St.AiR 2025: Austrian Artists in Residence at Snehta

St.AiR 2025: Austrian Artists in Residence at Snehta

Snehta is delighted to welcome Austrian artists Elisa Wüntscher and Leon Höllhumer as part of St.AiR 2025 – Austrian Artists in Residence, taking place in Athens from April to May 2025.

Elisa Wüntscher (*1997, Graz) is a photographer working in the fields of digital photography, portraiture, and visual narration. A graduate of the College for Fine Art Photography & Multimedia Art at Ortweinschule Graz, she also holds a BA in Information Design and an MA in Exhibition Design from FH Joanneum. In her artistic practice, she explores the mechanisms of cultural memory and perception. Her staged photographic compositions assign new roles to people and objects, breaking down culturally transmitted narratives and reimagining them through a lens of fiction. Elisa’s work challenges the medium of photography itself, drawing attention to how meaning is constructed and altered through presentation, composition, and context.

Leon Höllhumer (*1986, Austria) is a Vienna-based artist, sculptor, photographer, and filmmaker. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Ashley Hans Scheirl and has exhibited extensively since 2014 in both solo and group shows. His work has been presented at institutions such as Belvedere 21, Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, TQW, EXILE, Fotohof Salzburg, and EKA Gallery in Tallinn. Leon’s multimedia practice—blending performance, sculpture, film, and photography—favors immersive, non-linear storytelling rooted in fantasy, subculture, and mythology. His grotesque ceramic sculptures and cyberpunk-inflected worlds explore the blurred boundaries between function, aesthetics, and the body. Collaboration is a core element of his practice, having worked with artists such as Kris Lemsalu, Florentina Holzinger, Ferdinand Schmalz, and Young Boy Dancing Group.

Together, Wüntscher and Höllhumer bring a compelling and multilayered perspective to the Athenian landscape. Their residency at Snehta will foster new explorations at the intersection of photography, sculpture, and performance, creating imagined narratives and speculative environments that reflect—and reinvent—how we engage with place, identity, and perception.