Bianca Figl (AT/ID)

combines research and artistic practice in collaborative projects situated at the intersections of dance, archives, education, and decolonial inquiry. Her artistic work weaves Indonesian dance forms with contemporary questions of memory, embodied knowledge, and colonial histories, critically engaging with the body as an active and dynamic archive. From 2012 to 2020, she worked at the Weltmuseum Wien during its major reconstruction phase, contributing to programme development, outreach, and exhibition-making, with a particular emphasis on participatory curatorial strategies. She completed a PhD in Arts Practice Research at the University of Limerick (Ireland), where her research investigated alternative approaches to knowledge production and the politics of representation in embodied archives. Figl lectures at the University of Vienna in museum and education studies and serves as a visiting researcher and guest lecturer at the Institute of the Arts (ISI) Surakarta, Indonesia.