Kurt Kren (born 20 September 1929; died 23 June 1998 in Vienna) was an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker.
In 1966, Kren participated along with artists like Yoko Ono, Wolf Vostell, Peter Weibel and Al Hansen in the Destruction in Art Symposium in London led by Gustav Metzger.
From 1978 until 1989 Kurt Kren lived in the United States, sometimes just in a car, traveling, making presentations and lectures at universities, film schools and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
The band paid tribute to their collaborator on their New Strings for Old Puppets EP with the song "Ode to Kurt Kren".
From 1983 until 1989 Kren worked as a security officer at the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, United States).