Stephanie (she/her) is a visual artist from Germany, currently living in Linz, Austria.

Her work includes documentaries, experimental videos, and interactive performances in which she creates a dialogue with the visitor, often based on a game of chance.

In her films she mixes personal, intimate experiences with fictional narratives and likes to combine different styles of analog and digital recording media. She experiments with color and shape schemes.

She is concerned with revealing the hidden, visualizing the inner, and processing pain. She tests the boundaries between truth and fiction. The confrontation with self-perception and the perception of others aka the art of seeing (and not seeing). 

Her films have been nominated for the German Human rights film prize (category: Non-Professionel) and screened at film and media art festivals.

EDUCATION

© Stephanie Bergwinkl

FILMOGRAPHY

2023-2024 "Arts of Change" - Austrian Mentee and Funding Program

2021 Alien in Residency
at Kunstuniversität Linz_ONLINE

2019 Fine Art Photography: In the Footsteps of Yugoslavian Heritage
at NOVA Academy Beograd

2020 Master Class "Time-based media"
at Kunstuniversität Linz/ Art University Linz

2022 Exchange semester at Fine Arts Department
at École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, France

2018 Art, Design & media student
at Nanyang Technological University Singapore

2016-2020 B.A. communication science & economics
at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / University of Munich

2018-2023 Scolarship at Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

RESIDENCIES & MENTEE PROGRAM

we pretend not to see (2023), canyouseeme? (2022), fleeting amusement(s) (2022), Vom Vergessen und Erinnern (2020)

COMISSIONED FILMS

2023 Short Film for children's play "Hast du Zeit?", Landestheater Linz, Austria