OLENA NEWKRYTA

2011- 2017 University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT)
2015 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2013-2016 Member of filmkoop Vienna (AT)
Member & board of The Golden Pixel Cooperative - Association for moving images, arts and media (AT)

Awards, Scholarships, Residencies:

2025, Pixel, Bytes + Film Production Grant, Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service & Sport (AT)
2024, Outstanding Artist Award, Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service & Sport (AT)
2024, Hertzog Da Silva Second Prize, PROYECTOR Festival (ES)
2023/2024, Jan van Eyck Academie (NL)
2023, Price of the City Duisburg for the Best Short and Middle Lenght Documentary Film, Duisburger Filmwoche (DE)
2023, Working grant, Film Dep., Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service & Sport (AT)
2023, Est-Nord-Est résidence d'artistes (CAN)
2022, Working grant, Culture & Arts Dep. of the City of Vienna (AT)
2021, Project grant, Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service & Sport (AT)
2019/2020, START-scholarship, Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service & Sport (AT)
2019/2020, Project grant, Otto Mauer Fonds (AT)
2018/2019, Grant of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (AT)
2018, Prize of the Lentos Museum Art-Friends (AT)
2017, Award of the Kunsthalle Wien (AT)

Selected Exhibitions, Screenings (*Solo & Duo):

*2025, Kunstraum Lakeside (AT) -forthcoming-
2025, Ortex Quadrant (TWN) -forthcoming-

2024, Elastic Chronologies, Medienwerkstatt Wien (AT)
2024, Complicit Images, Kino Rex Bern (CH)
2024, PROYECTOR Videoart Festival (ES)
2024, Labor, discotec, Vienna (AT)
2024, Open Studios, Jan van Eyck Academie (NL)
2024, LABOCINE, Infrastructural Beings #June 2024, online
*2024, Dokumentarfilm & Diskussion, Austrian Filmmuseum (AT)
2024, Crossing Europe Film Festival (AT)
*2024, Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg (DE)
2024, Working Traces, Industra Brno (CZ)
2024, Museumsnight, Jan van Eyck Academie (NL)
2024, Brotlos, Wien Museum, MUSA (AT)
2024, Blue Binding Ribbon, Temporary Gallery, Cologne (DE)
2024, Patterns Of Disillusion, 5020 Salzburg (AT)

2023, 34. Singapore International Film Festival (SGP)
*2023, Cluster #30 initiated by Labor Neunzehn, KM28 Berlin (DE)
*2023, 47. Duisburger Filmwoche (DE)
2023, Best Off Lentos & Nordico, Splace Linz (AT)
2023, Future in the Past, EYE Filmmuseum Amsterdam (NL)
2023, Hautsache, Fotogalerie Wien, EMOP, Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin (DE)
*2022, Ruins in Reverse at Watermans, London (GB)
2022, Preserving The Shape, Galerie Raum mit Licht Vienna (AT)
2022, The beginning is the end is the beginning, Golden Pixel Online Screen, online
2022, 4:3 Ukraine Film Festival, Boiler Room & Kyiv Music Film, online
2022, Indizien, Kunsthaus Graz, curated by The Golden Pixel Cooperative (AT)
*2022, Seismische Aktivitäten und brüchige Zustände, Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21, Vienna (AT)

2021, Solid Roof, Severe Weather, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (AT)
2021, Paradoks Filmfestival, Interspaces, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (DE)
2021, Antimatter, Media Art Festival, Victoria (CAN)
2021, FIDBA International Documentary Film Festival Buenos Aires, (ARG)
2021, Wake Words, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, (AT)
2021, Reverso, WRO Media Art Biennale, (PL)
2021, Kyiv International Short Film Festival, (UA)
2021, Language in Common, Youth Biennial Belgrade, (SRB)
2021, Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film, (AT)
2021, Crossing Europe International Filmfestival, (AT)
2021, Domino, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna, (AT)

2020, Resisting the Trouble - Moving Images In Times of Crisis, VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, Florence (IT)
2020, I Long To Be Close To You, Le Studio Molieré, Vienna, (AT)
2020, Streaming Spectres, Online Screening of the Golden Pixel Cooperative
*2020, Und Wir Mittendrin., presentation in public space, Vienna, (AT)
2020, Now, Kunstforum (AT)

2019, it´s about, Curated By Festival, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna (AT)
2019, Whispers, Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem (ISR)
*2019, SOLO X, if all this seems too abstract let me provide a literally embodied image, Fotogalerie Vienna (AT)
2019, Curator´s Choice, FOTO WIEN, Vienna (AT)

*2018 shooting clouds, with Elisa Andessner, periscope, Salzburg (AT)
2018, Reload the Apparatus, AIL, Vienna / Curator: Ruth Horak (AT)
2018, Diversity, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (AT)
*2018, When Our Eyes Touch, Is It Day Or Is It Night?, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna (AT)

2017, Purity in Imperfection, Salzburger Kunstverein (AT)
*2017, Everything a Hand Can´t Take, Kunsthalle Wien (AT)
*2017, folding unfolding refolding, Alte Post, Vienna (AT)

2016, Saló, Salzburger Kunstverein (AT)
2016, Die Spur des Realen, Eyes On - European Month of Photography, Atelier Schweizer, Vienna (AT)
2016, FECKLESS AND HOTHEADED, Curated By Festival, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna (AT)
2016, Tools of Enlightenment, European Forum Alpbach (AT)
2016, Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz (AT)
2016, Organhaus Chongqing (CN)
2016, HOLE OR SCREEN (HER BODY, A FRAGMENT), Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna (AT)

2015, I moved on until I went back, Blockfrei Curators´ Agenda, University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT)
*2015, Parallel Vienna, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Alte Post, Vienna (AT)
2015, Do I need gloves for this?, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam (NL)

2014, Cinema Next meets Filmkoop Wien, Künstlerhauskino (AT)
2014, Performativität des Widerstandes, gallery Lisabird Contemporary, Vienna (AT)
2014, Screening @ WORM (NL)
2014, Crossing Europe Film Festival (AT)
2014, MM Center, Zagreb (HRV)

Curatorial & Collective Projects:

2024, Complicit Images. Screenings and conversations on the matter of images, Medienwerkstatt Wien
          curated with Maia Gusberti / an event by The Golden Pixel Cooperative 
2023, out of office, groupexhibition, Medienwerkstatt Wien, Vienna 
          curated with Enar de Dios Rodriguez / The Golden Pixel Cooperative 
2022, Preserving The Shape, Galerie Raum mit Licht Vienna
          curated with Anastasiya Yarovenko
2022, Screen Matters - The Screen As A Place Of Work, online symposium 
      developed with Simona Obholzer / The Golden Pixel Cooperative
 2021, Solid Roof, Severe Weather, groupexhibition, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna 
          curated with Marlene Maier 
2021, Wake Words, groupexhibition, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna 
          curated with Enar de Dios Rodriguez, Marlies Pöschl / The Golden Pixel Cooperative 
2020, Streaming Spectres, online screening at GPC Online Screen 
          curated with Lydia Nsiah / The Golden Pixel Cooperative