lo-fi, indie-pop and punk, paired with sharp and ironic lyrics. After their debut album AVANT TRASH (2023), their second album, Permanent Earthquake, is set for release in March 2025. The first single, ‘NO’ is already out!
The duo has taken their dynamic live performances beyond Austria, playing shows across Germany, the UK, Europe, and the USA. Joined on stage by a powerful rhythm section of bass and drums, they deliver a raw energy that’s carving their place in the international indie music scene.

www.filmmaterial.net

Clemens von Wedemeyer is a Berlin-based artist, filmmaker and professor of expanded cinema at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig.  His video installations and short films often explore history, group dynamics, the critical use of media and technology, and are often developed for specific sites. Notable works include the film Muster (2012) or complex work groups such as P.O.V. (2016) and The Illusion of a Crowd (2019). He has participated in group exhibitions such as Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007) and dOCUMENTA (13) (2012), and his solo shows have been shown at MoMA PS1, New York, and Hamburger Kunsthalle. Recent presentations include Kaohsiang Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, 2022, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, 2023, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris and KOW Berlin, 2024.

www.christianfalsnaes.com

Christian Falsnaes studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is currently based in Zurich, where he is a tenured lecturer at Zurich University of the Arts. His practice centers on performance, often involving exhibition visitors whose participation – guided by instructions – becomes integral to the work.
Falsnaes’ works have been presented at institutions including the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Centre Pompidou, Paris; ZKM, Karlsruhe; and Manifesta 11, Zurich.

www.alexandrakontriner.com

Alexandra Kontriner, born in 1980 in Lienz, lives and works in Vienna. She graduated from the Technical College for Glass, Arts and Crafts, and Design (HTL) in Kramsach, Tyrol, and subsequently studied art history at the University of Innsbruck. She also attended the University of Applied Arts Vienna as a guest student. She has been active as an artist since 2015 and exhibits her work nationally and internationally, including at the Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz and the Museum Krems in 2025; at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Paris and the Künstlerhaus Wien, the Spațiul de Artă Contemporană /SAC, Bucharest (RO), and the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck in 2024; at the Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York in 2023; at the Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol in 2021; and at the Museo Alto Garda in Riva del Garda (IT) in 2020. Kontriner has received numerous awards, among them the prize awarded by the State of Lower Austria at the Austrian Graphic Art Competition in 2019; the Advancement Award of the RLB Kunstpreis Innsbruck in 2020; the Advancement Award for Contemporary Art of the State of Tyrol in 2022; and the Erich Grabner Prize for contemporary artistic graphics of the City of Krems in 2024.

www.juliafrank.art

Julia Frank (*1988, Italy) is a Vienna-based visual artist. She completed her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London in 2015. Frank’s artistic practice operates between sculpture and two-dimensional works, combining photographic, drawing and print-based processes. The body, particularly the skin, often serves as a point of departure, understood as a site of inscription, impact and social experience. Through intuitive, craft-based and experimental processes, she investigates material as a carrier of information and conceives form as the result of intervention and response. Shaped by biographical experiences of origin, class and queer identity, her work addresses questions of social bodies, intersectionality and power structures beyond normative frameworks. Frank’s works open up fragile, poetic spaces in which vulnerability and resistance become simultaneously visible. Her work has been shown at institutions including MUSEION, Kunstverein Schattendorf and Museum Fortezza. She received the MUSEION Audience Award (2016), the In Memoriam Sven Sachwalter Prize (2021), and was named HGV Artist of the Year in 2025.

www.ressler.at

Oliver Ressler produces installations, projects in public space, and films on economics, democracy, climate breakdown, racism, forms of resistance and social alternatives. Ressler had comprehensive solo exhibitions at National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest; SALT Galata, Istanbul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes, Mexico; and Belvedere 21, Vienna. He has participated in 480 group exhibitions—including at the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Centre Pompidou, Paris—as well as biennials in Prague, Seville, Moscow, Taipei, Lyon, Gyumri, Venice, Athens, Quebec, Helsinki, Jeju, Kyiv, Gothenburg, Stavanger, and Istanbul, and Documenta 14 in Kassel in 2017.

www.maurmair.com

Roland Maurmair was born in Innsbruck in 1975. He lives and works in Frankenmarkt and Vienna as an artist and scientist in the field of primitive and media technologies. He studied audiovisual media at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and and he holds a PhD in philosophy. He has had numerous exhibitions and presentations in Austria and abroad.

valeriefritz.at

Cellist Valerie Fritz impresses with her versatile profile and her innovative approach to programming, for which she has received numerous awards. Among others, she was given the Berlin Prize for Young Artists and was nominated as an ECHO Rising Star for the 2025/26 season — an honor that brings her to the leading concert halls of Europe. Valerie Fritz is a regular guest at festivals such as Musikfest Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Klangspuren Schwaz, and the Bavarian Radio’s musica viva. Both as a soloist and in chamber-music formations, she cultivates a direct and sensitive dialogue with the audience and seeks close collaboration with composers. Influential artistic encounters with composers such as Georg Friedrich Haas and Jennifer Walshe have resulted in new works written specifically for her, incorporating performative elements such as singing, whispering, or speaking.
Valerie Fritz studied at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Clemens Hagen and Giovanni Gnocchi.
A particular highlight of her artistic career was her debut with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Her first CD recording, featuring works by York Höller, Rebecca Clarke and Claude Debussy, was released by NEOS Music in autumn 2025.

www.fennesz.com

Fennesz is the solo project of Austrian musician, composer, and sound artist Christian Fennesz (born 1962 in Vienna). Since the early 1990s, he has been regarded as one of the most influential figures in international electronic and experimental music. His work operates at the intersection of electronic sound processing, guitar-based music, noise, and ambient, and has played a key role in expanding the aesthetic possibilities of electronic music toward emotional, textural, and harmonic complexity. Trained as a guitarist and initially active in rock and improvisational contexts, Fennesz began early on to radically rethink the electric guitar through digital signal processing. A defining characteristic of his work is the fusion of guitar sounds with laptop-based electronics, often rendering the origin and materiality of sound deliberately ambiguous. Melody, noise, and structure coexist on equal terms, creating a fragile balance between abstraction and immediate sensuality.
Fennesz gained international recognition in the late 1990s through releases on the influential label Mego, most notably with the album Endless Summer (2001), now widely regarded as a milestone in electronic music. The record combined digital interference with fragmentary, almost nostalgic harmonic gestures, opening new perspectives on ambient, glitch, and post-rock. Subsequent albums including Venice (2004), Black Sea (2008), Bécs (2014), Agora (2019), and Mosaic (2024) were met with broad critical acclaim and document the ongoing evolution of his distinctive sonic language.
With Mosaic, Fennesz condenses his long-standing engagement with structure, repetition, and sonic fragmentation into a multilayered, formally open work. The album brings together finely sculpted electronic textures and fractured melodic motifs, reflecting an intensified focus on process-based thinking and modular musical forms. Mosaic exemplifies Fennesz’s ability to combine complex digital sound architectures with emotional depth and atmospheric presence. Alongside his solo practice, Fennesz is a highly sought-after collaborator.
He has worked with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto, David Sylvian, Jim O’Rourke, Keith Rowe, King Midas Sound, and Lillevan, among others. His long-standing artistic partnership with Sakamoto resulted in numerous recordings, live performances, and installations, further deepening his interest in reduction, spatiality, and sonic transparency. Fennesz performs extensively worldwide at major festivals, concert halls, clubs, and art spaces. His live performances are not mere reproductions of studio works but open, situational processes in which improvisation, acoustics, and technical fragility play a central role. In addition, he has composed music for film, theatre, and media art, as well as creating site-specific sound installations. Through his work, Fennesz has fundamentally shaped the perception of electronic music as a form that is simultaneously physical and abstract, emotional and conceptual, technologically reflective and profoundly human.