Michaela SCHWENTNER

(1970- )
Nationality: Austrian

michaela schwentner
born 1970, currently living and working in Vienna, Austria
conceptual visual media artist
lecturer at university of arts and design linz (2006-2013),
at the Institute of Art and Design/TU Vienna (since 2013).
director of MOSZ records (www.mosz.org)

audiovisual projects:
performances with: Peter Rehberg [editionsMEGO] and
Electric Indigo
solo A / V performances as jade

curatorial activities:
phonoTaktik.02, Vienna. Co-organisation/production (2002)
offspace jadengasse vienna - organisation of sound and art performances and interventions (1995/96)
XX Y X series of open formats and forms of representation featuring women artists in sound & visual arts (since 2020)
OFF_screen: presentation and discussion format focussing on unfinished film works (since 2020)
Transform She Said (w/ Claudia Slanar). Blickle Kino, Belvedere, Vienna, 2019)
Choreography of the Frame (w/ Maia Gusberti). Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
 (2018) Fresh Trips — About Moving Images, Sound Spaces and Performances. (w/ Annja Krautgasser). Label presentation. medien.kunst.tirol, Innsbruck (2005)

more info:
www.jade-enterprises.at
http://flor.skin/de/
www.mosz.org


works:
orchester 33 1/3 [1997]
r4 [2000]
transistor [2000]
sZ [2001]
grainbits [2001]
take the bus [2002]
the future of human containment [2002]
JET [2003]
how do you want m.? [2003]
forest of the moon [2003]
giuliana 64:03 [2003]
gone [2003]
tucker [2004]
tester [2005]
der kopf des vitus bering [2005]
der traenenwaermer [2005]
composition set // image transformed // mozart moved [2005]
la petite illusion [2005/06]
swinging [2006]
bellevue [2008]
ridin [2007]
alpine passage [2008]
alpine intervention [2008]
kimono [2008]
SPEECH [2009]
des souvenirs vagues [2009]
canranc [2010]
mouvements/caduques III [2010]
PROSPECTS [2011]
The Contest [2015]
Penelope / in the scenery / reflecting / relations [2015] descending a staircase / in shifts [2015]
Camille 1—3 [2015]
reorient.manifest [2016]
playing martha [2016]
personne [2016]
re-PARADISE / reconstructing archives by rendering representative complexities into moments of desire [2018]
re-PARADISE / reconstructing, relocating [2018]
PLAY pt 1. The Rehearsal + PLAY pt 2. L'absence est présente [2018]
zwischen mir und der welt / aufräumen [2020]
re-GEO / rendering reconstructions of desire [2021]
re-BIRDING [2023]
re-WEAVING / a feminist fabric [2025]
re-WEAVING / gewebeproben [2025]

16 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION

RE-BIRDING
2022-2023 / 4K / color / sound / single screen / 30' 00 / 120 €
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PERSONNE (Installation)
2016 / 4K / color / sound / Installation / 9' 40 / 43 €
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PENELOPE / IN THE SCENERY / REFLECTING / RELATIONS - A theoretical comedy (Installation)
2013-2015 / 4K / color-b&w / sound / Installation / 18' 45 / 74 €
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UN DIVERTISSEMENT D'AMOUR
2012 / 4K / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 11' 00 / 48 €
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SPEECH
2009 / Video / color / sound / single screen / 8' 00 / 27 €
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  ALPINE PASSAGE
2008 / Video / color / sound / single screen / 6' 10 / 23 €
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  BELLEVUE
2008 / Video / color / sound / single screen / 9' 00 / 28 €
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  LA PETITE ILLUSION
2006 / Betacam SP / color / sound / single screen / 3' 45 / 22 €
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  SWINGING
2006 / Betacam SP / color / sound / single screen / 8' 00 / 27 €
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  TESTER
2004 / color / sound / single screen / 5' 25 / 23 €
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GIULIANA 64:03
2003 / b&w / sound / single screen / 3' 00 / 21 €
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HOW DO YOU WANT M.?
2003 / Betacam SP / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 4' 00 / 22 €
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  JET
2003 / Betacam SP / color / sound / single screen / 6' 00 / 24 €
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THE FUTURE_OF_HUMAN_CONTAINMENT
2002 / Betacam SP / b&w / sound / single screen / 5' 00 / 23 €
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TAKE THE BUS
2002 / Betacam SP / b&w / sound / single screen / 4' 00 / 22 €
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  #Z
2001 / Betacam SP / color / sound / single screen / 5' 30 / 23 €
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