Project Team
Czechia / Poland
Curators
Angelika Burtscher
Marion Oberhofer
Artist
Zorka Wollny
Bulgaria / Turkey / Greece
Curators
Katia Anguelova
Angelika Burtscher
Marion Oberhofer
Artist
Esra Ersen
Georgi Bogdanov & Boris Missirkov
Ivan Moudov
ZimmerFrei (Anna de Manincor)
Curators
Katia Anguelova is an independent curator who has developed several collaborative cultural projects with art institutions, museums and cultural centres. She creates spaces for dialogue – be it physical, virtual, geographical, textual or imaginary – and while focusing on transversal projects, she attempts to bring together things, people and concepts, to blend different natures in order to discover the world that surrounds us.
At present, she is co-director of Kunstverein Milano (since 2010): an international network for art production, with sister organizations in Amsterdam, Aughrim, Toronto and New York. She is also publisher of artists’ books with Kunstverein Publishing Milano. In 2019, she directed the Bulgarian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. She has also worked for Artline, Milano – an open art collection and public art commission of Milan City Council, with an open-air collection of public art (2015–2024) – and was a visiting teacher at HEAD, Geneva, as part of the ‘Construction’ course option (2022–2024).
Angelika Burtscher is co-founder and co-director of Lungomare, a platform for cultural production and design, together with Daniele Lupo. She works at the intersection of artistic production and design with a focus on public urban space. With a transdisciplinary approach, she has completed multiple collaborations and exhibition and publication projects as well as site-specific artistic productions. In 2023, she co-published the reader AS IF – 16 Dialogues on Sheep, Black Holes and Movement (Spector Books). In 2022, together with Daniele Lupo, she initiated the multi-year artistic research project FLUX – River Interventions and Explorations to establish a new relationship between urban space, nature and landscape. Burtscher teaches in the Visual Design Department at the Art University Linz and on the Master on Eco-Social Design at the Faculty of Design and Arts in Bolzano.
Marion Oberhofer is a member of the Lungomare Cooperative and works as a curator at the intersection of art and science, focusing on artistic research and critical knowledge production. As part of the curatorial team at the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology, she is currently working on two new permanent exhibitions: one on climate change (2024) and another on science and technology studies (2026). Additionally, she is working as an independent art mediator and editor with a strong interest in the politics of memory and emancipatory practices.
General Coordination, Production and Communication
Lungomare is an art and design cooperative that curates and produces at the intersection between the public, virtual, printed, urban and exhibition spaces. Lungomare is also a discursive platform fuelled by multiple and transdisciplinary constellations, nurtured by a network of people and institutional collaborations. It activates long-term processes which start out mainly from a specific geographic and social context, placing it within a larger narrative. Lungomare strives to question alternative forms of artistic, cultural and activist practices, addressing socio-political issues through a hands-on approach.
The Lungomare Cooperative carries out commissions and initiates artistic projects. In collaboration with artists, institutions and clients, Lungomare develops strategies and concepts that focus on finding the appropriate form for the content to be conveyed. Lungomare’s work encompasses communication, exhibition design, spatial concepts and curatorial projects. The Cooperative creates meeting places and experiential spaces in the urban context, and invites artists to develop thematic and site-specific projects.
About B-Shapes
Borders Shaping Perceptions of European Societies (B-SHAPES) is a Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action project analyzing and assessing how borders still are a key factor in how we understand societies. All the partners of the project will examine the role of borders under three lenses: Euroscepticism in border regions, minorities in border regions, and border landscapes as heritage. The special border region focus promises new insights on how borders shape perceptions of societies, but also how the story of borders can be narrated differently than from a purely national perspective.
B-SHAPES is a part of the European Union’s research program Horizon Europe and is coordinated by the Centre of Border Region Studies at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). → visit
