Katrina Daschner

Katrina Daschner (born 1973 in Hamburg) is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna, where she founded numerous performance salons. In her works (ranging from sculpture, textile, music, performance, community-based work, and, most prominently, film), which she presents at international exhibitions and film festivals, she deals with (gender-specific) power structures and the representation of queer sexuality as well as the transfer of stage language to the exhibition and film context. From 2005 to 2010, she taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2010, she was awarded the Otto Mauer Prize. In 2016, she received the first prize in the screenplay competition IF SHE CAN SEE IT, SHE CAN BE IT and the Diagonale Prize for Innovative Cinema in 2017. In 2018, she was awarded the Outstanding Artist Award for Experimental Film from the Federal Chancellery of Austria. From 2017 to 2019, she was a member of the theory curatorial team at Tanzquartier Wien.