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Lilli Hollein is the general and artistic director of the MAK—Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. She previously directed VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Austria’s largest design festival. She has curated numerous exhibitions on architecture and design, including the Austrian contribution to the São Paulo Architecture Biennale in 2007.
The focus is on the characteristics of photography, its potential beyond its role in conveying news, and the developments of image-creating processes. Ruth Horak has curated exhibitions, organized symposia, and written about photography since the 1990s: www.photography-she-said.com.
Dr. Lisa Ortner-Kreil is a curator at the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien in Vienna, where she recently organized the exhibitions Anton Corbijn: Favourite Darkness (2025) and Kiki Kogelnik: Now Is the Time (2023). In 2020 she founded art hoc projects, a contemporary art initiative, and she frequently publishes texts on contemporary art with a focus on photography.
Since 2021, Frank Robert has been the head of the photo editorial department at the Austrian newspaper DER STANDARD, where he has worked as a photo editor since 2011. From 2017 to 2023, he was a lecturer for the diploma class at the Prager Fotoschule in Linz, and from 2022 to 2023, he also held a teaching assignment in Digital Photography & New Visual Media at FH St. Pölten.
Elfie Semotan is an internationally acclaimed photographer who has been active in fashion, advertising, and portrait photography since the 1970s. She has worked for magazines such as Vogue, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar, and she has collaborated with Helmut Lang for many years. She has received numerous awards, including the Prize of the City of Vienna for Applied Art (1999) and the Golden Badge of Honor of the City of Vienna (2004).
Felix Hoffmann is the artistic director of FOTO ARSENAL WIEN and was head curator at the c/o Berlin Foundation from 2005 to 2022. He has curated important exhibitions including Beate Gütschow (2024), Mari Katayama (2023), and Crossing Lines: Politics of Images (2023). He has published numerous books and articles on photography.