Lisa Truttmann (born 1983) is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. In her artistic practice, she combines documentary, essayistic, and poetic methods to investigate the sociologies and ecologies of landscapes and architectures. She is interested in relationships between human and non-human agents as well as in their spaces of interaction. Truttmann understands her subjective view as an approximation and considers her artistic process as an attempt to playfully comprehend complex systems. Associatively she intertwines collected material in image, sound and text as well as objects in installations and rhythmic montages. Oscillating between cinema and exhibition space, her works always reflect the language of their medium. Lisa Truttmann studied Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Film/Video at the California Institute of the Arts, where she made her first essayistic feature film Tarpaulins (2017). Truttmann currently works on her second feature film.

Her films and installations have been shown internationally at film festivals and exhibitions, including Edinburgh IFF, CPH:DOX Copenhagen, New York FF, Images Festival Toronto, Ann Arbor FF, Bertha DocHouse London, Alianza Francesa Buenos Aires, Viennale, Diagonale, Kunsthalle Wien, KHM Wien, MAK Wien, and Kunstsammlung NRW. She received numerous awards and scholarships, such as the Kunsthalle Wien Prize, the Fulbright Scholarship, the Austrian State Scholarship of the Federal Ministry BMKÖS, the Advancement Award of the City of Vienna, and the Recognition Award for Media Art of the State of Lower Austria. Lisa Truttmann has been teaching in the field of artistic moving images since 2017, including at the University of Arts Linz and at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She has been a member of the Golden Pixel Cooperative since 2018.

Teaching, Education
2022–23
Lecturer, University for Art and Design Linz, Experimental Art, AT
2017–21
Lecturer, University of Applied Arts, Transmedia Arts, Vienna, AT
2017–19
University Assistant, University for Art and Design Linz, Media Design and Education, AT
2013–16
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Film/Video, California, US
2003–09
MA, University of Applied Arts, Transmedia Arts, Vienna, AT
2007
CFP S.I.C.A., Centro de Formación Profesional, Film/video classes, guest student, Buenos Aires, AR
Solo/Two Person Screening Programs
2024
FOCUS ON: Lisa Truttmann, Breitenseer Lichtspiele, Vienna, AT
2021
Short films by Lisa Truttmann, Le Studio Film und Bühne, Vienna, AT
2019
Films by Viktoria Schmid and Lisa Truttmann, Now Instant Image Hall, Los Angeles, US
2018
Films by Marian McMahon Akimbo award winners 2016/17, with Nazlı Dinçel, Film Farm, Mount Forest, CA
2018
Blickle Archive Series #27: Lisa Truttmann, Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21, Vienna, AT
2015
Where are we?, Works by Lisa Truttmann, Fulbright screening, MUQUA, Raum D, Vienna, AT
Solo/Two Person Exhibitions
2022
Critters Chorus, Cycle 1, Mz*Baltazar’s Laboratory, Vienna, AT
2022
12 Stillleben, district office Simmering, Vienna, AT
2021
Memorabilien*, Le Studio Film und Bühne, Vienna, AT
2021
Rieseln, with Thomas Grill and Nicole Krenn, old sawmilll, national park Gesäuse, AT
2018
A Zig-Zag Attempt, T/abor, Vienna, AT
2018
Sena Başöz/Lisa Truttmann, Memphis, Linz, AT
2014
Elsewhere Lands, with Guido Spannocchi, old granary Neuruppersdorf, AT
2013
Lisa Truttmann. My Stage is Your Domain, Angewandte Kunst. Heute #5, MAK, Vienna, AT
2012
I told you once and I’ll tell you again, Die Ausstellungsstraße, Vienna, AT
2011
I told you once and I’ll tell you again, Experimentaciones Rojas, Reggio Emilia, IT
2009
What’s the deal?, Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2009, with Marta Armengol, Kunsthalle Project Space, Vienna, AT
2009
z.ficks, with Marta Armengol, Alianza Francesa, Buenos Aires, AR
2006
Raumfransen, Transmediale 02, with Andreas M. Eberharter, Volkshalle Rathaus, Vienna, AT
Scholarships, grants
2022
Film production grant, BMKÖS/Lower Austria/MA7, AT
2022
Film festival grant, BMKÖS, AT
2022/14
Art acquisition, MA7, City of Vienna, AT
2020
State stipend for media art, BKA, AT
2019/13
Art acquisition, Dept. Arts and Culture Lower Austria, AT
2019/17/14/13
Project development grant (art), BKA, AT
2018/15
Project development grant (film), BKA, AT
2018
Film festival grant, BKA, AT
2017
FC Gloria mentoring program, Vienna, AT
2016/15
Film production grant, BKA/Lower Austria/City of Vienna
2015/11
Art acquisition, BKA, AT
2014
Sheperd Fellow Award, US
2014
CalArts Internship Grant, California Institute of the Arts, US
2016/14/13
CalArts Scholarship and CalArts Grant Funds, California Institute of the Arts, US
2013
Fulbright Scholarship for CalArts Film/Video, AT/US
2012
START stipend, BMUKK, AT
2010
Working grant, BMWF & University of Applied Arts Vienna, AT
2010
Project scholarship, Emanuel & Sofie Fohn Foundation, AT
2009
Scholarship, MA7, City of Vienna, AT
2007
Travelling fellowship, University of Applied Arts Vienna, AT
2005
Merit scholarship, University of Applied Arts Vienna, AT
Awards
2022
Recognition Award for Media Art, Lower Austria, AT
2021
Music Video Award, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ohio, US
2020
Advancement Award for Fine Arts, MA7, City of Vienna, AT
2016
Best Essay Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival, US
2016
Marian McMahon Akimbo Award, Images Festival, Toronto, CA
2016
Second Prize Experimental Film, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ohio, US
2015
The No Violence Award, 53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, US
2014
Best European Documentary Short, Short Joy, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, CZ
2009
Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2009, with Marta Armengol, AT
2005
Ursula Blickle Video Award, University of Applied Arts and Kunsthalle Vienna, AT
Residencies
2024
Egon Schiele Art Centrum, guest studio Upper Austria, Český Krumlov, CZ
2022
Djerassi Resident Artists Program, AIR Krems/Lower Austria, Woodside, California, US
2021
Associated artist (artiste associée), Le Studio, Vienna, AT
2019
Artist in residence, Project Space Maajaam, Valgamaa, EE
2018
Film Farm, workshop and residency, Mount Forest, Ontario, CA
2015
Studio scholarship by BKA, Federal Chancellery, Shanghai, CN
2008
Intruz Art, festival and residency, Zielona Góra, PL
Festivals, Screenings
2023
As, Is, The Union Cinema, Milwaukee, US
2023
As, Is, The Gene Siskel Film Center, SAIC, Chicago, US
2023
Heavy Light, San Diego Underground Film Festival, Santa Monica, US
2023
CFMDC Distributor Showcase, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, DE
2023
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ohio, US
2022
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Black Box Shorts: Echoes in the Landscape, UK
2022
Refinerymonastery, 20th Pančevo Biennial, Kulturni Centar Pančeva, RS
2022
Open Space, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, DE
2021
Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria BC, CA
2021
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ohio, US
2021
Reframing Nature: Stone Narratives, The Golden Pixel Cooperative at national park Gesäuse, AT
2021
Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln, Online Fest, DE/Online
2021
Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, Graz, AT
2021
THEY I SIE I ONI, The Golden Pixel Cooperative & Austrian Cultural Forum, BG/Online
2021
18th In the Palace International Short Film Festival, Sofia, BG/Online
2020
I long to be close to you, The Golden Pixel Cooperative at Le Studio, Vienna, AT
2020
Best of the Chicago Underground Film Festival, US/Online
2020
Streaming Spectres, GPC Online Screen, AT/Online
2020
Weißes LichtWeißes Licht, The Golden Pixel Cooperative at Oktoskop, TV-collaboration with Okto TV, AT
2019
Shar(e)d Cinema, Yard Festival, AG Gallery, Tehran, IR
2019
White Light, The Golden Pixel Cooperative at FLUCA – Austrian Cultural Pavilion, Plovdiv, BG
2019
Core Exhibition Film Screening, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US 2019
2019
Crossing Europe Filmfestival, Linz, AT
2019
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ohio, US
2019
aCinema, Milwaukee, US
2019
Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, AT
2019
32nd Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, DE
2018
Weißes Licht II, Vienna Art Week, The Golden Pixel Cooperative at Medienwerkstatt, Vienna, AT
2018
Blickle Archive Series #30: Videokunstgeschichten, Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21, Wien, AT
2018
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, US
2018
Nightingale, Micro Cinema, Chicago, US
2018
Uniondox, Center for Documentary Art, Brooklyn New York, US
2018
Weißes Licht, The Golden Pixel Cooperative at Metro Kinokulturhaus, Vienna, AT
2018
Weißes Licht, The Golden Pixel Cooperative at KIZ Royal Kino, Graz, AT
2018
Urban Bloom Festival, Vienna, AT
2018
Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, AT
2018
CPH:DOX, International Documentary Film Festival Kopenhagen, DK
2018
Whispering Mimicry, The Golden Pixel Cooperative at Moviemento Kino, Linz, AT
2017
A Sleeping World, Light Industry, New York City, US
2017
Viennale, Vienna International Film Festival, Vienna, AT
2016
November Film Festival, London, UK
2016
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Manitoba, CA
2016
23rd Chicago Underground Film Festival, Illinois, US
2016
Images Festival, Toronto, CA
2016
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
2016
Festival Cinema Invisible, Schenectady, New York, US
2016
54th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, US
2016
Between Species, UVP Urban Video Project, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, US
2016
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Festival for Expanded Media, DE
2016
Austrian Short Film Series, World Tour,
Austrian Film Academy & BMEIA:
Pilsen, Olomouc, Liberec, Brno, CZ
Prizren, Kosovo
Austrian Library Shkoder, AL
Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, Malaga, a.o. cities, ES
Busan International Short Film Festival (BISFF), South KR
60th anniversary of the Austrian Cultural Forum London, UK
10th Fünf Seen Film Festival in Starnberg, DE
University of Debrecen, HU
Universidad Nacional Autónomo de México, MX
Etiuda & Anima Film Festival, Krakow, PL
Austrian Cultural Forum Washington, US
28th Istanbul Short Film Festival, TR
2015/16
53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival World Tour:
Pittsburgh Filmmakers, US
The Nickelodeon, Columbia, US
Ann Arbor District Library, US
Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal, CA
University of Rochester, US
Edge Hill University, Lancashire, UK
UW-M Union Cinema, Milwaukee, US
Pitzer College, Claremont, US
Detroit Film Theater, US
Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle, US
2015
Austrian Film Award, Short Film Series, MUMOK-Kino, Austrian Film Academy, Vienna, AT
2015
Transient Visions, Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City, New York, US
2015
Parallel Screening, Parallel Vienna, Alte Post, Dominikanerbastei, Vienna, AT
2015
XWRA Video and Media Festival, Artland Xwra, Ipati, GR
2015
Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario, CA
2015
Positivus Festival, Cinema Tent, Salacgrīva, LV
2015
Other People’s Screens, Cincinnati, Ohio, US
2015
22nd Chicago Underground Film Festival, Illinois, US
2015
MiIwaukee Underground Film Festival, Wisconsin, US
2015
CalArts Showcase, Redcat, Los Angeles, California, US
2015
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ohio, US
2015
53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, US
2014
Short Joy, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, CZ
2014
Projections, New York Film Festival, New York City, US
2014
Domesticity, Picture Show, New York City, US
2014
Blurred, Wild Beast, CalArts, Kalifornien, US
2011
Fullframe Festival, Gartenbau Kino, Vienna, AT
2009
Agite y Sirva, Puebla, MX
2009
Play09, Ciclo de Videodanza, Oaxaca, MX
2008
Nomad Space, screening tour across Eastern Europe
2008
VideoDanzaBa México 2008, screening tour across MX
2007
Festival de Videodanza, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, AR
2007
FIVU 07, Montevideo, UY
2007
Dança em Foco, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, BR
2005
Ohne Kohle 3, Filmcasino, Vienna, AT
Group Exhibitions
2024
The Way of the Water, Kunstparcours, Tangente St.Pölten, AT
2023
Landschaft?, Stadtgalerie Lehen, Salzburg, AT
2022
Intra-Actions: Existence is not an Individual Matter, Palazzo Mora, Venice, IT
2022
Indizien, The Golden Pixel Cooperative at Kunsthaus Graz, AT
2021
Wake Words, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, The Golden Pixel Cooperative, Vienna, AT
2021
XX ART FLÂNERIE 2021, Hollerei Galerie, Vienna, AT
2021
Space for Kids. Footprints in a Sea of Data, The Golden Pixel Cooperative at Kunsthalle Vienna, AT
2021
Supergau, art festival, Flachgau, St. Gilgen, Salzburg, AT
2020
Travel Apparatus, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, AT
2019-20
Tracks of Documentability, Galerie Fünfzigzwanzig, Salzburg, AT
2018
Big Screens Shatter Easily, Golden Pixel Cooperative at OÖ Kunstverein, Linz, AT
2018
Tanz. Bewegung. Geste. Bild., Kunsthalle Göppingen, DE
2018
Verortung. Die Inszenierung des Systems Raum, Parallel Vienna, AT
2018
Lullaby – Das Untermarkersdorfexperiment, Krinzinger Lesehaus, Untermarkersdorf, AT
2017
Musenküsse – Literarische Grenzüberschreitungen, Cafe7Stern, Vienna, AT
2017
Related Movements, T/abor, Vienna, AT
2017
Ein Grün, von fern gespiegelt, The Golden Pixel Cooperative at Notgalerie, Vienna, AT
2017
Lightness and Matter. Matter and Lightness, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, AT
2016
AWAY exhibition – stories from abroad, ehem. Post- und Telegraphenamt, Vienna, AT
2014
Ich und die Anderen, Schaufenster zur Sammlung, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, AT
2013
Videoexxhiiibition, La Fin c’est Merde, Vienna, AT
2013
In der Kubatur des Kabinetts, Kunstsalon im Fluc, Vienna, AT
2013
Who are you? Where do you come from? And what do you want?, Rummel Hummel, Vienna, AT
2012
Saloes de Artes Visuais da Bahia 2012, FUNCEP, Salvador da Bahia, BR
2012
Naked Fire, Transmedia Art & Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck, AT
2011
Massa, with Cabaio & Clara Domingas, intervention in public space, Salvador da Bahia, BR
2010
Story Behold, Story be Told, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien KHM, Vienna, AT
2010
Underground City 21, Labfactory & Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom, Vienna, AT
2010
Noche Bianca, urban art project, Reggio Emilia, IT
2010
The Merger – by following this 1 easy rule..., Chicago, US
2009
Next Code: Crossing, Steirischer Herbst 2009, Gleisdorf, AT
2009
Exhibition of Diplomas, Alte Markthalle, Vienna, AT
2009
Ratas, Galeria Meridión, Buenos Aires, AR
2009
Crossbreeds 09, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, WUK, Vienna, AT
2008
Lightness of Action, Nitrianska Galéria, Nitra, SK
2008
Intruz Art, Zielona Góra, PL
2007
A4 Zero Space, Bratislava, SK
2007
Junge Kunst im OHO, OHO, Oberwart, AT
2007
Crossbreeds 07, WUK, Vienna, AT
2006
Real Presence 06, workshop and exhibition, Kuca Legata, Belgrade, RS
2006
Superflat, Contextlab 08, Labfactory, Vienna, AT
2005
All Night Long, Galerie König, Vienna, AT
Theatrical Release "Tarpaulins"
2018
Bertha DocHouse (UK premiere und theatrical release) London, UK
2018
Metro Kinokulturhaus (release premiere), Vienna, AT
2018
Filmgalerie Krems, AT
Kino im Kesselhaus Wels, AT
Cinema Paradiso St. Pölten, AT
KIZ Royal Kino Graz, AT
Leo Kino Innsbruck, AT
Moviemento Linz, AT
Admiral Kino Vienna, AT
Breitenseer Lichtspiele Vienna, AT
Artist talks, Workshops
2022
Pixel Talks: About People and Things, in conversation with Martina Griesser-Stermscheg, Podcast by Mona Schwitzer & The Golden Pixel Cooperative, AT
2022
Bewährungsprobe #39: Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Lisa Truttmann, Depot. Kunst und Diskussion Vienna, AT
2022
Tarpaulins, screening and artist talk, Open Space, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, DE
2020
Film talk on Tarpaulins in the class “Viennale 2020 – essay film and film critique”, held by Andrey Arnold and Jan-Hendrik Müller, Theatre, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna, AT
2019
Text/Essay/Film, YAAAS! Workshoprally, Crossing Europe, Linz, AT
2018
Video/Kunst/Archiv, Round Table, Ursula Blickle Archiv, Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien, AT
2018
Artist Talk with Laura Wiesböck, Urban Bloom Festival, Vienna, AT
2018
Künstlerinnengespräch, Golden Pixel Cooperative at Medienwerkstatt Vienna, AT
2018
DOX:ACADEMY Hybrid Class, CPH:DOX, International Documentary Film Festival Kopenhagen, DK
2017
Ein Grün, von fern gespiegelt, Artist Talk, The Golden Pixel Cooperative at Notgalerie, Vienna, AT
2015
Elsewhere Lands, lecture performance with Guido Spannocci, thewulf, Los Angeles, US
Collections, Archives
2014/22
Sammlung Wien Museum, Vienna, AT
2013/19
Niederösterreichisches Landesarchiv, AT
2011/15
Artothek des Bundes im 21er Haus, Vienna, AT
2007
MdM, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, AT
2005
Ursula Blickle Video Archive, Kunsthalle Vienna, Belvedere 21, AT
Artistic Juries
2021
BMKÖS, Jury member, Outstanding Artist Award and Art Award for Media Art
2020
BKA, Jury member, Outstanding Artist Award and Art Award for Media Art
2019
BKA, Jury member, START stipend for Fine Arts, Photography, Media Art
2018
Fulbright Austria, selection committee member, art and design, study scholarship for 2019/20
The Golden Pixel Cooperative
since 2018
Artistic and curatorial activities within the collective and as board member
2022
Indizien, Diagonale festival trailer ’22
2021
Liquid Times, Embodied Places, short film program, The New Normal Festival, Volkstheater Vienna, AT
2021
Reframing Nature: Stone Narratives, short film program, Kino am Weidendom, national park Gesäuse, AT
2021
Techno Scapes, mobile cinema installation, Supergau, Kunstfestival, Flachgau, St. Gilgen, Salzburg, AT
2020
Best innovative film, awarded for Half of the Sky, at Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, AT 2020
2020
Half of the Sky, video installation, When Gesture Becomes Event, Künstlerhaus Vienna, AT
2019
Two Journeys, Two short film programs traveling between Vienna, Los Angeles and Elsewhere
Event series in collaboration with Viktoria Schmid, Rebecca Baron and Nora Sweeney
Two Journeys, Part 2, Now Instant Image Hall, Los Angeles US
Two Journeys, Part 1, Echo Park Filmcenter, Los Angeles US
Two Journeys, Part 2, Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21, Vienna, AT
Two Journeys, Part 1, Medienwerkstatt Vienna, AT
2019
Verhältnisse 5: Zuhören*Aufnehmen*Umschreiben, Performance, Valie Export Center, Linz, AT
2019
Herr im Garten, audio play by Verena Dürr, collective listening, Medienwerkstatt Vienna, AT
2018
Framed Existences, symposium, Medienwerkstatt Vienna, AT
2018
The Golden Pixel Cooperative as Local Heroes, short film program Weißes Licht and Tarpaulins, artist talks within the theatrical release, in collaboration with Filmgarten film distribution
Studio
The Golden Pixel Cooperative
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Bárbara Palomino Ruiz
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Web programming
Vera Sebert
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Web Support
Gerald Roßbacher
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