Michaela
Schwentner

NEWS WORKS / PROJECTS ABOUT CONTACT

Wechselwirkung
Video documentation of Wechselwirkung (Mutual Reaction)
by Pia Palme which was supposed to premiere in the frame of Wien Modern 2020
The online stream is available here from 13 01 to 13 02 2021

Kasseler Dokfest
17 — 22 11 2020: 37th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (D)
Screening of zwischen mir und der welt / aufräumen

Recycled Cinema / 30 Jahre sixpackfilm
A cooperation of Viennale, sixpackfilm and Filmmuseum
30 10 2020, 11am: Filmmuseum, Vienna (A)
Screening of La petite illusion

Int. competition Short film / section: Inside and Outside
26 10 - 01 11 2020: DOK Leipzig (D)
Screening of zwischen mir und der welt / aufräumen

XX Y X: Assembly
13 10 2020, 6pm: echoraum, Vienna (A)
Durational performance
live: Brigitta Bödenauer, dj set: Lumplecker

ORTung 2018-2020
17 09 - 24 10 2020: Kunstraum Pro Arte, Hallein (A)
Group exhibition
Opening: 16 09 2020, 7pm

Living Collection sixpackfilm: DESTRUCTION AND FURY
07 09 2020: Metro Kinokulturhaus / Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna (A)
Screening of speech

As a creative means in art, destruction as a live action, as an act
of depicting destruction, as an attempt to attack the fine arts
or as an integration of found, worn or destroyed objects is still
very young. Almost from the start, film art and expanded cinema
were considered, especially when you think of the participants
in the legendary Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966 in London.
The film programme brings together works that aggressively
influence foreign or own film material: Lurf, Fruhauf, Sharits and
Tscherkassky. Vrba, Ventzislavova, Schwentner and Walkowiak
express their anger more cautiously, but still land their attack clearly.
Text: Brigitta Burger-Utzer, sixpackfilm 2020

OPTRONICALS – Austrian Music Abstracts
01 08 2020: Exis, Seoul (KOR)
Online Screening of transistor (due to the Covid-19 measures)

Living Collection sixpackfilm: DESTRUCTION AND FURY
08 06 2020: Metro Kinokulturhaus / Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna (A)
Online Screening of speech (due to the Covid-19 measures!)

Statement #09: re-Assembly
Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (A)
18 05 – 20 05 2020: Performative setting
21 05 – 10 06 2020: Presentation

Future Memory Scan
01 05 2020: donaufestival Krems (A)
Screening. Cancelled due to the Covid-19 measures!

zwischen mir und der welt / aufrämen
26 + 28 03 2020: Diagonale'20 – Die Unvollendete, Graz (A)
Screenings Cancelled due to the Covid-19 measures!

re-FORM [again!]
05 03 – 09 05 2020
Prolongation/re-opening after CoVid 19 caused break: 20 05 – 20 06 2020
Tiroler Künstler*schaft, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck (A)
Solo exhibition
Artist talk w/ Annja Krautgasser: 20 06 2020, 5pm

Video Kabuff
20 11 – 10 12 2019: Blickle Raum, Spiegelgasse 2, Vienna (A)
Installation in the frame of Manuel Gorkiewicz's spatial intervention Kabuff
With works by Kerstin Cmelka, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Marlene Haring,
Heidrun Holzfeind, Peter Kogler, Christian Kosmas Mayer, Flora Neuwirth
and Michaela Schwentner

Open Studio Days 2019
16 + 17 11 2019: Vienna Art Week, Vienna (A)

Blickle Archive Series #39: Michaela Schwentner
16 10 2019: Blickle Kino, Belvedere21, Vienna (A)
Screenings + Artist talk

Traces of the Anthropocene
12 10 2019: B16 Film Festival, Brno (CZ)
Screening of The Future of Human Containment

subnetAIR exitTALK
09 10 2019: Center for HCI, University of Salzburg (A)

Re:Voir: Futur Antérieur #6 : Focus autrichien
01 10 2019: Cinéma L'Archipel, Paris (F)
Screening of Bellevue + La petite illusion

Transform She Said
13 09 - 23 10 2019: Blickle Kino, Belvedere21, Vienna (A)
Co-curated film programme (w/ Claudia Slanar)

Intimité et désir
25 09 - 29 09 2019: ART POP 2019, POP Montreal (CAN)
Broadcast/webcast of dsv



Meet the Artist
16 09 2019: Schmiede Hallein (A)
Artist talk



subnetAIRs 2019 – mediaART
16 09 - 14 10 2019: subnetAIR, Salzburg (A)
MediaART residency + grant

Future Memory Scan
02 07 2019, 7pm: Under_the_Radar_Vienna_2019
Blickle Kino, Belvedere21, Vienna (A)
Screening of The Future of Human Containment

Psychedelia. Living collection sixpackfilm
03 06 2019: Metro Kinokulturhaus / Filmarchive Austria, Vienna (A)
Screening of Transistor

That Thing
04 - 24 04 2019: Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna (A)
Contribution of a chair from the film set of un divertissement d'amour
for Borjana Ventzislavova's exhibition That Thing.

Choreography Of The Frame
08 11 - 15 12 2018: Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (A)
Group exhibition
Installation of personne 1-7
Curated by Michaela Schwentner and Maia Gusberti
Participating artists: Marwa Arsanios, Gwenneth Boelens,
Maia Gusberti, Yasmina Haddad, Herbert Hofer,
Tatiana Lecomte, Gabriela Löffel, Claudia Märzendorfer,
Uriel Orlow, Petignat und Scholz, Michaela Schwentner,
Lina Selander, Sophie Thun

Performative Screening #55
THE UNQUESTIONED ANSWER
13 10 2018: school, Vienna (A)

12 hours of music produced by women and played
by 24 female music lovers. Creating a sonic space set
within the frame of independent space index 2018,
school wants to celebrate the musical production of
women from the early beginnings until now

AAA!
Almost-aged Actionists Anonymous
Presentations in the frame of Wienwoche 2018
18 + 20 09 2018: Florianihof, Vienna (A)

Video Art Film Club
15 09 2018 Leyden Gallery, London (UK)
Screening of personne

re-PARADISE /
Installation of reconstructing archives by rendering
representative complexities into moments of desire
ANNA, Vienna (A)
14 09 2018 Presentation

Schmiede18: noplan
29 08 - 07 09 2018 Alte Saline, Pernerinsel, Hallein (A)
Smith

W3rkH0f Summer Think Tank 2018
17 - 19 08 2018 W3rkH0f 9Kirch, Neunkirch (CH)
A/V performance with Electric Indigo + symposium

Dark City Summer Residency
15 07 - 03 08 2018 Krumpendorf, Austria (A)
AiR

ORTung Hintersee
Artists symposium / AiR curated by Schmiede
22 04 - 13 05 2018 Hintersee, Salzburg (A)
Realisation and presentation of PLAY pt 1. The Rehearsal +
PLAY pt 2. L’absence est présente

Was vom Kino übrig blieb / The Remains of Cinema
Group exhibition
10 02 - 22 04 2018 KM– Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz (A)
Presentation of Fine Art Print series FIGURES

A Ditto, Ditto Device
Group exhibition.
10 01 2018 AIL Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Vienna (A)
Screening of personne

Endless Cinematic Desire
28 11 2017 - 03 12 2017 B3 Biennial of the Moving Image
Frankfurt/Main (D)
Screening of Des souvenirs vagues

Sasso residency
Summer 2017 Vairano/San Nazzaro (CH)
AiR

Ah, la musique !
15 + 17 07 2017 écrans parallèles
FIDMarseille - International Film Festival of Marseille
Mucem Marseille (F)
Screening of personne

Bewegte Bilder: Film und Video als Medium der
Architektur – Panel.02 of exhibition Entwerfen
19 05 2017 Eh. Post- und Telegraphenamt, Vienna (A)
Panel discussion



Innovative Cinema / Innovatives Kino
29+31 03 2017 Diagonale. Festival of Austrian Film, Graz (A)
Screening of personne

Mapping the Deleuzian film classification
Members evening
08 02 2017 Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (A)
Lecture performance

Agents of Confusion!
An art and science symposium on dizziness as a creative resource
10 02 2017 Kunsthaus, Graz (A)
Presentation and artist talk



IMAfiction #08 portrait Electric Indigo
22 11 2016 IMAkusmonium. Cinema Paradiso, St. Pölten (A)
Premiere and artist talk



Musik NonStop
24 10 2016 Int. Short Film Festival Uppsala (SWE)
Screening of Transistor

Non-finito
Group exhibition
16 oct - 11 dec 2016 Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal (D)
Video installation of Giuliana 64:03

ReFramed
aug 05 - oct 17 2016 London Biennale Manila Pollination (PHL)
Video installation of Swinging

BREAKING GROUND: Concrete forms
31 08 2016 Cinematheque Tel Aviv (IL)
01 09 2016 Jerusalem Cinematheque - Israel Film Archive (IL)
Screening of The Future of Human Containment

PENELOPE / IN THE SCENERY /
REFLECTING / RELATIONS
14 08 2016 ORF III artist in residence programme
TV broadcast

Concerts vidéomusiques électroacoustiques #2
12 05 2016 MAMCS, Strasbourg (F)
Audiovisual concert + screening of Speech

Embassy of Foreign Artists
2016 La Maison Baron, Genève (CH)
AiR

L'atypique trouble
16-18 03 2016 Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse (F)
Video installation of Descending a staircase / in shifts

Concerts vidéomusiques électroacoustiques #1
18 02 2016 MAMCS, Strasbourg (F)
Audiovisual concert + screening of Elements II

WIEN MODERN studioNACHT II
13 11 2015 elektro gönner, Vienna (A)
dj set

SMALL
17-21 10 2015 kunstraum SUPER, Vienna (A)
Group exhibition

UMKREISUNGEN
Process Art and Generative Arts
23 10 2015 depot, Vienna (A)
Panel talk + work presentation



Milano Film Festival (I)
13 09 2015
Screening of Bellevue

Rencontres Internationales vidéothèque:
Penelope / In the Scenery / Reflecting / Relations
23-28 06 2015 Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (D)

CHANGING OF SHIFTS / SCHICHTWECHSEL
19-28 06 2015 Festival der Regionen, Ebensee (A)
Performance + installation of Descending a staircase / in shifts

HOME IS ...
18-28 06 2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance,
Design and Space / Austrian section, Prague (CZ)
Installation

PENELOPE / IN THE SCENERY /
REFLECTING / RELATIONS
Pixel, Bytes & Film Artist in Residence programme (A)
21 05 2015 ORF III TV broadcast

Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz (A)
24 04 2015
Screening of The Contest

Disparitäten von Visuals-Pionierinnen
in Bezug auf Subkultur, feministische Theorien,
(elektronische) Musik, (Club)Kultur und Praxis
20 04 2015 THNK TNAK, depot Vienna (A)
Panel talk + work presentation

EYETUNES
Film screening in the frame of the exhibition
Ecoutez voir !
17 apr - 26 jun 2015 Le Bel Ordinaire, Billère (F)
Installation of Take The Bus and Transistor

Rencontres Internationales
Nouveau cinéma et art contemporain
01 - 07 12 2014 Gaîté Lyrique Paris (F)
Vidéothèque: Penelope / In the Scenery / Reflecting / Relations

Noctiluca
03-14 12 2014 Klangmanifeste. k/haus Passage, Vienna (A)
Installation of Noctiluca

Shut up and listen!
27-29 11 2014 Echoraum, Vienna (A)
Screening of Elements II

Cairo Video Festival (EG)
08-20 11 2014 Medrar
Installation of Penelope / In the Scenery / Reflecting / Relations +
Un divertissement d'amour

Videokunst Michaela Schwentner
09 11 2014 Oktoskop
Okto TV broadcast

19 09 2014 National Film and Sound Archive Australia
Canberra (AUS)
Screening of Transistor

Electronic Sound in a Shifting Landscape
18 07 - 13 09 2014 Dazibao, Montreal (CAN)
Installation of Jet

Installation view Dazibao, Montréal (CAN), © Guy L'Heureux

Shortcuts. Experimental Dance Film Festival
11-15 07 2014 Bühnenwerkstatt, Graz (A)
Screening of En Déplacement

A STONE, A WORD, ACTIVATED BY
ABDUL SHARIF BARUWA // EVA BODNAR // HERBERT DE COLLE //
PLAMEN DEJANOFF //HEINRICH DUNST // MARINA FAUST //
VERONIKA HAUER // GERHARD HIMMER // SIGGI HOFER // NICOLAS
JASMIN // DANIEL KNORR // ELKE SILVIA KRYSTUFEK // SONIA
LEIMER // JOHANN LURF // CHRISTIAN MAYER // ALBERT MAYR //
JOSH MÜLLER // MICHAEL PART // ELISABETH PENKER // ROMAN
PFEFFER // JOSEF RAMASEDER // BERNHARD RAPPOLD // FRANZ
SCHUBERT // CONSTANZE SCHWEIGER // MICHAELA SCHWENTNER // CHRISTIAN STOCK // AXEL STOCKBURGER
22 04 - 05 06 2014 Blickle Raum, Vienna (A)
Frottage



Diagonale special
03 09 2014 Oktoskop
TV broadcast of Un divertissement d'amour

20 03 2014 Diagonale, Graz (A)
25 04 2014 Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz (A)
Screenings of Penelope / In the Scenery / Reflecting / Relations

March 2014 HAFF Holland Animation Film Festival
Utrecht (NL)
Screening of Elements II

BREAKING GROUND
60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema
11 02 2014 Auditorium des musées de la ville de Strasbourg (F)
Screening of Alpine Passage

Artist in Residence
Feb 2014 Egon Schiele-Art-Centrum, Cesky Krumlov (CZ)

photo: Isabella S. Minichmayr

KOMM UND TANZ MIT MIR!
12 + 13 09 2013 Hundsturm, Vienna (A)
Installation + performance with Karl Schwamberger (Laokoongruppe)
and Martin Siewert

photo: Sabine Pichler

GARDEN PARTY CONCRÈTE
14 07 2013 Embassy of Foreign Artists, Genève (CH)
Screening of Elements II

LEERE LINIEN / GRENZWELTEN
Group exhibition.
13 07 - 21 08 2013 Kulturbrücke Fratres (A)
Multi-channel installation of Prospects.split

MeltingPlot
28 06 2013 MeltingPlotEurope. Matadereo, Madrid (E)
Performance with text, sound, images and colours



STILLE HÄLT INNE
27 04 2013 KomponistInnenforum Mittersill (A)
Video performance

BREAKING GROUND.
60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema
10-21 04 2013 Buenos Aires Bafici Independent Film Festival (AR)
May/June 2013 Cinemateca Zaragoza (E)
Screenings of Alpine Passage and The Future of Human Containment

MeltingPlotEurope
12 04 2013 Ex-Fonderie Limone, Torino (I)
Performance with text, sound, images and colours



25 04 2013 Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz (A)
19 04 2013 school, Vienna (A)
13 03 2013 Diagonale, Graz (A)
Screenings of Un divertissement d'amour

ADAPTED RELATIONS
10 04 2013 K48, Vienna (A)
Installation

Installation view K48

IM KALEIDOSKOP DER NACHT
01 03 2013 Zeit-Ton Extended
Radiokulturhaus, Vienna (A)
Artist talk



BREAKING GROUND.
60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema
10 02 2013 Centre Pompidou, Paris (F)
Screening of Alpine Passage

STORIA SVELATA
Performances of early and contemporary music composed
by Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Elisabeth Jaquet de la Guerre,
Performances by contemporary composers Katharina Klement,
Eva Reiter, Judith Unterpertinger, Pia Palme and Elisabeth Harnik
31 12 2012 OFF Theater, Vienna (A)
Visual concept + installation for sound performances

DER TAG ALS DER REGEN KAM
Melodramatische Elemente im experimentellen Film
Festival Avantgarde ist keine Strömung III
08 12 2012 D21 Kunstraum Leipzig (D)
Screening of Giuliana 64:03

OBRAS SONORAS
Sound performances
Curated by Manfred Grübl
Participants: Didi Bruckmayr, Philipp Quehenberger, Jade
04 10 2012 Hotelito San Rafael, Mexico City (MEX)
05 10 2012 Galeria Hilario Galguera, Mexico City (MEX)
06 10 2012 El ECO, Mexico City (MEX)

VIENNA FASHION WEEK
Light and image projection for LETZTER WALZER
A/W collection of LINIERT
14 09 2012 Museumsquartier Vienna (A)

BREAKING GROUND
60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema
10 film & video programs curated by Brent Klinkum
13 08 - 30 09 2012 UCLA + LA Filmforum, Los Angeles (US)
07-13 09 2012 Anthology Film Archive, New York (US)
16-23 11 2012 Semana de Cine Experimental, Madrid (E)
Screenings of Alpine Passage and The Future of Human Containment

Retrospective experimental
video art 2004-2012
15-29 08 2012 Silpakorn University Bangkok, ChiangMai
University Bangkok, Burapa University Bangkok,
Bangkok University, National Art Gallery Bangkok (TH)
Screenings of Transistor and Bellevue

BILLBOARD / prospects modifiés
22 06 - 31 12 2012 rhiz, Vienna (A)
Video installation

Artist in Residence
May 2012: Domus Artium Paliano (I)



CLIP, KLAPP, BUM
04 03 2012 CCCB, Barcelona (E)
03 + 06 05 2012 Elektra Festival, Montreal (CAN)
Screening of Transistor

FILM UNFRAMED
A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema
Peter Tscherkassky (ed.)
13 03 2012 Filmhauskino Spittelberg, Vienna (A)
Book launch

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