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Vik Bayer<\/strong> is a non-binary, multidisciplinary artist whose practice centers on critical ecologies. It spans sculpture, video, performance, text, printmaking and research. Oftentimes materializing in collaborative and long-term processes with other artists, researchers, and farmers, their projects spotlight alternative forms of production like community-based economies, commons, agricultural modes of care and speculative infrastructures of a post-growth paradigm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Camille Belmin<\/strong> is a researcher, artist, curator, and lecturer working independently and at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Her work focuses on narratives and modalities of communication that shape socio-ecological transformation, as well as population-environment-gender issues. She leads an independent artistic research project that explores the boundaries of climate science communication, mobilizing the language and aesthetics of popular culture to engage diverse publics with ecological concerns. In her artistic practice, she works with installation, lecture performance and text, often collaborating with metabolic processes ranging from composting and fermentation to social metabolism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eva Brunninger<\/strong> (2001, Steyr, Austria) is an art educator and visual artist based in Vienna. She studies design, material culture, and experimental practice, as well as art and communicative practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna at the Institute for Art Studies, Art Education, and Art Mediation. At the same time, she completed her teacher training in Spanish at the University of Vienna. Study visits to Seville and Barcelona have expanded both her linguistic and artistic skills. In her artistic practice, she works across media with painting, installation, and video, addressing questions of perception, abstraction, and translation between image, space, and material. At the same time, she is active in art education and develops workshops for children and young people, which she has offered in recent years as holiday programs at universities in Graz and Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

compost collective <\/strong>was founded in 2023 in Klasse f\u00fcr Alle<\/em> as a compost group<\/em> and has developed a practice of compost care<\/em> 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 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antonija Cvitic<\/strong>. I grew up in a migrant working-class family with three siblings. If there was no money for something, then it was for art and culture. It wasn\u2019t a priority, because it wasn\u2019t seen as essential for survival. I disagree: art can be a space one creates for oneself to process impressions and experiences, to express oneself \u2013 and also to get to know oneself. This should not be an experience accessible only to those with a certain budget, social class, family background, or education.
I am beginning my studies in painting at the University of Art and Design in Linz, and I have studied theatre studies in Vienna and Berlin. My research focuses on intergenerational memory; I write, draw, sew, and, together with the oral history project Radio Anegdota, I collect migrant stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iketina Danso <\/strong>MA, MSc is Senior Lecturer at the Department for Human Rights and the Lead of the Department of Diversity Equal Opportunities & Inclusion, Angewandte <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nikolaus Eckhard<\/strong> is an artist based in Vienna who focuses on collaborative sculpture and performance as well as film. In his artistic research practice, he explores the transfer of information between materials and bodies in order to examine the traces our lives leave behind in stones. He is co-director of the artistic research project Reverse Imagining Vienna at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and a construction worker and site manager at the Feldversuche studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arwa Elabd<\/strong> 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.
www.bibliobox.at<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kai Feldhammer<\/strong> works as an interdisciplinary artist and puppet maker. Kai’s practice moves between the fields of performance, installation, film, and text. Kai’s projects seek out different ways of telling stories together with collaborators, places, other living beings, or materials that, like small cracks in the asphalt, aim to spark curiosity and wonder and interweave the real with the speculative. These stories are carried by questions about ecological transformation, embodied knowledge and memory, and different ways of belonging and listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cordula F\u00f6tsch <\/strong>studied agriculture with a focus on organic farming and development cooperation at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna and trained as a teacher and consultant in agriculture at the University of Agricultural Education in Vienna, Ober St. Veit. She has attended further training courses and has experience in moderation and process facilitation. Cordula has been active in community gardens as a gardener and facilitator since 2009, and has been involved with the Verein Gartenpolylog since 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sigrid Gerl<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ipek Hamzao\u011flu<\/strong> is an artist, filmmaker, cultural worker, educator, freelance cameraperson, and film editor. In 2021 she co-edited \u201cDespite Dispossession: An Activity Book\u201d published by K.Verlag, Berlin. Her work revolves around the representation of collective melancholy and the potential of post-apocalyptic future narratives, community knowledge, and gossip. She has been part of numerous queer fexminist projects on archive politics, friendship, and collective knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sagal Hussein<\/strong>. An immigrant child from a working-class family, wandering through the streets, parks, hidden paths, houses, and forests of Vienna since 1997. The idea that we could ever be involved in \u201cart\u201d ourselves was not even within reach for us migra kids. However, I fondly remember the many free programs during the holidays that my older sister and I often took advantage of. We didn\u2019t know what hobbies were back then, but we knew how to keep ourselves busy.
My love for \u201cnature\u201d began with my very first encounter with a wild boar and its piglets in the Lainzer Tiergarten. My love for storytelling and poetry, however, was shaped early on by cultural traditions at home, and so my very first poem was dedicated to the beautiful and magical wild boars in the forest. A passion for botany also developed early and has stayed with me ever since.
Currently, I am writing my master\u2019s thesis in the field of political ecology, critically engaging with concepts of \u201cnature,\u201d \u201chuman,\u201d as well as the \u201cAnthropocene\u201d and climate-related loss and damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ivie Isibor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ghanishka Kedar<\/strong> is an art practitioner and educator, born and brought up in Aligarh, India. She is pursuing her Diploma in Digital Art at University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Her interest lies in community knowledge and narrative building. Her explorations are inclined towards the politics of language or how something is read and understood, where formation and breaking of habit becomes her main area of observation. Her work overlaps fact and fiction. Hers is an interdisciplinary approach. Working as a freelancer in multiple creative fields, She also likes to sing, cook and make films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paula Klein<\/strong> grew up in Salzburg, where she discovered her passion for art. This led her to study art education at the University of Applied Arts, where she recently completed her bachelor’s degree. She has been drawing ever since she could hold a pencil. Paula also enjoys experimenting with a wide variety of techniques and is interested in feminist film and video art. As an artist and educator, she has been leading workshops for children in various settings for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrea Lumplecker<\/strong> works at the intersection of artistic, curatorial and mediating practices. Together with Yasmina Haddad, she is part of the collective and off space school<\/em>, 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 f\u00fcr Alle<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raphaela Leitner<\/strong> is studying Transformation Studies. Art x Science at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Johannes Kepler University Linz. Her work focuses on social transformation processes, combining artistic strategies with questions related to the climate crisis, social injustices, and anti-colonial practices. She is a student assistant in the university project \u201cCultural Collision\u201d, carried out in cooperation with Klasse f\u00fcr Alle<\/em> and the University of Technology in Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lina Marangattil<\/strong> is a performance artist from Vienna and an undergraduate student in Cross-Disciplinary Strategies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Lina enjoys blending disciplines to generate cross sectional projects. Her dance focus has evolved from traditional regimented dance styles to explore and subtract them down to just movements, inspired by natural, intuitional sounds and improvisation, without set expectations. Her bodily expressions are shaped by her diverse formal training in various dance styles. She was born and brought up in Vienna, hailing from an economic migrant family and embodying those perspectives in her art practice too.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sissi Petutschnig <\/strong>is a mixed-media artist that dedicates herself to a site-specific practice focusing on performance art, expressed in videos, sound and spatial installations, poetry, costume and tape art. Participatory, process-orientated and collective strategies often play an overriding role and the content thematically revolves around political discourses such as classism, intersectionality, queer feminism or post-humanism as well as institutional critique. Dreams, symbols and language itself have a strong influence. She lives and works in Vienna and is completing her Site Specific Art studies at the University of Applied Arts in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frida Robles<\/strong> is an artist and researcher based in Vienna, Austria. She engages in processes of self-questioning and healing, understanding the personal as political. Her artistic practice varies from public art installations to performances to textual work. She lectures at the Theater, Film and Media Studies of the University of Vienna and is a PhD candidate at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salma Shaka<\/strong>, also known by her artist name Umm Bahar, is a Vienna-based multi-media artist, activist, and researcher raised between Palestine, Cyprus, Jordan, and the UAE. Her work merges ancestral memory with ecologies, exploring themes of transformation and decay through food-based processes like fermentation and cooking. As Umm Bahar, “Mother of Spices\/Ocean,” she uses participatory rituals, tarot, and storytelling to connect with ancestral wisdom on climate justice, indigenous imagination, and ecological resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oleksa Shevchenko<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monja Simon<\/strong> is a Berlin-based spatial practitioner, writer, and social designer. Her work, rooted in feminist perspectives, explores interdependence across species and explores embodied practices such as fermentation to uncover hidden structures of care. Growing up on a dairy farm in the Black Forest shaped her engagement with feminism, ecology, and community labour. Her book Sauerkraut<\/em> uses traditional food practices to trace intergenerational knowledge and overlooked care work, reflecting her commitment to cultivating new forms of kinship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hannah Tochtermann<\/strong> is a cultural scientist and works as a course instructor in the Klasse f\u00fcr Alle x Hobby Lobby<\/em> collaboration. She is interested in education, knowledge production, and the creation of narratives. She is fascinated by textiles\u2014in MASCHINE magazine (2026), she discusses queer-feminist and subversive practices in knitting and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gianmichele Tuozzo<\/strong> is a freelance project designer and fundraiser, facilitator, educator and project manager with extensive experience in non-formal education, education for sustainability, social innovation and youth work. His background is in philosophy, social sciences and project management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ritger Traag<\/strong>, also known as Ritchie, is trained as an Engineer, works as an architect and shapes his artistic practice within the realm of ecology & architecture as a regenerative process. Making synergies between art installations, the climate crisis, public space and participatory methodologies. He is jointly responsible for outreach and youth programs at Klasse f\u00fcr Alle and is involved as a teacher in the university project \u201cCultural Collision,\u201d which is being implemented jointly by Klasse f\u00fcr Alle and the Vienna University of Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna Zett<\/strong> lives and works in Berlin and is an artist and author. Rooted in dissident and queer perspectives, trained in humanities (MA Humboldt University) and further educated in film, dance, and group analysis, she questions repressive structures and opens up space for new relationships with that which cannot be controlled. This work results in pulsating videos, vocal audios, tactile installations, analytical texts, and participatory live formats. Anna Zett teaches in the Performative Arts class at the HGB Leipzig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SINCE 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organisations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klima Biennale<\/a>
Kunstverein Kevin Space<\/a>
hobbylobby
City Farm Augarten
Naschgarten
Biodiversit\u00e4tswiese am Oskar Kokoschka Platz: Bezirksvorstehung 1. Bezirk
Urbanize!<\/em><\/a>
radio orange: A cup of Care<\/a>
e-flux education<\/a>
D-Arts Projektb\u00fcro<\/p>\n\n\n\n


(with common ground)
Obdach Forum
Station Wien 
Mama lernt Deutsch 
Sprachschule Schubert 
Volkshilfe Community Work
Kulturankerzentrum Schlingertmarkt <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Teaching & leading learning processes since 2021<\/strong>

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 \u2013 Feldenkrais)
Ute Neuber & Philipp Ruthner (Tragen und Getragen werden \u2013 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 K\u00f6ppinger (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)<\/em>
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 St\u00fcckler (hobblyobby Kurs)
Victoria Ferreri (hobbylobby Kurs)
Gertrude Henzl (Wildkr\u00e4uter Wanderung)
Philipp Reinsberg (Building Chairs)
Laurin H\u00f6rschinger (Building Chairs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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