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Isa Schieche lives and works as a visual artist and filmmaker in Vienna and Upper Austria. She creates participatory objects and installations out of wood. In her sculptural and filmic work, she addresses folklore and crafts, sisterhood and queerness.
In 2024 Isa Schieche received the Max Ophüls Preis - Best Short Film for “Die Räuberinnen” and the Dorothea-von-Stetten Art Prize. She was part of the program board of the Festival der Regionen, which will take place in Braunau am Inn, June 2025. Past exhibitions were: Gossip as a Lesbian Practice at Fox Vienna (2025), Dirty Care at Kunstmuseum Bonn (2024), Die Räuberinnen at Pilot Vienna (2023). Her films were screened at film festivals like SXSW-Texas, BFI Flare London, Diagonale Graz, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Frameline48 San Francisco and Dokfest Kassel
2007-2012 University of Applied Arts Vienna - Johanna Kandl
2012-2013 Newcastle University - Fine Arts
2013-2014 University of Applied Arts Vienna - Monika Grzymala
Solo exhibitions:
2025 Gossip as a Lesbian Practice, Fox,Vienna
2024 Dirty Care, Kunstmuseum Bonn
2023 Skills & Tools: A Guidebook, Festival der Regionen, Gallneukirchen
2023 Die Räuberinnen, Pilot, Vienna
2021 Snakes in heaven, Sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf
2020 Vertigo, Artspace Luisenhöhe, Haag am Hausruck
2020 Toys, Fonda, Leipzig
2019 Walden, Artspace Lusienhöhe, Haag am Hausruck
2019 Fische, White Dwarf Projects, Vienna
2018 A Gamer‘s Mind, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Halle
2018 O, Spielkartenfabrik Stralsund, Stralsund
2017 Arise Retailer, Tower, Vienna
2017 the drifters, Vicious Vault Projects
2016 steroids, Artspace Luisenhöhe, Haag am Hausruck
2016 nerfed, LLLLLL, Wien
2014 Böse, pinacoteca, Vienna
Group exhibitions (selected):
2025 Mädchen* sein, Lentos Linz
2025 Gay by Nature, Publiek Park, Brussels
2025 Neues aus der Sammlung, Kunstsammlung des Landes OÖ, Linz
2024 Ideal Means, Neuer Kunstverein Wien
2024 4 whales in a soft sponge, Medium Gallery, Bratislava
2022 Works on Paper on Fridges, Harkawik, New York
2022 À Belles Dents, Mouches Volantes at Room 16 Bienvenue Louisiane, Paris
2022 SODA, Mauve, Vienna
2022 off the beaten rack, KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, curated by Nantje Wilke, Düsseldorf
2022 European award exhibition for wooden sculptors, Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe
2021 Big Fungus, curated by Tobi Keck, Berlin
2021 Mountains Are Time, curated by Laura Pöld, Salzamt Linz
2021 ЧЕРВОНI ТIНI / RED SHADOWS, curated by 2.27.7 club, Kazan
2020 the lorries are speaking, Sinkhole Project Vienna, Vienna
2019 NA RAjONE/BEYOND THE CENTER, Novomolokovo, Moskow
2019 Perle, Kubinhaus, Zwickledt
2018 advanced obstacles #5, Kugelmugel, Vienna
2017 it is how it is, Brno House of Arts, Brno
2017 0gms, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia
2016 Past Perfect Simple (with Lukas Janitsch), Plan zu Gast bei 2025, Hamburg
2015 Ableger (with Sophia Mairer), Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna
2015 Printed Matters, Gesso, Vienna
2014 Versus, Künstlervereinigung März, Linz
2013 Push, Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia
2012 drawn apart, Galerie Z, Hard
2012 Destabilized Ground, SOHO in Ottakring, Vienna
2011 DIE ENDLOSE UND-REIHE, k/haus passage, Vienna
2011 Bleach (with Stefan Wirnsperger), Bildetage, Vienna
Filmography:
Gay by Nature
2k, 21:15, 2025, in collaboration with Helen Weber
Festivals:
Diagonale - Festival des Österreichischen Films (Austria, March 2026)
Crossing Europe (Austria, April 2026) - winning Local Artist Best Short
Vienna Shorts (Austria, May 2026)
Kino wie noch Nie - Vienna (Austria, July 2026)
GAZE International LGBTQIA Film Festival Dublin (Irland, July 2026)
Dirty Care
2024, 17:05, digital
Festivals:
Diagonale - Festival des Österreichischen Films, Graz 2025
Crossing Europe, Linz 2025
XPOSED Queer Film Festival, Berlin 2025
Norwegian Short Film Festival / Kortfilmfestival Grimstad 2025
Oslo/Fusion Film Festival LGBTQI (Norway, September 2025)
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (England, September 2025)
Lentos Exhibition – Being a Girl* (Austria, October 2025)
Cinema Next Tour Linz (Austria, November 2025)
Kasseler Dokfest (Germany, November 2025)
Festival dei Popoli di Firenze (Italy, November 2025)
Beijing International Short Film Festival (China, November 2025)
This human world – international human rights film festival (Austria, November 2025)
Max Ophüls Filmpreis (Germany, January 2026)
Queer Shorts Vienna (Austria, February 2026)
FebioFest Bratislava (Slovakia, March 2026)
Porto Femme - International Film Festival (Portugal, April 2026)
Die Räuberinnen
2023, 15:45, digital
Festivals:
Queertactics Vienna 2023 - winning Goldene Medusa
Queer Shorts Vienna 2023
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken 2024 - Jury Award Best Short
SXSW Austin Texas 2024
Mardi Gras Film Festival Sydney Australia 2024
ENCOURAGE Film Talents Berlin 2024
SXSW - South by Southwest Film Festival 2024
Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2024
BFI Flare London 2024
Uruguay International Film Festival Cinemateca 2024
Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBT Film Festival 2024 - Audience Award
Diagonale -Festival des österreichischen Films Graz 2024
Crossing Europe Linz 2024
PORTO FEMME International Film Festival April 2024
TILDE – Melbourne Trans & Gender Diverse Film Festival 2024
Cinema Talks Filmfestival 2024 - Winner in Cat. Entertainment
Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival Toronto 2024
Queerzilla Wien 2024
Korea Queer Film Festival 2024
Dortmunder Tresen Filmfestival 2024
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2024
Frameline48, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2024
Queer Rhapsody Film Series Los Angeles 2024
Filmfestival Kitzbühel 2024
CinemaQ Film Festival 2024
Shortynale Klosterneuburg 2024
Dotdotdot Open Air Kurzfilmfestival, Austria 2024 - Audience Award
Minikino Filmweek, Indonesia 2024
Festival of Nations, Austria 2024
KinoFest German Language Film Festival Greece 2024
VANCOUVER QUEER FILM FESTIVAL 2024
Calgary International Film Festival, Canada 2024
Les Mains Gauches, Marseille 2024
Vilnius Queer Festival "Kreivės" 2024
QueerFilmFest Rostock 2024
QUEER FILM FESTIVAL BREMEN 2024
Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2024
Linz International Short Film Festival 2024 - Best Queer
Annual Way OUT West Film Fest, 2024
Cinema Next Tour, Austria 2024 - Jury Award
Nordic International Film Festival New York - Best Director
Filmkunsttage Sachsen-Anhalt 2024
Queer Film Festival Oldenburg 2024
Filmzuckerl 2024
Festival du film LGBTQI de Paris Chéries-Chéris 2024
Cottbus Film Festival 2024
Beijing International Short Film Festival 2024
Leeds Queer Film Festival 2025
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (United Kingdom, September 2025)
Helsinki International Film Festival Love & Anarchy (Finland, September 2025)
Lentos Exhibition – Being a Girl* (Austria, October 2025)
Interfilm (Germany, November 2025)
Festival Des Images Aux Mots de Toulouse (France, January 2026)
Performances:
2025 Fish, Trans* Poetics, MUMOK, Vienna
2023 Skills & Tools: A Guidebook, Klangfestival/Festival der Regionen, Gallneukirchen
2023 Cat as part DOLLHOUSES - The Swimmingpool, Dollhouses Production, Cologne
2022 Reverse Cowgirl: Skills & Tools, KIT, Düsseldorf
Panels / Talks:
2026 Feminist Film Club - No Mercy - do women make tougher movies?
Panel with Katharina Mückstein and Claudia Wohlgenannt, Stadtkino Vienna
2026 Dorflesben* – Queer Artistic and Curatorial Practices Beyond the Metropolis
Talk with Lorena Juan, PART, Vienna
2025 Trans Poetics, Panel with Andrea AK, Mumok, Vienna
2025 Trans representation in film
Panel with Daniel Sea and Marie Luise Lehner, Filmcasino Vienna
2025 New Media & New Narratives in Queer Cinema, Panel at Xposed Queer Film Festival, Berlin
Workshops:
2025 Subversive Narrative, Schule Friedl Kubelka, Wien
2025 trans* im Film: ein Workshop zu Geschlechtervielfalt im Filmbereich, Drehübung Wien, in collaboration with Persson Perry Baumgartinger
Curatorial work:
2025 Realistic Dreams, Festival der Regionen Braunau am Inn, Curatorial board of the festival
Residencies / Awards:
2025 If she can see it, she can be it - Main Prize, Script Writers Forum Vienna
2024 Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis, Bonn
2023 Austrian State Grant for Fine Arts, bmkoes
2022 Baker Tilly Scholarship
2019 1.st place winner, sculpture in public space - competition Novomolokovo, Moskow
2019 Artist in residence at Paliano/Rome by the Upperaustrian State
2019 Margret-Bilger-Scholarship
2018 Artist in residence at Spielkartenfabrik Stralsund
2016 Grant, Otto Mauer Fonds
2014 Artist in residence at Lenikus Collection Vienna
2013 Theodor Körner Award
2012 Prix Ars Rothkrebschen
2009 Scholarship, Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Foundation
2009 Scholarship, Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Foundation
contact: isaschieche@gmail.com
Isa Schieche lives and works as a visual artist and filmmaker in Vienna and Upper Austria. She creates participatory objects and installations out of wood. In her sculptural and filmic work, she addresses folklore and crafts, sisterhood and queerness.
In 2024 Isa Schieche received the Max Ophüls Preis - Best Short Film for “Die Räuberinnen” and the Dorothea-von-Stetten Art Prize. She was part of the program board of the Festival der Regionen, which will take place in Braunau am Inn, June 2025. Past exhibitions were: Gossip as a Lesbian Practice at Fox Vienna (2025), Dirty Care at Kunstmuseum Bonn (2024), Die Räuberinnen at Pilot Vienna (2023). Her films were screened at film festivals like SXSW-Texas, BFI Flare London, Diagonale Graz, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Frameline48 San Francisco and Dokfest Kassel
2007-2012 University of Applied Arts Vienna - Johanna Kandl
2012-2013 Newcastle University - Fine Arts
2013-2014 University of Applied Arts Vienna - Monika Grzymala
Solo exhibitions:
2025 Gossip as a Lesbian Practice, Fox,Vienna
2024 Dirty Care, Kunstmuseum Bonn
2023 Skills & Tools: A Guidebook, Festival der Regionen, Gallneukirchen
2023 Die Räuberinnen, Pilot, Vienna
2021 Snakes in heaven, Sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf
2020 Vertigo, Artspace Luisenhöhe, Haag am Hausruck
2020 Toys, Fonda, Leipzig
2019 Walden, Artspace Lusienhöhe, Haag am Hausruck
2019 Fische, White Dwarf Projects, Vienna
2018 A Gamer‘s Mind, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Halle
2018 O, Spielkartenfabrik Stralsund, Stralsund
2017 Arise Retailer, Tower, Vienna
2017 the drifters, Vicious Vault Projects
2016 steroids, Artspace Luisenhöhe, Haag am Hausruck
2016 nerfed, LLLLLL, Wien
2014 Böse, pinacoteca, Vienna
Group exhibitions (selected):
2025 Mädchen* sein, Lentos Linz
2025 Gay by Nature, Publiek Park, Brussels
2025 Neues aus der Sammlung, Kunstsammlung des Landes OÖ, Linz
2024 Ideal Means, Neuer Kunstverein Wien
2024 4 whales in a soft sponge, Medium Gallery, Bratislava
2022 Works on Paper on Fridges, Harkawik, New York
2022 À Belles Dents, Mouches Volantes at Room 16 Bienvenue Louisiane, Paris
2022 SODA, Mauve, Vienna
2022 off the beaten rack, KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, curated by Nantje Wilke, Düsseldorf
2022 European award exhibition for wooden sculptors, Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe
2021 Big Fungus, curated by Tobi Keck, Berlin
2021 Mountains Are Time, curated by Laura Pöld, Salzamt Linz
2021 ЧЕРВОНI ТIНI / RED SHADOWS, curated by 2.27.7 club, Kazan
2020 the lorries are speaking, Sinkhole Project Vienna, Vienna
2019 NA RAjONE/BEYOND THE CENTER, Novomolokovo, Moskow
2019 Perle, Kubinhaus, Zwickledt
2018 advanced obstacles #5, Kugelmugel, Vienna
2017 it is how it is, Brno House of Arts, Brno
2017 0gms, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia
2016 Past Perfect Simple (with Lukas Janitsch), Plan zu Gast bei 2025, Hamburg
2015 Ableger (with Sophia Mairer), Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna
2015 Printed Matters, Gesso, Vienna
2014 Versus, Künstlervereinigung März, Linz
2013 Push, Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia
2012 drawn apart, Galerie Z, Hard
2012 Destabilized Ground, SOHO in Ottakring, Vienna
2011 DIE ENDLOSE UND-REIHE, k/haus passage, Vienna
2011 Bleach (with Stefan Wirnsperger), Bildetage, Vienna
Filmography:
Gay by Nature
2k, 21:15, 2025, in collaboration with Helen Weber
Festivals:
Diagonale - Festival des Österreichischen Films (Austria, March 2026)
Crossing Europe (Austria, April 2026) - winning Local Artist Best Short
Vienna Shorts (Austria, May 2026)
Kino wie noch Nie - Vienna (Austria, July 2026)
GAZE International LGBTQIA Film Festival Dublin (Irland, July 2026)
Dirty Care
2024, 17:05, digital
Festivals:
Diagonale - Festival des Österreichischen Films, Graz 2025
Crossing Europe, Linz 2025
XPOSED Queer Film Festival, Berlin 2025
Norwegian Short Film Festival / Kortfilmfestival Grimstad 2025
Oslo/Fusion Film Festival LGBTQI (Norway, September 2025)
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (England, September 2025)
Lentos Exhibition – Being a Girl* (Austria, October 2025)
Cinema Next Tour Linz (Austria, November 2025)
Kasseler Dokfest (Germany, November 2025)
Festival dei Popoli di Firenze (Italy, November 2025)
Beijing International Short Film Festival (China, November 2025)
This human world – international human rights film festival (Austria, November 2025)
Max Ophüls Filmpreis (Germany, January 2026)
Queer Shorts Vienna (Austria, February 2026)
FebioFest Bratislava (Slovakia, March 2026)
Porto Femme - International Film Festival (Portugal, April 2026)
Die Räuberinnen
2023, 15:45, digital
Festivals:
Queertactics Vienna 2023 - winning Goldene Medusa
Queer Shorts Vienna 2023
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken 2024 - Jury Award Best Short
SXSW Austin Texas 2024
Mardi Gras Film Festival Sydney Australia 2024
ENCOURAGE Film Talents Berlin 2024
SXSW - South by Southwest Film Festival 2024
Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2024
BFI Flare London 2024
Uruguay International Film Festival Cinemateca 2024
Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBT Film Festival 2024 - Audience Award
Diagonale -Festival des österreichischen Films Graz 2024
Crossing Europe Linz 2024
PORTO FEMME International Film Festival April 2024
TILDE – Melbourne Trans & Gender Diverse Film Festival 2024
Cinema Talks Filmfestival 2024 - Winner in Cat. Entertainment
Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival Toronto 2024
Queerzilla Wien 2024
Korea Queer Film Festival 2024
Dortmunder Tresen Filmfestival 2024
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2024
Frameline48, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2024
Queer Rhapsody Film Series Los Angeles 2024
Filmfestival Kitzbühel 2024
CinemaQ Film Festival 2024
Shortynale Klosterneuburg 2024
Dotdotdot Open Air Kurzfilmfestival, Austria 2024 - Audience Award
Minikino Filmweek, Indonesia 2024
Festival of Nations, Austria 2024
KinoFest German Language Film Festival Greece 2024
VANCOUVER QUEER FILM FESTIVAL 2024
Calgary International Film Festival, Canada 2024
Les Mains Gauches, Marseille 2024
Vilnius Queer Festival "Kreivės" 2024
QueerFilmFest Rostock 2024
QUEER FILM FESTIVAL BREMEN 2024
Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2024
Linz International Short Film Festival 2024 - Best Queer
Annual Way OUT West Film Fest, 2024
Cinema Next Tour, Austria 2024 - Jury Award
Nordic International Film Festival New York - Best Director
Filmkunsttage Sachsen-Anhalt 2024
Queer Film Festival Oldenburg 2024
Filmzuckerl 2024
Festival du film LGBTQI de Paris Chéries-Chéris 2024
Cottbus Film Festival 2024
Beijing International Short Film Festival 2024
Leeds Queer Film Festival 2025
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (United Kingdom, September 2025)
Helsinki International Film Festival Love & Anarchy (Finland, September 2025)
Lentos Exhibition – Being a Girl* (Austria, October 2025)
Interfilm (Germany, November 2025)
Festival Des Images Aux Mots de Toulouse (France, January 2026)
Performances:
2025 Fish, Trans* Poetics, MUMOK, Vienna
2023 Skills & Tools: A Guidebook, Klangfestival/Festival der Regionen, Gallneukirchen
2023 Cat as part DOLLHOUSES - The Swimmingpool, Dollhouses Production, Cologne
2022 Reverse Cowgirl: Skills & Tools, KIT, Düsseldorf
Panels / Talks:
2026 Feminist Film Club - No Mercy - do women make tougher movies?
Panel with Katharina Mückstein and Claudia Wohlgenannt, Stadtkino Vienna
2026 Dorflesben* – Queer Artistic and Curatorial Practices Beyond the Metropolis
Talk with Lorena Juan, PART, Vienna
2025 Trans Poetics, Panel with Andrea AK, Mumok, Vienna
2025 Trans representation in film
Panel with Daniel Sea and Marie Luise Lehner, Filmcasino Vienna
2025 New Media & New Narratives in Queer Cinema, Panel at Xposed Queer Film Festival, Berlin
Workshops:
2025 Subversive Narrative, Schule Friedl Kubelka, Wien
2025 trans* im Film: ein Workshop zu Geschlechtervielfalt im Filmbereich, Drehübung Wien, in collaboration with Persson Perry Baumgartinger
Curatorial work:
2025 Realistic Dreams, Festival der Regionen Braunau am Inn, Curatorial board of the festival
Residencies / Awards:
2025 If she can see it, she can be it - Main Prize, Script Writers Forum Vienna
2024 Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis, Bonn
2023 Austrian State Grant for Fine Arts, bmkoes
2022 Baker Tilly Scholarship
2019 1.st place winner, sculpture in public space - competition Novomolokovo, Moskow
2019 Artist in residence at Paliano/Rome by the Upperaustrian State
2019 Margret-Bilger-Scholarship
2018 Artist in residence at Spielkartenfabrik Stralsund
2016 Grant, Otto Mauer Fonds
2014 Artist in residence at Lenikus Collection Vienna
2013 Theodor Körner Award
2012 Prix Ars Rothkrebschen
2009 Scholarship, Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Foundation
2009 Scholarship, Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Foundation
contact: isaschieche@gmail.com