Roots of Resistance – Fictions of Survival

She develops immersive experiential spaces – multisensory, walk-in installations that serve as social interfaces, stages, and sites of collective knowledge production. Dedicated to terrestrial consciousness, her work combines atmospheric intensity with intellectual depth, addressing transformation, feminism, ecology, posthumanism, and interspecies connectedness.

Stephanie Winter’s installation for the glass MQ Art Box is Roots of Resistance – Fictions of Survival: a tentacular cave bathed in warm orange tones, which can be understood both as a symbol of the origins of human storytelling and as the speculative excavation site for a future archaeology. Nerves, roots, and dream-tentacles weave through the space, connecting the visible with the invisible, the terrestrial with the psychological.
In “Roots of Resistance,” a resilient ecosystem unfolds—a space for healing, care, and visionary voices, including early thinkers and feminists, whose stories are shared as part of theSHARING SESSION: Unearthing Female Voices, among other initiatives.

Curator: Verena Kaspar-Eisert

Stephanie Winter lives and works in Vienna. From 2001 to 2007, she studied painting and post-conceptual art practices at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Berlin University of the Arts. Her works have received multiple awards and have been exhibited internationally —including Vienna, Paris, New York, and South Korea.

SALON HYBRID is Winter’s collaborative, performative office: an organically evolving constellation that transforms depending on the project context. For Roots of Resistance, the current team includes Bettina Eigner and Linn Maurer.