news
  • 15.3.2024 – 13.10.2024
    new project , exhibition

    "Water Pressure - Designing for the future" an exhibition of the MK&G Hamburg and Jane Withers Studio – looks at the water crisis from a global perspective. We were commissioned to come up with an installation celebrating water. The result "vital rain" is part of the exhibition and will stay permanently in the museums yard.
    more soon

    MKG Hamburg - Water Pressure

  • april 2024
    new project

    For the glassware company Lobmeyr we designed "ident" - drinking set No.287

    Identical shape, identical height - five individual glasses.
    The series was unveilded during Milan Design Week.

    Lobmeyr

  • april 2024 - ongoing
    factory tour

    We designed the factory tour for Laufen in Gmunden with a lot of details and small installations to guide and inform local and international guests.

    Laufen Gmunden

  • 5.4.2024 - 14.7.2024
    exhibition

    "inWastement" glass series is on show at the Klimabiennale in Vienna at the "design with a purpose" exhibition.

    Klimabiennale Wien

  • 15.9 2023 - 21. 7 2024
    exhibition

    HEIMATEN. An exhibition and survey and an attempt to break with conventional takes on Heimat. the exhibition was shown at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G) in 2022. Our specially commissioned piece 'riparian cloud' is now also on show in Molfsee.

    Freilichtmuseum Molfsee

  • ongoing
    exhibition

    MAK Design Lab at the Museum of applied Arts in Vienna. Within the permanent Design exhibition one can find a few of our projects like 'the idea of a tree', 'limited moths' or 'LeveL.

    MAK Design Lab

  • awards & recognitions
  • 2018 Shortlist: the the DESIGN PRIZE 2018 by designboom, experimental Design IT
  • 2016 Winner: Swarovski Design Medal 2016 by Swarovski and Vienna Design Week AT
  • 2016 Telegraph's Visionaries 2016 UK
  • 2015 TL magazine's DUO awards, TL Mag#24 BE
  • 2015 Wallpaper's 20 under 40 UK
  • 2014 Winner: BE-Open - Young Talent Award UK, CH
  • 2013 Winner: Justus Brinckmann sponsorship award DE
  • 2012 Winner: Wu Guanzhong Art & Science Innovation Award CN
  • 2012 Nomination: Icon-Awards: Emerging Designer of the year UK
  • 2011 Winner: W-Hotel's Designer of the future Award 2011 by Design Miami/Basel US
  • 2011 Nomination: Dwell moder World award US
  • 2010 Nomination: Brit Insurance – Designs of the Year 2010 UK
  • 2010 Winner: Wiener Zukunftspreis 2010 AT
  • 2009 Winner: Austrian Prize for the Advancement of Experimental Design AT
  • 2009 Honorary Mention: Prix Ars Electronica (cat.: Hybrid Arts) AT
  • 2009 recipient of 'Startstipendium for design & architecture 2009' by BMUKK AT
  • 2009 Winner: DMY-Award DE
  • 2007 Winner: Sustainable Design Award, by Dyson & the Design Academy NL
  • 2006 Finalist: Lights of the future 2006 - Student award DE
  • 2005 Nomination: MACEF-rethink-recycle-award US
  • permanent collections
  • MAK Vienna "the idea of a tree" process and objects AT
  • "LeveL II" installation - 18 rods
  • "prospects" installation
  • "limited fern" vase
  • "ratio-s" paperweights and mobile
  • "till you stop" - cake decoration machine
  • lamp from the "f.aid" series
  • Vitra Design Museum "relumine" lamp DE
  • two "the idea of a tree" benches
  • MKG Hamburg "riparian cloud" DE
  • "collective works" - basket
  • "the idea of a tree" small container
  • Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloß Pillnitz "cuprum" DE
  • MUDAC Lausanne "nocturnal cloud" CH
  • Art institute Chicaco "the idea of a tree" bench and two lamps US
  • MADD Bordeaux two "limited fern" vases FRA
  • MAO Ljubljana "ratio" - three pieces SL
  • Designmuseum Ghent "the idea of a tree" bench BE
  • Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York "day by day" - rug US
  • British Crafts Council "colour breeze" installation GB
  • Philadelphia Art museum "reversed volumes" US
  • Hofmobiliendepot Vienna "the idea of a tree" bench AT
  • TBA 21 "relumine" lamp AT
  • The Israel museum "matzah baking kit" ISR
  • exhibitions
  • 2020
  • Jan-May "Design by Time" exhibition, Gregg Museum of Art and Design Raleigh, US
  • Feb-March "MADE IN: Crafts — Design Narratives" at the Museum of Arts and Crafts Zagreb / Travelling Exhibition Zagreb, HR
  • March-Sept "Kleureyck - Van Eyck’s Colours in Design" - "colourful kinaesthesia - a Boisbuchet workshop", Designmuseum Gent Gent, BE
  • May "Walden", Schloss Hollenegg for Design Hollenegg, AT
  • 2019
  • Feb-April "Design by Time", Pratt Manhatten Gallery / Travelling Exhibition New York, US
  • May-ongoing permanent exhibition "MAK DESIGN LAB", MAK Vienna, AT
  • May-Oct "the conversation show", Design Museum Holon Holon, ISR
  • May-Jan 2020 "Nature" - Design Triennial, Cooper Hewitt New York, US
  • May-Jan 2020 "Nature" - Trienale at the Cube Designmuseum Kerkrade, NL
  • May-June "Design Without Borders" at the New Budapest Gallery Budapest, HU
  • May-Aug "Design by Time", Knoxville museum of Art Knoxville, US
  • Sept-ongoing "plural", permanent installation - Futurium Berlin Berlin, DE
  • Oct-Feb 2020 "After the Wall: Design since 1989", Vitra Schaudepot Weil am Rhein, DE
  • 2018
  • Jan-May "LeveL" at Designmuseum Gent Gent, BE
  • Feb-May "viva la differencia" at Centro Centro Madrid Madrid, ES
  • March - Oct 'to go - new designs for Jewish Ritual Objects' at the Israel museum Jerusalem, ISR
  • April "Device People", CHP...? exhibition, Milan Design Week Milan, IT
  • April-May "mischer'traxler studio in three chapters" at Victor Hunt Gallery Brussels, BE
  • May -June "LeveL" at Futurium Berlin, DE
  • June Beirut Design Week Beirut, LB
  • June - August "Design Without Borders" at the New Budapest Gallery Budapest, HU
  • September "Homo Faber" exhibition in Venice Venice, IT
  • Sept-Oct "Design everyday", Vienna Design Week Vienna, AT
  • Sept-Dec "Neue Urbane Produktion" at Halle 14 in Leipzig Leipzig, DE
  • Oct. "Device People", CHP...? exhibition, at hôtel droog Amsterdam, NL
  • 2017
  • Dec „light volumes“ with Victor Hunt Designart dealer at Design Miami Miami, US
  • Sept-Nov "in relation" solo show at AAA space of Mario Mauroner Contemporary art Vienna, AT
  • Sept-Oct „oben links“, studio exhibition at Vienna Design Week Vienna, AT
  • Jul-Sept „states of play“ by British Crafts Council, Humber Street Gallery Hull, UK
  • Jun-Oct „SUR/FACE.SPIEGEL“, Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, DE
  • Jun-Sept „Mirror.Mirror“, MUDAC Lausanne, CH
  • Jun-Sept „LeveL“ at MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst Vienna, AT
  • Jun „LeveL 2.0“ with Victor Hunt Designart Dealer at Design Miami/Basel Basel, CH
  • May-Nov "Faraway, so close – Humans as temporary visitors at the countryside" Genterovci, SI
  • May-Nov „Faraway, so close“ 25th Biennale of Design, MAO Ljubljana Ljubljana, SI
  • May „Metamorphosis“ , Schloss Hollenegg for Design Hollenegg, AT
  • Nov-Feb 2017 “LeveL and Volumes”, the Goods Shed Perth, AU
  • 2016
  • Dec „LeveL 2.0“ for Victor Hunt designart dealer, Design Miami Miami, US
  • Nov-Jan 2017 Dunbar’s Number presents: „the living room“, AAA-project space Vienna, AT
  • Nov „the 3rd Xinjiang Annual Art Biennial 2016“ Xinijang, CN
  • Oct „Elektra Lux“, Carwan Gallery Beirut, LB
  • Oct „Collection #3“ , Chamber Gallery New York, US
  • Sept „Indian Summer“, Tools Gallery Paris, FR
  • Sept „isochrone for Schloss Hollenegg for Design“, Vienna Design Week Vienna, AT
  • Sept „A characters coat“ by Pia Bauernberger, Vienna Design Week Vienna, AT
  • Sept „LeveL – the fragile balance of utopia“, London Design Biennal Vienna, AT
  • May „collective works“, Design Week Jerusalem – Hansen House Jerusalem, IL
  • May „Slow“, Schloss Hollenegg for Design Hollenegg, AT
  • Apr „local icons – East/West“, Milan Design Week Milan, IT
  • Apr „Back Ahead – new Austrian Design Perspectives“, Milan Design Week Milan, IT
  • Mar-Jun „we transform – Art and Design on the limit of growth, Neues Museum Nuremberg, DE
  • Feb-Mar „local icons – East/West“ MAXXI Museum Rome, IT
  • 2015
  • Dec-Jan 2016 „Für Gaderobe wird nicht gehaftet“, AIL Vienna, AT
  • Nov-Jan 2016 „Prototypes & Experiments VIII“, Aram Gallery London, UK
  • Oct „Freedom“, Designblok, Designblok Prague Prague, CZ
  • Oct „ephemerā“ for Perrier-Jouet, Vienna Design Week Vienna, AT
  • Sept-Jan 2016 „Lightopia“, Vitra exhibition – Imperial Furniture Museum Vienna, AT
  • Sept-Oct „realLimited“, Garage Kunsthaus Wien Vienna, AT
  • Sept „curiosity cloud“, London Design Festival, Victoria & Albert Museum London, UK
  • Sept „19 greek street – The Art of Progress“, London Design Festival London, UK
  • Sept „Designsalon Linz – one of a kind“, Landesgalerie Linz, AT
  • Sept „Favoris #01“, exhibition and Auction Paris, FR
  • May „Unikat“, Designmonat Graz Graz, AT
  • May „Krehky at Mikulov“ Mikulov, CZ
  • Apr-Dec „Domus“, Depot Pilsen, CZ
  • Mar-May „Do it yourself Design“, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich| Zürich, CH
  • Feb-Mar „Design-Discourse: Austria-South Africa“, Designforum Wien Vienna, AT
  • 2014
  • Dec „ephemerā by mischer’traxler“ for Perrier-Jouet, Design Miami Miami, US
  • Nov „Design-Discourse: Austria-South Africa“ Capetown, ZA
  • Nov-Dec ‚The future is not what it used to be‘, Design Biennial Istanbul, TR
  • Sept-Nov „Trame – Copper Crossing“, Triennale Design Museum Milan, IT
  • Sept-Oct „similarly unique“, Vienna Design Week – window gallery Vienna, AT
  • Oct „fabelhaft/legendary“, Vienna Design Week Vienna, AT
  • Jun-Nov “Castling – designer meet the collection“, KGM Pillnitz Dresden, DE
  • Jul-Sept “The main dish“ , Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, US
  • Jun-Aug “Designing Scarcity“, Het Niewe Instituut Rotterdam, NL
  • Jun Design Miami Basel, Victor Hunt Designart Dealer Basel, CH
  • May „Self-Unself“, Collective 2 fair New York, US
  • May-ongoing “Designlabor“, MAK Vienna, AT
  • May-Aug “Werkstatt Vienna“, KGM Pillnitz Dresden, DE
  • Apr Nodus: „All art is useless“, Milan Design Week Milan, IT
  • Apr INResidence: „Desideribilia“, Milan Design Week Milan, IT
  • Nov-Mar 2014 „Design Shanghai 2013 – Aesthetics City“, Power Station of Art Shanghai, CN
  • 2013
  • Oct-Feb 2014 „Mastering Design“, MUDAC Lausanne, CH
  • Sept-Mar 2014 „Lightopia“, Vitra Design Museum / Travelling Exhibition until 2018 Weil am Rhein, DE
  • Sept-Nov „Crossovers- Natural Studies“, MODEM Budapest, HU
  • Sept-Nov „Crossovers in Design“, Design Terminal Budapest, HU
  • Sept „colour records“ – mischer’traxler invited to Bratislava Design Week Bratislava, SK
  • Aug-Feb 2014 „similarly unique“ – mischer’traxler in the box, Lynfabriken Aarhus, DK
  • Jun-Oct „Nomadic Furniture 3.0“, MAK Vienna, AT
  • Apr „Austrian Design details“, Salone di Tessuti, Milan Design Week Milan, IT
  • Apr „Madtastic“, Institute Cervantes Milan Milan, IT
  • Apr „Werkstatt Vienna“, Venture Lambrate, Milan Design Week Milan, IT
  • Mar-Apr „O’Clock – Time Design, Design Time“, CAFA Art Museum Beijing, CN
  • Feb-Jun „Food Project -the shape of taste“, Mart Museum Roverento, IT
  • Feb-Mar „Contemporary Perspectives in Middle Eastern Craft“, Katara Art Center Doha, QA
  • Feb-Mar „the mirror“, Vienna Design Week – Gallery Space, Stilwerk Vienna, AT
  • Feb „DOS – designing sound object“, Auditorium Rome Rome, IT
  • Dec 2012-Mar „Werkstatt Vienna“, MAK Vienna, AT
  • 2012
  • Nov-Dec „Reflections on form“, Helmrinderknecht/Barbara Seiler Galerie Zürich, CH
  • Nov-Dec „the 3rd art & science international exhibition and symposium“, Science and Technology Museum Beijing, CN
  • Nov „shape your life“ MAXXI Museum Rome, IT
  • Oct-Nov "Vienna open" Vienna, AT
  • Oct „Another terra“ Interieur Kortrijk Kortrijk, BE
  • Oct „Mutationen“, Dunbars Number, Vienna Design Week Vienna, AT
  • Oct „Cocoo Syndrome“, Kunstraum NOE Vienna, AT
  • Oct „the mirror“ , Okolo, Designblok Prague Prague, CZ
  • Sept-Nov „BIO 23“, MAO Ljubljana, SI
  • Sept-Oct „Slow Design“ Budapest, HU
  • Sept-Oct „Design meets Lifestyle“, Designgalleriet Stockholm, SE
  • Sept „Everyday Discoveries“ + „Werkstatt Vienna“ Helsinki, FI
  • Sept „Methods“, somethinggood, London Design Festival London, UK
  • Jul-Sept „Woher kommt das Neue“, Hessen Design Darmstadt, DE
  • Jun-Sept „Skin future materials“, Designforum Vienna, AT
  • Jun-Sept „the machine‘, C-Mine Genk, BE
  • Jun „Another Terra at Depot Basel“ Basel, CH
  • Jun „Taste Festival“ Berlin, DE
  • May „mischer’traxler at Clerkenwell Design Week“ London, UK
  • May „Selected: sustainable Design“, Designmonat Graz Graz, AT
  • May „Skin – future materials“, Designmonat Graz Graz, AT
  • Apr „contemporary perspectives in middle eastern craft“, Carwan Gallery Milan, IT
  • Apr „Kavdrat Hallingdal 65 – Projects“, Milan Design Week Milan, IT
  • Apr „Another Terra – home away from home“ INResidence, Milan Design Week Milan, IT
  • Apr „Balanced“ at Wait and See, Milan Design Week Milan, IT
  • Apr „Austria Raw & Delicate“, Milan Design Week Milan, IT
  • Mar „Design Days Dubai“, performance with Carwan Gallery Dubai, AE
  • Mar „Countdown Design“ Bolzano, IT
  • Feb-Mar „Magic of Diversity“ MAK Vienna, AT
  • 2011
  • Nov-Dec „(mis)using what is there“, solo exhibition at Novalis Fine Arts Turin, IT
  • Oct-Feb 2012 New Energy in Design and Art“ Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, NL
  • Oct-Jan 2012 „o´clock – time design, design time“ Triennale Design Museum Milan, IT
  • Oct „gallery walk at qubique“, ‚Limited editions by Engelhorn & Turkiewicz‘ Berlin, DE
  • Oct „Het colour locale“ Budapest, HU
  • Oct „Lodz Design Festival“ NeoFarm exhibition Lodz, PL
  • Jul „Touch me“ Festival Zagreb, HR
  • Jun „W-Hotels designer of the future“, Design Miami/Basel Basel, CH
  • Jun „This is my forest: The harvest cycle“, Festarch Perugia, IT
  • Jun-Sept „re:product 3“, IWP Warsaw, PL
  • May-Feb 2012 „Industrious artefacts“, Zuiderzeemuseum Enkhuizen, PL
  • May-Jun „mischer’traxler & raw colour“, Otrascosas de Villarrosas Barcelona, ES
  • Apr-May „naturally combined“, exhibition & workshop at RiotStudio Naples, IT
  • Mar-Apr „04“, Krehky Gallery Prague, CZ
  • Dec 2010-Jul „Hyperlinks: Architecture & Design“, Art Institute Chicago Chicago, US
  • Dec 2010-Mar „restart“, Palazzo Frisacco Tolmezzo, IT
  • Dec 2010-Feb „03 Chvala Vidne“, Krehky Gallery Prague, CZ
  • 2010
  • Nov „Artissima Design“, Palazzo Birago Turin, IT
  • Oct-Jan 2011 „2000 – 2010 – Design in Wien, Wien Museum Vienna, AT
  • Oct „Bulb Fiction“, Klaus Engelhorn Depot Vienna, AT
  • Oct „Nespresso Installation“, Vienna Design Week Vienna, AT
  • Oct „Rumkugelbahn“ MAK Museumshop, MAK Vienna, AT
  • Oct „Design Nature“, Biennale international du Design Vienna, AT
  • Sept-Nov „Design criminal or a new joy to the World“ MAK Vienna, AT
  • Sept-Jan 2011 „reThink“, Textilmuseum Tilburg Tilburg, NL
  • Sept „Foodmarketo – Coffee & Friends“ London, UK
  • Jun-Oct „stik maar!“, Kempenlandmuseum Eindhoven, NL
  • Jun-Jul „re.product2“, Museum of Gdynia City Gdynia, PL
  • Jun DMY Berlin, Vienna Design Week Embassy Berlin, DE
  • Apr-Aug „new design items“, Klaus Engelhorn Depot Vienna, AT
  • Apr “FoodMarketo”, Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan Design Week Milan, AT
  • Apr-Jul “phänomen ikea”, Hofmobiliendepot Vienna, AT
  • Feb-Oct “Brit Insurance Award 2010”, Design Museum London, UK
  • Dec 2009-Feb “the idea of a tree”, Architecture/Urbanism Bi-city Biennale Hong Kong & Shenzhen Hongkong, CN
  • 2009
  • Dec droog at Design Miami Miami, US
  • Dec „World Best Design“, Design Korea Incheon, KR
  • Nov „Plart on video“, Fondazione Plart Naples, IT
  • Nov „spot on wien“, 100% Design Tokyo, JP
  • Oct-Nov „walk of fame“, Designforum Vienna, AT
  • Oct-Nov „Menoperpiu“, Maravee Village Fashion & Design Trieste, IT
  • Oct-Nov „Energy“, RIXC gallery at Spikeri Riga, LV
  • Oct „Passionswege“, Vienna Design Week Vienna, AT
  • Sept-Oct „Cyber Arts 09“, OK Centrum Linz, AT
  • Aug-Sept „ShowHow“, Copenhagen Design Week Copenhagen, DK
  • Aug „DMY award Exhibition“, Bauhaus Archiv Berlin, DE
  • Jun DMY Youngsters, Berlin Design Festival Berlin, DE
  • 2008
  • Oct-Nov "talent 2008", Designhuis Eindhoven, NL
  • Oct "Graduation Galleries 08" Design Academy Eindoven, NL
  • Jul-Aug "masterpieces 2008", Droog@home Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
  • Jun "master graduation show", Design Academy Eindhoven, NL
  • 2007
  • Sept "handled with care", designboom, designersblock London, UK
  • Mar "concept products", ideal home show London, UK
  • 2006
  • Sept "light 06", 100%east London, UK
  • Aug "dreimal Möbelglück", das Möbel Vienna, AT
  • Jul "graduation show", Kingston University London, UK
  • Apr "lights of the future", light and building fair Frankfurt, DE
  • Mar "new design festival" Vienna, AT
  • 2005
  • Nov "PAD landing", FAD Barcelona Barcelona, ES
  • Oct "PAD landing", Designersblock Prague, CZ
  • Aug "PAD", project space, Kunsthalle Vienna, AT