Ruth Mateus-Berr is an Austrian conceptual artist. She has created drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos, installations, performed and worked with various media. She is a professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and also a multisensual design researcher, always exploring new fields. Her award-winning works deal with artistic research, critical design, digital humanism, the social development goals, urbanism, art & dementia and health. Her latest artistic research project "DEMEDARTS" (funded by FWF PEEK AR-609) aims to awaken more empathy for people with dementia in our society.