Ceramics. Design. Art. & Upper Austria Hiking & snowshoe guide
Juliane Leitner was born in 1977 in Gmunden and grew up in Altmünster am Traunsee. From 1996 to 2006 she worked as a journeywoman potter and ceramist and completed her training in object and design with a general qualification for university entrance at the ceramics school in Stoob at Burgenland. From 2006 to 2012 she studied at the University of Art in Linz, majoring in Sculptural Conceptions / Ceramics, which enabled her to spend a semester abroad in Norway at the Art University Bergen, among other things. In 2009, Juliane began working at Ars Electronica GmbH & Co KG as an art and culture mediator. In 2012, she was given project responsibility for the design and realization of 5000 illuminated letters together with visitors of the Ars Electronica Center for the VOESTALPINE KLANGWOLKE 2012. As a result, she received the project management for the presentation room Deep Space as well as the evening program Deep Space LIVE. From 2015 to 2020 she worked as project manager for Deep Space 8K and Deep Space Mobil. She gave presentations, coordinated, and organized tours, projects, performances, events, lectures, including for the annual Ars Electronica Festival. In addition to her full- time work, Juliane founded the artist studio “atelier lesa” (anno Leitner & Sauter) in Weingartshofstraße in Linz in April 2011 together with her former fellow student. She has been running the studio independently since 2016. In winter 2019 she passed the exam to become an authorized hiking and snowshoe guide at the Upper Austrian Mountain Guide Association. In July 2020, the “atelier lesa – leitner sculptural art” was relocated from Linz to Pettenbach. Juliane Leitner has been an independent commercial ceramist and freelance artist including hiking and snowshoe guide since January 2021.
Major exhibitions & projects in recent years:
Sept. 2018 Linzer Kunstsalon 2018
July 2019 “Light installation NEXUS”, Botanical Midsummer Night’s Dream; Botanical Garden Linz.
May – Oct. 2020 “3+3 Conglomerate Wild Growth” exhibition & organization, Botanical Garden Linz Jan. – Oct. 2021 Stainless steel fountain sculpture Greiner AG, Headquarter Greiner, 4550 Kremsmünster April – June 2022 Let’s connect! Art project with pupils of the NMS Scharnstein
Sept. 2022 Net. Light. Werk exhibition at the Papiermachermuseum Steyrermühl
