Who?
The Golden Pixel Cooperative (GPC) is an association for moving images, arts and media, active within both exhibition and cinema contexts. It was founded from the need to act collectively in a predominantly individual cultural landscape.
With a critical, feminist and antidiscriminatory approach, we work on the production, distribution, and presentation of artworks and discourses. We foster empowerment and solidarity by enabling exchange and support between artists, cultural workers, educators and thinkers. Collectively, we work on projects that have various formats such as screenings, exhibitions, symposia and publications.
Our aim is to engage with a wide range of audiences, and to collaborate with a variety of cultural organizations and initiatives. We seek to share resources and infrastructures, strive for inclusive formats of participation, and build upon shared knowledge. We strongly believe in the political potential of kinship, one that is driven by openness, equality and continuous learning processes.
The Golden Pixel Cooperative is an association based on sustainable structures and therefore new members are incorporated gradually. At the moment, the membership is upon invitation only and often evolves from shared interests, values and previous collaborations. The Golden Pixel Cooperative has compiled a video archive featuring works by members of the cooperative. We are happy to provide access to it upon request.
ARTIST INDEX
Christiana Perschon
Christiana Perschon (*1978) is a filmmaker and artist based in Vienna. In her artistic practice, she combines documentary and performative methods to create film portraits operating outside dominant norms of representation and regimes of gaze. She establishes collaborative settings, where interaction guides the dramaturgy and shapes the imagery, dissolving the hierarchy between who looks and who is looked at. In her works she builds a framework for her protagonists to appear, interact and create moving images together with her camera – to which she confers its own agency. She does not only deconstruct the objectifying patriarchal grasp on female bodies, she rather pays homage to inspirational resistant figures, to their working and living practices, weaving their singular paths within a transgenerational framework.
In her recent film “Shifiting Silence” Christiana Perschon spends time with Inge Dick, standing out against a twilight sky seemingly infinite, aboard an old barge, that causes the camera and the horizon to gently sway. Together they investigate the passage of time as it translates into shifts of color and light. In the film, sight cannot survey space. Instead, it touches upon metaphysical and planetary time.
Iris Blauensteiner
Iris Blauensteiner works as a filmmaker and writer in Vienna. She is interested in the approach to constructions of human identities and subjective realities. With a poetic, social-realistic perspective, she is dedicated to the ambivalences of existential relationships, their atmospheres, and the interactions between digital and physical communication. The open dramaturgies of her films and books contain ambiguous potential and allow for emotional turning moments. The “and” between her work as an author and filmmaker is seen as a bridge through which she creates connections between genres, media and fragments of social realities.
Johanna Tinzl
Johanna Tinzl is an Austrian visual artist who lives and works in Vienna. Her practice spans a wide range of media and is grounded in a sensitive, participatory exploration of the histories of specific people, communities, places, and landscapes. She delves into questions of collective memory and the politically driven processes of representation, with a particular focus on the performative nature of historical narratives and the visualization of both global and local dimensions of ecological and technological processes. In her work – whether fictional, documentary, or a blend of both – she emphasizes the multiplicity of narratives, challenging hegemonic constructions of history.
Tinzl’s work has been recognized with scholarships and awards – including the State Grant for Visual Arts from BMKÖS and artist-in-residence programs in Reykjavík (Iceland), Detroit (USA), and Beijing (China). Her work has been presented in exhibitions and screenings at venues such as Donumenta Regensburg, Klima Biennale Wien, Muzeum umění Olomouc, Diagonale, Secession, Kunstraum Lakeside, Belvedere 21, Kunsthalle Wien, and the Museum der Moderne Salzburg.
Lisa Truttmann
Lisa Truttmann (*1983) is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. In her practice she combines documentary, essayistic, and poetic strategies to explore the sociologies and ecologies of landscapes and architecture. She is particularly interested in the relationships between human, nonhuman and material agencies, and the spaces in which they unfold. Truttmann understands her subjective view as a form of approximation, and her artistic process as an attempt to playfully grasp complex systems. She weaves together collected materials such as images, sounds, texts, and objects into associative installations and rhythmic montages. Shifting shape between cinema and exhibition space, her works reflect the language of their medium.
Truttmann completed her first feature-length essay film “Tarpaulins” in 2017 and is currently editing her second. Following a devastating fire in 2019 that destroyed her apartment and studio, her practice has turned toward investigating the material echoes and personal consequences of this radical event. In her new film, she guides us through a fictional, seemingly endless building, where things begin to tell their own stories.
MARLIES PÖSCHL
MARLIES PÖSCHL (b. 1982) is an artist, filmmaker, curator and educator. She is currently based in Vienna (AT) and works internationally. Pöschl teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. As co-founder and chairperson of The Golden Pixel Cooperative, an association for moving images, she has developed artistic-curatorial strategies for exhibitions, screenings and projects in public space with a focus on feminism and ecology.
Shifting between artistic, curatorial and educational approaches, Pöschl is interested in art as a form of knowledge production. She understands filmmaking as social practice and often collaborates with actors from outside the art world in search for polyphonic narrations and open-ended dramaturgies. Recently, Pöschl has focused on ways in which western societies respond to the ‘care crisis’.
Miae Son
Miae Son (born in Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Vienna. Since 2009, she has been based in Germany and Austria, working with performative video and installation. She captures precise moments from her everyday life as a migrant in Europe, reflecting on the complexity of the structural conditions she encounters. In her videos, acts of making often appear as performative gestures, blurring the line between process and action.
She is currently developing a project that uses her own name as a medium to explore linguistic confusions and playful shifts arising from her experiences of migration.
MIRJAM BROMUNDT
Mirjam Bromundt lives in Vienna and works internationally as a film projectionist and cinema technician. She studied Graphic Design, Media and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna and the University of Valencia, and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her work spans various areas of technical support at film festivals such as Rotterdam, Cairo, Oberhausen, Locarno, and Berlin, as well as projection at the Austrian Film Museum. In her artistic practice, she explores the construction of reality, the apparatus of cinema, and the cinematic space.
SIMONA OBHOLZER
Simona Obholzer is a visual artist working with graphic and time-based media, with a particular focus on the intersection of image theory, spatial perception, and embodied experience. Central to her work is the question of how visual stimuli can extend beyond optical reception to engage the body’s proprioceptive and somatic registers.
Through her installations she investigates the gaze as a motor of movement and sensation, drawing attention to the physicality of seeing and the immersive potential of images.
Her projects often investigate the thresholds between natural and constructed environments, using repetition, rhythm, and spatial framing to evoke sensory and spatial awareness.
Obholzer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the Department of Video and Video Installation, and at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Prize for Innovative Cinema at Diagonale Graz (2024), the Prof. Hilde Goldschmidt Prize (2022), and the Austrian State Grant for Video and Media Art (2021).
Her works have been exhibited and screened internationally, including at VideoEx Zurich (CH), Diagonale Film Festival (AT), Kassel Dokfest (DE), MUSA Vienna (AT), Kunsthalle Wien (AT), Kunsthaus Graz (AT), Kunsthalle Tirol – Taxispalais Innsbruck (AT), and S.Y.P Art Space Tokyo (JP).
