Born in Austria, 1980
Lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts
EDUCATION
2006-2013
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Institute of Fine Arts and Media Art, Vienna, Austria
MFA in Painting
Jan. – May, 2012
University of the Arts London, Department of Fine Arts: Print and Time-Based Media, London, UK
Erasmus Exchange Program
1994-1999
Ortweinschule of Art and Design, Graz, Austria
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 “FIG.2 – BRISHTY ALAM, NICOLE PRUTSCH” (Duo Solo Exhibition), Center for Contemporary Arts Celje, Likovni Salon Gallery, Slovenia
2018 “BEYOND THE MEASURING PRINCIPLE”, Neue Galerie Graz, Studio, Joanneumsviertel, Graz, Austria
2017 “LA MÉTHODE”, Start Gallery MUSA Museum, Vienna, Austria
2016 “STENDHAL’S SILENCE”, Library of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
2015 “ENTSUMPFUNG”, Perinetkeller, Vienna, Austria
2014 “IN SUSPENSION”, Bodensee Art Fund, Wasserburg, Germany
2014 “FREMDKOERPER”, Galerie Marenzi, Leibnitz, Austria
2013 “PUSH – NICOLE PRUTSCH, JAKOB SCHIECHE” (Duo Solo Exhibition), Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2013 “MASSNAHME”, Museum of Natural History Vienna, Austria
2009 “BANG ON TARGET”, Kunstraum Praterstraße, Vienna, Austria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS, FILM SCREENINGS (s), AND CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024
photo graz 024, Altes Kino Leibnitz, AT
2023
AgX Open Studios 2023, Waltham, MA, USA
SENSAI FilmFest, Quarter Finalist (Personal Cuts/Hands), Tokyo, Japan (s)
“NOTES AFTER LONG SILENCE. ON AUSTRIAN AND AMERICAN STRUCTURAL FILM.”, Revolutions Per Minute Festival Boston and Millennium Film Workshop New York, USA (curatorial project)
2022
“Resonance. Selections from the AgX Film Collective.”, Nonamecinema, Santa Fe, NM, USA (s)
2021
“Is it Me? Am I the Drama?” Salzburger Kunstverein Annual Exhibition, Salzburg, Austria
“FLICKFAIR Film Festival”, Los Angeles, California, USA (s)
“Hypnotic Suggestions: Recent Works by the AgX Film Collective. Co-presented by Non-Event”, Norman B. Leventhal Park, Boston, MA, USA (s)
2020
“Recent Works from the AgX Film Collective”, Waltham Virtual Open Studios, MA, USA (s)
2019
“Visible/Invisible” – AgX films at Fort Point Open Studios, Boston, MA, USA (s)
“Boston Short Film Festival”, Somerville Theatre, Somerville, MA, USA (s)
“Visible/Invisible. AgX Film Collective”, Zumzeig Cinema, Barcelona, Spain; L’Abdominable, Paris, France (s)
“11th Annual Student Art Show of Harvard University”, Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
“Shaking the Frame: Experimental Film from AgX Film Collective”, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA (s)
“Revolutions Per Minute Festival”, UMass Boston, Boston, MA, USA (s)
2018
“Non-Event Year-End Concert and Fundraiser”, The Yard, John Hancock Tower, Boston, MA, USA
“AgX at AFW”, Arena Project Space, Melbourne, Australia (s)
“Función Especial: AgX Boston Film Collective”, Kino Palais, Buenos Aires, Argentina (s)
“Ein trüber, zerkratzter Spiegel- 20 Jahre Galerie Marenzi Leibnitz”, Quartier Marenzi, Leibnitz, Austria
“10th Harvard Student Art Show”, The Crossings Gallery of Harvard University, Allston, MA, USA
“Science and Ethnicity. Austrian Anthropological Research in Banat in the 1930ies”,
Bucharest Municipality Museum, Bucharest, Romania
“SOLO EXHIBITION”, a project by Ivan Moudov, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017
“Past Present Future”, ARCC.art Open Space, Vienna, Austria
“Bewährungsprobe#14″, Depot, Vienna, Austria
2016
“Förderpreis des Landes Steiermark für zeitgenössische bildende Kunst”, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria
“Perform Painthink”, Art for Art Theaterwerkstätten, Arsenal Objekt 19, Vienna, Austria
“Fotografija – Photo Graz Selection 014″, Austrian Cultural Forum Zagreb: Galerija Oranžerija, Vukovar, Croatia / Galerija Waldinger, Osijek, Croatia/ Muzej – Museo Lapidarium- Novigrad, Croatia
2015
“+45 +55 +95 +”, Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest, Hungary
“Fotografija – Photo Graz Selection 014″, Austrian Cultural Forum Zagreb, Croatia / Centar za kulturu Čakovec, Croatia
“SMALL”, Kunstraum SUPER, Vienna, Austria
“Die Stadt die es nicht gibt”, City Leaks Urban Art Biennale 2015, Carlswerk Gelände Köln, Germany
“An der Straße / Na cesti”- 60 Jahre südsteirische Weinstraße, Outdoor Galerie südst. Weinstraße, Austria
“With and Without” Photo miniature Biennale, Mansarda Gallery, Faculty of Arts and Design Timisoara, Romania
“Double-Faced Imagery-a Fugue”, wellwellwell, Vienna, Austria
2014
“(Un)expected Form”, Locomot, Hochhaus Herrengasse, Vienna, Austria
“Photo Graz 2014″, Papierfabrik, Graz, Austria
“Parallel Vienna 2014″, Art fair, Vienna, Austria
“Georg Trakl-Preis für bildende Kunst”, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
“Dance With Us”, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Austria
“Visual Ends: The Edge of Perception”, F L A T Space Chicago, Illinois, USA
2013
“Discovering Borderlands”, selected venues in Moscow, Russia
“Downtown TULSA”, selected venues in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
2012
“Fragments of Unspoken Thoughts”, Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana
“onFIRE”, Old Fire Station Vauxhall, London, UK
“Trompe-l’oeil / interpassive.”, Vyner Street Gallery, London, UK
“PANOPTICON”, The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, London, UK
“FAMILIENALBUM”, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany
“Group Show”, 0GMS Gallery Drawer, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011
“Defining Space”, In der Kubatur des Kabinetts: der Kunstsalon im Fluc, Vienna
“Things that Talk” Vienna Art Week, Museum of Natural History Vienna
“embassyextravaganza”, Mo.e. Vienna
“KÖRPER / KONTROLLE / EXZESS”, Künstlerhaus Passagegalerie
“The Human Market”, Performance, Ragnarhof, Vienna
“Road to nowhere- True stories”, made of contemporary, Grundsteingasse, Vienna
“Kollektiv Akt III”, Mo.e, Vienna
“Die Zukunft der Arbeit”, IZD Tower, Vienna
2010
“Die Zukunft der Arbeit”, Arbeiterkammer Vienna
“Black Peppermint”, In der Kubatur des Kabinetts: der Kunstsalon im Fluc, Vienna
“Klassenlos”, Akademie Galerie Nürnberg
2009
“The Essence”, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
2008
„Floating“, In der Kubatur des Kabinetts: der Kunstsalon im Fluc, Vienna
„The Essence“, Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna
“Bilder im Birkenwald wirken bald”, Kunstraum Praterstraße, Vienna
2007
“The Essence”, Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna
“Cross Borders”, Masc Foundation, Vienna
ARTIST TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
May 4 and 6, 2023 “Notes After Long Silence. On Austrian and American Structural Film”, Introduction and Q&A, Revolutions Per Minute Festival, UMass Boston, University Hall, and Millennium Film Workshop New York
Oct. 23, 2021 Introduction of “X-TRACTS” (1972) by Leslie Thornton at the Harvard Film Archive Student Cinematheque
Nov. 6, 2020 “Research/Creation, a Virtual Mini-Symposium”, Artist Talk, MFA Program at NSCAD University, Nova Scotia, Canada
March 21, 2019 “Shaking the Frame: Experimental Film from AgX Film Collective”, Q&A, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Sept. 14, 2019 The Harvard Advocate, Summer 2019 Issue Release, Artist Talk, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Feb. 2, 2019 Revolutions Per Minute Festival, Special Program I, AgX Film Collective, Q&A, UMass Boston
May 2, 2017 “Bewährungsprobe#14″, Artist Talk, Depot–Space for Art and Discussion, Vienna, Austria
June 22, 2016 “Body Images: Working with Scientific Methodology. Nicole Prutsch in conversation with Andreas Spiegl”, Artist Talk, Salon IG, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Sept.16, 2012 “Reverse Engineering”, Artist Talk, Paraflows–Platform for Digital Art and Culture, Symposium, Museums Quarter Vienna, Austria
Oct. 17, 2011 “Art and Science”, Artist Talk, 1st Science Bar Camp Vienna, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Vienna, Austria
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2023 Project Grant, Austrian Cultural Forum New York
2023 Project Grant, Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria (BMKOES)
2022 Project Grant, Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria (BMKOES)
2022 Project Purchase, Arts and Culture Division of the Province of Styria, Austria
2019 Project Purchase, Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
2018 Project Grant, Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria (BMKOES)
2018 Project Grant, Arts and Culture Division of the Province of Styria, Austria
2017 Project purchase, MUSA Museum Start Gallery Artothek, Vienna, Austria
2017 Project Grant, Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria (BMKOES)
2016 Promotion Award of the Arts and Culture Division of the Province of Styria, Austria
2016 Project purchase, Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria (BMKOES)
2012 Erasmus Scholarship, University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College of Art
2010 Fred Adelmüller Scholarship of the University of Applied Arts, Austria
2010 “The Future of Work”, Sponsorship of Arbeiterkammer (official representation of employees), Austria
RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AFFILIATIONS
2021-2022 Member of the Harvard Film Archive Student Cinematheque, Cambridge, MA, USA
2018-Present Member of the AgX Film Collective in Boston, MA, USA
2018-Present Postdoctoral fellowship, DFCI Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
2015 Artist in Residence, Tapiola Guest Studio, Helsinki, Finland.
2014 Artist in Residence, Bodensee Art Fund, Lake Constance, Germany.
2012 Erasmus Exchange Program, University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College of Arts, London, UK.
1986-1987 German International School, Mashhad, Iran.
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Is it Me? Am I the Drama? Exhibition Catalogue of the Annual Show of the Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
2020 nicole prutsch. beyond the measuring principle. DISTANZ Verlag Berlin
2019 The Harvard Advocate, Summer 2019 issue (printed version)
2018 Ein trüber, zerkratzter Spiegel- 20 Jahre Galerie Marenzi Leibnitz, Exhibition Catalogue, Quartier Marenzi, Leibnitz, Austria
2016 Promotion Prize of the Province of Styria for Contemporary Fine Arts Catalogue, Museum Joanneum
2014 The Art of Reverse Engineering. Open, Dissect, Rebuild. Edited by Günther Friesinger and Jana Herwig. Transcript-Verlag