Patrick Schabus is an independent Berlin based artist, filmmaker and curator who holds an MA in visual arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He has shown his works in Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), the Ars Electronica Festival (Linz), Künstlerhaus Wien and the Grazer Kunstverein. Schabus' films have been shown in international film festivals like Anifilm, Animex and Animateka, Viennale, and the Vienna Independent Film Festival. His writings have been published in engagée, Malmoe, and artmagazine.cc. From 2015 until 2018 he was the director curator of the Mandelkern project. In 2017 he was awarded the honorary prize of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.