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Biography
Patrick Topitschnig is a Vienna‑based Austrian filmmaker, photographer, and audio artist whose multifaceted practice spans experimental video, theatre collaboration, site‑specific installation, sound design, music, trailer editing, and performance. He holds a BA in Commercial IT (Vienna & TU Wien) and earned a Master’s in Intermedia/Media Art from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, complemented by studies in narrative/documentary film (UdK Berlin) and video theory (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna).
Topitschnig’s experimental work consistently investigates physicality, perception, duration, fragmentation, repetition, and the passage of time—across both visual and acoustic media. A dark‑humor sensibility pervades his pieces, evoking unsettling audiovisual tension and reflecting on cinematic construction.
His award-winning works include Nouvelle Couleur S1 (Fred Adlmüller Grant), Zerschneidung des Ganzen („Concision of the Whole“, Ursula Blickle Grant), and rumor macchina (Honorable Mention at the International Biennial of Humour & Satire), alongside the STARTstipendium for Video- and Media Art an the Austrian State Fellowship for Media Art. He has exhibited and performed internationally across Europe, the USA, and Australia.
Topitschnig’s commissioned portfolio includes over 100 theatre trailers, numerous promos for public television, and original soundtracks for short films.
Teaser (with focus on sound works)
Awards / Grants (selection)
2025 Austrian State Fellowship for Media Art, BMKOES, AT
2024 Artist in Residence, New Jörg Madrid, ES
2023 Bugia Film Festival: Award Winner – „Best Mockumentary“, IT
2022 Artist in Residence Flux Factory, New York, USA (Atelier-Auslandsstipendium des Landes Steiermark), US
2021 Artist in Residence, ARoS, Aarhus, DK
2021 Artist in Residence, Budapesti Történeti Múzeum/Budapest Galéria, HU
2020 Working grant, City of Vienna, AT
Working grant, Lower Austria, AT
2017 Honorable Mention: rumor macchina, 23. International Biennial of Humour and Satire in Art, Gabrovo, BG
2016 Shortlisted: Promotional Prize of the Province of Styria for Contemporary Fine Art, AT
2015 Film-Fellowship in Bucharest, Romania (Styrian Government Grant), RO
2013 STARTstipendium for Video- and Media Art 2013 (Government grant for Video- and Media Art), AT
2013 Artist in Residence, Melbourne, Australia(RMIT University & AIR Krems), AU
2013 Gerhard Jaschke “Poetry-Film“ award for The right to hospitality, AT
2013 IFFI Talent Campus (International Film Festival Innsbruck), AT
2012 Shortlisted: OE1 Talent-Award 2012, AT
2012 Shortlisted: HUBERT SIELECKI Award 2012, AT
2012 Shortlisted: BA Art Award 2012, Galerie 3, Klagenfurt, AT
2009 Foreign Exchange Grant in Berlin (UdK Berlin), DE
2009 Grant of the International Summer Academy Salzburg with ZAHO LIANG, AT
2009 Finalist of the „Wien Energie“ short film competition, AT
2008 Ursula Blickle Video Award for Concision of the whole, AT
2008 International OpenArt Residency, Euboi, GR
2007 Grant of the International Summer Academy Salzburg with VALIE EXPORT, AT
2007 Fred Adlmüller Stipendia from the University for Applied Arts, AT
2007 Academic achievement scholarship of the University for Applied Arts, AT
COllections
Sammlung des Bundes / Museum der Moderne Salzburg
MUSA Artothek Collection Stadt Wien
Wien Museum, Joanneum/Neue Galerie
Art Collection of Stadt Graz
Artothek Niederösterreich
Ursula Blickle Archiv
several privat collections