10.07.2026 – 26.07.2026
The exhibition, which is being held to mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of ASIFA Austria, focuses on animation as the unifying factor linking the individual works. It thus reveals a rich variety of artistic expression that can only emerge through the combination of the medium of animation with the visual arts. The artists’ association ASIFA Austria was founded in 1985 as an autonomous Austrian section of the international animation film organisation ASIFA (Association internationale du Film d’Animation), within the context of the Studio for Experimental Animation Film at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, which was established by Maria Lassnig and continues to operate to this day. Through the establishment of further training centres in Vienna and across the federal states, as well as through the film work of self-taught artists who have also been producing innovative animation art since 1980, and finally through the increased accessibility of digital production techniques, a large and internationally acclaimed scene of freelance artists has emerged over the past four decades. Their artworks, which cover an impressive range of analogue and digital techniques, extending to explorations of AI, have since been a constant presence in cinemas and at festivals, and in expanded forms in art spaces, galleries and museums both nationally and internationally.
Artists
Nicole Aebersold, Martin Anibas, Ani Antonova, Mirjam Baker, Reinhold Bidner, Moucle Blackout, Leonie Bramberger, Eni Brandner, James Clay, Tone Fink, Ingrid Gaier, Alexander Gratzer, Sabine Groschup, Jürgen Hagler/ANIMA PLUS, Beatrix & Dietmar Hollenstein, Nikolaus Jantsch, Line Finderup Jensen, Parastu, Adnan Popović, Juri Schaden, Vinzenz Schwab, Susi Jirkuff, David Kellner, Silvia Knödlstorfer, Renate Kordon, Evelyn Kreinecker, Tanja Kristan, Caro Laa, Holger Lang, Nicolas Mahler, Mara Mattuschka, Jens Meinrenken, Bady Minck, Peter Muzak, Muzak & Riha, Georg Oberlechner, Pepi Öttl, Madi Piller, Franziska Proksa, Peter Putz, Philipp Ramspeck, Thomas Renoldner, Mariela Schöffmann, Birgit Scholin, Veronika Schubert, Roland Schütz, Hubert Sielecki, Ernst Spiessberger, Edith Stauber, Thomas Steiner, Stefan Stratil, Daniel Šuljić, Benjamin Swiczinsky, Nana Swiczinsky, Ulrike Swoboda-Ostermann, Gerlinde Thuma, Martina Tritthart, Norbert Trummer, Iby-Jolande Varga, Anna Vasof, Barbara Wilding, Anne Zwiener
FRAME BY FRAME – ASIFA Austria from 1985 to the present day
10.07.2026 – 26.07.2026
Künstlerhaus Wien
Karlsplatz 5
1010 Vienna
www.kuenstlerhaus.at
