Philipp Sattler

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About Philipp Sattler

Philipp Sattler is a researcher, artist, and writer with a background in Architecture, Construction Design and Economics, as well as English and American Studies. He is Assistant Professor at IZK - Institute for Contemporary Art, Faculty of Architecture, Graz University of Technology, and a PhD student at the Royal College of Art, School of Architecture, London. He is researching the material conditions and interactions of agriculture, property and law in relation to fascism and colonialism permeating European soils under the working title "Trembling Worlds. Investigative Materialities and Rural Regimes of Ownership".Sattler was organizer, and moderator of the conference "Life of Crops: Towards an Investigative Memorialization"(2019) in the framework of the "Aflenz Memorial in Becoming" project, where he is a freelance project coordinator and researcher. He is co-convenor of the "IZK Theory Lecture Series" that brings positions of contemporary art and architecture to the Graz art scene and an interested public. He is a founding member of "Das Gesellschaftliche Ding", a collective that operates the exhibiting and discursive space "Annenstrasse 53," in Graz, Austria. He has been awarded the Mind The Gap - Award for Gender and Diversity Special Prize for his Master thesis “Portrait of the Bauer. On Architecture and Agronomy of Property” (2020).