Through objects, installations, writing, and exhibitions, I create spaces where critical reflection and excitement can coexist. They open up new possibilities for how we relate to the things and systems around us.
Some recurrent themes in my work are folktales, whose narratives allow for multiple realities and transcent the logical, and archives, inventories, or lists that I discern and reorder to tell stories. Also: the sun.
In addition to my own design practice, I serve as the chairwoman of Design in Gesellschaft, a design collective in Vienna, and oversee the Design section at Forum Stadtpark in Graz. I hold degrees in Mechanical Engineering (TU Wien) and Industrial Design (University of Applied Arts, Vienna – Fiona Raby, Anab Jain).
My work is part of the permanent collection of MAK, but has also travelled further, to Design Museum Holon (IL), Triennale di Milano (IT), Gent Design Museum (BE), Vitra Design Museum (D), Design Museum London (UK), Bal Robotov (RU), Jerusalem Design Week (IL), Biennale Internationale de St. Etienne (F). In 2018, I was included in the Forbes 30 under 30 list.
Some recurrent themes in my work are folktales, whose narratives allow for multiple realities and transcent the logical, and archives, inventories, or lists that I discern and reorder to tell stories. Also: the sun.
In addition to my own design practice, I serve as the chairwoman of Design in Gesellschaft, a design collective in Vienna, and oversee the Design section at Forum Stadtpark in Graz. I hold degrees in Mechanical Engineering (TU Wien) and Industrial Design (University of Applied Arts, Vienna – Fiona Raby, Anab Jain).
My work is part of the permanent collection of MAK, but has also travelled further, to Design Museum Holon (IL), Triennale di Milano (IT), Gent Design Museum (BE), Vitra Design Museum (D), Design Museum London (UK), Bal Robotov (RU), Jerusalem Design Week (IL), Biennale Internationale de St. Etienne (F). In 2018, I was included in the Forbes 30 under 30 list.
SELECTED PRESS
https://www.kleinezeitung.at/zuhause/20211087/leihen-ist-das-neue-haben
https://www.forbes.at/artikel/kuenstliche-maschinen
https://www.diepresse.com/18162335/offspring-eine-ausstellung-wie-ein-indoor-spielplatz
https://www.diepresse.com/20087043/design-aus-der-wahlheimat-stellt-man-sich-bei-der-arbeit-selbst-aus-wird-man-verwundbar
https://www.falstaff.com/living/news/new-faces-heterogenes-kollektiv
SELECTED PARTNERS AND CLIENTS
Schloss Hollenegg
Stoelzle Oberglas
Vossen
Museum of Applied Arts Vienna (MAK)
willhaben
Vienna Design Week
Kunstuni Linz and the ars electronica Center
Stadt Nürnberg
Forum Stadtpark
Design Museum Holon
Jerusalem Design Week
Biennale Internationale de St. Etienne
TEACHING
Speculative and Critical Design
Vienna University of Technology
Human Computer Interaction Group
Myths and Matter
Kunstuni Linz
Dreidimensionales Gestalten
University of Technology Vienna
Architektur, Kunst2
Designtheorie
University of Technology Vienna
Architektur, Kunst2
Design as Playful Intervention
HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
CONTACT
Engerthstraße 124
1200 Wien
Austria
+678 1218197
studio@johannapichlbauer.com
Podcast feature
https://www.kleinezeitung.at/zuhause/20211087/leihen-ist-das-neue-haben
https://www.forbes.at/artikel/kuenstliche-maschinen
https://www.diepresse.com/18162335/offspring-eine-ausstellung-wie-ein-indoor-spielplatz
https://www.diepresse.com/20087043/design-aus-der-wahlheimat-stellt-man-sich-bei-der-arbeit-selbst-aus-wird-man-verwundbar
https://www.falstaff.com/living/news/new-faces-heterogenes-kollektiv
SELECTED PARTNERS AND CLIENTS
Schloss Hollenegg
Stoelzle Oberglas
Vossen
Museum of Applied Arts Vienna (MAK)
willhaben
Vienna Design Week
Kunstuni Linz and the ars electronica Center
Stadt Nürnberg
Forum Stadtpark
Design Museum Holon
Jerusalem Design Week
Biennale Internationale de St. Etienne
TEACHING
Speculative and Critical Design
Vienna University of Technology
Human Computer Interaction Group
Myths and Matter
Kunstuni Linz
Dreidimensionales Gestalten
University of Technology Vienna
Architektur, Kunst2
Designtheorie
University of Technology Vienna
Architektur, Kunst2
Design as Playful Intervention
HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
CONTACT
Engerthstraße 124
1200 Wien
Austria
+678 1218197
studio@johannapichlbauer.com
Podcast feature