Fanni Futterknecht creates performances for a stage context and works with video. Born in Vienna she has been studying visual art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna followed by a Masters study in visual Art at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Her work began with video installations and evolved from performative interventions in public space to performances that are constructed for a theatre context.
She is curious in exploring the borders between the context of performing arts and the context of fine art.
| 2001-2004 | B.A in Fine Art, Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam / Academy of Applied Arts |
| 2004-2005 | Master in Fine Art, Piet Zwart Institut Rotterdam |
| 2006-2007 | Essai Performance Studies, Center for Contemporary Dance , Angers France |
| 2003 | Factory season - Museumsquarter Vienna (research project with Performance artist Andrei Adrianov), Flak Tower Vienna
Head crash Installation - Basis Wien, Museumsquarter, Vienna Begrentzte Möglichkeiten – 3 days, 3 cities, 3 locations curated by Erwin Wurm. Exhibition Heiligenkreuzerhof Vienna; Paris and Marseille. One-minute award show - Nederlandse Instituut voor Mediakunst |
| 2004 | Rietveld in de Kerk Exhibition Oude Kerk Amsterdam Graduation show - Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam Herztoscopio - Experimental & Trans-disciplinary Arts Festival, Lisbon N8 Museumsnacht - Berlage Instituut, Amsterdam |
| 2005 | Not here but there – Masters research project Swaziland, Southern Africa Wind en Weer Open-air exhibition, Heeswijk-Dinther, Holland Inner Beat Nr.1 "European Countries meet young European artists on the move" - Gallerie Het Veemvloer, Amsterdam Behind closed eyes - group exhibition and Performance, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam |
| 2006 | Inner Beat - exhibition Nr. 2 Kaäpelitehdas, Helsinki Moving and Drawing - solo performance project based on a research initiated by Rob List, Veem Theater Amsterdam Slow function motion – performance in collaboration with Anja Müller, Ostadetheater Amsterdam |
| 2007 | On the invisible – Performance, L ábattoirs d´Angers C.N.D.C Angers, France I feel sick and vulnerable but I do it anyhow – Performance, C.N.D.C Angers Dance Web Europe 2007 – residency grant Vienna in the frame of Impulstanz Residency PAF together with artists from Essai, Loic Touze and Jan Koop Reservee au personell - performance in collaboration with Loic Touze, Jan Kopp and artists from Essai, C.N.D.C Angers and La Villette, Paris Agora Exchange – Workshop and presentation; meeting with Dan Graham, Jennifer Lacey, Nadia Lauro etc. Pact Zollverein Essen, Germany |
| 2008 | Artist in Residence Rome - ministry of culture Vienna Videoscreening – Exhibition Geometrisch Portret Museum Almere, Holland The future of the Death - participation at the performance of A2 Wuk, Vienna Participation at "Les assitantes" - performance of Jennifer Lacey und Nadia Lauro, Impulstanz Vienna Residency - La Metive Moutier en Creuse France Residency - La Cite International des Arts supported by Culture France, Paris Excerpts of confusion - Open studio Micadanse Paris Turbo Residency - brut Künstlerhaus Vienna Interview with Diaphora - Radio Campus Paris 93.9 FM Men and Dogs – Video Screening Het Tent, Rotterdam |
| 2009 | Residency - Tanzhotel Vienna Bag - Video Screening Flieger WUK Vienna Excerpts of Confusion – Performance, Imagetanz Festival, brut Künstlerhaus Vienna, Festival Tanzwut Kosmostheater Vienna, CNDB Bucharest Blues – Video Installation, Imagetanz Festival, brut Künstlerhaus Vienna Residency and Presentation - " Where life has no value, death sometimes has its price" in collaboration with Florin Flueras; La Metive, Moutier en Creuse France and Workspace Brussels. Pittoresque – Performance Installation in collaboration with Valerie Oberleithner, Die Hofburg tanzt, Hofburg, Vienna; Ladies Day KHM Vienna in Cooperation with Impulstanz Burma Documentary project – artistic direction, a film about the life of shamans in Burma |
| 2010 | Where life has no value, paradise sometimes has its price..- performance project a Coproduction of Fanni Futterknecht, Festival a/d Werf Utrecht, tanzpool and WUK Vienna, supported by city of Vienna. Presented at WUK Vienna, Festival a/d Werf Utrecht, Festival Tanzwut Kosmostheater Vienna, Frascati Amsterdam Video Screening Blues and Heavy Thinking at Symposium this sentence is now being performed, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna |
| 2011 | Solo exhibition video works, Nadalokal, Vienna www.nadalokal.at I almost love you - work in progress, Meetfactory Prague, Szene Salzburg Dramaturg for Stonebelly, wild theater, Vienna I almost love you/ a lecture and dream about love and artificiality – performance project, WUK Vienna, Meetfactory Prague, Incubate Festival Tilburg, Explore Dance Festival Bucharest Artist in Residence Nagib Festival Maribor 1000m further…the end of the world- Installation of attempt to blur away; Tanzbüro, Schmiede Hallein Salzburg Agentur in Transit – Agentur Amsterdam Wild Cards Residency- artlink Explore Dance Bucharest |
| 2012 | Bonus Songs_Installation, Post- Porn and Body Politix, VBKOE Vienna Choreographic Platform Austria Impulstanz Vienna Garden of lust_Performance/Installation in collaboration with Marianne Vlaschits,project space möe Vienna Austro Sino Arts program, traveling exhibition "Left and right - 左右" Peking China Residency Shanghai bmukk |
| 2003 | Socrates Scholarship Academy of Applied Arts Prof. Brigitte Kowanz, Vienna |
| 2005 | Emanuelle and Sofie Fohn Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies |
| 2007 | Dance Web Europe supported by FAPK Netherlands and Land NÖ Austria |
| 2008 | Artists in Residence Working Grant Rome, ministry of culture Vienna Artist in Residence Working Grant La Cite International des Arts, Culture France Paris |
| 2009 | Residency Working Grant Workspace Brussels |
| 2010 | Production Grants for Performing Arts, ministry of culture Vienna and city of Vienna |
| 2011 | Artist in Residence Working Grant Meetfactory Prague |
| 2012 | Artist in Residence Working Grant Shanghai, ministry of culture Vienna |