Laura Nitsch is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work operates at the intersection of artistic research, film, and theory, investigating the entanglements of desire and economy, labour and friendship, property and education, class struggle and collectivity. She works with queer modes of production, working-class archives, and marginalized and resistant narratives, employing strategies of critical fabulation (Saidiya Hartman) to question the limits of official archives and historical narratives.
Her films and installations have been presented at Diagonale Graz, mumok kino Vienna, nGbK Berlin, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Xhibit Vienna, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, and Blickle Kino Belvedere 21, among others. She is a recipient of the Theodor Körner Prize, participated in the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, and has received numerous further grants and awards. Her works are part of the City of Vienna Art Collection. Nitsch has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the Zurich University of the Arts. She lives in Berlin and Vienna.
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