Michaela Schwentner
Born 1970, lives and works in Vienna
Studies of philosophy, history, film and theatre studies in Vienna
Lecturer at the Institute of Art and Design/TU Vienna
Co-founder and operator of mosz records
Founder and operator of flor. association for the promotion of gender-
and diversity-relevant cross-disciplinary art production
Awards/Grants
2023 State Scholarship for Media Art
2023 Working scholarship of the City of Vienna
2016 Agents of Confusion! Symposion + competition, Joanneum Graz
2007 Outstanding Artist Award for Film, Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture
2004 Local Artists Award of Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz
Residencies in Paliano, Malo (I), Cesky Krumlov (CZ), subnetAiR + Grant, Salzburg (A)
Embassy of Foreign Artists/ Geneva (CH)
Distribution
sixpackfilm, Vienna
Light Cone, Paris
Collections
Sammlung Wien Museum / Collection City of Vienna
Ursula Blickle Video Archive / Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
Centre Pompidou Paris
Curatorial practice
2020– XX Y X platform presenting female/feminist positions in the fields of visual arts,
sound art and performance
2019 Transform She Said (w/ Claudia Slanar), Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21, Vienna
2018 Choreography of the Frame (w/ Maia Gusberti), Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2005 Fresh Trips – About Moving Images, Sound Spaces and Performances (w/ Annja Krautgasser),
medien.kunst.tirol, Innsbruck
Vimeo library
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