Thanks to the cooperation between Shtatëmbëdhjetë and the Regional Government of Styria for artists and theorists within the Styria-Artists-in-Residence program, in addition to the exchange program presents the artist in residence for 2024, Nathalie Koger.
Nathalie Koger is a visual artist working with performance, video, film, photography, print, installation, and intervention. Her site-specific and research-based practice is characterized by collaboration with various agents. Key focuses include feminist mediation as an artistic format and recently the fragile image of children in film and video art. She draws inspiration from the in-situ method of Black American culture, field pedagogy (Koger), or Critical Pedagogy, as well as from appropriation strategies and deconstruction.
After studying sociology, education, and art at the University of Münster (Germany), she pursued studies in Video and Video Installation and Critical Fine Art Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Austria). Her works have been internationally presented and exhibited, including at the “FLUCA – Austrian Cultural Pavilion” (Plovdiv), Now Instant (Los Angeles), Space 22 (Seoul), Kunsthalle and Belvedere (Vienna), Kunsthaus (Graz), Va Space (Isfahan), and Temporary Gallery (Cologne). She curated screening programs for Shoonya (Bangalore), Limited Access Festival (Tehran, with Marlies Pöschl), and the Notgalerie (Vienna), such as “When it starts to glimmer”, “Vanishing Points”, and „Verknüpfte Verknüpfung“ (Entanglement).
She has received numerous awards, including the Tim und Struppi-Prize, the Birgit-Jürgenssen-Prize, and recently the State Scholarship for media art (Austria), and has lectured at the Bern University of the Arts, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the University of Brighton. She is a co-founder and member of The Golden Pixel Cooperative and co-editor of the books “You’ll Never Work Alone: Collective Infrastructures in Moving Images” and “You’ll Never Watch Alone: The Screen as a Place of Work” (Schlebrügge.Editor, 2022 + 2025).
