Kai Krösche

Kai Krösche is a director, musician/sound designer, author and video artist and has been working since 2005 on the realization of artistic works that formally move between theater, performance, installation, film, media art and various mixed forms. He is co-founder of the Viennese performance label DARUM, with which he was nominated for the Nestroy Theater Prize twice in a row (2019 & 2020) and was awarded the Nestroy Special Prize 2023 (together with Victoria Halper) for the production “Heimweh”. His projects have been shown at various renowned film, theater and media festivals, including Hofer Filmtage, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Impulse Theater Festival and the digitale. He has received various artistic scholarships, including the Startstipendium für Darstellende Kunst from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture (2018), the Wiener Dramatik Stipendium (2021, to write a feature film script) and the Theaterstipendium der Stadt Wien (2022), as part of which he artistically explored some of the possibilities that arise in the field of tension between theater/performance and virtual reality. As part of a residency at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, he worked on the concept for his first virtual reality project “[EOL]. End of Life”, which was selected for the Berlin Theatertreffen 2025 (as one of the ten most remarkable productions of the year 2025).