Masoumeh Jalalieh is a choreographer, performer and visual artist from Iran, now living and working in Vienna. Over the years, she has created several of her own stage pieces in Iran and Europe, such as B-or der, Time Paranoia, Decline, Bish az pish, Carpet of Time which have been showcased at Sophiensaele Berlin, STUK Leuven, Kaaistudios and Les Brigittines Brussels, Pasinger Fabrik Munich, and Moë Vienna, among others. She has collaborated with various choreographers and artists, including Bára Sigfúsdóttir, Hooman Sharifi,Georg Blaschke, Peter Jasko, Emma W. Howes, Justin F. Kennedy, Robert Steijn, Markus Kupferblum Stefan Fraunberger and Christine Schörkhuber. She has also led dance workshops at Impulstanz, Tanzquartier Wien, and Art Garage, and has received various scholarships, including the Startstipendium für darstellende Kunst Wien, Danceweb, Maqamat. Alongside Zimmermann, she co-created the performance Composition I for the opening of Heimo Zobernig’s white space. In 2023, Jalalieh and Zimmermann co-founded Carpet of Time, an association dedicated to promoting contemporary performance, dance, film, and other art forms in Vienna. Currently, they are collaborating on their upcoming project, Carpet of Time_2673 Movements, which is set to premiere on 25 and 26 April 2025 in WUK.
Jalalieh is part of the When the Sun Kisses the Moon research group, led by Robert Steijn, and is collaborating with Marie Nüzel on a dance piece titled Radical and Gentle. She is also developing a music performance with Toranj Mashayekhi, entitled Drawing Water with a Sieve. In May 2024, Jalalieh curated Cook, Eat, and Clean festival, a multi-day program at Kunstraum eindorf featuring over 20 Iranian artists.
Daniel Zimmermann is a Swiss director, choreographer, visual artist, and performer. He has been living and working in Vienna for some time. His films, installations, and performances lie at the intersection of visual art and action, questioning the meaning and sustainability of human behaviour. His short films Lauberhornrennen im Sommer and Stick Climbing have won several awards and recognitions at film festivals. His feature film WALDEN received the Special Jury Award at Karlovy Vary and the Emerging Swiss Talent Award at the Zurich Film Festival. It was screened at around 50 festivals worldwide, including Sundance, IFFR in Rotterdam, and Art of the Real at Lincoln Center in New York. His latest feature film, SPHERES, created in collaboration with Dana Michel, Robert Steijn, Lilach Pnina Livne, Linda Samaraweerová, and Yoan Sorin, premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in July 2024.
In 2020, the Kunsthaus Pasquart presented a retrospective of his work. Zimmermann co-founded the artistic association nadaproductions and, as its artistic co-director, staged performances and dance pieces at international venues and festivals such as DeSingel, ImPulsTanz, HAU, TQW, and Gessnerallee. He also served as the initiator and commissioner for film and visual arts at the Federal Ministry for Movement Affairs (BMfB). In addition, he was a founding member and artistic director of nadaLokal, a venue for contemporary performing arts. Since 2022, he has continued to run it with a new collective under the name eindorf.
Inge Dick is an acclaimed Austrian photographer and visual artist. She is one of the leading figures in contemporary art and one of the most influential artists in concrete art worldwide. Her award-winning works in photography and film explore the colours of light, opening up new perspectives on time and perception. Dick’s work with large Polaroid cameras and film projects has placed her among the unique voices in contemporary experimental photography and filmmaking. In recent years, she has created films such as herbst licht weiss (2012), sommer licht weiss (2013), frühlings licht weiss (2014), and winter licht weiss (2014/15), along with film stills derived from these projects. Each of these films captures how light and colour change on a white surface over several days, unveiling the astounding vibrancy of light as it shifts with the time of day and the changing seasons.
The foundation of Dick’s artistic work is painting. Since 1975, she has created “white pictures,” which initially appear monochromatic but reveal other colours within their structured colour fields. This led her to experiment with Polaroid techniques in 1979 to make the changing colour of light visible throughout the day. In the 1990s, she worked with larger Polaroid cameras, and in 1999, she used the world’s largest Polaroid camera in Boston USA. Starting in 2007, her films continued to explore the themes of light and time, including works like zinnober (2007), blau, unendlich (2010), and the jahres licht weiss series (2012-15). Light is the central theme of Dick’s work, and through years of dedication, she has captured its essence. She has received numerous accolades, including the Alfred-Kubin-Preis (2011), the Austrian Art Prize (2020), and the Peter C. Ruppert Prize for Concrete Art in Europe (2022).
Swiss musician and composer Christian Müller specialises in experimental noise and transdisciplinary collaborations. With over 30 theatre and dance music compositions to his name, he was awarded the 2021 Culture Prize of the City of Biel. His notable projects include Butterland, Strøm, and Convulsif. Müller completed his classical music studies at the Conservatory in Bern in the late 1990s and has since developed a multifaceted career as an improvising electronic musician, electroacoustic bass clarinetist, and concept-driven composer. In recent years, he has composed and performed over 30 scores, particularly for productions by director Barbara-David Brüesch, and in collaboration with Daniel Zimmermann, including work with the dance performance company nadaproductions.
Victor Durán is a Mexican lighting designer based in Vienna, renowned for his work in the field of dance. Over the years, he has created lighting designs for numerous dance productions, collaborating with prominent artists such as Philipp Gehmacher, Linda Samaraweerová, Oleg Soulimenko, Michikazu Matsune, and Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll). Durán also shares a long-standing artistic partnership with Daniel Zimmermann. His work extends to renowned directors like Christoph Marthaler, Paulus Manker, and Peter Sellars. He regularly collaborates with prestigious festivals, including the Wiener Festwochen, ImpulsTanz Vienna, and the Salzburger Festspiele. Durán currently serves as the chief lighting technician at Halle E & G and Tanzquartier Vienna. In this role, he not only develops the lighting design for a variety of pieces but also contributes to stage direction.
Masoumeh Jalalieh is a choreographer, performer and visual artist from Iran, now living and working in Vienna. Over the years, she has created several of her own stage pieces in Iran and Europe, such as B-or der, Time Paranoia, Decline, Bish az pish, Carpet of Time which have been showcased at Sophiensaele Berlin, STUK Leuven, Kaaistudios and Les Brigittines Brussels, Pasinger Fabrik Munich, and Moë Vienna, among others. She has collaborated with various choreographers and artists, including Bára Sigfúsdóttir, Hooman Sharifi,Georg Blaschke, Peter Jasko, Emma W. Howes, Justin F. Kennedy, Robert Steijn, Markus Kupferblum Stefan Fraunberger and Christine Schörkhuber. She has also led dance workshops at Impulstanz, Tanzquartier Wien, and Art Garage, and has received various scholarships, including the Startstipendium für darstellende Kunst Wien, Danceweb, Maqamat. Alongside Zimmermann, she co-created the performance Composition I for the opening of Heimo Zobernig’s white space. In 2023, Jalalieh and Zimmermann co-founded Carpet of Time, an association dedicated to promoting contemporary performance, dance, film, and other art forms in Vienna. Currently, they are collaborating on their upcoming project, Carpet of Time_2673 Movements, which is set to premiere on 25 and 26 April 2025 in WUK.
Jalalieh is part of the When the Sun Kisses the Moon research group, led by Robert Steijn, and is collaborating with Marie Nüzel on a dance piece titled Radical and Gentle. She is also developing a music performance with Toranj Mashayekhi, entitled Drawing Water with a Sieve. In May 2024, Jalalieh curated Cook, Eat, and Clean festival, a multi-day program at Kunstraum eindorf featuring over 20 Iranian artists.
Daniel Zimmermann is a Swiss director, choreographer, visual artist, and performer. He has been living and working in Vienna for some time. His films, installations, and performances lie at the intersection of visual art and action, questioning the meaning and sustainability of human behaviour. His short films Lauberhornrennen im Sommer and Stick Climbing have won several awards and recognitions at film festivals. His feature film WALDEN received the Special Jury Award at Karlovy Vary and the Emerging Swiss Talent Award at the Zurich Film Festival. It was screened at around 50 festivals worldwide, including Sundance, IFFR in Rotterdam, and Art of the Real at Lincoln Center in New York. His latest feature film, SPHERES, created in collaboration with Dana Michel, Robert Steijn, Lilach Pnina Livne, Linda Samaraweerová, and Yoan Sorin, premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in July 2024.
In 2020, the Kunsthaus Pasquart presented a retrospective of his work. Zimmermann co-founded the artistic association nadaproductions and, as its artistic co-director, staged performances and dance pieces at international venues and festivals such as DeSingel, ImPulsTanz, HAU, TQW, and Gessnerallee. He also served as the initiator and commissioner for film and visual arts at the Federal Ministry for Movement Affairs (BMfB). In addition, he was a founding member and artistic director of nadaLokal, a venue for contemporary performing arts. Since 2022, he has continued to run it with a new collective under the name eindorf.
Inge Dick is an acclaimed Austrian photographer and visual artist. She is one of the leading figures in contemporary art and one of the most influential artists in concrete art worldwide. Her award-winning works in photography and film explore the colours of light, opening up new perspectives on time and perception. Dick’s work with large Polaroid cameras and film projects has placed her among the unique voices in contemporary experimental photography and filmmaking. In recent years, she has created films such as herbst licht weiss (2012), sommer licht weiss (2013), frühlings licht weiss (2014), and winter licht weiss (2014/15), along with film stills derived from these projects. Each of these films captures how light and colour change on a white surface over several days, unveiling the astounding vibrancy of light as it shifts with the time of day and the changing seasons.
The foundation of Dick’s artistic work is painting. Since 1975, she has created “white pictures,” which initially appear monochromatic but reveal other colours within their structured colour fields. This led her to experiment with Polaroid techniques in 1979 to make the changing colour of light visible throughout the day. In the 1990s, she worked with larger Polaroid cameras, and in 1999, she used the world’s largest Polaroid camera in Boston USA. Starting in 2007, her films continued to explore the themes of light and time, including works like zinnober (2007), blau, unendlich (2010), and the jahres licht weiss series (2012-15). Light is the central theme of Dick’s work, and through years of dedication, she has captured its essence. She has received numerous accolades, including the Alfred-Kubin-Preis (2011), the Austrian Art Prize (2020), and the Peter C. Ruppert Prize for Concrete Art in Europe (2022).
Swiss musician and composer Christian Müller specialises in experimental noise and transdisciplinary collaborations. With over 30 theatre and dance music compositions to his name, he was awarded the 2021 Culture Prize of the City of Biel. His notable projects include Butterland, Strøm, and Convulsif. Müller completed his classical music studies at the Conservatory in Bern in the late 1990s and has since developed a multifaceted career as an improvising electronic musician, electroacoustic bass clarinetist, and concept-driven composer. In recent years, he has composed and performed over 30 scores, particularly for productions by director Barbara-David Brüesch, and in collaboration with Daniel Zimmermann, including work with the dance performance company nadaproductions.
Victor Durán is a Mexican lighting designer based in Vienna, renowned for his work in the field of dance. Over the years, he has created lighting designs for numerous dance productions, collaborating with prominent artists such as Philipp Gehmacher, Linda Samaraweerová, Oleg Soulimenko, Michikazu Matsune, and Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll). Durán also shares a long-standing artistic partnership with Daniel Zimmermann. His work extends to renowned directors like Christoph Marthaler, Paulus Manker, and Peter Sellars. He regularly collaborates with prestigious festivals, including the Wiener Festwochen, ImpulsTanz Vienna, and the Salzburger Festspiele. Durán currently serves as the chief lighting technician at Halle E & G and Tanzquartier Vienna. In this role, he not only develops the lighting design for a variety of pieces but also contributes to stage direction.