Gerlinde Maria Miesenböck

*17. 2. 1978    born in Austria

 

Education

 

University of Art and Design in Linz/A, Manchester Metropolitan University/England,  Lapland University in Rovaniemi/Finland  - BA (hons), Mag.art., PhD

 

Awards, grants, residencies, etc.

2024  La Mire/108, Orléans (Residency programme Bavaria/Schafhof Freising)

2024 Alexander Tutsek Stiftung

2022  Erwin und Gisela von Steiner-Stiftung Munich

2022  Residency in Bad Hall/AT (Institute for Culture, Upper Austria)

2021 Heinrich-Gleißner-Talent-Award 2020

2017 Artist in Residence, Egon Schiele Art Centre, Cesky Krumlov/CZ (Institute for Culture, Upper Austria)

2017 Opus Photo Award, recognition award, Saarbruecken/DE 

2016 Paris Photography Residency, Grant + Studio at Cité International des arts (Austrian Cultural Ministry)

2013  AiR Stavanger, Frida Hansen Hus/Norway

2012  Residency in Paliano/Rome (Institute for Culture, Upper Austria)

2011  London Photography Residency, Grant + Studio (Austrian Cultural Ministry)

2009  Art Award of the City of Linz

2009  Linz-AG studio grant of the City of Linz (2009-11)

2009  Art Award of the Economic Chamber of Upper Austria (WKOOE)

2009  Artist in Residence, Saksala ArtRadius,Mikkeli/Finland

2008 Artist in Residence, KulttuuriKauppila Ii, Oulu/Finland

2007  LinzEXPOrt stipend for Finland

2007  shortlisted for the Kardinal-König-Art-Award, Salzburg

2006  Margret-Bilger-stipend of the province of Upper Austria

2006  1. Prize/ ECB Award of The. European Central Bank „Austria Today“, Frankfurt

2006  Talent Award for photography of the province of Upper Austria

2006  Henkel Award Austria for Young Photography

2006  Research grant of the University of Art and Design Linz

2005  1. Prize "Searching for the European Identity“, Cultural Forum of Lower Austria

various project grants from the City of  Linz, Province of Upper Austria, Austrian Cultural Ministry,  Otto Mauer Foundation, Austrian student union, Art University Linz

 

Single exhibitions (selection)

2024 "autres", Bautzner69, Dresden

2021  Gerlinde Miesenböck, Fotoforum, Innsbruck/AT

2019  "Häupter und Körper" (Head and Bodies), Upper Austrian Artist Association, Linz 

2019  "noire", Gerlinde Miesenböck, the smallest gallery, Graz/Steirischer Herbst

2019  "Gerlinde Miesenböck", WHA Galerie, Linz

2018  "capita", Reinthaler Galerie, Vienna

2016  "Exposure Studies III", Galerie Le Corridor, Cité des Arts, Paris 

2016  "personne", Reinthaler Galerie, Vienna

2015  "Beheimatungen", gallery MAERZ, Linz, A

2015  Tasgheer Gallery, Zayed University Dubai, U.A.E.

2013  "Inhabitation", Reinthaler Galerie, Vienna

2012  "Yksin", Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu/Fi

2011  "Landscapes: Finland", Central European House of Photography, Bratislava/SK

2010  "Maisema. Finnische Landschaften", anikahandelt/Month of Photography, Vienna

2009  "Landscapes: Finland"  @"One Night Stand" Exhibition programme, state gallery, Linz

2009  "Land_sterben", Upper Austria State Exhibition Schlierbach

2009  "Landscapes: Finland", crypt of Ursulinen-church, Linz

2008  "Auerwelt“, Cultural Centre Ursulinenhof of Upper Austria, Linz

2007  "Land_sterben“ (1),(2), Art Space St.Virgil, Salzburg

2005  "dis|placed“, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main/DE

2003  "de|placiert” , Zukunftswerkstätte,Vienna

 

Group exhibitions, screenings, presentations (selection)

 

2024 MITBRINGEN.MITNEHMEN – Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich/DE

2024 "Das Auge isst mit", MAERZ, Linz/AT

2024 Face á Face, Galerie Le 108, mit Sebastien Pons, Orleans/F 

2024 "Inventory of Nature",  Diecixdieci Festival in Gonzaga/Mantua/IT

2024/25  "MAERZ – OSAS", Vasarely Museum, Budapest/HU

2024 "PORTRAITS – Hellerau Photography Award", Technical Collection Dresden/DE

2024 "Linz on summer vacation", Nordico City Museum Linz/AT

2024 "Index naturae"/OMNE @Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia/IT

2024 PHOTOMEDIA Helsinki/FI

2024 "Colours, Numbers", Vasarely Museum, Budapest/HU 

2023 "1051200 min", Künstlervereinigung MAERZ, Linz 

2023 "OMNEFEST", Villa Bolasco & Giorgione Museum, Castelfranco Veneto/IT (catalogue)

2023 "blau machen", Kunstverein Dachau/DE

2023 "Blind Date", Nordico city museum Linz/AT

2023  "Past & Present: 15th anniversary Der Greif",  ZIRKA @Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich/DE

2023 "Open", Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Scotland/GB

2022-2023 "What the Fem?", Nordico City Museum Linz, AT

2022  "European Photobook Month", Hong Kong 

2022  "Alte Meister*innen neu", Halle50, Munich/DE (Old Masters new)

2022  International Competition/Conceptual Photography/2nd Place –  FMOPA Florida Museum for Photographic Arts/USA

2021  "de iure", Landesgericht Linz (catalogue)

2021  CHARTA, Photo Book Festival,  Dummy Award (shortlisted), Rome/IT

2020  "THAT’S NEW – AND NEEDED!", Bridge Gallery/Art Collection of Upper Austria, Linz

2020  "RBF (Resting Bitch Face)", Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna/AT

2020  "Kultur braucht Kunst" (Culture needs Art), Upper Austrian State Galleries (castle museum), Linz

2020  "Es ist MAERZ", Gallery MAERZ, Linz/AT

2020  "Judicature, trial, judgement, sentence und enforcement", Federal Court, Linz/AT

2020  "zu Egon Hofmann", Künstlervereinigung MAERZ, Linz/AT 

2020  "Das Leben ist schön", (Life is beautiful) NöART, Baden, Zwettl, Horn,... (Katalog)

2019  "Die Sammlung", Gallery MAERZ, Linz/AT

2019  "The Censored Exhibition", Copenhagen Photofestival/Denmark

2019  "Opus Fotopreis 2019", Espace d'art Suzanne Savary, Thionville/FR

2018  "Gütesiegel - Ungut", Zukunftsvisionen-Festival Görlitz/Germany

2018  "Opus Photo Award 2017", Centre Culturel de Rencontre de Abbaye Neumünster, Luxemburg/LUX

2018  "Petersburger Tisch / Postkarte Salon", Jarvis Rooney Galerie, Berlin/Germany

2017  "Diversity in Modernity", Galaxy Museum of Modern Art, Chongqing/CHINA 

2017  "Illusionen.Verfallen", Zuvi-Festival, Görlitz/DE (publ.)

2017  "Opus Photo Award", recognition award, Tufa, Trier/Germany

2017  "Opus Photo Award 2017", City Museum Kaiserlautern/Germany

2017  "Opus Photo Award 2017", HBK Saar Gallery, Saarbrücken/Germany

2017  "Motion", Ph21 Gallery, Budapest/HU

2017  "Was ist Heimat", NöArt, Groß Gerungs, Allentsteig, Zierdorf & Orth/Donau

2016  "kristallin #32 KOLONIE", Salzamt, Linz 

2014  "kristallin #4", Salzamt, Linz

2014  "In the city", Hanover Project, Preston/Great Britain

2014  "100% Linz. Kaleidoskop einer Stadt", Nordico City Museum Linz

2013  "HypermArt", Galerie Trapp, Salzburg

2013  "supersummativ", Maerz Gallery, Linz

2013  "Extraordinary", a project by Noorderlicht, Groningen/NL

2013  "Meerstern - Jungfrau - Gottesmutter. Mary in contemporary Art", KEM-Gallery, Linz

2012  "Innensichten | Außensichten" (interior views / exterior views), Kunst-Raum-Akademie, Stuttgart/DE

2012  "Tourismen", Gallery MAERZ, Linz

2011  "Time Witnesses - Austrian Photography after 1945", Künstlerhaus, Vienna

2011  "Farewell to Longing", LOWER AUSTRIA CONTEMPORARY, Vienna

2011  "Snap to Grid", LACDA, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, California

2011  "...die Stallungen mit den Tieren, den angrenzenden Wald, die feuchte Wiese,..." periscope, Salzburg

2010  IN AND OUT Festival, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk/Poland

2010  "Linz <>Liverpool. How much exchange can you stand?", gallery MAERZ & Salzamt, Linz

2010  Triennale 1.0, "Update - New photography from Austria", state gallery, Linz 

2010  "Riposte"/Global Studio, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool/UK

2009  "new at MAERZ", gallery MAERZ, Linz

2009  "Crossing Linz. Young Art and Master Pieces", Lentos Art Museum, Linz

2009  "Kalevala" - Performance, Kulttuurikauppila Ii/Oulu/Finland

2009  "Essence", Galerie Art Fort Reveur, Bruxelles-Ixelles/BE

2008  "13. Bjcem-Biennale for Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean“,  Bari/Italy

2008  International short film festival Winterthur, Switzerland

2008  VIS Vienna International Shorts, Museum quarter, Vienna

2008  Oulu Art Night, Oulu/Finland

2007  "Poetry of the Functional”, Industrial Museum Chemnitz/Germany

2007  Photofestival Kaunas/Lithunia

2007  Photofestival Lodz/Poland

2007  "Austria Today“, gallery Westlicht,Vienna

2007  Digital Long Island Media Festival, New York 

2007  "Liquid Room“,  Klaipedah/Lithunia

2007  "Kunstterror", Nordico city museum, Linz

2006  "tresor“/BA-CA Kunsthalle, Henkel Award, Vienna

2006  "Austria Today“, Foto Forum Frankfurt/Germany

2006  "Idyll“, Castle Gallery Mondsee

2006  Format06 Photofestival , Derby/England

2006  "Adaptation Charting“, Galerie Katve in Rovaniemi/Finland

2006   ATTITUDE - video /short & experimental film / photography festival in Bitola/ Macedonia

2006  Dance Film/Video Festival in Porto/Portugal

2006  National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow/Russia

2006  Filmfestival in Klaipedah/Lithunia

2006  River’s Edge Film Festival, Paducah, Kentucky

2005  "travelling eye”, gallery “Freiraum”/ MuseumQuarter Vienna

2005  Festival „Post-industrial Carneval“, Tampa, Florida

2005  Les Recontres Arles, HP Gallery (F) 

2004  Filmfestival OHNE KOHLE Vienna, Filmcasino

2003  "best off 03”, Linz

2003  "Framing”, Gallery at the Johannes-Kepler-University, Linz

2001  "VIDEOJÜNGSTLINGE“, Art &Tek (Ars Electronica), Linz 

2001  Taking Art South, Candid Art Gallery, London/UK

2000  Summer Exhibition, City Art Gallery Stockport /UK

2000  Summer Exhibition, City Art Gallery Wigan /UK

 

Conferences & Panel Discussions

2016   What moves me, Altaussee/AT, Jagdhof Seewiese (hosted by Christian Vranek/Culture Creates Values) more>>

2013   Contemphoto13, Istanbul (publ.)

2012   Photomedia Helsinki

2008   International short film festival Winterthur, Switzerland

2007  Gazing, Glancing, Glimpsing? Tourists and Tourism in a Visual World, University of Brigthon/UK (publ)

2007   INTER - A European Cultural Studies Conference in Norrköpping/University of Linköpping/SE (publ.) 

2006   ISSEI MALTA (publ.)

2006   Photography & the City Conference Dublin 

 

Publications & press (selection)

2022  "botanica", Monografie, Verlag Kettler, Dortmund/DE

 

2024 "PORTRAITS - Hellerau Photography Award", Dresden (catalogue)

2021 Süddeutsche Zeitung - Bühne? frei! (article)

2020 Parnass, art journal (mention) https://www.parnass.at/news/gallery-diary-galerie-reinthaler-rbf 

2019  "Das Leben ist schön", NöART (catalogue)

2018  F-Stop Magazine, Issue '89, "Altered Images"

2018  Wiener Zeitung, 13.1.2018 (press)

2017  "Illusionen.Verfallen", Zuvi-Festival, Görlitz/DE (catalogue)

2017  "Opus Photo Award", Opus Magazine, Trier/Germany (catalogue)

2017  "Was ist Heimat", NöArt/AT (catalogue)

2014  "In the city", Hanover Project, Preston/GB

2014  Witty Mag #3 issue, Torino/IT

2014  Auslandskulturjahrbuch 2013, foreign ministry, Vienna

2011  "Zeitzeugen - Österreichische Fotografie nach 1945", (ed. Austrian Photographic Society)

2011  "Farewell to Longing" (ed. Claudia Marion Stemberger, catalogue) 

2011  "Was spricht das Bild", (ed. Monika Leisch-Kiesl & Johanna Schwanberg)

2011  Dekor/ Kunst und Kirche 02/2011

2011  "Eyes On", (catalogue European month of photography, Vienna)

2011  Krzysztof Jurecky: http://jureckifoto.blogspot.no/2011/02/gerlinde-miesenbock-z-serii-das-erbe.html

2010  "Triennale 1.0", Linz, (ed. edition Fotohof, catalogue)

2009  Upper Austrian Gallery Guide Book "Native Nature" (commission, ed. OÖ State Gallery)

2008  Kalevala/FI (press)

2008  Welt der Frau /A (press)

2008  Ursula Blickle archive, Kunsthalle, Vienna

2007  Kardinal König art award, Salzburg/A (catalogue)

2007  “Poetry of the Functional”, Chemnitz/D 2007 (catalogue)

2007  "Kunstterror“, Nordico, Linz  (catalogue)

2007  Siemens artLab: Artist of the month, Wien (Online www.artlab.at) )

2007  Eikon, nr. 57, journal for photography and media art,Vienna

2007  "Landstrich: Freud auf dem Land”, Passau/A

2007  Förnas & Fredriksson (eds): Inter - A European Cultural Studies Conference, Linköpping/S

2006  "Austria Today”, edition Fotohof, vol. 72, Salzburg/Frankfurt/D

2006  "Idyll”, Mondsee/Salzburg/A (catalogue)

2005  "Landstrich”, Passau/D

2005  Frankfurter Rundschau Portfolio/D (press)

 

Memberships

Künstlervereinigung MAERZ, Linz 

Kunstverein München

Studienförderungswerk Pro Scientia /Otto Mauer Zentrum (2002-2006)

Alumni Forum, Art University Linz

BBK Oberbayern