1. Maria Petschnig was born on 1977 and is an Austrian artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York City.
12 Facts About Maria Petschnig
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Maria Petschnig's works include a variety of media including video art.
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Maria Petschnig's works have been shown at several exhibitions in Europe and the United States including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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Maria Petschnig's works have received critical reviews from The New York Times, Artforum and Art in America.
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Maria Petschnig studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Royal College of Art, London and at the Wimbledon School of Art, London.
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Maria Petschnig makes her audience aware and often uncomfortable about their voyeuristic inclinations.
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In 2010, Maria Petschnig's works were included in the Greater New York exhibition at the MoMA PS1 of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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In 2015, Black Dog Publishing printed a monograph on Maria Petschnig's videos titled Nineteen Videos 2002 - 2015.
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In 2021, Maria Petschnig produced her first documentary film, Uncomfortably Comfortable.
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Maria Petschnig has given talks on her work at Columbia University, Vassar College, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Yekaterinburg and The New School.
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Besides having received the ARTE-Dokumentarfilmpreis, Maria Petschnig is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant, New York.
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Maria Petschnig has received a national grant from the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of the Government of Austria.