About
Bio and CV of Stefanie Koscher
Stefanie Koscher is an Austrian born multidisciplinary artist and musician based in Vienna. Coming from an educational background in performing arts and stage, she worked in theaters such as The Public NYC, Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin, Burgtheater Vienna, Bushwick Starr Brooklyn, assisting Andrea Breth, the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, the Elevator Repair Service NYC amongst others.
Next to performing music, she creates transdisciplinary artworks, that often concentrate on the performative. While living in NYC with occasional stays in Berlin from 2009-2013, she started developing a virtual performative persona called Steffko - Die Kunst #1 (short: #SDK1), who is the protagonist of most of her new media pieces. Over all her concepts are expressed through video, digital media, performative (site-specific) installations, musicvideo as well as collages, objects and analogue mixed media works. Transformatory processes of the human psyche in a post-virtual age have constituted an important focal point in her work.
She performed and exhibited at Tate Modern London, former PS122 Manhattan (now Performance Space NYC), Museo el Barrio NYC, Bushwick Open Studios Seeking Space, Envoy Art Space Manhattan, Take Festival Vienna, MQ Vienna, Tanzquartier Vienna and more.
BODY OF WORK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES
2024
Whole New World. Mixed media works. ROOMING INN Vienna.
2023
- White Guilt. Mixed media works. Wirr Vienna.
2022
- Home is where the Heart is pt.2 - Choose Violence. Performative Installation. Fonds der Wiener Kaufmannschaft Vienna.
2021
- Steffko - Die Kunst #1 - iSolation reloaded. Multimedia Installation. Red Carpet Showroom Volkstheater Vienna.
2019
- Screenshots of Despair. Mixed media and collage. Jan Arnold Gallery q21, MQ Vienna.
2017
- Home is where the Heart is pt.1 - Mirror Excercise. Transmedial long durational performance. 365 #1 Festival MASC Foundation Vienna.
2015
- The Life and Death of Steffko - Die Kunst #1. Solo exhibition and performance. AA Collections Vienna.
2013
- Steffko - Die Kunst #1: Nomophobia. Live solo Performance. Bizarre Bushwick, Brooklyn NY.
- iSolation 3.0. Long durational solo performance. Kubus Export Vienna.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / COLLABORATIONS
2024
- KOLLEGAS. Gruppenausstellung mit Arbeiten von Jakob Böhme, Max Böhme, Kalina Horon, Stefanie Koscher, Dean Maassen, Pauline Marcelle, Georgij Melnikov, Mona Rabofsky, Stefan Rast, Willi Rast & Margo Merkulova. Mayerhof Waldhausen, Austria.
- BACK TO NATURE. Vom White Cube in den Wald. Group Exhibit with Trudi Bloom, David Blumenkind, Christian Eisenberger, Rica Fuentes Martínez, Freakygreenfish, Karl Kilian, June Kitho, Stefanie Koscher, Jakob Liu Wächter, Susan Lisbin, Nikola Milojcevic, Alan Neider, Ol'ga Paštéková, Alexandar Peev, Anna Pelz, Ola Plankenauer, Gert Resinger, Alfred Rottensteiner, Joseph Sakoilsky, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Clemens Stecher, Annette Tesarek, Norbert Unfug/Sebastian Pirch/Dominik Gruenbuehel, Felix Helmut Wagner, Julia Zöhrer. Kuratiert von Andreas Schlichtner Collection/Rooming Inn Wien.
2023
- Wintersalon. Gruppenausstellung KulturAXE Wien. Artists: Stano Bubán, Jan Fekete, Hans Glaser, Caroline Charlotte Kaiser, Stefanie Koscher, Anastasiia Kovtun, George Kubla, Mara Niang, Katharina Palmerio, Elisabeth Penker, Alex Winerich, Heidi Wimmer.
- Vernissage 28. Group Exhibition/Charity Auction for ega: frauen im zentrum. Curated by District4art Vienna
2022
- Non Degradable. Three positions on sustainability with Stefanie Koscher, Thaer Maarouf, Otmar Wagner. EDUCULT Museumsquartier Vienna.
2020
- UNIQLO Tate Lates Dora Maar
Group Exhibition Tate Modern London
2020 - 15th Online Performance Art Festival
www. onlineperformanceart.com
2019
- MACTN. Group Exhibition AA Collections Vienna.
2018
- Landscapes of Desire. Group Exhibition curated by Pornfilmfestival Vienna and Dessous Vienna.
2017
- The Live and Death of SDK#1. Video Installation in collaboration with fashion label Volgger Studio. TAKE Festival for Independent Fashion and Arts Vienna, Alte Post Vienna.
2016
- 5 Years AA Collection. Group exhibition. AA Collection Vienna.
- rigrivis.com launch. Opening exhibition and launch of virtual gallery Rina Grinn Virtual Space. AA Collections Vienna.
- Ideology by Zoe de Witt. Collaborator. Mandelkern Project Vienna.
2015
- GIRLS. Group exhibition. Dessous Vienna.
2014
- Ich komme aus meiner Mutter. Group exhibition curated by Osama Zatar and Adam Cohen.
- Gallery in Residence. Group exhibition curated by Lust Gallery Vienna, Schneiderei Vienna and die Angewandte.
- ArtUnanchored Festival. Festival for contemporary art and music Vienna/Bratislava.
- Anaconda Boy and the Combo from Bangladesh. Performance in Collaboration with Elisabeth Ward, Anne- Sophie Wass and Marcos Rondon. Tanzquartier Vienna.
2013
- Bushwick Open Studios - Seeking Space. Selected video artist at opening event and group exhibition. 3rd Ward Brooklyn, NY.
- Women Without Borders. Group performance. Fitness Brooklyn.
2011
- Acción Actual. Performance with Gypsy Joe, Rafael Sanchez, Kathleen White, Tavish Millmund, Stefanie Koscher, Stephanie Sphar, Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Elvis G., Fuentes Rodríguez, Trinidad Fombella, Suzy Delvalle. El Museo del Barrio, NYC.
2009
- Slobbersville. Performance. Goodbye Blue Mondays, Brooklyn, NY.
MUSIC RELEASES
2023
STEFFKO - One Day (Single digital) © 2023 HuRe - Humane Records
2021
STEFFKO feat. Kathi Power & Kid Pex (Single and video digital release) © 2021 HuRe - Humane Records
2020
STEFFKO - You don’t even wanna know (Single and video digital release) © 2020 HuRe - Humane Records
STEFFKO - I’m fine (Single and video digital release) © 2020 HuRe - Humane Records
2018
Koscher - Inside Out. A live album.
Limited edition audio cassette tape and digital release. Self-release Sept. 21st 2018.
CURATORIAL
2017
- Rudi Cotroneo - Lost Lands. 365 #1 Festival at MASC Foundation Vienna.
- Osama Zatar - Werkschau. 365 #1 Festival at MASC Foundation Vienna.
- HUMAN NATURE: Paul Perrier, Elisabeth Ward, Oksana Zmiyevska. Group exhibition and performance. 365 #1 Festival at AA Collections Vienna.
2014
- M. Lamar. Vienna Art Week, mo.ë Vienna.
AS A PERFORMER / APPEARANCES
2018
- The Sound of Alicia Edelweiss. Documentary (AUT 2018) directed by Wolf Morrison. Herself.
2014
- Grind. Independent musical short (US 2014). Directed by Zachary Halley starring Anthony Rapp, Claire Coffee, Pasha Pelloise. Actor.
- Warriors. Musicvideo for Joyce Muniz feat. Kiki. Performer, Director. Exploited Records.
2010/2009
- Crime or Emergency by Sibyl Kempson. Performer. PS122, NYC.
2007
- Der Ubu Komplex by David Mayaan. Performer. Schauspielhaus Wien.
- Familientisch - Wiedersehen macht Freude by David Mayaan. Performer. Wiener Festwochen.
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Art Awards 2016–2020 – a publication.
Authors: Jacques Attali, Albin Bergström, Dorothée Bauerle-Willert, Kari Conte, Iva Čukić et.al., Felipe Duque, Anne Faucheret, Christian Fuhrmeister, Verena Gamper, Karin Harrasser, Kathrin Heinrich, Stefanie Koscher, Elke Kransy, Natalia Kvitkova, Emmanuel Lévinas, Boris Manner, Johanne Mohs, Christine Moser, Boris Ondreička, Veronika Rudorfer, Ferdinand Schmalz, Ralph Seliger, Andreas Spiegl, Franz Thalmair, Lambert Wiesing, Gesa Ziemer. Published by Das weisse Haus
2014
Koscher, Stefanie. Schöpferische Regieoper vs. klassikerzertrümmernde Dekonstruktion: Regietheater und Werkgerechtigkeit am Beispiel von W.A. Mozarts und Da Pontes Don Giovanni. Riga: Akademikerverlag.
PRESS / INTERVIEWS
2014
Interview with Hello Austria. A hub for documentary projects on creatives, artists, filmmakers, curators and events in Austria. Jun 1, 2014.