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Gernot Wieland
1968 Born in Horn, Austria
1990-96 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
1995-97 University of Fine Arts, Berlin
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Brantevik, Sweden.
Solo exhibitions
2026
The Pill, Paris, France
2025
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne, France
2024
KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen, Germany
2023
Square, Circle, Square, Argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, Belgium
Halb Nackt, Belmacz Gallery, London, UK
2022
Turtleneck Phantasies, Kindl – Centre for Contemporary Art – M 1 VideoSpace, Berlin, Germany
2021
…like ink in milk, Quartz Studio, Turin, Italy
Virtual Video Space – Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art, Berlin, Germany
2020
Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
Diebstahl und Gesänge, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
12×12, IBB Video Space at Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art, Berlin, Germany
2019
Vdrome, London, UK
Belmacz Gallery, London, UK
2016
„Hello, my name is…“… and …“Yes, I´m fine.“, Maumaus/Lumiar Cité, Lisbon, Portugal
Group exhibitions/Screenings
2025
Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, Austria
71. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
B_LA_M Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA
The Protagonist, Belmacz gallery, London, UK
Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany
2024
Villa Medici Film Festival, Rome, Italy
27th Guanajuato International Film Festival, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Radical Institutions and Experimantal Psychiatry: The Legacy of Francesc Tosquelles on Film, American Folk Art Museum, New York, USA
Art und Weise, Goethe Institut, New York, USA
WUFF11 – Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Canada
Film:programm, Makroscope e. V., Mühlheim a. d. Ruhr, Germany
It’s Gonna Rain, Goethe Institut, Shanghai, China
74th Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival – Forum Expanded, Berlin, Germany
First Look 2024, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA
Rausch 3, Theater an der Ruhr, Mühlheim, Germany
2023
Hidden in plain sight, Jogja Fotografis Festival by wysiwyg, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2nd Uppsala Short film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden
Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux, Paris
69th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Nexus of Absentias, Rapid Eye Movement, Bangkok, Thailand
Nouveaux Phonogrammes, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
Trembling Time, EMAF – 36th European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Go Short – 15th International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Héros-Limite, La Générale, Paris, France
Diagonale ´23, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, Austria
Glued and Screwed organized by wysiwyg, Filmhuis Den Haag, The Netherlands
36th Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany
29. Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
KURZ.FILM.TOUR – German Short Film Award at Filmfestival Max Ophüls, Saarbrücken, Germany
2022
Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, France
The Palliative Turn, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Everyone who doesn´t want to come is invited, AllArtNow, Stockholm, Sweden
Ecrani i artit, Art House, Shkodra, Albania
Ecopoetics of Generic World, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Riddles, V-F-X festival of experimental audiovisual practices, SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Echoes from the Near Future, 38th Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
The Thing is, EMAF – European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
2021
Transference, BIENALSUR, 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de America del Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fluid States. Solid Matter, Videonale 18, Festival for Video und Time-Based Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Videonale.scope, NRW – Filmforum, Cologne, Germany
Privat – öffentlich, Kallmann-Museum, Ismaningen, Germany
ARKIPEL, Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia
2020
Zoo Cosmos, Casa Conti /Ange Leccia Art Center, Oletta, France
The Law is a White Dog, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, Ireland
ANIMA – Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
11th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival, Athens, Greece
On Heavy Rotation, Callirrhoë, Athens, Greece
Argos TV19, ARGOS, Brussels, Belgium
MEMORY, Kunstmuseum Olten, Switzerland
Wait and See, IFFR – International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Risentimento / Ressentiment, Merano Arte, Merano, Italy
VIII Kinodot, Experimental Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
15th IndieLisboa – International Independent Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
Traumphase 9, Hilbert Raum, Berlin, Germany
Unter uns, Bildproduktion im Mansfelder Land, Werkleitz Festival, Hettstedt, Halle, Germany
Videoart at Midnight, Berlin, Germany
2019
Ten Slotte 4, Het Bos, Antwerp, Belgium
Grand Hotel Abyss, steirischer herbst Festival, Graz, Austria
Gimli Film Festival, Gimli, Canada
Pelle d’oca, Villa Vertua Masolo, Nova Milanese, Italy
Bruegeling, Herberg Rustique, Brussels, Belgium
B, Belmacz, London, UK
Dailytrumpet, Instagram project by Jonathan Horowitz
Symposium on Humour and Absurdity, Nida Art Colony, Lithuania
36th Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
EMAF – European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
IFFR – International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2018
Zeitspuren, The Power of Now, Centre d´art Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Shame, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany
Monitoring – Exhibition for Time Based Media Art, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
The Ashtray Show West, Belmacz, London, UK
res·o·nant, Contribution to a Sound Installation, Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany
Ideal-Types, HE.RO, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Plot, New York, USA
OGR YOU, OGR, Torino, Italy
2017
Survival Kit 9, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
The Museum of Modern Comedy in Art – A Proposal, Projects Art Centre, Dublin, Ireland
MOSTYN Open 20, Llandudno, Wales
9th Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Vigeland Museum, Oslo, Norway
33rd International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
34. Kasseler Dokumentar, Film und Videofest, Kassel, Germany
2016
Body Luggage – Migration of Gestures, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Histoires de l’Ile des Bienheureux, Musée du chateau des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard, France
33. Kasseler Dokumentar, Film und Videofest, Kassel, Germany
Random Walks, Konsthall 44 Møn, Askeby, Denmark
Puppet Slam – Objects Do Things, CCA – Center for Contemporary Art, Warszaw, Poland
TED Talk for TEDxGhent, Ghent, Belgium
Dobra, Festival de Cinema Experimental, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015
Liberty Taken, A festival of arts in the city of Bombay, Bombay, India
Midsummer Night Scream, De Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
No Bad Days, Konstmuseum Kalmar, Kalmar, Sweden
Where the place begins, Neue Berliner Räume at Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin, Germany
The reluctant narrator, Museo Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
2014
Figures of Conjunction, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
A Lecture on a Lecture, Centre PasqArt, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2013
Pecha Kucha: The Bet, Kunst-Werke – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Videonale.14 – Festival for Contemporary Video Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Anyone for Cricket?, Kunstverein Horn, Horn, Austria
71 Werke, 71 Arbeiten, Kunstmuseum des Kanton Thurgaus, Warth, Switzerland
The legend of the shelves, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
2012
Nach Bonn – Eine Montage, Kunstverein Bonn, Germany
An exhibition of a Study on Knowledge, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Boredom, Essays and Observations, Berlin, Germany
HOTAVANTGARDEHOTHOT, Oslo10, Basel, Switzerland
Common history and its Private Stories, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011
Video_Dumbo, an exhibition of contemporary video art, New York, USA
Wilhelm Reich/Ayn Rand, Essays and Observations, Berlin, Germany
Wonders of progress, TIFF – Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
Hard for the money, EMAF – European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Il pensiero autobiografico, Kaleidoscope Space, Milano, Italy
Notre vallée, Musée du chateau des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard, France
2010
Time is what keeps the light from reaching us, Bluecoat Gallery, The Liverpool Biennial
(with David Jacques and Carla Åhlander), Liverpool, UK
27. Kasseler Dokumentar- und Filmfestival, Kassel, Germany
Éclats, CEAAC – Centre européen d´actions artistiques contemporaines, Strasbourg, France
Derridas Katze … que donc je suis (à suivre), Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
All the rest is literature, House of Contamination, Artissima, Torino, Italy
Gradual Change!, Nordin Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
A few notes on life, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
2009
EASTinternational at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; Baltic, Newcastle; Contemporary Art Norwich, Norwich, UK
Collaboration, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
ABC_ DEF, Art Berlin Contemporary, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Zeigen, an audio tour through Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
Awards/Residencies
2024
Residency at Casa Conti – Ange Leccia, Oletta, France
2023
Aus-Blicke Award at Blicke, Filmfestival, Bochum, Germany
Main Award at 25th Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux, Paris, France
Main Award of the German Competition at 69th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Artistic Research Grant from Berlin City Administration for Culture, Germany
2022
German Short Film Award in the category experimental short film up to 30 minutes, Germany
Main Award at 24th Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux, Paris, France
2021
Special Mention, ARKIPEL – Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Indonesia
Artistic Research Grant from Berlin City Administration for Culture, Berlin, Germany
Artist in Residence, Paliano, Italy, by Kultur Niederösterreich
Artist in Residence, International Saari Residence, Kone Foundation, Hietamäki, Finland
2020
Best Film Award, VIII Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
Artistic Research Grant from Berlin City Administration for Culture, Berlin, Germany
2019
EMAF Media Art Award of the German Film Critics at EMAF – European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Special Mention, 36th Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
Artist in Residence, Institute for Urban Research, Malmö University, Sweden
2018
Artist in Residence, Cripta747, Turin, Italy
Artist in Residence, Superdeals, Brussels, Belgium
2017
Winner of the 20th edition of the MOSTYN Open, Wales
Artistic Research Grant from Berlin City Administration for Culture, Berlin, Germany
2013
State scholarship for Video and Media, BKA, Federal Ministery for Arts, Austria
Artist in Residence, ECAV en collaboration avec la Fondation Château Mercier, Sierre, Switzerland
2009
Artist in Residence, Rome, Italy, BKA, Arts Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria