Michael Hieslmair (born 1974 in Vienna) studied
architecture at the Graz
University of Technology and Delft University of Technology. He was fellow
at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Innsbruck and architect in residence at the
MAK Center for Art and Architecture Los Angeles, taught at various
universities, e.g. University for Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle
an der Saale, Innsbruck University, Graz and Vienna Technical University. He
collaborated on the research project "Crossing Munich, Places,
Representations and Debates on Migration in Munich" (with Sabine Hess) which
culminated in an exhibition at the Rathausgalerie. In 2012 he co-founded the
independent research institute Tracing Spaces, also producing and curating
the art in public space project "City on the Move—a Farewell to a Logistic
Area" (with
Michael Zinganel). From 2014 to 2016 he was research associate
at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and co-head of research of "Stop and Go:
Nodes of Transformation and Transition" investigating the production of
space along pan-European Traffic Corridors in East Europe.
