Marie Artaker

Marie Artaker lives in Vienna, where she works as a book designer in arts and culture. Her conceptual approach is based on research and a close collaboration with artists, curators and editors. In viewing the book as exhibition space, her practice focuses on creating reading experiences that aim to offer enticing paths to access texts and interpret images.
Next to a strong interest in forms of practice-based research and the archive and library as curatorial spaces, her academic research revolves around unruly formats that challenge mediation and categorisation, such as the note(book), distinguished by its preliminary, yet documented form.
Her book designs have been awarded several times in the competition for Austria’s most beautiful books. In 2016 she received the studio grant from the Andreas Züst Library (Oberegg, Switzerland) together with Margherita Huntley, and in 2014 the STARTStipendium for Architecture and Design from the Federal Ministry of Culture, Austria.

Ongoing collaborations with:
Alexandra Möllner (book design and collaborative practices),
Florian Regl (image editing),
Dominik Wiedenski (multidisciplinary design)

 

Workshops and talks:
— Hidden Collections. Mediating the Preliminary
Merz Akademie, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Kunst und Medien Stuttgart
One-week workshop
2025

— On Collaboration
Typogaráž, Bratislava
Lecture and installation
2024

— Das Buch als kuratorischer Raum (The Book as Curatorial Space)
Hauptbücherei Wien (Main public library, Vienna)
Talk
2024

— Gastvorträge und Gespräch. Marie Artaker, Martha Stutteregger, Nik Thoenen
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Klasse für Ideen
Lecture and conversation with: Paulus Dreibholz, Astrid Seme, Martha Stutteregger and Nik Thoenen
2024

— Archiv der Vermittlung. Das Unarchivierbare aktualisieren
Depot – Kunst und Diskussion, Vienna
Kick-off event for the online archive together with: Renate Höllwart, Beatrice Jaschke, Nora Sternfeld and
Julia Stolba
2022

— /ecm Master Thesis Onlinearchiv
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Workshop with students from the Master’s programme in Exhibition Theory and Practice
2022

— /ecm Master Thesis Onlinearchiv
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Guest lecture
2022

— LOVE AND LET LOVE!
Community College, Kunsthalle Wien
Banner workshop in the frame of the public program of the exhibition “How to Live Together”
Together with: Armin Autz / Christopher Wurmdobler (H.A.P.P.Y), Katharina Stadlbauer
2017

 

Texts:
— I’m afraid I told a lie on pp. 12–13 in: Martina Griesser-Stermscheg, Christine Haupt-Stummer, Renate Höllwart, Beatrice Jaschke, Monika Sommer, Nora Sternfeld and Luisa Ziaja, Widersprüche. Kuratorisch handeln zwischen Theorie und Praxis, Edition Angewandte, 2023, pp. 187–190

 

Theses:
— What is Curatorial Research?
On Defining and Undefining...
Between and Beyond Theory and Practice
MA Thesis in educating/curating/managing
University of Applied Arts Vienna
2020

— From Mnemosyne to RFID Tags.
Organisational Forms in Physical Spaces of Research that Encourage Associative Thought and Embrace Serendipity
BA Thesis in Graphic Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
2012