Anna Vasof

*1985

Anna Vasof is an architect, media and time based artist. Her work is accessible in a universal way via its wit and mischief. It is grounded in genuine experimentation of the core mechanisms of motion and time based art. Vasof goes to the heart of every question and start from zero, reinventing core premises with her own perspective. 
Her Non-Stop Stop-Motion works reinvent a contemporary expanded cinema and deal with the poetic mechanics of persistence of vision. Her works with everyday objects (shoes, brooms, pots etc.) deal with social paradoxes and let us see a familiar world from a different perspective.
Born in 1985, she studied architecture at the University of Thessaly (2010) in Greece and Transmedia Art (2014) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. 

Since 2004 her videos and short movies have been presented in several festivals, some of them winning distinctions. 

2020 she finished her Ph.D. thesis about a cinematographic technique that she developed with the title Non Stop Stop Motion. She is now working on designing and building innovative mechanisms for producing critical videos, films, actions and installations.

Education

2016

Doctoral Candidate in Artist Research PhD | University of Applied Arts Vienna

2014

Graduation as Media Artist with distinction | University of Applied Arts Vienna

2010

Graduation as architect with distinction | University of Thessaly

Solo shows

2023

Things and Wonders: The Toy Collection | Wohlmut, Vienna

2022 – 2023

I’M OK | Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart

2022

Opening the Mind and Other Stories | Ostfold Kunstsenter, Ostfold, Norway

How do you move the Audience? | bb15, Linz

The Weight of Tears and other Looping Stories | Neue Galerie Graz, Joanneumsviertel Graz

At least I have my Phone | Schauraum Angewandte – q21 MQ, Vienna

2021

A Real Exhibition in a Real Space from an Amazon Woman | untitled projects, Vienna

2020

Things and Wonders | Tabor Veliki, Croatia

Happy Birthday | Forum Stadtpark, Graz

2019

Statement #06 | Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt

2018

Behind The Glass | Red Carpet Showroom Metrostation Karlsplatz, Vienna

2017

Things and Wonders | CHEAPART foundation, Athens

2016

Non-Stop Stop-Motion Machines | Asifakeil q21/MQ, Vienna

2015

Mechanisms of Happiness | Lenikus Collection, Vienna

Shoes, Dominoes and Happiness | Museum of Multimedia art and photography, Moscow

Selected Group shows and Festivals

2023

Über das Neue Wiener Szene und darüber hinaus | Belvedere 21, Vienna

The Fest | MAK, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna

Fabric of Dreams. Towards a Technodiversity | AIL, Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Vienna

2022

Viennale | Vienna

I hide my happiness | Allartnow/Stockholm, Sweden

Aufwärts Fallen | OÖ Kunstverein, Linz

Hedonisticka | DH5, Linz

EUREKA University Film Festival | Bogota, Colombia

Taichung International Animation Festival | Taichung, Taiwan

Vienna Shorts | Vienna

Ann Arbor Film Festival | Michigan, USA

Service is our… Excess | eSeL Rezeption, MQ, Vienna

TAKE MY HAND AND I’LL SHOW YOU WHAT WAS AND WILL BE | ALBA Gallery, Vienna

2021

DANUBE DIALOGUES Contemporary Art Festival | Novi Sad

Konkrete Poesie und so | Kunsthaus Mürz, Mürzzuschlag

Zwischen den Dingen | Volkskundenmuseum, Vienna

Issues with my other half and other stories | Footnote Center, Belgrad

Der Angriff der Gegenwart | Universitätsgalerie, Vienna

RePresent getting closer | Galerie Freihausgasse; Villach

2020

Futur III | Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach

Luxembourg City Film Festival | Luxembourg

Short Film Festival | Novi Sad

International Women Film Festival of Barcelona | Barcelona

minus20degree art and architecture winter biennale | Flachau

Lausanne Underground Film&Music Festival | Lausanne

2019

DA Fest | Sofia

Screening at Abou Gallery | Asheville

IFF 2019 | Saint Petersburg

File Festival | Sao Paolo

BFI London Film Festival | London

Stuck Keys Exhibition | Memphis Kunstraum, Linz

2018

Ars Electronica | Linz

Understanding Art and Research | Dunedin, New Zealand

Flatpack Film Festival | Birmingham

Human | Fotogalerie, Vienna

MAKE A WISH (Yoko Ono) | Median Werkstatt, Vienna

Diagonale film festival | Graz

2017

Busan International Short Film Festival | Busan, Korea

Black Noise | Akbank Sanat, Istanbul

Taichung International Animation Festival | Taichung, Taiwan

Tweetakt Festival | Utrecht

File Festival | Sao Paolo

Hybrid Art | Lexus Dome, Moscow

2016

Antarctic Film Festival | Finnish Antarctic research station ABOA, Antarctica

Back to Athens | Chrap Art Gallery, Athens

Viennale | Vienna

2015

Risc film Festival | Marseille

APORDOC film festival | Lisbon

European Media Art Festival EMAF | Osnabrück

Animatted film festival | Victoria BC

Vienna Independent Short Film Festival | Vienna

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