About

I work as a curator, writer and art manager at the intersection of contemporary art and ecology, with a special focus on lens-based-media. Since 2022 I am chief curator at KunstHausWien, where I develop the institution’s general exhibition programming dedicated to ecological topics. Prior to that, I was assistant curator and exhibition manager at the same institution, as well as for the Foto Wien photography festival. In addition, I have curated dozens of freelance curatorial projects in public space, off-spaces and exhibition venues.

One main focus of my curatorial work is art and the climate crisis. For the Vienna Climate Biennale 2024 I curated one of its main exhibitions: „Into the Woods. Perspectives on Forest Ecosystems“. In 2020 I co-curated the comprehensive group exhibition Nach uns die Sintflut (After Us, the Flood), which brought together photo and video works by international artists on this topic. I have also conceived the successful, ongoing interdisciplinary talk series Future Talks: Climate X Change in cooperation with Fridays for Future, which runs since 2020. I am not only engaged in environmental responsibility on content level, but have great expertise in embedding sustainable practices in exhibition making and curating, as well as on an institution’s organizational level.

I hold a Master’s in art history and media studies from the University of Vienna. In 2017, I was Curatorial Research Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. My writing appears regularly in exhibition booklets and catalogs, artist books and magazines such as Eikon. I am regularly invited as a speaker at exhibition openings and as an expert for portfolio reviews at international photography festivals. Furthermore I am on the advisory board of Cité de l’Image. I am based in Vienna, Austria.

© Christian Lendl