CURATORIAL WORK
IN ARCHITECTURE AND ARTS
VITA
Lena Kohlmayr
lives and works in Vienna
EDUCATION
2018 Master of Arts – Social Design - Arts as Urban Innovation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
2014 - 2015 Architecture studies at the Tokyo University - design studio at Kuma.Lab
2012 - 2018 Master studies in Architecture at the Vienna University of Technology
2012 Exchange studies in Architecture at the ETSAM Madrid
2012 Bachelor of Science – Architecture at the Vienna University of Technology
2003 - 2007 Secondary School with a focus on arts – BRG III, Vienna
WORK
ONGOING WORK
since 2021 Part of AKT architecture collective - AKT and Hermann Czech curating the Austrian Pavilion of the
18th International Architecture Biennale in Venice 2023
since 2019 Head of the Curatorial Team for the Angewandte Festival of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
(Angewandte Festival 2019–2022)
2015–2020 Architekturzentrum Wien (AZW)
Architecture Education – Workshops and Tours in Exhibitions as well as in the City of Vienna
2018–2020 Artistic Consultant at the meduni-Wien for an interdisciplinary tutorial-group under the supervision of Dr. Klaus Spiess
PROJECT-BASED WORK
2019 Project Coordinator for Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz
2018 Concept and Realisation of Oskar nimmt Platz - Raum für gepflegte Unruhe, Vienna
2017 Part of the Team for the Project Study – Eine urbane Knautschzone mit Potential for MA19
2015 - 2017 Project based support of the project Tracing Spaces by Michael Zinganel and Michael Hieslmayr
2017 Architectural consulting and assistance for an artistic competition for a memorial in public space by
Ruth Beckermann, Salzburg
2014 Concept for a Tour on short-term-use-projects for the cultural institution Aktionsradius Augarten, Vienna
2013 Part of the curatorial Team of YIX – a short-term-use-art-projekt, Vienna
FIELD OF ARCHITECTURE
2008 – 2018 Work experiences in various architecture offices in Vienna, Berlin, Tokyo
wks-architekten zt kg, Vienna
Ryuji Fujimura, Tokyo
Design and realisation of an extension for the restaurant Bunkerei Augarten
in collaboration with koba architektur, Vienna
Hoppe Architekten, Vienna
C.G. Luetcke, Berlin
Planungsbüro Fauszt, Vienna
other Part of EASA (european architecture student assembly) – Workshop Tutor, Slovenia
Tutor at the Department of Architecture Theory at the University of Technology, Vienna
Head of the Students Council of Architecture at the University of Technology, Vienna
AWARDS
SCHOLARSHIPS
EXHIBITION PARTICIPATIONS & OTHER
2018 Oskar nimmt Platz at The essence 2018 - Exhibition participation, publication and video
2018 Social furniture contribution to the exhibition Mapping social architecture by Marlene
Wagner at Magazin, Vienna
2018 School project at the AZW - contribution for the exhibition
Geschichte gemeinsam verhandeln” at Haus der Geschichte, Vienna
2018 Living room Festival, Zurich
Public intervention and installation “Pflanzbarer Aktivismus”
2018 Oskar nimmt Platz, Vienna
Concept and Realisation of the project
2018 Stereoskop lV - Performance Festival, Vienna
Performance and installation of the project “Regelkonformitätsmaschine”
2017 Living room Festival, Zurich
Public intervention and installation of “Mein Haus, dein Haus”
2017 Urbanize Festival by Derive Magazine
Installation and performance of the project „analog posting“
2017 Unpacking Burckhardt
Part of a talk with the Social Design Studio at Narrowcast House - dokumenta14
2017 No Hope No Fear - Politics of Fear Collective at Kunsthaus Wien
Participation and Concept for a workshop
2017 Echo - in the Wells of Silence - “In der Kubatur des Kabinetts” at Fluc, Vienna
Group exhibition curated by Johanna Tinzl - Installation and performance
2016 Schwenderkino, Vienna
Public cinema and place-making project - Part of organising team
2017 Award of excellence in the architecture competition Spa in Nature by Lixil Foundation Japan
2016 Joint Study Scholarship in the course of JASEC Joint Study Program TU Wien at Tokyo University
2013 Merit scholarship of the Vienna University of Technology
LANGUAGES
PUBLICATIONS
German (mother tongue), Englisch (professional level)
Spanish and Japanese (basic conversation level)
Oskar nimmt Platz - Raum für gepflegte Unruhe
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, 2018
KENGO KUMA LAB IN TOHOKU
University of Tokyo Press, 2018
ISBN978-4-13-061137-4
Eine urbane Knautschzone mit Potential
Der öffentliche Raum in einem Stadtteil zwischen Prater und Donau
Kapitel "Stadtraumanalyse" - Team: Asia Valencic und Lena Kohlmayr
Forschungsstudie der Abteilung
Social Design – Arts as Urban Innovation
im Auftrag der MA19 – Architektur und Stadtgestaltung
Wien, 2017
LIXIL Spa in Nature Competition
architecture + urbanism
2017:07