Sarah Bildstein is working on the possibilities of abstract painting.
She is born in Austria and is living and working in Röthis, Vorarlberg.
Education
2012-2016 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Diploma Abstract Painting
2015 Glasgow School of Art, Painting and Printmaking
2006-2012 Karl Franzens University Graz, Diploma Art History
2007-2009 Class for Art and Painting, Ortweinschool Graz
Solo Shows
2024 Dripping Point, Sarah Bildstein and Roswitha Weingrill, Künstlerhaus Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, AT
2023 Chromatic Reveries - 100 Spectres, ITO Project Space, Stuttgart, DE
2022 Epoch/é, ONA project room, Sumida Tokyo, JP
2022 Excerpt POST books Gallery, Ebisu Tokyo, JP
2019 100 Spectres, Gewölbe, Konstanz, DE
2018 Studies on Rupture,Turm zur Katz, Konstanz, DE
2015 Der Bien, Kunsthaus Graz, AT
2015 On being manipulated: blood, sweat, and tears with Sanela Nikodijevic, The Smallest Gallery, Graz, AT
2014 Connected Component, Gallery No Mad, Styrian Initiative for Culture, Graz, AT
2014 Borrowed an Auditor’s Instrument, Schaufenstergalerie Scharf, Graz, AT
2013 Nous, Boutique – Space for Temporary Art, Cologne, DE
2009 Obstacles, Abbey – The Mobile Gallery, Graz, AT
Selected Group Shows
2024 Wasser_Kraft, competition exhibition Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns, AT
2023 38th Austrian Graphic Design Competition, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, AT
2021 was sein wird, Steiermark Schau im Kunsthaus Graz, AT
2020 PK & Friends, Open Studios, Leipzig, DE
2020 Faistauer Prize, Trakelhaus Salzburg, AT
2020 Delicious Procession // PK at KKW, Leipzig DE
2020 In 24- Hours: ENVIRONMENT/NATURAL BEINGS,The Wall Space Gallery, UK
2020 Light, Air, Sun, Art Rental Initiative, Forum Stadtpark, Graz AT
2019 Art Transformers with Anna Baumann and Katrin Plavčak, Kunsthalle Graz, AT
2018 Potentiale, Art Book Fair, Druckwerk Lustenau, Feldkirch, AT
2018 SOLD OUT - Anti Propaganda, Künstlerhaus 1050, Vienna, AT
2018 Presentatióne de Sarah Bildstein y Janine M. Schneider, Intercambio Kunsthaus Bregenz, BilbaoArte, Bilbao, ES
2018 Bodies and Inhabitants, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, AT
2018 Vis!te, Art Festival, former Vincentius-Hospital, Konstanz, DE
2018 In der Unendlichkeit sagt die Linie Hallo, Donnerstags in der Bibliothek, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT
2018 Rekonstruktion: Decollage, Werkstadt Graz, AT
2017 Art on Prescription, Labor für Kunst, Via Garibaldi, Venice, AT
2017 Sharing Stories - Dinge sprechen, Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, AT
2017 the curtist and the arrator, the springboard, Graz, AT
2017 Freischuss Vol. 3, mo.ë contemporary, Vienna, AT
2017 Cum shots Vol. 2 - das Gegenteil ist die (fotografische) Inszenierung, Stubenbastei 12, temporary space, Vienna, AT
2017 Freischuss Vol. 1 - die Wichtigkeit des Moments in der Fotografie von 1971–2016, AU, Vienna, AT
2017 Small #2, Kunstraum Super, Vienna, AT
2016 nonplagiate, Gallery Eugen Lendl, Graz, AT
2016 A Spectre is Haunting the Earth, Diploma, Xhibit, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT
2016 DinA4, A und V, Leipzig, DE
2016 Hands-on, Gallery bäckerstraße4, Vienna, AT
2016 Wandlungen/Transformations, kunstGarten, Graz AT
2016 Abstract 15/16 Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT
2015 Entities, Austrijski Kulturni Forum Zagreb, Valpovo, HR
2015 A Spectre is Haunting the Earth, Exchange, Grace and Clark Fyfe Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2015 System Struktur-Oberfläche, mo.ë contemporary, Vienna, AT
2015 Schlawiener, Gallery Loft 8, Vienna, AT
2015 AIR Albrechtsfeld - Gallery bäckerstraße4, Vienna, AT
2015 Sold out, Antipropaganda, next-Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst, Graz, AT
2015 Abstract 14/15, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT
2014 Feston: How do we deal with these unidentifiable fragments? Lege Artis Festival, Lech, AT
2014 sampling surface, mo.ë, Vienna, AT
2014 Die Reichen werden immer reicher, Schaufenstergalerie Scharf, Graz, AT
2014 Übergänge (Passageways) - Excursion to a presented city, ESC, Graz, AT
2014 UBIK Space, WUK, Project room Exnergasse, Vienna, AT
2014 Abstract 13/14, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT
2013 Small Pieces III/2, Gallery Eugen Lendl, Graz, AT
2013 Melting Pot Of Arts, Parkhouse, Graz, AT
2012 Museum Frauen Circus, Kunsthalle, Feldbach, AT
2012 Schaumbad Altweibersommer, Graz, AT
2012 Museum Frauen Circus_Phase 03, Pavelhaus, Laafeld, AT
2012 The Last Title Was Fabulous, Fluc, Vienna, AT
2012 Rollenbilder # 5, Free Gallery, Graz, AT
2011 Old Friends-New Friends, Gallery Eugen Lendl, Graz, AT
2011 Fluchtpunkte, ESC, Graz, AT
2010 AIR Styrian Art Foundation, Rein, AT
2009 The whole and its counterparts, Gallery Eugen Lendl, Graz, AT
2008 Still-life, Art Award Gallery Centrum, Graz, AT
2008 The young hearts art competition, Hotel Goldener Engel, Graz, AT
Residencies and Awards
2024 Wasser_ Kraft, 3rd prize, 100 years of Illwerke vkw AG, Vorarlberg, AT
2023 Prize of the Province of Carinthia | 38th Austrian Graphic Design Competition, Innsbruck AT
2022 Project scholarship Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo, JP
2020/21 Working grant for the series Unknown, Vorarlberg Department of Culture
2020 Nomination Faistauer Prize Trakelhaus, Salzburg, AT
2019 Studio grant for 2021 Salzamt Linz from the provincial government of Upper Austria, AT
2020 Residency Pilotenküche Leipzig, funded by the Federal State Government of Vorarlberg, DE
2019 Residency with Kashu Yabuta Sogeisha, Kyoto, funded by the Federal State Government of Vorarlberg, JP
2019 Project award for 100 Spectres, Department of the city of Konstanz, DE
2018 Start Scholarship by the Federal Chancellery of Austria, AT
2018 Residency BilbaoArte Foundation, funded by the Federal State Government of Vorarlberg, ES
2018 Project award for 100 Spectres by the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, DE
2017 Project award for Between Skylla and Charybdis by the Future Fund of the Republic of Austria, AT
2016 Project award for A Spectre is Haunting the Earth, Diploma, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT
2016 Nomination Preis der Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
2015 Erasmus Scholarship, Glasgow School of Art,Glasgow, UK
2015 Residency Albrechtsfeld - Gallery bäckerstraße4, Vienna, AT
2011 Project award for Fluchtpunkte by the Culture Department of Styria, AT
2010 Residency Styrian Art Foundation, Rein, AT
Collections
2023 Graphic Collection of the Tyrolean State Museums, Innsbruck
2021 City Collection, Graz, AT
2020 Neue Galerie, Land Steiermark, Graz AT
2016 Graphic Collection, Kupferstichkabinett, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT
2015 City Collection, Graz, AT
2015 Collection Magdas Hotel, Vienna, AT
2010 Collection Styrian Art Foundation, Graz, AT
2009 Schauwerk - Black Box, Kantonsbibliothek Appenzell, Trogen, CH
Talks and Lectures
2023 Documentary 100 Spectres, European Ethnology/Cultural Studies, Philipps University Marburg
2021 Talk with Katrin Bucher Trantow about 100 Spectres in the exhibition "was sein wird", part of Steiermark Schau, Kunsthaus Graz
2021 Living in a box, discussion with Michael Schneider, Geidai, Tokyo University of the Arts
2021 Caesura Critique Online Session, New York
2019-20 Water and Art, practical seminar with Tanja Klemm, Institute for Literature, Art and Media Studies, University of Konstanz
2019 Klangbilder, workshop, KinderKunstKurs, Wolfurt
2019 Haidelmoosateliers #2, art direction studio, Haidelmoos School, Konstanz
2018 100 Spectres, project presentation at the Jour Fix Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz
2018 Haidelmoosateliers #1, art direction studio, Haidelmoos School, Konstanz
2018 Funkenflug 11 - Paradoxie als Strategie der Resilenz, artist talk at Künstlerhaus 1050, Vienna
2018 Water, Art and Science, Hegau Bodensee Seminar, University of Constance, Germany
2018 Between Skylla and Charybdis, artist talk and card game played at the kunstGarten, Graz
2018 Quartett, artist talk and card game played at the Filtercafé, Neue Galerie, Graz
2017 Bewährungsprobe #16, Depot, Vienna
2017 Ideal Work, Haiku Workshop, Making of Manifesto of ideal Work, Wienwoche, Vienna
2017 Between Skylla and Charybdis. Art Positions, Künstlerhaus - Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
2016 Art Lecture, Sacré Coeur, Pressbaum, Vienna
2016 Typical Female? Radio Igel, Department of Art and Media, University College of Teacher Education Styria, Graz
2015 Chromatography Crit, Painting, and Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2014 Noos at Passageways, ESC and Department of Folklore& Cultural Anthropology, Karl-Franzen-University, Graz
Publications
2024 Secret garden, Paradiese found, 20 years ed. Art Garden Graz
2021 100 Spectres, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna
2021 About the series "Unknown - April April" (2020-21) by Adam Lehrer: Visual Propaganda #7: Sarah Bildstein on Safetypropaganda, NY
2019 Sarah Bildstein: 100 Spectres. Werkheft zur Ausstellung, ed. with Tanja Klemm, Leona Maier, Patricia Taubert, Kulturamt Konstanz
2018 The art Issue 3/2018, Vienna
2018 Artist book, Chromatographies, limited edition of 10, self-published, Bilbao
2017 Small #2, ed. Kunstraum Super, Vienna
2015 Side by Side, ed. Magdas Hotel and Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2015 Die Verschränkung von Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit, Ans Wabl, ed. Keiper, Graz
2015 Landschaft in Bewegung, ed. Kunsthaus Graz
2014 Connected Component - Sarah Bildstein, ed. Styrian Initiative for Culture, Graz
Photo and Catalogue Layout: Stefanie Schwarzwimmer, 2014