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Based on the affective states of vulnerability and resistance, I explore the ambiguous realm of emotions. In my artworks, vulnerability and resistance are no opposites but rather both depend on one another, influencing each other. Through investigating vulnerable and resistant states inside the individual, culture and society, dominant norms, power hierarchies, and binary presumptions can be disclosed, observed, and questioned. Just as vulnerable states carry resistance within them, resistant experiences carry vulnerability. Together both can provide the necessary transformative power to ignite change.

WITH A LITTLE HELP OF GRANDMA (2025)

As knit-work is traditionally understood as a form of craft—not art—mainly created by women to serve the needs of their family and wider community, this installation, set up in the environment of an Austrian forest, tries to combine minimalist and conceptual ideas of modern art with the craft of knitting. By doing so, it questions dichotomous ideas about maleness and femaleness, softness and hardness; human and nature; vulnerability and resistance, creation and decay, high art and craft. 

Acting Performance in PIGGY BANK (2024)

Director: Christoph Schwarz, funded by: BMKOES film funding of the City of Vienna, Lower Austria, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). Premiere: Diagonale. Festival of Austrian Film. Graz/Austria.

Filmmaker Christoph Schwarz starts a money strike for Austrian TV format “Striking Years”. As an introduction to climate and a unique opportunity to secretly buy a long-awaited weekend house for the film budget. Christoph rescues food from the bin, grows potatoes at roundabouts and herbs in a convertible, and blocks motorway construction sites. However, the problem of having earned money with a money strike is not so easy to get rid of. The trailer can be watched here.

WHAT WE SEE, IS WHAT’S EXPOSED BY LIGHT (2023)

TRACE (2011 – ongoing)

Long-term performance project with Ela Cosen / New York-Graz-Wien-Berlin-Frankfurt/Oder-Frankfurt/Main-Berlin-Leeds

This work focuses on time and transience of life. Every year since 2011 the artists follow the same trace in a different place. Through incorporating colour the traces of their movements are being inscribed on the canvas. Thereby, creating an abstract painting, which will find its completion only after they have stopped meeting and dancing. If the artists manage to maintain the project as planed through their lifetime, their deaths will give birth to the completed painting.

Presentation at Campus Arts and Social Change, Hamburg (2018)

THE AESTHETICS & POETRY OF BUREAUCRACY (2020)

As an act of empowerment while facing bureaucratic hurdles, this artistic examination tries to find poetry in bureaucratic language and aesthetics.

What kind of aesthetic can be found within bureaucratic forms and texts? Through deconstructing bureaucratic structures, this series searches for meaning beyond functionality and necessity.

Published (2021) in: Bürokratiepolitiken. Sonderzahl. Schriften zur Verkehrswissenschaft. Hg.: Jödicke, F.; Knnoll, R.; Schlembach C.; Seitter, W. Wien: Skug Verlag. pp. 40, 41, 50, 51, 57, 103, 115, 138, 139, 160, 161, 189, 209. ISBN 978-3-85449-536-9

PIXEL, BYTES & FILM – ORF III ARTIST IN RESIDENCE (2013 – 2021)

In my dissertation, I examined the relationship between contemporary art and public-television. The findings of this research were practically incorporated into the development of the art project and funding program Pixel, Bytes & Film – ORF III Artist in Residence. This series opened a window, presenting the view of artists on culture and society. Annually, ten to twelve art projects were financed, developed, and broadcast. Workshops accompanied the production process and provided support for the artists.

Over the years of its existence “Pixel, Bytes & Film – ORF III Artist in Residence” has been a cooperation of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), the Film Department of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service & Sport (BMKOES) and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

More about the project on vimeo.

SUCHT (2017)

Published in IZPP (International Journal for Philosophy & Psychosomatics), 16th edition 1/2017

WINDOW- & DOOR-DESIGN (2016)

State Hospital Voitsberg/Austria

KIT-TV (2005 – 2009)

Back in 2005 my colleagues Eva Beierheimer, Miriam Laussegger, Gudrun Gruber, Miriam Raggam  and I started an art-TV-show on the community channel Okto-TV in Vienna. The show opened a space of communication for Vienna’s vibrant contemporary young art scene at the time.

The archive of the show can be accessed and viewed here.

MAKING OF KIT (2007)

Exhibition at Demonstrationsraum, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Visitors could participate in the production process of kit-tv and record creative material on site.

SIX HIDDEN DRAWINGS (2008)

Developed for the art-project Borderline developed and curated by Eva Beierheimer at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm/Sweden.

DRAWINGS (2006 – ongoing)

THE NEW WAY (2004)

Permanent art installation at the Fine Arts Academy Reykjavik/Iceland.

Eva Beierheimer and I constructed a connecting line from the academy building to the nearby bus station. The path emerged as a logical consequence after the “deer pass“ of the students, which walked along it everyday and by doing so left their marks engraved in the ground.
Natural ways are results of human movement in public spaces and they also function as communication lines. Ways are accentuations between spaces; they connect locations and people and thereby act like a language. If you are able to read the narrow caved trails aside from the already existing architectural conditions, stories and plots start to appear…