Sabine
Kienzer
is a Vienna-based curator, journalist, and cultural manager. She is a trained radio journalist and holds a Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Cultural Management as well as in Women’s Studies. Her main interest lies in the field of visual arts, with a particular focus on mediation. This forms the basis upon which she plans and executes her projects. These projects seek to question the impact of culture on society by constantly redefining culture as a concept that is composed of societal values, beliefs, and norms.
Sabine Kienzer curates the exhibition series art & function – which has featured in such locations as the Kunsthalle München, kunsthaus muerz, Hofburg Wien, and Leopold Museum (in the course of art Austria) – and also curated the exhibition “Faking the Real” at Kunsthaus Graz. Her current projects include exhibitions addressing art and language, art and function, and a number of similar topics. She moderates artist’s talks, delivers keynote addresses, and writes texts for catalogs and art magazines. Her workshop series “Assoziatives Verorten” took place at the University of Kassel, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is now hosted at the Alanus University of Arts and Society in Bonn.
Marie-Therese
Harnoncourt-Fuchs
is an architect, lecturer and teacher. In 2000 she founded the next ENTERprise Architects together with Ernst J. Fuchs. The office offers a broad range of expertise, from the design of buildings, experimental installations, exhibitions, and scenographies, to urban planning concepts. The programmatic and spatial limits of their buildings and concepts are conceived with a consciously high level of permeability on the basis of the performative potential of architecture and the interplay between space, atmosphere, context, and user.
Several key projects, including the Wolkenturm Grafenegg (AT), Kaltern Lakeside Swimming Baths (IT), HAWI – Experimental Temporary Living (AT), the installations Audiolounge and Noeklius – informed sculpture and recently the Museum Heidi Horten Collection.
Their projects have been awarded and nominated multiple times for the Mies van der Rohe Award. Most recently, they received the Hans Hollein Art Prize for Architecture for their work.
Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs was appointed Professor of Design and Building Theory at the University of Kassel (DE) in 2018. She is currently a member of the art advisory board of the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft BIG, a board member of the Architekturstiftung Österreich, and a member of TRACES, the Transdisciplinary Research Centre for Exhibition Studies, at the University of Kassel.
Team
art:phalanx – Agentur für Kultur und Urbanität – is the project manager of interventa Hallstatt 2024. The office has been working for over two decades as an interdisciplinary team at the interface between art, culture, and public perception.
Over the course of recent years, art:phalanx has come to play an increasingly formative role in the shaping of public and cultural spaces. Culture & communication, space & urbanity, and events & production are the main areas of activity of art:phalanx.
The team for interventa Hallstatt 2024 consists of Marie-Anna Paier as Project Manager, Kim Bär and Isabel Köhler as Project Assistants, and Susanne Haider, a Managing Director of art:phalanx.
Andrea Kocevar is the Curatorial Assistant.