Ramesch Daha, born 1971 in Tehran, has lived in Vienna since 1978. In her multi-part work complexes, the artist works with a variety of media, including painting, collage, video and drawing, as well as documents from public and her personal archives. Based on extensive historical research, Daha, in her artistic work, connects biographical historical aspects, collective memories and historico-political events in new constellations. This involves extensive travelling and study visits to, among others, Vancouver, New York, London or Berlin. Ramesch Daha has met broad international recognition with her yet uncompleted series Victims 9/11, in which she attempts to save the victims of the terrorist attack from oblivion by portraying every single one of them. Daha has been represented internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions and publications, most recently in Nouvelles de l’île des bienheureux, curated by Bettina Klein (Musée du château des ducs de Wurtemberg, 2016), Creating Common Good (Kunsthaus Vienna, 2014), The Dignity of Man (Vienna, Sarajevo and Brno, 2014), raus hier (Kunstpavillon Munich, 2014) and in the show Meeting Points 7: Ten thousand deceptions and one hundred thousand tricks at the Belvedere / 21er Haus Vienna. Her works are represented in numerous art collections, including Albertina Vienna, Joanneum Graz, Kupferstichkabinett and the collections of the City of Vienna and the State of Lower Austria; in 2014, she received the Gmoser Prize of the Vienna Secession.

Bettina Klein, studied art history and French philology in Marburg, Toulouse and Berlin. Has been working as an independent curator in France and Germany for many years; since 2013 she is directing the visual arts section at the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, together with Ariane Beyn. Recent exhibition projects include: Nouvelles de l’Île des Bienheureux, Musée du Château des Ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard, 2016 ; Last Sighting, daadgalerie 2015; The Ukrainians, daadgalerie 2014.

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, founder of Taswir projects, an international platform for artistic research and diasporic thinking. She is a philosopher, curator of international exhibitions, writer and architect of the House of Taswir and the Taswir atlas. A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh held various endowed professorships, including Rudolf-Arnheim Professor at Humboldt University of Berlin. Author of House of Taswir. Doing and Undoing Things, and Vom Aufstand der Bilder, München: W. Fink Verlag, 2007/2014. Curator of the Taswir exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin 2009-2010. www.house-of-taswir.org