Elena Waclawiczek is a visual artist and performer based in Vienna and Paris. With the body in relation with space, surrounding, materials, other bodies and objects, she is creating performances, video-works and installations, which are often crossing the line between visual art, dance and choreography. As a research method, and way of expression and communication the improvisation plays a key-role in most of her solo- and collaborative works. On the issue of improvisation and collective-transmedial-instant Composition she is working in art and performance projects, with musicians, visual and cross-over artists, painters, poets and dancers all over Europe.
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*1986, Oberpullendorf/Austria
currently based in Vienna/Austria and Paris/France
2007 - 2017 Diploma, Prof. Putz-Pleko, Univ. of Applied Arts Vienna/Austria
2012 Environmental Art, Prof. Markku Hakunen, Aalto Univ. of Art and Design, Helsinki/Finland
2006 - 2008 Philosophy, University of Vienna/Austria
Residencies
2021 TANZ*HOTEL, Vienna/Austria
2019, 2020 ANIS GRAS – la lieu de l’autre, Arcueil/France
2012 Koli Ryynänen, Northkarelia/Finnland
Ongoing Projects & Collaborations selected
2020 LiSi*A – Liberating Structures for improvised Art
Association founded with Anna Adensamer, Agnes Distelberger, Jasmin Shaitl
SHARE – European Network of Collectives for Improvise Art - research on Transmedial-Collective-Instant Compositions
States of matter – body and sound, collaboration with Yoram Rosilio (doublebass, composition)
2019 Punk Puppet Ritual collaborative performance-project with Anna Adensamer, Yoram Rosilio, Uygur Vural, Denny Voch
Festivals participation as performer and artist selected
2021 S.p.i.m.e –Edition 5 ,Improvised music and performance, ANIS GRAS, Arcueil/France
2020 S.p.i.m.e – Edition 4
Zwischenräume, art festival, Salzburg/Austria
Café des Enfant, 1,2,3 Poéme, children art festival, ANIS GRAS, Arcueil/France
2019 Chili Jazz, Radical improvised music and performance festival, Heiligenkreuz im Lafnitzthal/Austria
MIA - Encontros de Música Improvisada, Atougia da Baleia/Portugal
Schnittpunkte der Musik, Radical improvised music, performance and painting, Heiligenkreuz im Lafnitzthal/Austria
S.p.i.m.e - Edition 3, Improvised music and performance, ANIS GRAS, Arcueil/France
2018 Chili Jazz, Radical improvised music and performance festival, Heiligenkreuz im Lafnitzthal/Austria
Schnittpunkte der Musik, Improvised music and performance festival, Heiligenkreuz im Lafnitzthal / Austria
2014 Lendwirbel, Art Festival, Graz/Austria
2013 Herbstklang – European Theaternight, Vienna/Austria
Ethno-Histeria Festival, Lublijana,Piran,Koper,Gračišče/ Slovenia
2011 Children-Biennale, Venice/Italy
performances/exhibitions selcted
2020 Punk Puppet Ritual, collective performance, ANIS GRAS/Arcueil/France
Immaterial body, solo- performance, ANIS GRAS/Arcueil/France
Instant Dialgues, collective performance, KunstBetrieb/Vienna/Austria
Intimate Stage, collective performance, concept: Anna Adensamer, ZwischenRäume/ Salzburg/Austria
Klangkörper, performance with Yoram Rosilio, KunstbeTrieb/Vienna/Austria
Polylog, collective performance, KunstbeTrieb, Vienna/Austria
Berührungsübungen, performance with Yoram Rosilio, exh.: Klaus Gmoser, Gallery St.Martin/Graz/Austria
2019 A present past game, solo-performance, ANIS GRAS, Arcueil/France
Punk Puppet Ritual, collective performance, ANIS GRAS/ Arcueil/France, MIA/ Atougia da Baleia /
Portugal, Schmiede Hallein/Salzburg
2018 VERA IKONE, solo-exhibition, Gallery Mana/Vienna/Austria
2017 Hier Lebend Raus! performance with Marek Zink, Mike’s Werkstatt/Vienna/Austria
2015 Haut: Schatten performance with Anna Adensamer, exh.: Lotte
Hubmann, Kunstbad Graz/Austria
2014 Unter freiem Himmel artist collective, Festival Lendwirbel/Graz/Austria
2013 AXTtütü collective performance , Festival Herbstklang – European-Theater-Night, Vienna/Austria
Dream, collective performance, concept: Zala Pezdir, Etno-Histeria-Festival, Lublijana,Piran,Koper,Gračišče/ Slovenia
2012 Untitled, solo-performance, exh.: Klaus Gmoser, Gallery Centrum, Graz/Austria
Testaushalli, group exhibition, Espoo/Finland
Fire, performance in collaboration with local artists, concept: Elena Waclawiczek, Koli/Finland
2011 OrnaMental Structures – Figure and Ground, group exhibition, concept: Danica Dakic, CeKa Charlama,
Sarajevo/Bosnia Herzigovina
Giant Cloud, group art project, Children Biennale/Venice/Italy
2010 Untiteld, solo-perfomance, Gallery Sonnensegel, Vienna/Austria
Fresco on a wall of Soweto, collective social art project, Soweto-Johannesburg/Southafrika.
Poetry, solo-performance, exh.: Marianne Vlaschits, Kunstfabrik Großsiegharts/Austria
Salon körperhafter Dinge, group exhibition, Gallery Salon 5, Vienna/Austria
Baum sucht Raum, group exhibition, Salon XI, Vienna/Austria