
Love is the answer! The scholarship programme In the Field overcomes national borders and brings together 15 emerging artists and cultural workers from a radius of 300 kilometres around Vienna for an intense exchange of knowledge and practices. In encounters with international artists and the local scene, In the Field explores artistic approaches for softening hardened positions in art and society. Mentoring will be provided by Isabel Lewis – artist, choreographer, and professor for performance.
With the support of Erste Bank
The scholarship holders of 2025
Tin Blümke
Tin Blümke (they/he) is currently finishing their studies of MA Applied Theatre in Salzburg. They work as a deviser and theatre maker, preferably in collaborative and participatory formats and contexts.
Barbora Chovancová
Barbora Chovancová is a Czech theatre director with experience also from Slovakia and Poland. Her artwork focuses on non-dramatic texts and topics pushed aside by mainstream, with an emphasis on social overlap.
Tereza Dostálová
Tereza Dostálová is a scenographer and visual artist based in Prague, exploring the intersection of ecology and art. She studied scenography at KALD DAMU and is currently finishing Social and Cultural Ecology at FHS UK.
Atousa Falamarzian
Based in Austria, Atousa Falamarzian is a composer and sound artist from Iran whose work explores borders, silence/voicing, and marginalization experiences through performances and multimedia installations.
Victoria Fux
Victoria Fux is a director, performer and producer. She works in Graz and Vienna, is co-founder of several collectives and curates the interdisciplinary performance art section at Forum Stadtpark Graz. Her work combines theater, dance and performance and explores the human body in a socio-political context.
Nitish Jain
Born in India and based in Czechia, Nitish is a performance maker, architect and educator. He explores themes of rest, care and post-coloniality through multi-sensory, participatory experiences.
Tubi Malcharzik
Tubi Malcharzik (they/them) is a performer, dramaturg, and DJ based in Vienna and Hanover. In performances, audio pieces, and outreach projects, they engage with queer memory, the non-binary identity of Upper Silesia, and seemingly impossible duets – both solo (PASKUDNIK, COMEBACK) and in collective works (voice messages about śląsking, Sparks to Uranus).
Magdalena Malinová
Magdalena Malinová is a Prague based dancer, performer, and dramaturg shaping space through movement, touch, and taste, crafting somatic experiences that foster connection, care, and slowness.
Tereza Pašková
Tereza Pašková is a student from Slovakia, finishing her master's in Theatre Studies in the Czech Republic. She’s particularly interested in socially engaged theatre from political, ecological, and feminist perspectives, as well as in cultural animation.
Antonia Patzak
Antonia Patzak is a cultural anthropologist and artist based in Vienna. Next to organizing various soirees in Vienna, she engages in anti-discriminatory practices.
Luka Piletič
Luka Piletič is a performer, actor and clown based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He's interested in humans and how they handle this thing they are drowning in, called life.
Kateryna Pomeichuk
Kateryna Pomeichuk is a movement artist, performer, and choreographer from Ukraine, based in Austria. She explores ambiguity in movement and performance, video dance, and collaboration with diverse communities.
Lorena Salamanca
Lorena Salamanca, from Cali, Colombia, is a researcher, writer and curator. She traces fiction, reenactment, and body unarchiving in performance through para-colonial frameworks. She is based in Vienna and Lisbon.
Tereza Trusinová
Tereza Trusinová is from Czech Republic but currently based in Bratislava, Slovakia. She is a dramaturge, playwright and cultural manager. She is interested in inclusive and intersectional theatre, labor rights and precarity in the culture sector and audience and community development.
Eva Urbanová
Eva Urbanová is a Slovak choreographer and dancer based in Vienna. Her practice, approached through a queer-feminist lens, explores sensitivity and touch in relation to contemporary witchcraft and bodily transformation.