CV

1987 born in Graz
2007 International Summeracademy, Class Lynne Cohen, Salzburg
2008-2015 University UfG Linz, Austria; Departement of Fine Arts /Experimental Design, Andrea Van der Straeten
2012-2013 Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, HGB Leipzig, Department of Media Art, Alba D'Urbano
2014- Engagement at the Midi Marsch Musik Kapelle (MMMK)
2015 Diploma University of Art UfG Linz, Departement of Fine Arts /Experimental Design, Andrea Van der Straeten
2016- PHD in Practice / Cultural Studies / Prof. Dr. Helmut Lethen

AWARDS/ NOMINATIONS

2021* Special Jury Award, Curtacinema, Sao Paulo, BR
2021* VIDEOFORMES Award of the City of Clermont-Ferrand, FR
2020* Best Narration - Best Austrian Animation, AT
2020* Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Kanada, Oktober 2020) - DADA International Award; CA
2020* Chicago International Film Festival (USA, Oktober 2020) - Silver Hugo for Best Short Documentary, US
2020* Sedicicorto International Film Festival - EXPERIA Preis, IT
2020* Jury Special Award, Curta Cinema, Rio de Janeiro, BR
2020* Jury Special Award for Short Films, New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, JP
2020* Innovative Award, Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz, AT
2020* Grand Prix Award at 25 FPS 2020, Zagreb, HR
2020* Special Award Animafest 2020, Zagreb, HR
2020* Special Mention VIS Vienna Shorts, AT
2020* Best Short Film / New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival, Saint Petersburg, RU
2020* Edward Snowden Award / International Festival Signs of the Night - Bangkok, TH
2020* Art Nova 100 Award / Guardian Art Center Beijing, IT / CHN
2020* Diagonale Film Festival “Best Short Documentary”, Graz, AT
2020* Flatpack WTF Award, Birmingham, GB
2019* Golden Anteater Award, Lublin Film Festival, UA
2019* LOOP Discovery Award, Barcelona, ES
2019* Best Experimental Award, Bolton Film Festival; GB
2020* Special Mention, Kyiv International Short Film Festival
2020* Honorary Mention, Vienna Shorts, AT
2019 *Jury's Special Mention, Riga IFF Short Riga, LVA
2019 *Contemporary Visual Arts Award of Styria Province, AT
2019 *CAMIRA Award, Curtocircuíto Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela, ES
2019 *Grand-Prix Palm Secateur D'Or, International Kansk Video Festival, Sibiria RU
2019 *Portoviejo Film Festival Award*, ECU
2019 *Explorer Award*, AMaze - International Games and Playful Media Festival, Berlin, DE
2019 *Jena Lichtstadt Award* - cellu l'art Short Film Festival Jena, DE
2019 *Audience Award* Short Waves, International Film Festival Poznan, PL
2019 *Shortlisting and Nomination at Lumen Prize, GB
2019 *Honorary Mention* Vegas Movie Awards, USA
2019 *Honorary Mention* Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, Saint Petersburg, RU
2019 *Honorary Mention*, Regensburg International Short Film Week Regensburg, DE
2019 *BEST DIRECTOR (DOC)* Sriganganagar IFFS, IND
2018 Vimeo Staff Picks: Best of the Month
2019 *Honorary Mention* Linz International Short Film Festival; AT
2018 *Vimeo Staff Pick Award* IDFA, Amsterdam, NL
2018 *Best Austrian Film* VIS - Vienna Short Film Festival, AT
2018 *Honorary Mention* doxs! Duisburg, DE
2018 *Honorary Mention* Best Austrian Animation 2018, AT

SCHOLARSCHIPS / RESIDENCIES

2021 PAKT Zollverein, Essen, DE
2021 EMARE Residency - European Media Arts Platform, Werkleitz, Halle a.d. Saale, DE
2020 Saari Residence, FI
2019 NCCA St. Petersburg, RU
2019 Residency NIDA Art Colony, Lithuania, LT
2018 Studio-External Scholarship of the Department of Styria: Brussels, BE
2017 Studio Scholarship of Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, DE
2017 Studio-External Scholarship of the Department of Upper Austria: Cesky Krumlov CZ
2017 Studio-External Scholarship of the Departement of Styria: Zagreb, HR
2016-17 Studio Scholarship Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, DE
2015-16 Scholarship of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research of Austria (Arbeitsstip.)
2015 Scholarship for the Summeracademy of the IFK (Int. Research Center for Cultural Studies), AT
2008 Scholarship of the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg / Class of Nancy Davenport, AT

SCREENINGS / FILM FESTIVALS

2021ATLFF Film - Atlanta Film Festival, US
2021FilmFestival Cottbus, DE
2021KFF Short Film Festival Cologne, DE
2021Filmfest Dresden, DE
2021Huesca International Film Festival, Huesca, ES
2021Diametrale - Film Festival for Experimental and Humoristic/Absurd Movies, Innsbruck, AT
2021Lavori in corto - Association Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, IT
2021Diagonale - Festival for the Austrian Film, Triple Feature Total Refusal, Graz, AT
2021ŻUBROFFKA International Short Film Festival, Bialystok, PL
2021Internationalen Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart, DE
2021Doc Route, Lussas / Ardèche, FR
2021Short Waves Festival, Pozen, PL
2021Kiblix - Open Code Festival, Maribor, SL
2021 Silhouette Film Festival, Paris, FR
2021Ann Arbour Film Festival, Ann Arbour USA
2021Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken, DE
20212 DAYS ANIMATION FESTIVAL, Vienna, AT
2021VRAL, Milano, IT
2021CURRENTS New Media 2020, Santa Fe, US
2021Punto de Vista Festival, Pamplona, ES
2021Kaboom Animation Festival, Amsterdam, NL
2021Kortfilmfestival Leuven, BE
2021Open City Documentary Festival, London, GB
2021WRO 2021 Biennial [REVERSO], Wroclaw, PL
2020The Film Club, Moderna Museet i Stockholm, SE
2020Animateka International Animated Film, Ljubljana, SVN
2020International Animated Film Festival Animator, Poznan, PL
2020VAFT Video Art Festival Turku, FI
2020Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal, CA
2020Uppsala Kurzfilmfestival, SWE
2020Chicago International Film Festival, US
2020New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, JP
2020Alcine Film Festival, ES
2020Kasseler Dokfest, DE
2020FestiFreak - Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata, Buenos Aires, AG
2020Filmtage Duisburg, DE
2020Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, AT
2020FILMETS Badalona Film Festival, IT
2020Sapporo International Short Film Festival and Market, JP
2020VAFF - Vancouver International Film Festival, CA
2020Curto Circuito International Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela, ES
2020FIDBA - International Documentary Film Festival of Buenos Aires
2020BIAF Bucheon International Animation Festival, KR
2020New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival, St. Petersburg, RU
2020One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, RO
2020Guanajuato International Film Festival, San Miguel de Allende, MX
2020Dokufest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Prizren, ALB
2020Sedicicorto, International Film Festival, Forlì, IT
2020Dresden International Film Festival, DE
202025 FPS Film Festival, International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb, HR
2020Vancouver International Film Festival, CA
2020Signes de Nuit Internationales Filmfestival, Bangkok, TH
2020 Kyiv International Film Festival «Molodist», Kyiv, UA
2020 dotdotdot Open Air Short Film Festival, Vienna, AT
2020Animafest Zagreb, HR
2020“Der NEUE HEIMAT Film", Burg Klempenow, DE
2020 Berlinale, Berlin, DE
2020 Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ES (postponed)
2020 True/False Film Festival, Columbia, US
2020 One World Film Festival, Prague, CZ (postponed)
2020 Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, DE
2020 Short Waves Film Festival, Poznan, PL
2020 Imagine Science Film Festival
2020 Pyeongchang International Peace Film Festival, KOR
2020 Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, NL
2020 VIS International Short Films Vienna, AT
2020 Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer, RU
2020 Museum of Modern Art MoMa New York, Docs Fortnight 2020, New York, AT
2020 Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, AT (postponed)
2020 Crossing Europe, Linz AT (postponed)
2020 Curtas Vila do Conde, Lisbon, PT (postponed)
2020 Glasgow Short Film Festival, GB (postponed)
2020 Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media, DE
2019 Leuven Internationaal Kortfilmfestival, BG
2019 Simultan Festival 2019, Timișoara, RO
2019 DokuFest, International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Prizren, XK
2019 TFF Tacoma Film Festival, Tacoma, USA
2019 WRO on Tour at Tatsuno Art Project 2019, JP
2019 Strait Through the Wall STTW 2019, Video Art Event, New York, US
2019 Cairo Video Festival, EG
2019 VAFT Video Art Festival Turku, FI
2019 Lublin Film Festival, Lublin, PL
2019 KFFK Kurzfilmfestival Köln, DE
2019 RIGA IFF SHORT RIGA International Short Film, LV
2019 BIEFF Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, RO
2019 LUFF Lausanne Underground Film Festival, CH
2019 International Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, CH
2019 New Renaisssance Film Festival, London, GB
2019 International Kansk Video Festival, Moscow, RU
2019 Vegas Movie Awards, US
2019 AFFR Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
2019 Minikino Film Week 5, Bali, ID
2019 Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art, UA
2019 DreamHack, World of Games, Atlanta, US
2019 Doc Lounge Göteborg, DNK
2019 Portoviejo Film Festival, ECU
2019 Ars Electronica Animation Festival, Linz, AT
2019 Revelation International Film Festival, Perth, AU
2019 Bali International Short Film Festival / Minikino Filmweek, IDN
2019 MUFF Montreal Underground Film Festival, CA
2019 FECIP Festival de Portoviejo, EC
2019 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, DE
2019 Chicago Underground Film Festival, US
2019 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, DE
2019 Kyiv International Film Festival «Molodist», Kyiv, UA
2019 Harlem International Film Festival, New York, USA
2019 Rooftop Films, New York, USA
2019 La Guarimba International Film Festival, Amantea, IT
2019 FEST New Films Festival, Espinho, PT
2019 Corti da Sogni - Antonio Ricci” International Short Film Festival, Ravenna, IT
2019 Festival Oodaaq, Festival D'Images Nomades et Poetique, Saint-Malo / Rennes / Nantes, FR
2019 Felacos - Festival de Largos y Cortos de Santiago, Santiago de Chile, CL
2019 Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKER, Moscow, RU
2019 Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, Saint Petersburg RU
2019 Evidence of the Evidence, ConverSalon, Toronto, CA
2019 AIFF Addis International Film Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ET
2019 Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKER, Moscow, RU
2019 Global India International Film Festival, Pune, IND
2019 VAFT Video Art Festival Turku, FI
2019 Queen Palm International Film Festival, US
2019 Febiofest International Film Film Festival Prag, CZ
2019 MFFK Febiofest Bratislava, SL
2019 ADFF:LA Architecture and Design Film Festival, Los Angelos, US
2019 Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, NL
2019 TIAFF 2019 Tilburg Architectuur Film Festival, NL
2019 Nomination Vimeo Staff Picks: Best of the Year
2019 Nomination: Open Media Award, Ars Electronica, Linz, A
2019 Hafenkunstkino, Medienhafen Düsseldorf, DE
2019 Nomination: Austrian Film Award 2019, Academy of Austrian Film
2019 Radical Frame Short Film Series, Berlin, DE
2019 International Short Film Week Regensburg, DE
2019 Short Waves Festival, Poznan, PL
2019 Glasgow Short Film Festival, UK
2019 ADFF:DC Architecture and Design Film Festival, Washington, US
2019 14TH PRAGUE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, Prague, CZ
2019 FLEX - Florida Experimental Film / Video Festival, Tampa, US
2019 3rd DIAMETRALE - Experimental Film Festival, Innsbruck, AT
2019 SIFF International Film Festival of Sriganganagar, IND
2019 LSFF London Short Film Festival, GB
2018 Beyond Earth Film Festival, Kolkata, IND
2018 Österreichischen Kurzfilmschau 2019 Akademie Screening, MUMOK, Vienna, AT
2018 Kassler Dokfilm Festival, DE
2018 doxs! documentaries for children and youth, Duisburg, DE
2018 ASIFA Best Austrian Animation 2108, AT
2018 Sediccicorto International Film Festival Forli, IT
2018 CINEMAFORUM 17. International Short Film Festival, Warsaw, PL
2018 Linz International Short Film Festival, AT
2018 IDFA 31st International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, NL
2018 BFI London Film Festival, GB
2018 ADFF 10th Architecture and Design Film Festival, New York, US
2018 Nijmegen Kunstnacht, NL
2018 European Forum Alpbach (VIS Official Selection), AT
2018 2nd International Filmfestival Suburbinale, Groß-Enzersdorf, AT
2018 Festival Lent, Maribor, SI
2018 CinemaNext, On Tour, Graz, AT
2018 Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz, AT
2018 Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, AT
2018 minus20degree - Art and Architecture Winterbiennial 2018, AT
2018 Architekturtage, HDA Haus der Architektur Graz, AT
2018 Architecture film Austria, HAM – Hiša arhitekture Maribor, SI
2016 Salon für Buchkunst, 21er Haus, Wien, AT
2014 Midi Marsch Musik Kapelle, Festival Sinsal, San Simon (ES)
2012 Short Film Festival Hamburg, DE
2012 Schnongs Short Film Festival Dessau, DE
2011 FreakWave Festival, Bregenz AT
2011 Next Comic Festival, Linz AT
2010 Alpinale Film Festival, Nenzing AT
2010 Filmriss Filmfestival, Sparte Dokfilm AT
2010 Media Festival Villingen-Schwenningen

EXHIBITIONS

2021 2050+, Russian Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennial, IT
2021 VIMEO Staff Pick
2021 AEON Psyche
2021 What Will Be - Steiermark Schau, Kunsthaus Graz, AT
2021 Mobiler Pavillon, Akademie Graz - Steiermark Schau, AT
2021 NonStopScheiner, Art in Public Space KIÖR Styria, Graz, AT
2021 move to... , Werkleitz Festival, Halle a. d. Saale, DE
2021 Videorama, Werkleitz Center, Halle a. d. Saale, DE
2021 Korean Film Archive, GAMExCINEMA: MACHINIMA, Seoul, KR
2021 Everyday Daylight, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, FR
2021 guidedoc.tv
2020 Shaping the Invisible World, HEK - Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel, CH
2020 Stormy Weathers, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, AT
2020 Stormy Weathers, CC Paris - Centre Cultural Suisse, Paris, FR
2020 Moving Cities, Media Space, Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media, DE
2020 AMaze - International Games and Playful Media Festival, Berlin, DE
2020 Austriackie Forum Kulturi, Warsaw, PL
2020 Diagonale Performance, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, AT (postponed)
2020 Premio Arte Laguna, Arsenale Venice, IT
2019 Becoming Future, Recontemporary - Gallery, Turin, IT
2019 Loop Discovery Art Exhibition, Convent San Augusti, Barcelona, ES
2019 Friendly Fire, MEMPHIS gallery, Linz AT (solo)
2019 Sorry, the file you have requested does not exist. Superstudio / Steirischer Herbst / HDA, Graz
AT
2019 AWOL - Absent Without Leave, Studio - Neue Galerie, Graz, AT (solo)
2019 Werkleitz, Videorama, Halle an der Saale, DE (solo)
2019 FFTN gallery, Saint Petersburg, RU (solo)
2019 AMaze, Berlin Awards, SEZ Berlin DE
2019 Sharing Perceptions, Foto Aura Gallery, Tainan, CN
2019 Sharing Perceptions, Akademie Graz, AT
2019 WRO Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, PL
2019 Augment & Disrupt Minifestival, EMAP European Media Art Platform, IMPAKT / R.A.U.M.,
Utrecht, NL
2019 FMR 2019 Media Biennale in Public Space, Linz, AT
2019 Open Media Awards Exhibition, Ars Electronica Center Linz, AT
2019 COPYRIGHTberlin Projektraum Schwedenstraße 18, Berlin, DE
2018 Kunstraum Steiermark, AT
2018 Total Refusal, HDLU -Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb, HR (solo)
2018 Urbanes Feld, Notgalerie, Vienna, AT

2018 recidents group exhibition, studio - Neue Galerie Graz- Universalmuseum Joanneum, AT
2017 Fiasco meets Disaster 2, New Jörg, Vienna, AT
2017 Radome Disco, Klangdom Kulm, AT (solo)
2017 Boris Tloris, Pogon, Zagreb, HR
2017 Bliss, Werkstadt Graz, AT
recidents group exhibition, studio - Neue Galerie Graz- Universalmuseum Joanneum, AT
2017 Festival der Regionen 2017, Marchtrenk, AT
2016 Fiasco meets Disaster, Casa del Sol, Los Angeles, USA
2016 Kristallin #33, Salzamt Linz, AT
2016 Melt, minus20degree - Art and Architecture Winterbiennale 2016, Flachau, AT
2015 Tortuga, ESC Medienlabor, Graz, AT
2015 error 1.6.1.8. - object already exists, Flat 1, Wien, AT
2015 Schönberg op. A13, Architekturfourm AFO Linz, AT (solo)
2015 Rand, Architekturforum AFO Linz, AT
2015 Love with me, walk with me, talk to me, wellwellwell, Wien, AT
2014 Intervention Museo-Fundacion Granell, Santiago de Compostella, ES
2014 Permanent Expedition, MARCO Museo de Arte Conteporanea Vigo, ES
2014 Der Käfig ist auf und der Zoo zu, Raumschiff, Linz, AT
2014 Trans Position Change, NOE Dokumentationszentrum für Moderne Kunst, St. Pölten, AT
2013 Supervision, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz AT
2013 Supervision, Remise, Zürich, CH
2013 Supervision, Galeria Huuto, Helsinki, FI
2012 Zollamt, Bad Radkersburg, AT
2012 Toy Museum, Landesmuseum Salzburg, AT
2012 Lets Call It Terrains and Territories, Kunstraum Liska, Leipzig, DE
2012 Constantly out of Space, Galerie Blumen, Leipzig, DE
2011 res public space, fluc - In der Kubatur des Kabinetts, Wien, AT
2011 Linzerauge, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, AT
2011 From Darkroom with Love, Galerie Bäckerstrasse 4, Wien, AT
2011 7 Arbeiten, 7 Fetische, Vesch, Wien, AT
2011 Festival der Regionen, Attnang-Puchheim, Austria, AT
2011 I never said it like that, Bristol Diving School Bristol, GB
2010 Tabak Fabrik Linz, Nordico - Museum der Stadt Linz, AT
2010 Reclaiming Spaces, Tabakwerke Linz, AT

SYMBOSIUM / Lectures

2018Fahnenflucht aus Digitalem Kriegsgebiet, Leonhard Müllners PHD conference, Art University Linz, AT
2019 Video in Video Games - Nordland Art and Film School, Lofoten, NO
2019 Walk May Talk - A Month of Walking as Artistic Practice - University of Applied Arts Vienna, AT
2019 Panel Talk Media Art History: Reincarnation, WRO Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, PL
2019 Artist Talk, NCCA - National Center for Contemporary Arts, RU
2019 Artist Talk, Faculty of Klaipeda Vilnius Academy of Arts, LT
2018 Lecture, Digital Anthropologies, Point Èphémère, Paris, FR
2018 Lecture, Leerstandskonferenz, Luckenwalde, DE
2017 Lecture, TKI Kultur vor Ort, Werkstätte Wattens, AT
2017 Lecture, Stadt Land Schluss, Bavarian Music Academy, Marktoberdorf, DE
2017PHD Lecture Art University Linz, Culture Studies, AT
2016PHD Lecture, Art University Linz, Culture Studies, AT

FUNDS/GRANTS

2019Project Fund Austrian Culture Forum Moscow
2019Project Fund of the Departement of Styria
2019 Project Fund of the Departement of Styria
2018 Project Fund Austrian Culture Forum Paris
2018 Project Fund Austrian Culture Forum Brussels
2018 Project Fund of the Departement of Upper Austria
2018 Project Fund of the Departement of Styria
2017 Project Fund Austrian Culture Forum Zagreb
2017 Project Fund of the Departement of Styria
2017 BKA Project Fund, Austrian Ministery for Culture
2017 BKA Project Fund, Austrian Ministery for Culture
2015 Project Grant of the TKI (Tiroler Kultur Initiative), Departement of Tyrol
2012 Linz Export Scholarship