Eva Maria Stadler is Professor of Art and Knowledge Transfer and head of the Institute for Art and Society at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, as well as a curator of contemporary art. She has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. She was director of the Gallery of the City of Schwaz, Austria, curator of contemporary art at the Belvedere in Vienna, and she was director of the Grazer Kunstverein. She is the author of several books, including “Hochschuleinrichtung. Von der Hochschule für angewandte Kunst zur Schule Oberhuber,” in Schule Oberhuber. Der Künstler, Rektor, Ausstellungsmacher und sein Programm, (2023); “How Lovecraft Saved the World,” in Lovecraft, Save the World! 100 Jahre H. C. Artmann (2021), “Im Stil ist das Spiel das Ziel,” in Reflex Bauhaus. 40 Objects – 5 Conversations, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Pinakothek der Moderne München (2019).

Jenni Tischer is an artist, author and educator. Jenni Tischers sculptures, paintings and installations reformulate form principles, material and spatial references from a feminist perspective. She is particularly interested in the infrastructures of reproductive labor and social reproduction, which through gender, race, and class decisively define the situatedness of the viewer in (social) space and their relationship to themselves and other objects.
Tischer’s work has most recently been shown in solo exhibitions at Galerie Krobath Vienna; Kunstforum Baloise, Basel; mumok –Museum für Moderne Kunst, Vienna; and in group exhibitions at MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna; MAK Center, Los Angeles; Kunsthalle Tübingen; among others. Tischer was awarded the 15th Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel and was an Artist in Residence at the MAK Schindler Residency program in Los Angeles. Since 2019 she has been teaching at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She is co-editor of the special issue “Backyard Economy. Perspectives on Marginalization in Art and Economy” of FKW: Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur (2024).

Markus Wissen is Professor of Social Sciences with a focus on socio-ecological transformation at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR). He teaches and conducts research on society-nature relations, the imperial mode of living, and the labour-ecology nexus. He is a member of the editorial board of PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaftand the scientific advisory board of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS). Furthermore, he is involved as spokesperson for the graduate program Crisis and Socio-Ecological Transformation of RLS. His publications include Capitalism at the Limit. A Political Ecology of a World in Crisis (with Ulrich Brand, Polity Press, London, forthcoming in 2025).