Elke Krasny

Elke Krasny is Professor of Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Head of its Art and Education Program. A leading feminist cultural theorist and urban researcher, she interrogates intersections between care ethics, ecological justice, and spatial practices in architecture, curating, and art education.

• Key themes: Feminist spatial praxis, urban reproduction, and planetary healing
• Co-curator of Critical Care: Architecture for a Broken Planet (MIT Press, 2019) and Hands-On Urbanism (2012–2014) at Venice Biennale
• 2023 book Living with an Infected Planet examines pandemic care systems through feminist lenses

Research Trajectory spans feminist critiques of infrastructure, decolonial urban memory, and curating as emancipatory practice. Her 2023–2024 lectures at Yale, Malmö, and Oldenburg explore care as life-affirming infrastructure against colonial and patriarchal violence.

Curatorial Contributions include Yasmeen Lari: Architecture for the Future (2023) and Radicalizing Care (2021), which reframe architectural practice through feminist and queer activism. She advocates for care-based urbanism in lectures across Europe and North America.