The Kiosk Team

Barbora Chen heads the Academy Goes to School (AgidS) communication office at the Academy. She offers contact support and acts as a liaison between schools and pupils and teachers and students at the Academy. Barbora organizes events and workshops; she is also a source of information and a people connecter.

Petja Dimitrova teaches at the Academy at the Institute of Fine Arts (IBK). She works on critical socio-political issues and discourses, using various media such as drawing, posters, video, and installation. Petja realizes her artistic, curatorial, educational and activist practice both individually and in collaboration with artist collectives, educational initiatives and migrant and diasporic self-organizations. 
Petja Dimitrova’s website

Mirjana Djotunovic (1978, Belgrade) is a multimedia artist, curator, and cultural worker. She is currently studying art education and post-conceptual art practices at the Academy. Mirjana was the artistic director of Wienwoche 2019 and has been organizing the music and community festival NOTE 15 since 2020. Her practice combines art and activism and amplifies the voices of migrants and marginalized artists. Mirjana works as a student assistant at the Academy Goes to School (AgidS) office.
Mirjana Djotunovic's website

Christina Fasching I’ve been working at the Student Welcome Center at the Academy since 2018. I provide information and advice to applicants and students on any questions and topics relating to studying at the Academy. I focus particularly on international applicants and students with disabilities, impairments, and chronic illnesses. It’s important to me to have an open and friendly attitude towards everyone who contacts me, has questions, and asks me for help. I can’t solve all problems, worries and fears, but listening attentively is often the first step towards allaying certain fears. I studied French, Slovenian, and German as foreign languages at the University of Graz, lived abroad for almost 10 years (France, Slovenia, Czech Republic), and taught German as a foreign language.

Elisabeth Freiss teaches at the Institute for Education in the Arts (IKL) at the Academy. Since 2017, Elisabeth has also been a professor of Textile Design and Handicraft Education at the Mozarteum University.

Luiza Furtado was born in Brazil. She lived in Rio de Janeiro for over 20 years, where she received her bachelor’s degree in industrial design from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC) in 2021. She is studying in the studio of Art and Image | Context at the Academy. Luiza’s research on intuitive dance interweaves painting, soft sculpture, and audiovisual media. She creates fabric capsules for symbolic rituals of empowerment and care. Her performative work is based on prosthetic experiments with upcycled textile craft from a queer-feminist perspective.
Luiza Furtado's website

Val Holfeld has lived and worked in Vienna since 2017. She graduated from the College of Textile and Design at the Herbststraße Fashion School in 2019, has a bachelor’s degree in art education and is currently studying contextual painting in the Studio of Art and Image | Context at the Academy. Val’s artistic practice includes curating, project management, working in theater as a costume designer, performance and educational policy work, which takes a queer-feminist approach to pop culture and theatrical forms of representation. She currently runs the Kollektiv Zirkusgasse art space in Vienna’s 2^nd district and works in various theaters. Val worked as a student assistant on the platform project.
Val Holfeld’s website

Antje Lehn studied architecture. She is interested in architectural mediation and mapping. At the Academy, she teaches at the Institute of Art and Architecture (IKA) and the Institute for Education in the Arts (IKL). 

Anna Pritz teaches and researches at the Institute for Education in the Arts (IKL) at the Academy in the Pedagogy, Arts and Culture program at the interface to pedagogical practice.

Elisabeth Sattler is a professor in the Pedagogy, Arts and Culture program at the Institute for Education in the Arts (IKL) at the Academy. She lives and works in Vienna. Her research focuses on educational, teaching and learning as well as professionalization processes in teacher education.

Ingrid Schacherl heads the Coordination Office for the Advancement of Women, Gender Studies and Diversity at the Academy. Her work focuses on gender-reflective organizational development and anti-discrimination from an intersectional perspective.
Ingrid Schacherl's Academy website

Ilay Schwingshandl studied visual communication at the University for Art and Design, Linz. Ilay is currently studying at the Academy at the Institute of Fine Arts (IBK) in the Studio of Art and Time | Photography. Ilay is currently a student assistant at the Student Welcome Center.

Ruby Sircar I love pop culture, especially when it has an anti-colonial face. My favorite examples at the moment are Ms. Marvel and Master of None. Performance and language, sound and migration, capital and image are the building blocks of my artistic and scientific work at the Academy.

Selina Shirin Stritzel is a freelance theater maker, political educator, cultural scientist, and transmedia artist. She studyied for a master’s degree in critical studies at the Academy and wrote her master’s thesis on “Postmigrant Identities in the German-speaking World.” She is co-founder of the Vielmehr für Alle! association and the project PROSA-Projekt Schule für Alle! At Ballhaus Naunynstraße Berlin she worked as assistant director, dramaturge, co-director and head of the akademie der autodidakten. For brut Wien she works on the que_ring drama project and was co-director (with Gin Müller) for JUSTITIA! Identity Cases and JUSTITIA! Il*legal Monsters.

Selina worked as a curator and art mediator for Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich (KÖR NÖ). At the Academy, she was project coordinator of the Academy Goes to School (AgidS) office and worked as a student assistant on the platform project.

Nikita Sukhov is studying at the Institute of Fine Arts in the Studio of Art and Image | Expansion. He worked as a student assistant on the platform project.