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Image Credit: Leni Hoffmann, Veronika Spierenburg, and Zara Pfeifer.
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is pleased to announce Final Projects: Group LVIII, featuring work produced by our Artists- and Architects-in-Residence: Leni Hoffmann, Veronika Spierenburg, and Zara Pfeifer. The exhibition marks the culmination of the 58th iteration of the Artists- and Architects-in-Residence Program at the Mackey Apartments.
Artists
LENI HOFFMANN
Leni Hoffmann lives in Düsseldorf / Karlsruhe and works in situ. They create site-specific projects that engage with architecture, often unfolding through time-based interventions. Hoffmann graduated as Meisterschüler of Georg Karl Pfahler at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. Since 2002, they have held a professorship in painting and graphic arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.
Hoffmann’s work has been exhibited widely throughout Europe and Australia, including at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Ludwig Köln, Städel Museum Frankfurt, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Palazzo delle Papesse Siena, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, and the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe. They participated in the 3rd Moscow Biennale and has received numerous awards, including the Gabriele Münter Prize and the Villa Massimo Rome Prize.
VERONIKA SPIERENBURG
Veronika Spierenburg is a Swiss-Dutch artist working across sound, movement, and architecture. She is interested in how spatial perception can be explored through movement and sound, and she often collaborates with dancers, environmental scientist, and researchers from fields such as dance studies and architecture. Her long-term, research-based projects frequently culminate in film works. She is currently working on a film about the Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara and preparing a book with MACK (London) on the Swiss architect Flora Ruchat-Roncati, to be published IN 2027.
ZARA PFEIFER
Zara Pfeifer is an artist based in Vienna and Berlin whose work engages with the social phenomena of large-scale infrastructure. She studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and photography at the Friedl Kubelka School for Artistic Photography in Vienna. Since 2019, she teaches a seminar on architectural photography at the Technical University of Vienna. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, the Academy of Arts in Berlin, and the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. She has received numerous honors, including a studio grant from the Austrian Federal Government at ISCP New York and the MAK Schindler Scholarship in Los Angeles for 2025/26.
Final Projects: Group LVIII is supported by the Austrian Consulate General in Los Angeles. The Artists- and Architects-in-Residence Program at the Mackey Apartments is organized and led in cooperation with the MAK — Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.
