Eva-Maria Schitter is a visual artist and researcher. In her artistic practice, she sometimes draws on the photographic gravity and the indexical "nature" of images, while in other cases she uses their lightness to destabilize and recalibrate things situated along the continuum between reality and possibility. Her works are typically embedded in larger bodies of work. Through various interventions, she weaves the images into narratives that unmistakably carry a fictional trace.
Eva-Maria Schitter ist bildende Künstlerin und Forschende. In ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit nutzt sie manchmal die fotografische Schwerkraft und die indexikalische „Natur“ von Bildern, in anderen Fällen deren Leichtigkeit, um Dinge auf dem Kontinuum zwischen Wirklichkeit und Möglichkeit aus dem Gleichgewicht zu bringen und neu zu kalibrieren. Ihre Arbeiten sind meist in umfangreichere Werkzusammenhänge eingebunden. Durch verschiedene Interventionen verwebt sie die Bilder zu Erzählungen, denen eine fiktionale Spur nicht abzusprechen ist.
Education
MultiMediaArt, University of Applied Sciences Salzburg with an internship semester in Sydney
Photography, University of the Arts Linz and University of the Arts Berlin (Erasmus residency)
Art (Photography and New Media class) and German language and literature teaching degree, Mozarteum University and Paris Lodron University Salzburg
Ongoing: Scientific PhD, Mozarteum University Salzburg
Scholarships, awards, and residencies
2025 EXPO 2025 travel grant: World Expo in Osaka, Mozarteum University Salzburg (Sep. 2025)
2024 Artist in residence Cité International des Arts Paris, State of Salzburg
Volksbank Scholarship, Mozarteum University Salzburg
Nominee Art Albina Art Prize
2023 1st place Art Prize 2023, Mozarteum University Salzburg
Artist in Residence at Anderson Center, Red Wing (Minnesota/USA), AIR program, City of Salzburg
Nominee Ö1 Talent Scholarship
2022 Residential Studio Fellowship Fine Arts Vienna, State of Salzburg
2021 Funding for artistic-scientific research work, Pro Scientia
2019 Project grant, Association for the Promotion of the University of Art Linz
2nd place Blue Eye Photoaward
Scholarshipholder European Forum Alpbach, Club Alpbach Salzburg
Exhibitions
2025 T-Max 400, L’Impasse (Forum Culturel Austrichien), Paris
Betreten verboten, Kunstraum pro arte (as part of Feminist Artists Network EXTRA stark)
2024 Belegtes, Galerie im KunstWerk, Mozarteum University Salzburg
Fotohof>Calling (presentation & screening), Fotohof Salzburg
art.albina art prize exhibition, Municipal office Oberalm
Feels like Venice, Stadtgalerie Zwergelgartenpavilion, Salzburg
Hybrid Bodys and other Selves, Kunst im Traklhaus, Salzburg
2023 Systems of Support, Salzburger Kunstverein (as part of Feminist Artists Network EXTRA stark)
Selbstbilder, Galerie Das Zimmer, Salzburg
ACHTUNG, FERTIG, LOS!, Stadtgalerie Salzburg (Zwergelgartenpavilion) (as part of Feminist Artists Network EXTRA stark)
be my guest, Stadtgalerie Salzburg (Lehen) 2022
:sieben, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
Art acquisitions of the State of Salzburg 2020–2022, Kunst im Traklhaus, Salzburg
2021 Best Off, Kunstuniversität Linz
This world is white no longer, Museum of Modern Art (Rupertinum) Salzburg
This world is white no longer (Reading and zine presentation), periscope, Salzburg
2020 Jeder scheitert so gut er kann (Kunst auf der Feststiege), Splace Linz and the Federal Ministry of Education, Scienc and Research, Wien
Horses, Werkschau Schmiede20 — Playgrounds of Ideas, Hallein
2019 Schlussbild Blue Eye Photoaward, Ordination Dieter Anderle, Linz
Rundgang, University of the Arts Berlin data mist (Duo show with Daniel Huber),
Galerie eboran, Salzburg
2018 Töte mich, Liebe mich! – Politik und Ästhetik des Wartens (Collab with Hannah Opresnik), Ars Electronica Festival, Linz
Zines for Science, International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna
2017 log files. stories from the internet of things, Ars Electronica Center, Linz
2015 Staged/Conceptual, Galerie eboran, Salzburg