About
General
Anna Vasof is an architect, media, and time-based artist. She studied architecture at the University of Thessaly (2010) in Greece and Transmedia Art (2014) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since 2004 her videos and short movies have been presented in several festivals, some winning distinctions. In 2020, she finished her Ph.D. thesis about a cinematographic technique she developed titled “Non Stop Stop Motion”. She is now working on designing and building innovative mechanisms for producing critical videos, films, actions, and installations.
Artist Statement
My work is accessible in a universal way via its wit and mischief. It is grounded in genuine experimentation of the core mechanisms of motion and time-based art. I go to the heart of every question and start from zero, reinventing core premises with my own perspective. My Non Stop Stop Motion works reinvent a contemporary expanded cinema and deal with the poetic mechanics of persistence of vision. My works with everyday objects (shoes, brooms, pots etc.) deal with social paradoxes and let us see a familiar world from a different perspective.
Education
- 2020 Graduation Artistic Research PhD Programme (PhD in Art) with distinction (Dr.phil.)
- 2014 Graduation as Media Artist with distinction (mag. art.)
- 2010 Graduation as Architect with distinction (Dipl.-Ing.)
Grants and Awards
- 2024 Honorable Award of Best Experimental Film (Festival of Nations 2024)
- 2023 Outstanding Artist Award (Experimental film) 2023 from the Federal Ministry of Education and Culture in Austria
- 2023 Young Audience Award for “AMAZON WOMAN” from Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinémas (RISC 2023)
- 2023 Experimental Grand Prix to “Issues with my other Half” Roanne Festival de Ciné Court Animé / France
- 2023 Special Award to “Issues with my other Half” at Viennashorts 2023
- 2023 Gold Deer of Shorts Award for “Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories” at IFFA Independent Film Festival of Athens
- 2022 Special Mention for Amazon Woman at IAFF TINDIRINDIS Festival Lithuania
- 2022 George Manupelli Founder’s Spirit Award for “Amazon Woman” in Anna Arbor Film Festival 2022
- 2022 Public Award for “Amazon Woman” in Best Austrian Animation Festival 2022
- 2021 Special mention “coup de cœur” for “Hitting my Head on the World” in RISC festival 2021
- 2020 Best short film – Experimental award for “Hitting my Head on the World” in Lausanne underground film & music festival 2020
- 2018 Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film for When Time Moves faster in Ann Arbor Film Festival 2018
- 2017 Austrian Performancepreis H13
- 2017 Kunstlerhaus-Hubert Sielecki Preis 2017 for “Things and Wonders 2022”
- 2016 Hubert Sielecki-Prize for the Austrian Animationsfilm in Tricky Women Festival
- 2015 Audience Award for “Down to Earth” RISC 2015
- 2014 Main Award for “Domino” - ASIFA AUSTRIA AWARD / BEST AUSTRIAN ANIMATION 2014
- 2014 Nominated for OE1 Talentstipendium 2014
- 2010 Representation of University of Thessaly in Archiprix 2011 at the MIT with the diploma work “Under Construction”
- 2008 Price of Human rights for the movie No entry in Camera Zizanio festival (Olymbia,Greece)
- 2008 Representation of Greece in Word expo the one minutes with the video Run for construction
- 2008 1st price in Bene competion Vienna with the video Ben E.
- 2008 Scholarship from Greek Film Center for the program first step
- 2008 Representation of Greece in the Biennale of young artists Puglia 2008 with the films “Artur’s Klaket” and “Animal’s War”
- 2006 Honorable price in Crash Fest with the video “Animal’s War”
- 2004 2nd price in the festival Belle art in category video art with the video “Home Homo”
- 2000 1st price in the national School Student drawing contest in Greece
Solo Exhibitios
- 2023 “Things and Wonders The Toy Collection”, Wohlmut Galerie, Vienna, Austria
- 2023 “I’m OK” Videoinstallation at Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart, Germany
- 2022 “Opening the Mind and Other Stories”| Anna Vasof, Ostfold Kunstsenter, Ostfold, Norway
- 2022 “How do you move the Audience?” | Anna Vasof, bb15, Linz, Austria
- 2022 “The Weight of Tears and other Looping Stories” | Anna Vasof, Neue Galerie Graz, Joanneumsviertel, Graz, Austria
- 2022 “At Least I have my Phone” | Anna Vasof, Schauraum Angewandte - quartier 21 im MQ , Vienna
- 2021 “A Real Exhibition in a Real Space” | Anna Vasof, Untitled Projects Gallery, Vienna
- 2020 “Things and Wonders” | Anna Vasof, Tabor Veliki, Croatia
- 2020 “Happy Birthday” | Anna Vasof, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
- 2019 Statement #06 | Anna Vasof — Useless Machine, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria
- 2018 “Behind The Glass” Red Carpet Showroom Metrostation Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
- 2017 Performance H13, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna Austria
- 2017 “Things and Wonders”, CHEAPART foundation, Athens, Greece
- 2016 “Non-Stop Stop-Motion Machines”, Asifakeil q21/MQ, Vienna, Austria
- 2015 “Mechanisms of Happiness”, Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna, Austria
- 2015 “Shoes, Domino and Happiness”, Museum of Multimedia art and photography, Moscow, Russia
Individual participation in Exhibitions/Festivals/Conferences**
- 2024 Installation by RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
- 2024 Installation by File Festival, Sao Paolo, Brazil
- 2024 Diagonale, Graz Austria
- 2024 Kinoathens Film Festival, Athens, Greece
- 2024 Filmfest,Dresden, Germany
- 2024 Ex-Situ, exhibition Serajevo, Bosnia
- 2024 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scottland, UK
- 2023 Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Japan
- 2023 Best Austrian Animation, Vienna, Austria
- 2023 29th Athens International Film Festival, Athens, Greece
- 2023 20th Viennashorts, Vienna Austria
- 2023 20th IndieLisboa Film Festival, Lisbon Portugal
- 2023 49th Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, USA
- 2023 “Im Auge der Infodemie” exhibition in splace am Hauptplatz, Linz, Austria
- 2023 Diagonale, Graz , Austria
- 2023 “Fabric of Dreams” exhibition at ail_vienna, Austria
- 2022 Viennale, Vienna, Austria
- 2022 “I hide my happiness” exhibition in allartnow/Stockholm, Sweden
- 2022 “Aufwärts Fallen”, OÖ Kunstverein, Linz, Austria
- 2022 “Promenadologie / Die Welt hinter Schönbrunn”, Vienna, Austria
- 2022 INTERSECCIÓN. Contemporary Audiovisual Art Festival, A Coruña, Spain
- 2022 “Hedonisticka” DH5, Linz Austria
- 2022 EUREKA University Film Festival, Bogota, Colombia
- 2022 DOXS RUHR 2022, Bochum, Germany
- 2022, VIFF 2022, Vancouver, Canada
- 2022 Taichung International Animation Festival, Taichung, Taiwan
- 2022 “Upsala Short Film Festival”, Upsala, Schweden
- 2022 “Animafest Zagreb”, Zagreb, Croatia
- 2022 “Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart”, Stuttgart, Germany
- 2022 “25th Gabrovo Biennal”, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
- 2022 “Kopflos sind wir alle” Galerie Frewein-Kazakbaev, Vienna, Ausrtia
- 2022 “Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg”, Hamburg, Germany
- 2022 “Vienna Shorts”, Vienna, Ausria
- 2022 “Flatpack festival” Birmingham, Uk
- 2022 “Filmtage Oberhausen”, Oberhausen, Germany
- 2022 “Best Austrian Animation 2022”, Vienna, Austria
- 2022 “Ann Arbor Film Festival”, Michigan, USA
- 2022 “Tricky Women Festival”, Vienna Austria
- 2022 “minus20 degree festival”, Flachau, Austria
- 2021 “DANUBE DIALOGUES Contemporary Art Festival 2021”, Novi Sad, Serbia
- 2021 “Zwischen den Dingen” Volkskundenmuseum Wien Vienna Austria
- 2021 “Issues with my Other half and other stories” Presenation in Footnote Center Belgrade, Serbia
- 2021 “XX ART Flânerie” festival Vienna, Austria
- 2021 Exhibition “RePresent getting closer” Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach, Austria
- 2021 “Klangmanifeste Festival” Vienna, Austria
- 2021 “Der Angriff der Gegenwart” Exhibition in Universitätsgalerie Vienna, Austria
- 2020 Permanent Exhibition of the object “Handmasc” in House of European History, Brussels, Belgium
- 2020 Intertonale Artist in Residency, Scheibbs, Austria
- 2020 “How Illusion is made” film evening from Anna Vasof, Sehsaal, Vienna, Austria
- 2020 “Futur III"exhibition, Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach, Austria
- 2020 “Socially Dinstanced"exhibition, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
- 2020 “Die Freiheit der Wahl"exhibition, Museum am Bach, Ruden, Austria
- 2020 “Frage und Aufbruch” exhibition, Galerie OÖ. Kunstverein, Linz, Austria
- 2020 “Kaffeenistik” online performance, World Wide Web
- 2020 Tricky Women, Vienna, Austria
- 2020 Luxembourg City Film Festival, Luxenbourg
- 2020 Shortz Film Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
- 2020 International Women Film Festival of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- 2020 Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Lausanne, France
- 2020 minus20degree art and architecture winter biennale, Flachau, Austria
- 2019 DA Fest, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 2019 Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, Canada
- 2019 Screening at Abop Gallery, Asheville, USA
- 2019 IFF 2019, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- 2019 BFI London Film Festival, Longon, UK
- 2019 Duisburger Filmwoche 43, Duisburg, Germany
- 2019 Exhibition in Musao, Vienna, Austria
- 2019 Stuck Keys Exhibition Duo Exhibition, Memphis Kunstraum, Linz, Austria
- 2019 Solo Filmnight at Frameout Festival MQ Vienna, Austria
- 2019 Installation in Vienna Biennale, Mak Museum, Vienna Austria
- 2019 File Festival, Sao Paolo, Brazil
- 2019 Non-Stop-Scheiner, Graz, Austria
- 2019 SUPER PARADISO exhibition, Museum am Bach, Ruden, Austria
- 2019 VIS Vienna Shorts 2019, Vienna, Austria
- 2019 Diametrale, Innsbruck, Ausria
- 2019 Diagonale, Graz, Austria
- 2019 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
- 2019 Tricky Women, Vienna, Austria
- 2019 Vienna Fair, Vienna, Austria
- 2019 FUNKENFLUG 12 Subtile Revolutionen, Performance in Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Ausria
- 2018 Roboexotica, Vienna, Austria
- 2018 Performance, Mak Museum, Vienna Austria
- 2018 Photon gallery, exhibition, Vienna Austria
- 2018 Human, Fotgalerie, exhibition, Vienna, Austria
- 2018 Tricky Women animation film festival, Vienna, Austria
- 2018 “MAKE A WISH” (Yoko Ono), exhibition Medien Werkstatt, Vienna, Austria
- 2018 Understanding Art and Research, exhibition, Dunedin, New Zealand
- 2018 Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham, UK
- 2018 Donau Festival, exhibition, Krems, Austria
- 2018 Diagonale, film festival, Graz, Austria
- 2017 Parallel Vienna, Austria
- 2017 Taichung International Animation Festival, Taichung, Taiwan
- 2017 Black Noise, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2017 Hybrid Art, Lexus Dome, Moscow, Russia
- 2017 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Great Britain
- 2017 Under The Radar, Vienna, Austria
- 2017 File Festival, Sao Paolo, Brazil
- 2017 Vienna Shorts, Vienna, Austria
- 2017 Saristra Festival, Kefalonia, Greece
- 2017 Busan International Short Film Festival, Busan, Korea
- 2017 Tricky Women Festival, Vienna, Austria
- 2017 Tweetakt festival, Utecht, Netherlands
- 2017 Diagonale, Graz, Austria
- 2017 Videonalle 16, Bonn, Cermany
- 2017 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgard, Germany
- 2016 Pro(s)thesis in der Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, co-kuratiert von Berenice Pahl
- 2016 Animateka, Liubliana, Slovenia
- 2016 Viennale, Vienna, Austria
- 2016 Video Installation in File Festival, Sao Paolo, Brasil
- 2016 Stressed Embryo Performance in Fyodor’s Carousel, Wiener Festwochen, Austria
- 2016 Flatpack film festival, Birmingham, England
- 2016 Back to Athens, Cheap Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
- 2016 Designing Beauty Exhibition, Museum am Bach, Ruden, Austria
- 2016 Symposium Under the Radar, Vienna, Austria
- 2016 28 International film festival Dresden, Germany
- 2016 Tricky Women film festival, Vienna, Austria
- 2016 minus20degree art and architecture winter biennale, Flachau, Austria
- 2016 Antarctis film festival Finnish Antarctic research Station ABOA, Antarctica
- 2015 Risc film festival, Marseille, France
- 2015 APORDOC film festival, Lisbon, Portogal
- 2015 Antimatter film festival, Victoria BC, Canada
- 2015 31 International Short film festival Hamburg, Haburg, Germany
- 2015 Animafest 2015, Zagreb, Kroatia
- 2015 Back Up film festival, Weimar, Germany
- 2015 Vienna Indepented Shorts film festival, Vienna, Austria
- 2015 European Media Art festival EMAF, Osnabrück, Deutschland
- 2015 IndieLisboa film festival, Lisbon, Portogal
- 2015 Symposium Under the Radar, Vienna, Austria
- 2015 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
- 2015 Open<End Exhibition, Vienna, Austria
- 2014 Roboexotica festival 2014, Vienna, Austria
- 2014 Videoforma videofestival, Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Ar, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2014 One day animation festival, Vienna, Austria
- 2014 Youki filmfestival, Wells, Austria
- 2014 Video Presentation in HOLO Conference, MedienWerkstatt, Vienna, Austria
- 2014 Performance Falling Footnotes, Kusthaus Hunderwasser Haus, Vienna, Austria
- 2014 Shoeting Stars, Kusthaus Hunderwasser Haus, Vienna, Austria
- 2014 Performancefestival OPEN, MQ mumok Hofstallung, Vienna, Austria
- 2014 Design Biennale, Power Station of Arts, Shanghai, China
- 2014 Standby exhibition, Lenikus Studios, Vienna, Austria
- 2013-14 Electric Parade exhibition, Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach, Austria
- 2013-14 Auf Schritt und Tritt - Schuhwerk in Kunst und Design,exhibition Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany
- 2013 XARTS 2013 Conference in Aegean University, Syros, Greece (with the research work “Yapi”)
- 2013 Festival Miden videoart festival, Kalamata, Greece
- 2013 Essence 2013, exhibition Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria (with the video installation “Footnotes”)
- 2013 Skulpturinstitut / Die Angewandte exhibition, Vienna, Austria
- 2012 Screening in Soirée de Votanique, Athens, Greece
- 2012 Festival Miden videoart festival,, Kalamata, Greece
- 2012 Arthur Schnitzler Park open air installation, Baden, Austria
- 2012 embeddedinvisible, [huː fʌk off] space, exhibition Vienna, Austria
- 2012 Why Art Now, Open Show Studio, exhibition, Athens, Greece
- 2012 Naked Fire, Kunst Pavillion, exhibition Innsbruck, Austria
- 2011 Archiprix Mit, exhibition USA
- 2011 Essence exhibition, MAK Museum, Vienna Austria (with the video installation “For Sale”)
- 2011 Attraction of the opposites,filmfesival Rotterdam, Holland
- 2008 Biennale of young artists Puglia 2008, Italy
- 2008 Word expo the one minutes,Beijing, China
- 2008 Camera Zizanio, filmfestival Olympia, Greece
- 2008 Aza short film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
- 2008 3d Crash Fest, filmfestival Thessaloniki, Greece
- 2007 2d Crash Fest, filmfestival Thessaloniki, Greece
- 2007 Athens video art, Athens, Greece
- 2006 1st Crash Fest, filmfestival Thessaloniki, Greece
- 2005 2d intercultural festival installation Lamia, Greece
- 2005 b.a.l.a.,artfestival Lamia, Greece
Participation in Exhibitions/Festivals in teams
- 2012 Roboexotica (Festival for Cocktailrobotics, Vienna, Austria) together with Marcel Jira, Peter Regner, Jakob Unterwurzacher
- 2012 Ted x Instanity Vienna under Metalab presentation
- 2011 Essence, MAK Museum, Vienna Austria (as Co-finder Locker Gallery Association)
- 2010 Athens Bench, Athens, Greece
- 2008 Amphitheatre Virginia, Volos, Greece
- 2007 4th festival women cinema, Athens, Greece
- 2007 Biennale: 1 Thessaloniki biennale of contemporary art, Thessaloniki, Greece
- 2005 Going Public, Larisa, Greece
Participation in Exhibitions as assistant
- 2012 Cut a Long Story Short, Instabul, Turkey (working for the artist Brigitte Kowanz)
- 2010 Pavilion of Greece at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy (working for the architects Zisis Kotionis, Phoebe Giannisi, Kostas Manolidis)
- 2010 Regionale X der schaffende Mensch, Trautenfels, Austria (working for the artist Maria Papadimitriou)
- 2009 Dimitris Fatouros retrospective exhibition, Athens (Benaki Museum), Thessaloniki (Byzantian Museum), Greece(working for the architect Lois Papadopoulos)
- 2005 Two travels for Le Corbusier Kreta, Greece (working for the architect Iris Lykourioti)
Coordinating / Organising
- 2015 XWRA Video and Media Art festival in Greece
- 2013 Co-founder Hummel Kino
- 2011 Co-founder of the Locker Gallery Assotiation
- 2010 10 meters video festival
- 2007-2010 university video team V_idea, university video library
Scholaships
- 2021 Residency in iii interdisciplinary practices linking performance, technology and the human senses
- 2018 Pixel Bytes and Film ORF Residency
- 2016-2019 Distribution from Sixpackfilm
- 2015 Scholarschip for Video and Media Art from Austrian Cultural Ministry
- 2015 Scholarship from Austrian Ministry for Science, Research and Economy
- 2015 Toronto animated society Residency
- 2014-2016 Distribution from Sixpackfilm
- 2014-2015 Artists in Residence Programm SAMMLUNG LENIKUS
- 2011-2014 Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Scholarship
Working Experience
- Since 2019 till now Senior Lecturer at Social design Class and Art Education Classs in University of Applied arts Vienna
- Since 2019 till now Winter Workshops in Time based Media Art class in Art University Linz
- 2019 University assistand in Social Design Class in University of Applied arts Vienna
- 2018 Week Workshop in Animation Department in KHM Cologne
- 2017 Week Workshop in Post Industrial Design Class in University of Thessaly
- 2015 (3 months) Organising the technical infrustructure in Transmedia art class in University of Applied arts Vienna
- 2014 Assisting Summer Workshop of Architectural Design PAW: Felicity/ Dispositives of Survival (University of Thessaly)
- 2013-2014 Praktikum in Kowanz Atelier
- 2010 Videos for architect Aspasia Kouzoupi and for landsape sculpor Nella Golada
- 2009 Advertisement for City apartments Vienna
- 2008-2009 Employee in gharakhanzadeh sandbichler architekten zt gmbh kundl wien
- 2005-2006 videos for city of Volos Historical center (Diki)