Vik Bayer

Vik Bayer lives, films, edits, writes, builds, and reads. Vik believes in collaboration as a way of production, one that translates into sculptural installations, films, reading circles, teaching projects, and books. Their work primarily focuses on forms of agriculture that carry the potential to transform the dominant exploitative economic system. Vik is also interested in how the crises haunting our present influence ways of storytelling. Both interests led to an extensive exchange with Sicilian farmers who cultivate a solidarity-based economy in response to the growing struggles caused by the climate crises and the fictions of the free market. This collaboration materialized in the video installation Slo-Mo Visions of Refusal of Unfulfilled Promises, which was awarded the Theodor Körner Prize and the Recognition Award of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where they graduated in 2024.