Elisabeth Schmirl

Elisabeth Schmirl, born in Salzburg in 1980, lives and works in Vienna and Salzburg. She graduated from Salzburg Mozarteum University in 2006. She co-founded and now runs the cultural initiatives periscope (Salzburg) and batolit (Vienna) – two artist-run spaces which explore questions of working methods in contemporary art.
In her work, Schmirl confronts today's flood of digital images by extracting a selection of digital self-portraits from the internet, feeding them into her own archive and reproducing them as paintings. She traces the visual attributes and typologies (facial expression, gesture and posture) which could constitute the specific character of a young, usually female generation.

Solo exhibitions
2015 Future Recollections, ÖBV Atrium, Vienna. 2014 Komorebi, Galerie Trapp, Salzburg (AT). 2011 …The Context of Uncertainty, Kunstverein, Salzburg. How do I look at the World, Galerie 5020, Salzburg. 2010 Finger weg von meiner Paranoia, Deutschvilla, Strobl (AT). Leben Lieben Leuchtturm, Open Art Galerie, Borken (DE). 2009 Room with a view, Hohensalzburg Fortress, Salzburg. Als du denkst..., Galerie Eboran, Salzburg. 2008 Watching Art, Café Cult, Kunstverein Salzburg. Can you keep a secret?, Kunstforum Ebendorf Raumacht, Vienna.

Group exhibitions
2014 Papier 1 und 2, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg (AT); Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz (AT). Art Austria, Leopold Museum, Vienna. 2013 re/collecting – Younger than Yesterday. 30 Jahre MdM Salzburg, Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg. Hohe Dosis, Fotohof – Atterseehalle, Salzburg. 2012 Circus as a parallel universe, Kunsthalle, Vienna. 2011 Der tägliche Aufstand, Rotor, Graz (AT). JCE – Jeune Création Européenne, Técla Sala, Barcelona (ES); Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genua (IT). 2010 Sweet anticipation. Jahresausstellung, Kunstverein Salzburg. Nur Tapeten, Stellwerk, Kassel (DE).

Publications
Elisabeth Schmirl: Youer than You, exh. cat. Galerie im Traklhaus; Atelierhaus Salzamt, Salzburg 2014.
Elisabeth Schmirl: Younger than Yesterday. 30 Jahre Museum der Moderne Salzburg, exh.cat. Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg, Offset 5020 Druckerei and Verlag GmbH, Salzburg 2013.
Verena Konrad, ”Elisabeth Schmirl“, in: Circus as a parallel universe, exh. cat. Kunsthalle, Vienna, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2012, pp 248–251.
Elisabeth Schmirl, Hinter den Spiegeln, Artbook Verlag, Salzburg 2011.
”periscope (Heizinger | Schmirl)“, in: K wie Kunst. Kardinal-König-Kunstpreis Salzburg 2009, exh. cat. Kardinal König Kunstfonds, Müry Salzmann 2009, pp 50–52.

• Web: www.schmirl.org