ABOUT
Viktoria Schmid works at the interface of the cinematic and exhibition space. Her chosen mediums of film, video, sculpture and photography act as co-authors and enter into a dialogue with the content. Her work focuses on historical image-making processes, the potential for representing landscape and nature and the historical development of cinema. Schmid is interested in perception and influencing viewers’ everyday ways of seeing.
EDUCATION
MA University of Art, Linz, 2014
BA Filmtheory, University of Vienna, 2011
Friedl Kubelka-School for Independent Film, 2008-2010
TEACHING / LECTURES
Artist Talk, L’etna, Paris, 2025
Artist Talk, BAL Filmschool, Riga, 2025 & 2024
Workshop, Friedl-Kubelka-School (Film), 2023
Seminar, Academy of fine Arts, 2019–2024
Lecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, 2020 & 2017
Artist Talk, Vilnius Art Academy, 2019
Artist Talk, Academy of fine Arts, Bratislava, 2019
Lecture, Friedl-Kubelka-School, (Film), 2018
Artist Talk, class of Dorit Margreiter, Academy of fine arts, Vienna, 2017
Workshop, class of Thomas Heise, Academy of fine arts, Vienna, 2017
2017 Artist lecture, symposium on dizziness as a creative resource, Künstlerhaus Graz, 2017
Co-Teacher, International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, 2014–2017
Workshop, University of Art and Design, Linz, 2014
Workshop, filmkoop wien, 2012
Workshops for Kids at YOUKI-Filmfestival, Austrian Filmmuseum, Wiener Festwochen, Diagonale Film Festival / Künstlerhaus Graz, 2010–2018
Awards
Erste Bank Film Award – Viennale Film Festival, 2025
WTF Award, flatpack film festival, 2024
Hubert-Sielecki-Award, 2023
Austrian Short Film Award, Best Film, Vienna Shorts, 2023
State stipend for photography, BMKOES, Austria,2022
Appreciation Prize for Media Art of Lower Austria, 2018
Scholarship for media art, BKA, Austria 2016
Art Grant by the City of Linz, 2014
AIR
AIR Cité des Artes, Paris, BMKOES, 2025
AIR ISCP, New York City, BMKOES, 2020/2022
Nida Art Colony, Lithuania, 2019
AIR Djerassi Foundation, USA, Air Krems, 2016
dISTRIBUTION
lightcone, Paris
sixpack film, Vienna
SOLO EXHIBITIONS / SOLO SCREENINGS
2025
bb15, Linz
Simultanhalle, Köln
Scratchprojection, Lightcone, Paris
2023
violet, Antwerp
2022
forum presents, WHA, Linz
2021
Talking Screen, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
2018
Light’s Light or Light is light, WasserWasser, Vienna
A proposal to project, Indie Art-Hall GONG, Seoul
2017
Proposals to project, Musa, Vienna
2015
Don’t make me destroy you, HDA, Graz
SCREENINGS
2025
Kino Tuškanac, Zagreb
Underdox Festival, München
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal
Viennale Film Festival
Toronto Film Festival
fjk3, Wien
Muma, Le Havre
Light Field Festival, San Francisco
Filmhaus, Köln
2024
ICA, London
Blickle Kino, Belvedere21, Wien
Austrian Filmmuseum, Wien
Braunschweig Film Festival, Germany
Image Forum, Japan
DMZ Docs, Korea
Il cinema ritrovato, Italy
La Inesperada, Spain
Filmfest Dresden, Germany
Flatpack Festival, UK
Static Vision, Australia
ba̍k-nih-á film festival, Tapei
Midnight Sun Festival, Finland
Richmond Film Festival, US
Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden
Light Matter Experimental Film, US
Kortfilmfestival Leuven, Belgium
2023
Encounters Film Festival
International Film Festival Vancouver
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Curtocircuíto
Antimatter Film Festival
IndieCork Festival
International Film Festival Zagreb
El Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia
Toronto Film Festival
exf f., Frankfurt
Edinburgh Film Festival
Vienna Shorts, Vienna
Process Festival, Riga
Prismatic Ground, New York City
mumok cinema, Vienna
Diagonale Film Festival, Graz
2022
Festival Cine Sevilla
Whammy, Los Angeles
Braquage, Paris
Dobra Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro
Celluloid Now, Chicago Film Society
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Anthology Film Archives, New York City
Punto de Vista Festival
Diagonale Film Festival, Graz
2021
Prisme #4 Argentique du futur, Nantes
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Rencontres cinéma et video, Nice
Monokino, Ostende
2020
Viennale Film Festival
Kasseler Dokfest
Underdox-Filmfestival, Munich
KYIV International Short Film Festival
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
2019
Austrian Filmmuseum
Alternative Film/Video, Belgrade
Now Instant, Los Angeles
Indie Lisboa
Diagonale Film Festival
2018
Vienna Shorts Festival
25fps Festival, Zagreb
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Stuttgarter Filmwinter
Process Festival, Latvia
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
2017
FID, Marseille
Diagonale Film Festival
Crossing Europe Filmfestival
Austrian Filmmuseum
Kasseler Dokfest
Underdox-Filmfestival
2016
Austrian Filmmuseum, Vienna
Unsafe&Sound-Festival, Vienna
Ibrida Pluri Festival, Montreal
2014
Diagonale Film Festival
Crossing Europe Filmfestival
2013
Crossing Europe Filmfestival
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque
TIE- Alternative Measures, Colorado Springs
2012
One Day Animation Film Festival, Vienna
MIA, Moving Image Art Screening, Pasadena
2011
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Viennale Film Festival
Fullframe Festival
2010
Worm Filmwerkplaats, Rotterdam
Fullframe Festival, Vienna
YOUKI, Wels
EXHIBITIONs
2025
Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair
2024
Parallel Editions
2023
Belvedere 21, Vienna
2022
Scratch expanded, Lightcone, Paris
maerz galerie, Linz
Kunsthaus Graz
Prephotography, ZEFF, Vienna
2021
Bijenale Mladih, Belgrade
Weißes Rauschen, Fotogalerie Wien
2020
Tombola II, LLLLLL, Vienna
Kaleidoskop, Vienna
2019
Big Screens Shatter Easily, OÖ Kunstverein, Linz
das weisse Haus, Vienna
2018
A Passenger, Salzburger Kunstverein
MONO NO AWARE, New York City
Miro Mondo, Fotogalerie, Vienna
Künstlerhaus, Graz
2017
WUK Exnergasse, Vienna
2016
ASFA BBQ, Athens
periscope, Salzburg
Size matters, Vienna
2015
Periscope, Salzburg
OK Offenes Kulturhaus OÖ, Linz
Das weisse haus, Vienna
2014
Pinacoteca, Vienna,
BestOFF, Linz
2013
No.w.here, London
Fotohof, Salzburg
2012
Gran Lux Filmnacht, Wien Museum, Vienna
Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas