Bio
*1984 in Vienna, Austria.
Bruckner's work is shown internationally. Selected exhibitions and screenings: Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Mediterranea Biennial 19, San Marino, ICA Milano, the CAC Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneve, Galerie EIGEN+ART Lab, Berlin, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, transmediale 2020, the Kunstraum Niederösterreich, ZKM, the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, 16th Venice Architecture Biennial, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Sammlung Falkenberg, Galerie Reflector Contemporary, Bern, the Migros Musem für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, the Villa Croce, Museum for Contemporary Art, Genoa; the Kunsthaus in Hamburg, the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Galleri Box, Cabaret Voltaire at Manifesta 11, Zurich. Bruckner has lectured at various universities and institutions including the Bauhaus University of Weimar, the Lucerne School of Art and Design, Zurich University of the Arts and the BAC Center Contemporain in Geneva. She was a Visual Arts Fellow at the Istituto Svizzero in Rom, and was artist-in-residence at LAGO MIO residency Lugano, Akademie Schloss Solitude, the Banff Center for Visual Arts in Canada, the Sommerakademie Paul Klee and at the Jan Van Eyck Academie. She received the Recognition Award for Fine Arts of Lower Austria, 2020, the re:humanism Prize for Art & Artificial Intelligence, 2021, and most recently, the Pax Art Award, the Erste Bank MehrWERT Kunstpreis, and the Medienkunstpreis der Stadt Wien, 2022. Bruckner is interested in the conditions of labour that have been ermerging in response to the technologies of communicative capitalism.
Exhibitions and Screenings (selected)
2024
ANTRE PEAUX, Center for Contemporary Art, Bourges, forthcoming
iMAL, Brussels, forthcoming
Tectales, Screening, discotec gallery Vienna
Open Studio during Frieze London, Whitechapel
2023
HeK, House of Electronic Arts, Basel, Johanna Bruckner: Pax Art Awards 2022
Ars Electronica, 2023, public projection
CCA Radius, Delft, Radical Symbiosis: The Social Life of Mirobes.
Digital Arts Zurich, 19-29 Ocotber 2023
Bikalpa Art Center, Kathmandu, Screening & Artist Talk
2022
Suluv Gallery, Novi Sad. Johanna Bruckener: Unruly Desires for Cataclyismic Affects
Hybrid Biennale, Dresden Hellerau
Kunstverein das weisse Haus, Wien, Johanna Bruckner: BOYNCIANA, solo exhibition, Erste Bank MehrWERT Kunstpreis 2022
DOCK 20 Kunstraum und Sammlung Hollenstein, Wunderblock BETA: Johanna Bruckner
BERLINISCHE GALERE: Johanna Bruckner,
IBB-Videoraum
2021
Studio Miscetti Rome, SHE_DEVIL
Plicnik Space, SUB.RS
Geneva International Film Festival, Swiss Interative Sessions
UNI Zurich, Reality is Not
das weisse Haus Wien, connections unplugged. bodies rewired. Curated by Frederike Sperling
Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Werkschau, 2021
NEW NOW Festival, Essen
Helmhaus Zürich, Kunststipendium Bildende Kunst, Zürich
MAXXI, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Galerie Studio Miscetti, Video Screening
Stadtgalerie Bern, Galleria die Berna, Lesbica Futurista
Open Studios, Jan Van Eyck Academie
LAGO MIO, Lugano, Artist Residency, "Final presentation", exhibition
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien, love and other rhythms, Performance
ICA Milano, Trovate Ortensia. Curated by Il Colorificio
MAXXI, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, award show, Prize for Art & Artificial Intelligence, May, 2021
MEDITERRANEA 19, Young Artists Biennale, May - October 2021
Swissnex San Francisco, Screening and conversation on Crush Pad Lava
Technische Sammlung, Dresden, & Saloon London / Dresden, Molecular Minds // Monstrous Matters, curated by Mara-Johanna Kölmel
Swissnex, San Francisco, Johanna Bruckner: Crush Pad Lava
2020
Galerie Roehrs & Boetsch, Zürich, FitArt / Female Body
Artist-in-Residence exhibition, part I, "Work in progress", LAGO MIO, Lugano, curated by Benedikt Wyss
SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, double feature: Johanna Bruckner
Löwebraukunst, Schwarzes Cafe, Luma Westbau, Zürich, Intimate Estrangement, Screening
Galerie Wassermühle Trittau, Johanna Bruckner: Quantum Sex
Pylon-Lab Dresden, HYPERTENSION
NOEDOK St.Pölten, Niederösterreichische Kulturpreise
Istituto Svizzero, Milano, Screening, Reading and Conversation with Johanna Bruckner and Barbara Casavecchia
Digital Arts Festival, Taipeh, LOVE_01
Hyundai Motor Studios, Beijing, Artificial Intelligence and Love
Arebyte Gallery, London, curated by Phylon Lab. HYPERTENSION.
Improper Walls, Vienna. The (in)escapable monotony of pornographic representations.
Helmhaus Zürich, Kunststipendien Zürich 2020
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, #Caring. The New Alphabet.
transmediale 2020, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
CTM Festival, Performance, Berghain, Berlin
ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien
Sofia Art Week, Sofia, Espace Port A
(IM)POSSIBLE BODIES, Kaaihallen, s-Hertogenbosch
2019
SEA Foundation Tilburg, Johanna Bruckner
57 Venice Biennale, 2019, Molecular Ghosts of Love at Cinema Teatro Italia, Venice
CAC, Centre d’art contemporain Genève: Johanna Bruckner, Six Doors
MOM Art Space, Hamburg: SEXED POWER: Post-Feminismus? Post Me Too? Post-Gender? (forthcoming)
Centre for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Small Projects for Coming Communities, 24h, Hospitalhof Stuttgart, a project by OnCurating
Q8, Cologne, ACT
Grand Palais Bern: BLOCC
Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg. Mensch Macht Maschine (forthcoming)
2018
Galerie EIGEN+ART Lab, Berlin, "CHEERS"
Galerie EIGEN+ART Lab, Berlin, "Nomadic Bodies"
16th Venice Biennale, Architecture Exhibition, Displaying Cinematography: (Un-)Building Walls, Designing Architecture. Screening with works by Johanna Bruckner, Marie-France Rafael, Clemens von Wedemeyer
16th Venice Biennale, Architecture Exhibition, Swiss Pavillion; Performing Architecture, Goethe-Institute
Galerie Reflector Contemporary, Bern: Johanna Bruckner: Hyperbodies (solo)
Galerie Reflector Contemporary, Bern: Johanna Bruckner: Toxicoloy, Performance
OnCurating Project Space: Johanna Bruckner & Tyler Coburn
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Sammlung Falkenberg, Arbeitsstipendium, Bildende Kunst
Kino Rex, Bern, in the program of "Kunst und Film", Screening of Total Algorithms of Partiality
Künstlerhaus FAKTOR, Hamburg: Textiled Bodies, China Girls and Archi-Finance
HafenCity Hamburg, Performance & Screening im öffentlichen Raum (forthcoming)
2017
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, REALTY, im Rahmen des Fellowships Sommerakademie Paul Klee
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, “Real Time Auction as Utopia”
Untertage - im Waldhuus, best of visarte Zurich, 2017
Westwerk, Hamburg, Video Club 17
Galleri Box, Johanna Bruckner: REAL TIME UTOPIAS, Götheborg, Sweden (solo)
K3 / Kampnagel Hamburg, Performance, “Total Algorithms…”
Kino Metropolis Hamburg, The Building, a Scaffold, A Score: Screening of work by Johanna Bruckner
17th WRO Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw Art Center, Polen
2016
Museum of Contemporary Art, Genova, Villa Croce
Manifesta 11, Zurich at Cabaret Voltaire, Performance Program
Corner College, Zürich, Work, Dance Labour, Johanna Bruckner & Discoteca Flaming Star
2015
Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburger Arbeitsstipendium, Bewerberausstellung
Kunstraum Zürich, Station 21, Johanna Bruckner: Rebel Bodies
Kunstraum Klingental, Basel, Complaining won't burn Calories
2014
Kunsthaus Hamburg, “Macht“
Museum Bärengasse, “Unsettling the Setting“,
2013
Art-Athina 2013, Athens, International Contemporary Art Fair
2012
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, ‘Working, Weaving, A Line‘ by Yael Davids
‘In search of utopia, three-apartment exhibition, Stockholm
Holidays in Greece, as part of IMPORT EXPORT, Documeta 13, Kassel
2011
Frida Martha Tannhäuser, Berlin, ‘Luxus‘
Videoakt International Video Art Biennial, Barcelona
LOOP Video Art Fair ’10, Barcelona, ‘Indomitable Women‘, curated by Macu Moran
Media Facades Festival Europe 2010, Mobile Dinner
Armory Arts Week, New York, Flux Factory Gallery, New York
Kuma Galerie, Berlin, ‘Johanna Bruckner, JJ Levine‘
2010
Palazzo delle Arti, Naples, MAGMART
VIDEOFORMES 2010; Vidéothèque Ephémère, France
2009
Kuma Galerie, Berlin, Group Show
SLICK ’09 Contemporary Art Fair, Paris, Kuma Galerie
Publications (selected)
Phenomenology of Lecture Performance, ed. by Andrey Shental, with contributions by Hito Steyerl, Ciara Fumai, Uriel Orlow, Johanna Bruckner, et al.
#work, #dance, #labour, #movements: Johanna Bruckner & Discoteca Flamingstar, Corner College Press
On the transmissions of artistic gestures, work by Johanna Bruckner, Intervalla, Volume 5, Franklin University Switzerland
Boycott Grrrrrrrls, edited by Dimitrina Sevova, Tanja Trampe and Nadja Baldini, with work by Johanna Bruckner
Johanna Bruckner on Art 21, review by Michelle Jubin (CUNY, City University New York)
Feministische Theorie und Kritische Medienkulturanalyse, ed. by Tanja Thomas, Ulla Wischermann, transcript, 2018, with a contribution by Johanna Bruckner
Residencies & Artist Talks
Residencies
2024
CERN Connect Residency Award
Land Niederösterreich, Bundesländeratelier Paliano, IT
2023
London, Whitechapel, Landys & Gyr Foundation,
Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstifung, for Nepal, Southasia
2022
Novi Sad, Austrian Cultural Forum, Belgrade, Erste Bank Kunstpreis 2022
Fundazion Nairs
Novi Sad, Austrian Cultural Forum Belgrade, Erste Bank Mehrwert Kunstpreis 2022
2021-2022
Stadt Zürich Kultur, Atelier stipendium Genova
2020-21
Jan Van Eyck Academie
2020
LAGO MIO, Lugano, Artist-in-Residence, curated by Benedikt Wyss
2019-20
Istituto Svizzero, Rome, Artist-in-Residence
2019
Schloss Akademie Solitude / ZKM
Web Residency: "Engineering Care".
2017-19
International Fellowship, Sommerakademie Paul Klee, Bern, under the head of Tirdad Zolghadr
2015
The BANFF Center for Visual Arts, Canada, Artist-in-Residence
Atelierstipendium Zurich, “Limited Contract”, Kanton Zürich, 3 month
Awards and Grants
2022
Medienkunstpreis der Stadt Wien 2022
Pax Art Award
Erste Bank MehrWERT Kunstpreis 2022
2021
Prize for Art & Artificial Intelligence
Kunststipendium of the City of Zurich (fine arts grant) 2021
2017-2021
Several project grants for fine arts by foundations, city councils and further parties (PRO HELVETIA etc.).
2016
Hamburger Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst 2016
Swiss Young Artist Pro Helvetia Production Grant
2015
The BANFF Center residency, scholarship
Production Grant, City Council Hamburg / Kulturbehörde Hamburg
Production Grant, Hamburg Foundation of the Arts / Hamburgische Kulturstiftung
Atelierstipendium Zürich, Kanon Zürich
2014
‘Arbeits- und Projektstipendium Bildende Kunst‘, ‘Austrian Ministry for Art and Culture‘, (bmukk)
2013
‘Emanuel - and Sophie Fohn“ Foundation, Grant for excellent achievements, Vienna
Scholarship of the IFK Akademie 2012, The International Research Center for Cultural Studies,
University of Fine Art, Linz, with a grant by the Ministry for Research and Science‘, Austria
Begabtenförderung / Year-scholarship für excellent graduates, granted by the Karl H. Ditze Jury, Stipend of the„Freundeskeis der HFBK e.V´.
Grant for selected artists of the HFBK Hamburg to realise a production at the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof ´aus Mitteln der Karl H. Ditze Stiftung´
2010
Production grant to realize the project Mobile Dinner at the Medienfassadenfestival Europa 2010,
European Commission 07-13, a collaboration with Public Art Lab, Berlin
2009
„Internationales Nachwuchs-Wissenschaftsstipendium“ / Research Grant, KWA, University Vienna
Grant for studies abroad by the University of Vienna for the University of Fine Arts, Berlin (UdK)
2008
High Potential Award for outstanding achievments, University of Vienna
Erasmus-Scholarship, University Utrecht
2006–2009
High Achievement Grants for excellent study results, University of Vienna, annually
Statement
I am interested in the conditions of dissolved labour that have been ermerging in response to the technologies of communicative capitalism; often working with social and political references that emerge within the ruptures and struggles of our realities. Dancers and performers are significant in my work, films and video installations; in order to question the relation between subjectivities that are shaped by algorithms, seeking to rearticulate (historic) knowledge and cultural-economic realities.
The flow of information circulating in digital, algorithmic and real-time protocols around the globe serves as an ordering scheme for human knowledge. This “internet of things” is an invitation to the human intellect either to accept and participate or to refuse. How can practices of refusal and resistance be organised in order to offer a counter-hegemony to the total absorption of life into the ever-accelerating machine of capitalist abstraction? How can art contribute to invent a form of intellectual agency capable of affirming a social knowledge that affects the configuration of new relationships within a society of abstract singularities?
My work is an attempt to question the paradoxes and new potentialities of social cohesion in the dissolution of human agency today. Which forms of resistance emerge within the condition of the dissolution of labor? Which kinetic forms of practice could hold these new types of organisations together? If we perceive performance as agonistic moving, as per Chantal Mouffe’s “agonistic thinking”, do we think of labor as “agonistic performance”?
Talks & Lectures
2020
SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Johanna Bruckner in conversation with Matthias Ulrich
MASI, Museum of Contemporary Art of Ticino, Lugano, Artist Talk: Johanna Bruckner in conversation with Benedikt Wyss
TBA 21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Academy, The Many Oceans Waters, Panel discussion with Johanna Bruckner, Astrida Neimanis, Shanee Stopnitzky and Barbara Casavecchia
(IM)POSSIBLE Bodies, Panel discussion: The Future of Posthumanism with STRP Scenario, with Roanne van Voost, Iris van der Tuin, Johanna Bruckner, Marcel van Brakel, moderated by Annemarie Wisse
Istituto Svizzero, Milano, Barbara Casaecchia in conversation with Johanna Bruckner
Symposium transmediale 2020, panel speaker
2019
2019 Gothenburg University of Art & Design, Lecture: Johanna Bruckner
FHNW Basel, Vortrag, Hyperwerk, MFA, BLOCC: Kunst und Gentrifizierung
Kino Rex, Bern, Screening & Künstlergespräch: Johanna Bruckner im Gespräch mit Martha Kwiatkowski
Displaying Cinematography: (Un-)Building Walls, Designing Architecture; with Johanna Bruckner, Rebekka Kiesewetter, Christian Teckert, Clemens von Wedemeyer, moderiert und konzipiert von Marie-France Rafael, Filme von Johanna Bruckner, Marie-France Rafael, Clemens von Wedemeyer
2018
Perspektivwechsel #5, field notes, Galerie EIGEN+ART Lab, Berlin
Performing Architecture, Goethe-Institute, 16th Venice Biennale, Architecture Exhibition, Sale Docks, panel discussion chaired by Armin Avanessian
Affidamento - Creating Feminist Solidarity in Art & Creating, workshop, Migros Musum of Contemporary Art, Zurich
Black Mountain Re-visited, Symposium, ZHdK, panelist
Kunsthaus Hamburg, Panel discussion, I too, have been seduced by the promise of exposure
Reflektor, PROGR, Bern, Artist Talk
Untertage / Waldhuus, best of visarte Zürich, Artist Talk
Maritime spaces, history, and poetics, Corner College Zurich, with Teti Group
2017
Symposium Mulitasks, ZHdK Zürich; moderation of talks by Quinn Latimer; Madeleine Amsler; Lena Maria Thüring & Samuel Leuenberger; Peter Schneemann
Artist Talk: Daniel Kulle in conversation with Johanna Bruckner, Kino Metropolis, Hamburg
SCAFFOLD. Workshop organised and moderated by Johanna Bruckner; with invited participants Luisa Lorenza Corna, Merve Bedir, Abhijan Gupta, Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg
2016
Artist Talks: Johanna Bruckner in conversation with Stephan Dillemuth; Ane Hjort Guttu; Francesco Urbano Ragazzi; ZHdK Zürich
Screening and introduction of works by Marwa Arsanios; Sarah Abu Abdallah, ZHdK Zürich
2015
Artist Talk: Nina Möntmann in conversation with Johanna Bruckner, Y8 Hamburg
Artist Talk: Dorothee Richter in conversation with Johanna Bruckner, ZHdK Zürich & Museum Bärengasse, Zürich
Artist Talk: Katja Schröder in conversation with Johanna Bruckner, Kunsthaus Hamburg
Artist Talk: Choreography of Resistance, station 21 Zurich, Anke Hoffmann in conversation with Johanna Bruckner and Stefanie Knobl
Lecture: Lecture: Rebel Bodies, Johanna Bruckner, invited by Roberto Nigro, Zurich University of the Arts
Co-organisation of the symposium "imbued with soft infinities", together with Christian Hübler and Jörg Franzbecker; ZHdK, Zürich
Artist Talk, Johanna Bruckner, „folgendes“, in conversation with Marius Henderson and Wiebke Schwarzhans. HFBK, Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg
2013
Lecture: ‘Subjekte der Potenzialität‘, Zurich University of the Arts
Workshop/ Seminar: ‘Subjekte der Potenzialität‘, Zurich University of the Arts
Lecture: ‘Surplus beyond Accumulation. Notes on Intensified Time and the Labor of Art:
Towards an ethics of social intensification‘. IFK_Academy,
Paper for the section ‘The Flow in the experiment of the arts‘
2012
Lecture: Feminist International Forum, Talk on, ‘The Biopolitical Body and the Affective Turn‘,
BAC Batiment Art Contemporain, Geneve, as part of ETERNAL TOUR 2008-2012, University of Geneve
Lecture and Workshop at the Conference ‘We, the Public‘, Kunstmuseum Luzern
University Luzern, Schweiz, SARN Swiss Artistic Research Network
Presentation on ‘Artistic Research and Public Space‘, Royal Institute of Arts, Stockholm, 2012
2011
Artist talk between Johanna Bruckner and Michelle Jubin, CUNY Graduate Center, City University New York, New York City
Presentation at EUFRAD, The European Forum for Research Degrees in Art and Design, Stockholm
Lecture: What signifies a critical institution?
Practice Based Research, Conference, Bauhaus Universität Weimar
LOOP Video Art Fair, Barcelona; Conference Programm, Speaker in the panel ‘Curating Urban Screens‘
2010
Space:resolutions, International Conference for Research and Intervention in Visual Cultures,
Vienna University of Technology, presentation
CV
Education
2014
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg / Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg
Fine Arts, Time-based Media and Bühnenbild; with Michaela Melian, Matt Mullican and Jesko Fezer
Degree: Master in Fine Arts (with distinction)
2012
Royal Institute of Arts, Stockholm, Advanced Program for Professional Artistic Development, Artistic Research
2010
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Cultural and Critical Studies, Diplom
University of Fine Arts, Berlin, research semester to compelete the final thesis, Certificate
2009
University of Vienna, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Visual Cultures, Gender Studies
Degree: Master of philosophy (with distinction)
2008
University of Utrecht, Cultural and Social Anthropology (Erasmus program, University of Vienna, 12 month
2007
University of Vienna, International Development