Karoline Mayer
Since 2024, she has been part of the curatorial team of the House of Austrian History for the preparation of the curatorial program for the new location at Mariahilferstraße 2.
Karoline Mayer studied architecture at the University of East London and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. From 2011 to 2024 she worked at the Architekturzentrum Wien. Among other things, she established the Architektur.Film.Sommer, an annual architecture film festival. As a curator, she was responsible for exhibitions such as “Toourism”, “Land for Us All” and “Form follows Rule”. In her current doctoral studies at the Vienna University of Technology and as leader of various courses, she deals with industrial production in the city. The “Simmering works” festival she developed in 2019, for example, made the industrial heritage of Vienna's Simmering district tangible for a wide audience.
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Exhibitions2024–
Toourism (with Katharina Ritter), Architekturzentrum Wien with subsequent traveling exhibition, for example at the European Capital of Culture Salzkammergut
2020–23
Land for Us All (with Katharina Ritter), Architekturzentrum Wien with subsequent traveling exhibition, 21 locations in all federal states of Austria
2017
Form follows Rule (with Martina Frühwirth and Katharina Ritter), Architekturzentrum Wien
2016
In the End: Architecture. Journeys through time 1959–2019 (with Sonja Pisarik and Katharina Ritter), Architekturzentrum Wien
2010
Bless my homeland forever (with Ioana Marinescu), Kunsthalle Exnergasse
2006
grenzRaum, Zukunfts- und Kulturwerkstätte
Publications2024
Karoline Mayer, Katharina Ritter, Angelika Fitz (Hg.), Über Tourismus, Zurich 2024.
Karoline Mayer, Wolfgang Kos, in: Stefan Benedik, Konrad Mitschka, Karin Moser (Hg.), Radiomomente. Erinnerungen und Analysen aus 100 Jahren Radio. Wien 2024, 112.
2022
Karoline Mayer, Katharina Ritter, Boden für Alle, in: IG Architektur (Hg.), Reden wir über Baukultur! Was in Zukunft wichtig wird, Berlin 2022, 78–80.
Karoline Mayer, Turbo-Gentrifizierung zwischen Autobahn und Müllverbrennungsanlage. Ein Stadterweiterungs-Blues, in: IG Architektur (Hg.), Reden wir über Baukultur! Was in Zukunft wichtig wird, Berlin 2022, 86–89.
2021
Karoline Mayer, Katharina Ritter, Boden für Alle: Bodenschutz und Ernährungssicherheit – nicht nur in Zeiten von COVID19, in: Raumdialog 02 (2021), 20–22.
Karoline Mayer, Katharina Ritter, Fußballfelder für Alle, in: DER STANDARD, 26. Juni 2021, 52.
2020
Karoline Mayer, Katharina Ritter, Angelika Fitz (Hg.), Boden für Alle, Zurich 2020.
Karoline Mayer, Katharina Ritter, Boden für Alle. Eine Ausstellung des Architekturzentrum Wien, in: Raumdialog 03 (2020), 18–19.
2017
Karoline Mayer, Sonja Pisarik, Katharina Ritter, Dietmar Steiner, Am Ende: Architektur. 50 Jahre ARCH+ Projekt und Utopie, ARCH+ 229 (2017).
2010
Ioana Marinescu, Karoline Mayer (Hg.), Bless my homeland forever, Vienna 2010.
Other projects2020
Worth its weight in Gold (2020, AT, 60 min)
Documentary film about industrial and waste disposal companies in Vienna Simmering with a focus on the conflicts between residents and production in the city.
Funding: Margarethe-Schütte-Lihotzky project grant from the BMKOES
Simmering works – Work and production in the growing city
Festival on the topic of work and production in Vienna Simmering (with Marlene Rutzendorfer)
Funding: SHIFT III Program of the City of Vienna
University teachingVarious international guest critiques and teaching assignments at the Vienna University of Technology:
260.836 Work is half of our lifes | TU Wien
260.850 Work is half of our lifes (Industrial sites in Vienna + Budapest) | TU Wien
Das halbe Leben — TU Wien Urbanism (urbanism-tuwien.at)
260.879 Design Studio Exhibition "Half of our lives" | TU Wien