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 an independent curator and architect living and working in Vienna. Until recently she was a 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. 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.

Freda Fiala (she/her) is a researcher focusing on critical curatorial and museum studies, performance-based practices and transmodern artistic and cultural diplomacy. She is currently a post-doc researcher at University of the Arts Linz, and has been a guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, theory mentor at the P.A.R.T.S. School for Contemporary Dance in Brussels and fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her curatorial work includes developing performance formats for museum spaces, such as “The Non-fungible Body?” and “HYBRID BODIES” at OK Linz, as well as co-curating symposia on performance and curatorial practices. Her texts have been published by DISTANZ Verlag, TEXTE ZUR KUNST, 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, writer, and lecturer. She was the director of ULAY Foundation between 2019 and 2023. She has curated numerous projects on a freelance basis, most recently at Sector Gallery 1, Eva Kahan Foundation in Vienna, and HOW Art Museum in Shanghai. Furthermore, she is a contributor to Artforum. Currently, she holds a Guest Professorship at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Andrea Popelka (she/they) In her practice as a curator, researcher, and body worker, Andrea Popelka takes a materialist approach to study the correlations between art and politics. This has manifested in numerous exhibitions featuring, among others, artists such as Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman, Laure Prouvost, Sanja Iveković, Linda Bilda, Basyma Saad, or Adelita Husni-Bey. At Kunsthalle Wien and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, she collaborated with artists to actualize ideas, produce new works, craft innovative public and education programs, and devise genre-crossing publications. Currently, she is working with the artistic directors of Skulptur Projekte Münster to shape its 2027 edition. Beyond institutional frameworks, Andrea Popelka has realized independent projects, served on juries, taught, and written about artists.

Théo-Mario Coppola (they/them) is an independent curator and arts writer. Viewing aesthetic issues as inherently tied to social struggles, their curatorial and critical practice engages with research-based, experimental, narrative, and political forms. The projects they have conducted deal with experiences of concrete utopia, personal and collective narratives of emancipation, as well as initiatives of resistance, and examine how these enable the transformation of values in art, governance, and society. Théo-Mario Coppola has contributed to catalogues, magazines, and online publications. Their current research is on the notion of 'commons' as developed by Elinor Ostrom. | theomariocoppola.xyz

Jovanka Popova (sher/her) is a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje and Press to Exit Project Space, an organization for contemporary art and curatorial practices. She was the executive director of the Jadro Association of the Independent Cultural Scene in North Macedonia and served as president of the Macedonian section of AICA, the International Association of Art Critics. Her curatorial interests include institutional critique, as well as issues of representation and inclusion within distinct institutional and cultural contexts.

Cornelia Lein (sher/her) is an artist, curator and writer. In 2015, she founded the feminist project space _____Tim Nolas in Vienna, which was most recently active in (semi-)public space with the nomadic exhibition and publication format 4/. Her research focuses on economies of time and space as well as subject and knowledge production in relation to cultural techniques of storytelling, hosting, gifting, collecting and playing. In her practice, she uses curatorial footnotes such as texts, objects, models and publications to playfully explore and expand the boundaries of artistic and curatorial roles and tools. | cornelialein.com | timnolas.com