Kristina Cyan is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Vienna.
Her artistic work and practice focus on the intersection of (media- and bio-) technology, body-politics, politics of images, feminist and environmental studies. From her point of view, technology is not only a tool but also represents hybridity politics of extensions and raises questions of information, identities, publicity and politics.
These issues concern globalization, processes of interaction with society and advanced media technologies and do affect and influence our fragmented perception of reality and materiality. This is the area where her aesthetic concerns address a challenge of ethics.
She uses different media to work with these issues, such as film, video installation, writing, sculpture and performative practice.
Recently, her works have been shown (selected) at Mumok cinema (Austria), Kunst Haus Wien (Austria), Rec.Forward Festival in Nice (France), B3 Biennial Moving Images in Frankfurt (Germany), European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück (Germany), Film Museum Vienna, Vienna (Austria) and many more.
Selected shows
2025 Digital Ghosts, Kunstverein, Vienna (AT)
2025 Umbra Chromatica.The Wrong Biennale.
2025 A flying Visit by Mercury, Vienna (AT)
2024 INTO ALTERITY_ void I gap I hole, XHibit studio, Vienna (AT)
2024 Of Feathers, Whales and Dust,GPC Lab, Vienna (AT)
2023 Visibilities Festival / Schikaneder kino, Vienna (AT)
2023 Apocalipse edition / Ve.sh, Vienna (AT)
2023 Futures, Listahuaskolin, Reykjavik (IS)
2023 Mumok Cinema / Vienna (AT)
2022 Rec.Forward Festival / Nice (FR)
2022 B3 Biennial Moving Images / Frankfurt (DE)
2022 Tention, TRAFO / Jena (DE)
2022 TEMPOR[E]ALITIES, Format.strk / Vienna (AT)
2022 Teach Nature / AVY Gallery, Prague (CZ)
2022 Dass Weisse House / Vienna (AT)
2022 Kultursommer Wien Festival / Vienna (AT)
2022 Teach Nature / Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna (AT)
2022 Lowland 7 / Lowland, Stuttgart (DE)
2022 European Media Art Festival No 35 / Osnabrück (DE)
2022 Projection* / Never At Home, Vienna (AT)
2022 Precarious circumstances / Soho studious, Vienna (AT)
2021 These things i know for sure’ / Academie Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
2021 Amaterinnen* / Film Museum Vienna, Vienna (AT)
2021 Closer & Clousure / Improper Walls Gallery, Vienna (AT)
2021 Sommer in Floridsdorf festival / public festival, Vienna (AT)
2021 Undoing Landscapes / X-hibit space, Vienna (AT)
2021 I Know I care / VBKOe, Vienna (AT) yH brid Spaces / Fluc, Vienna (AT)
2021 Escape the room / Wrong online Bienalle
2021 ITSLIQUID Contemporary / Venice (IT)
Residencies and grants
2026 Brno House of Arts residency / ShadowFrame
2024 Golden Pixel Collective Lab Dramaturgy Residency
2022 Künstlerische Tatsachen / Art&Science residency, Jena
Awards and nominations
2025 Ö1 Talent Prize Fine Arts, nominee (AT)
2023: Winner of NTX Global Hackathon, Vienna
Conferences, Talks, Presentations
2025 Hack the Promise Festival, Basel (CH)
2025 Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians, conference, Munich (DE)
Education
2026 Exchange, class of Emergent Digital Art in Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, prof. Hito Steyerl
2019-2026 Diploma, class of Art and Digital Media in Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna,prof Constanze Ruhm.
2023 Exchange in Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavík
2017-2019 MA in New Art strategies, ICA, Moscow
2011-2014 MA in Graphic Design and Visual communication at NIUD Saint Petersburg,
2007-2011 BA from the Architecture Design in SUTD Saint Petersburg,
Her artistic work and practice focus on the intersection of (media- and bio-) technology, body-politics, politics of images, feminist and environmental studies. From her point of view, technology is not only a tool but also represents hybridity politics of extensions and raises questions of information, identities, publicity and politics.
These issues concern globalization, processes of interaction with society and advanced media technologies and do affect and influence our fragmented perception of reality and materiality. This is the area where her aesthetic concerns address a challenge of ethics.
She uses different media to work with these issues, such as film, video installation, writing, sculpture and performative practice.
Recently, her works have been shown (selected) at Mumok cinema (Austria), Kunst Haus Wien (Austria), Rec.Forward Festival in Nice (France), B3 Biennial Moving Images in Frankfurt (Germany), European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück (Germany), Film Museum Vienna, Vienna (Austria) and many more.
Selected shows
2025 Digital Ghosts, Kunstverein, Vienna (AT)
2025 Umbra Chromatica.The Wrong Biennale.
2025 A flying Visit by Mercury, Vienna (AT)
2024 INTO ALTERITY_ void I gap I hole, XHibit studio, Vienna (AT)
2024 Of Feathers, Whales and Dust,GPC Lab, Vienna (AT)
2023 Visibilities Festival / Schikaneder kino, Vienna (AT)
2023 Apocalipse edition / Ve.sh, Vienna (AT)
2023 Futures, Listahuaskolin, Reykjavik (IS)
2023 Mumok Cinema / Vienna (AT)
2022 Rec.Forward Festival / Nice (FR)
2022 B3 Biennial Moving Images / Frankfurt (DE)
2022 Tention, TRAFO / Jena (DE)
2022 TEMPOR[E]ALITIES, Format.strk / Vienna (AT)
2022 Teach Nature / AVY Gallery, Prague (CZ)
2022 Dass Weisse House / Vienna (AT)
2022 Kultursommer Wien Festival / Vienna (AT)
2022 Teach Nature / Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna (AT)
2022 Lowland 7 / Lowland, Stuttgart (DE)
2022 European Media Art Festival No 35 / Osnabrück (DE)
2022 Projection* / Never At Home, Vienna (AT)
2022 Precarious circumstances / Soho studious, Vienna (AT)
2021 These things i know for sure’ / Academie Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
2021 Amaterinnen* / Film Museum Vienna, Vienna (AT)
2021 Closer & Clousure / Improper Walls Gallery, Vienna (AT)
2021 Sommer in Floridsdorf festival / public festival, Vienna (AT)
2021 Undoing Landscapes / X-hibit space, Vienna (AT)
2021 I Know I care / VBKOe, Vienna (AT) yH brid Spaces / Fluc, Vienna (AT)
2021 Escape the room / Wrong online Bienalle
2021 ITSLIQUID Contemporary / Venice (IT)
Residencies and grants
2026 Brno House of Arts residency / ShadowFrame
2024 Golden Pixel Collective Lab Dramaturgy Residency
2022 Künstlerische Tatsachen / Art&Science residency, Jena
Awards and nominations
2025 Ö1 Talent Prize Fine Arts, nominee (AT)
2023: Winner of NTX Global Hackathon, Vienna
Conferences, Talks, Presentations
2025 Hack the Promise Festival, Basel (CH)
2025 Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians, conference, Munich (DE)
Education
2026 Exchange, class of Emergent Digital Art in Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, prof. Hito Steyerl
2019-2026 Diploma, class of Art and Digital Media in Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna,prof Constanze Ruhm.
2023 Exchange in Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavík
2017-2019 MA in New Art strategies, ICA, Moscow
2011-2014 MA in Graphic Design and Visual communication at NIUD Saint Petersburg,
2007-2011 BA from the Architecture Design in SUTD Saint Petersburg,