Curriculum Vitae
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) (coming soon)
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 Face á Face, Galerie Le 108, mit Sebastien Pons, Orleans/F (coming)
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 (Munich)