MICHAEL HEINDL | Knife Game with the Invisible Hand
Bildraum 01
Strauchgasse 2, 1010 Wien
Di-Fr: 13-18 Uhr
Opening: Mar. 31st, 2026, 7 pm
On view: 1.4 - 13.5
Legen Sie Ihre Hand auf den Tisch, spreizen Sie die Finger, nehmen Sie ein Messer und stechen Sie – so schnell Sie können – in die Zwischenräume. No risk, no fun.
In seiner multimedialen Ausstellung im Bildraum 01 eröffnet Michael Heindl einen Aktionsraum, in dem die Bedeutung der Dinge als Teil ökonomischer, sozialer und symbolischer Prozesse neu lesbar werden.
Begrüßung: Sira-Zoé Schmid, Bidrecht
Zum Werk: Roman Grabner, Bruseum Graz
https://bildrecht.at/bildraum/bildraum-01/michael-heindl-knife-game-with-the-invisible-hand/
Diagonale 26´
Festival of Austrian Film
Graz (AT)
My shortfilm "From Something to Nothing" will have its Austrian premiere at Diagonale film festival:
A forest must make way for an industrial park, but before the ugly nothingness destroys all beauty, it finds itself one last time in this equally beautiful film. Michael Heindl has assembled this impressively bitter swan song from thousands of photographs of tree bark from the forest that was later cleared.
Saturday, Mar. 21, 10:30, Annenhof Kino 5
Sunday, Mar. 22, 16:30, Annenhof Kino 5
Glued and Screwed
Filmhuis
Den Haag (NL)
Wednesday 25 February 2026
21:00 — 23:00
Diego Marcon,
Cristian Dragan,
Michael Heindl,
Zuza Banasińska
curated by: wysiwyg
Themed Haunted Walls, the program features an exploration of (political) trauma through the ghosts of history’s past as they linger in the very places where it was written.
ANIMALS
Site:Brooklyn Gallery
Online Exhibition
On view: Oct. 29th - Nov. 29th, 2025
Currated by Jesse Firestone
Anneke Bosma / Allison Butler / Violet Costello / Marie Roberts / Lan Fie / Brian Hite /Rebecca Katz / Mary Mattingly / Milena Guberinic / Sherry Kerlin /On Daydreaming / Ahyun Jeon / Alejandro Garcia / Constance Thalken / Nina Klementina Clavijo-Telepneva / Paz Crotto / Eliane Fisher / Sophie Gamand / Stephanie Morissette / Katerie Gladdys / Michael Heindl / Audrey Higgins / Brandon Hartley / Kelsey Kuykendall / Beth Humphrey / Caroline Burdett / Rose Gong Monier / Adrianne Huang / Jessie Ross / Tammi Longsjo / Sol Kjok
Linzer Kunstsalon 2025
Schlossmuseum, Linz
Eröffnung: DO 13.11, 19 Uhr
Ausstellung: 14.11 - 16.11, 10-18 Uhr
Längst hat sich der Linzer Kunstsalon zu einem alljährlichen Treffpunkt für Sammler:innen, Künstler:innen und Kunstinteressierte aus ganz Oberösterreich und darüber hinaus etabliert. Dieses Jahr lädt die OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH in neu adaptierten, großzügigen Räumlichkeiten im historischen Ambiente des Linzer Schlosses zum Kunstsalon ein. 17 zeitgenössische oberösterreichische Galerien und Kunstvereine und ein Gast stellen ihr Programm vor und präsentieren ausgewählte künstlerische Positionen der Gegenwart.
https://www.ooekultur.at/event-detail/linzer-kunstsalon-2025
Film und #7 SKULPTUR
Blickle Kino im Belvedere 21
Film und _ is an open invitation to exchange ideas: the format is explicitly dedicated to artist film and its interrelationships with other visual, applied and time-based art forms.
Programm:
Björn Kämmerer: Gyre, 2009, 9:30 min
PRINZGAU/podgorschek: Inoten, 1991, 14 min
Mark Leckey: Made in ‘eaven, 2004, 2 min, 16mm
Sasha Pirker: Es gibt Bilder, weil es Wände gibt – Ein Prolog, 2013, 10 min
Peter Weibel: Imaginäre Wasserplastik, 1972, 1 min
Richard Raynor: Metal Alive: A Sculpture by Gego, 1959, 4 min
Maya Deren: A Study in Choreography for Camera, 1945, 2 min
Kurt Kren: 50/96 Snapspots (for Bruce), 1996, 4 min
Michael Heindl: Hard-Headed Harmony, 2019, 1:30 min
Bruce Nauman: Walking in an Exaggerated Manner, 1969, 10 min
Mario_n Porten: Ein Rollator für sich allein, 2025, 19 min - Uraufführung
Richard Serra: Hand Catching Lead, 1968, 3 min
Currated by Anna Dyrko, Stefanie Reisinger und Gerald Weber
Thursday, 30 October 2025, 6:30 p.m.
WANDZEITUNG # 59
Studio Steinbrener/Dempf & Huber
Glockengasse 6, 1020 Wien
ANGST UND ANGSTMACHEREI
Für eine Wirtschaftspolitik die Hoffnung macht
Excerpts from the book by Markus Marterbauer and Martin Schürz
With an artistic intervention by Michael Heindl
Opening: Tuesday, 16 September 2025, at 6 p.m.
Kulturgespräch 2025
Haus der Digitalisierung in Tulln
Konrad-Lorenz-Straße 10, 3430 Tulln an der Donau
"Denken ohne Menschen? KI, Kunst und kulturelle Verantwortung“
With works by:
Michael Heindl
Moritz Altersberger Kenney
Gertraud Köck
Christian Murzek
Florian Nitsch
Michaela Putz Gonzales
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
Starts at 1 p.m.
Doors open at 12 noon
Diagonale 25´
Festival of Austrian Film
Graz (AT)
My shortfilm "Weisse Bänder" will have its Austrian premiere at Diagonale film festival:
A white ribbon winds incessantly down from the summit towards the valley, flowing around flowers and mushrooms, dripping over moss and roots. Until the strange trickle turns into a small stream and reaches civilization. A bizarre-looking natural spectacle of eerie beauty.
Sunday, Mar. 30, 14:45, KIZ 2
Tuesday, Apr. 1, 10:30, Schubertkino
NEU IN DER MAERZ
Maerz Künstlervereinigung
Linz (AT)
Eröffnung: Dienstag, 18. März 2025, 19.00 Uhr
Ausstellung: 19. März – 11. April 2025
Künstler*innen: Maria Grün, Michael Heindl, Karin Maria Pfeifer, Wolfgang Tragseiler, Ilona Ágnes Tömő, Georg Wilbertz
Vienna Art Week
VIENNA ART WEEK 2024
OPEN STUDIO DAYS
9 – 10 NOVEMBER
From November 8 to 15, VIENNA ART WEEK shines a spotlight on Vienna's vibrant art scene for the 20th time!
The Open Studio Days on the opening weekend of VIENNA ART WEEK 2024 will once again be the prelude and centerpiece of the festival week. Around 50 artists selected by a jury of experts will open their studios throughout Vienna to the public. Visitors can take a look behind the scenes of artistic creation and get into conversation with the artists.
Science New Wave Festival
Cinema Village
22 E 12th St, New York, NY 10003
Screening: 5 pm, 60 min
My Film "Surface Séance" was selected for the 17th Science New Wave Festival in New York and will be screened as part of the shot film program "Beneath the Skin of Dreams".
Dreams are a yet-incompletely-understood realm of inspiration and anxiety. But these films are less about the mechanisms of dreams themselves than about the possibilities that open from them. A pea plant, under anesthesia, dreams of history, invasive seeds shed in a coliseum and of its role in 19th century taxonomy. Dreams connect a constellation of forces related to the modern industrial landscape and threats of climate change. A close study of the marks we leave transforms the commonplace. And hovering between life and death, dreams spool out an irrational and ever-shifting landscape of beauty and unease. This is an invitation to hypnagogic worlds.
Michael Heindl - Zu weit gegangen
raum AU
Slovenj Gradec (SI)
Opening: Sep. 20, 7pm
Exhibition: 21.9.2024 - 15.11.2024
I am very pleased to announce my first solo exhibition in Slovenia.
In the exhibited works I deal with the dynamics and conflicts that arise from a continuing alienation between humankind and the world. One focus is on the contradictions and paradoxes of human action that arise as a reaction to the crisis-ridden present. I am particularly interested in the momentum of repositioning that is inherent in these situations of uncertainty and loss of control.
European Forum Alpbach
Alpbach (AT)
Date: Aug. 26th, 5pm
An international short film selected by VIENNA SHORTS will be presented prior to each of the four main stage debates at the EFA24 event, providing a thought-provoking impulse. The artistic contributions will kick off the conversations and present a new approach to the topics under discussion!
Afterlives (Michael Heindl, AT 2022) will be shown at "Financing the Green Transition", 26 August, 5 p.m. at Herz-Kremenak-Saal (Congress Centrum Alpbach): Making the invisible visible through everyday dadaistic acts, Afterlives highlights the fate of consumer items: energy-intensive in production and soon discarded.
Dein Paket ist da!
Shoppen auf Bestellung
Museum der Arbeit
Hamburg (DE)
Opening: Sep. 3rd, 7 pm
Exhibition: 3.9.2024 - 28.4.2025
In der Ausstellung sollen die Besucherinnen und Besucher das Phänomen Versandhandel als ein komplexes Netzwerk aus Akteurinnen und Akteuren mit verschiedenen Rollen und Perspektiven erleben: Sie bieten Produkte an, füllen den Warenkorb, liefern aus und nehmen Pakete entgegen. So entsteht ein vielschichtiges Beziehungsgeflecht, das durch Kommunikation und Bewegung zwischen den einzelnen Beteiligten geprägt ist. Die Ausstellung möchte die Prozesse hinter den Kulissen aufzeigen, den Wert und die Menge der zu leistenden Arbeit verdeutlichen und den Versandhandel in den Kontext unserer modernen (Konsum-)Gesellschaft einordnen.
Curated by:
Dr. Sandra Schürmann, Florian Schütz
FANTOCHE
Sep. 3. - Sep. 8., 2024
My Film "Surface Séance" will be part of this years FANTOCHE Film Festival.
Fantoche is Switzerland’s biggest and most prestigious cultural event devoted exclusively to animation in all its many facets, in terms of the technology, content and media.
A Suitcase Project
Picture Theory Gallery
New York
May 14–19, Picture Theory, New York
June 14–29, Kunstraum Super, Vienna
The suitcase as an exhibition concept can be associated with Daniel Spoerri‘s Der Koffer (1961) and Marcel Duchamp‘s La Boîte-en-Valise (1938-1941), among others. Spoerri saw the suitcase as a symbol and means of transportation to collect and exhibit objects from the Nouveau réalisme group. Duchamp, on the other hand, used a box to gather all his works like a miniature, mobile museum. ‘37x21x21’ borrows from both approaches. The suitcase is a practical means of transportation as it ships art to exhibit from Vienna to New York and back. What also takes place is bartering, the oldest form of commerce that historically sustained communities. In this transcontinental exchange, artists trade art for art.
Organized by:
A Suitcase
Markus Riedler & David Mase
Picture Theory
Rebekah Kim
Innsbruck International 2024 - Biennale of the Arts
Innsbruck (AT)
Exhibition: May 3rd - May 25th 2024
INNSBRUCK INTERNATIONAL 2024 offers a guide to the coming times around the theme of HEAVEN CAN WAIT; how to deal with natural disasters, climate migration, the extinction of animal species and their effects on the individual. Do we hole up to survive or just surrender to the catastrophe? For HEAVEN CAN WAIT, we have invited artists whose work offers strategies for how individual strength can effect collective survival.
Artists: AUSTROFRED, JASMINA CIBIČ, CINÉMATONS (KATHARINA CIBULKA, FRIEDERIKE GÖSWEINER, PHILIPP MOLL, MARIE STOCKHAUSEN, PETER WARUM; FILMMAKER: GUILLERMO TELLECHEA), PHILIPP FLEISCHMANN, SOPHIE GOGL, TUE GREENFORT, OLIVER HANGL, MICHAEL HEINDL, MARCEL LEEMANN, CHRISTIAN KOSMAS MAYER, RADENKO MILAK/ROMAN URANJEK, ANNA MABO, AILBHE NÍ BHRIAIN, ERICA PEDRETTI, KATHARINA SENK, STEINBRENER/DEMPF & HUBER, DORIS UHLICH, RUDOLF WAKOLBINGER, and many more
70. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
International Short Film Festival
Oberhausen (DE)
My shortfilm "Surface Séance" will have its German premiere at Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen film festival:
From 1 May, the best 117 films can be seen in the five competitions of the festival; on 5 May, the winners will be awarded in the Lichtburg Oberhausen.
https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/
YOUR WATER OUR WATER
Delphi Space
Freiburg (DE)
Opening: Sa, 27.4.2024, 18:00-22:00
Exhibition: 27.4.2024 – 7.6.2024
Artists: Om Bori, Lucian Bran, Deep Time Agency, Michael Heindl, Nina Ivanović, Rachel Jutka, Kevin Lüdicke, Tonka Maleković & Sophia Freidhoff, Uroš Pajović, Joseph Tasnádi, Thérèse Verrat & Vincent Toussaint
Im Rahmen des trinationalen Projekts YOUR WATER OUR WATER entsteht eine Wanderausstellung, die die drei jungen Kunsträume DELPHI_space in Freiburg (D), aqb in Budapest (HUN) und U10 Artspace in Belgrad (SRB) entlang der Donau vernetzt.
Gezeigt werden Werke, die sich mit historischen und ökologischen Zusammenhängen in Bezug auf die Donau und andere Wasserkörper beschäftigen. Die ausgestellten Malereien, Fotografien, Skulpturen und Videoarbeiten fragen nach Wechselwirkungen von Industrie und Flusslandschaft, untersuchen Mensch-Wasser-Beziehungen oder setzen sich mit Wasser als Metapher für Transformation und Erneuerung auseinander.
https://www.delphi-space.com/exhibitions/your-water-our-water
Diagonale 24´
Festival of Austrian Film
Graz (AT)
My shortfilm "Surface Séance" will have its Austrian premiere at Diagonale film festival:
The setting of a trip on the Vienna public transport system becomes a special research trip here, as filmmaker Michael Heindl approaches the trivialities of everyday life with conceptual delight. An amorphous being is his protagonist, the center of his image; it emerges from the brittle black in dirty white. They are traces of bodies, smudges, found on panes of glass and other surfaces in public spaces.
Friday, Apr. 5, 21:00, A5
Sunday, Apr. 7, 14:00, KIZ 1
The End of Language
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (RS)
Opening: Mar. 15th 2024
Exhibition: 16.3 - 6.5
The exhibition „The End of language - Wittgenstein re-imagined” presents the works of Serbian and Austrian artists inspired by the ideas of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. The exhibition will present works ranging from minimalist language interventions, video installations, electro-acoustic experiments, sculpture, and collage to digital applications, visual poetry, and performative scenarios. Austrian and Serbian artists will attend the opening of the exhibition, as well as the guided tour on March 16th at noon.
Artists: Ana Maria Lima Dimitrijević, Anita Witek, Arnold Reinthaler, Astrid Schwarz, Barbara Hoeller, Daniela Fulgosi, Dea Džanković, Doris Theres Hofer, Dragana Žarevac, Dunja Trutin, Gerda Lampalzer, Irena Simić, Jochen Höller, Isabella Kohlhuber, Lana Vasiljević, Michael Heindl, Ernst Miesgang, Miljana Niković, Žarko Aleksić, Danica Bićanić, Boris Burić, Goran Despotovski, Nikola Radosavljević, Roswitha Weingrill/Stevan Kojić, Werner Jauk/Laura Sophie Meyer, Daniel Rothbart, Sonja Meller, Stefan Winsperger, Vanja Novaković.
FESTIVAL TOUS COURTS
Aix-en-Prevence (FR)
My film AFTERLIVES will be screened as part of the international competition on Nov. 30 at 11:30 am at Cinéma Cezanne.
https://festivaltouscourts.com/festival-2023/9e-competition-experimentale/
THE SCENERY REPEATS ITSELF
FLUCC
Vienna (AT)
Opening: Nov. 21st. 2023, 7pm
Exhibition: Nov. 22 - Dec. 15
Artists:
Michael Heindl
Luise Höggerl
Mira Klug
Margret Kreidl
Veronika Mayer
Markus Pippan
Larissa Zauser
zweintopf
Curated by: zweintopf
42nd Uppsala Short Film Festival
Uppsala (SE)
Screening: Oct. 25. & Oct. 27.2023
Short film connoisseurs usually associate Austrian experimentalism with flickering images and noisy sound. A new generation of filmmakers around Anna Vasof, Michael Heindl, Total Refusal or Viktoria Schmid, however, cares little about these (outdated) conventions. Here, instead, genres and approaches are mixed at will, switching seemingly effortlessly from the performative to the humorous and from the political to the personal. The sound and the musical level always play an important role – be it as a rhythmic part of the performative act or as a touching link to the visual level. Sometimes we go headlong through the wall, but at other times we take it very gently, we are amazed by new perspectives, or we find ourselves holding our breath. Together we wonder about the world. ”Can we start glitching?”
Haruko Maeda & Michael Heindl
"As We Know It"
Elektrohalle Rhomberg
Salzburg (AT)
Opening: May 26th, 6-9pm
Exhibition: May 26th - July 1st
In their joint exhibition at Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Haruko Maeda (*1983) and Michael Heindl (*1988) reveal the fragility of the normality and the mundane. Through painting and film, they independently declare the always only supposedly existing normality to be the central aspect of a contemporary, human crisis. In the combination and juxtaposition of their works, a general problem is made tangible: the concept of the normal proves to be extremely imprecise and is always subject to the consistent change of realities of life.
OSTRALE Biennale 2023
Robotron Kantine
Dresden (DE)
Opening: June 10th, 2023
Exhibition: June 10th - Oct 1st 2023
Noch nie war unsere Gesellschaft so zerrissen wie heute, zugleich ist das Bedürfnis nach Gemeinschaft und Solidarität größer als je zuvor. Wir sind konfrontiert mit akuten und gewaltigen Fragen, Problemen und Herausforderungen wie der weltweiten sozialen Ungleichheit, dem Schutz unseres Planeten, einer andauernden Pandemie und dem Widerstand gegen Aggressoren. Der Versuch, sich objektive und fundierte Informationen zu diesen Themen zu beschaffen, fühlt sich mitunter an wie der Kampf David gegen Goliath. Medienkompetenz ist ein immer wichtiger werdendes Handwerkszeug unserer Zeit. Kritische Distanz ist unentbehrlich, um Hetze, Propaganda und Falschinformationen entlarven und ihnen Paroli bieten zu können.
Currated by: Andrea Hilger, Antka Hofmann, Lisa Uhlig
Diagonale 23´
Festival of Austrian Film
Graz (AT)
My shortfilm "Afterlives" will have its Austrian premiere at Diagonale film festival:
An undefinable plastic object drifts through blue waves. A faded clothespin bobs up and down in a pickle jar. Objects of a bygone daily life are brought back to the city. Disruption. Discomfort. In the form of small interventions in public space, the redundant objects become active objects of disruption whose potential for resistance is playfully and humorously explored in Afterlives.
Wednesday, 22.03, 10:30, KIZ Royal 2
Friday, 24.03, 21:00, Schubertkino 2
Let’s Get Lost
Delugue Contemporary Art,
Victoria (CA)
On view: March 18. - April 16. 2023
Artists:
Anne-Marie Bouchard (CA),
Taisha Carrington (BB),
Johannes Gierlinger (AT),
David Gifford (CA),
Michael Heindl (AT),
Anna Kipervaser (UA/US)
Bernd Lützeler (IN/DE)
Kevin Obsatz (US)
Currated by: Deborah de Boer and Todd Eacrett
VIENNALE´22
Vienna International Film Festival
Filmmuseum Wien
Screening: SA 22. Oct. 2022, 15:30
Have you ever seen the safety vest under your airplane seat? For what it entails, I hope you didn’t. Would it have helped though? Catastrophes are not the only way of accessing catastrophic objects, you can also silently take them with you. Steal, as they say. Or at least Michael Heindl can, and he can make a film in which he takes a vest and makes another object from it, an object very far from its original shape. But is it far from its own objecthood? There, alone on his island making anagrams out of disasters, is Heindl our Robinson Crusoe? (Lucía Salas)
In the presence of Michael Heindl.
This film will be shown as part of the screening SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 2: CRISES IN PARADISE.
Aufwärts fallen
Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein
Linz (AT)
Opening: 01.10.2022
On view: 02.10.2022 - 19.10.2022
Artists:
studio ASYNCHROME, Johanna Binder, Bartosz Dolhun, Eva Eichinger & Ilona Rainer Pranter, Emanuel Ehgartner, FAXEN, Michael Heindl, Anna Vasof
Initiiert von Johanna Binder und Michael Heindl
Um Menschen zu überzeugen, bedarf es bisweilen weniger Wissenschaftlichkeit und klarer Fakten als gut erzählter Geschichten. Das Narrativ zu bestimmen und sich dadurch in der Deutungshoheit des vermeintlich Realen durchzusetzen, bedeutet Macht. Wie diese Macht korrumpiert und welche Gefahren davon ausgehen, führen Debatten über Lügenpresse, Filterblasen, Verschwörungstheorien oder Propaganda täglich vor Augen. Angeheizt durch die Algorithmen sozialer Medien, wird der Wille zur Vernunft dabei oft durch irrationale Kräfte ausgehebelt.
Die Ausstellung ist als Suche nach Strategien zu verstehen, um gängige Narrative aus ihrer Starre zu lösen, Neue zu erfinden, Konzepte von vermeintlichen Wahrheiten und Lügen in Frage zu stellen und die Fähigkeit des Zweifelns als eine unserer wichtigsten Eigenschaften zu reflektieren.
GAP
Magyar Műhely Galéria
Budapest (HU)
Opening: 07.09.2022
On view: 08.09.2022 - 07.10.2022
Pólya Zsombor (HU) & Michael Heindl (AT)
Currated by Antal István
„Wie kommt die Kunst zum Film? Wie kommt der Film zur Kunst?“
METRO Kinokulturhaus
Vienna (AT)
10. September 2022, 12:00 bid 20:00
In Kooperation mit der Kunstmesse viennacontemporary (8. bis 11. September 2022 im Wiener Kursalon) veranstaltet die Akademie des Österreichischen Films am 10. September im METRO Kinokulturhaus einen Tag zur Schnittstelle von Kunst und Film. Gezeigt werden Filme, die einen Kontext zur (bildenden) Kunst haben und/oder deren Filmemacher:innen sich als Vertreter:innen beider Welten sehen.
https://www.oesterreichische-filmakademie.at/projekte/viennacontemporary-2022
11th Lucca Biennale
"Cartasia"
Palazzo Ducale
Lucca (IT)
Opening: 31.07.2022
On view: 31.07.2022 - 25.09.2022
The White Page
What does a white page represent?
Endless possibilities. A different future, a dream that can come true, an ambition, a different perspective, an alternative to daily routine. A blank page gives us the feeling of being able to sketch out a new, different, better world.
At the same time, a white piece of paper can represent the anxiety of it all, the negative possibilities, the unexpected implications and a leap in the dark. An inability to act.
It is a bridge between the past and the future, it is an opportunity for free writing or the anguish of the unknown, it is the courage of making a choice or the loss of one’s comfort zone.
DOTDOTDOT
Open Air Kurzfilmfestival
Volkskundemuseum Wien
Laudongasse 15-19, 1080 Vienna
Aug.31st 2022, 20:30
AFFAIRS OF THE ART: THIS IS HOW IT STARTS
Express-Lektion in Kunstgeschichte mit Maria Lassing, Joanna Quinn & Co.: Widerständigen Musen begehren gegen die Dominanz der männlichen Blicke auf, die Jahrhunderte der Kunstgeschichte geprägt haben. In einem frechen Stakkato aus 10 Kurz- und Kürzestfilmen begibt sich der erste Teil der Filmreihe AFFAIRS OF THE ART auf die Suche nach jenem Ort, wo Kreativität entsteht. Doch wann wird Inspiration zur Obsession? Die Trennlinien verlaufen unsichtbar – oder sind erst gar nicht vorhanden, wie im herrlich überbordenden Wohnzimmer-Studio von NIX + GERBER, das praktischerweise auch gleich zum Gegenstand der nächsten Kreation wird. Kunst ist zur immer und überall verfügbaren Massenware geworden, die flugs per Onlinehandel ins eigene Zuhause kommt. Schlussendlich stellt sich hier die Frage nach dem Wert eines Kunstwerks im Zeitalter seiner prekären (Re-)Produzierbarkeit.
25th Gabrovo Biennal
"Economy Of Means"
Museum of Humor and Satire
Gabrovo (BU)
Opening: 20.05.2022
On view: 21.05.2022 - 30.09.2022
The world has been running on steroids. Nature is privatized and cheapened. Our voracious extraction and consumption of resources have created an ecological debt gone default. Acceleration and gigantism have shaped a metabolic cycle between capital and nature, North and South, rich and poor, clean and polluted, with greed and hypertrophy on one end and exhaustion on the other. There is a global freak show going on, a spectacle of disproportion and distortion reminiscent of those 19th century displays of deformed humans and animals. Only now it happens on a planetary scale and we’re all in it. At times, it seems as if the vicious comedy of the freak show might be the appropriate response to our present-day monstrosity.
Are you sure you want to leave?
Art Quarter Budapest
Budapest (HU)
Opening: 19.03.2022 Saturday 6 PM
On view: 19.03.2022 - 22.05 2022
Artists:
Aleksas ANDRIUŠKEVIČIUS, Seçkin AYDIN, Viktor BRIM, János BRÜCKNER, Gaby BURCKHARDT , Daniel BURKHARDT, Nadja BUTTERNDORF, Mauro CUPPONE, Abdoul-Ganiou DERMANI, Tibor DIETERS, Alexei DMITRIEV, Anna FABRICIUS, Zsolt FERENCZY, Michael HEINDL, Yuki JUNGESBLUT, Nikita KADAN, Neža KNEZ, KOLXOZ, Glorija LIZDE, Larion LOZOVOY, Dean MAASSEN, studio ASYNCHROME, Petra MRŠA, Sali MULLER, Csaba NEMES, Andrea PALÁSTI, Predrag PRAVIĆ, Ghenadie POPESCU, Marko RODICS, Farid RASULOV, Sandra ROSENSTIEL, Goran ŠKOFIĆ, Lana STOJIĆEVIĆ, Kamen STOYANOV, Attila SZABÓ, Hajnal SZOLGA, József SZOLNOKI, Stipan TADIĆ, Philipp VALENTA, Arturas VALIAUGA, Vangjush VELLAHU, Xueying WANG, Yinglin ZHOU
Curated by: Krisztián Kukla
Delivery of the Sun - screening and talk
Draama-sali
Vaasa (FI)
Date: Friday Nov 26th. 2021, 6 pm
Delivery of the Sun presents six films about distribution, darkness and the sun. Who gets access to light and how is it used? How do we distribute resources and build ethical frameworks around their use, even ones we experience as being ubiquitous, immaterial or lacking in value? Including an archival film and works by Zachary Epcar, Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann, Michael Heindl, Dmitri Lurie and Fern Silva, this 55m screening is a collaboration between Filmverkstaden and their residency artist, Ruth Aitken.
10 Jahre Cinema Next - Ein Fest des jungen Films
Movimento
Linz (AT)
Zum 10. Geburtstag feiert Cinema Next im Moviemento ein Fest des jungen Films: Gezeigt werden zwei Kurzfilmprogramme, die einen bunten Einblick in das aktuelle Nachwuchsfilmschaffen des Landes geben, viele Filmgäste werden die Screenings begleiten, und als Mitternachtseinlage gibt es bei einem Jubiläumsquiz Preise zu gewinnen!
Das Filmprogramm zeigt insgesamt zehn Filme, darunter einige von „Local Artists“ aus Oberösterreich: Sarah Braid und Felix Weisz sind mit ihren Animationsfilmen Irmas nächtliches Erlebnis bzw. Wormholes vertreten, Sarah Kreuz mit ihrem neuesten Musikvideo Burger, Michael Heindl lässt in All Now, All Free! seine Kunst nicht nur von Amazon liefern, sondern gleich auch sponsern, und Dominik Galleya und Clemens Niel zeigen im Kurzspielfilm tauchen einen jugendlichen Drifter auf der Suche nach Zugehörigkeit, Status und sich selbst.
Michael Heindl - Heavens Devils Afternoons
Kunstraum L201
Studenzen (AT)
Exhibition: 7.10 & 8.10.2021
15:00 - 20:00
Die ortspezifische Arbeit „Heavens Devils Afternoons“ wurde speziell für den Kunstraum L201 konzipiert und mit Frau Lenz (der Mutter des Kunstraumleiters) als Protagonistin umgesetzt.
Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Spannung zwischen sozialen und geschlechtlichen Rollenzuteilungen und dem individuellen Entscheidungspotential über die Art und Weise, diesen Rollen gerecht zu werden. In der filmisch festgehaltenen Aktion, treffen zwei konträre Welten aufeinander. Sie handelt von der Möglichkeit, durch und mit den Mitteln des Alltäglichen gegen Konventionen aufzubegehren. Die Art dieses Widerstands ist nicht laut und brutal, sie ist subtil und das Ergebnis bleibt am Ende sogar unsichtbar. Seine Stärke erlangt die Aktion durch diejenigen, die darüber bescheid wissen, was es mit dem eigenartig geformten Bildträger auf sich hat. Soviel sei vorab verraten: Gänseblümchen Expressionismus trifft auf „Sympathy for the Devil“.
https://www.museum-joanneum.at/kioer/projekte/temporaere-projekte/events/event/10495/alfred-lenz-3
OSTRALE 2021
Biennale for contemporary art
Dresden (DE)
Exhibition: 1. July - 3 October 2021
BREATHTURN
In the rivers north the future / I cast the net (Paul Celan)
Being human is not enough, and already too much. Sometimes we act like robots, but want to feel like animals. How can we breathe and rethink work and pleasure, art and industry, politics and poetics, when everything flows into each other, like streams into a river? Is the whole planet our home or just the square meters we occupy?
Between disorientation and reorientation, to find new directions and avoid dead ends, we need to breathe differently. We have to change our perspective and pay attention to those at the borders of our field of vision: the misfits, the oppressed, and the unknown, but also biospheres, buildings and social spaces. At the gate of a new, post-pandemic era, exhausted but hopeful, curious and ready for a change, the OSTRALE in 2021 explores the ways we coexist with our fellow humans, animals and our complex environment.
Intertonale #6 - Artist in residence
Festival and seminar for music
Scheibbs (AT)
July 10 - July 16 2021
Esembles:
LYLIT
SOPHIE LINDINGER
ROJIN SHARAFI
BENNY OMERZELL
MASHA DABELKA
MICHAEL HEINDL
Diagonale 2021
Festival for Austrian Film
Graz (AT)
My film "All Now, All Free!" will be part of this year's Diagonale Film Festival in the category "Innovative Cinema":
The market leader in online sales delivers everything—with free delivery and return. Michael Heindl brazenly maxes out this offer and orders everything the heart of the penniless artist desires. A pile of packages = two creative works at no cost. An exhilaratingly critical testimony to the artwork in the age of its precarious producibility.
June 10th, 4:00 pm - Schubertkino
June 13th, 12:30 pm - Annenhof Kino
"Jury Prize 2021" - Österreichischer Kurzfilmpreis
Vienna Shorts Film Festival
My film "Spring Will Not Be Televised" won the "Jury Prize 2021" for the Austrian competition at this year's Vienna Shorts Film Festival.
Many thanks to the Jury for their decision and their great statement:
A deceptively simple study of how we perceive our world through mediated images, this film shows us a series of boxes within boxes as seen through the eyes of a Peeping Tom. The stories on the TV screens filmed through the windows of Viennese apartment buildings revolve around their own alleged truths, while a larger reality persists somewhere out of view. To quote from Gil Scott-Heron’s galvanizing funk anthem The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: “You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.” The Jury Prize goes to Michael Heindl’s SPRING WILL NOT BE TELEVISED.
Skin In The Game!
Kunstraum Periscope
Salzburg (AT)
Opening: May 20th 2021, 7 pm
Exhibition: May 20 - June 19
Die Ausstellung Skin in the Game beschäftigt sich mit subversivem Verhalten. Sie macht die Besucher_innen zu Kompliz_innen von Grenz überschreitenden Handlungsstrategien und provoziert Fragen nach individueller Teilhabe am Kapitalismus und Wachstumsökonomie und moralischer Verhältnismäßigkeit von Regelverstößen dagegen.
Michael Heindl stellt in seiner Arbeit eine Handlungsanleitung für Kunstwerke ohne Produktionskosten vor, indem er die Freiheiten des Online-Versandes ins Absurde wendet. Karin Pfeifer stößt in einem Interview auf die Parallelen in den stereotypen Vorstellungen vom Berufsbild einer Künstlerin und dem eines Bankräubers.
JURY AWARD & ARCHITECTS AWARD
max3min Film Festival
Milano (IT)
At the first edition of max3min festival my short film "Stones" (2019) was awarded with the JURY AWARD and the ARCHITECTS AWARD.
Many thanks to the Jury!
This Is Short
Film Festival
Online
April 1st 2021 - June 30th 2021
The program of THIS IS SHORT is jointly curated by the members of the European Short Film Network (ESFN) and consists of original content as well as direct access to the online offerings of the four film festivals Go Short (NL), Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (DE), Vienna Shorts (AT) and Short Waves (PL). The short film portal is designed as an online festival experience, providing hundreds of films, a competition, interviews, talks and options for voting and feedback.
NEW POINT OF VIEW – The European online competition presents 23 short films (under 20 minutes). The films, which were nominated by the ESFN festivals, will be streamed one after the other for 84 hours each, starting April 1. The jury and audience will decide on the three prizes (worth a total of 8,000 euros), which will be awarded on June 21.
"Na drugi pogled // Auf den zweiten Blick // At Second Glance"
Online Exhibition
Austrian Cultural Forum, Belgrade (RS)
March 15th - April 30th 2021
The new online platform of the Austrian Cultural Forum was created in view of the current uncertain circumstances, but also opens the opportunities for the new forms of artistic creation and communication. It is conceived as an exhibition space for thematic and curated art content, which in the initial phase consists of works by 10 visual artists from Serbia and 10 from Austria that arrived for the competition announced for this occasion.
The selected artists from Austria are: Catrin Bolt, Eva Maria Schartmüller, Hannah Priemetzhofer, Hana Hannah Stippl, Julian Turner, Leonhard Pill, Michael Heindl, Sangam Sharma, Ulrich Reiterer and Walter Kratner.
The selection of artists from Serbia is consisted of: Aleksej Sivčević, Andrea Palašti, Boris Burić, Doplgenger (Isidora Ilić, Boško Prostran), Igor Ripak, Ivana Ivković/Marina Marković, Lana Vasiljević, Mariela Cvetić, Mirjana Đorđević Thaler and Tijana Petrović.
45th Hong Kong International Filmfestival
Film Festival
Hong Kong (CN)
April 1st - Apr. 12th 2021
As one of the oldest film festivals in Asia, the global reputation of the HKIFF was built on the pioneering work of programming Asian films and its retrospectives when Asian and Hong Kong cinema were not well known to the international community. Built on a solid reputation for programming, the HKIFF became the model for many subsequent film festivals around the region.














































