Biography


In Sylvia Eckermann's work, a discursive engagement with form and media culminates in critical artistic reflections about our entanglement as individuals in current socio-economic situations. Eckermann works with various media including digital and physical environments, installations, videos, objects, and sculptures. Eckermann is the first recipient of the City of Vienna Award for Media Art (2014) and was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Media Art (2018). She lives and works in Vienna AT.


AWARDS

2018 Austrian State Prize for Media Art for Lifetime Achievement
2014 City of Vienna Award for Media Art for Lifetime Achievement


Residencies / grants

2020 Project grant, Tel Aviv, IL

2016-17 Residency at the ISCP, New York ISC

2012 Austrian State grant for Video- and Media Art

2008 Austrian Federal Artist in Residence grant, Beijing, CN

2005/06 Austrian Federal Artist in Residence grant, Chengdu, CN

1999 Austrian Federal Artist in Residence grant, London, GB

1998 Austrian Federal Artist in Residence grant, Durham, CA

1996 Austrian Federal Artist in Residence grant, Fujino, JP 

1992 participation in Progetto Civitella d'Agliano 92, IT

 

MEMBER OF

TECHNOPOLITICS (2011-today)
fuchs-eckermann (1989-2004)
Gangart (1987-1989)

 

2000/01 Lecturer for Game Design at Sibelius Academy Helsinki

 

 

▸ Biografie deutsch

 

In den Arbeiten von Sylvia Eckermann münden langjährige Form- und Mediendiskurse in kritische Reflexionen über die Gegenwart. Ihre Installationen können als räumliche und mediale Inszenierungen von Informationen in binären und physischen Umgebungen beschrieben werden, die sowohl individuelle als auch politische und ökonomische Interessen strukturieren. Ihre Kunst sucht die Herausforderung zwischen Diskurs und ästhetischer Praxis, zwischen analog und digital, zwischen solitärer künstlerischer Arbeit und kreativen Gruppenprozessen. Eckermann gilt als ▸ Pionierin der Game Art, in der seit Ende der 1990er Jahre Computerspiele zu künstlerischen Formaten ummodifiziert werden.
Seit 2012 schafft sie auch skulpturale Arbeiten, die den virtuellen und physischen Raum miteinander verweben.

1987-1989 Mitglied der Künstlergruppe Gangart, 1989-2004 fuchs-eckermann, seit 2011 Mitglied der Technopolitics Research Group.
Gemeinsam mit Gerald Nestler hat Eckermann die Kunstserie ▸ The Future of Demonstration entwickelt, die sich 2017 und 2018 mit neuen Formaten und Praxen der Kunst auseinandersetzt.
2014 erhielt sie den Medienkunst-Preis der Stadt Wien für ihr künstlerisches Gesamtwerk. 2018 wurde sie für ihr Gesamtwerk mit dem österreichischen Kunstpreis für Medienkunst ausgezeichnet.



Positionen in der Kunst. Radiokolleg.
Gestaltung: Thomas Mießgang.

"Sylvia Eckermann - Über das Unentscheidbare entscheiden"


▸ Zur Sendung auf Ö1

Catalogue of works, projects and exhibitions

Size is specified in cm. An asterisk (*) indicates the publication of a related exhibition catalogue


The Future of Demonstration, PLANETARY SKINS, 2023

art project, conceived and realized with Gerald Nestler.

  • Galerie Thoman, Innsbruck, AT.

S T I L L A L I V E, 2022
Digital video, 2:5 , after John Carpenter's They Live

  • FAKING THE REAL, Kunsthaus Graz, AT

 

UNTER DER KURVE, 2021
Ein Spiel im öffentlichen Raum zum Thema Daten

  • Ein Projekt von TECHNOPOLITICS im Rahmen von SHIFT. Basis.Kultur.Wien.

 

Alles hat Grenzen NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT, 2021

Short film, Vienna 2021, 30 min

Directed by Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler 

  • 52 Festival / 8 Awards
  • BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR, Naples Film Awards, IT
    FIRST TIME DIRECTOR GOLD AWARD, Hollywood Gold Awards, USA
    OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, Royal Society of Television &  Motion Picture Awards, IN
    BEST SHORT NON FICTION FILM, The Film Contest, IN
    EXCELLENCE MERIT VISITOR’S IMPACT, Nature Without Borders, USA
    HONORABLE MENTION, Mannheim Arts and Film Festival, DE
    BEST SHORT NON FICTION FILM, Imaginary Mind Film Contest
    HONORARY MENTION INSPIRATIONAL FILM, New York Movie Awards, USA

 

FEED, 2020

8 cinematic performances.

  • Ötschergräben, Lower Austria Sep 18 2020 - Oct 2021, AT
    A public art project by Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler in connection with the art intervention Cliffhanger by Steinbrener/Dempf & Huber.
  • Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am Main DE, 2021

 

AUGENSCHEIN, 2020

Light installation for the public space

Permanent installation

  • Stieglerhaus, Zentrum für Kunst, Kultur und Bildung, St. Stefan ob Stainz, AT

 

TOIOS, 2019

HD Video, Computer Animation, 3:06 min Loop. 2019.

  • The Other Is Oneself, Franzkosefs Kai 3, Vienna

 

ESCALATOR, 2018

light installation
  • LED facade of UNIQA headquarter in Vienna‘s city center.

 

The Future of Demonstration, PASSION, 2018

art project, conceived and realized with Gerald Nestler.

  • Atelier Augarten, Vienna.

 

Making the Black Box Speak.

The Future of Demonstration PASSION, Episode 3
  • Atelier Augarten, Wien.

 

Tracing Information Society – A Technopolitics Timeline. 2018

  • “Sigradi”, Universidade de São Paulo. São Carlos. Brazil.
  • “Seoul Mediacity Biennale”, Seoul Museum of Art.

 

WIR VERMÖGEN WAS! WAS VERMÖGEN WIR? 2017

light installation for the LED facade of UNIQA headquarter in Vienna‘s city center. The light installation was a widely visible landmark for the art series The Future of Demonstration.

The Future of Demonstration, VERMÖGEN, 2017

art project, conceived and realized with Gerald Nestler.

  • Reaktor, Vienna.

 

Tracing Information Society – A Technopolitics Timeline. 2017

  • “Patchlab Festival”, International Digital Art Festival in Krakow Poland.
  • Connecting Spaces, Hong Kong.
  • “transmediale”, NgbK Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin.

 

WHISPER. Status Code : No Entity Found, 2016
Video, Audio, 4:49 min., Text: Gerald Nestler
  • Austrian Cultural Forum New York, NY, 01/2017
  • P! 334 Broome Street, New York, NY, 01/2017
  • Goldsmiths, New Cross Room: Richard Hoggart Building 308, London, GB
  • ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach, 10/2016

 

SINGULARIUM, 2015

Interpassive object. Polystyrene sheets and mirrors, 4 loudspeakers, monitor, camera, computer,

160 x 160 x 80 cm. Composition of the voices: Szely.

  • "Social Glitch - Radical aesthetics and the consequences of extreme events", Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, 2015

 

Digital Monsters Don't Bleed, 2014

Solo show; Spatial object, 1700 x 500, paper tubes, sound, video, 2 gold plated sculptures (15 x 50).

  • kunstraum BERNSTEINER, Vienna AT, 2014.

 

Glykon, 2014

Polymer, iron pedestal, 40 x 95.

  • "Die Große Illusion", CURATED BY Steinbrener / Dempf, Vienna AT, 2014.

 

adreamlessmind, 2014

Serigraphy on bedlinen.

  • "Festival Intime Räume | Von der Realität des Träumens und dem Albtraum der Realität", CURATED BY IMA, Institut für Medienarchälogie, Hainburg a.D. AT, 2014.


Cartography of the Intangible, 2013

Light box, steel, wood, acrylic glass, neon, 153 x 187.

  • “Little bit of history deleting,” CURATED BY Isin Önul, GPL CONTEMPORARY Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna AT, 2013.


Telluric Force II, 2013

360° projection, computer animation, 5.1 sound.

  • NWEAMO Festival, Heikoff Dome Theater, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, San Diego, California USA, 2014 
  • “iSphere” (Vienna Art Fair), CURATED BY Raimund Deininger, Vienna AT, 2013.


PROBABILIS, 2012/13

  • kunstraum BERNSTEINER, Vienna AT.

Solo exhibition including the following works:

 

Integument, 2012

Digital video / computer animation, wooden frame, monitor, AV player, 100 x 160. 

Zero Probability Event, 2012

Iron construction, glass plate, glass cone, metronome, fly, 111 x 100 x 10.

Table for my Father, 2012

Wooden claw and ball table, taxidermy of swans, 80 x 160.

Shifting States, 2012

Iron construction, sheet copper, light bulb, motor, 94 x 250.

Floor tattoo, 2013

Floor drawing, acrylic paint, 210 x 80.

Cartography of the Intangible, 2013

Chalk drawing on grey wall, 160 x 190.


Telluric Force, 2012

Computer animation, stereo sound, plasma display, wooden frame, 90 x 150.

  • “Parkfair Arte Noah,” CURATED BY Iv Toshain / Matthias Makowsky, Vienna AT 


SOUND OF SIRENS, 2012-13

Social platform / video portal. In artistic cooperation with Edgar Honetschläger.


Crystal Math, 2012

1 channel video, room installation, 5.1 sound, 5000 m Nylon wire, 300 x 200.

  • “Glitch,” CURATED BY Gerald Nestler / Max Thoman, medien.kunst.tirol, Kunstraum Innsbruck AT, 2013.
  • “paraflows.7 - Reverse Engineering,” festival for digital art and culture, CURATED BY Judith Fegerl / Günther Friesinger, weisses haus, Vienna AT, 2012.*
  • kunstraum BERNSTEINER | Basement,
    in the course of Gerald Nestler’s exhibition ON PURPOSE. The New Derivative Order, Vienna AT, 2012.


NAKED EYE, 2012

Solo exhibition, room installation, 3 channel video, 5.1 sound, 1500 x 470.

10 projection objects, carpet, text work plotted on mirror foils.

  • kunstraum BERNSTEINER, Vienna AT, 2010/11.


Reigen, 2012

Digital video.

  • “Vienna Art Week,” Dorotheum Vienna AT, 2012.


Breathe My Air - A Paradoxical Conversation Piece, 2008-2011

3 channel video, 118:14’, English, German, Chinese, subtitles: English, Chinese. 

Written, filmed and edited by Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler.

  • “refuse the shadow of the past,” CURATED BY ASAP, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong CN, 2014.*
  • BREATHE MY AIR, CURATED BY Li Zhenhua, Four Zero Space, Hangzhou CN, 2010.
  • “Mifan,” Babu Art Space, CURATED BY ASAP, Shenzhen CN, 2009.
  • “Mifan,” Anni Art Gallery, CURATED BY ASAP, 798 Dashanzi Art District, Beijing CN, 2009.*
  • VIDEO PROJECT LAUNCH at CPU:798 Art Space, CURATED BY Edward Sanderson, Peking CN, 2008.


THE TREND IS YOUR FRIEND!,2009

Performative and interactive artistic environment.

  • MKL / Kunsthaus Graz, CURATED BY Mirjana Peitler / Winfried Ritch, Graz AT, 2009.*


In Ninth Heaven or the far end of Europe,2008

Interactive environment and audio-visual Installation.

3D-realtime system, projection, 5 channel audio system, golden mirrors, interface, acrylic glass pillar, computer, 400 x 400 x 250.

  • Museum Stein, CURATED BY Dieter Buchhart, Stein AT, permanent installation from 2008-09.


Mirror Cells, 2007

Accessible immersive environment. Infinitely mirrored acousmatic-visual 3d-world.

Unreal Mod, 3 projections, 8 channel audio system, mirrors, wooden construction, 1000 x 500 x 500. 

  • “Acting in Utopia,” CURATED BY Anna-Maria Hofbauer / Dieter Buchhart, Linzer Landesgalerie,
  • Feature project of ars electronica, Linz AT, 2007.*


Plastic Trade-off,2006

Meta-performative game in real time – intervention in global financial markets and exchanges.

1500 LEDs in different colors mounted inside acrylic glass discs, construction and data/power lines are identical, suspended and fixed with steel wire. 370 x 400 x 380.

  • “WORKING_WORLD.NET. Living and working in the midst of globalization,” CURATED BY Doris Rothauer, Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr AT. Permanent installation since 2006.*

n o w h e r e - ein Welt Raum Spiel, 2005

Game Mod, virtual environment.

Unreal Mod on the utopian correspondence of a group of architects who formed The Glass Chain (Die Gläserne Kette 1919-1920).

  • media@terra International Art + Technology Festival, CURATED BY Daphne Dragona, Athens GR, 2006.
  • “PLAY(S),” International Digital Art Festival, CURATED BY Xiaoying Yuan, Changzhou CN, 2006.*
  • 11-ART.COM 798 Arts District, Beijing CN, 2006.*
  • aut. architektur und tirol, CURATED BY thecrystalweb°, Innsbruck AT, 2006. 
  • Exhibition center Heiligenkreuzerhof of University of Applied Arts, CURATED BY thecrystalweb°, Vienna AT, 2005.*


wet f{r}iction, 2005

Digital video.

  • “PLAY(S),” International Digital Art Festival, CURATED BY Xiaoying Yuan, Changzhou CN, 2006.*


Raumatmen, 2005

Digital video.

  • “Raumstation Skylab 5,” CURATED BY Kathrin Oder, Exhibition architecture: LIQUIFIER, Kindermuseum ZOOM Vienna Museums Quarter, Vienna AT, 2005/06.


MIRRAGE, 2005

Game Mod. Sight-specific interactive feedback circuit.

  • Tonspur, Museums Quarter, Vienna AT.


reservoir_bots, 2004

Game Mod for audio-visual live performances.

  • CURATED BY Konrad Becker, Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0, Vienna AT, 2005.
  • “Lange Nacht der Museen,” Künstlerhaus Vienna AT, 2004.


Duochrome, 1991

Site-specific art, 6-channel video installation, stereo sound, wooden construction.

  • “Free Media Mix,” CURATED BY Andreas Braito / Mathias Fuchs, Academy of fine arts, Vienna AT (with Manuela Burghard), 1991.



Artistic cooperation with Mathias Fuchs.
(fuchs-eckermann, 1989-2004)


FUTURE DJ, 2004

Game Mod for DJs, Manchester GB, 2004.

  • “Reserve der Form,” CURATED BY Angelika Fitz / Klaus Stattmann, Künstlerhaus Vienna AT, 2004.* 


FemCity, 2003

Game Mod. Multi-user computer game for girls. 

With Edeltraut Hanappi-Egger / Gerhard Hanappi

  • “Third Places,” CURATED BY Doris Rothauer, steirischer herbst, Graz AT 2004.*


fluID - arena of identities, 2003 

Game Mod. Multi user game on identities and its breaches as well as deconstructions. 

Virtual environment for 3 players, 3 projection panels, 3 projectors, 3 computers, 3 head sets.

  • “artgames. Structural analogies of art and game,” CURATED BY Karina Esmailzadeh / Jutta Scheld, Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen D, 2005/06.*
  • ISEA 2004, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki FI, 2004.*
  • “GameArt,” Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen D, 2004.*
  • “cyber@rt,” Bilbao E, 2004
  • “games. Computerspiele von KünstlerInnen,” CURATED BY Tilman Baumgärtel / hartware medien kunst verein, PHOENIX Halle, Dortmund D, 2003.*
  • “SELFWARE. politics of identity – games,” CURATED BY Georg Lauteren / Reinhard Braun, European Cultural Capital Graz AT, 2003.*


EXPOSITUR - a virtual knowledge space, 2002

Game Mod. A hyper-museum based upon a computer game. 

Solo exhibition, Game Art environment.

  • KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, CURATED BY Perttu Rastas, Helsinki FI, 2002.*


EXPOSITUR - ein virtueller Wissensraum, 2001

Game Mod. A hyper-museum based upon a computer game. 

Game art environment for 3 players. Exhibition architecture: the next ENTERprise - architects.

  • “Unternehmen Capricorn,” CURATED BY Christoph Steinbrener, Karmelitermarkt, Vienna AT, 2001.*


LEVELBOSS ON HOLIDAY, 2001

4 channel video, computer animation.

Exhibition architecture: the next ENTERprise – architects.

  • CURATED BY Unit-f, Bregenz AT.


PLAN-it!, 2000

An interactive multisensory environment for the Mind Zone (architecture: Office Zaha Hadid).

In cooperation with Herbert Lachmayer / Art+Tek Institut Linz AT.

  • “The Mind Zone,” CURATED BY Zaha Hadid, Millennium Dome London GB 2000.*


Hotel Synthifornia, 1999

Unreal Game Mod level.

  • “SYNWORLD playwork:hyperspace,” CURATED BY Konrad Becker, Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0, Museums Quarter Vienna AT, 1999


SOUNDCALENDAR, 1998

Net Art project with international artists. 

  • CURATED BY fuchs-eckermann, Toronto CA


Patch-Work/Patch-Life, 1998

Video installation. Stereo sound.

  • “Work@Culture. BÜRO. Inszenierung von Arbeit,” CURATED BY Herbert Lachmayer, Landesmuseum Linz AT, 1998.*


<vspace=”4”>. Interactive Video and Sound Installation for an Elevator, 1998

  • “Archiv X,” CURATED BY Elke Krasny / Elisabeth Madlener,
    OK Offenes Kulturhaus Upper Austria, Linz AT, 1998.*


SELFCONTAINED phone terror project, 1997

  • CURATED BY Konrad Becker, Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0, Museums Quarter Vienna AT, Vienna AT, 1997


JAPAN DIARY, 1997

Net Art project of images and sounds from a journey to Japan. 


BAD ROOM, 1997

Audio visual environment.

  • CURATED BY Tuike / Simo Alitalo, Muu Media Base, Helsinki FI.


ALIENS, 1995

Net Art project.

  • Diagonale film festival exhibition CURATED BY Konrad Becker, Salzburg AT, 1995. 


JUMPING, 1995

Site specific video and sound installation.

  • “EAST,” Selectors: Marian Goodman / Giuseppe Penone, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich GB, 1995.*


MOON RIVER, 1994 

Underwater installation. Plastic sphere (diameter 70cm), monitor, speakers, microphone, light.

  • sounds from elsewhere,” CURATED BY Tuike / Simo Alitalo, Titanik Gallery, Turku FI, 1994.*


REWIND, 1993

Interactive computer installation.

  • “Safe,” CURATED BY Tuike / Simo Alitalo, Mediagalleria, Turku FI, 1993.


LINK. a para-realistic staircase, 1993

Site-specific Sonic Art project. Orange carpet, speakers and sound system.

  • ISEA 94, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki FI, 1994.*
  • “Sound,” CURATED BY Marisa Vescovo, Museion, Bolzano  IT, 1993.*
  • Kunsthalle Vienna AT, 1993.


ENTRÉE SORTIE, 1991

Sound composition with shared authorship, installation.

  • Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City MX, 1992.
  • Gallery Theuretzbacher, ORF Kunstradio, Vienna AT, 1991.


WIEN 1991. Momentaufnahme einer Stadt

Installation with images and sounds. 

  • “Urban Spaces - Urban Dreams,” CURATED BY Eleonora Louis / Lisi Breuss, Kunsthalle Szombathely HU, 1998.*
  • Center of Arts, Cairo ET, 1992


WIEN 1991. Momentaufnahme einer Stadt, 1991

Installation with images and sounds. Specially built pavilion. 

  • Karlsplatz, Museum of the History of Vienna, Vienna AT, 1991.*

Selected group shows


2024

An Asana Moment
  • The Rothschild Center, 
    MUZA - Eretz Israel Museum
    29.03.-01.06.2024

CURATED BY Raz Samira
Participating artists: Ricci Albenda \ Liat Elbling \ Sylvia Eckermann \ Yoram Bouzaglo \ Einat Arif Galanti \ Ori Gershet \ Deganit Berest \ Meirav Heiman \ Sasha Tamarin \ Efrat Yaron \ Miriam Cabessa \ Michael Liani \ Mark Louis \ Sigalit Landau \ Naomi Mendel \ Miri Segal \ Alon Segal \ Hanna Sahar \ Hila Amram \ Talia Keinan \ Jenny Kachurin \ Yana Rotner \ Omer Sheizaf

radical ⇌ matter

When Materialism is No Longer Enough  

  • AIL Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
    25.01.-16.02.2024

CURATED BY Johnny Golding, Martin Reinhart, Tanja Traxler.
Participating artists: Amir Bastan, Sonia Bernac, Yasmine Boudiaf, Jonathan Boyd, Bernhard Cella, Clarissa Leonie Cohausz, Selina de Beauclair, Sylvia Eckermann, Maximilian Gallo, Johnny Golding, Ivonne Gracia Murillo, Tonica Hunter, Ajamu Ikwe-Tyehimba, Ameera Kawash, Jeremy Keenan, Gerhard Lang, Tina Lechner, Thandi Loewenson, Manu Luksch, Gerald Nestler, Jannis Neumann, Harold Offeh, Julian Palacz, Mukul Patel, Maggie Roberts, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Linn Phyllis Seeger, Dario Srbic, Noor Stenfert Kroese, Tanja Traxler, Shira Wachsmann, John Wild, Julia Wolf.

2022-

2023

FAKING THE REAL The Art of Enticement

  • Kunsthaus Graz 22.09.2022-08.01.2023

CURATED BY Katrin Bucher Trantow, Sabine Kienzer.
Participating artists: Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola, John Baldessari, Thomas Bayrle, Lynda Benglis, Gottfried Bechtold, Beni Bischof, Monica Bonvicini, BLESS, Boris Bućan, Daniele Buetti, Chris Burden, Teresa Burga, Judy Chicago, fierce pussy, Sylvie Fleury, Sylvia Eckermann, John Gerrard, Jochen Gerz, Manuel Gorkiewicz, G.R.A.M., Guerrilla Girls, Rachel Harrison, Thomas Hirschhorn, Robert Indiana, Johanna Jaskowska, Šejla Kamerić, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Peter Kogler, Isabella Kohlhuber, Brigitte Kowanz, Sonia Leimer, Otto Mittmannsgruber/Martin Strauss, Susan Mogul, Sarah Morris, museum in progress, ORLAN, Julian Opie, Christiane Peschek, Alli Coates und Signe Pierce, Pierre et Gilles, Sophie Reinhold, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Michael Schuster, Elfie Semotan, Cindy Shermann, Katharina Sieverding, Lucie Stahl, Hito Steyerl, Sturtevant, Total Refusal, Jochen Traar, Rosemarie Trockel, Piotr Uklanski, Amalia Ulman, Maja Vukoje, Peter Weibel, Bernhard Wolf, Christopher Wool, Zentrum für Politische Schönheit, Dragana Žarevac, Heimo Zobernig and others.

2021 And if there is no sea, then there's also no boat.
  • The Artist Residence, Herzliya

CURATED BY Ran Kasmy-Ilan
Participating artists: Leigh Orpaz, Efrat Vital, Itay Marom, Anna Yam, Sylvia Eckermann & Gerald Nestler


17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

PLATFORM AUSTRIA

  • La Biennale di Venezia IT

CURATED BY Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
(due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the residences are online instead than on location)


SENSING NATURE Positions between Nature and Culture

  • Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am Main DE

CURATED BY Mathias Kessler and Heike Strelow
Participating artists: Regina Dettwiler, Mark Dion, Sylvia Eckermann / Gerald Nestler, Irene Grau, Michael Höpfner, Bradford Kessler, Mathias Kessler,  Lisa Oppenheim, Trevor Paglen, Chrysanne Stathacos, George Steinmann, Lois Weinberger

2020

Imagine you Wake Up and There is no Internet

  • Romantso, Athens GR

WORKS BY !Mediengruppe Bitnik & Low Jack (DE/FR), Aram Bartholl (DE), Jono Boyle (UK), Heath Bunting & Kayle Brandon (UK), Vaggelis Deligiorgis (GR), Exonemo (JP), Marina Gioti (GR), Antonis Kalagkatsis (GR), George Moraitis (GR), No Más / No More (GR), Manos Saklas (GR), Molly Soda (U.S.), Superflux (UK), Technopolitics (AT), Alexandros Tzannis (GR), Filipe Vilas-Boas (PT)
CURATED BY Katerina Gkoutziouli and Voltnoi Brege.


NOISE IS THE MASTER OF INFORMATION

  • FLUSS, Schloss Wolkersdorf, Lower Austria, AT

WORKS BY Sylvia Eckermann / Thomas Feuerstein / Gerald Nestler/ Szely
CURATED BY alien production


ARS ELECTRONICA 2020, In Keplers Gardens

CURATED BY Andrew Newman

2019

Helicotrema 8

Recorded Audio Festival

  • Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana · Venice IT

SOUND WORKS BY Michael Baers, Enrico Boccioletti, Isabella Bordoni, Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Department of Ultimology, Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler, Donato Epiro, Zuriñe F Gerenabarrena, Anton Kats, Gli Impresari, Islands Songs, Marcos Lutyens, Lorena Mal, Marzia Migliora, Nana April Jun, Roberto Memoli, Flavio Scutti, Atau Tanaka, Mia Thom, Diego Tonus, Julie Vacher, Mark Peter Wright


THE OTHER IS ONESELF

Initiative for Cultural Exchange

  • Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna AT

WORKS BY Iris Andraschek / Babi Badalov / Khaled Barakeh  / Elisabetta Benassi / Nisrine Boukhari / Bernhard Cella / Adriana Czernin / Ramesch Daha / Sébastien de Ganay / Raffaella della Olga / Sylvia Eckermann / Simone Fattal / Anna Jermolaewa / Mirta Kupferminc / Thomas Locher / Jonathan Monk / Klaus Mosettig / Rudolf Polanszky / Hans Schabus / Slavs and Tatars / Gerold Tagwerker / Florian Unterberger / Martin Walde / Lawrence Weiner / Nil Yalter / Samia Ziadi.
CURATED BY Fiona Liewehr

 

MAKING TRUTH

Vienna Art Week 2019

  • OPEN STUDIO DAYS: Studio Eckermann / Nestler 16–17/11 2019

 

DEEP HORIZON The Culture of Forecasting

10 years of Technopolitics research group

  • Kunsthalle am Karlsplatz, Vienna AT

PARTICIPANTS: Richard Barbrook, Erik Bordeleau, Jaya Klara Brekke, Thomas Feuerstein, Isabell Schrickel, Zentrum für politische Schönheit and Technopolitics research group. Artistic space intervention: Sylvia Eckermann.

 

Hysterical Mining

  • Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier, Vienna AT

WORKS BY Trisha Baga, Louise Drulhe, Veronika Eberhart, Sylvia Eckermann & Gerald Nestler, Judith Fegerl, Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni, Katrin Hornek, Barbara Kapusta, Marlene Maier, Miao Ying, Pratchaya Phinthong, Marlies Pöschl, Delphine Reist, Tabita Rezaire.
CURATED BY Anne Faucheret, Vanessa Joan Müller


NOISE IS THE MASTER OF INFORMATION

Algorithmic Cognition at the Turn from Representative to Performative Power

Lecture Performance Eckermann / Nestler

  • Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna AT
2017

LAUNCH EVENT of Finance and Society vol. 2, no. 1,

special issue on art and finance

  • P! 334 Broome Street, New York, USA

Artistic statements by Paolo Chirio, Enxuto & Love, UBERMORGEN, Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler, Kathleen Ditzig, Robin Lynch, Debbie Ding.

2017-

2016   

art & function
  • Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag AT

WORKS BY Gerry Ammann, Katrina Daschner, Carla Degenhardt, Ines Doujak, Sylvia Eckermann, Manfred Erjautz, Mathis Esterhazy, Sofia Goscinski, Christine und Irene Hohenbüchler, Ewa Kaja, Mihaela Kavdanska, Brigitte Kowanz, Constantin Luser, Sabine Ott, Werner Reiterer, Hans Schabus, Nita Tandon, Jochen Traar, transparadiso und Markus Wilfling.
CURATED BY Sabine Kienzer

 

da 2: Dada and current positions in art 

  • Museum Macura, Serbia SRB

CURATED BY Vladimir Macura, Co-Curator: Andreas Kattner

2015

Social Glitch - Radical aesthetics and the consequences of extreme events, 

  • Kunstraum Niederösterreich, 1010 Vienna AT

ARTISTS Exhibition Kunstraum NOE: Lawrence Abu Hamdan (LB/GB), Ines Doujak (AT) & John Barker (GB), Earth Sensing Association /Nabil Ahmed & Pierre Blanc (GB), Sylvia Eckermann (AT), Harun Farocki (DE), Thomas Feuerstein (AT), Forensic Architecture / Susan Schuppli, Eyal Weizman et al. (GB), Christina Goestl (AT), Ayesha Hameed (CA/GB), Mathias Kessler (AT/USA), Mark Lombardi (USA), Jennifer Mattes (DE/AT), Gerald Nestler (AT), Godofredo Pereira (PT/GB), Axel Stockburger (AT), Technopolitics, UBERMORGEN (USA/CH/AT) Performative interventions and workshops: Heath Bunting (UK), Pablo Chieregin (IT/AT) & Marlene Hausegger (AT) & Elvedin Kla?ar (AT), Bernhard Garnicnig & Lukas Heistinger (AT), Manu Luksch (AT/GB), Gerald Straub (AT), Igor Vamos / The Yes Men (USA), Stefanie Wuschitz (AT) Performance (cooperation with WUK.performing.arts): Ursula Endlicher (AT/USA) with Frans Poelstra (NL/AT), Deborah Hazler (AT) Sound (cooperation with Tonspur Kunstverein Wien im Q21): Volkmar Klien (AT), Szely (AT).
CURATED BY: Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler, Maximilian Thoman.


PARALLEL VIENNA 

  • Alte Post, Dominikaner Bastei, 1010 Vienna AT
2014

No More Fukushimas VIENNA ART WEEK

  • Verein 08, Vienna AT 

WORKS BY casaluce/geiger & Hana Usui, Julius Deutschbauer & Gabriel Schöller, Luca Faccio, Olga Georgieva, Shinshu Hida, Edgar Honetschläger & Sylvia Eckermann, Sissa Micheli, Takashi Ohno, Federico Vecchi, Erwin Wurm.
CURATED BY Marcello Farabegoli


Die große Illusion 

  • STEINBRENER/DEMPF, Vienna AT

 

Festival Intime Räume 

Von der Realität des Träumens und dem Albtraum der Realität

  • IMA, Hainburg A.D. AT

CURATED BY Elisabeth Schimana

 

NWEAMO Festival

  • Superdome theater, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, San Diego, California, USA
2013

GLITCH - UNSER SCHREIBZEUG ARBEITET MIT AN UNSEREN GEDANKEN 

  • Kunstraum Innsbruck AT

WORKS BY Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sylvia Eckermann, Thomas Feuerstein, Christina Goestl, Gerald Nestler, Axel Stockburger, Peter Szely.
CURATED BY Max Thoman


LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY DELETING

  • GPL CONTEMPORARY Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna AT

WORKS BY Ana de Almeida, Deniz Alt, Fatih Aydogdu, Eva Beierheimer & Miriam Laussegger, Bernhard Cella, SylviaEckermann, Sakir Gökcebag, Peter Hoiß, Nika Kupyrova, Mirko Lazović, Ardan Özmenoglu, Thomas Riess, Römer + Römer, Pinar Yoldas, Hyung Min Yoon, Gerald Zahn.
CURATED BY Isin Önol

2012

PARKFAIR - ARTE NOAH, Vienna AT

CURATED BY Iv Toshain / Matthias Makowsky


paraflows.7 - Reverse Engineering

  • Festival für digitale Kunst und Kulturen, Vienna AT

WORKS BY Amelia Andersdotter, Thomas Ballhausen, Buckminster Fuller Institute Austria, Tanja Döring, Daphne Dragona, chra, Sylvia Eckermann, Gabriele Edelbauer, Ursula Endlicher, Judith Fegerl, Karin Fisslthaler, Günther Friesinger, Agnes Fuchs, Ulrike Gabriel, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Elisabeth Grübl, Golden Diskó Ship, Margareta Heinrich, Jana Herwig, Wencke Hertzsch, Edith Hirsch, Sylvia Johnigk, Anna Fríða Jónsdóttir, kriilaliina, Linda Kronman, Claudia Larcher, Laster Kanaster, Sonia Leimer, Jen Liu, Mutttricx, Pia Palme, Leo Peschta, Nicole Prutsch, Markus Schmidt, Judith Schossböck, Veronika Schubert, Hanakam Schuller, Nina Rike Springer, Anna Steiden, Andreas Stoiber, Nita Tandon, Mara Verlic, Flora Watzal, Marcelina Wellmer, Anouk Wipprecht, Stefanie Wuschitz, Andreas Zingerle
CURATED BY Judith Fegerl / Günther Friesinger

2009

MIFAN

  • VENUE_Room 208, NO.A3 Industrial Park-East, Shenzen, CN

CURATED BY Karel Dudesek


MIFAN, organised by ASAP

  • AnniArt Gallery, 798 Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, CN

WORKS BY Lukas Birk, Karel Dudesek, Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler, Nikolaus Gansterer, Matthias Meinharter, Ulrike Johannsen, Jasmin Ladenhaufen, Ralo Mayer.
CURATED BY Karel Dudesek

2007

Acting in Utopia

  • Linzer Landesgalerie, Linz AT

WORKS BY Olaf Nicolai (D), Ernesto Neto (Brasilien), Christine und Irene Hohenbüchler (A), Sylvia Eckermann/ Peter Szely/Doron Goldfarb (A), Wolfgang Münch und Kiyoshi Furukawa (D/JAP), Vadim Fishkin (RUS/SLO), Katrin Sigurdardottir (ISL/USA)
CURATED BY Dieter Burghart, Anna Karina Hofbauer

ars electronica, Linz A

2006

Civilization IV – Age of Empire (Eastwood)

  • media@terra, International Art + Technology Festival, Athens GR

CURATED BY Manthos Santorineos & Daphne Dragona


3rd International Digital Art Festival

  • Changzhou CN


WORKING_WORLD.NET 

Living and working in the midst of globalization

  • Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr AT

WORKS BY Sylvia Eckermann & Gerald Nestler (A),Valie Export (A), Ingo Günther (USA), Felix Malnig (A), Michael Pisk (A), REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT Martin Keil und Henrik Mayer (D), Oliver Ressler (A), Joseph Sappler (D), Ingo Vetter & Annette Weisser (D) in Kooperation mit Mitch Cope (USA)
CURATED BY Doris Rothauer


ARTGAMES Analogien zwischen Kunst und Spiel

  • Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen DE

WORKS BY Atelier Kompakt, Julien Alma/Laurent Hart, Norbert Bayer, Andrea Bender, Flavio Bonetti, Birgit Brinkmann, Stanislaw Drozdz, Elisabeth Ensenberger, Sylvia Eckermann/ Mathias Fuchs, Sylvie Fleury, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Beate Geissler/Oliver Sann, Eva Grubinger, Invader, Christian Jankowski, Margarete Jahrmann/Max Moswitzer, Mariko Mori, Volker Morawe/Tilman Reiff, Peter Niemann, Miguel Angel Rios, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Angel Vergara Santagio, Rob Scholte, Roman Signer, Marion Strunk, //////////fur////art


SKYLAB 5

  • Kindermuseum ZOOM Wiener Museumsquartier, Vienna AT

WORKS BY Julia Bruchner, Susanne Delleske, Sylvia Eckermann, Nikolaus Gansterer, Dominik Guggenberger, Tina Handl, Hons, Peter Kozek, Diana Levin, David Moises, Marius Schebella, Karl Seiringer, Michael Silbergasser, Peter Szely, Jasmin Trabichler

2005

ISEA  international symbosia for electronic art , Helsinki FI

2004

GAMEART 

  • Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen DE

WORKS BY Peggy Ahwesh, Chiho Aoshima, Natalie Bookchin, Olaf Breuning, Davix, Christoph Draeger, Sylvia Eckermann / Mathias Fuchs, etoy.CORPORATION, Sylvie Fleury, Lonnie Flickinger, //////////fur////, Jon Haddock, Carina Hübner /Meike Schmidt, Pierre Huyghe / Philippe Parreno, Kristin Lucas, Margarete Jahrmann / Max Moswitzer, Björn Melhus, Yves Netzhammer, Nam June Paik / Paul Garrin, Fabrizio Plessi, Kathleen Ruíz, sofa23, Bill Viola.

2003

GAMES computerspiele von KünstlerInnen

  • hardware medienkunstverein,  Dortmund DE

WORKS BY Julien Alma /Laurent Hart, F, Cory Arcangel, USA, Mister Ministeck Norbert Bayer, D, Tom Betts, GB, Pash Buzari, D, Leon Cmielewski / Josephine Starrs, AUS, Arcangel Constantini, MEX, Vuk Cosic, Slowenien, Aurélien Froment, F, Mathias Fuchs / Sylvia Eckermann, A, Beate Geissler / Oliver Sann, D, Margarete Jahrmann / Max Moswitzer, A, Jodi, E, Joan Leandre, E Mongrel, GB, Tilman Reiff / Volker Morawe, D, Anne-Marie Schleiner / Brody Condon, USA , Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag, D, Space Invader, F, Thomson & Craighead, GB, Olaf Val, D, Yang Zhenzhong, CN, Lars Zumbansen, DE

 

cyber@rt

  • Bilbao E
 

SELFEWARE-politics of identity

  • Graz 2003 Kulturhauptstadt AT
2000

THE MINDZONE 

  • Millenium Dome London GB

CURATED BY Zaha Hadid

1999

SYNWORLD

  • Public Netbase Vienna AT

WORKS by Axel Stockburger (A), Basicray (USA), Dextro (A), Sylvia Eckermann, Mathias Fuchs(A), Glow (A), jodi.org (B, NL), Margarete Jahrmann (A) Kandyman (A), Max Moswitzer (A), Robert Adrian X | August Black | Markus Seidl (A), Synreal t0 (A), Vuk Cosic (SLO)
CURATED BY Konrad Becker

1998

ARCHIV   X

  • O.K Center of Contemporary Art Linz AT

WORKS BY Laura Anderson Barbata (USA), Beusch/Cassani (F), Guillaume Bijl (B), Jörg Brombacher/Klaus Heid (D) Alain Bublex (F), Clegg & Guttmann (USA; A), Nicolas Collins (D), Patrick Corillon (F), Sylvia Eckermann, Mathias Fuchs (A), Karl-Heinz Klopf (A), Eva-Maria Kósa (A), Christian Marclay (USA), Rosângela Rennó (Rio de Janeiro), Katharina Struber (A)
CURATED BY Elke Krasny and Elisabeth Madlener

 

WORK & CULTURE

  • Landesmuseum Linz AT

WORKS BY John Baldessari, Dara Birnbaum, Heiko Bressnik, Marcel Broodthaers, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Hanne Darboven, Sylvia Eckermann & Mathias Fuchs, Barbara Holub, Peter Hueme, Margarete Jahrmann, Herbert Lachmayer, Eleonora Louis, Inge Morath, MarikoMori, Maurizio Nannucci, Marion von Osten, Martin Osterider, Blinky Palermo, Public Netbase t0, Institut für neue Kulturtechnologien, PriskaRiedl, Betty Spackman, Timm Ulrichs, Anja Westerfrölke

1995

EAST

  • Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts Norwich GB

SELECTORS: Marian Goodman, Giuseppe Penone.

1994 ISEA 1994
  • Helsinki FI

... ELSEWARE

  • Titanik Gallery, Turku FI

CURATED BY Tuike and Simo Alitalo

1993

SOUND

  • MUSEION Bozen | Bolzano IT

WORKS BY Carlo Alfano, Franco Angeli, Robert Barry, Per Barclay, Miguel Berrocal, Fausto Bertasa, Joseph Beuys, Alberto Biasi, Maurizio Camerani, Sylvia Eckermann & Mathias Fuchs, Enrico De Maio, Andrea Fogli, Piero Fogliatti, Rebecca Horn, Bernhard Leitner, Thorsten Kirchhoff, Licitra & Mari, Luigi Mainolfi, Vic Muniz, Maurizio Nannucci, Nam June Paik, Vettor Pisani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Fabrizio Plessi, Gilberto Zorio
CURATED BY Marisa Vescovo.


SAFE. 

  • Mediagalleria, Turku FI

CURATED BY Tuike and Simo Alitalo

 

Curatorial Work

The Future of Demonstration

▸ website / documentation

Season 1: VERMÖGEN
Reaktor, Vienna AT, 31/10 - 11/11 2017

Season 2: PASSION
Atelier Augarten, Vienna AT, 20 - 25/10 2018


IDEA & ARTISTIC CONCEPT: Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler.
ARTISTIC DIRECTORS: Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler, Maximilian Thoman.

The Future of Demonstration.

An art series of 2 seasons and 8 episodes focusing on new formats, intensities and consequences of artistic work. Based on the leitmotifs PASSION 2018 and VERMÖGEN 2017, artists, theorists, scientists and other experts jointly develop postdisciplinary practices that engage with today’s massive transformations in the ecological, political, economic, and cultural spheres. Demonstration is explored as a means to reimagine, collect, share and realise narratives, techniques and affiliations of resistance.

PARTICIPANTS S1 VERMÖGEN / 2017

E1: Aziz al-Turi, Forensic Architecture: Ariel Caine, Eyal Weizman. FILM: Manu Luksch. additional contribution: Noit Banai. sound: Mukul. E2: Laboria Cuboniks: Diann Bauer, Katrina Burch, Helen Hester, Patricia Reed. H.A.U.S.: Clara Haider, Christoph Hubatschke, Christoph Müller, Oliver Schürer, Christiana Tsiourti. coding: Stephanie Gross, Brigitte Krenn, Friedrich Neubarth. interaction scripting: Christian Fiedler, Patrick Lechner. performance: Tanja Brandmayer. FILM: Michael Loizenbauer. additional contributions: Mark Coeckelbergh, Janina Loh, Kristian Lukić, Robert Trappl, Marlies Wirth. E3: a.ACHAT, Daniel Colucciello Barber, Stefan Becker, Hannes Broecker, Nikolaus Gansterer, James Hoff, Barbara Imhof, Margarete Jahrmann, Marian Kaiser, D. Kaufman, Jonas Loh, Fred Rapid, Klaus Schafler, Claudia Schötz. FILM: Emma Rosa Simon. E4: Ildiko Babos, Haymon Maria Buttinger, Nehle Dick, Thomas Feuerstein, Swintha Gersthofer, Jens Hauser, Didi Kern, Bernhard Loibner, Christian Reiner, Peter Szely. FILM: Wolfgang Rebernik. additional contribution: Lucie Strecker & Klaus Spiess. E5: Nils Gabriel, Jan Groos, Sunny King, Jürgen Kleft, Andrew Newman, Rachel Rose O’Leary, Paul Rieger, Brett Scott, Matthias Tarasiewicz, terra0, Sophie-Carolin Wagner, Markus Zimmermann. FILM: Jan Groos & Max Gurresch. additional contributions: Jaya Klara Brekke, Max Hampshire, Laura Lotti, Martin Reinhart. VOICE: Anna Mendelssohn. Closing event with mahd: Volkmar Klien, Hannes Löschel. fluktuation8.

 

PARTICIPANTS S2 PASSION / 2018

E 1: Domingo Castillo, Femke Herregraven, Victoria Ivanova, Aslak Aamot Kjærulff, Bogna Konior, Jonas Lund, Suhail Malik, [NAME], Jamilah Sabur, Axel Stockburger, Tirdad Zolghadr, Natalia Zuluaga.E 2: Cultural Intelligence Collective (CIC): A Cultural Intelligence Project in cooperation with Critical Art Ensemble (CAE); CIC 2018: Steve Barnes, Konrad Becker, Laurus Edelbacher, Christoph Kummerer, Steven Kurtz, Anastasya Voloshina, Ruth Zimmermann. Special guest appearances: Ca.tter, DJ Nigga Fox, Dominique Raffa, Stacey Robinson, Alexander Schelle. Video-stream: Georg Schütz. Talks and discussions with: Konrad Becker, Critical Art Ensemble, El Iblis Shah, Felix Stalder. E 3: Haim Bodek, Sylvia Eckermann, Aldo Giannotti, Florentina Holzinger, Volkmar Klien, Gerald Nestler, Peng! Collective, Denis “Jaromil” Roio, Soulcat E-Phife, Technopolitics Research Group, ubermorgen. Data body: Jon Eckermann. Special guest appearance: Frank Pasquale. Special exhibition: The Glass Room Experience, Tactical Technology Collective, Berlin. Workshops: Alistair Alexander, Tactical Tech. Intro Voice episodes: Anna Mendelssohn.

SOCIAL GLITCH -
Radical aesthetics and the consequences of extreme events

Vienna AT, 24/09 - 05/12 2015


▸ website / documentation

 

An exhibition project at KUNSTRAUM NIEDEROESTERREICH and in the public space of Vienna with projects in collaboration with TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien and WUK.performing.arts

 

CURATED BY: Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler and Maximilian Thoman

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Exhibition Kunstraum NOE: Lawrence Abu Hamdan (LB/GB), Ines Doujak (AT) & John Barker (GB), Earth Sensing Association /Nabil Ahmed & Pierre Blanc (GB), Sylvia Eckermann (AT), Harun Farocki (DE), Thomas Feuerstein (AT), Forensic Architecture / Susan Schuppli, Eyal Weizman et al. (GB), Christina Goestl (AT), Ayesha Hameed (CA/GB), Mathias Kessler (AT/USA), Mark Lombardi (USA), Jennifer Mattes (DE/AT), Gerald Nestler (AT), Godofredo Pereira (PT/GB), Axel Stockburger (AT), Technopolitics, UBERMORGEN (USA/CH/AT) Performative interventions and workshops: Heath Bunting (UK), Pablo Chieregin (IT/AT) & Marlene Hausegger (AT) & Elvedin Kla?ar (AT), Bernhard Garnicnig & Lukas Heistinger (AT), Manu Luksch (AT/GB), Gerald Straub (AT), Igor Vamos / The Yes Men (USA), Stefanie Wuschitz (AT) Performance (cooperation with WUK.performing.arts): Ursula Endlicher (AT/USA) with Frans Poelstra (NL/AT), Deborah Hazler (AT) Sound (cooperation with Tonspur Kunstverein Wien im Q21): Volkmar Klien (AT), Szely (AT)