Martin Krenn

Martin Krenn is a Professor of Fine Art specializing in art education at the Braunschweig Academy of Fine Arts (HBK Braunschweig). He holds a doctorate from Ulster University and a habilitation from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. His work integrates art with critical social engagement, focusing on racism critique, memory work, and democratic discourse. Key projects include the appropriate! journal (focusing on art mediation and democratization), the take a seat installation exploring public democracy spaces, and the Granitsteinbruch web app documenting Nazi-era forced labor histories.

Education: Paintings (University of Applied Arts Vienna), Electronic Music (University of Performing Arts Vienna), Doctorate in Political Space in Social Art Practices (Ulster University), Habilitation in Art and Communicative Practice (Vienna).

Research emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches combining art with sociology, postcolonial studies, queer theory, and urbanism. Projects like Enlightening the Parliament (video interviews with citizens) and Welcome to the Club (interactive museum installation) exemplify his dialogic methods. Collaborations include St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences and the House of Austrian History.

Publications include Dialogical Interventions (2019) and Restaging the Object (2022). Major exhibitions include Austria Is a Wonderful Country (Weltmuseum Wien, 2020-2021) and installations addressing historical trauma in Lower Saxony and Belfast.

Teaching focuses on developing artistic practices as critical educational tools, emphasizing art's role in societal questioning beyond traditional aesthetics.