Julia Haugeneder: The Crunchtime

In her exhibition The Crunchtime. Where the rubber hit the road, Julia Haugeneder explores social cohesion as well as states of exhaustion and wear. Her sculptural practice, which employs bookbinding glue and pigment, jute and linoleum, focuses on the tension between dystopian and optimistic visions of the future. Floral wall elements collide with the rubber residue left by car tyres. How can we learn to live together better, collectively and democratically, rather than remaining fixated on fantasies of the apocalypse? In the spirit of Michel Serres’s The Natural Contract (1990; German translation 1994), the exhibition advocates an understanding of nature not as a resource, but as an interlocutor in its own right. (Lisa Ortner-Kreil, 2026)

Julia Haugeneder (b. 1987, Vienna) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Central Saint Martins in London. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Austria and internationally, including at Sexauer Berlin, Museum Liaunig in Neuhaus, Kunstverein Augsburg, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, NÖDOK St. Pölten, yellow brick Athens, Neue Galerie Graz, Belvedere 21 Vienna, Landesgalerie Niederösterreich in Krems, Museum der Moderne Salzburg and MUSA Vienna.

In March 2027, Landesgalerie Niederösterreich in Krems will present a solo exhibition of Julia Haugeneder’s work, curated by Lisa Ortner-Kreil.