Johanna Bruckner (born in Vienna in 1984) is a multimedia artist whose interdisciplinary practice encompasses video, sculpture, installation, sound, and performance. In her work, she explores post-digital forms of intimacy and physicality, delving into theories of biopolitics, posthumanism, and intersectional feminism. Central themes of her artistic work are the intertwining of human, non-human, and technological actors, as well as the role of affect in contemporary social and ecological structures. Bruckner's installations combine computer-generated animations with sculptural and sonic elements to create visually and atmospherically immersive spaces of experience. The artist's works explore new forms of being and hybrid temporalities that respond to current technological, political, and ecological dynamics.
Recent exhibitions have taken her to the SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the Berlinische Galerie, the Istituto Svizzero Milan, the MAXXI Rome, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, the HEK Basel, the ICA Milan, LUMA Westbau Zurich, the ZKM Karlsruhe, the Digital Art Center Taipei, and the CAC Geneva, among others.
She has been a Visual Arts Fellow at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome and Artist-in-Residence at CERN and the Akademie Schloss Solitude, among others. She has received awards including the Pax Art Award, the Media Art Prize of the City of Vienna (2022), and the re:humanism Prize for Art & Artificial Intelligence (2021).
