Board Members
Mirela Baciak (she/her) is a curator and director of the Salzburger Kunstverein. Between 2019 and 2023 she was working as a curator for visual arts and performance at the steirischer herbst festival in Graz. Her curatorial practice is concerned with questions of hospitality, health, and justice. In 2023, she initiated AAC | Austrian Association of Curators.
Laura Amann (she/her) is a curator and architect living and working in Vienna. She is currently active as curator at Kunsthalle Wien alongside WHW collective. Laura Amann is co-founder of Significant Other, a project space and curatorial platform concerned with the overlaps of art and architecture. She is a graduate of de Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam as well as of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Recent projects look at madness and insanity as forms of knowledge and as acts of joy, intimacy, desire, and sensuality and how they produce spaces for disobedience specifically from a queer-feminist position.
Lewon Heublein (he/him) is a curator, editor, and writer with a theater, film, and media studies background. He has been Co-Editor-in-Chief of PW Magazine since 2020, dedicated to showcasing young, interdisciplinary practices in visual and performing arts and experimental music. For Tanzquartier Wien he is responsible for the music program and the emerging artist festival Rakete as a freelance curator.
Freda Fiala (she/her) is a researcher and curator focusing on performance-based artistic practices. She is a doctoral fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the initiator and curator of perfoörm, a performance format in OK Linz. In 2022, she initiated the Non-fungible Body? festival for performance together with River Lin. She teaches performance theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the University of Vienna. Her texts have been published by DISTANZ Verlag Berlin, PAJ / MIT Press, ARTMargins, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and Taipei Performing Arts Center, among others.
Hana Ostan-Ožbolt-Haas (she/her) is an art historian, independent curator and writer. Her curatorial work employs a transgenerational and intersectional approach, encompassing a range of media, seeking forms to address topics of collective relevance and personal urgency in the context of post-capitalism. From 2019 to 2023, she was director of the ULAY Foundation, where she was responsible for various (curatorial) projects related to issues of the artist’s legacy. A selection of her recent curatorial projects includes exhibitions at SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Georg Kargl Fine Arts as part of the Curated by Festival, HOW Art Museum and Stedelijk Museum. She is a contributor to Artforum and recently held a visiting professorship at die Angewandte, University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Andrea Popelka (she/they) is a curator, cultural worker, and researcher. She* is currently working in the curatorial department at Kunsthalle Wien and involved in several exhibition projects there, such as Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman’s Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims. Another recent exhibition project is Life constantly escapes at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich. Former workplaces include the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and ACUD MACHT NEU – both in Berlin. Besides, Popelka is teaching in the Master Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Popelka's research interest lie broadly in the relation between arts and poltics, with a focus on materialisms, Marxisms, race, gender, and social life.
Board Members
Mirela Baciak (she/her) is a curator and director of the Salzburger Kunstverein. Between 2019 and 2023 she was working as a curator for visual arts and performance at the steirischer herbst festival in Graz. Her curatorial practice is concerned with questions of hospitality, health, and justice. In 2023, she initiated AAC | Austrian Association of Curators.
Laura Amann (she/her) is a curator and architect living and working in Vienna. She is currently active as curator at Kunsthalle Wien alongside WHW collective. Laura Amann is co-founder of Significant Other, a project space and curatorial platform concerned with the overlaps of art and architecture. She is a graduate of de Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam as well as of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Recent projects look at madness and insanity as forms of knowledge and as acts of joy, intimacy, desire, and sensuality and how they produce spaces for disobedience specifically from a queer-feminist position.
Lewon Heublein (he/him) is a curator, editor, and writer with a theater, film, and media studies background. He has been Co-Editor-in-Chief of PW Magazine since 2020, dedicated to showcasing young, interdisciplinary practices in visual and performing arts and experimental music. For Tanzquartier Wien he is responsible for the music program and the emerging artist festival Rakete as a freelance curator.
Freda Fiala (she/her) is a researcher and curator focusing on performance-based artistic practices. She is a doctoral fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the initiator and curator of perfoörm, a performance format in OK Linz. In 2022, she initiated the Non-fungible Body? festival for performance together with River Lin. She teaches performance theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the University of Vienna. Her texts have been published by DISTANZ Verlag Berlin, PAJ / MIT Press, ARTMargins, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and Taipei Performing Arts Center, among others.
Hana Ostan-Ožbolt-Haas (she/her) is an art historian, independent curator and writer. Her curatorial work employs a transgenerational and intersectional approach, encompassing a range of media, seeking forms to address topics of collective relevance and personal urgency in the context of post-capitalism. From 2019 to 2023, she was director of the ULAY Foundation, where she was responsible for various (curatorial) projects related to issues of the artist’s legacy. A selection of her recent curatorial projects includes exhibitions at SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Georg Kargl Fine Arts as part of the Curated by Festival, HOW Art Museum and Stedelijk Museum. She is a contributor to Artforum and recently held a visiting professorship at die Angewandte, University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Andrea Popelka (she/they) is a curator, cultural worker, and researcher. She* is currently working in the curatorial department at Kunsthalle Wien and involved in several exhibition projects there, such as Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman’s Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims. Another recent exhibition project is Life constantly escapes at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich. Former workplaces include the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and ACUD MACHT NEU – both in Berlin. Besides, Popelka is teaching in the Master Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Popelka's research interest lie broadly in the relation between arts and poltics, with a focus on materialisms, Marxisms, race, gender, and social life.