Valerie Messini is a registered architect, digital artist and Senior Scientist at the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures.

Her research dives into the concept of nothingness, examining how digital technologies and digital design tools impact space, identity, and perception, alongside the role of immersive media and virtual space in shaping our understanding and interaction with the digital realm. Her PhD “void set – about emptiness in virtual space” was initially supervised by Peter Weibel and after his demise by Clemens Apprich.  She published in international journals and presented her research at multiple Conferences around Europe.

In 2022 she curated the exhibition “Günther Domenig: Dimensional @ Heft/Hüttenberg”.

Since 2022, she teaches the interdisciplinary Seminar “OTHER MATTER Exploring Spatial and Curatorial Strategies with Augmented Reality” at the Angewandte.

In 2022-23 she was co-teaching design studios at the IKA-Institute for Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. As a senior lecturer at the ./studio3 – Institute for Experimental Architecture, University of Innsbruck (2013 to 2019, 2022), she was teaching VR seminars and novel digital artistic strategies, multiple design courses, supervising master’s theses and organizing multiple excursions and events.

Valerie graduated in architecture from the University of Applied Arts (studio Prix) in Vienna in 2011, with distinction. She worked for International architecture firms (i.e. Coop Himmelb(l)au [AUT], Snohetta [NO], Flying Elephant Studio [IN]) as design architect and realized several large-scale installations together with the artist Eva Schlegel. In 2017 Valerie became a licensed and registered architect.

In 2018, she co-founded 2MVD, an artistic collaboration with Damjan Minovski that focuses on combining architecture with innovations and advances in the field of digital art and technology.
Their work was shown in galleries and at festivals repeatedly i.e. Angewandte Innovation Lab [AIL], Vienna Design Week, aut. architektur und tirol in Innsbruck, GIFF – Geneva International Film Festival, Transart21 together with Laurie Anderson, MAK Vienna, Venice, Berlin and Barcelona at Sonar+D Festival23.