Barbara Kraus lives and works as a visual artist in Vienna. She studied at the SNDO in Amsterdam. Constantly on the go, in free fall, writing, in dissociative performance structures, social interventions and various stagings of fictive realities. Her favoured medium in the frame of the infiltration of rigid identity-fortresses, is the humorous exaggeration and understatement. In the meantime she sings with the band as agreed.

The most driving and motivating question to her is about the influence of art, and to which extent it has and must have an influence on the shaping of the world. She is supported through the presence of her many alter egos, who are infiltrated into various social settings, as social activists and performative field investigators. Her work roots in dialogue on and cooperation with civil movements. At the moment Barbara Kraus is researching on the foundations and conditions of "a good life for everybody" together with Michaela Moser (co-initiator of the Austrian Conference on Poverty, author of a book on the way out of poverty).