Gernot Wieland

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: ECOPOETICS OF GENERIC WORLD, DIVERSEartLA 2022, LA, USA (2022); Transferencia, Kirchner Cultural Center, BIENALSUR 2021, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2021); Quartz Studio, Turin, Italy (2021); Videonale, Festival for Video und Time-Based Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2021); Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland (2020); Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (2020); ANIMA – Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2020); The Law is a White Dog, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, Ireland (2020); Wait and See, IFFR – International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2020); Zoo Cosmos, Casa Conti /Ange Leccia Art Center, Oletta, France (2020); 15th IndieLisboa – International Independent Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal (2020); 12×12, IBB Video Space at Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany (2020); Videoart at Midnight, Berlin, Germany (2020); Risentimento / Ressentiment, Merano Arte, Merano, Italy (2020); Grand Hotel Abyss, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, Austria (2019); Ink and Milk, Belmacz, London, UK (2019,); Vdrome, London, UK (2019); Monitoring, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany (2018); Zeitspuren, Centre d´art Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland (2018); a lecture performance at OGR, Torino, Italy (2018); Shame, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany (2018), Survival Kit 9, LCCA – Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia (2017); The Museum of Modern Comedy in Art – A Proposal, Projects Art Centre, Dublin, Ireland (2017); MOSTYN Open 20, Llandudno, Wales (2017); 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Vigeland Museum, Oslo, Norway (2017); 33rd International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany (2017); 34. Kasseler Dokumentar, Film und Videofest, Kassel, Germany (2017);

Gernot’s films have been screened internationally, at festivals such as Videonale, Festival for Video und Time-Based Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; IndieLisboa – International Independent Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal; EMAF – European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany; VIII Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia; Kasseler Dokumentar, Film und Videofest, Kassel, Germany; International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany; Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival, Athens, Greece; International Film Festival in Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Indonesia; Gimli Film Festival, Gimli, Canada; Dobra, Festival de Cinema Experimental, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

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.