The stone pit, the camp and the villages (2022 – 2023) Martin Krenn, in cooperation with the historian Edith Blaschitz and the team from the Institute for Creative\Media/Technologies at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, developed an audiovisual GPS web application about the former granite quarry between Roggendorf and Groß-Reipersdorf in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel, which was also part of a forced labor camp in the First and Second World Wars. The app makes stories of the former quarry visible and audible using historical photographs and documents from public and private archives, complemented by an off-screen voice. According to specific GPS coordinates, the respective images and sound files are shown or played on the tablet/smartphone. [more]

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]