Christa Biedermann

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Christa Biedermann (* 1953 in Vienna ) is an Austrian performance artist . Since 1988 she lives and works in Vienna and Berlin . Her work has been exhibited internationally, especially in Vienna and Berlin.

life and work

From 1972 Biedermann studied at the University of Applied Arts with Heribert Tasquil, Wander Bertoni , Adolf Frohner , Oswald Oberhuber , Peter Weibel and Bazon Brock . In 1982 she completed her studies with the teaching examination in art and craft education. From 1982 to 1985 she worked as an educator , completed the probationary year at a Viennese high school and took part in academic training at the women's magazine AUF and the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig . Since graduating in 1986 with Eva Choung-Fux at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the field of black and white photography on the subject of "silent images" she has been working as a freelance artist. From the mid-1980s she gave lectures and organized workshops at art colleges, cultural institutions and high schools.

Since the late 1970s, her work has included cabaret performances in the form of Super8 and 16mm films and videos . From the mid-1980s, she began producing her first mixed media works . a. experimental short films and animations . She also uses the media of painting , photography, film and installation . She has been present as an artist in Berlin since the mid-1980s. In 1991 she received a six-month scholarship at the University of Film and Television Potsdam-Babelsberg.

Christa Biedermann was responsible for the concept, curation and organization of the artistic working weeks with artists from the INTAKT gallery "Power & Sexuality" and the "Super 8 lives" festival in 1996 (Anthology Film Archives New York, Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek / Arsenal Berlin) and " ZwieLICHT “, which was presented in 1999 in the Filmarchiv Austria .

Her works are owned by the City of Vienna, the Federal Chancellery , the Cultural Department of Lower Austria and the Museum der Moderne Salzburg , Wien Museum.

About her artistic program and her own role as an artist, Christa Biedermann says:

"I am NOT HOLLYWOOD.

I am NOT TV.

I am CHRISTA BIEDERMANN.

AND DO MY PROGRAM! "

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions, installations, performances

• 1985: WEIBCHEN 2 , live performance, Women's Museum Bonn, Künstlerhaus Graz
• 1986: WHAT DOES EROTIC MEAN HERE? , HOSI (homosexual initiative), Vienna
• 1987: ROLE PICTURES - IDENTITY PICTURES , Photo Gallery Vienna
• 1988: AUSBRUCH , lesbian counseling in Berlin
• 1988/89: I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN ... , live with installation and films, Pelze multimedia, El Locco, Schwuz Berlin, Frauenkneipe Hamburg, FRAUENTHEATERFESTIVAL Landestheater TÜBINGEN, Frauenkneipe Hanover, Sonderbar, Willendorf Vienna, culture in Hemshof Ludwigshafen , Länggass Treff Bern, District Center Office Zurich, IMPORTANT Art by Women Amerlinghaus Vienna; Old World Linz
• 1990: THANK YOU FOR THE FLOWERS ... , Mehringgalerie, Berlin
• 1990: tormented ...? , New Rooms Gallery, Berlin
• 1991: WITH A FRESH WIND ... , Amerlinghaus Vienna
• 1992: ZARTBITTER , Pelze multimedia Berlin
• 1994: FROM OBJECT TO SUBJECT , Berliner Panoptikum, Berlin
• 1994: BEAUTIFUL PICTURES, SHARP WORDS , Clear in the gallery Stargarder 18 by Frank Hanel, Berlin
• 1996: ... FROM THE GREEN CASE: THE ENVIRONMENTAL COCKTAIL , Galerie Bellevue, Green Salon at the Volksbühne , Berlin
• 2000: VARIANT RED POINT , Magdalena Baxeras GALERIA D'ART, Barcelona
• 2000: THE RED QUEEN , Svenska Konstgalleriet Malmö, City Art Gallery Stockholm
• 2002: THE WHITE SNOW QUEEN OR DON`T FORGET THE ROSE , Galeria d'Art Magdalena Baxeras, Barcelona
• 2004: LIBERTAD VIVIR / AMAR COMO EL / ELLA QUIERE , CSD parades Berlin 2001 to 2003, Galeria d'Art Magdalena Baxeras, Barcelona
• 2006: FREEDOM TO LIVE / LOVE AS MAN / WOMAN WANT , Galerie Arteffekt , Vienna
• 2007: FOR THE FREEDOM OF ART , Künstlerhaus , Vienna
• 2011: LANDPARTHIE 1 then and now , Austrian Cultural Forum , Berlin

Group exhibitions

• 1978 COMMUNICATION WEEK of the Wiener Frauencooperative, Galerie next St. Stephan
• 1978: CHANGING EVERYDAY LIFE , Künstlerhaus Vienna
• 1979: WORK AND ART, ÖGB - House Kufstein
• 1981: ARTISTS PAINTING AND DRAWING IN COMPANIES , Vienna City Hall
• 1981-82 : MY DEAR REITER OR WHAT'S GOING ON WITH US? Women's group Contra - Partie, Werkstattgalerie Vienna, Women's Museum Bonn
• 1984: IDENTITY PICTURES , Vienna Secession, Women's Museum Bonn, Graz
• 1985: DEVELOPMENTS - FEMINALE 2 , University of Applied Arts Vienna
• 1986: KNALLKÖRPER - FEMINALE 3 , University of Applied Arts Vienna
• 1987: WOMEN AND HUMOR , Women Artists Slide Library, Fulham Town Hall London
• 1987: International Biennial of Humor and Satire , Gabrovo, Bulgaria
• 1987: NEW PHOTOGRAPHY FROM VIENNA , Europalia, Culturem Centrum Berchem, Antwerp
• 1987: THE ART MACHINE, SVBK , Symposium Amsterdam, Leiden
• 1988: OPPOSITE - FEMINALE 4 , Kunsthalle WUK, Vienna
• 1989: CONFRONTATIONS , Women's Culture Weeks , Messepalast Vienna
• 1989: BAD WOMEN , Elefanten Press Galerie Berlin
• 1990: MEMORIES, III. BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE DI ARTI VISIVI , Museo Civico Udine
• 1990: Foreign guests take center stage, Schöneberg Town Hall , Berlin
• 1992: MEMORIES, III. BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE DI ARTI VISIVI , Cividale Italy
• 1992: “Multimedialists” INTERNATIONAL PERFORMER WOMEN'S WEEK , Kunsthaus Erfurt,
• 1998: NEW BORDER ART SPACE , gallery in Acud Berlin
• 1998–2001: LESBIAN CONNEXION / S, 60 Photographers of 15 european countries , Artothek Oost Amsterdam, St. Pietersabdij, Gent Belgium; Ljubljana, Zagreb; San Francisco, St. Petersburg
• 2000: KUNST HAUTNAH , Künstlerhaus Vienna
• 2001: 100 SELF-PORTRAITS , 10 years Galerie Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt; House of the State of Thuringia, Berlin
• 2002: THE WHITE SNOW QUEEN OR DON'T FORGET THE ROSE , Bela Balasz Studio, Budapest HOTEL BERLINISCHE GALERIE, old glass warehouse, Berlin
• 2003/2004: MOTHERS OF INVENTION - WHERE IS PERFORMANCE COMING FROM , MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
• 2003/2004: FRAUENBILD , Landesmuseum Niederösterreich , St. Pölten
• 2003/2004: MIMOSAS, ROSES, AUTUMN TIMELESS , Kunsthalle Krems
• 2003: LIGHT! form & stil , gallery and shop for applied arts, Berlin
• 2004: SUSEDKA NEIGHBOR , Dom Fotografii, Poprad / Slovakia
• 2005: SECRET LIFE , Neustifthalle, Vienna
• 2007: EXITUS. Everyday death , Künstlerhaus, Vienna
• 2008: MATRIX Gender / Relationships / Revisions , MUSA, Museum on Demand, Vienna
• 2009: A ECHTE WEANARIN GOES NED UNTA ... , live performance, 16th Congress of Performance Art, Sacramento, USA, Begine Frauenkulturzentrum, Berlin
• 2010: I am someone else. The art of self-expression , Lower Austria State Museum, St. Pölten
• 2011: Role Models - Role Play , Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
• 2011: ZEITZEUGEN - PHOTOGRAPHY in AUSTRIA AFTER 1945 , Künstlerhaus, Vienna
• 2011: METAmART, Art and Capital , Künstlerhaus, Vienna
• 2013: HOMAGE TO VALESKA GERT , Museum Friedrichshain Kreuzberg, Diversity, Belziger1, Berlin a. a. together with HD Kühn
• 2013: OFFICE TRICK , real trick video, Transgender Film Festival , San Francisco, USA
• 2013: FIREWORKS , animation
• 2013: DRAWING, DRAWING , Künstlerhaus, Vienna

Awards

• 1987: Award of the INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE OF HUMOR AND SATIRE, GABROVO, Bulgaria
• 1990: MEDAL D'HONNEUR BRUSSELS
• 1991: Scholarship at the UNIVERSITY OF FILM AND TELEVISION POTSDAM - BABELSBERG
• 2000: DIPLOMA TROFEO MEDUSA AUREA, AIAM, ROM
• 2007: NOMINATION for the LEADING LADIES AWARD-ÖSTERRICH / culture
• 2019: Lower Austrian Culture Prize - Recognition Prize in the Visual Arts category

Web links

• Homepage of the artist

Individual evidence

1. ↑ July 10th - April 27th August: Photo exhibition - Dirndltaler Landparthie - Lower Austrian provincial exhibition. (No longer available online.) In: www.noe-landesausstellung.at. Archived from the original on May 3, 2016 ; Retrieved May 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Gerhard Haug: House on Kleistpark. In: www.hausamkleistpark.de. Retrieved May 3, 2016 . 
3. ↑ European Connections / Lesbian photography exhibit shows continental diversity. In: SFGate. Retrieved May 3, 2016 . 
4. ^ Stefanie Seibold: Mothers of Invention - where is performance coming from. In: www.clevergretel.com. Retrieved May 3, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Frauenbild - Landesmuseum Niederösterreich. (No longer available online.) In: www.landesmuseum.net. Archived from the original on June 3, 2016 ; Retrieved May 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Wiener Zeitung Online: Kunsthalle Krems: "Mimosen-Rosen-Herbstzeitlosen" - Wiener Zeitung Online. In: Culture - Wiener Zeitung Online. Retrieved May 3, 2016 . 
7. ↑ a secret: live gays and lesbians in vienna in the 20th century. In: HOSI Salzburg. November 14, 2005, accessed May 3, 2016 . 
8. ^ Exitus: "Everyday Death" in the Künstlerhaus. In: DiePresse.com. Retrieved May 3, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Michael Geringer, information technologies lower: MUSA: "MATRIX. Gender | Relationships | Revisions" / 03/13/2008 - 06/07/2008. (No longer available online.) In: www.musa.at. Archived from the original on May 3, 2016 ; Retrieved May 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ "I am someone else" - The art of self-expression - Landesmuseum Niederösterreich. In: www.landesmuseum.net. Retrieved May 3, 2016 . 
11. ^ Museum der Moderne: Role Models - Role Play. In: www.museumdermoderne.at. Retrieved May 3, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Künstlerhaus - Zeit-Witness. In: www.k-haus.at. Retrieved May 3, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Artist House - METAmART. In: www.k-haus.at. Retrieved May 3, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Michael Diessner: artonline.at - visual arts online - xxx. In: artonline.at. Retrieved May 3, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Michaela Fleck: Culture Awards 2019: 24 awards and lots of art from Lower Austria. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten . November 5, 2019, accessed November 5, 2019 .