Looking at the Home

Living/Dwelling is shaped by imaginary worlds created by the media. Within the realm of visual modernism, a diverse array of images and media—ranging from art and film to streaming, blogs, and advertising graphics—contribute to housing as an identity-producing relationship among residents, spaces, and objects. Social, gender, ethnic, economic and political relationships are "established" in housing and living. The aesthetic is central to this, as it organises and forms these relationships in the way they are portrayed, made visible and represented. The aesthetic encompasses design processes which can range from the reproductive and conventional to the innovative, alternative, and transformative. Thus, the potential of the visual realm must be explored to navigate the spectrum between idealized representations and the realities of everyday living.

Program
Irene Nierhaus (Vienna/Bremen): Introduction
Kathrin Heinz (Bremen): Living in pictures: Gabriele Münter's Rooms
Bernadette Krejs (Vienna): Aestheticised Homes on Instagram
Elke Krasny (Vienna): Moderation and commentary

Irene Nierhaus, Prof. i.R. Dr.

until 2021 Professor of Kunstwissenschaft und ästhetische Theorie at the University of Bremen and Director of the Mariann Steegmann Institute. Art & Gender in cooperation with the University of Bremen. Founding professor of the research field wohnen+/-ausstellen 2009 and the eponymous publication series at transcript with Kathrin Heinz. Since 2012 Advisory Board FKW//Journal for Gender Studies and Visual Culture, since 2023 University Councillor at the University of Klagenfurt. Member of Gleis21/Vienna housing project.
Recent publications include:
"Das eingerichtete Leben: Zu Zeige- und Bildpolitiken des Wohnens im Roten Wien", in: ARCH+ Zeitschrift für Architektur und Urbanismus, Heft 244 Wien_ Das Ende des Wohnbaus (als Typologie), 2021, S. 78-83.
"Nicht zuschütten. A personal remembrance of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky", in: Women Architects and Politics in the long 20th Century Biographies, Buildings, Ideologies, Memories. Hg. Mary Pepchinsky u.a., Bielefeld, transcript/Columbia Univ-Press 2022, S.21-26.
Gehäusebrüche: thrilling Women, in: Gewohnte Gewalt. Häuslicher Gewalt und heimliche Bedrohung im Spannungskino, Hg. Drehli Robnik, Schätz Joachim, Wien, Sonderzahl 2022 S. 328-334.

Kathrin Heinz, Dr.

is an art historian. She has been the director and managing director of the Mariann Steegmann Institute. Art & Gender since it was founded in 2010. Head of the research field wohnen+/-ausstellen at the University of Bremen and editor of the series of the same name at transcript together with Irene Nierhaus. Since 2005 member of the editorial board of FKW//Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur. Research and teaching on art and cultural history from the 19th and 20th centuries to the present, with a focus on classical modernism, especially Blauer Reiter, artist research, concepts of artists and authorship in modernism, housing and gender studies.
Recent publications include:
"GeWOHNte Seiten: Blättern, Einrichten, Kombinieren. Gestaltung als Wissenspraxis", in: Irene Nierhaus, Kathrin Heinz, Rosanna Umbach (Hg.): WohnSeiten. Visuelle Konstruktionen des Wohnens in Zeitschriften, Bielefeld: transcript 2021, S. 44-81. (Schriftenreihe wohnen+/-ausstellen, Bd. 8).
"Rein ins Haus. Raumverhältnisse und Wohnbeziehungen an stillen Orten", in: Katharina Eck, Johanna Hartmann, Kathrin Heinz, Christiane Keim (Hg.): Wohn/Raum/Denken. Politiken des Häuslichen in Kunst, Architektur und visueller Kultur, Bielefeld: transcript 2021, S. 339–365 (Schriftenreihe wohnen +/– ausstellen Bd. 5).
"„They smell the same!“ Verhängnisvolle Wohnverhältnisse in Bong Joon-hos PARASITE" (2019), in: Drehli Robnik, Joachim Schätz (Hg): Gewohnte Gewalt. Häusliche Brutalität und heimliche Bedrohung im Spannungskino, Wien: Sonderzahl 2022, S. 251-255.

Bernadette Krejs

(PHD) is an architect and researcher and currently based at the Researchunit for Housing and Design at the Vienna University of Technology. Her work is situated in a transdisciplinary research field between architecture, housing and visual culture. She is part of the queer feminist collective Claiming*Spaces, as well as author and editor of various publications. She is Margarete Schütte Lihotzky Project Fellow 2023 and LINA Fellow 2023. Within the project Palace of Un/Learning she has collaborated with Fondació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona, Oslo Architecture Triennale and Design Academy Eindhoven.
Recent publications include:
Instagram-Wohnen - Architektur als Bild und die Suche nach gegenhegemonialen Wohnbildwelten, transcript 2023.
ARCH+244: Wien: Das Ende des Wohnbaus (als Typologie), Gastredaktion B. Krejs, C. Lenart, M., Berlin 2021. (awarded with the Bruno-Kreisky-Preis the political book 2022)
"Ideals of the Home", in: Mörtenböck, Peter/ Mooshammer, Helge (Hg.): Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents, nai010 publishers Rotterdam 2021, S. 289–296.