Unit F büro für mode ARCHIVE ECONOMOY PROJECT SUPPORT INFORMATION ABOUT SPACE TEAM COORDINATES SPONSORS MAILINGLIST |
| Ulrike Tschabitzer has worked as freelance curator in the field of fashion and its crossover to architecture, new media, photography and electronic music since 1992. In her projects she has cooperated with artists from a variety of fields. Together with Erwin K. Brauer she invited Austrian artists, architects and musicians to develop a visual environment for each evening of her Star Stop (1993), an event series that took place every Sunday at the Vienna Maxim. For the New Yorker Downtown Arts Festival she created the event program Moving Star. Together with Christian Muhr she curated the exhibition fast forward - fashion in the media of the 90s at the k/haus - Vienna Künstlerhaus in 1999, an exhibition of highest international reputation. fast forward was also shown in a new arrangement at the CCAC Institute in San Francisco. Together with Andreas Bergbaur, Ulrike Tschabitzer is responsible for the strategic conception of Unit F büro für mode. Andreas Bergbaur has been a member of the fashion design team SemiDei, whose collections have been shown internationally, for five years. 1994 he began to work in the field of fashion history and fashion theory, specialising in contemporary fashion. He has worked as a freelance journalist for various newspapers, magazines and articles in exhibition catalogues like fast forward, Work & Culture and 90-50-90. His work has also brought him to the FIT and the Costume Institute in New York, where he did research for the exhibition Rudi Gernreich - Steirischer Herbst 2000. Since 1998 he is teaching at the Fashiondepartment at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where he is also heading the departments project conceptualisation and organisation. Andreas Bergbaur together with Ulrike Tschabitzer is responsible for the concept as regards to the contents of Unit F büro für mode. Andreas Oberkanins After working in advertising and public relation (client and press service) for a year, he was working in the field of production and project management with the Internationale Modetage Wien. Then he was working in the exhibition organisation at the Vienna k/haus - Künstlerhaus Wien starting in 1998. There Andreas Oberkanins was in charge of the realisation and organisation of exhibitions such as fast forward - fashion in the media of the 90s and sounds&files;. He is also frequently volunteering for the Vienna Life Ball in an honorary capacity. Andreas Oberkanins works as general manager and project manager for Unit F büro für mode. Carmen Buchacher studied dramatics, communication science and German Literature, was trained as bookseller and attended a college for Public Relations. She has worked in PR and management for several cultural organizations, among them being the School for Poetry, Vienna, the press agency of the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) and the Burgtheater. After working for the International Fashion Days in Vienna she became director of the bookshop prachner im MAK, a specialized bookstore for architecture, arts and design. At present she is project manager for the online presentation of prachner im MAK and involved in the conceptualisation and realisation of Unit F ~ARCHIVE. Andreas Körner started his studies of architecture in 1987 at the Vienna University of Technology. Since 1988 he has been working in client service and ticket organisation for the Vienna International Festival. For several years he has been responsible for the press and guest ticketing at the Viennale, the Vienna International Film Festival, and has been working for the international dance festival. He is heading Unit F ~SUPPORT. credits Alex Kellas corporate design Boris Kopeinig web design, http://boris.kopeinig.net Rataplan architecture Didi Bischof furniture Guido Wachernig metal construction Alois Bernsteiner building contractor Otto Arnold rendering/architecture Gertraud Oberzaucher support Daniel Haaksmann support Gus Beumer support Special thanks to: Erika Kaufmann, Olga Okunev and Boris Marte |