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Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* is an artist, researcher and writer. She* works within and about contemporary art, art history, cultural studies and critical theory. She is interested in queerness, displays of global capital, coloniality and the East, forms of escape, early psychoanalysis as well as politics of memory and war. Hoffner works with video, photography, installation and performance. She* employs means of appropriation such as restaging photographs, interviews and reports, and searches for ways to desynchronize normative belongings of body and voice, sound and image. She* works explicitly against the current domination of corporate aesthetics, images of disgust and horror and the right-winged establishment by insisting on analysis, contextualization and reflection. Hoffner seeks to introduce temporalities, relations and spaces in-between iconic images and highly performative events of our totalizing contemporaneity.

 

 

*on the crossroads of who was born 1980 in Paraćin (Yugoslavia), who was moved in 1989, and received capitalist citizenship (Austria) with a new name in 2002.

 



Education

2017 - 2021
Dr. phil, Doctorate of Philosophy, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna & The New School, New York City
2010 - 2014   
PhD in Practice, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2002 - 2007   
Mag.art., Fine Arts and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
1999 - 2002    
Education in the Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

 

Solo Exhibitions


2023
Spiritual Decolonization - Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* / The Art Collection of Non-Aligned Laboratory, Museum of Contemporary Art, Podgorica
Active Intolerance (curated by Benedikt Seerieder), Kunstverein Braunschweig
2021

Kunsthalle Vienna (curated by Anne Faucheret)
2020
Exhausted Time (curated by Tonči Kranjčević Batalić), MKC, Split
2018    
The Bacha Posh Project (curated by Karolina Radenković), galerie5020, Salzburg
2017     
Exhausted Time - Drag in Times of War (curated by GSG), Studio Kamov, Rijeka
2016      
Doubling Past (curated by Suza Husse), District, Berlin
Exhausted Time (curated by Ingeborg Erhart), Neue Galerie, Innsbruck
2012     
Survivability, formed and framed, Ve.Sch, Vienna
2010      
This is not walking, it’s a getaway (curated by Iva Kovač), PM Galerija, Zagreb

 

Group Exhibitions

2023
Discipline and Punish, Display Gallery, Prague
Gifts and Residencies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Podgorica
Biennale Jogja 17, Titen: Embodied Knowledges–Shifting Grounds” (Titen: Pengetahuan Menubuh, Pijakan Berubah, (curated by Alia Swastika/Adelina Luft)
Collections for a Solidary Future, (curated by Andreja Hribernik &Natalija Vujosevic),
National Museum Montenegro, Cetinje

PART TIME COMMITMENT SERIES – Prologue: What does work mean at the end of the day?
(curated by Lisa Britzger), Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich

2022

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2020, (curated by Shubigi Rao), Kochi, India
The Body and the Territory: Art and Borders in today's Austria, (curated by Jasna Jakšić and Radmila Iva Janković), Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
Collections for a Solidary Future, (curated by Andreja Hribernik &Natalija Vujosevic), The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška (KGLU), Slovenj Gradec
The South in US: NAM, (curated by Iva Kovac), Mala Galerija, part of City of Women, Ljubljana
Collecting Policy. New Works in the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, (curated by Christina Penetsdorfer, Thorsten Sadowsky), Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
2021
Witches (curated by Nina Tabassomi), Taxispalais Innsbruck
Witches, Orientalism and Unconsciousness (curated by Anamarija Batista), Austrian Cultural Forum Warsaw
2020
From what will we reassemble ourselves (conceived by Anna Dasović and curated by Natasha Marie Llorens), Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Europe Wonderland - Body Space: Citizenship and Territories, (curated by Olivia Nitis), Timisoara
Krieg Kuratieren (curated by Ezgi Erol), Kunstraum Innsbruck
2019
Up in Arms (curated by Ayşe Güngör, Cassandra Mehlhorn, Gabriela Seith, Amalie Sølling-Jørgensen, Johanna Werner), Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
Menschenbild (curated by Christiane Kuhlmann), Museum der Moderne Rupertinum Salzburg
Kalt, Ve.sch, Kaltenleutgeben
2018
Queer Stories (curated by Christiane Erharter), tranzit.sk, Bratislava
Bodies and Inhabitants (curated by Larissa Kopp), Freud Museum, Vienna
Curating War (Curated by Ezgi Erol), Dessous, Vienna
Personal Geographies (Curated by Branka Vujanović), Galerija Podroom, Kulturni Centar Beograd
2017
photo:vienna, Vienna
Hier zuhause. Migrationsgeschichten aus Tirol, Volkskunstmuseum, Innsbruck
2016      
Putting Rehearsals to the test (curated by Sabeth Buchmann, Constanze Ruhm, Ilse Lafer), VOX centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal
International Experimental Engraving Biennial – IEEB7 (curated by Olivia Nitis), Victoria Art Center, Bucharest
2015      
Destination Vienna (curated by Anne Faucheret, Marie Egger, Nikolaus Schafhausen,
Matthias Nothnagel, Andrea Popelka, Luca lo Pinto, Lucas Gehrmann), Kunsthalle, Vienna
Share - too much history, MORE future (curated by Annemarie Türk)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka & Palais Porcia, Vienna
xposit eins/fünfzehn, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2014      
Exhibition on the Occasion of the Dissertation, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Share - too much history, MORE future (curated by Annemarie Türk),
Bosnian National Gallery, Sarajevo & Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt
Off Scene (curated by Andrea Lumplecker/Yasmina Haddad), Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Drowning and Swallowing this text (curated by Suzy Halaylan), LACE, Los Angeles
Contemporary Exhibitions
Wir machen Schule (curated by Christoph Urwalek/Lena Rosa Händle/Ana Hoffner),
Künstlerhaus Passagegalerie, Vienna
2013      
... Was ist Kunst?... Resuming a Fragmented History (curated by Christian Egger/Sandro Droschl)
Künstlerhaus Graz, steirischer herbst
Schutzraum – Politik, Ästhetik, Medien (curated by Kea Wienand/Monika Wucher)
thealit.Frauen.Kultur.Labor, Kultur im Bunker, Bremen
Up till now – Wiedervorlagen historischer Performances und Aktionskunst aus der DDR (curated
by Anna Jehle/Julia Kurz), Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
2012      
In Growing up Amid the Historical Mysteries of Proximity: Pros & Cons of Being Neighbours
(curated by Isin Onol/Dimitrina Sevova), ITS-Z1, Beograd
2011      
Sounds of Europe: Disharmonious Voices (curated by Nika Autor), Aksioma, Ljubljana
2010      
Der Drang nach Osten (curated by Ivan Jurica), Galeria Hit, Bratislava
Mit und ist kein (National)Staat zu machen (curated by Ursula Maria Probst/Walter Seidl)
Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna
where do we go from here (curated by Bettina Spörr), Secession, Vienna
Matter of negotiation (curated by Andrei Siclodi), Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck
2009      
The Center of Attention. Kunst als Soziotopie (curated by Ursula Maria Probst),
Vienna Art Week, Vienna
Mi zahtevamo – We demand – Wir fordern (curated by Regina Wuzella), Schaufenster,
IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna
Am I that name? (curated by Jelena Graovac), Galerija SC, Zagreb
Ensemble der Verhältnisse (curated by Can Gülcü), Open Space, Vienna
Performing the East (curated by Hemma Schmutz), Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
2008      
Dear Anus (curated by Elke Auer/Esther Straganz/Eva Egermann/Julia Wieger), VBKÖ, Wien
Bleiberecht für alle!, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Hack.Fem.East (curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli/Gaia Novati), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2006      
Isztvana: Debutt, Kontekst Galerija, Beograd
Prologue 2, migratory and (trans)gendered bodies (curated by Marina Gržinić/Reni Hofmueller), 
ESC, Graz
Ich möchte eine Deutsche sein, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2005      
Diverging in reality (curated by Ivana Marjanović/Vida Knezević), SKC Galerija, Beograd
2003      
Zurich, Gabrielle Senn Galerie, Vienna



Screenings

2023
Spiritual Decolonization, mumok cinema, Vienna
2022
VOICES, (curated by Michaela Schwentner),
echoraum, Vienna
Materiality of Memories (curated by Borjana Gaković and Madeleine Bernstorff)
Sinema Transtopia, Berlin
Disenchanted Labor – Breaking the Spell of Capitalist Reproduction
(curated by Anne Faucheret and Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*)
mumok cinema
2019
Transform she said #4 (curated by Claudia Slanar and Michaela Schwentner)
Blicke Kino/Belvedere 21er Haus, Vienna
Queer Experimental Film Night, Kino Lumiere, Bratislava
2018        
The Queerness of Memory
Screening and book presentation with Karolin Meunier, Lothringer13_Florida, München & b_books, Berlin
2017        
Afterimages – Art Practice in Times of Conflict
Screening and Talk
International Experimental Engraving Biennial - IEEB7, Atelier 030202, Bucharest
2016        
Transferred Memories – Embodied Documents, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Un_University Platform, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2015        
Share – too much history, MORE future, National Museum of Montenegro, Atelier DADO
Gallery, Cetinje
2014        
Share – too much history, more future, donumenta Regensburg, Cinema Andreasstadel &
Moderna Galerija, Metelkova, Ljubljana & The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade & MSU, 
Zagreb & 21er Haus, Vienna & International Videofestival namaTRE, Trebinje
The Production of Space – Architecture as Site as Stage as Screen as Ruin as Movement,
Videoex Festival, Zurich
2013        
EGO fütter mein, Living Room Producs, Liquid Loft, Vienna
Shifts in Time – Performing the Chronic, mumok Kino, Vienna
2012        
History Lessons, mumok Kino, Vienna
PANic 7, Performance and Video, mediaOpera, Rinderhalle, Vienna
Wisdom of shadow, 4th Sinop International Biennial “Sinopale 4”, Pervane Medresesi /
Madrassa, Sinop
Performative Screenings #11, Almost present, but not quite, school, Vienna
2011        
Decolonial Aesthetics, Fredric Jameson Gallery & Nasher Museum of Art,
Duke University, Durham
2010        
Europe, war, migrations and queer, El "ParQuerdero", Museum of art Banco de la Republica,
Bogota     
City of women, Kinodvor, Ljubljana
elles tournent, Brussels Women's Film Festival, Le Botanique, Brussels
Internationales FrauenFilmFestival, Filmpalette, Dortmund/Köln
2008        
Bleiberecht für alle!, Schikaneder, Vienna
2006        
Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinema, Feminist and Lesbian Film Festival, Paris
2005        
Aprilski susreti, SKC Galerija, Beograd



Lectures at Conferences

09/23
Artists with/out states - Why to remember the legacy of the non-aligned?
Galerija Botanicka Basta, Museum of Contemporary Art, Podgorica
04/23
Social Justice: Geschlecht und Ideologie
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
04/21
Inaugural Lecture: Künstlerische Forschung – Das Zeitgenössische desynchronisieren
University Mozarteum Salzburg
10/18
Non-aligned Extinctions: Slavery, Neo-orientalism and Queerness
Symposion on Photography XXI: The Violence of Images
Camera Austria (steirischer herbst), Graz
10/17        
The Time in Time of Hospitality
Lecture at the conference “They'll Never Walk Alone: Remembering Gastarbeiters in the Neoliberal Age”
The European Institute for Progressive Cultural Politics (eipcp), Vienna
11/15        
Not Now! Now!
Lecture at PARSE, Biennale Research Conference on TIME
Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg
08/15        
The Queerness of Memory
Lecture at the Summer School for Sexualities, Culture and Politics
Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities (IPAK Center)
Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), Singidunum University Belgrade
06/14        
Queer/ing Urban Space and Time
with Andrea Braidt and Anna T.
SHARE Conference, Aarhus
10/13        
Queer archive or queer memory: Chronopolitical reflections on the Family Album
Lecture at the Conference “Not now! Now!: The very exciting politics of arts-based research”
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
06/13        
Historicity and Queer memory in artistic research methodology
Lecture at the Graduate Conference, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
11/12        
Queering (Post) War Representation: On ambivalent desire for proximity in the images of the camp
Lecture at the Conference “Dildo, Anus, Macht: Queere Abstraktion”
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
09/12        
On desire for proximity in the images of the camp
Lecture at the Conference “Entangled legacies: Enlightenment, Colonialism and the Holocaust”
Research Center for Postcolonial Studies, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt

 

Presentations_Talks_Panels

03/22
Queer Archives, Talk with Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* , Karol Radziszewski, and Sabine Schwaighofer
(curated by Christiane Ehrharter), Volkskundemuseum, Vienna
01/22
Locked Up and Locked Out. Prison, exploitation, and the pandemic
Anne Faucheret and Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* in conversation with Monika Mokre
Kunsthalle Vienna, 25th of January 2022
08/21
WITCH TALKS: Angela Anderson & Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* in conversation with Nina Tabassomi
Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck
08/21
The Perpetual Constructing of Oneself, Talk between Anna Daucikova and Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*, International Summeracademy Salzburg, Traklhaus
04/21
Inaugural Lecture
Künstlerische Forschung – Das Zeitgenössische desynchronisieren, University Mozarteum Salzburg
03/21
Artist talk with Anamarija Batista, Anka Lesniak in the exhibition Witches, Orientalism & Unconsciousness as Protagonists of Viennese Modernity
07/20
Public Program 2020: Gemeinsame Wagnisse. Draussen sein
Geschichten Wiedererzählen, mit Marko Dinić, Ana Hoffner, Nina Kusturica, Barbi Marković, Nedad Memić und Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Patrick Dunst, Christian Pollheimer, Belvedere 21 Vienna
11/19
Visiting Scholar Lecture
The New School: School of Art, Media, and Technology, Parsons School of Design, New York City
11/19
Talk in the exhibition Up in Arms
Film screening Forensic Architecture »Triple-Chaser« followed by a talk with Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* and Linde Bryk (ECCHR), Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
09/18
Artist Talk
curating war
with Ihsan Oturmak, Baran Caginli, and Songül Sönmez, Dessous, Vienna
11/18
The Queerness of Memory
Book presentation with Christiane Erharter, Salon für Kunstbuch, Belvedere 21, Vienna & with Branka Vujanović, Galerija Podroom, Kulturni Centar Beograd
06/16        
Exhausted Time
Artist Talk with Ingeborg Erhart
Neue Galerie, Innsbruck
05/16        
Processing realities - Art practices debating the state of society
Presentation and talk with Tina Leisch & Bernhard Dechant, Martin Krenn, and Volodymyr Kuznetsov
It’s about politics, TEH Meeting, WUK, Vienna
02/16        
Critical Art Practice
Presentation and Discussion
Schule Friedl Kubelka, Vienna
12/15        
Körper Museum Geschichte
with Ivan Jurica
mumok, Vienna
11/14        
Live Performance Revisited
with Ilona Braun, Nina Prader, Carola Dertnig, Jakob Lena Knebl and Bernadette Anzengruber
Neuer Kunstverein Vienna
04/14        
Critical Art Practice
Presentation and Discussion
Schule Friedl Kubelka, Vienna
12/11        
Performative Practices - queer migratory survival strategies      
Presentation in the Departement for time-based media and Performance
(organized by Madeleine Bernstorff) UdK, Berlin
11/11        
Touching across time II
with Nika Autor, Mareike Bernien, Giulia Cilla, Eva Egermann, Elske Rosenfeld as well as Renate Lorenz (PhD in Practice)
Vienna Art Week, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
09/11            
Performative presentation
“Chewing the scenery” curated by Andrea Thal
with Nika Autor, Michael Baers, Mareike Bernien, Giulia Cilla, Eva Egermann, Elske Rosenfeld as well as Tom Holert, Renate Lorenz and Johanna Schaffer (PhD in Practice)
Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice Biennial
05/11        
About Performative Practice
Presentation in Akademija za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje, Ljubljana
05/11        
About Performative Practice
Presentation in the framework of the exhibition “Untold stories”, Kunstihoone, Tallinn
11/10        
I’m too sad to tell you, Bosnian Girl!
Patterns_Lecture, Going beyond just Gender
The Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE), Budapest    
12/09        
Limitation as reactivation of public space
Lecture in the framework of the exhibition “The Law of Capital: Histories of oppression”
City Museum, Ljubljana