BIOS

Hélène Mougin is a French artist. She lives and works in Paris.
»It happens that a special fragrance or smell instantly immerse us in a specific place in our memory. The images, sensations, and feelings that arise then represent, as well, a time lived. As poetry can sum-up such extraordinary sensitive data, I intend to make such a precipitate. I tell no story. I suggest landscapes or encounters. » H.M

Her polymorphic universe is centered around three interrelated practices: sculpture/installation, drawing, and collage. Assembly and collage have been at the heart of his artistic vocabulary since his studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-arts de Dijon. For twelve years, ceramics has been part of her plastic vocabulary. In 2015, Hélène

Mougin received the Jury Prize at the C14 Contemporary Ceramics Salon. She regularly participates in the exhibitions of the International Prize for Small Ceramic Forms ( Louvre-Lens, 2024). Her works were recently exhibited at the Camille Lambert Art Center in Juvisy-sur-Orge (FR) – “Constructing. Correlations between drawing and ceramics” (curated by: Clotilde Boitel) in 2023. Currently at the Saint André Abbey – Contemporary Art Center of Meymac (Fr) “Assemblies, tinkering, hybridizations” (curated by: Jean-Paul Fort). Mort,” “Salon of Erotic Drawing” (Laurent Quénéhen, Paris), as well as with Les traces habiles, The Observatory of Contemporary Drawing Practices (Paris). Meanwhile, Hélène Mougin teaches visual arts to visually impaired students at the National Institute for Young Blind People – Louis Braille in Paris.

HAI HOGO is an artist, musician, actor and filmmaker based in Vienna.He has performed as an actor in the Burgtheater, had his filmworks screened in the Gartenbaukino and had artwork shown at Galerie Krinzinger.
https://www.haihogo.com/

Hugo Le Brigand, a French dancer based in Vienna, explores dance as a space for creative encounters and porous collaborations, weaving movement into dialogue with artists such as Doris Uhlich, Alix Eynaudi, Daniela Georgieva, Karin Pauer, Ulduz Ahmadzadeh, and Ari Benjamin Meyers, among others.
Since 2023, he has been actively involved in the company Tanztheater Sing, joining from its foundation as a performer and contributing to its artistic development through his distinctive physical language.
Alongside his career as a performer, Hugo teaches contemporary dance within Public Moves by ImPulsTanz as well as at Tanzquartier Wien.

In 2017, he took part in the danceWEB scholarship program at ImPulsTanz, and the following year was awarded the START Stipendium for music and performing arts by the Austrian Federal Chancellery. His practice has since been supported by Tanzquartier Wien through the Body & Performance Practices program (2023), and more recently by the City of Vienna, which granted him the Performing Arts – Performance scholarship in 2025.
www.hugolebrigand.com

Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe (host/artistic direction)
As an artist, choreographer, and director, Elisabeth B. Tambwe works with different forms and genres: performance, choreography, film, interactive and generative formats, as well as with various dramaturgies and spaces such as installations and stages. She is interested in the emergence of new forms of otherness and the unique relationships and languages they produce. What do they reveal about our humanity, and how do they challenge the concept of anthropocentrism? Her projects are transdisciplinary and collective, aiming to create shared spaces of research between performance art and the social sciences.

https://www.elitambwe.com
https://www.chateaurouge.at

The Texas-born tenor Aaron-Casey Gould graduated from the opera studio of the Volksoper Vienna and was then included in the ensemble of the house. He was sponsored by the French Fondation Signature and received the second prize at the Concours international de chant des voix lyriques d’Afrique. Engagements led him to the Salzburg Festival, Maison de la Radio et de la Musique in Paris, the Nygårdsparken series in Bergen, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Walter Hall in Toronto. At the New York City Opera he debuted in the premiere of Iain Bell’s Stonewall and was seen in the off-Broadway production For the Love of Friends. He also played Dee Legendary in Joseph N. Rubinstein’s House of Legendary in a production of the American Opera Project in Manhattan.

He participated in the HBO master classes with Bobby McFerrin and Renée Fleming and was seen in the HBO short film Pure. At the Volksoper he recently sang Prince Caprice in Offenbach’s Le Voyage dans la lune, Fenton (The Merry Wives of Windsor), Alfred (The Bat), and Camille de Rosillon (The Merry Widow). In the 2025/26 season, he will make his Dallas Opera debut as well as take on the role of Nemorino in Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at Stadttheater Klagenfurt.

Lena Fankhauser completed her studies (Bachelor and Master) at the Juilliard School of Music in New York before continuing her postgraduate studies with Thomas Riebl at the Mozarteum Salzburg. As a member, among others, of the Camerata Salzburg and as a chamber musician, numerous tours took her to many of the world’s great concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Suntory Hall, and the Royal Albert Hall. In addition, she has performed at the Salzburg Festival, the Carinthian Summer Festival, as well as with the orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper, Klangforum Wien, and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO). Since 2013, she has been a member of the Koehne Quartet, which specializes in contemporary music. She is a regular guest with the Munich Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. Lena Fankhauser founded the Bad Ischl Chamber Music Festival and the association (CH)AMBER for new chamber music; she is a founding member of the Chineke! Orchestra and musical advisor of Salon Souterrain, initiated by Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe. In 2020, Lena Fankhauser, together with Martin Gellner, founded the Big Island Orchestra, a Vienna-based orchestra specializing in film music and multimedia studio recordings.

https://www.lena-fankhauser.com

Noushin Redjaian touches on everything from ambient to dub, to reggaeton and new dancehall mixed with her love for rnb and hiphop music.

Emily Stewart, born in London and raised in Costa Rica, is a classically and jazz-trained violinist who has lived in Vienna, Austria, since 2002. Early on, she engaged with improvisation and various other musical genres, which has made her a highly sought-after artist, particularly in experimental and crossover projects as well as a studio musician. She has performed across Europe at numerous festivals and venues with Soap&Skin, Violetta Parisini, Swedish jazz pianist Jan Lundgren, among others. As a theatre musician, she has collaborated since 2016 with the American performance group Saint Genet, was engaged as a stage musician at the Vienna Burgtheater from the 2017/2018 season through the 2020/2021 season, and took part in Jacqueline Kornmüller’s productions Ganymed in Power (2020/2021) and Ganymed Bridge (2023) at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. In 2021, she composed the soundtrack for Sebastian Brauneis’s film 1 Verabredung im Herbst (2021), as well as the theatre music for Fritzi Wartenberg’s production of The Writer at the Berliner Ensemble (2022/2023). Her debut album The Anatomy of Melancholy was released in 2020 on the Viennese label col legno music.

Collaborations include (among others): Soap&Skin, Jan Lundgren, Gary Husband, Michael Mantler, Wolfgang Puschnig, Asja Valcic, Bohatsch&Skrepek&Stewart, Matthias Jakisic, Lukas Lauermann, Koehne Quartet, Vienna Improvisers Orchestra, Velvet Elevator & Die Strottern, Golnar Shahyar, Klaus Paier, Peter Havlicek, Mahan Mirarab’s Acoustic Diaries, Jim Rotondi, Nenad Vasilic, Jazzwerkstatt Wien, OnQ Ensemble, Tobias Vedovelli, Leonhard Skorupa, Clemens Wenger, Lukas Kranzelbinder, Hannes Löschel, André Heller, Belle and Sebastian, OSKA, Violetta Parisini, Studio Dan, Neuschnee, Iris Electrum, Philipp Kienberger Quintet, Studio Dan, Johanna Orisini-Rosenberg, God’s Entertainment, Saint Genet, Wilfried, Little Big Sea, Hearts Hearts, Rambo Rambo Rambo, Yasmo und die Klangkantine, Felix Kramer, Franui and Nico and the Navigators, Florianer Tanzlgeiga, Rosa Sánchez…

https://www.emily-stewart.com/

Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe (host/artistic direction)
As an artist, choreographer, and director, Elisabeth B. Tambwe works with different forms and genres: performance, choreography, film, interactive and generative formats, as well as with various dramaturgies and spaces such as installations and stages. She is interested in the emergence of new forms of otherness and the unique relationships and languages they produce. What do they reveal about our humanity, and how do they challenge the concept of anthropocentrism? Her projects are transdisciplinary and collective, aiming to create shared spaces of research between performance art and the social sciences.
https://www.elitambwe.com
https://www.chateaurouge.at

Benoît Jouan (research)
Benoît Jouan is a writer and illustrator. He studied fine arts and holds a university degree (Master of Visual and Plastic Arts / University of Lille III, France) and an art school diploma (National Superior Diploma of Expression of Plastic Arts – DNSEP & National Diploma of Plastic Arts – DNAP of the School of Tourcoing, France). He worked for twenty years (1999–2019) at the Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM) in Villeneuve-d’Ascq (France) as lecturer and head of art workshops (specializing in engraving) in closed institutions such as psychiatric hospitals and prisons. He has collaborated with Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe since 1998. Since 2022, he has lived and worked in Vienna.

Indra Jäger (production)
Indra Jäger, born in Frankfurt am Main, has lived in Vienna since 2000. After studying journalism and communication sciences, she co-initiated and directed the art and cultural association IM ERSTEN (2012–2016). In this field she continues to work as a producer for Dig Up Productions and is responsible for the discursive performance format Salon Souterrainas as well as Elisabeth Tambwes Trilogy on Roland Barthes „A Lovers discourse“ (Speech of Love: Absence, Beyond The Overflow, SelFist). Since 2023, Indra has been working as editor and managing editor at the Austrian solutions journalism platform relevant.news, as well as a freelance research associate at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC).

David Pujadas Bosch (documentation)
David Pujadas Bosch, born in Barcelona, has lived in Vienna since 2000. From 2000–2013 he worked at IBM Austria in various areas (including Announcement Support Advisor, Quality Coordinator, Country Focal Point). From 2003–2013 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Monica Bonvicini (sculpture and performative art) and Harun Farocki (film and art). Since 2013, he has been in the film class of Thomas Heise. He works mainly with video and film, but also engages in photography, drawing, writing, as well as performance and sound installations. From 2009 to 2016 he was a regular illustrator, author, and accountant for Paradigmata – Journal for Humanity and Discourse – alongside other editorial activities such as layout, editing, and distribution.
https://davidpujadasbosch.wordpress.com