Bio
Engaging in moving image production, writing, archiving, research and teaching, Laura Nitsch is interested in the connections between desire and economy, work and friendship, property and education, class struggles and collectivity. She is working with queer production practices, archives of the working classes, marginalized and resistant narratives and critical fabulation (Saidiya Hartman) responding to the limits of official archives and narratives.
Nitsch has been shown in cinemas, galleries and institutions including Diagonale Graz, mumok cinema Vienna, NGBK Berlin, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Xhibit Vienna, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Blickle Kino Belvedere 21, Vienna and online. She was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Zurich University of the Arts. Together with İpek Hamzaoğlu she is co-founder of Hekate Film Collective.
contact
Laura.nitsch@posteo.de
@theofficialnitsch →
Vimeo →
Hekate Film Collective →
Comissioned Camera work →
Grants / Awards
2024
participant Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Projekt Berlin. Co-funded by the European Union (European Social Fund Plus) and by the Federal State of Berlin, DE.
2023
The work Violett becomes part of the Art collection of the City of Vienna, AT.
2021—2022
Scholarship for Mediaart — BMKOES, Vienna, AT.
2021
Mentoring for young artists — Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT.
Studio Scholarship — Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT.
2020
Theodor Körner Award — Theodor Körner foundation, Federal Chamber of Labor, AT.
2019
Nomination Science Award — Academy of fine Arts Vienna, AT.
2017
Pixel, Bytes & Film / Artist in Residence — ORFIII, BKA, arte creative, AT.
Cathrin Pichler Award — Academy of fine Arts Vienna, AT.
Scholarship of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, AT.
2016
Scholarship of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, AT.
2014
Art School Alliance Scholarship for Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, CA.
Teaching / Workshops
2022
CRUISING THE ARCHIVE — workshop in the context of 'In the meantime, midday comes around' Kunsthalle am Karlsplatz, Vienna, AT.
2021
IT WON‘T BE BETTER IN THE FUTURE — Workshop with Malu Blume and Laura Nitsch. Pop-Culture-Festival, Berlin, DE.
2020
You never work alone! On collective, collaborative, and commissioned filmproduction — Seminar with Ipek Hamzaoğlu. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT.
2019
Many More Rooms Of One‘s Not-Own! — Seminar and onlinepublication with Tyna Fritschy. Zurich University of the Arts / Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT.
2018
Assistent of Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dorit Margreiter. Institute of Fine Arts. Department Video and Videoinstallation. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT.
Call for Survival! Between skills and resistance: Organizing precarious cultural workers — Workshop with Tyna Fritschy IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, AT.
Queerfeminist Survival Training: Precariousness, politics of friendship and the longing for normality — Workshop with Tyna Fritschy. Archipelago Lab, Leu-phana University, Lüneburg, DE.
Education
2015—2019
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Master in Critical Studies, with Dorit Margreiter & Prof. Dr. Ruth Sonderegger.
2008—2015
HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Diploma in Time-based Media Studies, with Michaela Melian & Prof. Dr. Hanne Loreck.
2014
San Francisco Art Institute. Cultural Studies & Film, with Megan Bayles & Jeff Rosenstock.
2011—2012
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Post-Conceptual Art Practices, with Prof. Dr. Marina Gržinić, Erasmus program.
Bio
Engaging in moving image production, writing, archiving, research and teaching, Laura Nitsch is interested in the connections between desire and economy, work and friendship, property and education, class struggles and collectivity. She is working with queer production practices, archives of the working classes, marginalized and resistant narratives and critical fabulation (Saidiya Hartman) responding to the limits of official archives and narratives.
Nitsch has been shown in cinemas, galleries and institutions including Diagonale Graz, mumok cinema Vienna, NGBK Berlin, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Xhibit Vienna, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Blickle Kino Belvedere 21, Vienna and online. She was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Zurich University of the Arts. Together with İpek Hamzaoğlu she is co-founder of Hekate Film Collective.
Contact
Laura.nitsch@posteo.de
@theofficialnitsch →
Vimeo →
Hekate Film Collective →
Comissioned Camera work →
Grants
2024
participant Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Projekt Berlin. Co-funded by the European Union (European Social Fund Plus) and by the Federal State of Berlin, DE.
2023
The work Violett becomes part of the Art collection of the City of Vienna, AT.
2021—2022
Scholarship for Mediaart — BMKOES, Vienna, AT.
2021
Mentoring for young artists — Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT.
Studio Scholarship — Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT.
2020
Theodor Körner Award — Theodor Körner foundation, Federal Chamber of Labor, AT.
2019
Nomination Science Award — Academy of fine Arts Vienna, AT.
2017
Pixel, Bytes & Film / Artist in Residence — ORFIII, BKA, arte creative, AT.
Cathrin Pichler Award — Academy of fine Arts Vienna, AT.
Scholarship of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, AT.
2016
Scholarship of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, AT.
2014
Art School Alliance Scholarship for Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, CA.
Teaching /
Workshops
2022
CRUISING THE ARCHIVE — workshop in the context of 'In the meantime, midday comes around' Kunsthalle am Karlsplatz, Vienna, AT.
2021
IT WON‘T BE BETTER IN THE FUTURE — Workshop with Malu Blume and Laura Nitsch. Pop-Culture-Festival, Berlin, DE.
2020
You never work alone! On collective, collaborative, and commissioned filmproduction — Seminar with Ipek Hamzaoğlu. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT.
2019
Many More Rooms Of One‘s Not-Own! — Seminar and onlinepublication with Tyna Fritschy. Zurich University of the Arts / Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT.
2018
Assistent of Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dorit Margreiter. Institute of Fine Arts. Department Video and Videoinstallation. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT.
Call for Survival! Between skills and resistance: Organizing precarious cultural workers — Workshop with Tyna Fritschy IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, AT.
Queerfeminist Survival Training: Precariousness, politics of friendship and the longing for normality — Workshop with Tyna Fritschy. Archipelago Lab, Leu-phana University, Lüneburg, DE.
Education
2015—2019
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Master in Critical Studies, with Dorit Margreiter & Prof. Dr. Ruth Sonderegger.
2008—2015
HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Diploma in Time-based Media Studies, with Michaela Melian & Prof. Dr. Hanne Loreck.
2014
San Francisco Art Institute. Cultural Studies & Film, with Megan Bayles & Jeff Rosenstock.
2011—2012
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Post-Conceptual Art Practices, with Prof. Dr. Marina Gržinić, Erasmus program.