Artistic Field Work. Paliano, 2024.
Waltraud P. Indrist, PhD, is an architectural theorist and artistic researcher.
She is currently researching the »Ambivalences of Modernity. The Architect and City Planner Roland Rainer between Dictatorship and Democracy«, a stand-alone research project granted by the Austrian Science Fund – FWF (P34938), together with Angelika Schnell (project leader), Ingrid Holzschuh, Monika Platzer and Susanne Rick.
In her PhD she elaborated on the »Performative Architectural Photographies – The Relationship between Architecture, Media and Politics in the Work of Hans Scharoun between 1933 and 1939«.
Her current fields of interest are modern architecture and urbanism, phenomenology, cultural studies and artistic research. At the same time, Indrist’s research is dedicated to analysing socio-spatial and medial artefacts in which ideologies, forms of governmentality and biopolitics (in the broadest sense of their meaning) are inscribed – and therefore demand to be identified.
From 2018 to 2024 Waltraud P. Indrist held an assistant professorship position at the Institute of Architectural Theory, Art History and Cultural Studies, Graz University of Technology.
In 2016, she was awarded with the Marietta Blau-Scholarship (ICM-2014-09776) by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Economy for a one-year stay abroad.
Indrist has taught and presented her research at numerous universities such as UdK Berlin, IIT Chicago, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Leibniz University Hanover, Vilnius University, University of Bern, Charles University Praha, Bauhaus Dessau, Austrian Academy of Science or KTH Stockholm.
She has written for magazines such as ARCH+, Modulør, RIHA and stadtaspekte.
Publications and Articles [selection]
Books
Daniel Gethmann, Waltraud P. Indrist (eds.), Topographie des Widerstands in der
Steiermark 1938–1945: Eine Ausstellung, jovis, Berlin 2022.
Daniel Gethmann, Waltraud P. Indrist (eds.), Pasubio: Friedensschauplatz – Theater of Peace, Verlag der TU Graz, Graz 2022. Online: doi.org/10.3217/978-3-85125-865-3.
Angelika Schnell, Eva Sommeregger, Waltraud Indrist (eds.), Entwerfen Erforschen. Der “performative turn” im Architekturstudium, Birkhäuser, Basel, Berlin, Boston 2016.
Articels, peer-reviewed
“Reciprocal Relationship between Architecture, Media and Politics. Hans Scharoun
1933–45: Methodical Reflections,” in: Ruth Hanisch, Richard Kurdiovsky, Bernadette Reinhold, Antje Senarclens de Grancy (eds.), RIHA – Journal of the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art, Special Issue: Architekt*innen-Monographien. Kritik und Perspektiven eines Publikationsformats, ed. Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, forthcoming 2025.
“Eine Collage an ‘Erinnerungen’ – Der Bauhaus-Schüler Hubert Hoffmann und sein fragwürdiges NS-Narrativ,” in: Anke Blümm, Elizabeth Otto, Patrick Rössler, Klassik Stiftung Weimar (eds.), “… ein Restchen alter Ideale” – Bauhäuslerinnen und Bauhäusler im Nationalsozialismus, Wallstein, Göttingen, forthcoming 2025.
“Time Sphere: Plant Life as Part of Architectural Design,” together with Anamarija Batista, in: Anamarija Batista (ed.), Notion of Temporalities in Artistic and Filmic Practice, De Gruyter, Berlin 2022, pp. 113–134. Online: doi.org/10.1515/9783110720921-010.
Book review: “Beate Störtkuhl, Rafał Makała (Hg.): Nicht nur Bauhaus – Netzwerke der Moderne in (Ost-)Mitteleuropa,” in: Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (ed.), Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung (Journal of East Central European Studies), Vol. 71, Iss. 2, Herder-Institut, Marburg 2022. Online: doi.org/10.25627/202271211176.
“Roland Rainer und die Drehscheibe Hannover. Kontinuitäten von NS-Netzwerken in Nordwestdeutschland nach 1945,” in: Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft zum Studium Niedersachsens e.V. (ed.), Neues Archiv für Niedersachsen – Zeitschrift für Stadt-, Regional- und Landesentwicklung, Iss. 1: Kontinuitäten und Neuorientierungen – Personelle Netzwerke niedersächsischer Raumwissenschaftler nach 1945, Wachholtz, Kiel 2021, pp. 176–201. Online: doi.org/10.5771/9783529096143.
Book review: “Die Wohnung des geistigen Arbeiters – Hans Scharoun und die Entwicklung der Kleinwohnungsgrundrisse – Die Wohnhochhäuser Romeo und Julia 1954–1959 / Hans Scharoun and the Development of Small Apartment Floor Plans – The Residential High-Rises Romeo and Julia, 1954–1959,” in: Daniel Gethmann, Petra Eckhard, Urs Hischberg (eds.), GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine, Vol. 17, jovis, Berlin 2021, pp. 287–289. Online: doi.org/10.1515/9783868599633-032.
“I – Eine Stadt sucht ihre Identität. Oder: von originalen Tiroler Bauern, Bugglkraxn, Contergan-Mandln, Bulldozern und anderen techno-humanen Ambivalenzen,” in: aut. architektur und tirol – Architectural Forum (ed.), Widerstand und Wandel – Über die 1970er-Jahre in Tirol, Innsbruck 2020, pp. 273–293.
“Chicago 1904 – Sociological Discourses and the Work of Social Reformers as Vital Parts of Subsequent Architectural Considerations,” in: Dan Costa Baciu (ed.), Prometheus – Journal of the PhD Program in Architecture at the IIT Architecture Chicago, Vol. 2, Chicago/Illinois, October 2019, pp. 72–75.
“7+1: Luigi Snozzi, Part 2 – Im Gespräch mit Arno Brandlhuber, Waltraud Indrist und Christopher Roth,” in: ARCH+, Iss. 225, Aachen 2016, pp. 176–178.
“7+1: Luigi Snozzi, Part 1 – im Gespräch mit Arno Brandlhuber, Waltraud Indrist und Christopher Roth,” in: ARCH+, Iss. 222, Aachen 2016, pp. 136–138.
“Der Akt des Fotografierens – Ein performativitätstheoretischer Blick auf die Häuser Mattern und Moll von Hans Scharoun,” in: Research Training Group Knowledge in the Arts, University of Arts, Berlin (ed.), Das Wissen der Künste, Iss. 5: Erkenntnismittel Fotografie. Architektur- und Performanceforschung, ed. by Lisa Großmann, Constance Krüger, Renate Wöhrer, Berlin 2016. Online: https://wissenderkuenste.de/texte/ausgabe-5/der-akt-des-fotografierens-ein-performativitaetstheoretischer-blick-auf-die-haeuser-mattern-und-moll-von-hans-scharoun/; doi.org/10.25624/kuenste-1621.
“In-der-Welt-Sein,” in: Angelika Schnell, Eva Sommeregger, Indrist (eds.), Entwerfen Erforschen. Der “performative turn” im Architekturstudium, Birkhäuser, Basel, Berlin, Boston 2016, pp. 160–173.
“Bauen Wohnen Denken – Die Begegnung Martin Heidegger und Hans Scharoun,” in: Judith Prossliner, Elisabeth Haid (eds.), Architektur Zeichensaal 4, Diplomarbeiten aus einem Innsbrucker Zeichensaal. 2007–2011, Springer, Vienna 2012, pp. 218–223.
Exhibitions (Curating, Designing, Contributions) | Artist in Residencies
February 2025, Exhibiting “Fuksas Erben,” together with Rina Treml at Lokal, Vienna
January 2025, Exhibiting “Performative Architectural Photographies – The Relationship between Architecture, Media and Politics in the Work of Hans Scharoun between 1933 and 1939,” contribution to the annual exhibition Rundgang at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
July 2024, Artist in Residency for the concept “(Raum-)Portrait,” together with Rina Treml at Domus Artium, Paliano/Italy, granted by Land Tirol
June 25, 2024 to October 6, 2024, Designing the exhibition “Karl Ilbing – Ein Architekt in Graz und Haifa,” curated by Antje Senarclens de Gancy and Waltraud P. Indrist at Museum für Geschichte, Graz
Summer 2023, Exhibiting “interLUDium,” installative performance, contribution to the performance festival Unter dem Pflug der Zeit/ Nën braza të Kohës – Palast der Träume, curated by Andreas Pronegg, Katarina Csanyiova and Alban Beqiraj in Gjakova/Kosovo
Summer 2022, Exhibiting “Jusuf Gërvalla’s Window,” installative performance, contribution to the performance festival Unter dem Pflug der Zeit / Nën braza të Kohës – 82 GËRVALLA 22, curated by Andreas Pronegg, Katarina Csanyiova and Alban Beqiraj in Peja/Kosovo
January 2022 to March 2022, Co-curating the exhibition “Pasubio: Friedensschauplatz – Theater of Peace,” together with Daniel Gethmann at Schlossbergstollen, Graz
June 2021 to August 2021, Co-curating the travelling exhibition “Topographie des Widerstands in der Steiermark 1938–1945,” together with Daniel Gethmann in Deutschlandsberg, Museum für Geschichte Graz, Leoben and in Eisenerz
January 2018, Co-curating the exhibition “Bitte nicht bewegen!,” together with Anselm Wagner at Schaumbad, Graz
October 2018 to January 2019, Designing and co-curating the exhibition “Roland Rainer – Leerstellen einer Biographie. Neue Erkenntnisse (1936–1963),” at Az W – Architekturzentrum Wien
2015 and 2013, Exhibiting “Archiv 210,” installative archive, together with Anamarija Batista, Eva Sommeregger et al., contribution to the annual exhibition Rundgang at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
October 2011, Co-curating “Die Bäckerei wird 1,” together with Christoph Grud, Christina Mölk and Klaus Schennach at Die Bäckerei-Kulturbackstube, Innsbruck
2011, Exhibiting “StraßenkinO – Reiche(n)au,” performance, together with fellow workshop participants, curated by Peanutz Architekten, Berlin in the bus line “O,” Innsbruck
2011, Exhibiting “Time-Space,” analog photography, contribution to the exhibition Deep Reed together with fellow students curated by Quirin Leppert at Baukunstarchiv, Innsbruck
2008, Exhibiting “A Re-enactment of Yoko Ono’s Cut piece,” contribution to the exhibition Joyeux non-anniversaire Fluxus, together with fellow students at FRAC, Montpellier/France