Olena Newkryta

2011- 2017 University of Applied Arts Vienna, Fine Arts / Photography
2014 University of Vienna, Philosophy
2015 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2013-2016 Member of filmkoop Vienna
Member of the Golden Pixels Cooperative

Awards, Scholarships:

2023, Est-Nord-Est résidence d'artistes (CAN)
2022, Working grant, MA7, Cultrue and Arts Dep. City Vienna
2021, Project grant, Federal Ministry of Culture
2019 / 2020, START-scholarship, Federal Ministry of Culture
2019 / 2020, Project grant, Otto Mauer Fonds
2018 / 2019, Grant of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
2018, Prize of the Lentos Museum Art-Friends
2017, Award of the Kunsthalle Wien

Exhibitions & Screenings (*Solo & Duo):

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, 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 Vienna, (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, Salzburg (AT)
*2017, Everything a Hand Can´t Take, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
*2017, folding unfolding refolding, Alte Post, Vienna (AT)
2016, Saló, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (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 International Film Festival, Linz (AT)
2016, Organhaus, Chongqing, (CN)
2016, HOLE OR SCREEN (HER BODY, A FRAGMENT), Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna (AT)
2015, premiére vue, Vienna Art Week, Hotel Altstadt (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, Auf der Suche nach dem missglückten Bild, Vienna (AT)
2014, Cinema Next meets Filmkoop Wien, Künstlerhauskino, Vienna (AT)
2014, Performativität des Widerstandes, gallery Lisabird Contemporary, Vienna (AT)
2014, WORM, Rotterdam, (NL)
2014, Crossing Europe international Film Festival (AT)
2014, MM Center, Zagreb (HRV)
2013, TIE Festival, Colorado Springs, (USA)

Curatorial Projects:

2022, Preserving The Shape, Galerie Raum mit Licht Vienna
          with Anastasiya Yarovenko
2022, Screen Matters - The Screen As A Place Of Work, online symposium 
      with Simona Obholzer / The Golden Pixel Cooperative
 2021, Solid Roof, Severe Weather, groupexhibition, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna 
          with Marlene Maier 
2021, Wake Words, groupexhibition, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna 
         with Enar de Dios Rodriguez, Marlies Pöschl / The Golden Pixel Cooperative 
2020, Streaming Spectres, online screening at GPC Online Screen 
          with Lydia Nsiah / The Golden Pixel Cooperative