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Verena Walzl
*1987, Wolfsberg (AUT)
Education
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Textual Sculpture (Heimo Zobernig); Performative Art (Carola Dertnig)
MA Fine Arts
University of Graz
BA German Language & Literature Studies
MA Art History
Academic Papers
- “There was Earth inside Them.” About earth-metaphors in Paul Celan’s No-One’s-Rose, BA Thesis, Institute of German Language and Literature Studies, University of Graz, 2010
- Chasm, opening, cavity: anthropogenic depressions in Land Art and the revelation of their human–nature relationship; Diploma thesis, Institute of Art History, University of Graz, 2014
Exhibitions
2025
Horses (Saliva doesn’t drop off soft hands), Diploma Show, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AUT
2024
Café Dasein, No Institute, Vienna, AUT
2023
Pallati i Ëndrrave, Festivali: Nën braza të kohës, Teatri Hadri Shehu, Gjakova, XS
2022
82 Gërvalla 22, Festival: Nën braza të kohës, Strellc, XS
2021
NANË! PSE NUK MA DHE NJË TRUP TJETËR?, Festival: Nën braza te kohës, Peja, XS
2018
Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (Heimo Zobernig Class)
Political Masturbation in Times of Uncertainty, City Gallery Klagenfurt, AUT (Solo)
2017
Les Traversées du Marais, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
Repérage artisique #3, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
2015
Sphere 01, Mohsen Gallery, Teheran, IRN
paper-paper studios, Madrid, ESP (Lecture)
Kristallin #17, with Juan Camilo Herrera, Salzamt, Linz (Performance)
Performance artists attract crowds and big money, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AUT
2014
Exhibting Eye (Performance of Anni Taskula, Agnieszka Pedziwiatr, Juan Camilo Herrera), Lentos, Linz, AUT (stagedesign)
literatur pic.nic, Norbert-Artner-Park, Klagenfurt, AUT
2013
hey production!, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AUT
2012
Fragment de la Nuit, University of Arts, Linz
Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AUT
Prizes / Grants / Residencies
- 2017 — Cité des arts, residency, Paris
- 2015 — kooshk Residency, Teheran, IRN
- 2013 — Carinthian Poetry Prize, Second Place, Klagenfurt, AUT
- 2013 — Grant, 17. Philosophicum, Lech am Arlberg, AUT
Publications
- Way to school. In: Im Fremden schreiben. Edition Atelier, Vienna: 2025.
- 24h Prishtina. In: Vom Weg Sein. financed by OeAD; Vienna: 2023.
- “Nagelneue albanische Namen”. Stereotypisierungen und framing in Peter Handkes Die Kuckucke von Velika Hoča. In: Peter Handkes Jugoslawienkomplex. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2022.
- Bulls and berries. In: Anaïs Horn & Eilert Asmervik: How do you feel about “Lou”?. Amsterdam: Meta/Books 2020.
- “I’m very happy, very contended and – oh, but it’s difficult to act happy!” In: Anaïs Horn: Je suis malheureuse et heureuse. Amsterdam: Meta/Books 2020.
- LICHTUNGEN. Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Zeitkritik. Jg./2016. (publication of poems)
- DIE BRÜCKE. Kulturzeitschrift Kärnten (publication of poems), 2014
- “And deliver us from ourselves. Comments on the motives of pain and self-discipline in performance art,” student magazine, Graz, 2013
- Female Complicity (About IN-BETWEEN) for Anaïs Horn’s exhibition IN-BETWEEN, Fluca Austrian Cultural Pavilion, Plovdiv (curated by Boris Kostadinov)
Reviews
- Timo Brandt: Rezension zu Lichtungen 146, 2017
- Rahma Khazam: „Wenn die Sardinenbüchse den Blick erwidert. Über nichtmenschliche Subjektivität und Handlungsfähigkeit.“ In: Springerin, Heft 1, 2019
Lectures
- “World Wide Stage. Regarding the problem of self-thematisation as artistic strategy in times of Social Media,” Kunstverein, Graz, AUT (Performance-Lecture), 2013
- “Pure soil and dirty holes. About earth as artistic material and the negative form in Land Art and Earth Works of the 60ies,” Projectspace 17, Prishtina, XS, 2022
- “Arts and Culture in Kosovo” for GoEast DAAD Summerschool, CNP, Prishtina, XS, 2023 & 2024
Verena Walzl has moderated numerous book presentations and readings with internationally acclaimed authors such as Barbi Marković, Anna Kim, Elias Hirschl, Martin Piekar, Maria Hofer, Karin Peschka, Elona Beqiraj, Jana Volkmann, Blerta Hoçia.
2025 she was co-organizer of the Alexander Kluge Retrospective: The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time in Kino Armata, Prishtina.