BIOS

Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe
Born in Kinshasa (DRC), Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe grew up in France and pursued artistic studies. In 1998, she obtained the “Diplôme National d’Expression Plastique”, for her work of sculpture, at the School of Fine Arts in Tourcoing, France.
As an artist, choreographer and stage director, she works with a variety of forms of writing: performance, choreography, film, interactive and generative, as well as different dramaturgies and spaces such as installations and stages. She is interested in the emergence of new forms of otherness, and the singular relationships and languages they give rise to. What do they reveal about our humanity, and how do they challenge the notion of anthropocentrism? Her projects are transdisciplinary and collective, and seek to invent shared research spaces between performance art and the social sciences.
Tambwe’s choreographic and performative works explore the multiplicity of perspectives shaping reality. Her scenographic devices destabilize conventional perception, fragmenting bodies, spaces and narratives. Through performance she reveals ambiguities within social, political and aesthetic conventions, staging the contradictions and incoherent positions that shape contemporary subjectivity. Her work frequently draws on philosophical and literary sources, notably the writings of Roland Barthes, exploring fragmentation, perception and the instability of meaning.

Emma Tietze
Emma Tietze (b. 2000, Aachen) lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany. At the intersection of video, performance, and text, she explores the physical perception of the body in relation to the individual and the group, and questions whether such a distinction is even tenable

Ferry Kummich
Ferry Kummich, birthed 2003 on christmas eve in Hoyerswerda, Germany, is an interdisciplinary sculptor that currently studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe in the class of Jeremy Shaw.

Hanna Braun
Hanna Braun (b. 2000, Filderstadt) lives in Karlsruhe and studies fine art at the State Academy of Fine Arts. Her work explores change and dreamscapes. Traces found both within herself and in society inspire her to capture them. Central to this is the attempt to establish connections between deep-seated imprints and the fleeting nature of the moment.

Lana Koeters
Lana Koeters (*1998, Pforzheim) is studying fine arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe in the class of Tamina Amadyar, Markus Schinwald, Ulla von Brandenburg and Daniel Roth. In her studies, she explores various media with a performative dimension. Traces, imprints and the internal processes of the human body play a central role.

Nicolas Patzer
A guy who looks at works of art in galleries, plays on slot machines and spends time in cafes.

Sebastian Hesse
Sebastian Hesse (*1998, Rinteln) studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Over the last years he specialised in ceramics. Nature and its many structures create the origin for many works. From tiny to huge, from buds, cones and bugs, up to clouds, mountains and landscapes. On a technical level he is working with print, drawings, paintings and various ceramics techniques. Because of that the works vary from drawings, paintings up to sculptures and installations.

Soheil Honarmand
Soheil is a multidisciplinary artist working across media, guided by the belief that each idea finds its own form. Shaped by hardships like displacement, their practice carries traces of movement, rupture and memory. Their work unfolds through a deeply personal lens, while deliberately seeking friction and challenge. Moving between the political and the intimate, their practice provokes as much as it reflects, confronting the fragility and resilience of the human condition. All of which take place in both personal and collective realities.

David Pujadas Bosch (video- assistent and documentation / Video- Assistenz und Dokumentation)
David Pujadas Bosch (he/him), born in Barcelona, has lived in Vienna since 2000. After studying Economics at the University of Barcelona and working at IBM Austria, he pursued fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Monica Bonvicini, Harun Farocki, Thomas Heise, and Emily Wardill.
His practice focuses on video and film, alongside theatre, photography, animation, drawing, performance, and sound installation. He collaborates with numerous artists and works across disciplines within contemporary art and culture.
He has contributed to Paradigmata – Magazine for People and Discourses and worked in various roles in film production, primarily in camera and editing. His work also includes documenting performances, exhibitions, and symposia, as well as producing short films, music videos, and video installations for institutions such as the Vitra Design Museum, 21er Haus, and the Austrian Commission for UNESCO.

Ursula Winterauer (music /Musik)
Ursula Winterauer, alias Gischt, lives and works in Vienna as a composer, electronic music producer, and curator. Her eclectic soundscapes offer nuanced interpretations of the genres industrial, techno, and ambient, reflected through bass guitar, synthesizers, and clouds of electrosmog. Her work engages with raw and brutal sounds in a state of digital overdetermination, often contrasted by the clear character of her own voice. She is the bassist of the doom metal band Eaeres and one half of the duo The Answer is No with Maja Osojnik. Winterauer develops pieces for ensembles, works as a sound designer and film composer and creates compositions for contemporary dance. She is the co-founder and label head of Ventil Records, co-organizer and commercial director of the Unsafe+Sounds Festival, and was the curator of New Salt – Festival for Sonic Exploration & Digital Art in 2024.

Peter Kutin (lights /Licht)
Peter Kutin works with sound and its compositional possibilities at various intersections. His non-disciplinary works are characterised by blending music with image, sculpture, light, kinetic art or video.

This in-depth exploration of how sound and visual stimuli interdepend and interact with has expanded his artistic territory far beyond music, resulting in a body of experimental films, multimedia-scenarios, kinetic sculptures and stage-performances. In 2026, his debut feature film, Sound of Musick [sic!], is slated for completion.

Kutin received numerous awards, scholarships and residencies. In 2019, his kinetic sound-sculpture Torso#1 was honoured with the Prix Ars-Electronica. In 2016, along with the composer Christina Kubisch and his long time collaborator Florian Kindlinger, he received SWR’s esteemed Karl-Szucka award for the composition Desert Bloom.
He is currently based in Brussels as Artist in Residence at the WIELS center for contemporary art.

Benoît Jouan Research and text support
Benoît Jouan (*1972) is an author and illustrator. He studied fine arts, and holds a university degree (Master of Visual and Plastic Arts/ Lille III University, France) and an art school degree (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 a lecturer and art workshop leader (specialized in engraving) in closed environments such as psychiatric hospitals and prisons. He has been working with Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe since 1998. He moved to Vienna in March 2022 where he lives and works now.

Indra Jäger (production / Produktion)
Indra Jäger, born in Frankfurt am Main, has lived in Vienna since 2000. After studying journalism and communication sciences, she co-founded and directed the arts and culture association IM ERSTEN, where she initiated and curated numerous cross-disciplinary projects.
Since 2022, she has worked as a producer with Elisabeth Tambwe on the discursive performance format Salon Souterrain as well as the productions Speech of Love: Absence, Beyond The Overflow, and SelFist.
Her work focuses on exploring and creating spaces of communication, egalitarian structures, and participatory formats. This interest also informs her involvement in research projects and her work with the Austrian platform relevant.news in the field of solutions journalism.