CV

lives and works in Vienna

Studied at the Academies of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and Vienna with the professors
Heike Baranovsky, Judith Huemer and Ashley Hans Scheirl

Since 2006
artistic collaboration with Florian Aschka

and many other artistic collaborations, a. o. with Georg Klüver-Pfandtner, HOTEL BUTTERFLY, Gin Müller, Peter Kozek & Thomas Hörl, Alexandru Cosarca, ....

since 2019 Member of VBKÖ – Austrian Association of Women Artists

since 2020 member of the collective „Queer Museum Vienna“

Scholarships / Awards:

2025 Staatstipendium (state scholarship) for photography by BMKOES – Austrian Ministry of Art & Culture
2022/23 Shortlist of Erste Bank Art Award
2022 Arbeitsstipendium – Working stipend of BMKOES
2021 Shortlist of Erste Bank Art Award
2008/2009 DAAD/ OP scholarship for the Academy of Fine Arts Budapest, Hungary

Residencies:

2021 Scholarship for a residency at ISCP (international studio and curatorial programme) New York
2019 with Hotel Butterfly @ Erbsenfabrik Wien at Brick5, Vienna
2018 tomma rum @ Västerviks Varmbadhus, Västervik, Sweden

Exhibitions/ Performances (selection):

2025

  • „Die Sprache der Göttinnen“, MAMUZ, Asparn/Zaya, curated by Elisabeth von Samsonov
  • „SEXY SOLIDARITIES - Bodily Autonomy, Trauma and Protest“, within the frame of Porn Film Festival Vienna, Semperdepot, Vienna
  • „Wish Machine“, Performance within „Wer ist Dichter?“, Kosmos Theatre, Vienna

2024

  • „Treasure Hunt“ Galerie3, Vienna

2023

  • „Surprise, Surprise!“ Galerie3, Klagenfurt
  • „Meeting Point“ (with the collective salon_tongue), Galerie 5020, Salzburg
  • „Queer Art Spaces Vienna“, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

2022

  • „Wiener Freiheit“, Galerie 3, Klagenfurt
  • Performance „My dirty old god*esses“ within the exhibition „Kollaborationen“, MUMOK, Vienna
  • „QHM - Queering The Museum“, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  • „Into the Valley of Despair - Discomfort and Unlearning“, Pfizer Building, New York
  • „Der neue Mensch“, Museen Worpswede, Worpswede

2021

  • „Sodom Vienna FREUDenHAUS“, Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna

2020

  • „Directorial Drag“, performative intervention in cooperation with the art fair „Vienna Contemporary“ with the project „Queer Museum Vienna“
  • „W*HOLE AGAIN“ performance at the reopening of Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
  • „Alles war klar“ Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
  • “Beste Gäste“, KREIS Galerie, Nuremberg, Germany
  • „Sodom Vienna“, together with Peter Kozek, Thomas Hörl and Gin Müller, Performances and interventions all around Vienna, a.o. at Belvedere 21, brut Vienna and for the Festival Wienwoche

2019

  • „Darmbewegungen - Ball der Peristaltik“ im Rahmen des Residencies in der Erbsenfabrik, Wien, mit Hotel Butterfly
  • Performance im Rahmen der Ausstellung „Your Body ist Yours, Take It“ von Julia Fuchs im Kunstraum Kollektiv, Bregenz
  • „PARALLEL Vienna, Art Fair,“ project statement VBKÖ, Wien
  • „Queer Art Space Vienna“, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien
  • „Poison Ivy“, Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, Wien, kuratiert von Ivica Capan

2018

  • „Das Jubjub“, Galerie 5020, Salzburg
  • „pin me up - turn me around“, Galerie Michaela Stock, Wien
  • „bodies and inhabitants“, Sigmund Freud Museum, Wien
  • „Queer“, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns
  • „landscapes of desire“, Galerie Dessous, Wien

2017

  • „Queer Revolutionaries...?“,MUSA Museum Start Gallery , Vienna (solo)
  • „QUEER ENCOUNTERS - VIENNA TRANS L. A.“, CalArts School of Art, Los Angeles
  • „subDocumenta“, AMOQA Athens Museum of Queer Arts, Athens
  • „#freezetheframe“, moe contemporary, Vienna, Austria

2016

  • „Holy Queers & Tricky Myths - Vom Schein der Falschen Heiligen“, Galerie Bernsteinzimmer, Nuremberg (supported by the austrian cultural forum Berlin and Hahnnchen Mehrzweckstiftung Berlin)
  • „FlamBOYance - Hotel Butterfly presents Männchen, Machos und Memmen“, DOPUST | DAYS OF OPEN PERFORMANCE VIENNA | MASCULINE ICONS,Michaela Stock gallery, Vienna

2015

  • „With Eyes Aghast: Transmannerist Reactions“, xhibit, Vienna Austria
  • „Gender in Art“, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Poland (catalog) (Florian Aschka)
  • „Hotel Butterfly - Chanson d‘Playback“ Wiener Festwochen, brut Vienna
  • „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“, PALAZZO A GALLERY, Brescia, Italy
  • „SUPER EDITION # 3“, Kunstraum SUPER, Vienna and Selecto Planta Baja, Los Angeles
  • rapid pulse performance festival, defibrillator gallery, Chicago

2014

  • „Hotel Butterfly - Penis Envy and Cunt Angst“, international performance festival freischwimmer, brut
  • „reflecting on carnal beauty“, performance & exhibtion, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
  • „Sampling surface“, moe contemporary, Vienna
  • „Sex Shop“ artist-run distribution network, Space Station 65 Bursary Studio London and brut Vienna

2013

  • „narrating spaces“, Friday Exit, Vienna, Austria
  • „Art The Ape of Nature“ curated by Ulrich Blanche, University Museum, Heidelberg, Germany (catalog)
  • „Hotel Butterfly – Bollywood bombast“, performance event, Schikaneder, Vienna
  • „Hans Knoll - Selected works from“ Knoll talks „in Reality Space Residence“, Atelier Suterena, Vienna
  • „Melting pot of Arts“, Parkhouse, Graz, Austria

2012

  • „You Are Not Dorothy Anymore“ Kreis Galerie, Nuremberg, Germany (solo)
  • „The Last Title What Fabulous“ Kunstsalon at fluc, Vienna
  • „Fuck Art Marry An Artist“ Group Performance, fluc, Vienna
  • „The Short Life“ project space U5_UNDVIERZIG, Vienna

2011

  • „Szobart Project“, Budapest
  • „B: east“, temporary art and cultural enterprise, Nuremberg, Germany
  • „SÜRVEY“ Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany
  • „Reflection of a purely hypothetical approach“, Die Vitrine, Nürnberg (solo)

2010

  • „Comeback“, s [+0], Studio plusnull at the Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany
  • „über kitsch - german contemporaries“, vyner studio, London, curated byUlrich Blanchet
  • „offener Raum“, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (catalog)
  • „Annual Exhibition“, exhibition hall AdBK Nuremberg, Germany curated by Ellen Blumenstein
  • „Das Lächeln der Hybris“ installation and performance, Exhibition Hall of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nu- remberg
  • „Landscape of time“, Kunsthaus Nuremberg, Germany

Curatorial and Organisational Work

2023 - „Über das Neue - Wiener Szenen und darüber hinaus“ (with Queer Museum Vienna), Belvedere 21, Vienna
since 2020 - ongoing „Queer Museum Vienna“ - establishing a space for queer art and culture in Vienna
2018 „bodies and inhabitants“, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna
2014 „sampling surface“, moe contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2010 „Das Lächeln der Hybris“, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, Germany
2009 „Eingriff“, Kunstverein Amberg, Germany

Publications/ Press (Selection):

  • The Gap Magazine No 187, Kritische Ästhetisierung, Vienna, 2021
  • MW Magazine, First Gender Neutral Magazine, Interview, 2018
  • Kaltblut Magazin, Interview, Berlin 2017
  • Falter Magazin, special issue „Feminismus“, Vienna, 3/2017
  • Presse Kulturmagazin, „Gemeinsam statt einsam“, Vienna, 2/2017
  • 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)