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Beatrix Zobl<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her artistic subjects and stagings move between documentation and performance, with a particular interest in the relationship between the individual and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects, Zobl collaborates with other artists, academics, and people from diverse backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1996\nIndependent artist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1994\u20132001\nArtists\u2019 group trans wien, projects along Vienna\u2019s G\u00fcrtel (including station 4: carina, conversion and installation of the wienstation as part of Urban Wien-G\u00fcrtel Plus) trans wien, <\/em>Projekte am Wiener Westg\u00fcrtel (u.a. station 4: carina<\/em>, Umbau und Installation der wienstation <\/em>im Rahmen von Urban Wien-G\u00fcrtel Plus)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1991\u20131993\nInterdisciplinary postgraduate programme in Museum and Exhibition Education, University of Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1988\u20131992\nStudies in Art History at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Awards & Grants<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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2020<\/strong><\/td>Austrian State Prize for the publication COMPANY (Austria\u2019s Most Beautiful Book, category: Contemporary Art Books, Photography, Architecture, Exhibition Catalogues) Zeitgen\u00f6ssische Kunstb\u00e4nde, Fotokunst, Architektur, Ausstellungskataloge<\/em>)<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/strong><\/td>German Photobook Award 2020\/21, category: Conceptual-Artistic Photobook Konzeptionell-k\u00fcnstlerischer Fotobildband<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
2018<\/strong><\/td>FWF Research Funding for COMPANY. Photographs and Fragments about Working<\/td><\/tr>
2012<\/strong><\/td>Bank Austria Art Prize (with SOHO in Ottakring)<\/td><\/tr>
2010<\/strong><\/td>Theodor K\u00f6rner Prize<\/td><\/tr>
2007<\/strong><\/td>Glen Arbor Studio Residency, Glen Arbor Art Association, Michigan, USA<\/td><\/tr>
2005\/06<\/strong><\/td>Budapest Scholarship, Province of Salzburg<\/td><\/tr>
2004<\/strong><\/td>Chicago Studio Residency, Federal Chancellery of Austria \u2013 Arts Section<\/td><\/tr>
2002<\/strong><\/td>Prize for Innovative Special Projects in New Media, Province of Salzburg, Department of Art<\/td><\/tr>
2000<\/strong><\/td>Projektwerkstatt Prize (with trans wien), O.K. Center for Contemporary Art, Linz<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Editor \/ Author<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Beatrix Zobl \/ Wolfgang Schneider<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COMPANY. Photographs and Fragments about Working<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edition Angewandte, De Gruyter, Berlin \/ Boston, 2019
Ula Schneider \/ Wolfgang Schneider \/ Beatrix Zobl (eds.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOHO in Ottakring. Unsicheres Terrain \/ Destabilized Ground<\/em><\/strong>
German\/English, Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, 2019
Ula Schneider \/ Beatrix Zobl (eds.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOHO in Ottakring. What\u2019s up? Was ist hier los?<\/em><\/strong>
German\/English, Springer, Vienna\/New York, 2008
Beatrix Zobl \/ Wolfgang Schneider (eds.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

station. Medium f\u00fcr \u00f6ffentliche Kunst: Stadtraum \/ Kunstfeld \/ Golfplatz<\/em><\/strong>
A publication addressing the transformations of Vienna\u2019s G\u00fcrtel area resulting from and following the EU project Urban Wien \u2013 G\u00fcrtel Plus, Vienna, 2002
Wien \u2013 G\u00fcrtel Plus, Wien, 2002<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Projects \/ Exhibitions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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