Antoinette Zwirchmayr : Selected Works

Antoinette Zwirchmayr lives and works in Vienna. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Visual Arts), University of Vienna (Romance Philology) and the Friedl Kubelka School (Artistic Photography and Independent Film). Her cinematic works have been presented at numerous festivals such as Berlinale (DE), Toronto International Film Festival (CA), International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (DE), FID Marseille (FR), CPH:DOX (DK), Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (CZ), Viennale (AT), Media City Film Festival (CA), FICUNAM (MX), Festival de Sevilla (ES), Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK) and have been granted with several awards and scholarships. These include a 6-month New York Residency (ISCP) 2022, the Outstanding Artist Award 2020, the Annual Fellowship for Photography (Kultur Land Salzburg) 2017, the START Fellowship of the Federal Chancellery 2017, the Kodak Cinematic Vision Award of the Ann Arbor Film Festival 2016, the Diagonale Award for Innovative Film 2016, the Diagonale Award for Best Short Documentary 2014 and the Birgit Jürgenssen Award in 2013. In addition, solo exhibitions took place at Anthology Film Archives, at CINEMATEK in Brussels (BE), Filmoteca Española Madrid (ES), Salzburger Kunstverein (AT), Filmmakers Fest Milano (IT), Monokino Ostend (BE). Her work has also been shown in group exhibitions at Belvedere Vienna (AT), Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz (AT), Cercle Cité, Luxembourg (LU), Salone degli Incanti, Trieste (IT), MUMOK Vienna (AT), Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR), McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco (US).