Sylvia WINKLER
1996-90 State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart, diploma
Stephan KÖEPERL
2000 Postgraduate scholarship of the State of Baden-Württemberg
1998-90 State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart, Master of Arts
1997 Scholarship by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) P.R. China
Awards and grants
2011 Cultural award of the city of Nassau - section shortfilm, Germany
»Best original idea« Thermaikos Int. Film Festival, Greece
2010 AiR Est-Nord-Est, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Canada
AiR Khoj, New Delhi, India
AiR Casa de Velázquez, Madrid , Spain
2009 Flaxartstudios Belfast, Northern Ireland
»Special Mention« Videomedeja Novi Sad, Serbia
2008 The Canada Council for the Arts’ International Residency, Darling Foundry, Montreal, Canada
2007 Residency of the Austrian government, Chengdu, P.R.China
AiR Lijiang Studio, Yunnan, P.R.China
Selected exhibitions and projects of the last years
2012
„The Benchmark” Culburb@Soho in Ottakring, Vienna, Austria
„Traverse Video” Goethe-Institute Toulouse, France
„@tagore” Upstairs Gallery, Kolkata, India
„expand_explore_expose” Salzamt, Linz, Austria (C)
„urban view” interdisciplinary project, Stadtlabor Stuttgart, Germany
„Adverse Collaborations“ The Block, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
„Oriental Circle“ SWJTU Art Exhibition Hall, Chengdu, P.R.China
2011
„The Lucifer Effect“ DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic (C)
„Station” Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden (C)
„Sprawl-structures, feedbacks & disturbances“ festival for art in public space, Innsbruck, Austria (C)
„In India and far beyond“ Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Stuttgart/Berlin (C)
„On the Edge of a Silver Future“ Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
„Urban Life/Multiplication“ Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
„Chuan Men“ Amelie Gallery, 798 Art District, Beijing, P.R.China (C)
„India is now...“ Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany
2010
„In context : Public.Art.Ecology“ Khoj, New Delhi, India
„The Art of Not Being Governed like That“ Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (C)
„Countdown“ Freizeichen, and JUZ-Youth centre Mureck, Austria (S)(C)
„When the fat get thin the thin die” Stuttgarter Kunstverein, Germany (S)
„urbang“ Optica, Montreal, Canada (S)
„Tabu“ Karton Gallery, Budapest/The Fridge, Sofia, Bulgaria/CK Center Skopje, Mazedonia
„Visitors - International Video Art Activity“ Canakkale, Istanbul, Turkey (C)
„Fugue urbaine“ Darling Foundry, Montreal, Canada
2009
„LAB 09 - Lulea Art Biennial“ Sweden (C)
„Re: Development Re: Considered“ Oberwelt e.V. Stuttgart (S)
„Jobwindow“ Interventionsraum Stuttgart (S)
„Contemporary Flanerie: Reconfiguring Cities“ Oakland University Art Gallery, USA (C)
„Subversive Fair“ Linz - European Cultural Capital, Austria
„Visions in the Nunnery“ The Nunnery, London, UK
(S) = solo show, (C) = catalogue