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Biography
Patrick Topitschnig is an Austrian filmmaker, photographer and audio artist whose works also include collaborations for theatre projects.
After he finished his studies in Commercial Information Technology he studied Intermedia Art and Narrative Film in Vienna and Berlin under the likes of Bernhard Leitner, Erwin Wurm, Constanze Ruhm and Thomas Arslan. He made his diploma with the experimental video Right to Hospitality in 2012.
Topitschnig received several awards, such as the Fred Adlmüller Grant for the sound composition Nouvelle Couleur S1 or the Ursula Blickle Grant for the video Zerschneidung des Ganzen (Concision of the Whole). He was granted the Starter Stipend for Video and Media Art by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Culture and Arts and received an Honorable Mention by the Biennial of Humour and Satire in Art for “rumor macchina” as well as the Austrian State Fellowship for Media Art.
His works center on direct physical experience and immediate reception, as well as on enduring time and the measure of passing time respectively. They do so on a visual or on an acoustic basis. Fragmentation, sense of perception, permanent repetitions or continuous oscillations constitute recurring themes.
Topitschnig had exhibitions, screenings and performances in Europe, USA and Australia.
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