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Barbara Holub
Barbara Holub is an artist, artistic researcher and curator based in Vienna. Her works discuss the role of art in society in diverse contexts, engaging in corporate companies as well as producing projects in urban public space, and transferring these experiences back into art institutions, for which she coined the term ‘silent activism’. In 1999 she founded transparadiso with Paul Rajakovics as collaborative transdisciplinary practice. transparadiso developed ‘direct urbanism’ as a new method involving artistic urban strategies for a socially and societally engaged urbanism. For investigating the role of art in society and positioning ‘direct Urbanism’ in the academic field Barbara Holub carried out the artistic research project ‘Planning Unplanned. Can Art Have a Function? Towards a New Function of Art in Society’ (Vienna University of Technology) which was also included in her Ph.D. Since 1993 she had numerous international exhibitions and her works are part of public and private collections. She serves on international boards and juries. In 2018 she received the Austrian National Art Award. She is a member of the advisory board of Art & the Public Sphere and directing SPACEX at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Contact: University of Applied Arts Vienna, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Wien, Austria.
