Jutta Wacht

Jutta Wacht is an Austrian-born designer, entrepreneur, researcher, and lecturer living and working between Vienna, Cairo, and New York City. She is co-founder of the design and art practice Say Say Say, Inc.— Studio for Imagination and Research. She is also the founder and creative director of the seminal publication PERIODIKUM MAGAZINE, published by Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna and artbook D.A.P., New York. In 2020, she co-founded ANTICHAMBRE – exhibition space for poetical and critical matters at MuseumsQuartier Vienna. Jutta studied Design and Multimedia at ENSAD – École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (University for Applied Arts) in Paris and Visual Communication and Fashion Design in Vienna. Prior to founding Say Say Say, Inc., she worked internationally with renowned design practices including Ruedi Baur et Associés in Paris and Buero New York in New York City. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in Turin, Italy and at the 22nd Biwako BIENNALE in Japan. Her research and design practice explores codes, sensations, and objects of the present and past to transform them into new visual possibilities and future languages. A multisensory combinatory play that moves between philosophy, pop culture, ethics, sensuality, and technology. Since 2024, she has also been a lecturer at the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Arts at the German University in Cairo (GUC).