Rita Sammer 

Rita Sammer (born 1993 in Graz, Austria) lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She is currently participating in an art school alliance (ASA) exchange year in Hamburg, where she is a member of Jutta Koether’s painting class at the HfBK. She has a degree in graphic design from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (2019) and presently studies !ne arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her process-oriented work shi"s between drawing, printmaking, painting and sculpture in order to explore various materials, forms and their abounding webs of association. Sammer is interested in the relationship of the immaterial and impalpable nature within a materialistic and data driven world.

Kater D.

Katharina Diezl alias KATER D. was born in Vienna in 1988. After graduating from a college and the bachelor’s programme Fashion at the University of Art and Design Linz / Vienna Hetzendorf, the artist started her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the graphics class in 2016, first under Veronika Dirnhofer, from 2017 under the direction of Christian Schwarzwald. In her artistic work, technique and materiality constantly vary. What remains the same is the intuitive stroke and a conceptual elaboration of themes of her immediate environment. The basis for the mostly serial work is an extensive, constantly growing photography, sketchbook and material fund. Memories, textiles, paper, hair (mostly from cats, sometimes her own), photos, colours, silkscreen and digital prints grow together to form collages and tell a thematically specific but nevertheless abstract story. KATER D. lives and works in Vienna.

Helen Hu

Helen Hu is a German born and raised Chinese artist. Having spent her early youth in Germany, she moved to Beijing for her Bachelor studies in New Media Art at the Beijing Film Academy and is currently undertaking her Masters studies in Painting at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg in the class of Anselm Reyle. In her abstract paintings Helen explores colors, shapes and the relation between her body and the canvas. She aims to return to the act of seeing as a physical experience.The dynamic of her visual language is achieved through juxtaposing colors, shapes and movement. The artist creates her works partially horizontally on the floor, partially standing upright and turns the canvas often to work from different directions and angles. The resulting, often colourful, borderless and directionless chaos is combined in the painting process to form a meaningful whole and leads to the emergence of a new harmony. In her recent works she incorporates the act of stitching and embroidering as an expression of the bodily interaction with the painting as a canvas, lastly an object in space.

Sujin Kim

Sujin Kim (b.1994.Seoul) is a Korean artist who lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. She is pursuing her master's degree at HFBK Hamburg in the class of Anselm Reyle. Kim’s work explores the captivating movements of the human gaze and the connections they create. Her work reflects the organic shapes and intricate patterns found in nature, translating them into expressive gestures on the canvas. The vibrant colors and bold brushstrokes show an interplay between light and shadow in her paintings. Fascinated by the way our eyes naturally connect when gazing into space, Kim expresses this concept through abstract paintings.