About - Theresa Hajek

Theresa Hajek is a Vienna-based multimedia artist, who deals with the scalability of things. Starting with a simple molecule up to complex global systems. Her focus is to transform scientific knowledge into artistic works.

Previously, she studied Molecular Biosciences at Paris Lodron University in Salzburg. In 2022, Theresa finished her Bachelor's degree "Cross-Disciplinary Strategies. Applied Studies in Art, Science, Philosophy, and Global Challenges," at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. During her studies, she did an exchange semester at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (NL) at the Interfaculty ArtScience.

Her work is concerned with new working and communication strategies to reformulate knowledge beyond individual disciplines. The aim is to provide insight into global and political realities by using different active practices in the scientific and artistic fields. A central element here is to create a momentum of tension and release that opens up a space of experience.

Student Assistant 2023/24

Works

Party Chandelier (June 24, 2025)
Exhibiting artist
I think it was Nervous too: Moving with Robots (June 18, 2025)
Master Graduate
Someone Is Listening (June 07, 2024)
Exhibiting artist
HYPER-SPINAL RETROGRADE (June 24, 2023)
Exhibiting artist

Activities

I'm abundant, yet scarce. (June 25, 2025)
Annual Class Exhibition

Exhibiting artist
Master projects | summer semester 2025 (June 18, 2025)
Exams and Exhibition

Master Project Presentation
Lichtfest Krems (November 15, 2024)
Excursion and Extracurricular Exhibition of two Art&Science students

Exhibiting artist
Refractive Perspectives | 3*10^8 m/s (June 07, 2024)
Annual Class Exhibition

Exhibiting artist
Drawn by the Light (December 04, 2023)
Class excursion to The Netherlands

Participant and photos
Knowing (off) space, knowing private to public cultural heritage and futures. (November 22, 2023)
Art space Tour and Visit : Echo Correspondence - Zahra Khan and Mona Yoo

Participant
Decolonizing in Vienna - Knowing decolonial perspectives on the city (November 15, 2023)
Guest lecture and walk by

Participant
Knowing aesthetics and vital knowledges that center symbiotic life in between worlds. (October 25, 2023)
Guest lecture by Imayna Caceres

Participant
Knowing: Costume Design with Cédric Mpaka (October 19, 2023)
Excursion: Burgtheater

Participant
Art & Science @Angewandte Festival (June 27, 2023)
Three Exhibitions: Master's Projects | Licking Structures | Not It

Curatorial team, Graphic design/PR team and exhibiting artist
Licking Structures | Exhibition (June 24, 2023)
Exhibition at Künstlerhaus Vienna

Curatorial team, Graphic design/PR team and exhibiting artist
Licking Structures | Exhibition Opening (June 23, 2023)
Exhibition Opening at Künstlerhaus Vienna

Curatorial team, Graphic design/PR team and exhibiting artist
Excursions May 2023 (May 02, 2023)
"Das Fest" MAK | Kigi Kogelnik "Now Is the Time" at Kunstforum | Curational tour at MAK: "/IMAGINE: A Journey into The New Virtual"

Participant
Excursion April 2023 (May 02, 2023)
Jewish Museum Vienna

Participant
Lecture and Workshop by Jennifer Teets and Dr. Ruth Kutalek (April 19, 2023)
Participant
Excursions March 2023 (March 10, 2023)
Sanja Iveković at Kunsthalle Wien, Monica LoCascio Studio Visit, Jeremy Deller at Franz Josef Kai 3, The New African Portraiture. Shariat Collections at Kunsthalle Krems

Participant
Excursions November 2022 (November 04, 2022)
Zentrum Fokus Forschung, Angewandte Gallery Heiligenkreuzerhof, project partner Natural History Museum, Vienna Art Week

Participant
Excursions October 2022 (October 24, 2022)
Museum of Fine Arts and cooperation partner venue Künstlerhaus Factory

Participant

Theresa Hajek

Photo (c) Silas Isenmann