About

Beatrix Zobl

Born in Salzburg in 1970, she is an artist based in Vienna, working across the media of photography, related printmaking techniques, installation, text, and video.

Her artistic subjects and stagings move between documentation and performance, with a particular interest in the relationship between the individual and society.

In interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects, Zobl collaborates with other artists, academics, and people from diverse backgrounds.

Since 1996 Independent artist

1994–2001 Artists’ group trans wien, projects along Vienna’s Gürtel (including station 4: carina, conversion and installation of the wienstation as part of Urban Wien-Gürtel Plus) trans wien, Projekte am Wiener Westgürtel (u.a. station 4: carina, Umbau und Installation der wienstation im Rahmen von Urban Wien-Gürtel Plus)

1991–1993 Interdisciplinary postgraduate programme in Museum and Exhibition Education, University of Vienna

1988–1992 Studies in Art History at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna

Awards & Grants

2020Austrian State Prize for the publication COMPANY (Austria’s Most Beautiful Book, category: Contemporary Art Books, Photography, Architecture, Exhibition Catalogues) Zeitgenössische Kunstbände, Fotokunst, Architektur, Ausstellungskataloge)
2020German Photobook Award 2020/21, category: Conceptual-Artistic Photobook Konzeptionell-künstlerischer Fotobildband
2018FWF Research Funding for COMPANY. Photographs and Fragments about Working
2012Bank Austria Art Prize (with SOHO in Ottakring)
2010Theodor Körner Prize
2007Glen Arbor Studio Residency, Glen Arbor Art Association, Michigan, USA
2005/06Budapest Scholarship, Province of Salzburg
2004Chicago Studio Residency, Federal Chancellery of Austria – Arts Section
2002Prize for Innovative Special Projects in New Media, Province of Salzburg, Department of Art
2000Projektwerkstatt Prize (with trans wien), O.K. Center for Contemporary Art, Linz

Editor / Author

Beatrix Zobl / Wolfgang Schneider

COMPANY. Photographs and Fragments about Working

Edition Angewandte, De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston, 2019
Ula Schneider / Wolfgang Schneider / Beatrix Zobl (eds.)

SOHO in Ottakring. Unsicheres Terrain / Destabilized Ground
German/English, Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, 2019
Ula Schneider / Beatrix Zobl (eds.)

SOHO in Ottakring. What’s up? Was ist hier los?
German/English, Springer, Vienna/New York, 2008
Beatrix Zobl / Wolfgang Schneider (eds.)

station. Medium für öffentliche Kunst: Stadtraum / Kunstfeld / Golfplatz
A publication addressing the transformations of Vienna’s Gürtel area resulting from and following the EU project Urban Wien – Gürtel Plus, Vienna, 2002
Wien – Gürtel Plus, Wien, 2002

Projects / Exhibitions

Projects / Exhibitions

2020–2005

  • COMPANY. Photographs and Fragments about Working, Publikation (Ed. Angewandte/De Gruyter), 2019
  • https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/530548
  • SOHO in Ottakring (2008-2018). Unsicheres Terrain, SOHO in Ottakring (2008–2018). Destabilized Ground, publication (Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz), 2019
  • https://www.bibliothekderprovinz.at/buch/7533
  • Arbeit, Leben, Kunst, exhibition in Allentsteig, Yspertal, Gars am Kamp, NÖ Art, 2019, Ausstellung in Allentsteig, Yspertal, Gars am Kamp, NÖ-Art, 2019
  • http://noeart.at/ausstellung/A/Arbeit%2C+Leben%2C+Kunst.html
  • Cum pane, exhibition, FOTO WIEN, 2019
  • https://www.fotowien.at/de/festival/archiv/archiv-foto-wien-2019/cum-pane-fotografien-und-fragmente
  • SALÓ – Annual Exhibition of the Salzburg Art Association, concept, open call, spatial concept, 2016, Konzeption, Ausschreibung, Raumkonzept, 2016
  • https://www.salzburger-kunstverein.at/salo_jahresausstellung_2016
  • COMPANY (Systems of Desire – Working), artistic research/intervention, performance, exhibition, theatre production, book, 2004–2019
  • Oberwelt (Stuttgart, Germany), Palais Auersperg (Vienna, Austria), Glen Arbor Studio Residency (Michigan, USA), Experimental Station (Chicago, Illinois, USA), Berndorf (Lower Austria), Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria), Stadttheater Berndorf (Lower Austria)
  • University of Applied Arts Vienna (Vienna/ Austria)
  • SOHO in Ottakring curatorial team, 2009–2014
  • http://www.sohoinottakring.at/
  • CULBURB – Acupuncture Treatment for Suburb, head of the EU project as Vienna partner, 2010–2013, Leitung des EU-Projekt als Wiener Partner, 2010-2013
  • http://www.culburb.eu/
  • CIA– Community in Arbeit (Arts&Science Call-Projekt Empowerment), 2009-2013
  • in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna and FORBA
  • https://www.koer.or.at/projekte/cia-community-in-arbeit
  • 52 Views of Public Life in Upper Styria, (Institute for Public Art Styria), 2013
  • https://www.museum-joanneum.at/kioer/entdecken/publikationen/katalog/52-ansichten-vom-oeffentlichen-leben-in-der-obersteiermark
  • UMAGO #1 Destabilized Ground: New Photography from Hungary, European Month of Photography, 2012
  • http://www.beatrix-zobl.net/curating/umago.html
  • SOHO-Relaunch, redesign of the urban art project, together with Ula Schneider, 2004
  • Systems of Desire: Working, artistic research, including Oberwelt (Stuttgart), Experimental Station (Chicago), Ars Electronica (Linz), industrial site and Stadttheater Berndorf (Lower Austria), 2004–2011 http://www.zoblschneider.net/artwork/systems-of-desire-working.html
  • The Legend of the Artist, including museum in progress (Vienna), Summer Academy (Salzburg), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, NGBK Berlin, 2000–2005
  • http://www.zoblschneider.net/artwork/die-legende-vom-kuenstler.html