Samuel Schaab (*1981) is a Vienna-based visual artist, sound artist, light designer, stage designer, and festival curator working at the intersection of sculpture, spatial installation, performance, and live culture. He studied Media Art with Bernhard Leitner at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Art & Media at ZHdK Zurich. His practice begins with space — its physical presence, its layered histories, its resistance. From there, he develops modular settings: adaptable, performative sculptures and spatial fragments that function somewhere between installation and stage. Raw materials, industrial products, and technology are the grammar of his work. Light and sound are not additions — they are structure.

His works have been presented at Vienna Contemporary, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen, Memphis Linz, Art Brussels, Kunstverein Vesch, Kunstverein New Jörg and Kunstverein Baden, as well as in projects for the Venice Architecture Biennale, Musikverein Vienna, and Museum moderner Kunst Vienna. He has collaborated with artists including Clara Frühstück, Karolina Preuschl, Sixtus Preiss, Alex Franz Zehetbauer, Stephanie Winter, Benjamin Tomasi, Daniela Georgieva, Juli Müller, Gischt, Marino Formenti, Roshin Sharifi, and Camilla Schielin.

As a light and stage designer, Schaab collaborates regularly with choreographers, performers, and institutions across contemporary dance, theatre, and experimental music — among them Navaridas & Deutinger, Tanzquartier Vienna, Brut Vienna, Impulstanz Festival, Monheim Triennale, WUK Vienna, Musiktheatertage Wien, Volkstheater München, Schauspiel Hannover, Clanz Triest, Maria Mercedes, Make Make, and Mollusca Productions, and the Austrian Fashion Association. Since 2017, he is the founder and curator of SÄGEZAHN — a concert and performance series at Schauspielhaus Wien, developed together with Jakob Suske, dedicated to experimental music and interdisciplinary live formats.