Team

AKT

AKT is an architecture collective based in Vienna. Together its members explore the relationship between people and objects that together create space. Architecture as action and vivid communication that becomes tangible through realization.

These are the individual/collective works by AKT so far: 

  • AKT 1 Europe, Oststation, Vienna (AT) 2019

  • AKT 2 EinGang, Am Kempelenpark, Vienna (AT), 2019 

  • AKT 3 Nachbar*in, Leopoldquartier, Vienna (AT) 2020 

  • AKT 4 Guest, Club Hybrid, Graz (AT) 2021 

  • AKT 4 Gastgeschenk, banale, Graz (AT) 2021 

  • AKT 5 Einbruch / Break In, Vienna Art Week, Vienna (AT) 2021 

  • AKT 6 Behälter, stage design, Landestheater Niederösterreich, St. Pölten (AT) 

  • AKT 7 Masken, stage design, Doheem – Fragments d‘intimités, Esch (LU) 2022 – Esch-sur-Alzette European Capital of Culture 2022. 

AKT are: Fabian Antosch, Gerhard Flora, Max Hebel, Adrian Judt, Julia Klaus, Lena Kohlmayr, Philipp Krummel, Gudrun Landl, Lukas Lederer, Susanne Mariacher, Christian Mörtl, Philipp Oberthaler, Charlie Rauchs, Helene Schauer, Kati Schelling, Philipp Stern, Harald Trapp

Hermann Czech

Born in Vienna. Studied under Konrad Wachsmann and Ernst A. Plischke, among others. Heterogeneous architectural and planning work; numerous critical and theoretical publications on architecture.Visiting professorships at Harvard GSD, ETH Zurich and in Vienna; numerous lectures and awards; solo exhibitions, including at the Architekturmuseum Basel, participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 1980, 1991, 2000 and 2012. His exhibition designs often make use of (existing) spatial structures to the advantage of the content: e.g.

  • “von hier aus”, Messe Düsseldorf 1984 
  • “Wien 1938”, Wien 1938“, Wiener Rathaus, 1988 
  • “Wien 1938”, Wunderblock“, Reithalle Wien 1989 
  • “Wien 1938”, Der Wiener Kreis“, Universität Wien 2015 

  • “Josef Frank: Against Design” (also as a curator), MAK Wien, 2015 

  • Ausstellung Sigmund Freud Museum Wien, 2020

Team

Commissioner:
Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport

Curators / Designers:
AKT and Hermann Czech 

Project Management:
Katharina Boesch, Julia Bildstein, section.a, Vienna

Press & Media:
Neumann + Luz Network, Cologne

Graphic Design:
Soybot, Vienna

Translation & Editing:
Mý Huê McGowran, Maria Noemi Plastino, Brigitte Willinger

Structural Engineer:
Bollinger + Grohmann

Technical Coordination Venice:
Svetislava Isakov, Troels Bruun, M+B studio, Venice

Insurance:
Barta & Partner 

Tax Consultant:
Kanzlei Geyer & Geyer, Vienna

Lighting Design:
Zumtobel, Dornbirn 

Transport:
Fantintransporti, Transdanubia