Mag. Dr. Christina Hainzl
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christina.hainzl@donau-uni.ac.at
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- University for Continuing Education Krems
- Platform for Sustainable Development (SDGs)
- Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30
- 3500 Krems
- Austria
About the person
Christina Hainzl studied contemporary history, art history and political communication. She heads the Platform for Sustainable Development (SDGs) and the Research Lab Democracy and Society in Transition at the University for Continuing Education Krems and is an affiliated researcher at the University Ca Foscari, Venice.
She represents the university in the European Science Diplomacy Alliance.
She is project leader of the project ‘European Un/Orders’, which deals with current challenges facing Europe in a global context.
Until 2010, she worked as a curator and research assistant at various museums (Lentos, Landesmuseum OÖ) and at the Institute for Art after 1945 at KTU Linz and completed several studies and research stays in Florence, Rome, New York and Washington DC.
She completed internships at the Embassy of the Arab League and the American Anti-Discrimination Committee.
She has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation Archive Centre and the Emmanuel and Sophie Fohn Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Publications (Extract Research Database)
Hainzl, C.; Baldacci, C.; Praschl-Bichler, A. (2025). Venice, an Archipelago of Art and Ecologies. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
Hainzl, C.; Barlai, M.; Griessler, C.; Herbers, M.; Bos, E.; Filzmaier, P. (2025). Democratic Backsliding in Europe. Nomos, Baden-Baden
Hainzl, C. (2025). Mario Peliti: On Venice. In: Hainzl, C.; Baldacci, C.; Praschl-Bichler, A., Venice, an Archipelago of Art and Ecologies: 19-32, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
Hainzl, C. (2025). ‘Themes Which Concern Contemporary Artists Are Often Present in the Past Too’. Conversation with Bruno Racine (CEO and Director, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana . Pinault Collection). In: Hainzl, C; Baldacci, C.; Praschl-Bichler, A., Venice, an Archipelago of Art and Ecologies: 177-182, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
Hainzl, C.; Baldacci, C. (2025). ‘Art Can Act as an Agent for Change’. Conversation with Karole P. B. Vail (Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection). In: Hainzl, C.; Baldacci, B.; Praschl-Bichler, A., Venice, an Archipelago of Art and Ecologies: 167-176, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
Hainzl, C.; Baldacci, C. (2025). ‘What It Takes and What It Means to Actually Become a Regenerative Organisation’. Conversation with Markus Reymann (Co-Director TBA21 and Director of TBA21-Academy’s Ocean Space). In: Hainzl, C.; Baldacci, C.; Praschl-Bichler, A., Venice, an Archipelago of Art and Ecologies: 183-194, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
Hainzl, C.; Baldacci, C. (2025). ‘Venice as Method!’. Conversation with Francesca Tarocco (Director, THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities – NICHE). In: Hainzl, C.; Baldacci, C.; Praschl-Bichler, A., Venice, an Archipelago of Art and Ecologies: 195-202, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
Hainzl, C.; Baldacci, C.; Praschl-Bichler, A. (2025). Introduction. In: Hainzl, C.; Baldacci, C.; Praschl-Bichler, A., Venice, an Archipelago of Art and Ecologies: 9-16, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
Hainzl, C. (2025). "The Dam" by Ali Cherri. A Film About Awakenings and Upheavals, Violence and Imagination. In: Hainzl, C; Praschl-Bichler, A.; Rühse, V., Fractures: 10-37, Fotohof > Edition, Salzburg
Hainzl, C.; Praschl-Bichler, A.; Rühse, V. (2025). Foreword. In: Hainzl, C.; Praschl-Bichler, A.; Rühse, V., Fractures: 6-7, Fotohof > Edition, Salzburg
Hainzl, C.; Praschl-Bichler, A; Rühse, V. (2025). Fractures. Fotohof >Edition, Salzburg
Filzmaier, P.; Hainzl, C.; Bos, E.; Barlai, M.; Hartleb, F.; Griessler, C. (2024). An Overview of Political Mistrust an Cynicism as a Crisis of Democracy. In: Filzmaier, P.; Hainzl, C.; Bos, E.; Barlai, M.; Hartleb, F.; Griessler, C., An Overview of Political Mistrust an Cynicism as a Crisis of Democracy: https://doi.org/10., Nomos, Baden-Baden
Filzmaier, P.; Hainzl, C.; Bos, E.; Barlai, M.; Hartleb, F.; Griessler, C. (2024). Democratic Backsliding in Europe. In: Filzmaier, P.; Hainzl, C.; Bos, E.; Barlai, M.; Hartleb, F.; Griessler, C., Democratic Backsliding in Europe: https://doi.org/10., Nomos, Baden-Baden
Hainzl, C.; Praschl-Bichler, A. (2024). Antisemitismus und Antimuslimismus in der Kunst und Karikatur.
Hainzl, C. (2023). Über Verformungen, Zwischen-Räume und Maßstäbe in unserem Zusammenleben. In: Hainzl, C., Perspektiven des Zusammenlebens – Zur Demokratie: 47-62, Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra
Hainzl, C. (2023). Eine Spurensuche in Kunst und Kultur. In: Hainzl, C., Perspektiven des Zusammenlebens – Zur Demokratie: 5-9, Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra
Hainzl, C. (2023). Zur Entstehung der Zeichnungen. In: Hainzl, C., Perspektiven des Zusammenlebens – Zur Demokratie: 63-75, Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra
Hainzl, C., Hauptmann, R.; Paul, A.; Müller, J.; Divjak, P.; Gyalai, S.; Nakowitz, R.; Horak, S. (2023). Perspektiven des Zusammenlebens – Zur Demokratie. Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra
Hainzl, C.; Blom, P.; Hartmann, J.; Holter, M.; Oberhollenzer, G. (2023). Human Nature. In: Holter, M.; Hartmann, J.; Gesellschaft bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler Österreichs Künstlerhaus, Human Nature: Ausgabe 1, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Wien
Hainzl, C.; Dialer, D.; Kuske, H. (2022). Gesundheitspolitik und Gesellschaft in der COVID-19-Krise. LIT, Wien, Österreich
Lectures (Extract Research Database)
Moderation "Freedom of Speech in a Polarized Era"
"Freedom of Speech in a Polarized Era", 16/12/2025
Welcome Note
Conference "Science Diplomacy and Heritage: On the Politics of Fragments, the Role of Science, and the Perception of Lacunas", 04/12/2025
Moderation Panel I "Monuments and Mindsets"
Conference "Science Diplomacy and Heritage: On the Politics of Fragments, the Role of Science, and the Perception of Lacunas", 04/12/2025
Moderation Artist Talk "Between the Old and the New - Heritage of our Time"
Conference "Science Diplomacy and Heritage: On the Politics of Fragments, the Role of Science, and the Perception of Lacunas", 04/12/2025
"The Power of Remains". Science Diplomacy and Culture – Bridges Between Knowledge, Politics, and Identity
Training Programme on Science Diplomacy (European Union Science Diplomacy Alliance, University of Trieste, Central European Initiative), 27/11/2025
Moderation Workshop Gründungssymposium ACT - Austrian Center for Transformation
"Körper kognitiver Resonanz" Gründungssymposium ACT - Austrian Center for Transformation, 26/11/2025
Impulse für eine Post-2030-Agenda
SDG Dialogforum 2025, 23/10/2025
Buchpräsentation "Fractures"
"Fractures – Contemporary Approaches from the Arab Region" - Buchpräsentation im Rahmen der FOTO Wien, 10/10/2025
Buchpräsentation "Venice, an Archipelago of Art and Ecologies"
International Conference: "Fluid Geographies. Reconsidering the Notion of Border in Contemporary Art", 19/06/2025
Opening remarks
International Conference: "Fluid Geographies. Reconsidering the Notion of Border in Contemporary Art", 19/06/2025