Univ.-Prof. Mag. PhD. Elke Krasny

Elke Krasny is Professor of Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Institute for Education in the Arts. She is head of the Art and Education program. As a cultural theorist and curator, Krasny researches issues of care and social reproduction, social and ecological justice, transnational feminisms, as well as memory work and the politics of history in contemporary art, architecture, curatorial practice and art education.

Her exhibition Hands-On Urbanism. The Right to Green was shown at the 2012 Biennale in Venice. Together with Angelika Fitz, she curated Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet (2019). She curated the monographic exhibition Yasmeen Lari. Architecture for the Future (2023) together with Angelika Fitz and Marvi Mazhar. Edited volumes include: Curating with Care, with Lara Perry (Routledge 2023); Curating as Feminist Organizing, with Lara Perry (Routledge, 2022); Radicalizing Care. Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating, with Sophie Lingg, Lena Fritsch, Birgit Bosold and Vera Hofmann (Sternberg Press 2021), Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet, with Angelika Fitz (MIT Press, 2019), In Reserve! The Household with Regina Bittner (Spector Books, 2016), Frauen:Museum. Politiken des Kuratorischen in Feminismus, Bildung, Geschichte und Kunst / Women’s Museum. Curatorial Politics in Feminism Education, History, and Art (Löcker Verlag, 2013). Her book Living with an Infected Planet, Covid-19, Feminism, and the Global Frontline of Care will be published with transcript in 2023.

Elke Krasny supervises dissertations on feminist and emancipatory dimensions of contemporary curatorial and artistic practice, didactics and education of the arts as well as memory work, spatial practices, architecture, and urbanism.

https://www.elkekrasny.at

Publications

Mongraphies

Krasny, Elke: Living with an Infected Planet. Covid-19, Feminism, and the Global Frontline of Care, Bielefeld 2023

Krasny, Elke; Perry, Lara (eds): Curating with Care, London 2023

Krasny, Elke; Perry, Lara (eds): Curating as Feminist Organizing, London 2023

Fitz, Angelika; Krasny, Elke; Mazhar, Marvi; Architekturzentrum Wien (eds): Yasmeen Lari. Architecture for the Future, Boston 2023

Krasny, Elke; Lingg, Sophie et. al. (eds): Radicalizing Care. Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating, Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, vol 26, London 2021

Krasny, Elke: Archive, Care and Conversation. Suzanne Lacy’s International Dinner Party in Feminist Curatorial Thought, On Curating Publishing Platform, 2020 

Fitz, Angelika; Krasny, Elke; Architekturzentrum Wien (eds): Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet, Boston 2019

Krasny, Elke; Frauenmuseum Meran (eds): Frauen:Museum. Politiken des Kuratorischen in Feminismus, Kunst, Bildung und Geschichte / Women’s:Museum. Curatorial Politics in Feminism, Art, Education and History, Vienna 2013

Krasny, Elke: Stadt und Frauen. Eine andere Topographie von Wien, Vienna 2008

Articles

Krasny, Elke. “The Museum and the Anthropocene. Ecological Grief, Planetary Mourning, Healing Feminist Curating” in: Krasny, Elke; Perry, Lara (eds): Curating as Feminist Organizing, London 2023, pp. 21-31

Krasny, Elke. “Maintenance and Visibility” in: Arch + Contemporary Feminist Spatial
Practices, 2023, pp. 192-196

Krasny, Elke. “Feministisch Stadtforschung kuratieren. Mitgehen, Nachgehen, Weitergehen” in: Hahn, Annemarie; Schroer, Nada Rosa; Hegge, Eva; Meyer, Torsten (eds): Curatorial Learning Spaces. Kunst, Bildung und kuratorische Praxis, Munich 2023, pp. 189-196

Krasny, Elke. “Care Trouble. Thinking through gendered entanglements in architecture” in: Pepchinski, Mary; Budde, Christina (eds): Women Architects and Politics. Intersections between Gender, Power Structures and Architecture in the Long 20th Century, Bielefeld 2022, pp. 27-46

Krasny, Elke. “Massstäbe der Sorge. Feministische Raumpraxen” in: Beitin, Andreas; Koch, Katharina; Ruhkamp, Ute (eds): Empowerment Kunst und Feminismen, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg 2022, pp. 184-187

Krasny, Elke. #Climate Feminism. How:// Do We Speak #Feminism?// New Global Challenges - A Glossary, FKW 70 (2022) (peer reviewed)

PhD Supervision