Ruth Schnell

studied at the Academy of Design, Linz, Academy of Arts and University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Teacher of Arts Education, 1987; Diploma of Visual Media Art, 1988 at University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Department for New Media.

Lives and works as a free-lance artist of electronic media in Vienna, Austria. Since 1987, Lecturer in Video Art and professor for New Media at the Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna; Master Class for Visual Media (with Peter Weibel); 2007, head of the department for Digital Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. 1990-96, lecturer at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Department of Film and Television, Vienna. 1995/96, guest professor for New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava (Slovakia), workshops on videoart and video as a media for dancers and choreographers.
Numerous projects in public space.


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006
Beyond the screen, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna/A

2004
Patterns of Perception, Californian Science Center, Los Angeles/USA

2003
Licht, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz/A
Ruth Schnell - L´Ordre du Regard, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz/A

1999
IN BETWEEN, Johanniterkirche, Feldkirch/A

1998
prêt à porter, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna/A

1997
Ruth Schnell, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz/A

1996
Ruth Schnell, Galleria Del Cortile, Rome/IT

1993
Beyond the Screen, allerArt Galerie, Bludenz/A


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (2000)

2009
Bilderschlachten, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück/D

2008
Biacs 3, BIACS, Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla/ES
Tiefenrausch, O.K Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz/A

2007
Expositie Signaal, Centrum Kunstlicht in de Kunst, Eindhoven/NL
21 Positions, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York/USA
Das Gute muss nicht immer das Böse sein, Kunstraum Engländerbau, Vaduz/LI
Ich fühle was, was du nicht siehst, Museum Stift Admont, Admont/A

2006
On/Off, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg/LU
Bon Appétit, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz/A
Bibliotheca Insomnia, Virtual Bauhaus, curated by ZKM for Kunstfest Weimar, Weimar/D
ART_CLIPS.ch.at.de performativ, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck/A
Opera Austria, Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato/IT
Vorarlberg goes Berlin, Opening Exhibition of "Salon du Monde", Berlin/D
Decision Making, media fassade, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin/D
Condicion Postmedia, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid/ES

2005
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe/D
mission of art, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2005-2006), Berlin/D
Arbeit*, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck/A
Wundersames und Transformiertes, Stift Admont, Admont/A
Postmediale Kondition, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz/A
In the Line of Flight, Millenium Dialogue, Millenium Building, Bejing/CN

2004
Moving Topographies, Artist in Residency, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles/USA
Krise, Steirischer Herbst, Minoriten Graz, Graz/A

2003
Kraftwerk peripher, Powerstation Imsterberg, Imst/A
Personale, Installationen, The Esther B. Drezner Gallery, Avon/USA
Überwasser, Alte Schieberkammer, Vienna/A; Museum auf Abruf, Vienna/A
Medium Berge - Das Mallory Projekt, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz/A

2002
Paris Photo, Galerie Trabant, Photografische Arbeiten, Paris/FR
Territorism, video projection at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz/A
Mallory Projekt, Halle Schmidinger, Schwarzenberg/A; Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz/A; Vorarlberger Illwerke AG, Partenen/A

2001
Kunstlicht, Galerie Grita Insam/BUWOG, Vienna/A
Time Base, Espacio del Arte, Madrid/ES
Gegen die Zeit, Installation, Johanniterkirche, Feldkirch/A
WALL WORKS II, Galerie Trabant, Vienna/A

2000
Video ergo sum, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen/D
CAMPING, Künstlerinnen der Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Berlin/D
With Myself in Montreal, Montreal/CA
19 Räume, Bregenz/A
WASSER, Stadtpark, Vienna/A
La casa, il corpo, il cuore, Nationalgalerie, Prague/CZ
Funktionssystem Mensch, Museum Bochum, Bochum/D