We make string figures and weave networks with fellow companions.

Teaching & Facilitating currently (2024/25)

Vik Bayer is an artist and filmmaker who mainly works on and with agriculture as a form of care-taking that entails the possibility of changing our hegemonic extractivist reality. Questions on how recurring crises are shaping the way of storytelling itself are central themes in their practice which mainly gets materialized in sculptures and films, but also through writing, publishing and communal practices. Vik mainly works collaboratively and they are a member of compost collective (Vienna).

compost collective was founded in 2023 in Klasse für Alle as a compost group and has developed a practice of compost care that, in addition to practical composting, collectively develops and practices techniques such as reading, listening, sound making, writing, moving, cooking and many more things. Members of the collective host workshops on these topics and integrate composting into everyday life. Current members are: Vik Bayer, Camille Belmin, Yeonwoo Chang, Kristina Feldhammer, Victoria Ferreri, Michael Haag,  Ivie Isibor, Andrea Lumplecker, Michael Reindel

Iketina Danso MA, MSc is Senior Lecturer at the Department for Human Rights and the Lead of the Department of Diversity Equal Opportunities & Inclusion, Angewandte

Arwa Elabd is a dedicated German and Spanish teacher who started her own business in 2021 after several stays abroad and teaching jobs in Austria. Motivated by the lack of diversity in the Austrian literary scene, she founded an online bookstore to make literature accessible from different perspectives. Since 2023, there has also been a physical space in Vienna’s 16th district, which has been operating successfully ever since. The bookshop has established itself as a central location for diverse literature and actively contributes to the promotion of inclusion in the literary landscape.
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Sigrid Gerl has been a volunteer at the Kleine Stadtfarm Wien since 2016. Studied agricultural sciences at the BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences) and worked as an agricultural journalist and scientist for several years. Then studied landscape and open space planning with Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen & research on the theory and practice of the subsistence perspective. Workshop leader and lectures on women’s history, garden culture, plants and medicinal herbs – for a good life for all. Currently works as a freelance media consultant in Vienna.

Sandra Gigerl

Andrea Lumplecker works at the intersection of artistic, curatorial and mediating practices. Together with Yasmina Haddad, she is part of the collective and off space school, which they have been running together in Vienna since 2011. Since 2021, Andrea has been leading the continuing education program at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, which she has named Klasse für Alle, with the aim of opening up access to the art university to a diverse audience. Intersectionality is at the center, and thus queer feminist theory, anti-colonial agency and ecological intervention are combined into a collective artistic practice through thinking, desire, kinship and empathy.

Beatrix Mapalagama

Amanda Piña is a Chilean-Mexican-Austrian based artist living between Vienna and Mexico City. Her choreographic work is concerned with cosmopolitics,  including performance, music, video and sculptural works that exist in the context of the theater, the museum and beyond. Piña is a multifaceted artist working through choreographic, performance and dance research, creating, curating and working within university and artistic educational frameworks, writing and editing publications around what she refers to as ‘endangered human movement practices’. Of mixed ancestry, Amanda has Spanish,  Mapuche and Lebanese (Syrian-Palestinian) roots. Her work embodies the political and social power of movement, grounded in indigenous forms of knowledge and world making/maintaining practices that can be understood as alternatives to the current socio-environmental crisis. Her work has been presented, in theatres, galleries, museums and cultural centers around the world, such as Kunsthalle Wien, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain Paris, MUMOK Museum of Modern Art Vienna, deSingel Arts Campus Antwerp, Museo Universitario del Chopo, México and GAM, Santiago de Chile among others. Currently she is visiting Professor of the Valesca Gert Chair of Choreography at the Free University Berlin.

Ritger Traag

Collaborators since 2021

Klima Biennale
Kunstverein Kevin Space
hobbylobby
City Farm Augarten
Naschgarten
Biodiversitätswiese am Oskar Kokoschka Platz: Bezirksvorstehung 1. Bezirk
Urbanize!
radio orange: A cup of Care
e-flux education
D-Arts Projektbüro

(with common ground)
Obdach Forum
Station Wien 
Mama lernt Deutsch 
Sprachschule Schubert 
Volkshilfe Community Work
Kulturankerzentrum Schlingertmarkt 

members since 2021

2023/24
garden group:
Carolina Páez Vélez
Denise Ackerl
Olga Ageeva
Alexander Dobcak
Alexander Thoma
Gundi Mayrhofer
Nicole Miltner
Ritger Traag
Johannes Wiener
(common ground group)
Ingrid Garschall
Marieluisa Lenglachner
Johanna Preissler
Carina Riedl
Paul Röttger
Elisabeth Smejkal
Dominika Svarc
Barbara Ziegelböck
(compost group)
Ivie Isibor
Stefan Mayer
Yeonwoo Chang
Victoria Ferreri
Camille Belmin
Kristina Feldhammer
Michael Haag
Michael Reindel
Vik Bayer
Pauline Hosse-Hartmann
Karin Lang

2022/23
Irmela Steinert
Monika Mahdavian
Isa Klee
Jasmin Hoffer
Margit Busch
Nicole Miltner
Kristina Feldhammer
Ritger Traag
Victoria Ferreri
Dominica Svarc
Stefan Mayr
Magdalena Stückler

2021/22
Astrid Boesch-Bodisch
Nikolaus Gohm
Klaus Froewis
Isa Klee
Johanna Preissler
Ida Kielmannsegg
Ritger Traag
Clemens Joham
Georg Eckmayr
İpek Hamzaoğlu 
Stefan Fleischer
Mekhala Dave
Daniel Fonatti

Teaching & Facilitating from 2021

Paul Ebhart (Compost Recordings)
Vik Bayer & Michael Reindel (Compost Care)
Yeonwoo Chang (Compost Care)
Camille Belmin (Compost Care)
Kristina Feldhammer (Compost Care)
Frida Robles (Fanonian Quilts)
Johannes Wiener (Saturdays for Gardening)
Johanna Preissler & Erika Farina (Common Ground)
Isa Klee (Seeding Practise)
Mekhala Dave & Brooklyn Pathaki (Reading Session / Undulating Currents)
Philipp Ruthner (Movements for Gardeners – Feldenkrais)
Ute Neuber & Philipp Ruthner (Tragen und Getragen werden – Feldenkrais)
Ida Kielmannsegg (A Place for Caring)
Constanze Schweiger (Dyeing with cuttings from the Stadtpark)
Salma Shaka (Fermentation, Transformation, Ancestral Ghosts)
Priska Morger (Eutonie, Zeichnen)
Nadir Souirgi (Bird Walk)
Tabita Rezaire (Amakaba Lecture)
Tonica Hunter (Repair Sounds Lecture)
Sascha Zaitseva (Keramik Werkstatt)
Jaskaran Arnand (Movement Workshop)
Ingrid Greisenegger, Wolfgang Palme, Angelika Palme (Snow Food, City Farm)
Pablo Ruiz (composting at City Farm)
Nora Severios (Drawing with Nature)
Margareta Pertl (Drawing in the Botanical Garden)
Ulrike Köppinger (Drawing with Nature)
Elka Krajewska (Drawing is Political, Drawing with Nature)
Mekhala Dave (Drawing is Political)
Christian Bazant-Hegemark (If you can’t make sense, you can still draw plants)
Beatrix Mapalagama (Werkstatt Buch und Papier)
Aurora Zordan / AA Nanotourism Visiting School (Cracks in the System)
Celia Pym (Mending)
Carla Bobadilla (Der Stadtpaziergang als kollektive Methode des Verlernens)
Thomas Neumair (Auwald-Wanderung)
Ritger Traag (hobbylobby Kurs)
Magdalena Stückler (hobblyobby Kurs)
Victoria Ferreri (hobbylobby Kurs)
Gertrude Henzl (Wildkräuter Wanderung)
Philipp Reinsberg (Building Chairs)
Laurin Hörschinger (Building Chairs)