Gernot Wieland
b. 1968, Austria
Gernot Wieland, (b.1968, Horn, Austria), studied at the Universität der Künste, Berlin and Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna. Drawing, video, and lecture performance, these are the predominant devices Gernot uses to subtly voice the complexities of living in our secular society. Through scribbly line, grainy film, and absurd presences, Gernot composes the narratives of his works by blending various rag-tag fragment into complex accounts where the personal alludes to the socio-historic and the socio-historic to the personal. Selected exhibitions include: Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (2020); Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland (2020); Quartz Studio, Turin (2020); ANIMA - Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei (2020); media annex (e), Argos, Brussels (2019); Ink in Milk, Belmacz, London (2019); Grand Hotel Abyss, steirischer herbst Festival, Graz (2019); Ideal-Types, HE.RO, Amsterdam (2018); Monitoring, Kunstverein Kassel (2018); Survival Kit 9, LCCA - Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga (2017); The Museum of Modern Comedy in Art - A Proposal, Projects Art Center, Dublin (2017); MOSTYN Open 20, Llandudno (2017); 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Vigeland Museum, Oslo (2017); Puppet Slam, Objects Do Things, CCA - Center for Contemporary Art, Warszaw, (2016); Histoires de l'Ile des Bienheureux, Musée du chateau des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard (2016); "Hello, my name is ..." ... and ... "Yes, I'm fine.", Maumaus / Lumiar Cité, Lisbon (2016); Liberty Taken - A festival of arts in the city of Bombay, Bombay (2015); Midsummer Night Scream, De Appel arts center, Amsterdam (2015); Figures of Conjunction, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg (2014); Pecha Kucha: The Bet, Kunst-Werke - Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2013); Anyone for Cricket ?, Kunstverein Horn, Horn (2013); Nach Bonn - Eine Montage, Kunstverein Bonn (2012); Common history and its Private Stories, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia (2012); Video_Dumbo, an exhibition of contemporary video art, New York (2011); Notre vallée, Musée du chateau des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard (2011); Derrida's cat ... que donc je suis (à suivre), Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin (2010); All the rest is literature, House of Contamination, Artissima, Torino (2010); EASTinternational at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (toured: Baltic, Newcastle; Contemporary Art Norwich, Norwich; Autocenter, Berlin, Germany) (2009). Gernot’s films have been screened internationally, at festivals such as, the International Film Festival in Rotterdam; Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival; Gimli Film Festival, Gimli (Canada); Dobra, Festival de Cinema Experimental, Rio de Janeiro; the Liverpool Biennial; VIII Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, St. Petersburg; and across Germany. In 2020 Gernot was awarded the Best Film Award at the VIII Kinodot Experimental Film Festival (St. Petersburg, Russia), and has subsequently been the recipient of numerous awards including the German Film Critics’ EMAF Media Art Award (2019); and the MOSTYN Open 20 (2017). Wieland lives and works in Berlin, Germany.