Ursula Mayer
Ursula Mayer is an Austrian artist who completed her MFA at Goldsmiths University London. She is the recipient of the Film London Jarman Award and the Otto Mauer Prize. Her practice interweaves myth, biopolitics, and the semiotics of cinema to visualize and reflect on future posthuman ontology. Since 2021 she has been leading the PEEK research project MTLS funded by the Austrian Science Fund at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Her work has traveled to venues and biennales, including the Istanbul Biennale; Ujazdowski, Warsaw; Museion, Bolzano; Highline, New York; TANK, Shanghai; Salzburger Kunstverein; Hayward Gallery, Southbank, London; ICA, London; SeMA Biennale Mediacity, Seoul; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Moderna Museet Malmö; Audain Gallery, Vancouver; Kunstverein Hamburg; Performa 11, New York; SculptureCenter, New York; 21 Belvedere, Vienna; CCA Glasgow; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; 11th Baltic Triennial, CAC, Vilnius; Athens Biennale; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Lentos, Museum Linz; TBA21, Vienna and Córdoba; and Kunsthalle, Basel.
EDUCATION
2005, MFA
Goldsmiths College
London, United Kingdom
1996
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Vienna, Austria
JURY
Michael Obrist
Almuth Spiegler
Krist Gruijthuijsen
Florian Reither
Lilli Hollein
FINAL PROJECT
