Wienwoche Team 2026
DIRECTORS
Tonica Hunter
Artistic Director | tonica.hunter@wienwoche.org
Tonica Hunter (they/she) is a curator, lecturer, and DJ, originally from London and based in Vienna since 2014. Their work bridges curation (music, performance, discourse, visual media) and education, with a particular focus on art and applied social justice. Tonica’s practice spans institutions and organisations such as the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW), the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Angewandte), Ars Electronica, Wellenkænge, Burgtheater Wien, Weltmuseum Wien, Volkskundemuseum Wien and the Austrian Museum of Black Entertainment and Black Music, among many others.
Since 2021, they have served as an expert in art and culture on the advisory board of Frauendomäne and, between 2021 and 2023, were a member of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport’s (BMKÖS) advisory board for “Cultural Initiatives.” Since 2023, they have been designing and teaching the master’s program ars sciendi at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Nataša Mackuljak
Executive Director | natasa.mackuljak@wienwoche.org
Nataša Mackuljak (b. 1977 Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a performer, multimedia artist, social worker, curator and cultural producer. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, with the thesis On Historical Continuities between Anti-Fascist Women’s Action and Feminist Performance Art in the Former Yugoslavia. For three years (2016/17/18) she worked as artistic director and managing director of Wienwoche, the international and transcultural festival for Art and Activism in Vienna. In November 2013, she completed her master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the class for post-conceptual art practices with the performance „Bodies, Borders, and the Politics of Transition“. Her art projects deal with questions of migration, precarity and gender. She studied sciences and technology of multimedia at the University of Social Sciences in Udine and worked in Italy on media projects as radio and TV editor of weekly programmes on radio and TV Rai 3 (2005–2008). As a war refugee in the 1990s, she became involved in feminist anti-war movements in the former Yugoslavia: since 1994 she has been part of Woman in Black Belgrade; she was the co-founder and deputy leader of the Youth Peace Group Danube, Vukovar, Croatia (1997–2002); and she was an international project coordinator for youth issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina through the programme of the Swedish Embassy in Sarajevo (1999–2002).
Team
FORMER DIRECTORS AND FESTIVAL (CO)CURATORS
Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur
Artistic Director
Jelena Micić
Artistic Director
Denise Palmieri
Deniz Güvensoy
Henrie Dennis
Maria Herold
Nathalie Ananda Assmann
Nataša Mackuljak
Ivana Marjanović
Petja Dimitrova
Radostina Patulova
Can Gülcü
