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about kfA<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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compost days<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
re-generate, re-invent, re-imagine<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
youth cooperations<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
COLLABORATIONS, COLLABORATORS<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
co_matters (Erasmus+)<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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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

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

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

Ivie Isibor<\/strong><\/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

Oleksa Shevchenko<\/strong><\/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

Simon Wallis<\/strong> is an eco-social designer who’s projects concern daily life and the societal transformation. Food is one of his centrals topics. His interests tie together art and design and an interdisciplinary approach to research. Most recently he is involved in a neighbourhood kitchen in Vienna’s fifth district. At Klasse f\u00fcr Alle he is a supporting teacher for collaborative university course “Cultural Collisions”, working between die Angewandte and TU Wien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HOBBY LOBBY<\/strong><\/h2>\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

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

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

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SINCE 2021<\/strong><\/h2>\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><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Antonija Cvitic
Iketina Danso
Arwa Elabd
Cordula F\u00f6tsch
Kai Feldhammer
Sigrid Gerl (Kleine Stadt Farm)
Sagal Hussein
Ghanishka Kedar
Lina Marangattil
Sissi Petutschnig
Frida Robles
Salma Shaka
Monja Simon
Gianmichele Tuozzo
Anna Zett
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\u00a0(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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