Lisa Horvath is a freelance set designer and theatre maker from Vienna. Her practice lies at the intersection of scenography, performance, language art and media art. She studied set and costume design in Graz, applied theatre studies in Gießen and critical studies in Vienna. Since 2013, she has been developing her own concepts for installations and performances and was awarded the Outstanding Artist Award in 2015. Her works are characterised by immersive, transformable spaces in which she combines video, sound, language and sensory systems. Thematically, she explores ecological transformations, technologies and humanity’s relationship with the world from a feminist perspective. Alongside her own projects, she works as a set designer with independent groups, festivals and theatres across the German-speaking world. www.lisahorvath.at

Victoria Fux is a freelance director, performer and producer who has been working in the independent arts scene in Graz and Vienna since 2006. She is a co-founder of the collective Das Planetenparty Prinzip and was awarded the Kunstraum Steiermark grant in 2016. From 2019 to 2025, she curated the performance section at Forum Stadtpark Graz. Her work spans theatre, dance and performance, focusing on the positioning of the human body within social and economic systems. To this end, she develops specific, often interdisciplinary working methods and collaborates with artists and experts from various fields. Central to her practice is the search for innovative, context-specific forms of expression that performatively address political and social issues.

Sara Trawöger, born in Linz in 1992, is an artist and composer working in the fields of sound, performance and media art. She studied Time-Based Media in Linz and completed a Master’s degree in Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen. Her work encompasses photography, film, installation and, above all, music and sound composition for international theatre and performance productions. A particular focus is on multi-channel sound and atmospheric soundscapes, which she develops site-specifically. Since 2019, she has also been performing with her electronic solo project ABRUPT. Her work has been shown at venues including the Mousonturm in Frankfurt, TR Warszawa, the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau and the Theater Phönix. She is currently working on new theatre productions, band projects and her first experimental film.

Kristin Gerwien studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and applied theatre studies in Giessen. She works as a performer, artist, and set and costume designer. In her own work, she develops musical and performative formats with a focus on voice and body, often from a female perspective. Thematically, she explores issues such as (sexual) boundary-crossing, inherited trauma and self-empowerment. Her works combine performance, concert and installation, and examine power relations in theatre and society from a queer-feminist and postcolonial perspective. At the Theater neben dem Turm in Marburg, she holds a managerial and curatorial role and is actively shaping processes of transformation within the institution.

Maja Karolina Franke is a dancer, circus artist, performer and choreographer from Vienna. She studied classical and contemporary dance in Vienna, as well as dance education and movement studies in Linz. She has been working as a freelancer in the fields of dance and performance since 2012, and in contemporary circus since 2017. Her practice encompasses dance, acrobatics, improvisation and partnering, as well as working with objects. Her work centres on the relationship between the body and other bodies and materials. In terms of content, she explores gender roles, trust, responsibility and the role of the audience. In 2021, she received the BMKÖS Start Grant for her research into gender roles in acrobatics, and in 2024 a working grant for the project „Stand.Punkte“.