Barbara Holub
with Paul Rajakovics as Transparadiso
“The residency provided a new insight in the current society and issues in L.A., and thus encouraged us to pursue our critical artistic-urbanistic practice addressing local contexts and deveopling new tools. ”
Barbara Holub is an artist, researcher and curator, based in Vienna. In 1999 she founded transparadiso with architect and urbanist Paul Rajakovics as a transdisciplinary practice between art, architecture, urbanism and research.
Barbara Holub was president of the Secession Vienna (2006-2007). She serves on international juries and boards, such as the 'Innovation Fund for Culture in Public Space', Stuttgart (2018-2022); Art & the Public Sphere Journal, UK (2010-); World Council of Peoples for the United Nations, New York (2013); dérive – magazine for urban research, Vienna (2002-).
Barbara Holub directed the artistic research project 'Planning Unplanned. Can Art Have a Function? Towards a New Function of Art in Society' (Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Art and Design, 2010-2013). She was Visiting Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2014), where she is currently senior lecturer; lectured at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)/ School of Art and Design (1997), Konstfack, Stockholm (2018) and was visiting scientist at HafenCity University, Hamburg (2017). Barbara Holub is principal investigator/ partner of the EU project SPACEX—Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture for Empathetic Exchange (2022–2025). She directed the flagship project WE PARAPOM! for Chemnitz European Capital of Culture 2025 (2021-2023; https://weparapom.eu/).
Barbara Holub was awarded the Research Prize of the Austrian Chamber of Architects (2022), the Austrian National Art Award (2018), the Otto Wagner Prize for Urban Design (2007), the Schindler Grant of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (2004), and the Outstanding Artist Award for Artistic Photography of the Austrian Federal Chancellery (1999).
EDUCATION
2018
PhD, Vienna University of Technology
Vienna, Austria
1987
University of Technology Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany.
JURY
Francesco Bonami
Farshid Moussavi
Heinrich Pichler
Martin Prinzhorn
Peter Noever
FINAL PROJECT
