Johannes Reisigl (he/they; *1995, Hall in Tirol, AT) is an independent cultural worker based in Innsbruck (AT). Since February 2026, he is the new co-director of Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen (AT) together with Barbara Mahlknecht. He is also a co-initiator of the new Alpine Changemaker Network on eco-social transformation in the Alps, and a guest curator at Dogo Residenz für Neue Kunst (CH), for public art and nature. He is a member of the curatorial advisory board of Klimakultur Tirol (AT) on the intersection of arts, culture and climate activism, and board member of Openspace Innsbruck (AT). Reisigl is the initiator of the Rural Commons Assembly, with which he has co-organised translocal assemblies as peer-learning environments since 2021. Reisigl co-curated the two symposia Kultur im Dorf / Dorfkultur organised by TKI – Tiroler Kulturinitiativen in 2023 and 2025, addressing questions of cultural development in rural areas, among others in cooperation with TRAFO – Modelle für Kultur im Wandel. As a board member of Kulturverein Grammophon between 2021 and 2023, he was involved in establishing Neuwirt, a third place located in a former village pub. From 2015 to 2019, Reisigl worked as a producer for Orchester KOMPART, realising concerts and music performances across Austria and Switzerland, including the opera Stillhang at Tiroler Festspiele Erl in 2018.

He studied Fine Art and Design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City, and was part of the practice-based research environment MA Practice Held in Common at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, with a focus on solidarity economies. Reisigl was a co-founder of the para-academic study group Strategies of Relationality (NL) in 2019 dedicated to relational practice in art and design, and has completed further training in Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Art of Hosting and Permaculture. His recent lecturing and teaching activities have taken him to a conference of SARN – Swiss Artistic Research Network in Tschlin and to the symposium Care for Margins – Practices of Art Residentiality in Marginal Areas in Topolò (IT). 

Last updated on June 11th, 2026
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