born in Mettmann (DE), lives and works in Vienna (AT)
since 10/2024 | Professor for Gender & Space, Institute for Art & Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
since 04/2024 l Lecturer for Digital Art Theories & Practices, w/ Mz*Baltazar's Laboratory, Dep. of Art and Communication Practices, University of Applied Arts, Vienna (AT)
10/2019-09/2020 l Lecturer for Performance Art, Class for Experimental Art, Art University Linz (AT)
10/2018-09/2019 | Assistant Professor, Class for Experimental Art, Art University Linz (AT)
EDUCATION
2011-2016
MFA, Performative Arts (Prof. Carola Dertnig),
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT) (Diploma with distinction)
2009-2011
PhD in Philosophy, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
1996-2004
Art History, Czech studies, History, German studies,
University of Regensburg (DE), Masaryk University, Brno (CZ)
TRAININGS | WORKSHOPS
Dance and Body Awareness w/ Susanne Bentley, Ivo Dimchev, Simone Forti, Matthias Grimme,
Bert Gstettner, Keith Hennessy, Lisa Hinterreithner, Eva-Maria Hinterwirth, Peter Jasko, Anne Juren,
Howard Katz, Susan Klein, Andrea Nagl, Jimena Paz, Peter Pleyer, Atma Pöschl, Paz Rojo, Charlotta Ruth,
Anat Steinberg, Bruno Teyssandier
Breath, Voice and Speech training w/ Frederick Beyer, Verena Brückner, Clélia Colonna, Veza Maria Fernandez, Ingeborg Gianni, Florentin Groll, Ilse Maria Harzfeld, Hannah Heckhausen, Sarah Lee, Martin Pfisterer, Nikolaus Riemerschmied
EXHIBITIONS | PERFORMANCES
2024
Performance w/ HEATHERS, exhibition opening "Wuthering Tales of Desire", Galerie 5020, Salzburg (AT)
Residency at KÁZNICE, Brno (CZ)
Moderation of video screening & discussion of Katarina Csányiovás "Carenomadinnen" in the frame of the exhibition LIBERATED SPACE - care - architecture - femimism, Galéria Mesta Bratislavy, Bratislava (SK)
ACT II Raufende Raupen (Caterpillar scramble), closing performance of Metamorphosis Mayhem! The Musical, duo exhibition w/ Antonia Manhartsberger, Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory, Vienna (AT)
The Mycorrizha Mix, w/ Palais Rössl, Art's Birthday 2024, Ö1-Kunstradio & Radio Helsinki (Vienna/Graz)
2023
SOS 2.0_Fürsorge ist die Schwester der Autonomie, group exhibition w/ Mz*Baltazar's Laboratory, Medienwerkstatt, Vienna (AT)
Metamorphosis Mayhem! The Musical, duo exhibition w/ Antonia Manhartsberger, Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory, Vienna (AT)
ACT I: Caterpillaroke, Opening performance of Metamorphosis Mayhem! The Musical, Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory, Vienna (AT)
SCREAM QUEEN* AWARD 2023: Book presentation & talk w/ Veronika Burger & Nora Jacobs aka HEATHERS, moderated by Georgia Holz, Vienna Art Week, Vienna (AT)
Body Embedding, Work presentation & Artist talk, FLUCC, Vienna (AT)
LIBERATED SPACE: care - architecture - feminism, exhibition, City Gallery Bratislava (SK)
Stoffwechsel*Reparatur*Club | The Metabolic Repair Club @ Flucc Commons, Vienna (AT)
RED WITCH X SirenX: Vienna Solstice Ritual, performance w/ Jing Pang @Sonnwendviertel, Vienna (AT)
Tender Steps Residency @ Raw Matters, w/ Jing Pang, Vienna (AT)
TENTECHULAR DIS:PLEASURES #4: Touch Scream, performative installation @ HART Collective Limited, Hong Kong (HK)
Artist in Residence @ HART Collective Limited, Hongkong (HK)
Oktopus w/ Radio Ironie Orchester in the frame of Art's Birthday on Ö1-Kunstradio, Vienna (AT) and on air
Workshop "Ver*sagen ver*lernen" at Paris Lodron University, Salzburg (AT)
Work presentation in the frame of Ursula Maria Probst's lecture @ Gallery MCube, Lalitpur, Nepal (NP
2022
HEATHERS' CUT CUT CUT: The Ultimate Driller Killer Thriller
w/Veronika Burger & Nora Jacobs @ Hermannbad Vienna in coop w/ Slash Film Festival, Vienna (AT)
Body Embedding: Work presentation in the frame of Ursula Maria Probst's lecture "Breath in. Breathe out. You can do it @ Villa Dance nATANDA, Colombo, Sri Lanka (LK)
Body Embedding - In der Kubatur des Kabinetts (group exhibition), Fluc, Vienna (AT)
Und nimmt die Dunkelheit an der Hand, Radio Ironie Orchester, Slow Light Festival, Hrejl (CRO)
Body Embedding (group exhibition), Galerie 5020, Salzburg (AT)
2021
TENTECHULAR DIS:PLEASURES #3 (solo exhibition), periscope, Salzburg (AT)
The Portal (group exhibition), VBKÖ-Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen*Österreichs, Vienna (AT)
TENTECHULAR DIS:PLEASURES #2 (solo exhibition), Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory, Vienna (AT)
data flows, Radio Ironie Orchester, online concert, PrivacyWeek 2021, Europe/Vienna, stream
Radio Ironie Orchester: Re-imagining Radio Orchestra in the Digital Era, conference contribution for
8th Music and/as Process Conference: Networked Collaborative Processes 2021, online (GB)
Feuerwehr, Radio Ironie Orchester, Kopfkino, Radio Helsinki
(AT)
Lounge Music | Loungeová hudba, w/ Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Der Blöde Dritte Mittwoch #106, Echoraum, Vienna (AT)
2020
Red Library: Module #1, w/ Maria CM Hilber, Feminist Conference, Brno (CZ)
Radio Ironie Orchester, Soundart Radio (GB)
Radio Ironie Orchester, Dorf TV (AT)
Radio Ironie Orchester, P-Node Radio (FR)
Radio Ironie Orchester, Klangmanifeste, Vienna/Graz (AT)
2019
TENTECHULAR DIS:PLEASURES #0, w/ Caroline Profanter, Alte Schmiede, Vienna (AT)
Bobsche Combo, w/ Flow & dienstag abend collective, Austrian Cultural Forum Warsaw, Warsaw (PL)
Durchblättern/To Leaf Through, Radio Ironie Orchester, Radio Helsinki, Graz (AT)
Open Studio Day, AiR Budapest (MA7, Vienna), Budapest (HU)
Lounge Music, w/ Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Dirty Ear Forum #9, Arena-Bar, Vienna (AT)
Haben und Brauchen in Wien, w/ Veronika Burger & Nora Jacobs, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna (AT)
2018
Performance Train, Manggha Museum, Krakau (PL)
Sounds of Eurabaefrica, w/ Maria C. Hilber, Radia.fm
Alp.bär, LanaLive - International Culture Festival, Lana (IT)
2017
Heathers On Tour, w/ Veronika Burger & Nora Jacobs, PRAHA - fórum pro architekturu a média, Brno (CZ)
A Sybils Manifesto dedicated to Burning. Women, w/ Maria C. Hilber, Museion Bozen (IT)
Love and Hate, Philosophy Unbound, Spektakel, Vienna (AT)
2016
BEURABISCHES T:ONMUSEUM, Kunstraum Sigismundkapelle, Regensburg (DE)
Abschlussarbeiten 15/16, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
The Weather Talks, w/ Maria C. Hilber, Ö1-Kunstradio, Vienna (AT)
Imagetanzfestival, brut Wien, Vienna (AT)
YOU’RE AT HOME, BABY, Vacant, Vienna (AT)
Draw a line and follow it, Rundgang 16, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
2015
YYYY MM DD #7, www.YYYYMMDD.de, online
Casa Nang – Temporäres Literaturhaus, Franzensfeste, South Tyrol (IT)
Objects Exhibition PQ 2015, Prague Quadrennial of Performance, Design and Space, Prague (CZ)
Freshly Scratched, Battersea Arts Centre, London (UK)
Imagetanz Festival, brut Wien, Vienna (AT)
Performance artists attract crowds and big money, Rundgang 15, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
2014
Caught In The Act, Performancefestival, Co-op: Art Bodensee / Spielboden Dornbirn /
Freakwave Festival, Dornbirn (AT)
DICK II, brut Wien, Vienna (AT)
RaumSprachen, Vorbrenner 14, Freies Theater, Innsbruck (AT)
2013
DICK, Performance, brut Wien, Vienna (AT)
Turboresidency 2013, Showing, ImPulsTanz Festival, Vienna (AT)
KRRR, Friday Exit, Lenikus Studios, Vienna (AT)
ANUS, New Synagogue, Zilina (SK)
ROW_1 "krrr", Ve.Sch, Vienna (AT)
Hey Production, Rundgang 13, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
2012
Dildo Anus Macht: Queere Abstraktion, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
Crossbreeds Festival, Palais Kabelwerk, Vienna (AT)
Soap. How To Make a Happening, Temporäres Kollektiv, public space, Triest (IT)
"Some exercise in complex seeing is needed …", Rundgang 12, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
2011
Troubling Research, Xhibit, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
PANIK 3: Performance als Dokumentation, Depot, Vienna (AT)
SCORES N° 4: Under Protest, Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna (AT)
ANDY SAYS, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (AT)
Scores, Performance evening, Ida Nowhere, Berlin (DE)
Over under and around | next week bring in a new piece, Rundgang 11, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
2010
Naturgemäß in Deckung. Eine inversive Beratungsinstallation, Beratungszentrum für Migrant*innen, Vienna (AT)
The Hands That Feed You, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
RESIDENCIES | SCHOLARSHIPS | GRANTS
2021
Project funding, Bildrecht (AT)
2020
Project funding, Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (AT)
Project funding, Bildrecht (AT)
Production scholarship, MA7 | Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (AT)
2019
Flow Residency, dienstag abend collective, Vistula River (PL)
Artist Residency "Haben und Brauchen in Wien", Künstlerhaus Vienna (AT)
2018
Project funding, Austrian Federal Chancellery for Art and Culture (AT)
Project funding, MA7 | Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (AT)
Budapest Residency, MA7 | Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (for 2019) (AT)
2017
Residency, PRAHA, Brno (CZ), with Veronika Burger & Nora Jacobs
Project funding, Austrian Cultural Forum Prague (AT/CZ)
Travel grant, Austrian Federal Chancellery for Art and Culture (AT)
Studio grant, MA7|Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (AT)
2016
Research scholarship, Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research (AT)
2015
Travel grant, Austrian Federal Chancellery for Art and Culture (AT)
Project Funding (Student’s union), Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
2014
Residency, Vorbrenner, Freies Theater, Innsbruck (AT)
2013
Turbo Residency, ImPulsTanz Festival, Vienna (AT)
Project Funding (Student’s union), Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
2012
Project Funding, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
Project Funding (Stundent’s union), Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
2011
Research scholarship, Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research (AT)
Residency, Schloss Bröllin, Fahrenwalde (DE)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Sammlung Wien
Museum (Wien Museum Collection) (AT)
PANEL DISCUSSIONS (PD) | LECTURES (L) | ARTIST TALKS (AT)
2019
AT: Haben und Brauchen in Wien, with Veronika Burger & Nora Jacobs, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna (AT)
2017
PD: Žena v pozdním kapitalismu, HaDivadlo, Brno (CZ)
2016
PD: Genius Femininus, Vienna Art Week, Wien (AT)
AT: BEURABISCHES T:ONMUSEUM, Kunstkolchose Mikulovice (CZ)
2013
L: ANUS, OSTV/EST: Kunst und Befreiung II, New Synagogue, Zilina (SK)
2011
L: Sounds, Echoes, Landscapes, fea-Symposium „Echofest”, Vienna (AT)
L: Tanz als Befreiung, exhibition „Menschen in Revolten“, Sibiu (RO)
2009
L: Kunst und Konserven, fea-Symposium OSTV/EST 7, Brno (CZ)
2008
L: Lady Godiva, fea-Symposium „Wedernacktnochfest“, Vienna (AT)
L: Frauenkunst / Männerkunst?, fea-Symposium OSTV/EST 4, Bratislava (SL)
L: Fellkunst, fea-Symposium „Parasiten-Seil-Schalt-Fest“, Vienna (AT)
2007
L: Aus Istanbul in den österreichischen Widerstand. Die Architektin Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, fea-Symposium
„Istanbulfest“, Vienna (AT)
L: Lippenkunst, fea-Symposium „Lippenfest“, Vienna (AT)
2006
L: Pinkulatur. Anmerkungen zu Ausscheidungsmotiven in der Kunst,
fea-Symposium „Soachfest“, Vienna (AT)
L: Das Rohe& das Schöne, fea-Symposium „Schneckenfest“, Vienna (AT)
CURATED PROJECTS
2014
ROW. ESSEN. Exhibition, YIX, Vienna, w/ Teresa Novotny
2013
ROW. Performance series, V.esch, Vienna (AT)
MEMBERSHIPS
VBKÖ - Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs (Austrian Association of Women Artists)
IG Bildende Kunst (Advocacy Group for Visual Artists in Austria)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
As Author:
Heathers CUTCUTCUT, artist book, w/ Veronika Burger & Nora Jacobs, Vienna 2020
Article: Avantgarde Equals Feminism, In: Petra Hlavácková (Ed.), A2, #18: 150 Years of Capital, Brno 2017
Article: Performing Feminisms Together, In: Petra Hlavácková (Ed.), A2, #11: Feminist Collectives, Brno 2017
Book: Troubling Research. Performing Knowledge in the Arts, Carola Dertnig et al. (Ed.), Berlin 2014
Interview: 8 Questions, Ed: Daniela Grabosch/Ricardo Almeida, www.YYYYMMDD.de, online
Published Art Works:
Exhibition catalogue: Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space PQ 2015, CZ 2015
Catalogue: ART BODENSEE, Dornbirn 2014
Catalogue: RaumSprachen Festival, Vorbrenner14, Innsbruck 2014
Magazine: Ve.Schheft No 14 & Ve.Schheft No 15,Martin Vesely (Ed.), Vienna 2013