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born in Schönsee (Germany)

lives and works in Vienna and Schönsee

Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg)
with professors Peter Angermann and Heike Baranowsky

and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien)
with professors Judith Huemer and Ashley Hans Scheirl

2017 Diploma (Magister Artium) with honours

since 2006
various artistic collaborations among others with

Larissa Kopp, Berivan Sayici, Georg Klüver-Pfandtner, HOTEL BUTTERFLY, Queer Museum Vienna


Scholarships/prices:

  • Erasmus-scholarship for the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
  • Master Student (“Meisterschüler”) appointment by professor Peter Angermann
  • Class-Award from professor Heike Baranowsky
  • Scholarship from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture for the International Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria
  • Master Student (“Meisterschüler”) appointment by professor Heike Baranowsky
  • working scholarship (Arbeitsstipendium) together with Larissa Kopp by the Austrian Ministry of Culture

Collections

  • MUSA WIEN – Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
  • VBKÖ Austrian Association of Women Artists, Vienna, Austria
  • works in private collections in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Colombia

Academic teaching experience
How to do the Selbstinszenierung Part 1 (winter term 2014/15)
Workshop about staged self-portraits and Selfies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg


Residencies:

2021

Residency of the Federal Chancellery of the Republic of Austria/ Bundeskanzleramt Kunst und Kultur (BMUKK), New York

2019

with Hotel Butterfly at Erbsenfabrik Wien/Brick5, Vienna

2018

with Larissa Kopp at tomma rum @ Västerviks Varmbadhus, Västervik, Sweden


Exhibitions, performances (selection)

2023

2022

2021

  • Sodom Vienna“, FREUDenHAUS at Sigm. Freud Museum Vienna

2020

  • together with Berivan Sayici @ the Athens Porn Film Festival
  • Sodom Vienna“, various places all over Vienna, amongst others Belvedere21
  • „WE ARE MORE THAN TWO“, STOL gallery, Vienna
  • “ALLES WAR KLAR”, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
  • “Beste Gäste”, Kreis Galerie, Nuremberg, Germany

2019

  • “Between The Sheets”, with Hotel Butterfly and  VbKÖ  @Parallel Vienna, Vienna
  • „QUEER ART SPACE VIENNA“, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
  • together with Berivan Sayici @ Strangelove Festival, Antwerpen
  • ” Hotel Butterfly presents: Darmbewegungen – Ball der Peristaltik”, Erbsenfabrik Wien & Marea Alta, Vienna

2018

  • „Pin me up – Turn me around“, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna
  • „DAS JUBJUB“, 5020 gallery, Salzburg
  • „bodies and inhabitants“, Freud Museum Vienna
  • „QUEER”, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns, Austria
  • „Hotel Butterfly: Krachende Knospen“, performance/event at Lazy Life, Vienna
  • „Hotel Butterfly – a honeymoon suite“, opening event for the #Wien5 – Margareten Mon Amour festival by Volkstheater Wien, migrating kitchen, Vienna
  • „Landscapes of Desire”, Dessous Gallery, Vienna

2017

  • „subDocumenta“, AMOQA Athens Museum of Queer Arts, Athens
  • „Dick(s)&titz“, Kombinage, Vienna
  • „#freezetheframe“, moe contemporary, Vienna

2016

  • „Holy Queers & Tricky Myths – Vom Schein der Falschen Heiligen“, Galerie Bernsteinzimmer, Nuremberg (supported by the austrian cultural forum Berlin and the Hannchen Mehrzweck Stiftung)
  • „WIR IST SCHÖN“, flux23/ Das T/abor, Vienna
  • „FlamBOYance – Hotel Butterfly presents Männchen, Machos und Memmen“,
    DOPUST | DAYS OF OPEN PERFORMANCE VIENNA | MASCULINE ICONS, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna
  • „ Butterfly Grandessa“, performance at „Hedonismo Critico“ Hiroshima theatre, Barcelona (supported by the austrian cultural forum Madrid)
  • „Butterfly Grandessa“, performance during the group show „With Eyes Aghast: Transmannerist Reactions, Xhibit, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria

2015

  • „With Eyes Aghast: Transmannerist Reactions“, xhibit, Vienna Austria
  • „Gender in Art“, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Krakow, Poland (catalogue)
  • „Hotel Butterfly – Chanson d‘Playback“ Wiener Festwochen, brut Vienna
  • skype performance, Millerntor Gallery, St. Pauli Stadion, Hamburg
  • „Proudly Connected: Baer | Hotel Butterfly“, FRIDAY EXIT, Vienna, Austria
  • „uncanny bodies – BUTTERFLY EUPHORIA feat. Hotel Butterfly“, imagetanz Festival, brut, Vienna
  • „A Rose has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast“, APALAZZOGALLERY, Brescia, Italy
  • „SUPER EDITION #3“, Kunstraum SUPER, Vienna and Selecto Planta Baja, Los Angeles

2014

  • „unicorn is more than nation“, Knoll gallery, Vienna and Budapest
  • „What is queer today is not queer tomorrow“, NGbK neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
  • „Hotel Butterfly – Penis Envy and Cunt Angst“, performance festival freischwimmer, brut, Vienna
  • „sampling surface“, moe contemporary, Vienna, Austria
  • „Sex Shop“ artist run distribution network, London, GB
  • “Hotel Butterfly – Roaring Rococo”, Festival Legeartis, Lech, Austria
  • „Hotel Butterfly – Fruit Drops & High Tops“, performance event Schikaneder, Vienna
  • „Hotel Butterfly – Football Playground“, performance event Schikaneder, Vienna
  • “The Match Girl” performance at the “Dick Ass Bussi – Ball”, VBKÖ Austrian Association of Women Artists
  • „Göttliche Liebschaften“, group show/performance at VBKÖ Austrian Association of Women Artists, Vienna, Austria

2013

  • „Art the Ape of Nature“, university museum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany (catalogue)
  • „Hotel Butterfly – Bollywood bombast“, performance event, Schikaneder, Vienna
  • „Hans Knoll – Selected works from „Knoll talks“ in Reality Raum Residenz“, Atelier Suterena, Wien

2012

  • „You Are Not Dorothy Anymore“, Kreis Galerie, Nuremberg, Germany (solo)
  • „The Last Title Was Fabulous“, Kunstsalon im fluc, Vienna, Austria
  • „Fuck Art Marry An Artist“, performance, fluc, Vienna, Austria
  • „The Short Life “, projectspace U5_UNDVIERZIG, Vienna, Austria

2011

  • „Szobart Project“, Budapest
  • „B:EAST“, Nuremberg, Germany
  • „SÜRVEY”, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany

2010

  • „Comeback”,s[+0], studioplusnull,Leipzig, Germany
  • „Jahresausstellung“, Exhibition Hall, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, curated by Ellen Blumenstein
  • „über kitsch – german contemporaries“, the vyner studio, curated by Ulrich Blanchet, London
  • „offener Raum”, Haus der Kunst, Munich
  • „Das Lächeln der Hybris”, Exhibition Hall, Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, Germany
  • „landscape of time“, Kunsthaus Nuremberg, Germany

2009

  • „Jahresausstellung“, Exhibition Hall, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, curated by Angelika Nollert
  • „Absolventen“, Sims – Gallery, Finsterwalderarchitekten, Stephanskirchen, Germany
  • „Nuernberg/Riga“, Latvian Academy of Arts, Riga, Latvia
  • „Schueler vom Schueler vom Beuys”, “Josephkonsum”, Leipzig, Germany

2008

  • „FAKE”, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain
  • „Reformart”, Bernsteinzimmer Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
  • „EXTRA”, Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Columbia
  • „Arte x Arte Bogotá 08”, Esto Non Es Una Galeria, Bogotá, Columbia
  • „Tier + Mensch“, Auf AEG, Nuremberg, Germany
  • „Ägeschegädrä“, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
  • „Diagnosis”, Polish Institute, Budapest, Hungary

2007

  • „Haut”, Academy Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
  • „ Arena 07 sensabundance”, Arena der jungen Künste, Erlangen, Germany

2006

„Fett auf Mager“ exhibitions, Schwabach and Nuremberg, Germany


publications / press (selection) :

• MW Magazine, First Gender Neutral Magzine, Interview, 2018
• Kaltblut Magazine, Interview, Berlin 2017
• Falter Magazin, special issue „Feminismus“, Vienna, 3/2017
• Presse Kulturmagazin, „Gemeinsam statt einsam“, Vienna, 2/2017
• Standard, „„Salon Privé“: Der Grill, der Rap, seine Diva und ihre Gespenster“, Vienna 1/2016
• Gender in Art, MOCAK, Krakau 2016 (exhibition catalogue)
• Fluc – Tanz die Utopie, Vienna, 2014
• Art the Ape of Nature, Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg, 2013 (exhibition catalogue)
• Offener Raum, Die große Kunstausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Munich 2010 (exhibition catalogue)