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UPCOMING:
September 2026: Trigger Happy, installation & live performance, Palais Rössl, Vienna (AT)
2026
26.06.2026: COURTYARD CONVERSATIONS: Negotiating space together, symposionistic gathering, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
30.05.2026: SIN ROSTRO, group exhibition, Palais Rössl, Vienna (AT)
-collective mask exhibition-
for weeks
we worked slowly
layer by layer
newspaper in our hands
engrudo, fragments, time
a month of building
of leaving pieces of skin there
headlines torn apart
noise turned into faces
what was meant to disappear
is here
on May 30
they appear together
for the first time
not as objects
but as presences
📍 Palais Rössl, Vienna
⏰ 16:00/22:00 hrs.
come witness what remained.
29.05.2026: Collective Mural Action w/Cortina, Gender & Space x hofinitiative, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
26.04.2026: Liberated Space: care - architecture - feminism, lecture together w/ Petra Hlaváčková, Brno Art Week, Brno (CZ)
https://brnoartweek.cz/cs/program/liberated-space-care-architecture-feminism
06.02.2026: Trigger Happy, performance, House of Arts, Brno (CZ)
22.01. - 25.01.2025: Open days exhibition of Gender & Space studio @ Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
2025
09.12.2025 - 08.02.2025: Trigger Witness, exhibition, House of Arts, Brno (CZ)
https://www.dum-umeni.cz/en/trigger-witness/t9989
09.12.2025: Will you be my Witness, performance, House of Arts, Brno (CZ)
https://www.dum-umeni.cz/en/nicole-sabella-will-you-be-my-witness/t9999
05.12.2025: Panel moderation for Conference Forum Architekturwissenschaft: TRANSFORMATION, Technical University, Vienna (AT)
https://www.akbild.ac.at/de/institute/kunst-und-architektur/veranstaltungen/konferenzen/2025/transformation-rebuilding-and-rethinking-the-built-fabric-advocating-for-new-common-good-s
29.10.2025: Politicizing Abundance. A Meditation on how to cut the threads between Austerity, Fascism and Gender, performative lecture, conference "AFTER INDUSTRY". Regeneration of Utopia, 29.-30.10.2025. Nová Dubnica | Trenčianske Teplice (SK)
16.10.-26.10.2025: Baguashan Power Art Festival, exhibition, instant42 art space, Changhua (TW)
11. & 12.10.2025: TENTECHULAR DIS:PLEASURES @nATANDA International Contemporary Dance Festival, Colombo (LK)
04.10.2025: Will you be my Witness, performance @Erntedankfest, Palais Rössl, Vienna (AT)
20.09.2025: TENTECHULAR DIS:PLEASURES #5, performance @Xiang Chiang art studio, Taipei (TW)
17.09.2025: TENTECHULAR DIS:PLEASURES #5, performance @instant 42 art space, Changhua (TW)
17.09.2025: Our Bodies are a Site of Liberation. The Feminist Roots of Performance Art, lecture & workshop @ Department of Fine Arts, National Changhua University of Education
06. & 07.09.2025: Imagining and Performing Feminist Futures, workshop @instant42 art space, Changhua (TW)
05.09.2025: Queering the Arts? Our Bodies as a Site of Liberation, talk, discussion & joint envisioning of feminist futures @GDi LGBTQ+ center, Taichung (TW)
30.08.2025: Group performance in the frame of Wate.rways festival, Ecopark, Tainan (TW)
https://www.facebook.com/events/759341386614193/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22home%22%7D%2C%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D
22.08.2025: Our Bodies are a Site of Liberation, lecture & workshop @ Department of Fine Arts, National Changhua University of Education
19.08.2025 - 21.09.2025: Artist in Residence @instant42 art space, Changhua (TW); funded by Kultur Niederösterreich
16.01-19.01.2025: Gender & Space Studio exhibitions at Rundgang | Open Day's, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, aula & room 210
2024
14.11.2024: Research Day, panel moderation, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
01.10.2024: Start of Professorship for Gender & Space at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
20.09.2024 - 04.10.2024: Exhibition of Abiona Esther Ojo, curated by Nicole Sabella, Mz*Baltazar's Laboratory, Vienna (AT)
https://www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org/teach-your-laughter-to-a-flower-by-abiona-esther-ojo/
24.06.2024 - 29.06.2024: Doing & Undoing Manuals, Exhibition with students from the department of Art and Communication Practices of the University of Applied Arts Vienna at Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory, Vienna (AT)
https://www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org/undoing-doing-manuals/
31.05.2024: Grand Opening of the community studio space Palais Rössl, Vienna (AT)
10.05 - 26.07.2024: "Wuthering Tales of Desire", group exhibition w/ HEATHERS, Galerie 5020, Salzburg (AT)
10.05.2024: Performance w/ HEATHERS, exhibition opening "Wuthering Tales of Desire", Galerie 5020, Salzburg (AT)
19.02.2024: RELAXXX RIOT, performative intervention in the frame of Residency at KÁZNICE, Brno (CZ)
08.02.2024 - 21.02.2024: Residency at KÁZNICE, Brno (CZ)
07.02.2024 - 17-20h: 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)
19.01.2024 - 19h: ACT II Raufende Raupen (Caterpillar scramble), closing performance of Metamorphosis Mayhem! The Musical, duo exhibition w/ Antonia Manhartsberger, Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory, Vienna (AT)
17.01.2024 - 22:10-22:30h: The Mycorrizha Mix, w/ Palais Rössl, Art's Birthday 2024, Ö1-Kunstradio & Radio Helsinki (Vienna/Graz)
2023
13.12.2023-23.01.2024: SOS 2.0_Fürsorge ist die Schwester der Autonomie, group exhibition w/ Mz*Baltazar's Laboratory, Medienwerkstatt, Vienna (AT)
09.12.2023 - 26.01.2024: Metamorphosis Mayhem! The Musical, duo exhibition w/ Antonia Manhartsberger, Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory, Vienna (AT)
8.12.2023: ACT I: Caterpillaroke (Opening performance)
https://www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org/metamorphosis-mayhem-the-musical/
11.11.2023: SCREAM QUEEN* AWARD 2023: Book presentation & talk w/ Veronika Burger & Nora Jacobs aka HEATHERS, moderated by Georgia Holz, Vienna Art Week, Vienna (AT)
12.10.2023: Work presentation & Artist talk, FLUCC, Vienna (AT)
20.09.2023-25.02.2024: Co-Curator of exhibition LIBERATED SPACE: care - architecture - feminism, City Gallery Bratislava (SK):
https://www.gmb.sk/en/detail/liberated-space-care-architecture-feminism
September 20th: Opening of exhibition LIBERATED SPACE: care - architecture - feminism, City Gallery Bratislava (SK):
https://www.gmb.sk/en/detail/liberated-space-care-architecture-feminism
Article for TQW Magazine, Vienna:
July 27th: FILZFEST: Closing event of Stoffwechsel*Reparatur*Club, Common.Rooms, FLUCC, Vienna (AT)
March 1st - July 27th: Stoffwechsel*Reparatur*Club | The Metabolic Repair Club @ Flucc Commons, Vienna (AT)
https://www.fluc.at/programm/2023/06/27_Common-Rooms-Stoffwechsel+Reparatur+Club.html
03.06.2023: RED WITCH X SirenX: Vienna Solstice Ritual, performance w/ Jing Pang @Sonnwendviertel, Vienna (AT)
Photos: Barbara Mair
15.05.-03.06.2023: Tender Steps Residency @ Raw Matters, w/ Jing Pang, Vienna (AT)
February 23rd: Performance @ HART Collective Limited, Hong Kong (HK)
January 26th - March 1st: Artist in Residence @ HART Collective Limited, Hongkong (HK)
January 17th & 22nd: Oktopus w/ Radio Ironie Orchester in the frame of Art's Birthday on Ö1-Kunstradio, Vienna (AT) and on air
http://kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/AB2023/network-kunstradio-party.php
http://kunstradio.at/2023A/22_01_23.html
January 12th: Workshop "Ver*sagen ver*lernen" at Paris Lodron University, Salzburg (AT)
https://w-k.sbg.ac.at/en/veranstaltung/versagen-verlernen/
January 12th: Work presentation in the frame of Ursula Maria Probst's lecture @ Gallery MCube, Lalitpur, Nepal (NP)
2022
December 31st: 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)
Foto: Performance by Thyitar, Myanmar
September 24th & October 1st: HEATHERS' CUT CUT CUT: The Ultimate Driller Killer Thriller
w/Veronika Burger & Nora Jacobs @ Hermannbad Vienna in coop w/ Slash Film Festival, Vienna (AT)
https://slashfilmfestival.com/programm-2022/heathers-hermannbad-special-the-ultimate-driller-killer-thriller/
September 22nd - October 2nd: HEATHERS' BLOOD FEAST: A talk gone fatally wrong, performative intervention w/Veronika Burger & Nora Jacobs @ Slash Film Festival, Vienna (AT)
https://slashfilmfestival.com/programm-2022/heathers-blood-feast-a-talk-gone-fatally-wrong/
August 27th: Guest on Blu Rose podcast hosted by Taguhi Torosyan. You can listen to it here:
https://anchor.fm/blu-rose/episodes/Episode-1-Tentacular-Displeasures-with-Nicole-Sabella-e1n1m3h
July 20th: Body Embedding - In der Kubatur des Kabinetts, group exhibition, Fluc, Vienna (AT)
https://fluc.at/programm/2022/07/20_BODY-EMBEDDING.html
May 13th - July 15th: Body Embedding, group exhibition, Galerie 5020, Salzburg (AT)
https://5020.info/programm/body-embedding
Exhibition magazine "Body Embedding":
https://5020.info/uploads/document/file/237/FINAL_DRUCKDATEI_ZEITUNG-2_compressed-2.pdf
2021
November 9th - December 4th: TENTECHULAR DIS:PLEASURES #3: Gib mir ein F, SirenX, solo exhibition @ Periscope, Salzburg (AT)
Opening: Nov 9th, 19:00
Opening hours: THU-SAT, 16:00-20:00 & by appointment
October 28th-November 26th: The Portal, group exhibition @
VBKÖ-Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen* Österreichs, Vienna (AT)
Opening: Oct 27th, 17:00-21:00
Finissage: Nov 26th, 19:00-21:00
Opening hours: THU & FRI, 14:00-19:00 and by appointment
October 27th, 20:00-21:30: data flows, Radio Ironie Orchester, online concert, PrivacyWeek 2021, Europe/Vienna, stream
June 25th: 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)
April 26th: Radio Ironie Orchester: Feuerwehr, sound performance, Radio Helsinki, Graz
March 17th: Lounge-Musik | Loungeová Hudba, sound performance w/ Lale Rodgarkia-Dara,
Der Blöde Dritte Mittwoch, Echoraum, Vienna (AT): Join us at 8PM on https://echoraeume.klingt.org
February 12th - 26th: Tentechular Dis:Pleasures #2: Omotatatatatat, solo exhibition, Mz* Baltazar's Lab, Vienna (AT)
2020
December: Music for the radio program "Virenregime" on Radio Helsinki, in collaboration w/ Adina Camhy:
November 2020 - October 2021: Ver*sagen ver*lernen, participative art project, SHIFT program, Vienna (AT)
https://www.instagram.com/versagenverlernen/
October: Project grant by the City of Vienna (SHIFT IV) for "Ver*sagen ver*lernen" (2020/2021) , Vienna (AT)
October 22nd - November 11th: Possible Projects | Mögliche Werke, exhibition w/ Veronika Burger & Nora Jacobs, Gallery Blech, Halle/Saale (DE)
September: The Red Library | Červená Knihovna, 4AM, performance & workshop w/ Maria C. Hilber & Petra Hlaváčková, Feminist Conference, Brno (CZ) POSTPONED TO 2021!
July 5th: Radio Ironie Orchester, concert on Soundart Radio (GB)
July: HEATHERS' CUT CUT CUT: The Ultimate Driller Killer Thriller, 1st volume of artists' book series, w/ Veronika Burger & Nora Jacobs OUT NOW!
Publication grant for artist book "HEATHERS' CUT CUT CUT", Bildrecht
Production scholarship by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (MA7)
June 24th: Radio Ironie Orchester, concert on Dorf TV (AT) as part of the TV art program "RAZZLE DAZZLE"
https://dorftv.at/video/33637 (Timecode: 03:09:54 - 03:39:15)
June 19th: Radio Ironie Orchester, concert on P-Node Radio (FR)
April 3rd: Radio Ironie Orchester, Klangmanifeste, Vienna/Graz (AT)
https://archive.org/details/show784_Funkensprung_RadioHelsinki
2019
December: Bobsche Combo (Flow & dienstag abend feat. Luxus), exhibition, Austrian Cultural Forum Warsaw (PL)
Percorso 1, w/ Caroline Profanter, Alte Schmiede, Vienna (AT)
November: durchblättern / to leaf through, RadioIronieOrchester, electroacoustic concert, Radio Helsinki, Graz (AT)
August: Artist Residency by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (MA7), Budapest (HU)
June: FLOW Residency - invited by dienstag.abend, hosted by FLOW - a project by Agnieszka Brzezanská and Ewa Ciepielewska, Vistula River (PL)
22.03.2019: Lounge Music, Sound performance, w/ Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Dirty Ear Forum #9, curated by Brandon LaBelle & Ricarda Denzer, Arena-Bar, Vienna (AT)
March-June: Artist Residency "Haben und Brauchen in Wien", Künstlerhaus Vienna (AT)
2018
Artist Residency in Budapest 2019, awarded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna
The Comic Sense, Performance, Manggha Museum, Krakow (PL)
Alp.bär, LanaLive - International Culture Festival, South Tyrol (IT)
Heathers On Tour, Performance, w/ Veronika Burger & Nora Jacobs, 5020, Salzburg (AT) Cancelled due to federal cutbacks!
2017
A Sybils Manifesto dedicated to Burning. Women, Text and Performance, w/ Maria C. Hilber,
WorldWideWars Conference, Museion, Bozen (IT)
Heathers On Tour, Residency / Installation, Performance, Lecture, w/ Veronika Burger & Nora Jacobs,
PRAHA - Forum for Architecture and Media, Brno (CZ)
https://www.artmap.cz/heathers-on-tour-hot/
Avantgarde Equals Feminism. Feminist Artistic Strategies at MUMOK, Article, A2 Magazine,
#18/2017, Prague (CZ), https://www.advojka.cz/autori/nicole-sabella
Performing Feminisms Together. Some Notes on Feminist Art Collectives in Vienna, Article, A2 Magazine,
#11/2017, Prague (CZ), https://www.advojka.cz/autori/nicole-sabella
SPINNEFEIND, Video and Live Performance, w/ Maria C. Hilber, Philosophy Unbound, Symposium,
Spektakel Vienna (AT)