Lena Kuzmich (b. 1998, Vienna) is a visual artist working between moving image, bio-art and installation. In their artistic practice, Lena explores how our understanding of the world can be reconfigured through various modes of biological existence. Their work draws on diverse artistic mediums as gateways to connect with more-than-human worlds, creating portals to notice worlds within worlds. As a co-founder of the collective Transformative Narratives, Lena facilitates audiovisual performances and interdisciplinary collaborations. Blurring the boundaries between science and fiction, and between human and non-human domains, their work invites viewers to perceive the world from oblique angles, and inhabit speculative worlds in the making.
instagram: lenakuzmich_
www.lenakuzmich.world
lena.kuzmich@gmx.at
www.transformativenarratives.xyz
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
*2023 “Choir of Kin” — Antre Peaux, Bourges, France
*2022 “CHIMERA” — Sehsaal, Vienna, Austria
*2021 “EMBRACE ME” — Improper Walls, Vienna, Austria
THEATRE & PERFORMANCE:
*2024 “Choir of Kin” — brut nordwest, Vienna, Austria - art direction & performance
*2022 “XxA” — Kosmostheater, Vienna, Austria - art direction & performance
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS:
*2026 “Choir of Kin — Photosynthesizer” at Klima Biennale — Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, Austria
*2026 “Proximity Music” at Rewire Festival — The Hague, Netherlands
*2025 “Flipchart” — iii, The Hague, Netherlands
*2025 “Zwidemu” — Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
*2025 “The Cute Escape” — Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
*2025 “Prospects 2025” — Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*2025 “UnNatural Encounters” — silent green, Berlin, Germany
*2024 “EDDLESEA” — Galeria Posibila, Bucharest, Romania
*2024 “Klanglicht 2024” — Museum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
*2024 “Microflora” — 030.tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
*2024 “DIGITIAL IV” — Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
*2024 “Sacro è” — Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
*2024 “The Wrong Biennale” — Cuartel de Artillería, Murcia, Spain
*2023 “The Outburst of the Digital Swamp” — Overkill, Enschede, Netherlands
*2023 “Portal Park” — MaMA, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*2023 “Digital Art Stage” — No Art Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2023 “Screen, Screen on my Phone, Who's the Fairest of Them All?” — Garage Rotterdam, Netherlands
*2022 Unfair 2022, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2022 “Spielraum” — Lofi, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2022 “Summer Fling” — L.U.P.O. Gallery, Milan, Italy
*2022 “MEDUSA” — Claptrap, Antwerp, Belgium
*2021 “DIONYSIA” — No Man ́s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2021 Graduation Show — Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Netherlands
*2021 “HEAVY HEADS”, Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Salzburg, Austria
*2021 “Silkworm”, FEM FEST — Worm & Squish, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*2021 Austrian Animation Festival, Vienna, Austria
*2020 Netzhaut Film & Ton Festival, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
*2020 Noorderlicht Festival — Generation Z, Heerenveen, Netherlands
*2020 VIENNA SHORTS — short film festival, Vienna, Austria
*2020 “Mother Tongue” — Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague, Netherlands
*2020 “Cinema Underexposed” — film fetsival, The Hague, Netherlands
*2019 “Little Big Dollhouse” — base of LBD, The Hague, Netherlands
*2019 “Rice & Beans collective”, Bratislava, Slovakia
*2017 “Reflexionen” — Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
*2016 HOME music & art festival, Greifenstein, Austria
*2016 “Young Professesionals 2016” — horizonte zingst, Zingst, Germany
SCREENINGS:
*2023 @ Rosa Stern, Munich, Germany
*2022 @ Dishes, Volkstheater, Vienna, Austria
*2022 @ Stadtlichter, Berlin, Germany
*2022 @ Kwia, Berlin, Germany
*2022 @ Social Service Club, Copenhagen, Denmark
*2021 @ LIMA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2020 @ Empatheater, Copenhagen, Denmark
*2023 “Choir of Kin” — Antre Peaux, Bourges, France
*2022 “CHIMERA” — Sehsaal, Vienna, Austria
*2021 “EMBRACE ME” — Improper Walls, Vienna, Austria
THEATRE & PERFORMANCE:
*2024 “Choir of Kin” — brut nordwest, Vienna, Austria - art direction & performance
*2022 “XxA” — Kosmostheater, Vienna, Austria - art direction & performance
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS:
*2026 “Choir of Kin — Photosynthesizer” at Klima Biennale — Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, Austria
*2026 “Proximity Music” at Rewire Festival — The Hague, Netherlands
*2025 “Flipchart” — iii, The Hague, Netherlands
*2025 “Zwidemu” — Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
*2025 “The Cute Escape” — Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
*2025 “Prospects 2025” — Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*2025 “UnNatural Encounters” — silent green, Berlin, Germany
*2024 “EDDLESEA” — Galeria Posibila, Bucharest, Romania
*2024 “Klanglicht 2024” — Museum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
*2024 “Microflora” — 030.tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
*2024 “DIGITIAL IV” — Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
*2024 “Sacro è” — Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
*2024 “The Wrong Biennale” — Cuartel de Artillería, Murcia, Spain
*2023 “The Outburst of the Digital Swamp” — Overkill, Enschede, Netherlands
*2023 “Portal Park” — MaMA, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*2023 “Digital Art Stage” — No Art Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2023 “Screen, Screen on my Phone, Who's the Fairest of Them All?” — Garage Rotterdam, Netherlands
*2022 Unfair 2022, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2022 “Spielraum” — Lofi, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2022 “Summer Fling” — L.U.P.O. Gallery, Milan, Italy
*2022 “MEDUSA” — Claptrap, Antwerp, Belgium
*2021 “DIONYSIA” — No Man ́s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2021 Graduation Show — Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Netherlands
*2021 “HEAVY HEADS”, Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Salzburg, Austria
*2021 “Silkworm”, FEM FEST — Worm & Squish, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*2021 Austrian Animation Festival, Vienna, Austria
*2020 Netzhaut Film & Ton Festival, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
*2020 Noorderlicht Festival — Generation Z, Heerenveen, Netherlands
*2020 VIENNA SHORTS — short film festival, Vienna, Austria
*2020 “Mother Tongue” — Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague, Netherlands
*2020 “Cinema Underexposed” — film fetsival, The Hague, Netherlands
*2019 “Little Big Dollhouse” — base of LBD, The Hague, Netherlands
*2019 “Rice & Beans collective”, Bratislava, Slovakia
*2017 “Reflexionen” — Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
*2016 HOME music & art festival, Greifenstein, Austria
*2016 “Young Professesionals 2016” — horizonte zingst, Zingst, Germany
SCREENINGS:
*2023 @ Rosa Stern, Munich, Germany
*2022 @ Dishes, Volkstheater, Vienna, Austria
*2022 @ Stadtlichter, Berlin, Germany
*2022 @ Kwia, Berlin, Germany
*2022 @ Social Service Club, Copenhagen, Denmark
*2021 @ LIMA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2020 @ Empatheater, Copenhagen, Denmark
EDUCATION:
*2024 Jan-Jun: Independent Program at the Institute for Postnatural Studies
*2018–2021 Bachelor: Photography at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Netherlands
*2012–2017 Photography department at the Federal Education and Research Institute for Graphics, Vienna, Austria
PRESENTATIONS & TALKS:
*2024 Panel Talk “CONTEXT PROGRAMME”
@Fiber Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2023 Panel Talk “Queerness as Organic Intelligence”
@Nxt Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2023 Presentation “Sound, Space, Sex”
@Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2023 Smyposium “Doomcore Continuum”
@ Rosa Stern, Munich, Germany
*2021 Artist Talk “Queer embodiment”
@ The Overkill Festival, Enschede, Netherlands
*2021 Panel Talk “Representation, Gender and the Body”
@ LIMA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2021 Artist Talk “EMBRACE ME” @ Improper Walls, Vienna, Austria
RESIDENCY:
*2025 residency @ iii, The Hague, Netherlands
*2025 residency @ Tetem, Enschede, Netherlands
*2024 residency @ -1, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*2023 residency @ Antre Peaux as part of
the European Media Art Plattform
*2021-2025 residency @ WOW, Amsterdam, Netherlands
INTERNSHIP:
*2020 Internship with Rachel Maclean
NOMINATIONS:
*2021 Special Jury Mention for *best Austrian music video
award “2021” at the VIENNA SHORTS
*2020 Special Jury Mention for “best Music video” at ASIFA Best Austrian Animation
*2020 Nominated for “best Austrian short film 2020” at the VIENNA SHORTS
GRANTS:
* 2025 Experiment Grant Scheme from Stimuleringfonds
* 2024 Visual Arts Grant from Amarte Fonds
* 2023 Artist Start Grant from Mondriaan Fonds
* 2022 Project Grant from Stokroos Foundation
* 2022 Grant from Ma7 - Darstellende Kunst for the project “XxA”
*2024 Jan-Jun: Independent Program at the Institute for Postnatural Studies
*2018–2021 Bachelor: Photography at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Netherlands
*2012–2017 Photography department at the Federal Education and Research Institute for Graphics, Vienna, Austria
PRESENTATIONS & TALKS:
*2024 Panel Talk “CONTEXT PROGRAMME”
@Fiber Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2023 Panel Talk “Queerness as Organic Intelligence”
@Nxt Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2023 Presentation “Sound, Space, Sex”
@Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2023 Smyposium “Doomcore Continuum”
@ Rosa Stern, Munich, Germany
*2021 Artist Talk “Queer embodiment”
@ The Overkill Festival, Enschede, Netherlands
*2021 Panel Talk “Representation, Gender and the Body”
@ LIMA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2021 Artist Talk “EMBRACE ME” @ Improper Walls, Vienna, Austria
RESIDENCY:
*2025 residency @ iii, The Hague, Netherlands
*2025 residency @ Tetem, Enschede, Netherlands
*2024 residency @ -1, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*2023 residency @ Antre Peaux as part of
the European Media Art Plattform
*2021-2025 residency @ WOW, Amsterdam, Netherlands
INTERNSHIP:
*2020 Internship with Rachel Maclean
NOMINATIONS:
*2021 Special Jury Mention for *best Austrian music video
award “2021” at the VIENNA SHORTS
*2020 Special Jury Mention for “best Music video” at ASIFA Best Austrian Animation
*2020 Nominated for “best Austrian short film 2020” at the VIENNA SHORTS
GRANTS:
* 2025 Experiment Grant Scheme from Stimuleringfonds
* 2024 Visual Arts Grant from Amarte Fonds
* 2023 Artist Start Grant from Mondriaan Fonds
* 2022 Project Grant from Stokroos Foundation
* 2022 Grant from Ma7 - Darstellende Kunst for the project “XxA”