Gudrun Ratzinger
Gudrun Ratzinger (she/her) is a curator, writer, and project manager, based in Vienna, Austria.
Since 2021, she has been artistic director and co-curator of Kunstraum Lakeside in Klagenfurt, a site for the production and presentation of contemporary art which aims to provoke critical reflection on aspects of the economy that concern society as a whole. Furthermore, she teaches courses on practical and theoretical aspects of exhibition making and publishing at universities such as the University of Arts Linz, the University of Klagenfurt, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna where she is currently a member of the department of Cross-Disciplinary Strategies. Her writing appears regularly in media such as springerin. Heft für Gegenwartskunst, Camera Austria, and KUNSTFORUM International.
Gudrun Ratzinger has worked at institutions such as Kunsthalle Wien, Generali Foundation, and Wien Museum. As a project manager and curator at the Technical Museum Vienna, she directed the permanent exhibition project Climate. Knowledge. Action! which opened in 2024. Her freelance curatorial projects are situated at the intersection of art, everyday culture, and cultural studies, and have been shown at Volkskundemuseum Wien (Zwischen den Dingen. Künstlerische Perspektiven zur materiellen Kultur der Gegenwart, 2021), Brennpunkt° Museum of Heating Culture Vienna (Plan B. Wie Frauen Wien veränderten, 2020), Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Löcher in der Wand. Anachronische Annäherungen an die Gegenwart, 2021), Universitätsgalerie im Heiligenkreuzerhof (inframince infra-mince infra mince – TransArts, 2021), and Wien Museum (Fifty Fifty. Kunst im Dialog mit den 50er-Jahren, 2009 | Matrix. Geschlechter / Verhältnisse / Revisionen, 2008).
She studied Art History at the University of Vienna and Cultural Studies at the University of Art and Design Linz. In her dissertation Geschichte in den Raum stellen. Museografische Reflexionen im Werk von Marcel Broodthaers, Walid Raad und Mariana Castillo Deball [Situating History in Space: Museographic Reflections in the Work of Marcel Broodthaers, Walid Raad, and Mariana Castillo Deball] (2023), she explored the possibilities of installation and object-based historical representations in contemporary art.
Exhibitions and publications (selection)[edit]
- Kunstraum Lakeside
- Sophie Dvořák — SYNTAX | 2025
- Olena Newkryta — (IMAGE) (COSMOS) (ZERO) (STAR) | 2025
- Maruša Sagadin — Dicke Haut, trotzdem ist mir kalt | 2025
- Julia Hohenwarter — O-O-O | 2024
- Nina Kintsurashvili, Salome Dumbadze, Ana Gzirishvili — Expelled Grounds | 2024
- Dušan Barok — Read Write Run | 2024
- Steffie Parlow — Ware nur auf Nachfrage. Auslage in Arbeit | 2024
- Huda Takriti — Rewinding(s). In Rehearsal | 2024
- Lisl Ponger — welcome | 2024
- Barbara Kapusta — Solar | 2023
- Stephanie Misa — Hallow Hollow | 2023
- Wörthersee, Wörtersee — Robin Waart | 2023
- Elke Auer & Daniel Hafner — Modern People | 2023
- Sven Bergelt — @basjanader_#I‘mtstty | 2023
- UBERMORGEN — Schuldvermutung | 2023
- Michail Michailov — on the other side | 2023
- AG Minimales Reisen — Parallelprotokolle | 2023
- Rilaben/Paz — Dear Lucy | 2023
- Jojo Gronostay — A Hymn of Eternal Value | 2022
- Riccardo Giacconi — Sipario | 2022
- Marie-Andrée Pellerin — Speculative Keys | 2022
- Eva Engelbert — Auch beim Stehen in Bewegung bleiben | 2022
- Simona Koch — Interbeing | 2022
- Birgit Knoechl — Bald kommt der Frühling, dann werden die Steine blühen | 2022
- Mark Fridvalszki & Zsolt Miklósvölgyi — Welt ohne jede Zukunft? | 2022
- Eva Seiler & Johanna Tinzl — Beyond Future | 2021
- Guilherme Maggessi & Rafał Morusiewicz — Duration Trouble | 2021
- Katrin Hornek — Latent Soils | 2021
- Anna Bochkova — Future Is Our Goal | 2021
- Verlag für Handbücher — Sicheres Arbeiten | 2021
- Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová — havoC, anaeMia, A tacticaL knoT, us | 2021
- Ernst Logar — Crude Oil Experiments | 2021
- Nika Kupyrova — Yaekahngai | 2021
- Publications
- Host (ed./cur. with Franz Thalmair), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2024.
- Hollow Ground (ed./cur. with Franz Thalmair), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2024.
- A Sense of Relatedness (ed./cur. with Franz Thalmair), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2023.
- Future Perfect (ed./cur. with Franz Thalmair), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2022.
- exhibit! Ausstellen als künstlerische Praxis (ed. with Franz Thalmair), KUNSTFORUM International #270, 2020.
- inframince infra-mince infra mince (ed./cur. with Franz Thalmair and TransArts), Berlin: DeGruyter, 2021.
- Depot NEU. Die Sammlung des Wien Museums zieht um, Vienna: Wien Museum, 2015.
- Fifty Fifty. Kunst im Dialog mit den 50er-Jahren (ed./cur. with Wolfgang Kos), Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2009.
