
Ariane Mueller & Martin Ebner
Starship Projects is the collaborative artistic practice of Ariane Mueller and Martin Ebner, focused on site-specific exhibition projects, public art, and curated exhibitions.
Starship was founded in 1998 and has operated exhibition spaces, including a movie theater. At its core are the publishing house and the art magazine of the same name:
Starship Projects is now the name that builds on the long-standing exhibition activities of this branch of Starship; within the context of this collaboration, site-specific projects, interventions in public space, curated exhibitions, spaces, and individual works have emerged.
Starship Projects encompasses language and text, music and film, and large-scale installation projects; it is theory-based and associative, stands for a multifaceted artistic approach, and harnesses the synergy between two or more distinct artistic practices. Starship Projects thus represents the artistic opportunity to respond discursively across various dimensions and working contexts, thereby translating them into a unified whole.

Ariane Mueller
Ariane Mueller is a visual artist, writer, and urbanist with 20 years of working practice for the UN agency UN-HABITAT in the field of sustainable urban development.
Besides of her international career as an individual artist, she worked in collaborations to develop artistic projects – with Linda Bilda to found and establish Artfan, an influential magazine in the early 1990ies in Vienna, with Deborah Schamoni to develop Kino Raum 3, an art space for moving images, and with Verena Kathrein on the research project Then I would like to make a happy end for once, on comedy and feminism, photography and drawing.

Martin Ebner
Martin Ebner is a visual artist living in Berlin and Austria. He developed his artistic and collaborative practice in the early 1990s in the artist group You Never Know in Vienna. After studies of Media art with Peter Weibel, Roy Ascott, Steina Vasulka and VALIE EXPORT at University of Applied Arts in Vienna, he followed an individual artistic development in Berlin, and contributed in various settings, e.g. together with Florian Zeyfang to establish the research and exhibition project Poor Man’s Expression (on Conceptual Art, Technology and Experimental Film) and in experimental music projects like Recycling Plastic Inevitable.
He has also been working as a senior motion design and visual effects artist in numerous video and television productions, for other artists, and in commercial environments.
Together they join their competencies in media, sound, installation, and their expertise on urban conditions, participation, and spatial analysis to develop urban artistic projects with an experimental, researched but unexpectedly moving approach.

Ariane Mueller, Martin Ebner: The Near Future, 2012
