Welcome To The Club, House of Austrian History (2019) “Welcome to the Club” is a project by Martin Krenn in cooperation with Büro trafo.K (Office for Art Education and Critical Knowledge Production) and Louise Beckershaus, Markus Fösl, Sarah von Holt, Dominik Ivancic, Anna Jungmayr, Nikolaus Kowarz, Katharina Kraus, Eva Meran, Antonia Plessing (mediation team hdgö) House of Austrian History, location: Neue Burg, Heldenplatz, Vienna [more]

The Whole World in Zurich (2015 – 2017) “The Whole World in Zurich” is a project by Martin Krenn and Katharina Morawek developed and realized for Shedhalle Zurich over the course of more than two years, in collaboration with a transdisciplinary team. [more]

Point of Leisure (2017) „Point of Leisure“ is an installation in public space. It is a temporary social sculpture in the pedestrian area in the City of Eindhoven. [more]

Memorial at the Friedenskreuz St. Lorenz (2016) The artist Martin Krenn, in collaboration with RAHM architekten, responds to the ‘Friedenskreuz St. Lorenz’ (Peace Cross St. Lorenz)—erected in the 1960s—with a memorial that demands critical engagement with the Nazi past. [more]

The Political Sphere in Art Practices (2013 - 2016) The Political Sphere in Art Practices An interview web project by Martin Krenn with Grant Kester, Margit Czenki, Christoph Schäfer, Roger Behrens, Neala Schleuning, Mary Jane Jacob, Gregory Sholette and Nora Sternfeld. The project is offering key findings, which were gained from interviews that artist Martin Krenn conducted with experts of the field of social practice art. [more]

Gedenktafel Hotel Metropole (2015) A project with students of the Culinary School Judenplatz (GAFA). Performance und social sculpture by Martin Krenn to commemorate the former Hotel Metropole at Morzinplatz, Vienna. [more]

Statt Rassismus (2010) Statt Rassismus (Instead of Racism) is a five-day project in public space that uses an electoral campaign as a "Trojan Horse" vehicle to thwart the logic of conventional election campaigns. TKI-open, Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Museumsstrasse 15, Innsbruck, Austria. [more]

Democracy and Welfare for All (2009) Democracy and Welfare for All tries to draw residents' attention to questions in the public domain by means of activist performance. Parallel to working out a group performance, a photo version of the project is developed and put on posters. Festival of Regions in the Pfarre Auwiesen, supported by Radio Fro 105,0 MHZ, Stadtwerkstatt Linz and maiz - Autonomous centre for and with Migrant Women Linz, Austria. [more]

Monument for a Just City (2008) During his research residence in Zagreb Martin Krenn held a three-day workshop to collectively come upon a reply to the theme of this year's festival in conversations about the social situation. The result was a performative event: the erection of a monument demanding a just city. In cooperation with: Sonja Lebos, Marija Lopac, Dina Roncevic, Sonja Soldo, Vesna Vukovic. UrbanFestival Zagreb "How we regret...", Zagreb, Croatia. [more]

Right to Stay (2007) From 30th March to 1st April 2007 a three-day workshop was held by Martin Krenn in the Afro-Asian Institute Graz. The outcome of the workshop is a public project that opposes the new Austrian Alien Law. In cooperation with Katica Stanic, Ingeborg Nawratil, Katja Simettinger, Manfred Kinzer, Gudrun Diestler, Gerald Kuhn. WIR sind viele. Positionen zum Thema Migration, Graz, Austria. [more]

Transcription (2006/2014) Public intervention around a Nazi grave that pays homage to "SA Storm Unit Leader" Tita Probst. In cooperation with Wolfram Kastner, Graz, Austria. [more]

Monument for the Defeat (2005/2006) Monument for the Defeat is an installation in front of the court building in Ostarrichi Park, Vienna, erected as a base empty of its monument, to recall the fact that Austria was never fully de-Nazified. In cooperation with Charlotte Martinez-Turek, Nora Sternfeld and Luisa Ziaja, Vienna, Austria. [more]

Monument of the "Aryanisation" (2005 - 2008) A project about the neglected NS-History of the "Riesenrad", a landmark of Vienna. Posters at several locations in Vienna and an ad in the Austrian daily newspaper “Der Standard”, Museum in Progress, Austria. [more]

Is it so? (2005) Youth project about the school system and the public sphere with the students group "Dobry Den". In cooperation with trafo.K. Festival of Regions 2005/Ordered States, Mühlviertel, Austria. [more]

Posters for Aarhus Festival of Contemporary Art (2004) Posters against racism in EUrope that nearly have been censored by the City of Aarhus. In cooperation with Oliver Ressler. Minority Report: Challenging Intolerance in Contemporary Denmark, Aarhus, Denmark. [more]

European Corrections Corporation (2003, 2004) The project focuses on the phenomenon of the advancing privatization of prisons in Europe and questions the institution prison. In cooperation with Oliver Ressler. Three different container installations. Real*utopia, Graz, Austria, Festival of regions, Wels, Austria and Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany. [more]

Rückgabe/Restitution (2001) Legitimacy in appearance: Robbery without Restitution. Intervention for the awareness of robbery and concealment in the festival town of Salzburg. In cooperation with Wolfram Kastner and students from the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts. Public space, Gallery 5020, Salzburg, Austria. Public space, Gallery 5020, Salzburg, Austria. [more]

Border Crossing Services (2001) A project on borders, migration and border crossing services. In cooperation with Oliver Ressler and the project group Lüneburg. Direct mailing “Neues Grenzblatt” in the Austrian/Slovenian border region, Austria. Exhibition in Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg, Germany. [more]

Demo Stickers (2000) Web project to protest against the installation of the right wing government in Austria in the year 2000. Festival "Soho in Ottakring", Vienna, Austria. [more]

Power and Obedience (1999) The project attempts to investigate and question mechanisms of subordination, domination and control in schools by publicising the pupil's critique of schools. In cooperation with students from alternative and regular schools. Internet project: SchülerInnenforum, Billboard series, Exhibition: Passagegalerie Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria. [more]

War Zones (1999) Photo series about “War Zones”, which focuses on wars that are fought with military, economic, political and propaganda weapons. In cooperation with Oliver Ressler. Billboards, Third Austrian Triennial on Photography, “Publi©Domain”, Graz, Austria. [more]

Institutional Racism (1997) Institutional Racism (1997) Exhibition in the Kunsthalle Exnergasse and billboardobject public space, Vienna. In order to bring institutional racism into the focus of public attention, a 3 x 3 x 3 m cube was placed in the Viennese city centre in front of the State Opera. In co-operation with Oliver Ressler. Vienna, Austria. [more]

Learned Homeland (1996) Two school book pages expanded with blocks of text and an announcement of the exhibition in the Neue Galerie animated observers to confront the construction of a homeland-concept using their own school experiences. In cooperation with Oliver Ressler. Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria. [more]

The New Right - Materials for the Dismantling (1995) The New Right - Materials for the Dismantling (1995) The new right's ideological arguments find a network for interaction in publishing houses, magazines, institutions and joint book publications. Bill poster series that attempts to point out racism in the structures of the new right's identifications and their meanings. In co-operation with Oliver Ressler, Vienna, Austria. [more]

The real glory and other stories … (2018) Solo exhibition at 1335MABINI, Manila, Philippines, 22 March to 21 April 2018. [more]

Transforming Long Kesh/Maze Prison (2016-2019) ‘Transforming Long Kesh/Maze’ is a collaborative social sculpture by artists Martin Krenn and Aisling O’Beirn, exploring the future of the Maze/Long Kesh prison site beyond its current state of limbo. [more]

... truth should be honored. (2014) Solo exhibition at 1335MABINI, Manila, Philippines, 29 November to 20 December, 2014. [more]

World´s End (2011 - 2013) The photo exhibition “World´s End” focuses on a small Northern Irish village and a British military base that is located within a typical Irish landscape setting off the rocky coast. Solo-exhibition Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, 15th January to 16th March 2013, Graz, Austria [more]

Memory in (Post-)Totalitarianism (2010 - 2012) The exhibition undertakes a photographic journey to different sites of history. Through monuments, archives, museums and memorials it follows the traces of evolution and change of historical images in totalitarian and post-totalitarian societies. Centre for Visual Introspection (CIV), Bucharest, Romania, Galerie; Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz, Austria; VOLTA NY, booth number B 2, New York, USA. [more]

Choi Yuen Village (2009) Choi Yuen Village is one of the many agricultural villages established in the New Territories of Hong Kong by mainland immigrants in the 1950s and 60s. Choi Yuen Village is scheduled for demolition in 2010. Photoseries with the support of the Choi Yuen Villagers, Hong Kong, China. [more]

Tirana Tours (2007) The starting point of the project is the communist tourist guide "Tirana", a book that was published in German/English/French/Albanian in 1990. Photo Series (10 photos)/Video 6:23 min. < rotor > and TICA (Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art), Tirana, Albania. [more]

Fortress Heiligendamm (3 Parts, 2007) PART 1: The Village, Bad Doberan, Germany. [more]

Fortress Heiligendamm (2007) PART 2: The Woods, Bad Doberan, Germany. [more]

Fortress Heiligendamm (2007) PART 3: The Sea, Bad Doberan, Germany. [more]

Misplaced Histories (2005 - 2008) The series Misplaced Histories consists of photographs of well known locations like the Giant Wheel in Vienna, the Munich Stadtmuseum or the Berlin Zoo. These are landmarks that were "aryanized" during the Nazi Times and nearly no one remembers it today. Usti Nad Labem, Czech Republic, Vienna, Austria, Graz, Austria, Munich, Germany, Berlin, Germany, Gdansk, Poland. [more]

Freedom of movement is our right! (2005) Photograph of a staged performance in public space that questions the politics of exclusion against non-German citizens in Berlin. In Cooperation with Hyacienth Nguh, Abdoul Rafiou, Ahmed Sameer. "MOV!NG ON", Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany. [more]

City Views (2003 - 2008) "City Views" offers insights into various European cities. In cooperation with resident migrants living in those cities. The photo-text series places various views of each of the cities investigated in relation to one another. The focus is on specific social, cultural, and political relations of urban locations where migrant groups are active. Vienna, Austria, Warsaw, Poland, Brest, France, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Helsingborg, Sweden, Graz, Austria, Newcastle, United Kingdom, Munich, Germany, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Universal Embassy - Brussels, Belgium, London, United Kingdom. [more]

Demonstrate! (2000 - 2001) Participants at the "Thursday demos" in Vienna were invited to determine how they should be portrayed and to give a statement on the political situation in Austria. The photo portraits were shot in summer 2000 during the demonstrations. 26 photo-text prints, color, A0 format, First presentation: summer 2000 at Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria. [more]

Feld-Herren Revisited (2014) The film Feld-Herren Revisited (Austria, 32 min) discusses the historical roots of participatory and propagandist art. The video exposes the connections between artistic research and political engagement and of the related aesthetics. [more]

World's End (Film) 2013 The film "World´s End" focuses on a small Northern Irish village that is located within a typical Irish landscape setting off the rocky coast. UK I 27min I English [more]

One village from Austria (2011 - 2012) A doku-fiction based on excerpts of the novel "Die Wolfshaut" by the Austrian writer Hans Lebert. Experimental l Austria l 33 min l Digital [more]

In between the movements (2007 - 2012) In between the movements looks at the networking that is taking place between local & global justice movement groups. The project investigates corresponding practices and their influence on theory. Series of 12 documentaries l Albania, Austria, China, Germany, Slovenia, USA l From 8 min to 23 min l Digital [more]

Travel Scans (2007) Travel Scans is a film portrait of three cities: Belfast, Tallinn and Gdansk. A travel documentary questioning its own image and text production. Experimental l UK, Estonia, Poland l 17.16 min l Digital [more]

One Shot (2007) In a single take, a street scene is documented in which an elderly man, in an unexpected act, becomes the protagonist of the short film. Short Film l Albania l 2.10 min l Digital [more]

Notes on Resistance (2006) Notes on Resistance investigates forms of resistance against fascism during the 1930’s and 1940’s in Europe. Documentary l Austria, Spain, France l 65 min l Digital [more]

Border Crossing Services (2001) A four-part video on borders, migration & border crossing services; Documentary l Austria, Germany l 51 min l Digital [more]

Democratea (2011) A public interactive tea exchange, creating materials for an improvised and performative campaign embracing people’s concerns of today. Ninth International Live Art Biennial in Belfast; Collective: DEMOCRATEA, Belfast, United Kingdom. [more]

Blast the alien law (2006) Performance with "Ehe ohne Grenzen", "IG BIldende Kunst" (Daniela Koweindl, Martin Krenn, Regina Wuzella, Petja Dimitrova), "VBKÖ - Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreich", Vienna, Austria. [more]

Wahlpartie (2002) The "Wahlpartie" was no party, no group and no association, it was a campaign during the Austrian national election. Its aim is to set requests against discrimination in public and media space, that is devoted to this election. ANAR (Austrian Network Against Racism), BEIGEWUM, eipcp, getto-attack, IG Kultur, Österreich, Klub Zwei, MAIZ and many activists, Vienna, Austria. [more]

On the tectonics of history, exhibition tour (2005 - 2009) The exhibition exposes the historical traces of the Nazi era in the 1930s and 1940s. Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; In cooperation with Andrea Domesle and with local curators; Faculty of Art and Design of Jan Evangelista Purkyne University/Emil Filla Gallery; Usti nad Labem, Czech republic, WYSPA Institute of Art, Wyspa Progress Foundation, Gdansk, Poland; Motorenhalle – Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden, Germany; ISCP, New York, USA. [more]

Normality in [the] Crisis (2009) Options for radical art practices in heterogeneous social space; A symposium by the Festival of Regions 09 - Normality at the Subversive Fair in Linz; with Alejandra Aravena, Marina Gržinić, Ruth Noack, Gerald Raunig, Dmitry Vilensky and Stephen Wright; Moderation of the final panel: Stefan Nowotny; Linz, Austria. [more]

Zone 2005 (2005) Between political representation and representative politics; The exhibition is discussing and criticizing the official politics of Nazi-history in Austria after 1945; In cooperation with Petja Dimitrova, Luisa Ziaja, Galerie IG BILDENDE KUNST; Vienna, Austria. [more]

Arbeiten gegen Rassismen (2005) Poster series, which discusses racism in public space, artists/activists: Ljubomir Bratic / Richard Ferkl, Petja Dimitrova, Klub Zwei (Simone Bader, Jo Schmeiser), Anna Kowalska, Martin Krenn, Schwarze Frauen Community; Vienna, Austria. [more]

Election Gifts - Beyond Politics (2019) A project by students of the University of Applied Arts, department KKP, realised in the context of the seminar "Intervention/Participation" by Martin Krenn, in cooperation with ecm - educating/curating/managing - Postgraduate Programme, "living room installation" in the entrance area of ​​an empty business building, Viktor-Adler-Markt, Vienna 2019, "living room installation", Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, Angewandte Festival, "living room installation", WUK, KEX - STUDIO, Vienna 2019. [more]

Dialogical Seminars (2017) "Dialogical Seminars" in the Kunsthalle Wien, was an art mediation project by students of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Department KKP, realized in the context of the seminar "Dialogical Interventions" by Martin Krenn in collaboration with Andrea Hubin, 2017 [more]

Luegerplatz.com (2008 - 2012) Open Call to transform the Karl Lueger statue into a monument against anti-Semitism and racism in Austria. University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. [more]

Wien. sicher leben/Initiative Autonome Überwachung (2008 - 2009) The folder “Wien. sicher leben/Vienna. live safely” (24 p., Ger.) was designed to comment subversively on the new surveillance law in Austria. University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. [more]

Comment on Racism (2007) The poster campaign ‘comment on racism’ shall be understood as a statement on the political situation in Austria. University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. [more]

Konzept Kochen - Angewandtes Essen (2006 - 2007) Because of the lack of quality-food and high prices in the local cafeteria students designed and built their own mobile kitchen and organised public cooking events, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. [more]