Fanzineist Vienna Team
Project Director
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Deniz Beser
Beser is a visual artist, curator, and independent publisher based in Vienna and Istanbul. He earned his BA in Ceramics and Glass Design from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul and pursued studies in Painting at the University of Seville in Spain.
Beser is the founder and director of Open Studio Days İstanbul (@openstudiodays) and Fanzineist Vienna Art Book & Zine Fair, key platforms fostering alternative artistic expressions and independent publishing. Additionally, he is the co-founder of Heyt be! Fanzin (@heytbefanzin), a collective exploring the intersection of print culture and contemporary art, and the co-founder & president of Analog Dialog, a Vienna-based art association that initiates experimental projects within the city’s independent art scene.
His work has been exhibited across Europe, Asia, and Canada, with notable presentations at institutions such as Kunsthalle Exnergasse, New Jörg and Kunsthalle Wien (Austria), and Kunsthalle Zürich (Switzerland)
Art Director – Graphic, Booklet & Poster Design
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Evi Pribyl
Evi Pribyl is an Art Director at Das Rund, currently based in Vienna, Austria. She holds a degree from Kunstuniversität Linz and has established herself as a creative professional with a passion for art and design.
Evi brings a wealth of experience and expertise to her role, contributing to the vibrant creative community both locally and beyond.
Fair & Exhibition Assistant
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Tsai-Ju Wu
Tsai-Ju Wu is a visual artist, graphic designer and curator based in Vienna, Austria. In her artistic practice she works with the medium of graphite drawing, partially in a big scale and site-specific conceptual interventions.
Music & Stage Technical Coordinator
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Fırat Erkuş
Fırat Erkuş is a multidisciplinary, award-winning artist born in 1986 in Istanbul. Encouraged by his musical family, he began piano lessons at an early age and later formed a band in high school, working as a composer, lyricist, and singer for eight years. In 2012, his band received recognition in the Rock’n Dark music competition. During an Erasmus program at Hafencity University in Hamburg, he was introduced to sonic arts and new media through workshops and concerts. This experience expanded his artistic focus beyond music. After his bachelor’s degree, he began working as a 3D artist on audiovisual projection mapping projects with artist collectives.
He later completed a master’s in Sonic Arts at MIAM, Istanbul Technical University, where he deepened his practice in experimental sound and digital media. Currently, he works as an audiovisual artist producing immersive installations, digital art projects, and electroacoustic compositions.
Partnership & Event Coordination
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Ksenia Kazintseva
She is an international producer and immersive installation artist exploring how we can use folklore and craft as tools for peace. She explores Eastern European culture and has shown at Copeland Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, Stanley Picker, Les Rencontres d’Arles and beyond. She has produced a wide range of festivals and exhibitions including Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival, Wandsworth Arts Fringe, Croydon Harvest, Eastern European Art Week in London. Ksenia is currently based across Vienna and London.
Intern // Fair & Exhibition Assistant
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Clara Hen
Clara Hen is currently studying Graphic Design at EESAB in Lorient, France. Passionate about visual creation in all its forms, she embraces graphic design in a broad sense—ranging from editorial design and typography to illustration and digital media.
Clara enjoys experimenting with colors, layouts, and visual storytelling to craft meaningful and engaging designs.
She is also deeply interested in the world of independent publishing and continuously explores new ways to expand her knowledge and skills in the field.
Fair Volunteer
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Christine Ebner
Christine Ebner is a Vienna-based artist, social and cultural anthropologist and educator. Her multidisciplinary work explores process and the in-between across media such as text, books, journals, large-scale painting, and generative AI. She is currently engaged in a deep exploration of emptiness as a form of presence. Which means, yes—she’s thinking about nothing. A lot.
Coordination Assistant
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Orcun Tan
Orcun Tan is a Coordination and PR Assistant, as well as a Corporate Communication Practitioner, with over 5 years of experience in the PR and media sectors in Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Tan has contributed to numerous communication and social media campaigns, including Open Studio Days in Istanbul and Underground Art in Manchester.
Bar Management
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Zekiye Ersöz
She is a photographer and studies political science at the Universität Wien. Ersöz has been organizing events for many years and have a very high interest in art. Social photography has always attracted her attention, as well as the impact of social media in the art scene.
Photography
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Mahir Petekkaya
Photographer based in Vienna and Istanbul. Mahir studied psychology in University of Vienna during which he taught himself photography. For the past year, he’s been documenting the life of individuals with mental disorders inside of Austrian institutions. The earthquake in Turkey and northern Syria and its aftermath has became his most recent project after he went to the earthequake-zone only days after the incident to document the catastrophe.
He is responsible with the documentation of the event and also provides support on management issues.
Fair Volunteer
Enrique Harm
Visual artist based in Vienna. He holds a degree in Art History from the University of Granada in Spain and a specialization in Cultural Management from the University of Vienna in Austria.
He has worked on cultural heritage projects in Barranquilla, Colombia, and is the director of the Archivo Edita project, where he researches and promotes the visual memory of the Colombian Caribbean. He is currently studying painting and graphic techniques at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
Fair Volunteer
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Jasmin Tiroch
Jasmin is a Vienna based designer who completed her studies in MultiMediaArt at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences in autumn 2023 with a focus on communication design. She has a great passion for colours, patterns and typography as well as for printed matter and crafts. With a school background in interior design and furniture making, she is a very practical person with the urge to break out of the digital and work analogue. This manifested itself particularly during her internship at the experimental letterpress workshop p98a in Berlin in 2022/23. Personally, she is also committed to nature and social issues and volunteers for the Austrian environmental organisation GLOBAL 2000.
Fair Volunteer
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Salvatore Giommarresi
He is a comics author, illustrator, He’s a member and editor of the collective Cabin Boy Studio.
His work draws inspiration from a variety of different sources and especially from what he experiences first-hand during his travels around the world. He likes experimenting new ways to apply traditional techniques such as origami to his art.
His pieces have been exhibited in Italy, Spain, Mozambique, France, Vietnam, U.S.A., and Albania.