Elke Krasny

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Elke Krasny (* 1965 ) is an Austrian curator, urban researcher, cultural theorist and art educator.

Life

Krasny lives in Vienna and teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the fields of art and cultural education, didactics of the visual, didactics of architecture, space and the environment as well as art and the public.

In 2006 she held a visiting professorship from the Ernst Georg Heinemann Foundation at the University of Bremen on the subject of ways into the city. Urban narratives and their transformation processes and in 2008 was a lecturer at the University of Salzburg on the subject of urban space gender - the production of urban narratives. Critical reflection as an intervention .

Along with Cynthia Schwertsik she founded the group Plan B . Their joint projects include the audio-slide installation Last Name , which addresses male dominance in the city's linguistic area. She writes regularly in the magazine architektur aktuell, in the daily newspaper Die Presse / Spectrum and in the magazine for urban research dérive she writes on the subjects of the city, the cityscape and the visual arts. In 2008 she published Urbanografien, which she edited with Irene Nierhaus .

Exhibitions

  • ANNENVIERTEL, The Art of Urban Action, curators: Anton Lederer, Margarethe Makovec, Elke Krasny <rotor> Association for Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria, 2009 to 2011 [1]
  • unORtung VI in the former Cartographic Institute, curated by: Veronika Barnas and Elke Krasny, Krotenthallergasse 3, 1080 Vienna, November 19-21, 2010, [2]
  • THE BIG HOLIDAYS - A hands-on exhibition by the ZOOM Children's Museum Vienna, March 24 to August 28, 2011, [3]
  • FINDING SPACE - TOOLS OF DESIGN. 17 POSITIONS FROM CANADA AND AUSTRIA. HDA Graz, April 9 to May 22, 2011, [4]
  • THINKING OUT LOUD. THE MAKING OF ARCHITECTURE, Dalhousie Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 10th to 28th January 2011, [5]
  • 2 or 3 Things we've learned '- Intersections of Art, Pedagogy and Protest, curators: Eva Egermann and Elke Krasny, IG Bildende Kunst gallery, Vienna, Austria, September 15 to October 29, 2010 [6]
  • THE WORLD IN A FEW STEPS | THE WORLD IN A FEW STEPS, <rotor> Association for Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria, September 26 - November 20, 2010 [7]
  • PENSER TOUT HAUT / FAIRE L'ARCHITECTURE, Center de design de l'UQAM, Montréal, Canada, February 11 to April 18, 2010 [8] [9]
  • City and women. Another Topography of Vienna, Vienna Library in the City Hall, October 24, 2008 to June 26, 2009 (curator)
  • 16th Vienna Architecture Congress, architecture begins in the head. The Making of Architecture, November 22, 2008
  • Symposium: Art. Landscape. Architecture. 2008 basis-wien.at
  • Architecture starts in the head. The Making of Architecture. ArchitekturZentrum Wien, Vienna / Austria basis-wien.at (October 16, 2008 - February 2, 2009) (curator)
  • Place-Making Politics in Contested Cities. Lectures and Roundtable. city ​​transit Asia-Europe - Depot, Art and Discussion, Vienna (September 26, 2008 - September 26, 2008)
  • Exhibition, world.exhibiting. Schauplatz Wien 1873, Technisches Museum Wien. Together with Ulrike Felber.
  • History of architectural theory in Vienna in the 20th century, City of Vienna scholarship
  • Displaying Gender . Virtual exhibition. 2003

Works

  • Habig hat . Ready-Made, 2002.
  • "LastName". A close-up shot of the city . Together with Cynthia Schwertsik. Text slide installation. Wienstation am Lerchenfelder Gürtel, 2001.

Publications

  • with Angela Heide (Ed.): Departure in the vicinity. Vienna Lerchenfelder Strasse . Turia + Kant, Vienna 2010. ISBN 978-3851325881
  • Urbanographies. Urban research in art, architecture and theory . 2008. ISBN 978-3-496-01394-5
  • (Ed.): Architecture begins in the head. The Making of Architecture . Architekturzentrum Wien, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3-7643-8979-6
  • (Ed.): The Force is in the Mind. The Making of Architecture . Architekturzentrum Wien, Birkhäuser, 2008, ISBN 3-7643-8980-X
  • City and women. Another topography of Vienna . Metro Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3-902517-78-6
  • Singularism / globalism: what does architecture want? In: Yova 2 Young Viennese Architects . Ed. Vienna City Administration, 2008
  • It's not about beautiful pictures: about the art of 'urban curating' . In: Ula Schneider, Beatrix Zobl (eds.): SOHO IN OTTAKRING “what's up? What's going on here? ” Springer Vienna New York
  • From Kaorle to Calypso: in the heterotopic Karl area . In: At the pulse of the city - Karlplatz , exhibition catalog of the Wien Museum, Vienna 2008
  • Architectural landscape of Lower Austria . Mostviertel, according to with Theresia Hauenfels. Pustet, Salzburg 2007, ISBN 3-7025-0552-0
  • Exhibiting the world: Schauplatz Wien 1873 . Exhibition catalog concept Manuela Fellner-Feldhaus and Elke Krasny. Technical Museum Vienna, 2004, ISBN 3-902183-10-1
  • Ulrike Felber, Elke Krasny, Christian Rapp : Smart Exports. Austria at the world exhibitions 1851–2000 . C. Brandstätter, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85498-068-X
  • The butterfly, the garden, the island and the mountain (The Butterfly, the Garden, the Iceland, and the Mountain). In: Hans Schabus: The last country. The Last Land . Vienna 2005
  • Why is the light bright so quickly? A journey through the world of light . (Ed. Technisches Museum Wien) 2005. ISBN 3-85326-304-6 (review buchkritik.at )
  • Guide to ... muSIEum . Together with Nike Glaser-Wieninger. Magistrate of the City of Vienna - Women's Office, MA 57, Vienna 2003
  • The laboratory of European modern fantasies . In: dérive - magazine for urban research , No. 33, derive.at
  • Fishing stairs . Involvement in a Viennese location . A project analysis . October 27, 2006.
  • Light on the intellectual building site . In: architektur.aktuell , Vienna. 3.2007
  • Elke Krasny, Marcus Patka, Christian Rapp, Nadia Rapp-Wimberger (eds.): From Samoa to the Isonzo . The photographer and travel journalist Alice Schalk . Commissioned by the Jewish Museum Vienna, Mandelbaum Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-85476-030-2
  • Wolfgang Kos , Elke Krasny: Desk with a view. Austrian writers on summer retreat . Ueberreuter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-8000-3545-6

Memberships

Elke Krasny is a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (AICA), the International Association of Art Critics in Austria , the Austrian Society for Architecture (ÖGFA) and the Austrian Association of Cultural Mediators in Museums and Exhibitions .

She is also a member of Helga Köcher's transdisciplinary network Emergence of Projects (EOP), the American comparative literature association (ACLA) and the Association of Art Historians (AAH).

Awards

  • 2006: Austrian children's and youth book award in the non-fiction category for Why is the light bright so quickly? A journey through the world of light (author)
  • 2006: Children's and Young People's Book Prize of the City of Vienna for the non-fiction book Why is the light bright so quickly? A journey through the world of light

literature

  • Wojciech Czaja: From head to paper . In: Der Standard online , Vienna, October 18, 2008
  • Ute Woltron: Space, time, infinity . In: Der Standard online , Vienna, December 6, 2007
  • Christa Benzer: Get involved! . In: Der Standard online , Vienna, May 30, 2007
  • Snow in all its dimensions . In: Der Standard online , Vienna, February 11, 2005
  • Nicole Scheyerer: Art in short . In: Falter , Vienna, May 2, 2002

Web links

  1. ^ Website of the German section of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (AICA)
  2. ↑ Website of the Austrian Society for Architecture (ÖGFA)
  3. ↑ Website of Emergence of Projects (EOP), hosted at ESeL , an art platform in Vienna (see Wikipedia article here )
  4. ↑ English Wikipedia page of the American_Comparative_Literature_Association ; ACLA website
  5. ^ English Wikipedia page of the Association of Art Historians ; AAH website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Götz Bury 2002: Portrait of Cynthia Schwertsik IG Bildendekunst  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.igbildendekunst.at  
  2. ↑ Paul Rajakovics: Urbanografien - New Tales of Urban . In: derive , No. 43, derive.at ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.derive.at
  3. ↑ City of Vienna ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Children's and young people's book prices of the City of Vienna, overview, accessed on April 10, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at
personal data
SURNAME Krasny, Elke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cultural theorist, author and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1965