Philipp Sattler (1990, Austria) is a researcher, artist, architect, and educator with a background in Architecture, Economics, as well as English and American Studies. He is currently a lecturer at the IZK - Institute for Contemporary Art, Faculty of Architecture, Graz University of Technology, where he previously held the position of Assistant Professor from 2020 to 2025. He is currently a PhD student at the Royal College of Art (RCA), School of Architecture, London.
He is a founding member of Das Gesellschaftliche Ding, which operated and curated the exhibiting space “Annenstrasse 53,” in Graz, Austria, and a founding member of Sans Souci Collective (SSC), a research-based collective addressing the permanent state of global war using exhibiting as a method of investigation. He has worked since 2022 with Rose-Anne Gush as part of COLLAPSE Collective, currently conducting an ongoing artistic research project, How Does One Get To Own A Mountain?! around questions of landscape, extraction and partisan history. Sattler has been awarded the Mind the Gap - Award for Gender and Diversity Special Prize for his Master’s thesis “Portrait of the Bauer. On Architecture and Agronomy of Property” in 2020.
His transdisciplinary work examines the material and conceptual conditions, spatial manifestations, and ecological devastations of agriculture, mining, and property, as well as the relationships between the rural and urban. He currently works on environmental and architectural histories of violence along the Austrian-Slovenian border.
His research is published in koozArch (2024), the Journal of Visual Culture (2022), the Architectural Review (2020), and Public Art (2020) of Art in Public Space Styria.
His collective and individual artistic and curatorial work, was shown in exhibitions at Forum Stadtpark, Graz (2025); Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin (2023); October Salon, Belgrade (2022); Oeverwerk, Graz (2020); Kunsthaus Graz (2019); Forum Stadtpark, Graz (2018); MNAC - The National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (2018); Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen (2018); Kunsthaus Graz (2017); Malta Festival Poznan (2017).
Philipp Sattler works between London and Graz and lives in the Austrian countryside.
