Moving image is the predominant device Gernot Wieland uses to subtly voice the complexities of living in our secular society. Through scribbly line, grainy film, and plastic forms, his videos blend various rag-tag fragments into complex, psycho-social narratives.

Publications and editions

Press and texts

Ink in Milk | ArtReview exhibition review by Mark Rappolt

On carpets, cats, cages | Art-Agenda review by Barbara Casavecchia

Body Luggage | Artforum review by Prajna Desai

Reference and Experience | Mousse review by Gigiotto Del Vecchio

Gernot Wieland “Thievery and Songs” | Vdrome interview with Zasha Colah

For Hatred of Crystals | text by Oskar Korsár

Gernot Wieland in conversation | interview with Kristina Marberger

Notes on Commentary in the work of Gernot Wieland | text by Maxwell Stephens

Artist bio

Gernot Wieland (b.1968, Horn, Austria), studied at the Universität der Künste, Berlin and Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna.

Drawing, video, and lecture-performance, 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, his videos emerge through a process of rag-tag blending. Here, historical accounts, personal memories and speculative imaginings become quasi-absurd narratives; humorous and psychologically pointed.

Recent exhibitions include: Square, Circle, Square, argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, Belgium (2023); Halb Nackt, Belmacz, London, UK (2023); Turtleneck Phantasies, Kindl – Centre for Contemporary Art – M 1 VideoSpace, Berlin, Germany (2022); ECOPOETICS OF GENERIC WORLD, DIVERSEartLA, LA, USA (2022); Transferencia, Kirchner Cultural Center, BIENALSUR, 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 the Berlinale 2024; 36th Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media; 42nd Uppsala Short Film Festival; Berlin Cultural Summer Festival; Jogja Fotografis Festival; the 69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen; the International Short Film Festival, Hoberhausen; 36th Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media,Stuttgart; 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.

Gernot has been the recipient of numerous awards and international prizes. Including, the aus-blicke prize (2023); the Main prize at the 69^th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2023); the best experimental film under 30 minutes at the German Short Film Awards (2022); a prize at the 24th edition of the Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Paris (2022); Best Film at the VIII Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia (2020); the German Film Critics’ EMAF Media Art Award (2019); the AG Kurzfilm prize for Best German Short Films (2017); in 2017 Gernot won the MOSTYN Open.

Gernot lives and works in Berlin.