claudia pilsl
Claudia Pilsl creates installations and projection works that engage diverse audiences in and beyond the gallery space. Her projects explore the agency of the photographic/filmic frame and its potential of instigating change. Her experience of collaborating within various socio-cultural contexts has informed her belief that participatory works are empowering both to individuals and communities. Her work is included in contemporary art collections such as the Museum of modern Art Vienna, Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, the DG Bank Collection, the Art Collection of Upper Austria, SK Stiftung Cologne, and the Photo Collection Austria. She won two major fellowships (Arts Council Austria, City of Bremen), the Prize for Visual Art of Upper Austria, and a Research Fellowship at Southampton Institute. In 2021 she was awarded a DYCP grant from Arts Council England. She has had residencies at various locations such as Rome, New York, Gainsborough (UK) Gmünd in Carinthia (A) or most recently at the Salzamt in Linz(A). As an artist she has curated various shows and screening programmes such as the exhibition Liquid Now, Kitform in Bristol (UK) or the screening event a body is a body is a body, Cube cinema, Bristol.
Education... In 2020 she was awarded a PhD for her practice research on ‘Digital Porosity and its Impact on the Mediation of Networked Images’ at the University of Plymouth (Funded by The 3D3 Center for Doctoral Training Programme). Prior to starting her doctoral inquiry, she undertook an MA in Photography and Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London (2013) and an MA in Combined Media at University of Applied Arts in Vienna (1994).
