Anna Mutschlechner-Dean was born 1999 in Austria. She lives and works in Vienna and focuses on performative and digital methods with an interdisciplinary approach, exploring cultural cognitive phenomena, questions of human identity and individual perception of reality in conjunction with digital conditioning that modifies the relationship between human and nature.
Central themes revolve around the relationship between humans, their environment, and nature. Engaging with the human connection to external contexts, her work aims to foster an extended dialogue on individual and collective, socio-politically influenced behavioural and perceptual patterns.
Education
2017 - 2023 University of Applied Arts Vienna, Transmedia Art / Brigitte Kowanz, Jakob Lena Knebl (Magistra Artium)
2022 - 2023 HKU Design- Utrecht School of the Arts, Interactive Narrative Design / Prof. Christian Roth, Prof. Sytze Schalk
2019 - 2020 University of Applied Arts Vienna, Painting / Henning Bohl
Exhibitions (selected)
2023 Fadenverschiebung, In meiner Hülle (In my shell), Galerie52, Essen
2023 SíM Residency Korpúlfsstaðir, Reykjavik
2023 Evolving Landscapes, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon
2023 Ars Electronica, Animation Festival, Linz
2023 The Future Begins Today, Festival of the Regions, Steyregg
2023 Morphing Tendencies, with / in, (ok)transit, Vienna
2023 Video of the Month, das weisse haus, Vienna
2023 Making yourself relatable, Flucc - Art Salon, Vienna
2022 BYOB, Badhuis Javaplein, Oedipusbrewery and Upstreamgallery, Amsterdam
2022 Transmittance, Kaleido, Wolbodo Human Association, Delft
2022 Form, CICA - Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea
2022 Flow until overflow, REA! Art Fair, Milan
2022 RIFF, REAKTOR International Film Festival, Vienna
2022 RUN. TIME., MoCDA - Museum of Contemorary Digital Art, Decentraland
2022 Floating Points, ANTI ANTI ANTI de-visibility, unbiased biases and friends, Vienna
2022 What is left when it moves, Soft Machine, Phileas Projects, Vienna
2022 Keep Going, Get It While You Can, Never At Home, Vienna
2021 Parallel Vienna - Art Fair, Vienna
2021 Inside Out - Performative Interventions, Center Focus research, Vienna
2020 36th Austrian Graphic Design Competition, Group exhibition, Tyrol
2019 In Plain Sight, Festival Angewandte / Transmedia Art, Vienna
2019 Ex Situ, Reality Meets VR, Transmedia Art, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
2019 The inside along the outside, Set_of_invalid_content, LLLLLL, Vienna
2018 Purpurhuhn, Prey Scheme, PFERD in cooperation with Stereoskop, Vienna
2018 Instrument, Ready Or Not, VBKÖ - Austrian Association of Women Artists, Vienna
Contributions (selected)
2021 Development of a choreography and performance as a duo.
Performer in Amniotic Antidode by LastOblivion, Reaktor Potentiale, Vienna
2021 Performer in The Street in Rhythm by Christina Werner, Chamber of Labour, Vienna
Residencies / Grants
2023 Startstipendium Medienkunst BMKÖS
2023 SÍM Residency Iceland