Sylvia Winkler

Sylvia Winkler, Salzburg (Austria) 1969

Winner of the Baden Württemberg-Catalunya Grant 2016

Period of residency: october 2016

Sylvia Winkler graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. Nearly all of her artistic practice she developed in collaboration with Stephan Köperl. During the last years she focussed on the research of political, urban and historical contexts which mostly resulted in song-lyrics, diagrams and drawings.

Sylvia and Stephan have shown their work internationally, including at the 7th Nippon International Performance Art Festival/Japan, the 3rd Shirjaewo-Biennale/Samara/RU, the Goethe Institute/Cairo and Montreal, Ex Teresa Arte Actual/Mexico D.F., Media Art Festival/Bangkok, Shang Elements Contemporary Art Museum Beijing, Shanghai East Asia Contemporary Gallery/Shanghai, Darling Foundry/Montreal, Upstairs Gallery/Kolkata, The Block/ Brisbane, Total Museum/South Korea, Sewon Art Space/Yogyakarta/Indonesia, MOCA Taipei and Pier 2 Art Center/Kaohsiun/Taiwan, as well as all over Europe. 

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