Anna Spanlang (*1988 in Grieskirchen, Austria) lives and works in Vienna. Spanlang studied video & video installation as well as art & digital media with Dorit Margreiter and Constanze Ruhm at the academy of fine arts Vienna and also at CENART in Mexico City. Diploma 2021 with Dorit Margreiter.
Read More"Anna Spanlang's works seek to limn a poetics of the ordinary while underscoring the political dimension of an everyday life in which community, friendship, and feminism are actually lived and not just discussed. To make her films, she uses deft editing to reinterpret originally biographical video material; her sharp wit and embracing empathy are unmistakable in the footage, which she recorded on her mobile phone."
—Anne Faucheret, Kunsthalle Wien
Solo exhibitions: 2023 – Baby better have my menstruation. I ain't no museum at Kunsthaus Graz (AT), 2022, Cinema Next: Anna Spanlang & Friends at Topkino Wien (AT). Group exhibitions: 2023 GIBCA Gothenburg internat. Biennal / Galleri 54 Gothenburg (SE), 2023 On the new. Viennese Scenes and Beyond – Part 1 / Belvedere 21 / Wien (AT), 2023 A home is a home outside your own / Galerie IDEAL Leipzig (DE), 2022 Handspells - Preis der Kunsthalle Wien/ Kunsthalle Wien MQ (AT), 2022 Loving Others – Collaboration models/ Künstlerhaus Wien (AT), 2022 Hold Me TV / Galerie Scherben Berlin (DE), 2022 Back to Athens 8 / Isaiah Mansion Athen (GR). Prizes: 2022 Diagonale Prize of the City of Graz: Best Innovative Film, 2022 Talent Promotion Prize Province of Upper Austria, 2022 BMKÖS Filmkunst (Bari, Italy), 2022 Norman Prize: International Short Film Competition, Stuttg. Filmwinter, 2021 Prize of the Kunsthalle Wien, 2020 Crossing Europe: Creative Region Award, 2020 Tricky Women Festival Vienna: Austrian Panorama Award.