Enar de Dios Rodríguez is a visual artist interested in demonstrating how economic, sociopolitical, historical, and environmental aspects intersect with each other. Through the use of a diverse range of media, including video, photography, and installation, her recent projects have focused on acts of territorialization, examining their origins, repercussions, and the requisite technologies of control essential for their execution. Enar’s artistic practice is research-based, rooted in interdisciplinary investigations, wherein the selective process of existing visual and textual material serves as a starting point for an exploration of the poetic and its political applicability. Understanding art as an affective form of knowledge-production, and inspired by feminist, posthumanist, and decolonial perspectives, her projects ultimately aim to creatively sabotage the imposed future.
Education
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04/2023 - ongoing
Artistic Research PhD, Kunstuniversität Linz (Austria)
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08/2014 - 05/2016
Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco)
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10/2011 - 06/2014
Studies of Bachelor of Fine Arts: Photography, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (Austria)
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08/2010 - 07/2011
Master of Arts in Multimedia Translation, Universidade de Vigo (Spain)
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09/2004 - 07/2009
Bachelor of Arts in Translation, Universidade de Vigo (Spain)
Selected exhibitions
Solo/duo
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2024
“The Temporal Forest” Salzkammergut European Capital of Culture (Scharnstein) [AT]
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2023
“Ecotone” Galerie 5020 (Salzburg) [AT]
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2023
“Liquid ground” Galería Nordés (Santiago de Compostela) [ES]
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2022
“Bodies of Water” Kunstpavillon Tiroler Künstler:innenschaft (Innsbruck) [AT]
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2021
“Liquid ground” Kunsthall 3,14 (Bergen) [NO]
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2021
“Liquid ground” LABoral Centro de Arte (Gijón) [ES]
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2020
“Die Dauer des Blicks” IG Bildende Kunst (Vienna) [AT]
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2019
“Vestiges” Project Space (Melbourne) [AU]
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2016
“Exercises in Style” StoreFrontLab (San Francisco) [US]
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2016
“299792458” Aggregate Space Gallery (Oakland) [US]
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2014
“The absence of art” Paul Sack Gallery (San Francisco) [US]
Group exhibitions/screenings
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2025
“A Bright Past is Ahead of Us” ŠKUC Cultural Gallery (Ljubljana) [SI] -forthcoming-
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2025
“Composing the Future” Austrian Pavilion EXPO 2025 (Osaka) [JP] -forthcoming-
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2024
“Recent video works” àngels barcelona – espai 2 (Barcelona) [ES]
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2024
“Complicit Images” Kino Rex (Bern) [CH]
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2024
“Dig Where You Stand” Fondation Zinsou (Cotonou) [BJ]
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2024
“PROYECTOR Festival de Videoarte” Sala Equis (Madrid) [ES]
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2024
“Ars Electronica Festival” (Linz) [AT]
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2024
“August Online Screening” àngels barcelona (Barcelona) [ES] - online
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2024
“A yellow sun A green sun a yellow sun A red sun a blue sun” MAXXI (Rome) [IT]
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2024
“Complicit Images” Medienwerkstatt (Vienna) [AT]
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2024
“Futur antérieur: Missing what will be missed” Dazibao (Montreal) [CA]
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2023
“Kasseler Dokfest” BALi Kino (Kassel) [DE]
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2023
“BestOFF” Kunstuniversität Linz (Linz) [AT]
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2023
“Intersección Contemporary Audiovisual Art Festival” Teatro Colón (A Coruña) [ES]
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2023
“Linz International Short Film Festival” City Kino (Linz) [AT]
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2023
“Curtocircuito Film Festival” Teatro Principal (Santiago de Compostela) [ES]
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2023
“Bodies of water” Sol Nexø (Bornholm) [DK]
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2023
“Play-Doc International Documentary Film Festival” (Tui) [ES]
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2023
“Now<->Future?” HKB (Bern) [CH]
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2023
“Donde empieza el cuerpo y acaba la tierra” MACO (Oaxaca) [MX]
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2023
“Málaga Short Corner - Málaga Film Festival” (Málaga) [ES]
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2023
“Bodies of water” CCA Andratx (Mallorca) [ES]
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2022
“Liquid Times. Embodied Places” Kunstuniversität Linz (Linz) [AT]
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2022
“Mares da Fin do Mundo International Documentary Film Festival” (Outes) [ES]
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2022
“International Image Festival” Planetarium (Bogotá) [CO]
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2022
“Overground Resistance” NeMe Arts Centre (Limassol) [CY]
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2022
“Proyector Videoart Festival” Ésta es una Plaza! (Madrid) [ES]
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2022
“The tending of the otherwise” Procida Cinema (Procida) [IT]
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2022
“20th Biennial of Art Pancevo” Cultural Center of Pancevo (Pancevo) [RS]
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2022
“Devolver el fuego” Centro Cultural Conde Duque (Madrid) [ES]
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2022
“Night Air: Shifting Sands” Sonic Acts (Amsterdam) [NL]
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2022
“Diagonale Film Festival” Schubert Cinema (Graz) [AT]
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2022
“Indizien” Kunsthaus Graz (Graz) [AT]
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2022
“Floating Landscapes” Galerie 5020 (Salzburg) [AT]
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2022
“Talking, reading, and watching collectively” Beursschouwburg (Brussels) [BE]
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2022
“Codes of silence” Slash (San Francisco) [US]
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2021
“The New Normal” Volkstheater (Vienna) [AT]
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2021
“Magma Mostra di cinema breve” (Acireale) [IT]
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2021
“Wake Words” Kunstraum Niederösterreich (Vienna) [AT]
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2021
“Curtocircuito Film Festival” (Santiago de Compostela) [ES]
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2021
“Proyector 14 Videoart Festival” Institut Français of Madrid (Madrid) [ES]
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2021
“School of Waters” Museo MAGA (Gallarate) [IT]
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2021
“FrameOut Film Festival” MuseumsQuartier (Vienna) [AT]
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2021
“Fußabdrücke im Datenmeer” Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna) [AT]
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2021
“Mediterranea 19” Young Artists Biennale (San Marino) [SM]
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2021
“Memoirs of the Abyss” SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhague) [DK]
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2021
“Our Seas Are What We Make of Them” Laurel Project Space (Amsterdam) [NL]
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2021
“Transitions Film Festival” (Melbourne) [AU]
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2021
“A Spirit of Disruption” Walter and McBean Galleries (San Francisco) [US]
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2020
“this human world Film Festival” (Vienna) [AT]
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2020
“Curtocircuito Film Festival” (Santiago de Compostela) [ES]
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2020
“DokuFest, International Documentary and Short Film Festival” (Prizren) [XK]
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2020
“Zwischenräume-Festival” Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg) [AT]
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2020
“Games.Fights.Encounters” OnCurating Space (Zürich) [CH]
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2020
“MUSMIG” Galerie Die Schöne (Vienna) [AT]
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2019
“VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images” Palazzo Strozzi (Florence) [IT]
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2019
“Aquí y Ahora 7 - The wrong way” Galería Blanca Soto (Madrid) [ES]
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2019
“Instancias” 45 Salón Nacional de Artistas (Bogotá) [CO]
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2018
“Traslación” Ctrl+Shft (Oakland) [US]
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2018
“Creadores 2018” La Térmica (Málaga) [ES]
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2018
“Other Places art fair” Pretend Gallery booth, Opaf 2018 (Los Angeles) [US]
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2017
“Muestreo: Cañonazos de la Piratería” Centro Colombo Americano (Bogotá) [CO]
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2017
“Beyond one’s own territory” RAUMSCHIFF (Linz) [AT]
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2017
“SEEC Photography” Berkeley Museum & Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) [US]
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2017
“Radical Networks 2017” Creative Capital (Brooklyn) [US]
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2017
“Now Open” Pretend Gallery (Los Angeles) [US]
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2017
“DISSOLVE #4” FraenkelLAB (San Francisco) [US]
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2016
“The Yud Video Project” Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco) [US]
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2016
“The Infraordinary” Adobe Books (San Francisco) [US]
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2016
“Ars Electronica Festival” Ars Electronica (Linz) [AT]
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2016
“L’Œil d’Oodaaq Festival” St Malo and Nantes [FR]
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2016
“SFAI MFA Exhibition” Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason (San Francisco) [US]
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2015
“Writ Large” Great Wall of Oakland (Oakland) [US]
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2015
“in/tension” Diego Rivera Gallery (San Francisco) [US]
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2015
“latent” Swell Gallery (San Francisco) [US]
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2015
“Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards” SOMArts (San Francisco) [US]
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2014
“Performativität des Widerstands” Lisabird Contemporary (Vienna) [AT]
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2014
“San Antón nas Panateneas” Museo Municipal (Ourense) [ES]
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2014
“Unter Strom” Semperdepot (Vienna) [AT]
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2013
“Etwas mit Geste” Galerie Z (Hard) [AT]
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2013
“Festival IN OUT” Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art (Gdansk) [PL]
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2012
“REALM” Heiligenkreuzerhof (Vienna) [AT]
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2012
“The essence 2012” Künstlerhaus (Vienna) [AT]
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2024-25
IFK Junior Fellowship Abroad (International Research Center for Cultural Studies)
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2024
Marianne.von.Willemer - Prize for Digital Media Arts (City of Linz)
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2023-24
IFK Junior Fellowship (International Research Center for Cultural Studies)
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2023
Young Jury Prize (Intersección Contemporary Audiovisual Art Festival)
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2023
Intersección Lab Base Grant (Intersección Contemporary Audiovisual Art Festival)
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2023
Mobility Grant “Culture Moves Europe” (European Union)
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2022
Artist-in-Residence Grant in Istanbul (Federal Chancellery of Austria - BMKÖS)
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2022
SAMAEHL Grant (UKS - Young Artists’ Society Oslo)
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2022
Emerging Concept Edition Award (PrivatePrint)
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2021
VIII Production Grant DKV - Álvarez Margaride (LABoral Centro de Arte)
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2021
PICE Traveling Grant (AC/E - Acción Cultural Española)
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2021
Work Scholarship for the participation in the BJCEM (Federal Chancellery of Austria - BMKÖS)
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2021
Artist-in-Residence Grant at Nida Art Colony (Lower Austrian Government)
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2021
Pixel, Bytes + Film Production Grant (Federal Chancellery of Austria - BMKÖS)
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2020
Planeta GZ Award and Award for Best Film Direction (Curtocircuíto Film Festival)
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2020
Special Mention (this human world Film Festival)
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2020
Work Scholarship due to COVID-19 (City of Vienna)
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2019
Artist-in-Residence Grant at RMIT University in Melbourne (Lower Austrian Government)
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2018
Plataforma workshop grant (Art-lab Plataforma Bogota)
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2017
Travel grant (Austrian Cultural Forum New York)
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2016
StoreFrontLab Grant (StoreFrontLab)
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2016
Outstanding Graduate Student Award (San Francisco Art Institute)
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2015
Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award (Murphy and Cadogan Foundation)
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2014-15
SFAI Fellowship Award (San Francisco Art Institute)
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2014
Scholarship for studying abroad (Federal Chancellery of Austria - BMWF)
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2012
Merit scholarship (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
Grants and prizes
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2025
NORMAL, A Coruña (Spain) -forthcoming-
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2024
Cerezales Antonino y Cinia Foundation, Cerezales del Condado (Spain) -forthcoming-
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2024
Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz (Austria)
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2023
CCA Andratx, Mallorca (Spain)
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2022
BMKÖS Ausslandsatelier, Istanbul (Turkey)
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2021
Nida Art Colony, Nida (Lithuania)
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2021
LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijón (Spain)
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2019
RMIT University, Melbourne (Australia)
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2018
La Térmica Creadores 2018, Málaga (Spain)
Residencies
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2024
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar [DE]
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2024
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna [AT]
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2024
Kristiania University College (Oslo) [NO]
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2024
Kunstschule Wien [AT]
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2024
International Research Center for Cultural Studies (Vienna) [AT]
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2023-24
University of Art and Design Linz [AT]
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2023
Mozarteum Salzburg (Salzburg) [AT]
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2023
Screenwise 2023 (Vienna) [AT]
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2023
Bern Academy of the Arts (Bern) [CH]
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2022
YOUKI Film Festival (Wels) [AT]
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2022
Medienwerkstatt Wien (Vienna) [AT]
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2022
Bewährungsprobe at Depot (Vienna) [AT]
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2021
Malaga Fine Arts University [ES]
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2021
Conde Duque Cultural Center (Madrid) [ES]
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2019
University of Art and Design Linz [AT]
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2019
Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival (Florence) [IT]
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2018
II Encuentro de Creación Fotográfica (Almería) [ES]
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2018
University of Vienna [AT]
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2018
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna [AT]
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2018
Plataforma (Bogota) [CO]
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2017
Radical Networks (New York) [US]
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2017
University of California, Berkeley [US]
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2017
University of San Francisco [US]
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2016
Stanford University (Palo Alto) [US]
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2016
Festival Ars Electronica (Linz) [AT]
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2016
San Francisco Art Institute [US]
Selected artist talks, lectures and workshops
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2024
You’ll Never Watch Alone: The Screen as a Place of Work; Edited with Nathalie Koger and Olena Newkryta (The Golden Pixel Cooperative), published by SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR -forthcoming-
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2024
Let It Return; Artistic book edited with Andrea Steves, published by PrivatePrint
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2022
You’ll Never Work Alone: Collective Infrastructures in Moving Images; Edited with Nathalie Koger and Mona Schwitzer (The Golden Pixel Cooperative), published by SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR
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2020
SEEC: Photography at the speed of light; Art-science paper published in collaboration with Brannon B. Klopfer, Philipp Haslinger and Thomas Juffmann, published by Leornado, MIT Press Journal
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2018
The poetics of landscape; Poetry book in PowerPoint format, published by Gauss PDF
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2017
Unauthorized SFMOMA Show; Exhibition catalogue edited and published in collaboration with Lasse Scherffig and Ana María Montenegro Jaramillo, self-published
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2017
Exercises in Style; Artistic book, in collaboration with Ana María Montenegro Jaramillo and the support of StoreFrontLab, self-published
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2010
Caderno dun retorno ao país natal; Translation from French to Galician of the poetry book “Cahier d’un retour au pays natal” by Aimé Césaire, published in Boletín Galego de Literatura Nº43 [ISSN 02149117]
Selected publications
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Co-founder of SEEC Photography (2016-ongoing), a photographic science-art project in collaboration with quantum physicists Philipp Haslinger and Thomas Juffmann that investigates how light moves.
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Collaborator (exhibition manager) on the Museum of Capitalism (2017), an institution dedicated to educating this generation and future generations about the history, philosophy, and legacy of capitalism.
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Member (2020-ongoing) and chair (2021-ongoing) of The Golden Pixel Cooperative, an association for moving images, arts and media, active within both exhibition and cinema contexts.
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Co-creator of Essential Services (2020-ongoing), an atelier founded with Andrea Steves dedicated to essential problems and problems of essentiality in art and beyond.
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Collaborator (visual artist) on The Sound of Entanglement (2024-ongoing), a quantum music project with musician Clemens Wenger and quantum physicists Philipp Haslinger, Benjamin Orthner, Johannes Kofler, Martin Ringbauer, Richard Küng, and Alexander Ploier.
Artistic collaborations
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2023
KADIST Art Foundation (France/USA)
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2022
Niederösterreichisches Landessammlung (Austria)
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2021
DKV Collection (Spain)
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2020
Wien Museum Collection (Austria)
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2018
Málaga County Council (Spain)