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title: "hoelb/hoeb • Artists"
description: "Since 2010, hoelb/hoeb (Barbara Hölbing/Mario Höber) work together with a transdisciplinary team of artists, cultural theorists, scientists, researchers of inclusion and people in social careers. Their artistic test arrangement always follow a spatial dramaturgy, which offers a change in perspective…"
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# hoelb/hoeb

Last edited on 22.7.2026

![](https://brut-wien.at/assets/artists/hoelbhoeb/hoelb-hoeb.jpg)

hoelb/hoeb

© Erli Gruenzweil

## artist.bio

Since 2010, hoelb/hoeb (Barbara Hölbing/Mario Höber) work together with a transdisciplinary team of artists, cultural theorists, scientists, researchers of inclusion and people in social careers. Their artistic test arrangement always follow a spatial dramaturgy, which offers a change in perspective to the visitors, so to reflect personal experiences of loss and exclusion. With the project "close link" (2013) at steirischer herbst, hoelb/hoeb examined relationships of closeness, rooms and daily actions in reference to patients in vegetative state and to persons with severe impairments.

Through their Project LOST\_INN, the IG-V (International Society for Loss) was presented. It was founded by hoelb/hoeb together with their partners in culture science, hospice, grief counselling and funeral care as a logical consequence of their transdisciplinary research. The establishment of this society will be a future focus point of the artist duo.

## Works at brut

- [LOSS\_expands – coping with grief (2022)](https://archiv2.brut-wien.at/de/Programm/Kalender/Programm-2022/04/hoelb-hoeb)
- [IG-Verlust - Internationale Gesellschaft für Verlust (2018)](https://archiv2.brut-wien.at/de/Programm/Kalender/Programm-2018/2018_02_Februar-2018/2018_02_hoelb-hoeb_IG-Verlust)
- [Lost\_Inn. staging grief (2017)](https://archiv2.brut-wien.at/de/Programm/Kalender/Programm-2017/2017_01_Jaenner-2017/hoelb-hoeb_LOST_INN.-staging-grief)

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