Georg Petermichl

Artist Name: Georg Petermichl

Residency Dates: May – July

Born: 1984

Hometown: Linz, Austria
Lives & Works: Vienna, Austria

URL: http://georgpetermichl.com/Petermichl’s publications and professional engagements include: 2015 book concept for “curatedby” publication for Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria; 2013 co-editor / co-publisher of HOTEL CHARLEROI – Annexe (engl./fr. bilingual, artist book, 400 p., published with B.P.S.22 éditions, Charleroi, BE) 11/2008 co-editor of “AIDS. A Reader” (published with the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna); 2005 – 2011 Freelance theater critic for the Austrian daily newspaper derStandard and the German online magazine nachtkritik.de. Since 2015 Petermichl works as Assistant Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria / Stage and Film design; (2011-now) Photographic Assistant of Vienna based artist Heimo Sobering; (2011- 2014) Theater Director’s Assistant at Schauspielhaus Wien. Since 2006 he runs an artists’ label SULZBACHER/PETERMICHL with Martin Sulzbacher. In 2012 he was awarded the Theodor-Körner Preis and received an honorary award from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. In 2011/2012/2013 he was an artist in residence at HOTEL CHARLEROI, Charleroi.

Education: 2010 Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria / and the Academy for Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium with Matthias Herrmann, Eva Schlegel and Spank Moons. Diploma project: Amateur Enlightenment; 2007 Studies of Journalism and Communications at the University of Vienna, Austria. Dissertation about credit sequences in feature films.