Erich Willner aka SHED is street artist in the broadest sense. Born in Linz, he started spraying as a teenager, first illegally, then legally. Later, he added murals and oil paintings to his work. One of SHED's favorite motifs is the self-portrait.

Jochen Gerz' work is diverse and often sociological. After the first performances in public space, he worked with photos, texts, installations and videos. Gerz has been working with new media since the late 1960s, and he is also known for his work in literature.

Simon Pfeffel is a performance artist, who deliberately leaves his comfort zone for his art. Next to public spaces, he also works in private spaces. This it is not surprising that he chose a toilet in the L6 for our interview. Simon's art is profoundly human: it brings together a wide variety of people, encourages them to reach a common goal and thus reinforces social cohesion.

The artist Mario Klingemann is working at a new "art frontier". He is one of the founders of Generative Art . Figuratively spoken his paint and brush are Creative Coding and Artificial Intelligence with its wide fields of Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Deep Learning Algorithms. With his open, welcoming personality he invites everyone to learn more about the sealed books of GANs, Deep Dreams and Algorithms. Wow effects promised.

Andreas Chwatal's early work is dealing with the rural-urban "conflict" that is coining his work until today. With a scholarship the France enthusiast reaches out for Paris in 2015, where he inevitable witnessed the terrorist attacks. His deep, technically versed, black and white drawings as well as the playful sculptures and text fragments show how he experienced Paris before and after the attacks.

Ted Davis is a Media artist working at the intersection of art, coding and design.
He started programming as a teenager and as student of design he got fascinated by the outcomes of glitches, i. e. intentionally causing errors in media that surprises the viewer on the surface.

Transit places and the "Inbetweenness" are important motifs of Anja Ganster's interiour paintings. Reflections and overexposure blur the inside with the outside. Lately, her oeuvre has been widened into sculptural, installative and video works, further exploring the concepts of "room" and questions about human existence.

The artist Jenny Michel is being in a permanent abstraction process. Departing from painting, she now works with various materials: paper, text, copper wires, tapes, fruit boxes, self-made loudspeakers, and transforms them into fragile installations questioning the general validity scientific methods are ascribed to.

Hanna Mattes is a visual artist, who mainly works with analogue photography. For her latest work "Searching for the cold Spot" she went on a long journey to the fascinating landscape of America's Southwest where she portrayed meteor craters taking into account their ambivalent forces of life-destroyers and life-givers.

Greg Niemeyer is a data artist. Data art is a new art form that visualizes data and that raises fundamental questions about how to deal with a new, very powerful commodity. Niemeyer describes data as "the oil of the 21st century". In other words it is so valuable that we should know how to become data participants to avoid exploitation of our data by third parties.

Asoo Khanmohammadi photographs the lives of people living at the periphery, of people unaccepted in authoritarian societies. With courage, she challenges taboos and stands up for marginalized people in the Near East, as well as in Europe. Her overall topics are gender, transsexuality and women's rights.

Israel born artist Abi Shek likes to express himself with a clear, universally intelligible formal language. Primary motifs of his masterly woodcuts are animals. However, beneath the surface these animals reveal deep knowledge of humankind.

Eriphyli Veneri describes herself as a migrant culture-producer in Germany. This term might well derive from experiences she made of regularly commuting between her city of birth Athens and Berlin for the last nine years. In her videos, photographies and performances she discusses concepts such as national identity and the transformation of the Greek culture in Germany.

In this interview Dr. Nicoletta Torcelli reports on "Weltensammlerinnen", a series of 18 artistic events in Freiburg/ Germany which present a wide spectrum of exciting, creative positions. The focus is on women's perspective and especially on artists coming from different countries while living in the German-speaking world. Their work deal with these interspaces that hold potentials for conflict but creativity alike, and that questions the common concepts of identity.

Henrik Placht's abstract, colorful paintings evoke positive feelings in the first place, yet the titles of the paintings address difficult themes many would not touch upon: Permafrost I, Hybris, Totalitarianism Complex, Ramallah in Me. Those titles came up due to his very personal experiences. Having lived in divided societies enabled him to ask uncomfortable, but necessary questions.

Herbert Maier describes himself very modestly as "a painter". In this interview he gives deep insights into the emergence of his magnificent opus "The Visual Library" that consists of 500 watercolor paintings with the overall topic of the history of mankind. Maier is not only a painter, he is also a great thinker reflecting on questions of consciousness, life and being.

Eddie Hara is a global artist. Commuting between two countries - Indonesia and Switzerland - he is engaging in current societal, political and environmental questions.
Playfully and honestly he is approaching heavy topics. His art is inspired by Street Art and Punk music, with this also addressing a young audience.