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12/02/2026, 06:30 pm | Lecture Series
Past and present residential utopias in Vienna

Gabu Heindl @S AM Swiss Architecture Museum Lecture series ‘International Housing Cooperatives’

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12/02/2026, 06:30 pm | Lecture Series
Past and present residential utopias in Vienna

Gabu Heindl @S AM Swiss Architecture Museum Lecture series ‘International Housing Cooperatives’

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29/01/2026 | Lecture
Housing – an architectural and political challenge

Gabu Heindl @ aut. architektur und tirol

27/01/2026 | Exhibition
„The Disavowed. Victims of National Socialism 1933 – 1945 – Today”

On display from January 27 to March 30 2026 at the New Town Hall in Leipzig.

04/01/2026 | Exhibition
„The Disavowed. Victims of National Socialism 1933 – 1945 – Today”

on view from October 9, 2025, to January 4, 2026, at the NS-Documentation Centre in Cologne.

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Kindergarten Campus Furth

Built | Invited competition, 1st prize, Furth bei Göttweig (AT), 2020-2021

Five Courtyards for Zehnergasse | School-Extension Wr. Neustadt

Built | School extension and remodeling built | 1st prize, Invited Competition BIG, Wiener Neustadt (AT), 2013
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Schools in the School | Montessori High School Donaustadt

Invited competition | 1. Prize, Vienna Donaustadt Vienna (AT), 2011

KIDS IN THE GARDEN: Kindergarten Rohrendorf

Built | Extension of a kindergarten, 1st prize, invited competition, Rohrendorf (AT), 2008

Kindergarten Amstetten

Invited Competition | Kindergarten Amstetten (AT), 2009

Learning from Schools. Close a door, Draw a line.

Gabu Heindl, in: A/R/P/A Journal 01, Test Subjects, Projects 2014

Let's turn statistics upside down

Barrier-free exhibition prototpye, Vienna Women's Affairs (MA 57), Wien (AT) 2020
Kiga_Mitterau

Kindergarten Krems Mitterau

Invited competition | Krems Mitterau (AT), 2019

Ro*sa Chance an der Schanze

Bauträgerwettbewerb | An der Schanze, Wien (AT) 2019 Ein Frauenwohnprojekt für Männer, Frauen und Kinder

SchLoR – The Project

Built | Self-organized collective non-profit housing and co-work-cooperative, Vienna (AT), 2019-2024
CRAP

SchloR – CRAP Atelierdorf

Built | Creative Rappachgasse: Self-organized collective non-profit atelier&workshop-cooperative, Vienna (AT), 2023

SchloR – Housing

Built | Self-organized collective non-profit Housing and Co-Work-Cooperative, Vienna (AT), 2024
Halle TRAP

SchloR – TRAP Trainingscentre Rappachgasse

Built | Self-organized non-profit Circus-Centre, Vienna (AT) 2024
Grundsteingasse_Hof

Intersectional City House, Vienna

Built | Conversion of an entire Gründerzeit house into a one-kitchen house, for the Association for Accessibility in Art, in Everyday Life, in Minds, Vienna (AT), 2016
Foto: Lisa Rastl

International Conference Center Am Hof 3-4

Built | Reconstruction and attic refurbishment into a conference centre for European Energy Community, Vienna (AT), 2017
TRLV

The Future is Accessible: Türkis Rosa Lila Villa

Built | Conversion for accessibility of the community-centre and Villa Vida at the Türkis Rosa Lila Villa, Vienna (AT), 2018

The Everyday: Wandering, Wondering. Re-Positioning Architecture, Spectacle and Everyday Life

Gabu Heindl, in: Markus Bogensberger, Gabu Heindl (Eds.): Position Everyday. Architecture in the Context of Everyday Life, Graz 2009

Arbeit Zeit Raum

Book edited by Gabu Heindl (in German): Arbeit Zeit Raum. Bilder und Bauten der Arbeit im Postfordismus, Turia + Kant, 2008

Position Everyday. Architecture in the Context of Everyday Life

Book edited by Gabu Heindl and Markus Bogensberger, Haus der Architektur, Graz, 2009
Eingschenkt

Eingschenkt TV Talk at Okto TV

TV Talk, Thursday 25th of October 2018 Gabu Heindl as guest speaker in talk with Martin Schenk at Eing`schenkt - Okto TV with Martin Schenk she talks about urban open space in big cities, vivid and deserted public spaces, as well as affordable housing and social dwelling for all parts of society.

Red Vienna 1920, Habitat 2020; From Social-Democracy To Radical Democracy In Collaborative Housing

Lecture at Conference on Collective Housing: New Initiatives, Ljubljana, 2018

Working Women Housing

Research project and pilot-prototyping for affordable housing for women* | commissioned by the City of Vienna, 2019-2020

Alternatives to the Housing Crisis: Case Study Vienna

19.5.2017, Lecture, Urban Planning, Dissensual Politics and Popular Agency, Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, Vancouver, Kanada
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Senior Citizens' Home Pradl

1-stage realization competition | Innsbruck/ Tyrol, 2013

New Social Housing

Contribution to Positions on the IBA_Vienna 2022 IBA_Wien 2022 / future.lab (eds.), 2020

Who is to Pay for the Crisis? Open Letter about Housing Politics during Corona

Open Letter of scientists and urbanists: Housing politics during and after the Corona-Crisis, 2020

Besser 1000 Freund*innen im Rücken als eine Bank im Nacken

SchloR - Schöner leben ohne Rendite, in: Boden für Alle, Ausstellung 09.12.2020 - 19.07.2021, AzW

Housing as part of basic services

Lecture by Gabu Heindl at urbanize! 2019 Radio Broadcast 04.02.2020 by Elke Rauth, Greta Egle
Rendering

Fünf Freund*innen | Social housing

Housing Developers Competition | Attemsgasse, 3rd prize GABU Heindl Architecture and Sophie & Peter Thalbauer Architecture | Vienna 2020

Radical, rebellious cities. From Red Vienna to sanctuary cities

Gabu Heindl, in: Unbehaust Wohnen: Konflikthafte Räume in Kunst – Architektur – Visueller Kultur, Irene Nierhaus, Kathrin Heinz (Hg.), transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2020

Housing for All – affordable.durable.inclusive

Gabu Heindl, in: Housing for all. affordable. durable. inclusive., BAWO Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Wohnungslosenhilfe, 2021

"Rent vs Buy" Podcast Interview with Euradio

19.10.2021 Gabu Heindl in conversation with Boris Maggiorin
Urban Conflicts Housing Manifesto GABU Heindl Brno

URBAN CONFLICTS – A HOUSING MANIFESTO

Solo Exhibition, Brno Gallery of Architecture, 22.12.2021-10.03.2022

Urban Commons Research Collective: Intersektionales Stadthaus

in: Urban Commons Handbook, dpr Barcelona, 2022

Urban housing. An overview of strategies for social-ecological transformation in the field of urban housing

Gabu Heindl: Chapter 12: Urban housing. An overview of strategies for social-ecological transformation in the field of urban housing, in: DEGROWTH & STRATEGY - how to bring about social-ecological transformation (Eds. Nathan Barlow, Livia Regen, Noémie Cadiou, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Max Hollweg, Christina Plank, Merle Schulken, Verena Wolf), Mayfly Books, 2022.

ARCH+Trusting in Alternatives

Gabu Heindl interviewed by Jakob Walter and Sascha Kellermann: „Trusting In Alternatives“, in: ARCH+ The Business of Architecture, S. 156-161
Perspektive aktualisiert P10 neu

Planet 10 - The Project

In planning | Extension of self-organized housing project - for and with the cultural association Planet 10 and Afro Rainbow Austria, Vienna (AT) 2024-2025

A Room of Her* Own - Gender Wealth Gap and (Home)Ownership

Interdisciplinary mini-symposium, University Kassel, 26.01.2024

The collective company apartment SchloR - Cooperative standards

#5 Die Kollektive Betriebswohnung SchloR, Gabu Heindl in der Reihe Kooperative Standards. 2023.
European Collective Housing Award

European Collective Housing Award

Our project “SchloR” is a shortlisted finalist for the European Collective Housing Award 2024.

Vienna - The End of Housing (as Typology) - Social(ist) Housing

Gabu Heindl in: „Social(ist) Housing – Housing as Public Interest, Political Demand and Architectural Task“ ARCH+ 244 Vienna - the End of Housing (as typology)
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Wiener Vorlesung: Right to Housing. A Utopia?

Wiener Vorlesung, Rabenhof Theater, June 2025
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Planet 10 - Housing

In planning | Design | Extension of self-organized housing project - for and with the cultural association Planet 10 and Afro Rainbow Austria, Vienna (AT) 2024-2025
Strukturmodell Přerov: Revitalisierung des Strojař Blocks

Přerov: Revitalisierung des Strojař Blocks

Wettbewerbsbeitrag Dialogverfahren | *Přerov: Revitalisierung des Strojař Blocks* – für und mit der Stadt Přerov, Přerov (CZ) 2024-2025
Preisverleihung wienwood25

Holzbaupreis Vienna: Special prize wienwood25 for SchloR

Award | “SchloR” project wins the wood construction award Special award wienwood25

The Promises of Modernist Premises: Pool Trakiya

Built | Collective re-conversion of a deserted pool to a communal outdoor centre between blocks 1,2,3 in Trakiya, Plovdiv (BGR), 2016

Sculpture / Festival Centre

Built | Temporary installation in public space Realization Vienna (AT) 2014, 2015, 2016

Fitting

Performative intervention with mobile installations in public space, 2011 - 2013

Just City

4 excursions, 6 interventions, 2 lectures, 1 party Workshop and Exhibition, Brno (CZ), 2011

PARK_OUR_PARK

Competition | Urban space project PARK_OUR_PARK: A public sculpture for everyday life and Parkour. 1st Prize, St.Pölten (AT), 2009
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Spielräume | free play

*Exhibition Reader* Gabu Heindl, ed. HDA Verlag, Graz, 2015

Solidarität - Wie entstehen demokratische Räume

Gabu Heindl, in: Um_Bau 28. Das Geschäft mit der Stadt, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2016
Publikation_öffentlicher Raum

Towards a Radical Democratic Politics of Urban Land: The Case of (Red) Vienna

Gabu Heindl, in: Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a broken planet, Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny, AzW (Eds.), MIT Press, 2019
Publikation_öffentlicher Raum

Out in Prison. Taking the case of spatial rights to a prison court(yard)

Gabu Heindl, in: Social (Re)Production of Architecture, Doina Petrescu, Kim Trogal (Eds.), Routledge, 2017
Typologische Symphonie

A Typological Symphony

Competition | Pedestrian-Zone Wiener Neustadt Herzog Leopold Straße and Beethovengasse, 2. prize, Wiener Neustadt (AT), 2016
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The Publicness of Architecture. Radical Democracy in Urban Space

Diploma Unit 17, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, 2019/2020
Publikation_öffentlicher Raum

Geht doch in den Garten! Public Space and the Corona Crisis

Gabu Heindl about public space in times of corona crisis, published in: ÖGZ - Österreichischer Städtebund, Nr.6, 2020

Public! Porous! Testing Democratic Public Space by Boundaries

Diploma Unit 5, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, 2020-2021
Publikation_öffentlicher Raum

How to Install Public Space Using COPS and a Non-Building Plan

Gabu Heindl, in: The Garden of Privatised Delights, Madeleine Kessler and Manijeh Verghese (eds.), Unscene Architecture, British Council 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, 2021
Publikation_öffentlicher Raum

Setting, Setzung, Sedimentation

Political Conflict and Radical Democracy in Urban Planning, Gabu Heindl, in: Unsettled Urban Space. Routines, Temporalities and Contestations, edited by Tihomir Viderman, Sabine Knierbein, Elina Kränzle, Sybille Frank, Nikolai Roskamm, Ed Wall, Routledge, 2022
Publikation_öffentlicher Raum

Stadtkonflikte / Working Women Wohnen

Urban Conflicts / Working Women Wohnen – Allerhand Dringliches für ein egalitäres Wohnrecht. Gabu Heindl, in: Frauen Bauen Stadt – The City Through a Female Lens, Eds. Wojciech Czaja, Katja Schechtner, Birkhäuser, 2021
Publikation_öffentlicher Raum

(Non)Building Alliances: Approaching Urban Politics through Siegfried Kracauer´s Concept of Nonsolution

Gabu Heindl & Drehli Robnik, in: [UN]GROUNDING – Post-Foundational Geographies, edited by Friederike Landau, Lucas Pohl, Nikolai Roskamm, transcript Verlag, 2021
Publikation_öffentlicher Raum

Field Notes: Repair

Field Notes on Repair: 4, November 2024, Places Journal.
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DONAUKANAL PARTITUR I Regulation- and Development-Guidelines for the Viennese Donaukanal

Manifesting | Invited competition, 1st prize, development of urban guidelines for MA19, City of Vienna, in cooperation with Susan Kraupp, Vienna (AT), 2012 - 2014

Urbanity is Density and yet more...

Gabu Heindl, in: Rethinking Density - Art, Culture and Urban Practices, Anamarija Batista, Szilvia Kovács, Carina Lesky (Eds.), Sternberg Press, 2017
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Bubny Prague Expert Report | IPR Praha

Urban Planning Expert Report | Development of Holešovice-Bubny-Zátory, Praha 7, Prague (CZ), 2017

Powerfully (Precariously) Positioned Planning Proposition

Gabu Heindl, in: Volume 50 – Beyond Beyond: Today’s dilemmas in architectural education and practice. Archis, 2017

Whose City? Radical Democacy in Architecture and Urban Design

08.05.2019, Inaugural lecture by visiting professor Gabu Heindl, Sheffield School of Architecture (UK)
AA Vortrag

AA New Canonical Histories lecture

09.05.2019, "Radical Democracy and Architecture. Politics, Positions, Planning", evening lecture by Gabu Heindl, AA New Canonical Histories series, Architectural Association, London, UK

Care not Scare City

Publication in German: Alisa Beck, Fanja Haybach, Gabu Heindl, Claudia Totschnig, "Care not Scare City", in: Der Abgestellte Bahnhof. Das Wiener Nordbahnhofgelände und die Freiheit des Raumes, Falter Verlag, 2018

Solidarity. How do democratic spaces come into existence?

Concept and Curating of the ÖGFA Programme 2011-2012

Justice and Urban Planning | Chamber of Labour, Vienna

Urban research project | commissioned by the Chamber of Labour, Vienna, 2022

Warum nicht enteignen?

Interview von Kurto Wendt mit Gabu Heindl, in: Augustin 452, 02/2018
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Michelangelo-Höfe Berlin

International urban planning competition | "Wohnen an der Michelangelostraße, Berlin Pankow - Prenzlauer Berg", Berlin (DE), 2014
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Building Critique – Architecture and its Discontents

Gabu Heindl, Michael Klein, Christina Linortner (Eds.), Spector Books, 2019

Whose freedom? The Spatial Dimension of the Distribution of Property and Resources

30.09.2019, Event series: whose Freedom? Gabu Heindl in conversation with Danny Dorling Secession, Vienna

GrazTalk 03: LAND

Online conference about Urban Land Politics - part of Grazotopia, 8.7.2020
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Stadtkonflikte

Radikale Demokratie in Architektur und Stadtplanung, Gabu Heindl, Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag 2020 (3rd edition, 2022)

This system could be a completely different one

Interview Tyma Kraitt with Gabu Heindl, published in Tagebuch Nr. 3 | 27.02.2020

Arrival Cities. Settling Down in the Migrational Society

Contribution to: Vienna, Arrival City. Architektur und Integration, Fabian Wallmüller / Forschungsbereich für Gebäudelehre und Entwerfen (Ed.), TU Vienna, 2020

Urbanity is Density and yet more... Kopie

Gabu Heindl, in: Rethinking Density - Art, Culture and Urban Practices, Anamarija Batista, Szilvia Kovács, Carina Lesky (Eds.), Sternberg Press, 2017

3rd Austrian Building Culture Report

K. Bauer, M. Bogensberger, B. Feller, R. Hammer, G. Heindl, P. Jaritz, C. Kühn, B. Rihl, H. Schaffer, R. Temel, S. Zech (eds.): Federal Chancellery of Austria, Vienna, 2017

Infrastructure, Not Platform

Blogs on Platform Urbanism, Venice Biennale 2021
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Diversity in Architecture

Gabu Heindl nominated for renowned worldwide award "Diversity in Architecture"!

Architektur in den Krisen

Gabu Heindl, in: architektur. aktuell 7–8/2023, Ist Architektur Tot?, 2023

The City of the Future. Sustainable, Equal and Resilient.

Gabu Heindl in an interview with the ÖGZ - Magazine of the Austrian Association of Cities, November 2023

A Garden so much bigger...

*A garden that is so much bigger than anyone could ever have alone ...* Gabu Heindl and Hannah Niemand in conversation with the magazine "Lichtblicke - Neuigkeiten für Unverzagte." May 2023.

SUMMER INSTITUTE: INCLUSIVE ECONOMIES FOR A JUST AND SUSTAINABLE PLANET

Workshop, Bogotá Summer Institute in Inclusive Economies for a Just and Sustainable Planet, Universidad de los Andes, 6.6.2024.

Momentaufnahme Wien - 130 Stimmen zur Stadt der Gegenwart

- Preserving public consumption-free zones in the city from privatization! Gabu Heindl, in: Snapshot of the City of Vienna. 130 voices on the city of the present, ed. Martina Nußbaumer, Falter, 2023.
Nonsolution. Zur Politik der aktiven Nichtlösung im Planen und Bauen

Nonsolution. Zur Politik der aktiven Nichtlösung im Planen und Bauen

Gabu Heindl, Drehli Robnik, adocs Verlag 2024.

kntxtr Podcast #20

Gabu Heindl in conversation with Katharina Benjamin and Angelika Hinterbrandner about housing crises and urban conflicts.

Stadtkino Vienna

Redesign | Cinema foyer and restaurant Ludwig & Adele, Vienna (AT) 2012

OUTSIDE IN PRISON

Art in Architecture | Prison men’s courtyard, invited competition, 1st Prize, Krems (AT) 2011

Pavilion

Built | A Space within a Space for Dorit Margreiters film-installation “Pavilion” Austrian Pavillon, 53rd Art Biennale Venice, Venice (IT) 2009

AUSTRIAN FILMMUSEUM INSIDE/ OUT

Built | Refurbishment of the facade, foyer and bar of the Austrian Filmmuseum Realization, Vienna Hofburg, Vienna (AT), 2008

Brut

Built | Conversion of foyer and bar of the experimental theater brut in the Künstlerhaus Manfred Hasler, Gabu Heindl, konstantin gabel, Vienna (At), 2007

The Mighty Model. Architectural Models in Cinema, in Volume # 16, 2008

Gabu Heindl, Drehli Robnik, in: Volume 16, Amsterdam, 2008

Zwischen Raum und Raum

Gabu Heindl, in: Film und Gesellschaft denken mit Siegfried Kracauer, Bernhard Groß, Vrääth Öhner, Drehli Robnik (Hg.), Wien-Berlin: Turia + Kant, 2018

Bin City, Las Vegas

Gabu Heindl, in: Journal of Architectural Education, 2005, JAE Best Design Article Award, 2005/2006

Mock-Ups in Close-Up. Architectural Models in Film 1919-2014

An ongoing research project and growing video compilation by Gabu Heindl and Drehli Robnik, since 2007

Architecture 24 / 7

Exhibition curating and design, Styrian Autumn 2007, HDA Haus der Architektur (HDA), Graz (AT) 2007

The Publicness of Cinema

Future Visions of Cinema Culture Buildings. Redefining the Municipal and the Cinema. Gabu Heindl, in: Kinema Kommunal, 2020

Scale and power. Mock-Ups in Close-Up: Architectural models in film 1927-2010

Gabu Heindl und Drehli Robnik, in: Das Architekturmodell. Werkzeug, Fetisch, Kleine Utopie. Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Oliver Elser, Peter Cachola Schmal (Hg.), Scheidegger & Spiess, Frankfurt / Zürich, 2012

Das Museum der Zukunft als Zukunft aus urbanistischer Perspektive

Gabu Heindl, In: schnittpunkt und Joachim Baur (eds.), Das Museum der Zukunft, Bielefeld, 2020

Claiming the Cinema Space: Radical (Re)Communalization of Urban Space

Keynote at the Cinema of Commoning Symposium, Berlin 2022
Foto: Igor Ripak

Theater am Werk

Theater am Werk / renovation and redesign of two theaters / Foyer as urban square / Petersplatz, Innere Stadt & Kabelwerk, Meidling / Vienna (AT) 2023

How to Do Things with VALIE EXPORT

Gabu Heindl und Drehli Robnik in: How to Do Things with VALIE EXPORT, Leipzig June, 2025

Persecuted. Engaged. Married. Marriages of Convenience in Exile

Exhibition architecture, Jewish Museum Vienna, Judenplatz, Vienna (AT), 2018

Vienna Library at Vienna City Hall

Exhibition architecture for the Vienna City Library at the Vienna City Hall, Vienna (AT), 2017

heimat:machen | Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art Vienna

The Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art between Everday Life and Politics. Exhibition architecture, Vienna (AT), 2017

The Last Places before Deportation

Kleine Sperlgasse, Castellezgasse, Malzgasse. Exhibition architecture, crypt of the Heroes‘ Monument, Outer Castle Gate, Vienna (AT), 2017

The '70s. Then there was Future

Exhibition architecture, Schallaburg (AT), 2014

"Vienna. The Pearl of the Reich" Planning for Hitler

Exhibition about National-Socialist Planning in Vienna, Exhibition architecture Architekturzentrum Vienna, Vienna (AT), 2015

The Building. Amidst Us

Built | Public installation and exhibition, with Hito Steyerl, Linz (AT), 2009

Weinheber ausgehoben – Unearthing a Nazi Poet

Built | Intervention in public space and reconfiguration of a monument, Vienna (AT), 2019

So Many Reports, So Many Questions. For Instance: Is There Such a Thing as Postcolonial Critical Planning?

Gabu Heindl, in: Transcultural Modernisms. Model House Research Group (Ed.), Sternberg Press, 2013

The Monument May Be A Forest | Memorial in Warsaw

International open competition | Memorial to Commemorate Poles Who Rescued Jews during WWII, 1. Prize. With Eduard Freudmann, Warsaw (PL), 2015

Architektur und Politik - Lernen vom roten Wien

Debatte. Gabu Heindl, Eve Blau, Monika Platzer in: Das rote Wien - 1919 -1934. Ideen, Debatten, Praxis. Wien Museum (Hg.), Birkäuser Wien, 2019

Buried No Longer. Jewish-Austrian History in Vienna´s Malzgasse

House of Austrian History, exhibition architecture, Vienna (AT), 2019

The Monument Is a Dilemma

Contemporary Commemoration and the Failing of Philanthropy in Public Space. Gabu Heindl and Eduard Freudmann, in: Krytyka Polityczna & European Alternatives, 2016

Without a Home: Kindertransports from Vienna

Exhibition architecture at Jewish Museum Vienna, Vienna (AT), 2021-2022

Disposing of Hitler: Out of the Cellar, Into the Museum

Austrian Museum of Contemporary History, exhibition architecture, Vienna (AT), 03.12.2021 – 08.01.2023

The Disavowed

Traveling exhibition about people persecuted under National Socialism as “asocials” and “career criminals”. March, 20 to September 14, 2025 exhibited at KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg.
Ver/störende Orte - Zum Umgang mit NS-kontaminierten Gebäuden

Ver/störende Orte - Zum Umgang mit NS-kontaminierten Orten

Destructive Places. Dealing with NS-contaminated Buildings. Gabu Heindl in: Ingrid Böhler, Karin Harrasser, Dirk Rupnow, Monika Sommer, Hilde Strobl (Hg.), Wien/Berlin: Mandelbaum Verlag, 2024