Valerie Habsburg, b. 1982, lives and works as artist, photographer, researcher and curator in Vienna (A). She has a Master from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she also was a lecturer. In her works she reflects and processes themes such as memory(ies), time and temporality(ies) and their relation to space and place. The archive forms an important basis for her artistic works, which are expressed through photography, video, objects and installations. Her works have been shown in Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany etc.
When working with photography archives, Habsburg is particularly interested in personal archives: private family chronicles, documented intimate moments, registered and catalogued individual memories. Since 2019, she engages in artistic research on the work and life of Jewish sculptor Teresa Feodorowna Ries – and founded the TFR-Archive.