Jury 2026 – 2028

Severin Dünser is currently a visiting professor at the University of Art and Design Linz for Curatorial Practice in the Department of Art History and Theory, Gender Studies and Curatorial Practice, academic year 2024/25. (Research focus, Curatorial Practice); from 2021 to 2023 he worked for the Hessian Studio Programme in Frankfurt, from 2012 to 2022 he was curator for contemporary art at the Belvedere in Vienna, from 2009 to 2012 he ran the Contemporary Concerns (COCO) art association together with Christian Kobald, From 2001 to 2004, he organised exhibitions as part of the Supersaat off-space, and from 2002 to 2005, he directed Krinzinger Projekte in Vienna.

Selected exhibitions as curator: ‘Having (and Being),’ Callirrhoë, Athens, 2024; ‘Wetting Your Whistles,’ Art Sonje Centre, Seoul, 2023; Lois Weinberger – ‘Basics,’ Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2021; ‘Liquidity,’ Fluc, Vienna, 2021; Eva Grubinger – ‘Malady of the Infinite,’ Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2019; Henrike Naumann – Das Reich, Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2019; Über das Neue – Junge Szenen in Wien (curated together with Luisa Ziaja, Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2019; Der Wert der Freiheit, Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2018; Instructions for Happiness, 21er Haus, Vienna, 2017; Instructions for Happiness; Lekka 23–25 & Perikleous 34, Athens, 2016; Das Begreifen (Understanding), 21er Raum im 21er Haus, Vienna, 2016.

Ernst J. Fuchs, born in Anras in 1963, lives in Vienna. Studied at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz and at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna; founded the architecture collective THE POOR BOYs ENTERPRISE in 1991; founded the next ENTERprise – architects together with Marie-Therese Harnoncourt in 2000; Numerous buildings, including Haus Zirl in 1996; Seebad Kaltern in 2006; 2007 Wolkenturm Grafenegg; 2014 MOL 7 townhouse, Vienna; 2016 HAWI – Experimental Temporary Living, Vienna.

In addition to specific construction projects, the next ENTERprise Architects also deal with installations, exhibition designs, experimental interventions in urban space and large-scale urban development concepts. One of their strengths lies in their ability to conceive spaces and spatial concepts in new and often surprising ways, so that the space only finds its function when it is used, yet remains flexible for future needs and developments that cannot yet be planned.

In recent years, the next ENTERprise Architects have been awarded the Hans Hollein Art Prize for Architecture, the City of Vienna Prize for Architecture and the Culture Prize of the Province of Lower Austria for Architecture for their architectural work. They were nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award, the Iakov Chernikhov International Prize, and the Piranesi Award, and have received numerous awards, including the AIT Award (the prize for experimental trends in architecture as the POOR Boys ENTERPRISE) and the Builders' Award from the Central Association of Architects.

Sonja Huber studied art history in Vienna and Berlin and has been head of the Department of Fine Arts and Media Art at the City of Vienna Culture (MA 7) since 2018. Prior to this, she worked in various positions in cultural management, including from 2000 to 2004 in the collection and exhibition management of the Collection of Contemporary Art of the City of Vienna and from 2005 to 2007 as exhibition coordinator and curator at the Kunsthalle Krems. From 2007 to 2012 she was production manager at KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien and from 2013/2014 at departure - Creative Agency of the City of Vienna as head of the funding programmes departure_pioneer and departure_experts and coordinated network activities for the creative industries.

Among other things, she was responsible for the implementation of artistic-architectural competitions and worked on the departure study "Spaces of Creative Use. Potentials for Vienna". In 2015/16 she took over as head of the Art | Research | Service at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and was responsible for xhibit - Exhibition Space for Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as exhibition coordinator from 2016 to 2018.

Christiane Meyer-Stoll, born in Essen in 1963, is an art historian and curator. She has been director of the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein since 2026. Before joining the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein as a curator in 2000, she was responsible for establishing the private museum of the Goetz Collection (Munich) as senior curator from 1993 to 1999. From 1998 to 2000, she was co-director of the Städtische Kunsthalle Lothringerstraße in Munich. She has been a member of the museum's management team since 2006. In 2010, she was awarded the inaugural Justus Bier Prize for Curators for her outstanding curatorial work.

Nicole Six, born in 1971 in Vöcklabruck, lives in Vienna. Studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Collaboration with Paul Petritsch since 1997, lives in Vienna.

2024 Recognition Award for Fine Arts for Projects in Public Space, Province of Lower Austria; 2017 Karl Anton Wolf Prize, 2008 Lecturer in Art Transfer at the Institute for Art and Design, Vienna; 2007 Cardinal König Art Prize, 2005 Visiting Professor at the Institute for Experimental Design, University of Art and Design Linz, 2006 State Scholarship for Fine Arts, 2004 ISCP Scholarship New York, 2006 Austrian State Scholarship, 1997 Schindler Scholarship, MAK Vienna.

The duo collaborates on films, photographs, displays, artist books, and site- and context-specific installations and projects in public spaces with experimental and collaborative experimental arrangements and interventions. Projects include: Architekturforum Zurich; KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Vienna; Imago Lissboa, Lisbon; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Rudolfinum, Prague; Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna; University Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan; Harn Museum of Art Gainesville, Florida; House of Austrian History, Vienna; Fluca, Plovdiv; Goethe Institute Hong Kong