This recognition reflects Perschon's outstanding artistic achievements, which deeply impressed the jury. They commended Perschon's work for its sharp feminist position, at once subtly confrontational, softly resistant, delicately immediate and always concretely embodied.
In addition to solo exhibitions at DAS WEISSE HAUS and the SAW Centre in the autumn of 2024, the award includes a one-month residency in Ottawa.
“Spending Time, Holding Space” - DAS WEISSE HAUS
11.9. – 19.10.2024
Opening: 10.9.2024, 17 h
Curatorial advisor: Anne Faucheret
Display: Elisabeth Kihlström (Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Translation: Elena Blum, Pia Wamsler
Christiana Perschon (Austria, Vienna) is a filmmaker and visual artist. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Perschon often creates films with the protagonists in the form of performative collaborations as a principle of her documentary work in a setting where her camera acts as the receiver of the gaze in an intergenerational dialogue. Among other prizes, Perschon received the Österreichischen Kunstpreis für Filmkunst (2022); Best Camera Award, at Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film (2019); Theodor Körner Preis for Fine Art (2018); Best Austrian Short Film, Vienna Shorts (2014). Her films have been screened at numerous international film festivals, including Viennale – International Filmfestival; Visions du Réel; Edinburgh International Film Festival, et al.