Johanna Pichlbauer is a Vienna-based designer and curator. Her practice spans exhibition design, objects, and writing — with a particular interest in what designed things carry beyond their function: their histories, their contradictions, and the stories they tell about the people who made and used them.
Her work has been commissioned and collected by institutions including the MAK Vienna, and shown internationally at the Triennale di Milano, Vitra Design Museum, Design Museum London, and Jerusalem Design Week, among others. She holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering from TU Wien and in Industrial Design from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she studied with Fiona Raby and Anab Jain.
Her work is part of the permanent collection of the MAK and has been presented internationally, including at the Design Museum Holon (IL), Triennale di Milano (IT), Gent Design Museum (BE), Vitra Design Museum (DE), Design Museum London (UK), Bal Robotov (RU), Jerusalem Design Week (IL), and the Biennale Internationale de Design de Saint-Étienne (FR). In 2018, she was included in the European Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Arnsteingasse 16a/1
1150 Wien
Austria
+678 1218197
mail@johannapichlbauer.com
Her work has been commissioned and collected by institutions including the MAK Vienna, and shown internationally at the Triennale di Milano, Vitra Design Museum, Design Museum London, and Jerusalem Design Week, among others. She holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering from TU Wien and in Industrial Design from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she studied with Fiona Raby and Anab Jain.
Her work is part of the permanent collection of the MAK and has been presented internationally, including at the Design Museum Holon (IL), Triennale di Milano (IT), Gent Design Museum (BE), Vitra Design Museum (DE), Design Museum London (UK), Bal Robotov (RU), Jerusalem Design Week (IL), and the Biennale Internationale de Design de Saint-Étienne (FR). In 2018, she was included in the European Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Arnsteingasse 16a/1
1150 Wien
Austria
+678 1218197
mail@johannapichlbauer.com
Exhibition Design & Scenography
Fahrrad und Hummer — MAK Wien — 2025–2026 Possessed Mountains — Forum Stadtpark — 2025
There will be! People! On the Sun! Soon! — MAK Wien — 2021
Curation
School of Maybe — Forum Stadtpark — 2025, 2026 Islands of Loners — Forum Stadtpark — 2026
BUILDING — Design in Gesellschaft — 2025
KNIT AND WEAVE — Schloss Hollenegg — 2025
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace — Stiege 1zwei3 — 2024
Berggasse 19 — 74th Arts — 2024
CODING — Design in Gesellschaft — 2023
OFFSPRING — Viktoria — 2023
UNDING — Design in Gesellschaft — 2023
Suchagent: Schweren Herzens — Vienna Design Week — 2021
Märchen, Mythen und Materie — Ars Electronica Center — 2020
Objects & Installations
Artificial Horizon — Vienna Design Week, Design in Gesellschaft — 2025 Déjeuner Solitaire — Collectible Brüssel — 2026
AUT Now — MAK Wien — 2024
Glass Mountain — Schloss Hollenegg — 2023
RUIN (Brio) — Kunstraum Super — 2023
Date<3Ding — Design in Gesellschaft — 2023
South Pointing Fish — Schloss Hollenegg — 2022
Mounted Porcelain — Schloss Hollenegg — 2022
10 Rammkatzen — MAK Wien — 2021
DIN2121 — wienwoche — 2021
Nostalgia Posthuman — Jerusalem Design Week — 2018
Speculative Design
Vienna Summer Scouts — Vitra Design Museum, Design Museum Gent, MAK Wien, V&A Dundee — 2017–2020 King GAFA And The Magical 0-1 Crop — Biennale for Change, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur — 2018
Beautification — Triennale Milano, Salone del Mobile, Biennale St. Étienne — 2015–2016
Interior Design
Ding!Dong! — Arbio — 2023Theater & Performance
Fuchs und Henne — Vienna Design Week — 2019Stadt der Temperamente — Vienna Design Week — 2019
Design Research
Social Play Technologies — Vienna Design Week — 2020SELECTED PRESS
https://www.kleinezeitung.at/zuhause/20211087/leihen-ist-das-neue-habenhttps://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