Christina Hainzl

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

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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

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