Andre Brik was born in Curitiba, Brazil in 1972. Architect, illustrator, and art director, he also studied typography and graphic design at the School of Visual Arts and at Parsons School of Design in New York.

In his works, you can find some of the 1920’s Plakatstil graphic style and polish posters with their clean lines and flat contrasting background colors, their visual puns and wit, and subtle irony. There is also nonsense, humor, counterculture, dada, surrealism, and punk rock. The […]

Arlette Ess is a visual artist specialised in drawing. Her intricate work creates a sense of immersion and wonder, combining the beauty of Nature with the imagery of our inner worlds. She trained with Alexander McQueen and is one of the artists contributing to the iconic scarves collections by Hermès Paris.

Through her personal and commissioned work, she shares her love for the natural world, and a desire to distil its magical and mysterious essence.

The drawings have a focus on […]

Mo Häusler was born in 1967 in St. Pölten, Austria. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1986 to 1990, attending the master class for painting under Prof. Anton Lehmden. In 1990, Häusler embarked on her career as a freelance visual artist and currently resides and works in Vienna, Austria.

Häusler's artistic work focuses on the representation of bodies and their emotions, drawing inspiration from artists like Maria Lassnig and Francis Bacon. She fuses physical experiences with […]

Catherine Ludwig, primarily based in Vienna, is a transmedia artist who surpasses conventional boundaries between various media, both in her creative process and in her final works. Following her design studies in Germany, she pursued transmedia art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. As a recipient of the Kunsthalle Wien prize, her work has been showcased in international exhibitions. Through various artist-in-residence programs, Ludwig continually broadens her artistic […]

Originally from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Hoa Luo grew up in Europe and now resides in Berlin. Her unique background in physics from Humboldt University of Berlin, philosophy from the University of Vienna, and fine art from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna enables her to blend science and art in her work. Utilizing a variety of mediums, such as writing, painting, and installations, Hoa creates pieces for art institutions, galleries, and public spaces.

»My works are not about the thematisation of reality, but rather about the specific thematisation of interpretation of reality.«

Pawel Mendrek is a visual artist, curator, art director, production designer and film producer based in Vienna. His practice includes mixed media works, storytelling and moving image experiments, set and exhibition design and production of collective projects. Besides he is an Associate Professor, Head of Faculty of Intermedia and Scenography at the Academy of […]

Born in 1996 in Austria, Isabel Mischka graduated with distinction from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 2019 and received the James & Eve Bennett Trust Fund Award. She is a fellow member of the Society of Botanical Artists, UK.

"Artistically I am often drawn to ordinary plants, trying to capture their subtle and sometimes hidden beauty, which is often overlooked in everyday life. For my paintings I am layering lots of thin, transparent watercolor washes with tiny brushes for maximum […]

Andrei Moldovan, born in Târgu Mureș (Romania) in 1989, and currently residing in La Ràpita, Catalonia.

With a diverse background that encompasses photography, graffiti, illustration, graphic design and interior design, Andrei's artistic style is strongly influenced by his accumulated visual, psychological and philosophical experiences in these fields.

His work is infused with passion and emotion, and draws on feelings of anger and love, as well as vibrant and often neutral colors. […]

Patrik Werner Muchenberger, born in 1979, graduated from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland and the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria. Since 2017 he is an active member of the artist collective Pengpengduo.

His artistic focus is on exploring social, socio-political and cultural issues. Muchenberger transforms his precise observations into large-scale abstract paintings, which are characterized by a special artistic identity.

Vinz Schwarzbauer (*1987 in Graz, Austria) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2014. In 2011/12, he spent a year in Hamburg on the Art School Alliance Scholarship at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK). He was a co-founder of the magazine for narrative drawing "Franz the Lonely Austrionaut" and has illustrated for renowned media and theaters such as Falter, Jacobin Magazine, Der Standard, Burgtheater Wien, and Residenztheater München. His comic debut Mäander was […]

My artistic practice is deeply rooted in the exploration of printmaking and its sculptural extension, with the inherent tension between repetition and originality serving as a metaphor for a broader social and cultural context.

In the dynamic interplay between tradition and innovation, my work seeks a nuanced dialogue between materiality and perception, and in recent years the focus has shifted to the tension between colour, form and space. These overlaps become fertile ground for […]

Founded in 2017, the Swiss artist duo #dblpng / Pengpengduo, consisting of Patrik Muchenberger (*1979) and Alex Brotbeck (*1978), is based in the cantons of St. Gallen and Thurgau. Under the motto "Perform Reality," they explore the interface between art and society, questioning established art conventions. Their work is characterized by an innovative use of recycled readymades and a distinctive painting technique often described as "Paint Overkill" followed by extraction.

Patrik […]

Natalia Weiss (*1973 in Neunkirchen, Lower Austria) lives and works as a freelance artist in Vienna, Austria. Her artistic practice includes etching, linocut and ink drawings, often supplemented by her own texts or initiated by poetry and collected and stored in artist books. Weiss has participated in numerous exhibitions and her works are held in various collections in Austria and Germany; such as MAK, Austrian National Library, German National Library.

Ptit Marc is a Belgian artist from Liège who studied at the Beaux-Arts Liège in the 1990s and began exhibiting his work early on. Together with friends, he shaped the alternative comic and autofiction scene as a founding member of the award-winning fanzine Mycose, which was influential for over a decade. After moving away from autobiographical introspection, he broke free from the rigid structures of comics and expanded his expression into painting. His free, vibrant style—shaped by everyday […]