Claudia Larcher is an artist, filmmaker, and AI researcher who views photography not merely as a technical medium but as a globally interconnected practice with social and political significance. Her work spans video animation, collage, photography, and installation, focusing on the impacts and experimental uses of artificial intelligence. By combining traditional and modern methods of image production, she translates digital concepts into physical spaces, exploring the materiality of the digital and perceptions of reality. Rooted in a “phygital” (physical and digital) perspective, her practice redefines the boundaries between traditional and modern media forms. She investigates the entanglement of photography and artificial intelligence, the materiality of algorithmic images, and the relationship between photography and ecology, contributing to current debates on digital humanism and automated or post-human photography.
Based in Vienna, she has presented her work in numerous exhibitions in Austria and abroad, including Tokyo Wonder Site (Japan), Slought Foundation Philadelphia, the Weimar Art Festival, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Ars Electronica Festival (Linz), Gray Area Festival San Francisco, Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Manifesta 13 and Anthology Film Archives in NYC.
Currently, she is a resident of ARTTEC program at AIT (Austrian Institute of Technology).
SOLO SHOWS (selection)
2025
EXTINCTION STUDIES, Recontemporary, Turin/IT
STILL LIFES 3000, Cité de L’image, Clervaux/ LUX
2024
HALLUCINATIONS, Engländerbau, Vaduz/ LIE
FUTURE AND TRANSITION, ARTTEC at AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna/ AT
ANTROPOSCENES - Noise above our heads, Lo Pati Centre d’Art, Terres de l’Ebre/ ESP
BLUMEN AUS PLASTIK, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz/ AT
2023
STILL LIFE 3000, Galerie beim Feuerle, Feldkirch/ AT
SOLO Presentation, Claudia Larcher, Freies Kino im Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus Vienna/ AT
2021
SOLO Presentation, Claudia Larcher at Vienna Shorts Film Festival, Vienna/ AT
FACE À FACE, Galerie 22,48m2, Paris/ FR
ROOMS - Claudia Larcher, Galerie Marenzi, Leibnitz/ AT
2020
Face 2 Face, Studio Neue Galerie Graz/ AT
Face 2 Face, Lisi Hämmerle Gallery, Bregenz/ AT
2019
Claudia Larcher - ROOMS, Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21, Vienna/ AT
ROOMS, vai - Architecture Institute Vorarlberg, Dornbirn/ AT
SET THIS HOUSE IN ORDER, Neuer Kunstverein Vienna/ AT
HABITAT, Schauraum, Museumsquartier Vienna/ AT
2018
HABITAT, 22,48m2 Gallery, Paris/ FR
EYE TO I – Intimacy, Mobius Gallery, Bucharest/ RO
KOLLAPS, Raum mit Licht Gallery, Vienna/ AT
THE NEW NATURE, Mobius Gallery, Bucharest/ RO
2017
RUMAH Indonesia, Sewon Art Space, Yogyakarta/ IND
2016
SHOW & TELL: CLAUDIA LARCHER, Anthology Film Archives, New York / USA
GHOST RIDE THE WHIP, Gallery 5020, Salzburg/ AT
FAUX TERRAIN, Lisi Hämmerle Gallery with Bildraum Bodensee, Bregenz/ AT
FAUX TERRAIN, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz / AT
2015
IN RELATION TO PLACES AND TIME, Gallery Raum mit Licht, Vienna/ AT
2014
SCENES, 22,48m2 Gallery, Paris/ FR
2013
THE RAW AND THE COOKED, Solo Presentation at Viennale Film Festival, Vienna/ AT
THE REPLICATED GAZE, Lisi Hämmerle Gallery, Bregenz/ AT
CLAUDIA LARCHER, the replicated gaze, das weisse haus, Vienna/ AT
2012
BAUMEISTER, ORF Funkhaus, Dornbirn/ AT
2011
CLAUDIA LARCHER - HEIM, 22,48m2 Gallery, Paris/ FR
EMPTY ROOMS, Coded Cultures Festival, Glockengasse 9, Vienna/ AT
2008
CLAUDIA LARCHER - HEIM, Kunsthalle Wien at Karlsplatz, Vienna/ AT
GROUP SHOWS (selection)
2024
HOPE, Ars Electronica Festival Linz/ AT
LOVE IN AMZEI, Mobius Gallery, Bucharest/ RO
SEE, STAGE Bregenz, Festspielhaus Bregenz/ AT
2023
EXTENSION OF SELF, Francisco Carolinum Linz/ AT
URBAN SPACES, Depot der Sammlung SpallArt, Salzburg/ AT
KUNSTNACHT NIJMEGEN, Go Short x Proces-Verbaal, Nijmegen/ NL
SAAI - Super Artistic AI, L’Art Pur Gallery, Riyadh/ SAU
SALON DE PROGRESS #2 - Des Pierres des villes, de la neige. Progress Gallery, Paris/ FR
TOKYO TOWER ARTS FESTIVAL, Tokyo/ JP
HAUTSACHE, European Month of Photography, Österr. Kulturforum Berlin/ AT
ON THE ROAD AGAIN, Künstlerhaus Wien/ AT
2022
DISTANT EARLY WARNINGS, Gray Area Festival, San Francisco/ USA
EINDORFFEST, Eindorf, Vienna / AT
AIFF Special Exhibition, The 23rd Advanced Imaging Festival, Online/ KOR
THE FEMALE LANDSCAPE, VBKÖ, Vienna/ AT
MACHINALIVE, Nomadica at LABA, Brescia/ IT
2021
BIENNALE DE L‘IMAGE TANGIBLE, Atelier Basfroi, Paris/ FR
ENCOUNTER #4, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Wien/ AT
HEIMSPIEL, Kunstraum Dornbirn/ AT
STEIERMARKSCHAU, mobile pavillon, Wien - Hartberg/ AT
SALON APPROCHE, Claudia Larcher, Galerie Christian Berst, Paris/ FR
2020
L‘EFFET Domino/ Manifesta, Le109, Nice/ FR
BONS BAISERS DE NICE, Galerie Espace a Vendre, Nice/ FR
INDUSTRIAL BIENNALE, Labin Art Express, Labin/ HRV
AB_BILDEN, Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin/ DE
CASA DOLCE CASA, 22,48m2 Gallery Paris/ FR
ART ON SCREEN, Mixer Arts, Istanbul/ TR
AIR, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna/ AT
2019
MYTHOS IDYLLE MAISÄSS, Vorarlbergmuseum, Bregenz/ AT
ETATS DES LIEUX, La Vallée, Brüssel/ BEL
URBANE ZONEN, FOTO WIEN, Postsparkasse Vienna/ AT
2018
HOMO DEUS, 24 Orchard Street, Mobius Gallery, NYC/ US
FRAGMENTS OF BELIEF, Kuckei+Kuckei Gallery, Berlin/ DE
COLLAGE VI, Fotogalerie Vienna/ AT
CINÉPHÉMÈRE, FIAC, Paris/ FR
BEYOND WONDER – PERSPECTIVES OF UTOPIA, Nagoya Art and Design Center, Nagoya/JP
HEIMSPIEL, Kunstmuseum Appenzell/ CH
FADING AWAY, Galerie 22,48m2, Paris/ FR
2017
RESET III and VIRTUAL REALITY, Prisker Pasquer Gallery, Cologne/ DE
SINNESRAUSCH - Alice verdrehte welt, OÖ Kulturquartier Linz/ AT
VERSATILE PHOTOGRAPHY, Fotogalerie Wien/ AT
BORDERLAND, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel/ CH
STRATIFIED, Kunstverein das weisse haus, Vienna/ AT
2016
ABBILD REALITÄT!?, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna/ AT
VERSATILE PHOTOGRAPHY, Galerie Jeune Creation, Paris/ FR
INFLUENCES OF MODERNISM IN AUSTRIAN CONTEMPORARY ART, The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca/ RO
FILTER, Kunstforum Montafon/ AT
2015
MAINZER ANSICHTEN, curated by Thomas D. Trummer, Kunsthalle Mainz/ DE
MODELL, curated by Aldo Giannotti, Kunstraum SUPER, Vienna/ AT
VIVA - Valetta International Visual Arts Festival, Malta
2014
JEUNE CREATION, Centquatre-Paris/ FR
LES ESTHÉTIQUES D’UN MONDE DÉSENCHANTÉ, Abbaye Saint André Centre d’art Contemporain Meymac/ FR
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER, Centro de Arte Moderna – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lissabon/ PT
A GALINHA DA VIZINHA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde/ DK
SUR L’EAU, 22,48m2 Gallery, Paris/ FR
INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS, Gallery Zilberman, Istanbul/ TK
CÔTÉ INTÉRIEUR, Kunstraum Innsbruck/ AT
2013
CATCHING A JELLYFISH, Hpgrp Gallery, Tokyo/ JP
THERMODYNAMIC TWILIGHT, Galeria Monumental, Lisbon/ PT
ELASTIC VIDEO, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna/ AT
PLINQUE - PLI SELON PLI, 22,48m2 Gallery, Paris/ FR
NEW FRONTIERS, Forum Frohner, Kunsthalle Krems/ AT
NEW FRONTIERS Galerie d’Architecture, Paris/ FR
NEW FRONTIERS, AZW-Architekturzentrum Wien/ AT
2012
YOUNG AUSTRIAN PHOTOGRAPHY, @ Fotoweek DC, Washington DC/ USA
NEW FRONTIERS, Architekturforum Aedes, Berlin/ DE
DEMNÄCHST. Orte für werdende Kunst, Gallery 5020, Salzburg/ AT
MEDIEN.KUNST.SAMMELN, Kunsthaus Graz, AT
2011
HAUNTINGS, steirischer Herbst, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz/ AT
MODERNE: Selbstmord der Kunst?, Neue Galerie Graz/ AT
ELASTIC VIDEO, Tokyo Wondersite Hongo, Tokyo/ JP
2010
GARNITSCHNIG - LARCHER - SCHEFFKNECHT, Michael Sturm Gallery, Stuttgart/ DE
TRIENNALE LINZ 1.0, Lentos Museum, Linz/ AT
DAS LEBEN IST WAHRSCHEINLICH RUND, Maerz Gallery, Linz/ AT
WIR KÖNNEN AUCH ANDERS, Bourouina Gallery, Berlin/ DE
2009
(DE)KONSTRUKTIONEN, Fotogalerie Vienna/ Austria
2008
ANOTHER TOMORROW, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia/ USA
UTOPIA - Paraflows 08, MAK Gegenwartskunstdepot Gefechtsturm, Vienna/ AT
2007
OPENING, das weisse haus, Vienna/ AT
KOPFABENTEUER, Video Live Performance, Birdland, Vienna/ AT
2006
OPEN 2006, Lido, Venice/ IT
SPIELFELD UNIVERSAL, Künstlerhaus, Dortmund/ DE
2005
INSERT COIN, Medien.Kunstlabor, Graz/ AT
INSERT COIN, Freiraum Quartier 21, Wien/ AT
INSERT COIN, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich/ CH
FESTIVALS/ SCREENINGS (selection)
2024
The ANNECY International Film Festival, Official Selection, Annecy/ FR
MIAF - 24th International Animation Festival Melbourne/ AUS
SUBTERRANEAN TALES, Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21/ AT
IFSAK - Istanbul Short Film Festival, Istanbul/ TUR
TRICKY WOMEN/ TRICKY REALITIES, Vienna/ AT
KINO, Athens International Independent Film Festival, Athens/ GRC
HEIM.KÖRPER.ISSUES, Metro Kino, Bregenz/ AT
RESILIENT SKIN, Labocine VoD
2023
PLECS, Cultural Rizoma, ESP
ARS ELECTRONICA ANIMATION FESTIVAL, Linz/ AT
FESTIVAL DE CINEMA Ville de Quèbec/ CND
PROTESTFORMEN, Vienna‘s Urban Art, Ursula Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21, Wien/ AT
VIENNA SHORTS FESTIVAL, Vienna/ AT
LUX FILM FEST, Luxembourg City Film Festival/ LUX
TRICKY WOMEN Film Festival, Wien/ AT
DIAGONALE Graz/ AT
LPA - LAS PALMAS FILM FESTIVAL/ ESP
ITFS - INTERNATIONAL TRICKFILM FESTIVAL, Stuttgart/ DE
2022
ITFS - TRICKFILM FESTIVAL STUTTGART/ DE
ANTIMATTER - MEDIA ART, Victoria BC/ CA
DOK LEIPZIG, Internationales Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm, Leipzig/ DE
DEEP END FILM, Nijmegen/ NL
FRAGT DIE STEINE, Werkleitz Festival, Halle/ DE
2021
ANIMATION PERSPECTIVES, Claudia Larcher and Randa Maroufi, DOK Leipzig/ DE
DEBOLTON FILM FESTIVAL, Bolton/ UK
VIENNA SHORTS FESTIVAL, Vienna/ AT
RISC - Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinémas, Marseille/ FR
INT. KURZFILMWOCHE Regensburg/ DE
GO SHORT, International Film Festival, Nijmege/ NL
TRICKY WOMEN Film Festival, Wien/ AT
ANN ARBOR Filmfestival, Michigan/ US
2020
The ANNECY International Film Festival, Official Selection, Annecy/ FR
CORPS-MACHINE, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Danzig/ PL
GO SHORT, International Film Festival, Nijmege/ NL
GRANDFATHERS AXE, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel/ CH
SÄGEZAHN XVIII, Schauspielhaus Wien/ AT
ANIMATOU, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève/ CH
KURZFILMWOCHE Regensburg /DE
2019
CUFF - Chicago Underground Film Festival, USA
VIS – Vienna Shorts, international competition, Vienna/ AT
DIAGONALE, Festival des österreichischen Film, Graz/ AT
2017
URSULA BLICKLE Archiv zu Besuch, Studio im Hochhaus, Berlin/ DE
FILMFEST Dresden/ DE
REX 2017, Animation Film Festival, Stockholm/ SWE
MARIENBAD Film Festival, Velká Hlesebe/ CZ
CLAIR OBSCUR Filmfestival, Basel/ CH
2016
DOK LEIPZIG, Internationales Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm, Leipzig/ DE
IDENTITY – Paraflows Festival XI, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna/ AT
RE/VISION - European Experimental Film Festival at MIT, Cambridge/ USA
FID MARSEILLE, documentary film festival, Marseille/ FR
SELF at Museum of the Moving Image, New York/ USA
ANNECY, international Animated Film Festival, Annecy/ FR
VIS - Vienna Independent Shorts, Vienna/ AT
DIAGONALE, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz/ AT
2015
VIENNALE - International Filmfestival, Wien/ AT
VELAK EXPORT #9 - experimental music, video and film, Cinema Nova, Brussels/ BEL
LOOP, Barcelona/ ES
ARCHITEKTURVISIONEN, Metropolis Kino Hamburg/ DE
2014
CINEMA NEXT Filmnacht, Moviemento, Linz/ AT
FREIES KINO, Künstlerhaus Kino, Wien/ AT
2013
AFFR, Architectuur Film Festival, Rotterdam /NL
CINEMA NEXT, Gartenbaukino, Wien/ AT
FILMBAR, Art Museum Solothurn/ CH
URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM, Directors Lounge, Berlin/ DE
LES INSTANTS VIDÉO, Institut Francais, Tokyo/ JP
2012
KUNSTFILMSCREENING @ mumok cinema, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna/ AT
INT. MULTIMEDIA ART FESTIVAL, New Zero Art Space, Yangon/ Myanmar
INSHADOW FESTIVAL, International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies, Lisbon/ PT
BIEFF Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest/ RO
KASSELDocumentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel/ DE
TINDIRINDIS Animation Festival, Vilnius/ LT
DIAGONALE, Austrian film festival, Graz/ AT
2011
FESTIVAL LES INSTANTS VIDEO, Marseille/ FR
2010
ARCHITEKTURFILMTAGE MÜNCHEN, Filmmuseum, Munich/ DE
SOLOTHURNER FILMTAGE, Solothurn/ CH
PICTURES OF PROVINCES, Centre Pompidou, Paris/ FR
2009
DOCBsAs, documentary film festival, Buenos Aires/ AR
UNDERDOX, dokument und experiment, Munich/ DE
FID MARSEILLE, documentary film festival, Marseille/
MEDIENKUNSTFESTIVAL, Osnabrück/ DE
DIAGONALE, Austrian film festival, Graz/ AT
2008
TANZMEDIENAKADEMIE 08, Kunstfest Weimar/ DE
2007
DESTIONATION AREA 10, Camberwell Art Festival, London/ GB
AWARDS & GRANTS (selection)
2024
Beate Sirota Gordon Award
2023
Österreichischer Kunstpreis / Austrian Art Award
Working Scholarship VALIE EXPORT Center, Linz
2022
Best Experimental Animation for ”The Artist in the Machine”, 18th Best Austrian Animation Festival
2021
Hubert Sielecki Award for Austrian Animation, Tricky Women Festival
2020
Hans Hollein Project Grant
2019
Prof. Hilde Goldschmidt Award
Artist in Residence, one world foundation, Sri Lanka
2018
Art Award Vorarlberg
Artist in Residence, Cité des Arts, Paris
Preis Jubiläumsfond Sparkasse Dornbirn
2017
Artist in Residence Grant, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, bka
Artist in Residence Grant Maisäss/ Montafon, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum
CCA Andratx, Artist in Residence Program, Mallorca
2016
Outstanding Artist Award for video and media art, bka (Austrian Cultural Ministry)
2015
“Erste Bank’s More Value” Film Award at Viennale Film Festival for the movie „Self“ followed by an Artist in Residence in New York
Austrian State Fellowship for Media Art
Nomination Project Pitch Award, Kino der Kunst, Munich
Artist in Residence Grant, Nida Art Colony, Lithuania
2013
Research Residency Program, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo/ Japan
Baustelle Schaustelle Art Award
2012
Studio Grant, Bilbao Arte - Centre for Contemporary Art, Bilbao/ Spain
Mentoring program organized by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture / bm:ukk, Mentor: Dorit Margreiter
2011
“Startstipendium” for Media Art
2010
Studio Grant of the Austrian Cultural Ministry in Tokyo/ Japan
2009
Special Award, Content Award 09 for the video animation „HEIM”
Grant of the Austrian Science Ministry
2008
Kunsthalle Award Vienna 2008
Game Art Award, re/act festival 08
TEACHING
2021 - 2023
TransArts Directorial Team, Institute of Fine Arts and Media Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2016 - 2017
Lecturer at the Digital Arts Institute, University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the Institute for Art and Design at Vienna University of Technology
2014
Visiting Professorship at the Institute of Architecture and Design/ Vienna University of Technology
Since 2009
several workshops, lectures and artist talks
EDUCATION
2005 - 2008
Studies of Sculpture and Multimedia Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2006 - 2007
Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2001 - 2005
Studies of Transmedia Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna
COLLECTIONS
Artothek des Bundes/ Belvedere Vienna
Artothek - City of Vienna
Collection Dornbirner Sparkasse
Collection Hypo Bregenz
Collection Illwerke VKW
Collection Leinemann
Collection Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum
Gemeindesammlung Lustenau
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Landesgalerie Oberösterreich
Paris Collections de la Ville de Paris
Ursula Blickle Archiv
Vorarlberger Landesmuseum
Wienerberger Contemporary Photography Collection
several private collections