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Katrina Daschner
The Borrowed Eye of a Needle


Biography

Katrina Daschner

Born 1973 in Hamburg, lives and works in Vienna
 

Selected Solo Exhibitions / Filmfestivals

2024
The Borrowed Eyes of a Needle, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna

2023
„Wir wollen kein Theater. Wir wollen ein anderes Theater“ (stage design), WerkX, Vienna
Hiding In The Lights, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb

2022
Burn & Gloom! Glow & Moon! Thousand Years of Troubled Gender, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

2021
GLOWING ACTS, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
Hiding in the Lights, New Horizons Festival, Wrozlaw
Hiding in the Lights, Stadtkino, Vienna
Hiding in the Lights, Diagonale, Festival des Österreichischen Films, Graz
POMP, Short Waves Festival, Poznan
Plum Circus, XPOSED International Queer Film Festival, Berlin

2020
Schüttblenden, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
Hiding in the Lights, Diagonale, Festival des Österreichischen Films, Graz
Hiding in the Lights, New Horizons Festival, Wroclaw
Special Mention/ Queer Art Competition, Queerlisboa Lesbian & Gay Festival, Lisbon
Eine achtteilige „Traumnovelle“ von Katrina Daschner, Kurzfimtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen/Germany
66. Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (int. competition Oberhausen / Germany with „Pomp“)
Pomp, Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria
Pomp, Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival, Vienna
Pomp, Diagonale, Festival des Österreichischen Films, Graz

2019         
Peacock Hole, Transilvania Film Festival, Cluj

2018         
Daschner, Studio / Neue Galerie, Graz
Film festival Trailer für die Diagonale 2018 - Festival des Österreichischen Films, Graz
Pferdebusen, BIEFF Int Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest
Pferdebusen, Filmfest, Dresden
Pferdebusen, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor
Pferdebusen, Mix Brasil, Sao Paolo

2017         
Filmfestival Trailer für die 63. Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
63. Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (int. competition) Oberhausen

2016         
Hiding in the Lights – Films by Katrina Daschner, brut Theater, Vienna
62. Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (int. competition), Oberhausen

2015         
DASCHNER, Tiroler Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck
61. Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (int. competition), Oberhausen
Daschner, Kunst im Schaufenster, Vienna
Frameout Filmfestival, Vienna (Personale)

2014         
60. Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (int. competition), Oberhausen
Nouvelle Burleque Brutal, 7th Beijing Queer Film Festival, Beijing

2013         
Katrina Daschner – „Was guckst du, bin ich Kino?“, MUMOK Kino, Vienna
Katrina Daschner - Mixtape, 13. Int. Film Festival, Wroclaw
59. Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (int. competition), Oberhausen

2012         
Portraiture Series #1: Daschner, Blickle Kino 21er Haus-The Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna
DASCHNER, Krobath Wien │ Berlin, Berlin

2011         
Flamingo Massacre, Krobath Wien │ Berlin, Vienna
BERTLMANN / DASCHNER (together with Renate Bertlmann), Kunstbunker, Nuremberg

2010         
Daschner – ein Dialog, Jesuitenforum, Vienna
BERTLMANN / DASCHNER (together with Renate Bertlmann), VE.SCH, Vienna
Against the act – 3 essays about violence, Centre d’art passerelle, Brest

2009         
ARIA DE MUSTANG, upstream gallery, Amsterdam

2008         
HAFENPERLEN, k/haus passage, Vienna

2007         
Fear eat soul up, thrust projects, New York City
TäterIn, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna

2006         
Nature, nature I´m your bride; take me as I am, upstream gallery, Amsterdam
Nature, nature I´m your bride; take me as I am, Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna
1+1+1 presents „Salon Lady Chutney“, Sinaloa 199#12, México D.F.

2005         
Dolores, factory Kunsthalle Krems, Krems

2004         
Killing the systems softly, video-and book presentation, galerie kunstbuero, Vienna
Katrina Daschner, upstream gallery, Amsterdam
Murderess, Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna

2003         
Carmilla: Sie, Dracula tritt auf, die Prinzessin tritt ab, und der Held weint, Antonio Ferrara, Emilia Reggio
No fear is seen, unless upon the green, buro empty, Amsterdam

2002         
>photocopied mrs. d<, Auto, Vienna
Vincent, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg

2001         
Dreaming Still, Salon Lady Cutney, Vienna
Wanting sweet, Antonio Ferrara, Emilia Reggio

1999         
Ojos bien cerrados, La Panaderia, México D.F.

1998         
Mutter mit Marmelade, Galerie 5020/Studio, Salzburg
 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
You You, curated by Kate Sutton, Lombardi—Kargl, Wien 

2023
... and they lived..., Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava
Precious, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna 

2022
Body and Territory, Art and Borders in Today´s Austria, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb
Little Precious Things, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna

2021         
Of things baroque (Stretchy-Feely) with POMP, Kunstverein Leipzig, Leipzig

2020         
attempt at rapprochement, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
The body and the territory: art and borders in today's Austria, Museum of contemporary art, Zagreb
The body and the territory: art and borders in today's Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz

2019         
Up and including Limits: Carolee Schneemann, Muzeum Susch, Susch
Zeig mir Deine Wunden, Dom Museum, Vienna

2017         
Material Traces, Galerie Charim, Vienna 
BONE- Performance Festival, Bern
lightness and matter/matter and lightness, Kunstraum NÖ, Vienna
Bilder der Sprache und Sprache der Bilder, Dom Museum Wien, Vienna

2016         
art & function, Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag
femtrails – I gave my cock a woman`s name, The Sorority, Spektakel, Wien
Chapeau!, Wien Museum, Vienna
Gomenes, Athen Biennal 5-6, Athen
Zeta Galery, Tirana, Albania

2015         
Travestie für Fortgeschrittene, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
Self-timer Stories, MUSAC, León
In der Kubatur des Kabinetts, Fluc, Vienna

2014         
Selbstportraits, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
Self-timer Stories, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
STAGE SET STAGE, SBC Gallery, Montreal
Call me on sunday, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna

2013         
S/he is the one, Kunstraum NÖ, Vienna
re.act.feminism # 3, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
HEISSE STEINE, NASSE ZONEN, SCHNELLE MELONEN, VBKÖ, Vienna
The Great Stage, Blackbridge Off, Beijing

2012         
re.act.feminism # 3, Fundació Antoni Tàpies
, Barcelona
Rosa Arbeit auf goldener Strasse – Queere Abstraktion, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna
Vollmilch – Der Bart als Zeichen, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz (catalogue) re.act.feminism # 2, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
Night, Ostlicht, Vienna (catalogue)
L'éducation de Rosette, Schloss Harmannsdorf, Harmannsdorf (catalogue)
Bleibender Wert? Kooperation >springerin<, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz

2011         
living on the edge of a silver future, Galerie 5020, Salzburg
Wiener Innen Aussen, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin

2010         
Architektur und Körper, Krobath Wien │ Berlin, Berlin
Crossing Limits. Art in urban transition, (curated by U.M.Probst), ViennaArtWeek, Vienna
raum_körpereinsatz, MUSA, Vienna (catalogue)

2009         
A Ladies Almanach, (with Ines Doujak and Dorit Margreiter), tranzitdisplay, Prague
Performance und Gender, Politik und Intercultural Studies, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna (catalogue)
The Seen and the Hidden, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City
Smell it!, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna 
Kunstpreis der Böttchergasse, Weserburg - Museum für Moderner Kunst, Bremen 
The Porn Identity, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (catalogue)

2008        
just different, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen (magazine)
MATRIX – geschlechter/Verhältnisse/Revisionen, MUSA, Vienna (catalogue)
Seems to be. Differente identitäten zwischen ich/wir/queer, Kunstpavillion der Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck
I QUEERELANTI, Galleria Neon, Bologna
Dear Anus, Vbkö, Vienna
Diskonta 3 - Fotografie, IG Bildenden Kunst Galerie, Vienna

2007         
<auto in riga>, Showroom 6, Riga 
Art Rotterdam, (upstream gallery), Rotterdam

2006         
Potential Dialogue, RCM The museum of modern art, Nanjing (catalogue)
Queer arts of Vienna, Universität Wien, Vienna
QueerulantInnen, auto, Vienna 
Protections, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (catalogue)
Von Crossdressing zu Dragkinging, Palaver, Graz
arabesque süperiör-Postfeministische Montagen an der Islamrezeption, Lothringer13/Laden, Munich
Missbrauch. Bilder davon, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna

2005         
ongoing. feminism & activism, galerie 5020, Salzburg
Junge Liste Basel, (upstream gallery/Amsterdam, galerie kunstbuero/Vienna), Basel
8th Festival Cultural de Mayo, Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara/México
<Gosh! Where are you? ... now ... >, Auto, Vienna
viennAffair, galerie kunstbuero, Vienna

2004         
bukowski-hommage, ex-teresa, México City/México
Lippenstiftbilder, Halle A/14, Berlin
Der doppelte Blick, Künstlerhaus Bregenz (folder)
Junge Liste Basel, (upstream gallery/Amsterdam), Basel
No risk no glory, loop raum, Berlin

2003         
mothers of invention, mumok, Vienna (catalogue)
Blurrr, Performance Biennale, Tel Aviv (catalogue/cd)
5th International Performancefestival Navinki 2003, Minsk (catalogue)
In faccia al mondo, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova (catalogue)
Artforum Berlin, gallery antonio ferrara, Reggio Emili
Zugluft, Zurich 4th Austrian Triennal on Photography, Graz (catalogue)

2002         
Wien umgehen, Tanzquartier Wien Vienna
Let´s twist again, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Autum in Reggio Emilia, Antonio Ferrara
Artforum Berlin, gallery antonio ferrara, Reggio Emilia

2001         
Trammelled-Untrammelled, Zacheta, Warsawa (catalogue)
Never stop the action, Steirischer Herbst, rotor, Graz (cd)
Festival Autriche, (Killing the systems softly), Batofar, Paris, (catalogue)
Chutney Mary, Info-screen, museum in progress, Vienna
Artforum Berlin, gallery antonio ferrara, Reggio Emilia
Double life, Generali Foundation, Vienna (catalogue)
Moving out, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (catalogue)

2000         
Die neue Künstlergeneration, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems (catalogue)
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Etsdorf (book)
Residue, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Never alone again, La Panaderia, México, D.F. 
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Etsdorf (catalogue)
Saloon Lady Chutney, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna

1999         
Video stage 1.0, Candid Arts Trust, London 
Kurzfilmfestival, Munich
Modebus, Museumsquartier, Vienna
Gender troubles, Schikanederkino, Vienna
Weiße Spritzer, Museum Karlsruhe, KarlsruheHearing, iftaf, Vienna

1998         
Junge Szene 98, Secession, Vienna (catalogue)
2 plateaux II, Ausstellungsraum mezzanin, Vienna
)limit(ed., Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Vienna (Folder)
Auch Heinz und Susi, Künstlerhaus/Passagegalerie, Vienna (Folder)
Nach 68 VERLANGEN UND BEGEHREN, Salle de Bal, Vienna

1997         
Gruppenaufnahme, Messepalast, Vienna
JAM, Semper Depot, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna

1996        
Das Festival, Künstlerhaus/passage, Vienna
 

Selected Performances

2017           
CLUB GROTESQUE FATAL (Anti Valentines Ball), WUK, Vienna

2015           
CLUB GROTESQUE FATAL (Queer Performance Festival Vienna), Kosmos Theater, Vienna

2014           
CLUB GROTESQUE FATAL – Sylvester Gala, brut/Künstlerhaus, Vienna

2013           
Club Burlesque Brutal – Best of 2013, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
Club Burlesque Brutal, performance at Bookpresentation of Denice Bourbon, Elysium, Vienna
Club Burlesque Brutal, performance at Gender Crash, brut Vienna, Vienna

2012           
Club Burlesque Brutal – Gourmet Brutal, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
Club Burlesque Brutal – ANIMALÖS MONSTRÖS, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna

2011           
Club Burlesque Brutal, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), Staatstheater Dresden, Dresden
Club Burlesque Brutal, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), SO36, Berlin
Club Burlesque Brutal, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Club Burlesque Brutal – ZUM DIKATAT BITTE!, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
Club Burlesque Brutal – BEST OF, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
Club Burlesque Brutal – MEDIKAMENTÖS, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna

2010           
Club Burlesque Brutal – FAIRY TALES, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
Club Burlesque Brutal – BOOBS AND BALLS, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
Club Burlesque Brutal – LA TRISTESSE, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna

2009           
Gala Burlesque Brutal – DER GROSSE AUSRITT, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
The gun is still loaded (as „Frau Professor la Rose“), Kosmos Frauenraum, Vienna

2008           
Orlanding the Dominant – Eine queere Burlesque, Performance (with SV DAMENKRAFT,Gustav, Sissy Boyz), brut-konzerthaus, Vienna
Frau Professor la Rose, solo performance im brut/Foyer, Vienna

2005
Der Leichenschleicher, echoraum, Vienna (with Gini Müller)
Der Ohrenzeuge (Elias Canetti Festival), Kleylehof/Burgenland/Austria (with Gini Müller)

2004
No risk no glory, loop raum, Berlin, solo performance

2003
Blurrr, Performance Biennale, Tel Aviv, solo performance (catalogue/cd)
5th International Performancefestival Navinki2003, Minsk, solo performance (catalogue)

2002
>photocopied mrs. d<, Auto, Vienna, Performance with Sabine Marte
Wien umgehen, Tanzquartier Wien Vienna, solo performance

2001
Trammelled-Untrammelled, Zacheta, Warsawa, solo performance (catalogue)
Never stop the action, Steirischer Herbst, rotor, Graz, solo performance (cd)       
Dreaming Still,Salon Lady Cutney, Vienna, solo performance
Wanting sweet, Antonio Ferrara, Emilia Reggio, solo performance
Killing the systems softly, Festival Autriche, Batofar, Paris, solo performance (catalogue)

2000
Residue, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, solo performance
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Etsdorf, solo performance (book)

1999
Ojos bien cerrados, La Panaderia, México D.F., solo performance
Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, solo performance


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