CV
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 and Brantevik.
Solo exhibitions
2023
Halb Nackt, Belmacz, 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
Videoart at Midnight, Berlin, Germany
2019
media annex(e), Argos, Brussels, Belgium
Vdrome, London, UK
Belmacz, London, UK
2016
„Hello, my name is…“… and …“Yes, I´m fine.“, Maumaus/Lumiar Cité, Lisbon, Portugal
Group exhibitions/Screenings
2023
36th Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany
Argos TV47, ARGOS, Brussels, Belgium
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 2020, 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
2019
Medie Annex(e), ARGOS, Brussels, Belgium
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, 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
- Kasseler Dokumentar, Film und Videofest, Kassel, Germany
con_text, Lettrétage, Berlin, 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
- 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
‚…dreamed…‘, Ve.Sch, Verein für Raum und Form in der bildenden Kunst, Wien, Austria
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
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Montag ist erst übermorgen, xhibit, Wien, Austria
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
- 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
- Kasseler Dokumentar- und Filmfestival, Kassel, Germany
Love&Space, Salon Populaire, Berlin, Germany
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
2022
German Short Film Award in the category experimental short film up to 30 minutes
Best Film Award at Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, France
2021
Artist in Residence, Paliano, Italy, by Kultur Niederösterreich
Artist in Residence, International Saari Residence, Kone Foundation, Hietamäki, Finland
Special Mention, ARKIPEL – Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival
Artistic Research Grant from Berlin City Administration for Culture
2020
Best Film Award, VIII Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
Artistic Research Grant from Berlin City Administration for Culture
2019
EMAF Media Art Award of the German Film Critics at EMAF – European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
Special Mention, 36th Short Film Festival, Hamburg
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
Short list for German Short Film Award
Artistic Research Grant from Berlin City Administration for Culture
2016
Lecture on Writing Art in Digital Space at Society for Artistic Research conference, Den Haag, Netherlands
2013
State scholarship for Video and Media, BKA, Arts Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria
Artist in Residence, ECAV en collaboration avec la Fondation Château Mercier, Sierre, Switzerland
2011 – 2017
Lecturer at Fine Arts Departement/Foundation Year, UdK – University of Fine Arts, Berlin
2009
Artist in Residence, Rome, Italy, BKA, Arts Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria
Selected catalogues/Bibliography
2021
Diebstahl und Gesänge/Thievery and Songs, Book published by Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen and Salzburger Kunstverein, with texts by Lars-Erik Hjerström Lappalainen, Ana Teixeira Pinto and
Maxwell Stephens.
2020
On carpets, cats, cages, and three films by Gernot Wieland, Barbara Casavecchia, Art Agenda, April
steirischer herbst ´19, reader. Have we ever considered the whale? An essay by Gernot Wieland
Kunstbulletin May 2020, Patrizia Grzonka on Gernot Wieland
Zwölfmal Angst, Julia Gwendolyn Schneider on Gernot Wieland´s exhibition at Salzburger Kunstverein, taz, April 14, 2020
2019
Grand Hotel Abyss, steirischer herbst ´19, (catalogue)
Text by David Riff
Demontaż atrakcji: Czeluść Grand Hotelu, Adriana Prodeus on steirischer herbst ´19
Vogue online (PL), 05.10.2019
Welcome to the pleasant apocalypse, Eva Scharrer on steirischer herbst ´19, Spike Art Magazine
De onderbroek, Pieter Vermeulen on steirischer herbst ´19, HART Magazine no 197
The abyss is never far away from a feast, Natalia Dorocka on steirischer herbst ´19, Contemporary Lynx
Text by Jürgen Kiontke, Julia Gwendolyn Schneider und Morticia Zschiesche (Jury of the EMAF Media Art Award of the German Film Critics) on Ink in Milk
For Hatred of Crystals, an essay by Oskar Korsár on Gernot Wieland´s film Ink in Milk
Interview with Zasha Colah, published by vdrome
Interview with Kristina Marberger, published by Belmacz
2018
Kerstin Honeit on Ink in Milk for Monitoring – Exhibition for Time Based Media Art, Kassel
ArtReview vol 70 no 5 Summer 2018. Gernot Wieland on the couch. Mark Rappolt on Gernot Wieland´s comically anxious work in film and performance.
Art India, Vol XXII, Quarter II, 2018, Curation project by Zasha Colah
Jan-Paul Koopmann on the exhibition Shame, taz, 16 July 2018
2017
Survival Kit 9 (catalogue)
Texts by Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Solvita Krese, Inga Lace, Yuval Noah Harari
Published by LCCA – Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art
Pranja Desai on Body luggage, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria. Artforum, Februar 2017
Moira Barrett on Ink in Milk, Azucarmag.com, 2017
2016
Body Luggage – Migration of Gestures (catalogue)
Texts by Nora Sternfeld, Zasha Colah and Desmond Kharmawphlang
Published by Archive Books, Berlin
2015
frieze, issue 169, 03/15. Joana Neves on the exhibition The reluctant narrator, Museo Berardo, Lisbon
No Bad Days (catalogue)
Texts by Jonatan Habib Enqvist and Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen
Published by Kalmar Konstmuseum
2014
The reluctant narrator, A survey of Narrative Practices across media (catalogue)
Text by Ana Teixeira Pinto (editor), Kerstin Stakemeier, Sladja Blazan, Erika Balsom
Published by Sternberg Press
Éclats (catalogue)
Texts by Bettina Klein (editor), Lorraine Daston, Denis Leypold
Published by CEEAC, Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines
2013
Videonale.14 (catalogue)
Text by Dr. Sabine Maria Schmidt. Published by Distanz Verlag
Hotavantgardehothot (catalogue)
Texts and edited by Rivane Neuenschwander, Christiane Rekade. Published by AND publishing
2011
Reference and Experience, Mousse # 28, Interview with Gigiotto del Vecchio