Anna Orbanic receives the Cathrin-Pichler-Prize 2025

Anna Orbanic will receive the 2025 Cathrin-Pichler-Prize, endowed with 2,500 euros, sponsored by the City of Vienna. The certificate will be awarded during the graduation ceremony on June 27, 2025.

The jury, consisting of Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, Magdalena Stöger, Carola Dertnig, Stefanie Seibold, and Verena Kaspar-Eisert, selected Anna Orbanic and her project BODY OF MANY from a total of 19 submissions.

Anna Orbanic is a young architect who completed her master's degree at the Institute of Art and Architecture with a focus on ecology, sustainability, and cultural heritage.

"By not only observing biological processes but understanding them as creative partners, Anna Orbanic opens up new forms of expression at the interface of art, architecture, and science. BODY OF MANY is not just an experimental material project, but a poetic statement as an open, vulnerable process between idea, material, and time. A visionary, aesthetically and conceptually sophisticated work," finds the jury.

BODY OF MANY (2024)
research, installation and film
An Architectural Mycelium Structure on Linen Fabric
A Film Documentary of an Artistic and Biological Process
project developed by Anna Orbanic
with help of construction from Aki Namba, Simon Brugner, Simon Oberhammer
and consultations from Nelson Duenas