Fid Fischer (Julia Sie-Yong Fischer) she/her, is a visual artist and writer based in Berlin. She completed her Master’s degree in Political Science, Art History and Fine Art in Marburg. She then studied Contextual Painting under Prof. Daniel Richter at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and completed her diploma under Prof. Ingo Meller at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. In her painting, she explores spaces that are essentially invisible. She takes scientific images and develops them further, examining them visually. Her artistic practice is closely linked to her artistic writing. She is also a journalist who publishes articles about exhibitions and phenomena in the art world.
Lídia Chaves (she/her) is a Brazilian artist currently based in Stuttgart, where she is completing a Master's degree in Architecture at the University of Stuttgart under the guidance of Prof. Sybil Kohl and Prof. Stephan Trüby. Working at the intersection of art and architecture, her practice blends a strong interest in language and storytelling with archival research, exploring the poetics and politics of space.
Her public installations NEBEN DEM KAKAOFELD and bei Nills are part of an ongoing research exploring the traces of colonial spaces in Stuttgart. In collaboration with the Kulturamt Stuttgart and the city's Office for Remembrance Culture (Koordinierungsstelle für Erinnerungskultur), she is currently working as an ambassador for decolonial memory, contributing to the development of new strategies for remembrance culture.
Annegret Hoch (she/her) is interested in “painting as subject matter.” Her work spans an arc from the traditional panel painting to the question of how far the playing field of painting can be extended. Bold colors and a sophisticated handling of the respective space are constants in her oeuvre. New in her recent work are colors derived directly from nature. The artist now uses beet and elderberry juice as well as sepia to extend the vocabulary of color theory.
Collages play an important role in Hoch’s work. Here, materials undergo a process of transformation, losing their original meaning. In 2019, the artist began extending the collage concept into three-dimensional space. Mundane office materials, in this case standard A4 and A3 sheets of paper, form a kind of “background noise” running through the various cycles. The key aspect of these room collages is that they are created directly on site, formally incorporating and continuing distinctive architectural elements or features such as exposed pipe systems.
Ute Heim (she/her) lives and works as a visual artist and musician in Munich and on the prairie.
From 2000 to 2008 she studied fine art/sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Prof. James Reineking and Prof. Stephan Huber. From 1997 to 2000 she lived in England, performed as a jazz musician and trained as a violin maker. She also has a journeyman's certificate in wood sculpture. Since 2019 she has been working as an artistic-scientific assistant at the Chair of Fine Arts, Prof. Tina Haase, TUM. From 2014 - 2019 she was a lecturer at the Chair of Design Principles and Artistic Practice, Prof. Karl-Heinz Einberger, Faculty of Landscape Architecture at Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University. Ute Heim researches the poetic and literary connotations of spatial structures. Her artistic work is broad: from sculptures and installations to performances and videos. Interpretation and improvisation are essential working principles. Reality and fiction are played off against each other. She mostly works at the interface between fine art and music, creating works that revolve around transience, construction and preservation of romantically transfigured conditions. One fine spring she rode her bicycle and covered wagon from Munich to Einödhausen, the former death strip where she grew up, and sang all the songs from Schubert's Winterreise in her summer dress along the route.
Elke Dreier (she/her) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts as a master student of Prof. Olaf Nicolai and lives in Munich and the Allgäu region. In 2017 she received a scholarship at the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome and was awarded the Art Prize of the City of Kempten in 2023. In her artistic work, Elke Dreier examines the role of the human body in an increasingly digital world. She researches interpersonal (non-verbal) communication and interaction in analogue space. Everyday communication and movement processes are removed from their immediacy and re-staged in individual videos, instructions and installations, with the interest of documenting possible shifts and at the same time developing artistic options for action. In October 2022, as part of this artistic research, the symposium "Bodies Move Differently in Presence" took place, where the role of the human body and the resulting interactions with analog space were discussed.
Florian Lechner (he/him) is an abstract visual artist. His work operates at the intersection of sculpture, installation, digital image, spatial production, and artistic research from a post-digital perspective. At the heart of his practice are hybrid aesthetic spaces in which analog and digital states, materiality, perception, and virtuality are interwoven.
Lechner studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, graduating in 2012 as a master student of Hermann Pitz; he received his diploma in Fine Arts in 2021. Since 2020, he has been working at the TUM School of Engineering and Design in the field of art in architecture, where he combines artistic research, spatial design practice, and experimental teaching formats.
A central focus of his scientific and artistic work lies on epistemic spatial and experimental arrangements in art and teaching. Lechner understands spaces as relational structures that not only represent knowledge but actively generate it. Through installative arrangements of materials, media, and bodies, situations arise in which perception, movement, and reflection become methods of aesthetic insight. His practice is guided by approaches of Artistic Research and Research through Practice, in which diverse artistic methods are established and understood as epistemic tools. In his teaching as well, he develops open, collaborative working formats that conceive of the studio as a space for research and discourse. Currently, his work is focusing on the interrelated questions of operative abstraction, spatial-media experimental arrangements, and the role of teaching formats as epistemic infrastructures of artistic form.
His works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, the Museum für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt, and the Galerie Smudajescheck. Works by Florian Lechner are held in collections such as the Bavarian State Painting Collections.