FORMER PARTICIPANTS
Waff has been organised by Iris Fabre and Daniel Hüttler since 2019, more than 20 artist have participated in the 3 editions.
Iris Fabre
Daniel Hüttler
Julian Siffert
Teuta Jonuzi
Marl Brun
Lucille Leger
Janina Weißengruber
Carla Magnier
Sarah Fitterer
Klaus Phillip Trausenegger
Nana Sorgo
Pille-Riin Jaik
Felix Ladinser
Chin Tsao
Eva Van Der Horst
Pia Wilma Wurzer
Marian Mutschlechner
Chris Attila Izsák
Charly Mirambeau
Ernst Gachet
Teuta is an artist and a curator interrogating questions of home, memory and personal experiences of migration. She uses the mediums of performance, drawing, text and sculpture to bring about past events and recreate them in nonlin- ear structures. Through personal stories of love and loss she opens herself up to acts of radical intimacy. She has studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts Geidai, Aalto University in Finland and University of Applied Arts Vienna. Selected exhibitions include: ‘Feelings for a Spider’ 4649 Gallery in Tokyo, ‘A shop is a shop is a shop’ Kunsthalle Vienna, ‘Por- tal’ at Holešovická šachta in Prague, ‘...And They Lived...’ at Kunsthalle Bratislava and most recently ‘Poi piovve dentro a l’alta fantasia’ at the National Gallery Cifte Hammam Skopje. Selected curatorial projects include: ‘Faux Legs’ Green Door inVienna AT, ‘Moths and Butterflies’ KUNSTHALLE in Bregenz AT and most recently ‘Giddy Flames’ at Collegium Artisticum in Sarajevo BIH.
Marl uses video and minimal text installations. Her conceptual plastic research revolves around perceptions of space, time and language, and their poetization. Composing with the intimate is central to her work, which stubbornly engages the subjects of identity, sex, love and food. Often ironic, her work remains tender.
Today, she works mainly on writing poems in English, which she then has translated into French by her amixs. These translations are performed live and recorded on video.
Iris works and lives in Marseille. She holds a diploma in fashion design and fine arts. Her work focuses on costumes, textile and installations.
In her work, Iris uses the context, setting and volumes of the spaces to install performative devices that propose a narrative link between visitors and the space they enter. They become active characters who sometimes watch, sometimes are being watched. Her mechanisms take up the codes of our social, cultural and economic reality, playing with their design and redefining their usefulness in theses new spaces of representation. Books become birthday cakes, hats have ears and sponges talk.
Iris’s installations often need to be activated to reach a second reading level. What happens then is a multiplication of narrative spaces and a doubling of space and time.
Daniel is an artist, curator and researcher. He studied Fine Arts and has a Master in Crossdisciplinary Strategies from the University of applied Arts in Vienna.
He is involved in an array of local as well as trans-national and trans-disciplinary projects that range from research groups and artist run spaces to experimental theory and performance networks. Daniel operates mostly in and as adO/Aptive a flexible assemblage that foments critical thinking, potential action, communication and multiple perspectives through performative adaptions. He has curated exhibitions in the Kunsthalle Exnergasse, the Czech Cultural Centre, Charim Galerie & clubclub (Vienna), The Centre For Experimental Theater and The Brno House of Arts (Brno), Galerie UM, City Surfer Office, Karpuchina Gallery and Holesovice Sachta (Prague), Studio of Young Artists' Association (Budapest), The Raft museum in Weyer (upper Austria) and ANOTHER GALLERY (Mexico City)
He presented his work at the Zentrum Fokus Forschung, school, Sala Terrena, Salzburger Kunstverein, Prague Micro Festival, Gallery 35m2, Meetfactory & NTK Gallery in Prague, Trafo & MÜTO in Budapest, Elektron in Tallin, Treize and the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy in Paris) as well as in the National University of Arts in Taipei and Potestas Creative (Miaoli)
Daniel has organised Symposiums and discursive programs for the OFF-Biennale (Budapest), Wiener Festwochen, Tanzquartier, the Department of Architechture of the Academy of Fine Arts, school & nadalokal (Vienna).
Janina is an artist from Austria. She studied Fine Arts (Sculpture and Space) at the University of Applied Arts and Philosophy at the University of Vienna. In addition to her sculptural, conceptual work, she is involved in various collective artistic activities - in particular as part of the adO/Aptive collective.
Lucille’s work explores the material manifestations that condition the use of spaces.
She uses the visual codes of furniture to divert them and break with the behavioral expectations associated with their use. The juxtaposition of functional design research with the organic attributes of these objects raises questions about their use value and the conditions of their experience.
The practice of molding, sewing, welding and the assembly of materials produced by these multiple practices enable her to give these sculptures a soft, mobile and ephemeral plasticity. In a plastic research inherited from the biomorphism developed by Art Nouveau, the hybridization she brings about is a way of questioning the distinctions we make between the natural living world and what we consider to be inert, such as objects.
Carla’s transdisciplinary practice breaks down in space into various media like lines in a script: ceramic sculptures, vocal sound piece, food, videos. These elements are interconnected, and alter in their meaning.
The sculptural elements are used as fictional supports, overlaying themselves in the space. The pieces fade into the décor. They are mobile elements, sometimes including interactive devices that can be activated by performers or the public. The installations interweave the intimate into the collective.
Humor, magic realism and fabulation are used to tackle subjects such as old age, rape culture, and the love break-up. Her pieces evolve in a constant ambivalence between violence and lightness.
Alongside her personal practice, Carla is a member of several collectives for which she works in scenography, puppetry, voice and performance.
Pille-Riin is a Vienna based interdisciplinary artist working with video/performance as well as with sculpture and installation. She has a Bachelor of Photography from the Estonian Academy of Fine Arts (2015) and a Masters from Art and Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2020). Currently she is studying in a PhD in Practice program in Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is a member of Golden Pixel Cooperative. Her artistic work is focused on text, plants, textile, storytelling, surplus and waste materials/thoughts in feminist and class aware discourse.
Her videoworks have been screened in several film festivals around Europe (21st Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Diagonale 2018, FrauenFilmTage 2018, VI Kinodot Experimental Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Red Love international video competition in Sofia, Terrarista.tv, FIDCampus Marseille 2021, EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL - EMAF etc). Recently she has also been part of group exhibitions at Hobusepea Gallery in Tallinn, Improper Walls, LLLLLL, PFERD, Flucc, xE, Exhibit, AG18, Ausßenstelle Kunst, 21Haus in Vienna and has had this year a solo exhibition ‘Unbound’ in Prevenhuberhaus in Weyer.
Currently she is working on her PhD research about political and poetic storytelling in Baltic landscapes.
Julian is an artist whose practice explores the multiplicity of moments, spaces, and bodies through sculpture, installation, performance, and music. His work seeks to bridge analog and digital realms, intertwining global and local structures, and blending past, present, and future. He investigates how spaces are shaped by technologies and socio-political practices, examining the bodies that navigate these layered territories and the histories embedded within them.
His research-driven approach traverses diverse themes, including navigation, acoustics, public space, labor, representation, and cartography. By reflecting on the spatialities that surround us, he delves into the landscapes, objects, and subjectivities that these spaces produce, creating art that resonates with the complexities of contemporary life.
Klaus Rabeder
Chin is a Taiwanese artist based in Vienna, Austria, whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, music, performance, and new media. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in 2017. Tsao's work is characterized by the fusion of organic and fantastical forms, often drawing inspiration from both Eastern and Western aesthetics. Her creations embrace a sense of chaos and kitsch, traversing historical eras and incorporating elements reminiscent of old science fiction. By employing various media, including ceramics, video, and performance, she explores the distinctive characteristics of each, evoking complex perceptions and associations.
Throughout her career, Tsao has exhibited in various venues, including a solo presentation at Parallel Vienna in 2019. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt and Whitedwarf Projects in Vienna. In addition to her visual art practice, Tsao is active in the music scene under the moniker "Pope Sangreta." She is regarded as both a visual artist and an emerging music act, with performances that address precarious circumstances and explore themes of identity and expression.
Tsao's work has been recognized for its ability to intertwine historical and futuristic elements, prompting reflection on contemporary spatialities and the landscapes, objects, and subjectivities they produce.
Sarah is an artist based between Berlin and Paris. She is interested in questions about agriculture, finance and technology and the ecology, philosophy, politics, and psychology behind it. Speculating about how they often make no sense and all the sense at the same time. Filmmaking allows her to capture many-layered situations whilst leaving it open whether what is being filmed is real. She enjoys the collaborative aspect of filming, making the process a big adventure with newly defined rules of what is possible. Besides film, her practice includes graphics, objects, performances and occasional activism.
Pia Wilma Wurzer is an Austrian artist and filmmaker whose practice spans video art, performance, and installation. She has been featured in various exhibitions and screenings, including the "Wunderblock BETA" exhibition at DOCK 20, which highlighted digital art and presented her work alongside other contemporary media artists.
In 2022, Wurzer's short film Das Radl der Zeit was presented in collaboration with Hannah Senoner's Als ich älter wurde at the Kunsthaus Graz as part of the Kellerkino series. Her film Diandlan was also screened alongside Christina Werner's Rhythm is a dancer at a Lendspiel film screening event.
Wurzer's work often explores themes of time, memory, and cultural identity, blending traditional and contemporary media to create immersive experiences. Her recent exhibitions include a collaborative olfactory exhibition with Bernhard Weber, featuring performative readings at the kleine WAF Galerie in October 2023.
Kai´s interest in ethnology, spirituality, rituals and technology have great influence on his work. Social practices and art theory premises are mingled and interwoven with fiction, history and reality.
His objects and installations take up current media theories while simultaneously making use of contemporary advertising aesthetics. Manipulation, exaggeration and generalisation are understood as phenomena and tools that one can use in order to expand one’s sphere of influence. The balancing act to kitsch and the invisible borders of art that go with it, play a central role here.
Through the use of modern production techniques such as 3D printing or precision laser processing, historic forms receive novel interpretations and are turned into contemporary objects. Gothic arches are replaced by baroque bombast and glossed over with a pinch of meta-modernism. An amalgamation takes place that pays no heed to historical truth but nonetheless allows for a glimpse of a view of the future.
He studied Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna and TransArts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
is an artist born in Bordeaux who lives and works in Lausanne. Mirambeau's artistic practice is a blend of textile installations and text. It extends into the realm of social commentary with a focus on archiving a personal history. He explores and preserves the narratives and spaces that have often been marginalized. The textiles and installations become not only aesthetic expressions but also mediums for conveying the nuances of this historical narrative. He highlights the resilience, camaraderie, and challenges faced by communities, contributing to a broader cultural conversation.
Felix Ladinser is an Austrian artist based in Vienna, known for his contemporary artworks that explore themes of identity, perception, and the human experience. His practice encompasses various mediums, including painting, sculpture, and installation art.
Ladinser's work often delves into the complexities of human emotions and societal constructs, offering viewers a nuanced perspective on contemporary life. He has participated in numerous exhibitions, showcasing his pieces in both national and international venues.
Klaus is a musician, producer and mixing engineer based in Vienna. His focus lies in everything audio related, ranging from soundtrack works and recording to loop based ambient textures and post punkish explorations.
Marian is a versatile artist and musician based in Vienna, Austria, who has contributed to a range of artistic projects, including theater productions, musical ensembles, and film.
He participated in the production of Dekameron (The Decameron) at the Berliner Ensemble in Berlin, directed by Thomas Bo Nilsson. This theatrical installation, based on Giovanni Boccaccio's work, featured a diverse cast, including Mutschlechner.
Musically, he is associated with the band The Inegales, where he plays drums. The band is featured on UploadSounds, a platform for music discovery.
Marian has worked as a set design assistant for the short film Make a Website with Berta.me by Anna Philippa Müller, which premiered at Visioni Italiane in Bologna in 2024.
Ernest Gachet is a performance artist living and working in Lausanne. After a bachelor diploma in visual Art in l’ECAL in 2020, he started to get involved in the artistic and musical curation of the Luff Off festival.
Chris is an Austrian artist and musician based in Vienna. He co-founded the music streaming platform SADSAD_PLANT with Samuel Obernösterer, which became a weekly fixture on the gaming portal Twitch during periods of isolation, offering experimental music and DJ sets.
In 2023, Izsák presented "Hillside", a music event as part of his Bachelor project at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The event aimed to create a cozy environment for sound enthusiasts, inviting attendees to bring their favorite music and refreshments.
Izsák has also been involved in the "DISHES" event series at the Volkstheater, collaborating with artists like Marlene Kager and Therese Terror. This series explores the intersection of visual art and music, providing a platform for experimental performances.
Nana Sorgo (*1996, Austria) is a multidisciplinary artist. Her works are in the fields of clothing, sculpture and video. She studied cultural studies and visual anthropology in Leipzig, Santiago de Chile and Vienna. She is currently studying in the Hans Schabus class at the University of Applied Arts and lives and works in Vienna.
