Current Residents

Paula Strunden

Paula Strunden is a transdisciplinary artist who studied architecture in Vienna, Paris and London and has worked for Raumlabor Berlin and Herzog & de Meuron Basel. She completed her design-led PhD within the European research network 'TACK - Communities of Tacit Knowledge' and received the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Prize for Best Research Work 2023/24 for her dissertation on multisensory perception through Extended Reality (XR) models. Her XR installations have been exhibited internationally, including at the Royal Academy of Arts London, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam and Museum der Moderne Salzburg, and have been nominated twice for the Dutch Film Award 'Gouden Calf'. As part of her research into female pioneers in the history of virtual technologies, Paula founded the xR Atlas educational platform and has lectured at the Architectural Association London, Bartlett UCL, Bauhaus University Weimar and the Academy van Bouwkunst Amsterdam, as well as running xR workshops at the V&A, Whitechapel Gallery London, UdK Berlin and Kunsthalle Vienna.

Ursula Mayer

Ursula Mayer is an Austrian artist who completed her MFA at Goldsmiths University London. She is the recipient of the Film London Jarman Award and the Otto Mauer Prize. Her practice interweaves myth, biopolitics, and the semiotics of cinema to visualize and reflect on future posthuman ontology. Since 2021 she has been leading the PEEK research project MTLS funded by the Austrian Science Fund at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Her work has traveled to venues and biennales, including the Istanbul Biennale; Ujazdowski, Warsaw; Museion, Bolzano; Highline, New York; TANK, Shanghai; Salzburger Kunstverein; Hayward Gallery, Southbank, London; ICA, London; SeMA Biennale Mediacity, Seoul; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Moderna Museet Malmö; Audain Gallery, Vancouver; Kunstverein Hamburg; Performa 11, New York; SculptureCenter, New York; 21 Belvedere, Vienna; CCA Glasgow; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; 11th Baltic Triennial, CAC, Vilnius; Athens Biennale; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Lentos, Museum Linz; TBA21, Vienna and Córdoba; and Kunsthalle, Basel.