VERONIKA
HÖSCH
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News
NEWS MAY 2024
Heathers (aka Veronika Hösch, Nora Jacobs & Nicole Sabella) will be performing and presenting their newest artist books in the frame of the group exhibition Wuthering Tales. The exhibition is curated by Karolina Radenkovic and takes place from 10.05. – 26.07.2024 at galerie 5020, Salzburg, AT
Performance & group exhibition with HEATHERS (Veronika Hösch | Nora Jacobs | Nicole Sabella at galerie 5020, AT
NEWS JULY 2024
My video Kari has been nominated for the Hubert Sielecki Prize and will be screened as part of the Künstlerhaus Kino Spektrum program on 9.7.2024 at Stadtkino, Vienna (AT).
Screening of Kari in the frame of Hubert Sielecki Prize, Stadtkino, Wien (AT)
NEWS AUGUST 2024
I am pleased to announce that I will participate in the HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme from 19 August – 19 November 2024 and work on my project STILL THEY TOLL BUT I AM TOO SAD TO TELL, which deals with the profession of lamentation and the art of lamenting. My artistic research will focus on collective mourning rituals and their potential for protest, change and strengthening of community.
Artist in Residency at HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme.
NEWS OCTOBER 2023- OCTOBER 2024
GPC-LAB, Dramaturgical accompaniment of innovative-experimental film, video or moving image works for my project NiNi – crossing feathers. Mentors: Christine Lang and Caroline Bobek. Mentoring program by The Golden Pixel Cooperative, Vienna (AT)
GPC-LAB 2023-24-Mentoring
Interactive video-sound installation, 2021
KonKon
Film installation, 2020
Kari
The video work Kari documents the “Labor History Mural” in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, just before the abandoned building was being demolished.
Video installation, 2021
looks like she is in the pink
The video installation Looks like she is in the pink provides a pleasurable instruction for action and contextualisation of the app described above.
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VERONIKA HÖSCH (ex BURGER*)
EDUCATION
2008 – 2013
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
MFA, Performative Arts, (diploma with distinction)
2006 – 2009
University of applied Arts Vienna, AT
Transmedia Arts
07/2009
Franklin Furnace Performance Archive, New York, US
Internship
2000-2002
Tailor for inflatables
RESIDENCIES & STUDIO GRANTS (sel.)
2024
HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Program (FIN) – Artist in Residence
by the Austrian Federal Chancellery Division
2023
AIR Krems in Paliano (ITA), Artist in Residence Program by Lower Austria
2022
N-A.I.R.2022, Artist in Residency, Gunma Prefecture (JPN)
2019
AIR Krems: SAIC – School of the Art Institute of Chicago (US)
Artist in Residence Programme by Lower Austria
Artist in Residence Zemo Nikozi (GE) by the
off/project-programme of the Art Foundation for Peace (CH)
2017
Media artist in residency at Sewon Art Space in Yogyakarta (IDN)
by the Austrian Federal Chancellery Division
2015
Artists Unlimited in Bielefeld (DE)
2013
Turbo Residency with HEATHERS production in the course of ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna (AT)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS | PERFORMANCES(sel.)
2024
Whales, feathers, dust, Veronika Hösch, Kristina Cyan and Katja Verheul, Medienwerkstatt, Vienna, AT
Wuthering Tales of Desire, curated by Karolina Radenkovic, galerie 5020, Salzburg, AT
Patterns of Disillusion, curated by Karolina Radenkovic, galerie 5020, Salzburg, AT
Tender Ties, curated by Kaeshmaesch, das T/abor, Vienna, AT
2023
FOKUS: SENIOR ARTIS, curated by Carla Bobadilla, Almut Rink & Ruby Sircar, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, AT
2022
Working/ Caring/ Living – Veronika Burger, Katharina Gruzei and Agnes Prammer, curated by Anna Reisenbichler and Veronika Rudorfer, Kunstraum SUPER, Vienna (AT)
Das Etwas und das Nichts – Henne und Ei, Grünspan – Plattform für Kunst und Kultur im Drautal (AT)
SLASH FILM FESTIVAL, curated by Markus Keuschnigg, Filmcasino and Hermannbad, Vienna (AT)
2021
Nakanojo Biennale 2021, Gunma Prefecture (JPN)
Sana Baer, Veronika Burger, and Hadas Emma Kedar, nachtspeicher23 e.V., Hamburg (DE)
Autoarchive Re-Loaded, Factory, Künstlerhaus Vienna (AT)
PREVIEW 2020, nachtspeicher23 e.V., Hamburg (DE)
2019
EXPO Gemeindebau, curated by Arno Rabl and Elke Sodin, George Washington Hof, Vienna (AT)
Veronika Burger | Hans-Jürgen Poetz | Kati Bruder: no them,only us, periscope, Salzburg (AT)
2018
Magic Circle, curated by Katharina Brandl and Daniela Brugger, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (AT)
Behind the Terrain – Sketches On Imaginative Landscapes, curated by Mika Maruyama, Konganei Art Spot (JPN)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Austrian Federal Collection | Artothek des Bundes im Belvedere 21 (AT)
Sammlung Land Niederösterreich | Collection of Lower Austria (AT)
Sammlung Wien Museum | Collection Wien Museum (AT)
Ursula Blickle Video Archive
Valie Export Archive | Art University Linz (AT)
Franklin Furnace Archive, New York (US)
LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
01/2023 The Working Body As An Archive | The Archive As A Working Body, artist talk, IBK – drawing department of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
06/2021, Sana Baer, Veronika Burger, and Hadas Emma Kedar, online artist talk, nachtspeicher23, Hamburg (DE)
03/2021 Kollektives Miteinander, round table, Künstlerhaus Vienna (AT)
11/2020 Performing Her/Stories, artist talk, Musahino Art University, Tokyo (JPN)
10/2020 N-A.I.R., online artist talk, Nakanojo (JPN)
11/2019 Diaogues about (non-) archiving, book presentation and performative ReadIN with Katharina Brandl, Kunstverein Baden (AT)
01/2019 Dialogues about (non-) archiving, book presentation and performative ReadIn with Katharina Brandl, VBKÖ – Vereinigung Bildender Künstler*innen Österreich, Vienna (AT)
11/2017 Performing History: Vienna Art Week – artist talk with Ursula Maria Probst & Christina Werner (AT)
06/2017 even if the lights go out, there is still light, artist talk. MUSA – Museum Startgalerie Artothek (AT)
06/2017 Hauruck – MYaE-HUB: Going International, Limited artist print presentation, Schönbrunnerstraße 6, Vienna (AT)
11/2016 Genius feminius, discussion with Renate Bertlmann, Katharina Brandl, Nicole Sabella, Hemma Schmutz and Christina Werner, Vienna Art Week, Open Studio Day Burger/Werner (AT)
PRESS & INTERVIEWS
Perisutti, Tina, Natur und Kultur im Fluss, Krone Kärnten, (AT) 22. September 2022
Soucek Anna, Kunstprojekt in der Flüchtlingssiedlung Macondo, Ö1 Kulturjournal, (AT) 12.01.2022
Maier, Hannah: Auf dem Weg zum Kulturbezirk, Bezirkszeitung Simmering, (AT) 31.05.2021
Barlow, Kevin, Mural depicting Twin Cities‘ labor history set to be torn down, The Pantagraph, Illinois, (US) July/2019
Wurmitzer, Michael, Was beschäftigt junge Künstler in Wien? Mit welchen Problemen kämpfen sie?, der Standard, (AT) 7.3.2019
Brandl, Katharina, Kapitalismuskritisch, aber konsumfreundlich, KUPFzeitung (AT) #163/2017
YYYYYMMDD. Interview with Veronika Burger, Nora Jacobs & Nicole Sabella. July (online) 31, 2015
Benzer, Christa, Ich bin eine andere Welt- Künstlerische Autor_innenschaft zwischen Desubjektivierung und Rekanonisierung, Springerin, Heft 1 – Winter (AT) 2014
Fessler, Anne Katrin, Baustelle der Selbstoptimierung, der Standard, (AT) 25.06. 2013
MEMBERSHIPS
Member of Austrian Association of Women Artists | VBKÖ: Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs
Member of IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna (AT)
Member of Saloon VIenna (AT)
FAIRS
Between the Sheets, PARALLEL VIENNA, (AT) 2019
weisse ab-haus-verkaufs-kunstschau, dwh, Vienna, (AT) 2019
die weisse ab-haus-verkaufs-kunstschau #5, dwh, Vienna, (AT) 2016
P/ART – producers artfair, Kraftwerk Bille, curated by Bettina Steinbrügge, Matthias Jahn, Antje Stahl, Gesa Engelschall, Julius Heinemann and Clemens Rating, Hamburg, (DE) 2015
Volumes 2015 – Independent Art Publishing Fair, Kunstraum Walchturm, Zürich, (CH) 2015
die weisse ab haus verkaufskunstschau #4, dwh, Vienna, (AT) 2015
Jahresgabenausstellung, dwh, Vienna, (AT) 2014
METAmART – Kunst und Kapital, Künstlerhaus, curated by Lorenz Seidler, Vienna, (AT) 2012
AWARDS, PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS (sel.)
2023-24
GPC-LAB, Dramaturgical accompaniment of innovative-experimental film, video or moving image works, NiNi – crossing feathers, mentors: Christine Lang and Caroline Bobek by The Golden Pixel Cooperative, Vienna, AT
2022
Working scholarship for video and media art, The Austrian Federal Chancellery Division II: Arts
2021-22
Ver*sagen Ver*lernen, Co-project leader with Maria Herold, Laila Mleih, Nicole Sabella & Mohadese Siasar, SHIFT project, Artistic practices of decentralised cultural work, AT
2020
Nomination for Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Art Award
Working scholarship of the city of Vienna (AT)
Working scholarship of Lower Austria (AT)
2019
Theodor Körner Prize for Fine Arts
2017
Promotion Award (Förderpreis) for Fine Arts by the city of Vienna
Nomination for Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Award
Working scholarship for video and media art, The Austrian Federal Chancellery Division II: Arts
NXT: MAKE YOURSELF AN EXPERT HUP Scholarship, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT), Knowledge Transfer East and ELIA – European League of the Arts
2015
Mentoring programme for video and media art (Mentor: Dorit Magreiter), The Austrian Federal Chancellery Division II: Arts
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS | SCREENINGS
2017
Blickle Archive Series #24 – Veronika Burger,
Blickle Kino, 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna (AT)
even if the lights go out, there is still light., Startgalerie, MUSA | Wien Museum, Vienna (AT)
whatsherface#7: Veronika Burger, Curated by Kirby Mages (online)
2016
ALL CONTINUES AND NOTHING COLLAPSES with Stephanie Misa, Sewon Art Space, Yogyakarta (IDN)
even if the lights go out, there is still light., fotoK [2] Galerie, Vienna (AT)
femtrails – Sorority X Veronika Burger, AIL – Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Vienna (AT)
FILM FESTIVALS | SCREENINGS (sel.)
2023
VIDEO ART MIDEN, Happiness is Warm Gun-program curated by Olga Papadima, Thessaloniki & Kalamata, GR
VIDEO SOUND ARCHIVE S6, curated by DEBBIE Y.J. LIN and Bridget Moreen Leslie, Online
2022
VIDEOKUNSTFESTIVAL 2022, Industrietempel im GML, curated by Thomas Reutter, Ludwigshafen, DE
SLASH FILM FESTIVAL, curated by Marcus Keuschnigg, Vienna, AT
2021
Behind the scenes, Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ) in cooperation with Independent Space Index, VBKÖ- Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen* Österreich, Vienna, AT
SLOW WAVE – Bridging time windows, IntAkt Gallery, WUK, Vienna, AT
2019
FEM4 Contemporary Video Art Exhibition Tour, Tahmela Villa Tampere/ Center of Contemporary Art Pispala/ Cultural House Mikäel Härkänen/ Cultural House Laikku, curated by Videokanava (FIN)
Some Threads and Traces – 13 Austrian Women (Video)Artists, Photon Gallery Vienna, AT
Some Threads and Traces – 13 Austrian Women (Video)Artists, Photon Gallery Ljubljana, SLO
2018
Festival Film Dokumenter, Jogjakarta (IDN)
VAVA – Video Art For All 2018 | International Video Art Festival, Macau (CN)
International Sound & Film Music Festival, Pula (HR)
ARKIPEL – 6th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta (IDN)
BIDEODROMO – International Experimental Film And Video Festival, BilbaoArte Art Production Center, Bilbao (ESP)
FrauenFilmTage, Stadtkino Künstlerhaus, Vienna (AT)
Video Art Panorama | International Selection, Balkan Can Kino, Athen (GR)
2017
LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Dovzhenko Centre, Kyiv (UKR)
Monstronale – Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt (DE)
Cardiff International Film Festival, Wales (UK)
2016
International Video Art Festival Now&After 16′, The State Darwin Museum, Moscow (RU)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS & TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Der Arbeitskörper als Archiv | Das Archiv als Arbeitskörper (2 Sem./hrs.), Gender-Queer-Decolonial lecture series at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT) 2022-23
Performance Series – Resonant Heartbeats, VBKÖ – Vereinigung Bildender Künstler*innen Österreichs | Austrian Association of Women Artist, Vienna (AT) 2019-2020
Filmhunger (2 Sem./hrs.) , lecture series at Wiener Kunstschule (AT) 2008 – 2012
SHOWESQUE – if you try to change the space, it might change you as well,
Monthly Performance Salon organized with Suzie Léger, Irma Tulek, Anna Werzowa & Rine You, Dondrine Bar, Vienna (AT) 2011
PUBLICATIONS & CATALOGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Publication: verbinden, verstricken, verschieben – Künstlerische Praxen dezentraler Kulturarbeit, Basis KulturWien SHIFT IV Team (Eds.), 2022
Artist books: HEATHERS’ CUT CUT CUT: The Killer Is Always The Question(naire) #1 & #2, Veronika Burger, Nora Jacobs & Nicole Sabella (Eds.), Ed.: 500, (AT) 2022
Exhibition catalogue: 8 – Nakanojo Biennale 2021 (JPN)
Exhibition catalogue: Autoarchive ReLoaded, Künstlerhaus Vereinigung FACTORY, ISBN-13 978-3-900354-69-5, (AT) 2021
Exhibition catalogue: KAESHMAESH 2016-2019, Kaeshmaesh (Ed.), (AT) 2021
Artist book: HEATHERS’ CUT CUT CUT: The Ultimate Driller Killer Thriller, Veronika Burger, Nora Jacobs & Nicole Sabella (Eds.), Ed.: 1.000, (AT) 2020
Publication: Theodor Körner Fonds PREISTRÄGER/INNEN 1954-2013 mit Ergänzungsblätter der Preisträgerinnen 2014-2019, Oliver Rathkolb & Klaus-Dieter Mulley (Eds.) ÖGB Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-7035-1546-0, (AT) 2019
Artist book: Dialogues about (non-) archiving, Veronika Burger (Ed.), Edition: 300, (AT) 2018
Publication: AWAY – The Book about Residencies, Alexandra Grausam (Ed.), Verlag für moderne Kunst, (AT) 2018
Exhibition catalogue: Magic Circle, Kunstraum NOE, Katharina Brandl, Daniela Brugger & Christiane Krejs (Eds.),Verlag für Moderne Kunst, ISBN 978-3-903228-43-6, (AT) 2018
Film Festival catalogue: Monstronale – Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Halle, (DE) 2017
Publication: LICHT – FOTOBUCH NR. 57/2016, FOTOGALERIE WIEN (Ed.), ISBN 978-3-902725-42-4, (AT) 2016
Film Festival catalogue: International Video Art Festival Now&After’16, (RU) 2016
P/ART 2015, (DE) 2015
Exhibition catalogue: Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space PQ 2015, (CZ) 2015
Artist book: SUPER Edition #3, Kunstraum SUPER (Vienna) & Selecto Planta Baja (Los Angeles), Viktoria Mayer, Andreas Perkmann Berger, Rainer Stadlbauer, Elisabeth Haid and Joseph Schröck (Eds.), (AT/US) 2015
MISCELLANEOUS
Open Studio Day with HEATHERS production (Veronika Hösch | Nora Jacobs | Nicole Sabella), Vienna Art Week (AT) 2023
Open Studio Day with Christina Werner, Vienna Art Week (AT) 2016 & 2017
Open Studio Day, Vienna Design Week (AT) 2017
Open Studio Days, das weisse haus, Vienna (AT) 2014-15
VERONIKA HÖSCH (ex BURGER*)
EDUCATION
2008 – 2013
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
MFA, Performative Arts, (diploma with distinction)
2006 – 2009
University of applied Arts Vienna, AT
Transmedia Arts
07/2009
Franklin Furnace Performance Archive, New York, US
Internship
2000-2002
Tailor for inflatables
RESIDENCIES & STUDIO GRANTS (sel.)
2024
HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Program (FIN) – Artist in Residence
by the Austrian Federal Chancellery Division
2023
AIR Krems in Paliano (ITA), Artist in Residence Program by Lower Austria
2022
N-A.I.R.2022, Artist in Residency, Gunma Prefecture (JPN)
2019
AIR Krems: SAIC – School of the Art Institute of Chicago (US)
Artist in Residence Programme by Lower Austria
Artist in Residence Zemo Nikozi (GE) by the
off/project-programme of the Art Foundation for Peace (CH)
2017
Media artist in residency at Sewon Art Space in Yogyakarta (IDN)
by the Austrian Federal Chancellery Division
2015
Artists Unlimited in Bielefeld (DE)
2013
Turbo Residency with HEATHERS production in the course of ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna (AT)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS | PERFORMANCES(sel.)
2024
Whales, feathers, dust, Veronika Hösch, Kristina Cyan and Katja Verheul, Medienwerkstatt, Vienna, AT
Wuthering Tales of Desire, curated by Karolina Radenkovic, galerie 5020, Salzburg, AT
Patterns of Disillusion, curated by Karolina Radenkovic, galerie 5020, Salzburg, AT
Tender Ties, curated by Kaeshmaesch, das T/abor, Vienna, AT
2023
FOKUS: SENIOR ARTIS, curated by Carla Bobadilla, Almut Rink & Ruby Sircar, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, AT
2022
Working/ Caring/ Living – Veronika Burger, Katharina Gruzei and Agnes Prammer, curated by Anna Reisenbichler and Veronika Rudorfer, Kunstraum SUPER, Vienna (AT)
Das Etwas und das Nichts – Henne und Ei, Grünspan – Plattform für Kunst und Kultur im Drautal (AT)
SLASH FILM FESTIVAL, curated by Markus Keuschnigg, Filmcasino and Hermannbad, Vienna (AT)
2021
Nakanojo Biennale 2021, Gunma Prefecture (JPN)
Sana Baer, Veronika Burger, and Hadas Emma Kedar, nachtspeicher23 e.V., Hamburg (DE)
Autoarchive Re-Loaded, Factory, Künstlerhaus Vienna (AT)
PREVIEW 2020, nachtspeicher23 e.V., Hamburg (DE)
2019
EXPO Gemeindebau, curated by Arno Rabl and Elke Sodin, George Washington Hof, Vienna (AT)
Veronika Burger | Hans-Jürgen Poetz | Kati Bruder: no them,only us, periscope, Salzburg (AT)
2018
Magic Circle, curated by Katharina Brandl and Daniela Brugger, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (AT)
Behind the Terrain – Sketches On Imaginative Landscapes, curated by Mika Maruyama, Konganei Art Spot (JPN)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Austrian Federal Collection | Artothek des Bundes im Belvedere 21 (AT)
Sammlung Land Niederösterreich | Collection of Lower Austria (AT)
Sammlung Wien Museum | Collection Wien Museum (AT)
Ursula Blickle Video Archive
Valie Export Archive | Art University Linz (AT)
Franklin Furnace Archive, New York (US)
LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
01/2023 The Working Body As An Archive | The Archive As A Working Body, artist talk, IBK – drawing department of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
06/2021, Sana Baer, Veronika Burger, and Hadas Emma Kedar, online artist talk, nachtspeicher23, Hamburg (DE)
03/2021 Kollektives Miteinander, round table, Künstlerhaus Vienna (AT)
11/2020 Performing Her/Stories, artist talk, Musahino Art University, Tokyo (JPN)
10/2020 N-A.I.R., online artist talk, Nakanojo (JPN)
11/2019 Diaogues about (non-) archiving, book presentation and performative ReadIN with Katharina Brandl, Kunstverein Baden (AT)
01/2019 Dialogues about (non-) archiving, book presentation and performative ReadIn with Katharina Brandl, VBKÖ – Vereinigung Bildender Künstler*innen Österreich, Vienna (AT)
11/2017 Performing History: Vienna Art Week – artist talk with Ursula Maria Probst & Christina Werner (AT)
06/2017 even if the lights go out, there is still light, artist talk. MUSA – Museum Startgalerie Artothek (AT)
06/2017 Hauruck – MYaE-HUB: Going International, Limited artist print presentation, Schönbrunnerstraße 6, Vienna (AT)
11/2016 Genius feminius, discussion with Renate Bertlmann, Katharina Brandl, Nicole Sabella, Hemma Schmutz and Christina Werner, Vienna Art Week, Open Studio Day Burger/Werner (AT)
PRESS & INTERVIEWS
Perisutti, Tina, Natur und Kultur im Fluss, Krone Kärnten, (AT) 22. September 2022
Soucek Anna, Kunstprojekt in der Flüchtlingssiedlung Macondo, Ö1 Kulturjournal, (AT) 12.01.2022
Maier, Hannah: Auf dem Weg zum Kulturbezirk, Bezirkszeitung Simmering, (AT) 31.05.2021
Barlow, Kevin, Mural depicting Twin Cities‘ labor history set to be torn down, The Pantagraph, Illinois, (US) July/2019
Wurmitzer, Michael, Was beschäftigt junge Künstler in Wien? Mit welchen Problemen kämpfen sie?, der Standard, (AT) 7.3.2019
Brandl, Katharina, Kapitalismuskritisch, aber konsumfreundlich, KUPFzeitung (AT) #163/2017
YYYYYMMDD. Interview with Veronika Burger, Nora Jacobs & Nicole Sabella. July (online) 31, 2015
Benzer, Christa, Ich bin eine andere Welt- Künstlerische Autor_innenschaft zwischen Desubjektivierung und Rekanonisierung, Springerin, Heft 1 – Winter (AT) 2014
Fessler, Anne Katrin, Baustelle der Selbstoptimierung, der Standard, (AT) 25.06. 2013
MEMBERSHIPS
Member of Austrian Association of Women Artists | VBKÖ: Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs
Member of IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna (AT)
Member of Saloon VIenna (AT)
FAIRS
Between the Sheets, PARALLEL VIENNA, (AT) 2019
weisse ab-haus-verkaufs-kunstschau, dwh, Vienna, (AT) 2019
die weisse ab-haus-verkaufs-kunstschau #5, dwh, Vienna, (AT) 2016
P/ART – producers artfair, Kraftwerk Bille, curated by Bettina Steinbrügge, Matthias Jahn, Antje Stahl, Gesa Engelschall, Julius Heinemann and Clemens Rating, Hamburg, (DE) 2015
Volumes 2015 – Independent Art Publishing Fair, Kunstraum Walchturm, Zürich, (CH) 2015
die weisse ab haus verkaufskunstschau #4, dwh, Vienna, (AT) 2015
Jahresgabenausstellung, dwh, Vienna, (AT) 2014
METAmART – Kunst und Kapital, Künstlerhaus, curated by Lorenz Seidler, Vienna, (AT) 2012
AWARDS, PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS (sel.)
2023-24
GPC-LAB, Dramaturgical accompaniment of innovative-experimental film, video or moving image works, NiNi – crossing feathers, mentors: Christine Lang and Caroline Bobek by The Golden Pixel Cooperative, Vienna, AT
2022
Working scholarship for video and media art, The Austrian Federal Chancellery Division II: Arts
2021-22
Ver*sagen Ver*lernen, Co-project leader with Maria Herold, Laila Mleih, Nicole Sabella & Mohadese Siasar, SHIFT project, Artistic practices of decentralised cultural work, AT
2020
Nomination for Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Art Award
Working scholarship of the city of Vienna (AT)
Working scholarship of Lower Austria (AT)
2019
Theodor Körner Prize for Fine Arts
2017
Promotion Award (Förderpreis) for Fine Arts by the city of Vienna
Nomination for Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Award
Working scholarship for video and media art, The Austrian Federal Chancellery Division II: Arts
NXT: MAKE YOURSELF AN EXPERT HUP Scholarship, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT), Knowledge Transfer East and ELIA – European League of the Arts
2015
Mentoring programme for video and media art (Mentor: Dorit Magreiter), The Austrian Federal Chancellery Division II: Arts
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS | SCREENINGS
2017
Blickle Archive Series #24 – Veronika Burger,
Blickle Kino, 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna (AT)
even if the lights go out, there is still light., Startgalerie, MUSA | Wien Museum, Vienna (AT)
whatsherface#7: Veronika Burger, Curated by Kirby Mages (online)
2016
ALL CONTINUES AND NOTHING COLLAPSES with Stephanie Misa, Sewon Art Space, Yogyakarta (IDN)
even if the lights go out, there is still light., fotoK [2] Galerie, Vienna (AT)
femtrails – Sorority X Veronika Burger, AIL – Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Vienna (AT)
FILM FESTIVALS | SCREENINGS (sel.)
2023
VIDEO ART MIDEN, Happiness is Warm Gun-program curated by Olga Papadima, Thessaloniki & Kalamata, GR
VIDEO SOUND ARCHIVE S6, curated by DEBBIE Y.J. LIN and Bridget Moreen Leslie, Online
2022
VIDEOKUNSTFESTIVAL 2022, Industrietempel im GML, curated by Thomas Reutter, Ludwigshafen, DE
SLASH FILM FESTIVAL, curated by Marcus Keuschnigg, Vienna, AT
2021
Behind the scenes, Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ) in cooperation with Independent Space Index, VBKÖ- Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen* Österreich, Vienna, AT
SLOW WAVE – Bridging time windows, IntAkt Gallery, WUK, Vienna, AT
2019
FEM4 Contemporary Video Art Exhibition Tour, Tahmela Villa Tampere/ Center of Contemporary Art Pispala/ Cultural House Mikäel Härkänen/ Cultural House Laikku, curated by Videokanava (FIN)
Some Threads and Traces – 13 Austrian Women (Video)Artists, Photon Gallery Vienna, AT
Some Threads and Traces – 13 Austrian Women (Video)Artists, Photon Gallery Ljubljana, SLO
2018
Festival Film Dokumenter, Jogjakarta (IDN)
VAVA – Video Art For All 2018 | International Video Art Festival, Macau (CN)
International Sound & Film Music Festival, Pula (HR)
ARKIPEL – 6th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta (IDN)
BIDEODROMO – International Experimental Film And Video Festival, BilbaoArte Art Production Center, Bilbao (ESP)
FrauenFilmTage, Stadtkino Künstlerhaus, Vienna (AT)
Video Art Panorama | International Selection, Balkan Can Kino, Athen (GR)
2017
LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Dovzhenko Centre, Kyiv (UKR)
Monstronale – Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt (DE)
Cardiff International Film Festival, Wales (UK)
2016
International Video Art Festival Now&After 16′, The State Darwin Museum, Moscow (RU)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS & TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Der Arbeitskörper als Archiv | Das Archiv als Arbeitskörper (2 Sem./hrs.), Gender-Queer-Decolonial lecture series at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT) 2022-23
Performance Series – Resonant Heartbeats, VBKÖ – Vereinigung Bildender Künstler*innen Österreichs | Austrian Association of Women Artist, Vienna (AT) 2019-2020
Filmhunger (2 Sem./hrs.) , lecture series at Wiener Kunstschule (AT) 2008 – 2012
SHOWESQUE – if you try to change the space, it might change you as well,
Monthly Performance Salon organized with Suzie Léger, Irma Tulek, Anna Werzowa & Rine You, Dondrine Bar, Vienna (AT) 2011
PUBLICATIONS & CATALOGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Publication: verbinden, verstricken, verschieben – Künstlerische Praxen dezentraler Kulturarbeit, Basis KulturWien SHIFT IV Team (Eds.), 2022
Artist books: HEATHERS’ CUT CUT CUT: The Killer Is Always The Question(naire) #1 & #2, Veronika Burger, Nora Jacobs & Nicole Sabella (Eds.), Ed.: 500, (AT) 2022
Exhibition catalogue: 8 – Nakanojo Biennale 2021 (JPN)
Exhibition catalogue: Autoarchive ReLoaded, Künstlerhaus Vereinigung FACTORY, ISBN-13 978-3-900354-69-5, (AT) 2021
Exhibition catalogue: KAESHMAESH 2016-2019, Kaeshmaesh (Ed.), (AT) 2021
Artist book: HEATHERS’ CUT CUT CUT: The Ultimate Driller Killer Thriller, Veronika Burger, Nora Jacobs & Nicole Sabella (Eds.), Ed.: 1.000, (AT) 2020
Publication: Theodor Körner Fonds PREISTRÄGER/INNEN 1954-2013 mit Ergänzungsblätter der Preisträgerinnen 2014-2019, Oliver Rathkolb & Klaus-Dieter Mulley (Eds.) ÖGB Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-7035-1546-0, (AT) 2019
Artist book: Dialogues about (non-) archiving, Veronika Burger (Ed.), Edition: 300, (AT) 2018
Publication: AWAY – The Book about Residencies, Alexandra Grausam (Ed.), Verlag für moderne Kunst, (AT) 2018
Exhibition catalogue: Magic Circle, Kunstraum NOE, Katharina Brandl, Daniela Brugger & Christiane Krejs (Eds.),Verlag für Moderne Kunst, ISBN 978-3-903228-43-6, (AT) 2018
Film Festival catalogue: Monstronale – Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Halle, (DE) 2017
Publication: LICHT – FOTOBUCH NR. 57/2016, FOTOGALERIE WIEN (Ed.), ISBN 978-3-902725-42-4, (AT) 2016
Film Festival catalogue: International Video Art Festival Now&After’16, (RU) 2016
P/ART 2015, (DE) 2015
Exhibition catalogue: Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space PQ 2015, (CZ) 2015
Artist book: SUPER Edition #3, Kunstraum SUPER (Vienna) & Selecto Planta Baja (Los Angeles), Viktoria Mayer, Andreas Perkmann Berger, Rainer Stadlbauer, Elisabeth Haid and Joseph Schröck (Eds.), (AT/US) 2015
MISCELLANEOUS
Open Studio Day with HEATHERS production (Veronika Hösch | Nora Jacobs | Nicole Sabella), Vienna Art Week (AT) 2023
Open Studio Day with Christina Werner, Vienna Art Week (AT) 2016 & 2017
Open Studio Day, Vienna Design Week (AT) 2017
Open Studio Days, das weisse haus, Vienna (AT) 2014-15
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VERONIKA HÖSCH (ex BURGER*)
EDUCATION
2008 – 2013
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
MFA, Performative Arts, (diploma with distinction)
2006 – 2009
University of applied Arts Vienna, AT
Transmedia Arts
07/2009
Franklin Furnace Performance Archive, New York, US
Internship
2000-2002
Tailor for inflatables
RESIDENCIES & STUDIO GRANTS (sel.)
2024
HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Program (FIN) – Artist in Residence
by the Austrian Federal Chancellery Division
2023
AIR Krems in Paliano (ITA), Artist in Residence Program by Lower Austria
2022
N-A.I.R.2022, Artist in Residency, Gunma Prefecture (JPN)
2019
AIR Krems: SAIC – School of the Art Institute of Chicago (US)
Artist in Residence Programme by Lower Austria
Artist in Residence Zemo Nikozi (GE) by the
off/project-programme of the Art Foundation for Peace (CH)
2017
Media artist in residency at Sewon Art Space in Yogyakarta (IDN)
by the Austrian Federal Chancellery Division
2015
Artists Unlimited in Bielefeld (DE)
2013
Turbo Residency with HEATHERS production in the course of ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna (AT)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS | PERFORMANCES(sel.)
2024
Whales, feathers, dust, Veronika Hösch, Kristina Cyan and Katja Verheul, Medienwerkstatt, Vienna, AT
Wuthering Tales of Desire, curated by Karolina Radenkovic, galerie 5020, Salzburg, AT
Patterns of Disillusion, curated by Karolina Radenkovic, galerie 5020, Salzburg, AT
Tender Ties, curated by Kaeshmaesch, das T/abor, Vienna, AT
2023
FOKUS: SENIOR ARTIS, curated by Carla Bobadilla, Almut Rink & Ruby Sircar, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, AT
2022
Working/ Caring/ Living – Veronika Burger, Katharina Gruzei and Agnes Prammer, curated by Anna Reisenbichler and Veronika Rudorfer, Kunstraum SUPER, Vienna (AT)
Das Etwas und das Nichts – Henne und Ei, Grünspan – Plattform für Kunst und Kultur im Drautal (AT)
SLASH FILM FESTIVAL, curated by Markus Keuschnigg, Filmcasino and Hermannbad, Vienna (AT)
2021
Nakanojo Biennale 2021, Gunma Prefecture (JPN)
Sana Baer, Veronika Burger, and Hadas Emma Kedar, nachtspeicher23 e.V., Hamburg (DE)
Autoarchive Re-Loaded, Factory, Künstlerhaus Vienna (AT)
PREVIEW 2020, nachtspeicher23 e.V., Hamburg (DE)
2019
EXPO Gemeindebau, curated by Arno Rabl and Elke Sodin, George Washington Hof, Vienna (AT)
Veronika Burger | Hans-Jürgen Poetz | Kati Bruder: no them,only us, periscope, Salzburg (AT)
2018
Magic Circle, curated by Katharina Brandl and Daniela Brugger, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (AT)
Behind the Terrain – Sketches On Imaginative Landscapes, curated by Mika Maruyama, Konganei Art Spot (JPN)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Austrian Federal Collection | Artothek des Bundes im Belvedere 21 (AT)
Sammlung Land Niederösterreich | Collection of Lower Austria (AT)
Sammlung Wien Museum | Collection Wien Museum (AT)
Ursula Blickle Video Archive
Valie Export Archive | Art University Linz (AT)
Franklin Furnace Archive, New York (US)
LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
01/2023 The Working Body As An Archive | The Archive As A Working Body, artist talk, IBK – drawing department of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
06/2021, Sana Baer, Veronika Burger, and Hadas Emma Kedar, online artist talk, nachtspeicher23, Hamburg (DE)
03/2021 Kollektives Miteinander, round table, Künstlerhaus Vienna (AT)
11/2020 Performing Her/Stories, artist talk, Musahino Art University, Tokyo (JPN)
10/2020 N-A.I.R., online artist talk, Nakanojo (JPN)
11/2019 Diaogues about (non-) archiving, book presentation and performative ReadIN with Katharina Brandl, Kunstverein Baden (AT)
01/2019 Dialogues about (non-) archiving, book presentation and performative ReadIn with Katharina Brandl, VBKÖ – Vereinigung Bildender Künstler*innen Österreich, Vienna (AT)
11/2017 Performing History: Vienna Art Week – artist talk with Ursula Maria Probst & Christina Werner (AT)
06/2017 even if the lights go out, there is still light, artist talk. MUSA – Museum Startgalerie Artothek (AT)
06/2017 Hauruck – MYaE-HUB: Going International, Limited artist print presentation, Schönbrunnerstraße 6, Vienna (AT)
11/2016 Genius feminius, discussion with Renate Bertlmann, Katharina Brandl, Nicole Sabella, Hemma Schmutz and Christina Werner, Vienna Art Week, Open Studio Day Burger/Werner (AT)
PRESS & INTERVIEWS
Perisutti, Tina, Natur und Kultur im Fluss, Krone Kärnten, (AT) 22. September 2022
Soucek Anna, Kunstprojekt in der Flüchtlingssiedlung Macondo, Ö1 Kulturjournal, (AT) 12.01.2022
Maier, Hannah: Auf dem Weg zum Kulturbezirk, Bezirkszeitung Simmering, (AT) 31.05.2021
Barlow, Kevin, Mural depicting Twin Cities‘ labor history set to be torn down, The Pantagraph, Illinois, (US) July/2019
Wurmitzer, Michael, Was beschäftigt junge Künstler in Wien? Mit welchen Problemen kämpfen sie?, der Standard, (AT) 7.3.2019
Brandl, Katharina, Kapitalismuskritisch, aber konsumfreundlich, KUPFzeitung (AT) #163/2017
YYYYYMMDD. Interview with Veronika Burger, Nora Jacobs & Nicole Sabella. July (online) 31, 2015
Benzer, Christa, Ich bin eine andere Welt- Künstlerische Autor_innenschaft zwischen Desubjektivierung und Rekanonisierung, Springerin, Heft 1 – Winter (AT) 2014
Fessler, Anne Katrin, Baustelle der Selbstoptimierung, der Standard, (AT) 25.06. 2013
MEMBERSHIPS
Member of Austrian Association of Women Artists | VBKÖ: Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs
Member of IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna (AT)
Member of Saloon VIenna (AT)
FAIRS
Between the Sheets, PARALLEL VIENNA, (AT) 2019
weisse ab-haus-verkaufs-kunstschau, dwh, Vienna, (AT) 2019
die weisse ab-haus-verkaufs-kunstschau #5, dwh, Vienna, (AT) 2016
P/ART – producers artfair, Kraftwerk Bille, curated by Bettina Steinbrügge, Matthias Jahn, Antje Stahl, Gesa Engelschall, Julius Heinemann and Clemens Rating, Hamburg, (DE) 2015
Volumes 2015 – Independent Art Publishing Fair, Kunstraum Walchturm, Zürich, (CH) 2015
die weisse ab haus verkaufskunstschau #4, dwh, Vienna, (AT) 2015
Jahresgabenausstellung, dwh, Vienna, (AT) 2014
METAmART – Kunst und Kapital, Künstlerhaus, curated by Lorenz Seidler, Vienna, (AT) 2012
AWARDS, PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS (sel.)
2023-24
GPC-LAB, Dramaturgical accompaniment of innovative-experimental film, video or moving image works, NiNi – crossing feathers, mentors: Christine Lang and Caroline Bobek by The Golden Pixel Cooperative, Vienna, AT
2022
Working scholarship for video and media art, The Austrian Federal Chancellery Division II: Arts
2021-22
Ver*sagen Ver*lernen, Co-project leader with Maria Herold, Laila Mleih, Nicole Sabella & Mohadese Siasar, SHIFT project, Artistic practices of decentralised cultural work, AT
2020
Nomination for Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Art Award
Working scholarship of the city of Vienna (AT)
Working scholarship of Lower Austria (AT)
2019
Theodor Körner Prize for Fine Arts
2017
Promotion Award (Förderpreis) for Fine Arts by the city of Vienna
Nomination for Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Award
Working scholarship for video and media art, The Austrian Federal Chancellery Division II: Arts
NXT: MAKE YOURSELF AN EXPERT HUP Scholarship, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT), Knowledge Transfer East and ELIA – European League of the Arts
2015
Mentoring programme for video and media art (Mentor: Dorit Magreiter), The Austrian Federal Chancellery Division II: Arts
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS | SCREENINGS
2017
Blickle Archive Series #24 – Veronika Burger,
Blickle Kino, 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna (AT)
even if the lights go out, there is still light., Startgalerie, MUSA | Wien Museum, Vienna (AT)
whatsherface#7: Veronika Burger, Curated by Kirby Mages (online)
2016
ALL CONTINUES AND NOTHING COLLAPSES with Stephanie Misa, Sewon Art Space, Yogyakarta (IDN)
even if the lights go out, there is still light., fotoK [2] Galerie, Vienna (AT)
femtrails – Sorority X Veronika Burger, AIL – Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Vienna (AT)
FILM FESTIVALS | SCREENINGS (sel.)
2023
VIDEO ART MIDEN, Happiness is Warm Gun-program curated by Olga Papadima, Thessaloniki & Kalamata, GR
VIDEO SOUND ARCHIVE S6, curated by DEBBIE Y.J. LIN and Bridget Moreen Leslie, Online
2022
VIDEOKUNSTFESTIVAL 2022, Industrietempel im GML, curated by Thomas Reutter, Ludwigshafen, DE
SLASH FILM FESTIVAL, curated by Marcus Keuschnigg, Vienna, AT
2021
Behind the scenes, Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ) in cooperation with Independent Space Index, VBKÖ- Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen* Österreich, Vienna, AT
SLOW WAVE – Bridging time windows, IntAkt Gallery, WUK, Vienna, AT
2019
FEM4 Contemporary Video Art Exhibition Tour, Tahmela Villa Tampere/ Center of Contemporary Art Pispala/ Cultural House Mikäel Härkänen/ Cultural House Laikku, curated by Videokanava (FIN)
Some Threads and Traces – 13 Austrian Women (Video)Artists, Photon Gallery Vienna, AT
Some Threads and Traces – 13 Austrian Women (Video)Artists, Photon Gallery Ljubljana, SLO
2018
Festival Film Dokumenter, Jogjakarta (IDN)
VAVA – Video Art For All 2018 | International Video Art Festival, Macau (CN)
International Sound & Film Music Festival, Pula (HR)
ARKIPEL – 6th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta (IDN)
BIDEODROMO – International Experimental Film And Video Festival, BilbaoArte Art Production Center, Bilbao (ESP)
FrauenFilmTage, Stadtkino Künstlerhaus, Vienna (AT)
Video Art Panorama | International Selection, Balkan Can Kino, Athen (GR)
2017
LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Dovzhenko Centre, Kyiv (UKR)
Monstronale – Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt (DE)
Cardiff International Film Festival, Wales (UK)
2016
International Video Art Festival Now&After 16′, The State Darwin Museum, Moscow (RU)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS & TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Der Arbeitskörper als Archiv | Das Archiv als Arbeitskörper (2 Sem./hrs.), Gender-Queer-Decolonial lecture series at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT) 2022-23
Performance Series – Resonant Heartbeats, VBKÖ – Vereinigung Bildender Künstler*innen Österreichs | Austrian Association of Women Artist, Vienna (AT) 2019-2020
Filmhunger (2 Sem./hrs.) , lecture series at Wiener Kunstschule (AT) 2008 – 2012
SHOWESQUE – if you try to change the space, it might change you as well,
Monthly Performance Salon organized with Suzie Léger, Irma Tulek, Anna Werzowa & Rine You, Dondrine Bar, Vienna (AT) 2011
PUBLICATIONS & CATALOGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Publication: verbinden, verstricken, verschieben – Künstlerische Praxen dezentraler Kulturarbeit, Basis KulturWien SHIFT IV Team (Eds.), 2022
Artist books: HEATHERS’ CUT CUT CUT: The Killer Is Always The Question(naire) #1 & #2, Veronika Burger, Nora Jacobs & Nicole Sabella (Eds.), Ed.: 500, (AT) 2022
Exhibition catalogue: 8 – Nakanojo Biennale 2021 (JPN)
Exhibition catalogue: Autoarchive ReLoaded, Künstlerhaus Vereinigung FACTORY, ISBN-13 978-3-900354-69-5, (AT) 2021
Exhibition catalogue: KAESHMAESH 2016-2019, Kaeshmaesh (Ed.), (AT) 2021
Artist book: HEATHERS’ CUT CUT CUT: The Ultimate Driller Killer Thriller, Veronika Burger, Nora Jacobs & Nicole Sabella (Eds.), Ed.: 1.000, (AT) 2020
Publication: Theodor Körner Fonds PREISTRÄGER/INNEN 1954-2013 mit Ergänzungsblätter der Preisträgerinnen 2014-2019, Oliver Rathkolb & Klaus-Dieter Mulley (Eds.) ÖGB Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-7035-1546-0, (AT) 2019
Artist book: Dialogues about (non-) archiving, Veronika Burger (Ed.), Edition: 300, (AT) 2018
Publication: AWAY – The Book about Residencies, Alexandra Grausam (Ed.), Verlag für moderne Kunst, (AT) 2018
Exhibition catalogue: Magic Circle, Kunstraum NOE, Katharina Brandl, Daniela Brugger & Christiane Krejs (Eds.),Verlag für Moderne Kunst, ISBN 978-3-903228-43-6, (AT) 2018
Film Festival catalogue: Monstronale – Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Halle, (DE) 2017
Publication: LICHT – FOTOBUCH NR. 57/2016, FOTOGALERIE WIEN (Ed.), ISBN 978-3-902725-42-4, (AT) 2016
Film Festival catalogue: International Video Art Festival Now&After’16, (RU) 2016
P/ART 2015, (DE) 2015
Exhibition catalogue: Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space PQ 2015, (CZ) 2015
Artist book: SUPER Edition #3, Kunstraum SUPER (Vienna) & Selecto Planta Baja (Los Angeles), Viktoria Mayer, Andreas Perkmann Berger, Rainer Stadlbauer, Elisabeth Haid and Joseph Schröck (Eds.), (AT/US) 2015
MISCELLANEOUS
Open Studio Day with HEATHERS production (Veronika Hösch | Nora Jacobs | Nicole Sabella), Vienna Art Week (AT) 2023
Open Studio Day with Christina Werner, Vienna Art Week (AT) 2016 & 2017
Open Studio Day, Vienna Design Week (AT) 2017
Open Studio Days, das weisse haus, Vienna (AT) 2014-15