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Artists at VSL
born July 3, 1999, lives and works in Vienna. Theo Bartenberger is a photographer and installation artist. After training in photography at the Graphische, he has been studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Judith Huemer’s class for Art and Intervention / Environments since 2020. In his artistic practice, he often combines the medium of photography with installation. His works address the relationship between the environment, human intervention in nature, and the effects of the Anthropocene.
Exhibitions include group exhibitions at the Silvanum Forest Museum, the Karlsplatz Christmas Market, and the Festival of Regions. In 2024, he presented works as part of the Climate Biennale.
Ida Zahradnik (born 1997, Vienna) is an artist and landscape planner. Her dual studies in landscape planning and architecture and fine arts shaped her socio-ecological-critical way of thinking. She completed her artistic diploma in spring 2025 at the University of Applied Arts (die Angewandte) in the class for site-specific art and will complete her bachelor’s degree at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Boku) in October 2025.
In her artistic practice, Zahradnik seeks close connections between her work and the physical and socio-spatial environment, creating installation and performance sculptures and video works. In doing so, she questions various concepts of space and the associated spatial and resource policies. As co-founder of the art collective “Gruppe Bussi” (since 2020), member of the citizens’ initiative “St. Marx für Alle” (St. Marx for All), and in artistic collaboration with Pauline Hosse-Hartmann (since 2021), she observes, comments on, and participates in the conditions and changes of our society in artistic and activist language.
