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.
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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?”























