Dagmar Schürrer is an Austrian digital artist based in Berlin, Germany. She holds a degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London, UK, and works in the field of expanded animation and extended reality (XR) technologies.

In her hybrid experiences, she links (Neuro-) sciences, new technologies as XR and Artificial Intelligence, digital world building and poetic interpretations of human consciousness and its environmental entanglements, to create intricate and contemplative animations and spatial multimedia installations.

Significant international presentations of her works include the New Contemporaries at the ICA London, the Moscow Biennale for Young Art, the Centre Pompidou Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Louvre Auditorium Paris, Transmediale Vorspiel in Berlin, Eunam Museum South Korea, Ars Electronica Linz, the Museum of Waste in Changsha, China, Belvedere21 Vienna, and Tate Modern London, UK. 

Her animations were screened at international festivals, amongst others at Supernova Denver, Diagonale Filmfestival Graz, ITF International Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart, Rencontres International Berlin/Paris, Vienna Shorts, Crossing Europe Linz, Tricky Women Vienna, Filmfest Dresden, Filmfestival Seattle.

Since 2018 she is a research assistant and workshop leader for artistic XR development at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin at the Institute for Culture and Computer Science. As a board member of the Berlin media art association (medienkunstverein), she is committed to supporting new forms of presentation of contemporary new media art.

Member of the Saloon Network for female artists.
Represented by Artemis Gallery Lisbon >>>
Digital Editions available at Sedition >>>

EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS | AWARDS & GRANTS | TALKS & TEACHING

EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
2025
Symbiotic Synchrony, 38th Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, solo, GEDOK, DE
Imagine AI for Dignity - Feminine Visions for Regeneration, NIROX, The Cradle, South Africa
ISEA – 30th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Seoul, KOR
Digitale Knotenpunkte, Nachtspeicher23, Hamburg, DE
Tricky Women, Tricky Realities, Metro Kinokulturhaus, Vienna, AUT
TEC ART, Rotterdam Art Week, Katoenhuis, NL
21. Athens Digital Art Festival, Technopolis, GR
2024
Touch and Swipe, Tate Film screening, Tate Modern, London, UK
codes manoeuvres_sticky webs, CIVA Festival, Belvedere 21, Vienna AUT
VDonaukanal, Vienna, AUT
All too human?, Kunstsurfer, Zurich, online, CH
Symbiotic Synchrony, solo exhibition, SOMA, Berlin, DE
Special Focus screening, Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz, AUT
Buna, The Nature of Relationships, ReBonkers, Varna, BUL
ISEA – 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Brisbane, AUS (Funded by BMKÖS Vienna and Austrian Culture Forum Canberra)
Paadmaan Video Event, ROZENSTRAAT Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Dream Speed 2, Node Media Lab, Vienna, AUT
Animator Festival, Poznań, POL
Bath Booze Pray, Team Seohwa & Arario Museum, Jeju, KOR
Fantoche - Int. Animationfestival, Baden, CH
Dream Speed 3, Noise Media Art Festival, Palais Festique, Vienna, AUT
Homo Symbiosis, Festival of urban well being, Mäusebunker, Berlin, DE
B-LA-M Video Art Screening, Moviemento Cinema, Berlin, DE
Symbiotic Synchrony AR, Artificial Museum Vienna, Berlin, DE
BAAF Best Austrian Animation Festival, Vienna, AUT
Alternate Horizons, curated by Robert Seidel, Jikan Space, Osaka, JPN

2023
Turning Point, Eunam Museum, Gwangju, KOR
Denver Digerati, Animation Festival, Denver, USA
We cascade, Art University Linz at Ars Electronica, Linz, AT
Simultan Festival, Timišoara, ROU
BerlAIn Show, Paul-Lincke-Ufer, Berlin, DE
…and we gonna crash it when nobody’s home, The Wrong Biennale, Online
Adam meets Eve, main exhibition, The Wrong Biennale, Online
Kunstsurfer, Zürich, CH
The Soft and the Hard, The Showroom, Berlin, DE
Visual Dominance, Anfang Süd bis Ende Mai, Leipzig, DE
FIC 5.0. - Frente Iniciativas Contemporaneas, Villena, ESP
Video Art Garden, European Capital of Culture 2023 Timišoara, ROU
Vienna Shorts, Metropol, Vienna, AT
Robots & Algorithms, Goethe Institute Montreal, CAN
Teleidoscope - The Melting Mirros, 48h Neukölln, OmO Artspace, Berlin, DE
Attaque(e)r le visible Videoaktion #4, Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin, DE
Light Play, Fotografiska Tallinn, EST
ITF International Trickfilm Festival, Stuttgart, DE
Crossing Europe Festival Linz, AT
ESC 2033, virtual exhibition by VVOVVA Gallery and DE:FORMAL, NL and USA
Dream Speed, Levels Gallery, curated by Leo Kulbs and Vadim Schäffler, Berlin, DE and DUMBO, New York, USA
Janina Wegrzynowska, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Galeria Studio, Warsaw and Galeria Miejska, Bydgoszczy, POL
SXSW - South by South West Festival, organized by Berlin Partner and VRBB, Austin, USA
Transponder, CTM Vorspiel, Alte Münze, Berlin, DE

2022
Korean International Art Fair KIAF, Seoul KOR
SAW 5, Sofia Art Week, Aether Art Space, BUL
Obiger Lichtspiele, Axel Obiger Kunstraum, Berlin, DE
BAFF II - Best Austrian Animation Festival, Vienna, AT
Revolution V52, Digitale Zone Marseille & L’unique - Musée dehors Caen, FR
The future is decentralized, Nextmuseum.io, online, DE
Waking Up in a World, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon, POR
#MakeUsVisible 2, curated by XREnsemble, Munich, DE
Castle for Rent, Projektraum Schönwalder Strasse 44, Berlin, DE
EDAF – European Digital Art Fair, V-Art, Online and Amsterdam, NL
Popfest, Karlskirche Vienna, AT
Worlds of Networks, The Wrong TV, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Cosmophonatic, Gallery Gallery, Sofia, BUL
Light Year 83: Deeper People, Scope Berlin & DUMBO New York, US
#MakeUsVisible, curated by XREnsemble and Katie Peyton, New York, US
Tricky Women, Animationfestival, Metrokino, Vienna, AUT
BAFF I - Best Austrian Animation Festival, Vienna, AUT
Crossing Europe Filmfestival, Linz, AUT
Videofest #2 by attaque(e)r le visible, Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin

2021
Collective Masquerade, Overkill Festival, Enschede, NL
(Im)Material Matter, peert to space virtual gallery, Metaverse
Tactus, 17th Athens Digital Art Festival, Greece
Digital Bodies, Artemis Gallery, Lissabon, Portugal
Digital Art Edition, medienkunstverein and Eigenheim Galerie Weimar/Berlin
Marfa Room, Synthesis Gallery Berlin and Danae.io, online
Extended Reality – Code and Materiality in Art and Culture, HTW
and Humboldt University, Berlin
Supernova, Animation Festival Denver, USA
Rencontres International, Louvre Auditorium, Paris and HKW Berlin
Diagonale – Festival des Österreichischen Films, Graz, AUT
Crossing Europe Filmfestival, Linz, AUT
Vienna Shorts, Filmfestival Vienna
Artist´s Filmfestival, The Bombfactory Art Foundation, London
Peculiar Patterns, Solo Stream, The Wrong, Online
Behind Bars – Strange New World, L'Atelier en Commun, Forcalquier, France
Windows That Whisper, Synthesis Gallery and Skyfine Food at Isla Berlin
we are already history, and we don´t know it, Fitzroy, solo, Berlin

2020
Transmediale Vorspiel, Interleaved Space III, Vierte Welt, Berlin
Digital Art goes Sony Screen, DAM Gallery, curated by Robert Seidel, Berlin
Lange Nacht der Videokunst, curated by mkv Berlin, Kunstverein Kleinmachow, Berlin
Crossing Europe, Film Festival Linz, AUT
Digital Humanities, Plan8t Air Museum of Waste, Changsha, China
Supernova, Animation Festival, Denver, USA
Visions in the Nunnery, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
Out of Touch, curated by HERVISIONS, LUX moving image, London, UK
I don´t see anything as it is now - laboratory about the image, Hilbert Raum, Berlin

2019
Transmediale Vorspiel, Interleaved Space II, Vierte Welt, Berlin
Im Schaufenster, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Fit Content To Frame, Urlaub Projects Berlin, Marocco and online
Tricky Women Animationfestival, Museumsquartier, Vienna
Diagonale – Festival des Oesterreichischen Films, Graz, AUT
Crossing Europe, Ursulinenhof and Ars Electronica Center, Linz, AUT
Digital Aesthetics, +359 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Epicentre – The Wrong Biennale, Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporania, Valencia, Spain

2018
Transmediale Vorspiel, Interleaved Space, Vierte Welt, Berlin
6x6 Video Art Screening, Blake & Vargas Projectspace, Berlin
Temporalities, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
SEHR GUT with Sophia Domagala, Centrum, Berlin
Hush Hush: Conversations With Myself, Yinka Shonibare Guest Project, London, UK
30th Filmfest Dresden, Thalia Kino Dresden, GER
Film Festival Seattle, USA
HORN – Festival for experimental film and video art, Musrara School of Arts, Jerusalem, Israel
Housing Complexities, SUPERNOVA Animation Festival, Denver, USA
Aberrations, Irrgang Galerie, curated by Robert Seidel, Berlin

2017
Chance Meeting, video art selected by DIVA Station (Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts) and Ursula Blickle Videoarchive (21er Haus Vienna), Slovenska Kinoteka, Ljubljana, SLO
Possible Futures, 12th Simultan Festival, Timisoara, Rumania
36th International Shortfilmfestival, Uppsala, Schweden
Virtuality Mortality, Ugly Duck Warehouse, London, UK
ATRIUM, Tel Aviv Artists' Studios Sadnaot HaOmanim, Israel
Athens Digital Art Festival, Athen, GR (cat)
6x6 project, Online Galerie

2016
Tenderflix 2016 – Better Living, Horse Hospital, London

The Instants Video numériques et poétiques, Friche la Belle da Mai, Marseille, Fr
V. Biennale for Young Art Moscow, Trekhgornaya Manufaktura, RUS (cat)
I Want To Be Like You, KASKL/Einer dieser Freitage, Berlin (solo)
Fraud, Fake and Fame: Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Art IT, Berlin (cat)

2015
Blockbuster Exhibitions, Friedrichstr. 1, Berlin
10 Years Fullframe, Schikaneder Kino, Vienna

2014
Crosstalk, Higgs Field Gallery, Budapest, HUN
Fullframe Festival, MUMOK Kino, Wien

2013
Tenderflix Prize 2013, Tenderpixel Gallery, London, UK
24th New Orleans Film Festival – Impakt Abroad, New Orleans, USA
Impakt Festival, Utrecht, NL
15th Festival of Different and Experimental Cinema,
Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris, FR
Berlin Art Prize 2013, Aqua Carré, Berlin (K)
Future Ruins, BAS Silo, Bergen, NOR
ARTEX, Museo Archaeologica, Teramo, IT und CSM, London, UK, screening at MAXXI, Rom, IT

2012
audio-video, Execution Room Gallery, London, UK

2011
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011, Site Gallery and S1Artspace, Sheffield, UK, und ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (K)
Ward magazine video exhibition, Shacklewell Arms, London,
Crossover (Nova – the Lowe and Partner Award for fresh creative talent), Lethaby Gallery, London
I Am Not A Poet, TotalKunst Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Degreeshow, Central St. Martins College, London

Dagmar Schürrer is an Austrian digital artist based in Berlin, Germany. She holds a degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London, UK, and works in the field of expanded animation and extended reality (XR) technologies.

In her hybrid experiences, she links (Neuro-) sciences, new technologies as XR and Artificial Intelligence, digital world building and poetic interpretations of human consciousness and its environmental entanglements, to create intricate and contemplative animations and spatial multimedia installations.

Significant international presentations of her works include the New Contemporaries at the ICA London, the Moscow Biennale for Young Art, the Centre Pompidou Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Louvre Auditorium Paris, Transmediale Vorspiel in Berlin, Eunam Museum South Korea, Ars Electronica Linz, the Museum of Waste in Changsha, China, Belvedere21 Vienna, and Tate Modern London, UK. 

Her animations were screened at international festivals, amongst others at Supernova Denver, Diagonale Filmfestival Graz, ITF International Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart, Rencontres International Berlin/Paris, Vienna Shorts, Crossing Europe Linz, Tricky Women Vienna, Filmfest Dresden, Filmfestival Seattle.

Since 2018 she is a research assistant and workshop leader for artistic XR development at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin at the Institute for Culture and Computer Science. As a board member of the Berlin media art association (medienkunstverein), she is committed to supporting new forms of presentation of contemporary new media art.

Member of the Saloon Network for female artists.
Represented by Artemis Gallery Lisbon >>>
Digital Editions available at Sedition >>>

EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS | AWARDS & GRANTS | TALKS & TEACHING

EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
2025
Symbiotic Synchrony, 38th Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, solo, GEDOK, DE
Imagine AI for Dignity - Feminine Visions for Regeneration, NIROX, The Cradle, South Africa
ISEA – 30th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Seoul, KOR
Digitale Knotenpunkte, Nachtspeicher23, Hamburg, DE
Tricky Women, Tricky Realities, Metro Kinokulturhaus, Vienna, AUT
TEC ART, Rotterdam Art Week, Katoenhuis, NL
21. Athens Digital Art Festival, Technopolis, GR
2024
Touch and Swipe, Tate Film screening, Tate Modern, London, UK
codes manoeuvres_sticky webs, CIVA Festival, Belvedere 21, Vienna AUT
VDonaukanal, Vienna, AUT
All too human?, Kunstsurfer, Zurich, online, CH
Symbiotic Synchrony, solo exhibition, SOMA, Berlin, DE
Special Focus screening, Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz, AUT
Buna, The Nature of Relationships, ReBonkers, Varna, BUL
ISEA – 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Brisbane, AUS (Funded by BMKÖS Vienna and Austrian Culture Forum Canberra)
Paadmaan Video Event, ROZENSTRAAT Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Dream Speed 2, Node Media Lab, Vienna, AUT
Animator Festival, Poznań, POL
Bath Booze Pray, Team Seohwa & Arario Museum, Jeju, KOR
Fantoche - Int. Animationfestival, Baden, CH
Dream Speed 3, Noise Media Art Festival, Palais Festique, Vienna, AUT
Homo Symbiosis, Festival of urban well being, Mäusebunker, Berlin, DE
B-LA-M Video Art Screening, Moviemento Cinema, Berlin, DE
Symbiotic Synchrony AR, Artificial Museum Vienna, Berlin, DE
BAAF Best Austrian Animation Festival, Vienna, AUT
Alternate Horizons, curated by Robert Seidel, Jikan Space, Osaka, JPN

2023
Turning Point, Eunam Museum, Gwangju, KOR
Denver Digerati, Animation Festival, Denver, USA
We cascade, Art University Linz at Ars Electronica, Linz, AT
Simultan Festival, Timišoara, ROU
BerlAIn Show, Paul-Lincke-Ufer, Berlin, DE
…and we gonna crash it when nobody’s home, The Wrong Biennale, Online
Adam meets Eve, main exhibition, The Wrong Biennale, Online
Kunstsurfer, Zürich, CH
The Soft and the Hard, The Showroom, Berlin, DE
Visual Dominance, Anfang Süd bis Ende Mai, Leipzig, DE
FIC 5.0. - Frente Iniciativas Contemporaneas, Villena, ESP
Video Art Garden, European Capital of Culture 2023 Timišoara, ROU
Vienna Shorts, Metropol, Vienna, AT
Robots & Algorithms, Goethe Institute Montreal, CAN
Teleidoscope - The Melting Mirros, 48h Neukölln, OmO Artspace, Berlin, DE
Attaque(e)r le visible Videoaktion #4, Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin, DE
Light Play, Fotografiska Tallinn, EST
ITF International Trickfilm Festival, Stuttgart, DE
Crossing Europe Festival Linz, AT
ESC 2033, virtual exhibition by VVOVVA Gallery and DE:FORMAL, NL and USA
Dream Speed, Levels Gallery, curated by Leo Kulbs and Vadim Schäffler, Berlin, DE and DUMBO, New York, USA
Janina Wegrzynowska, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Galeria Studio, Warsaw and Galeria Miejska, Bydgoszczy, POL
SXSW - South by South West Festival, organized by Berlin Partner and VRBB, Austin, USA
Transponder, CTM Vorspiel, Alte Münze, Berlin, DE

2022
Korean International Art Fair KIAF, Seoul KOR
SAW 5, Sofia Art Week, Aether Art Space, BUL
Obiger Lichtspiele, Axel Obiger Kunstraum, Berlin, DE
BAFF II - Best Austrian Animation Festival, Vienna, AT
Revolution V52, Digitale Zone Marseille & L’unique - Musée dehors Caen, FR
The future is decentralized, Nextmuseum.io, online, DE
Waking Up in a World, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon, POR
#MakeUsVisible 2, curated by XREnsemble, Munich, DE
Castle for Rent, Projektraum Schönwalder Strasse 44, Berlin, DE
EDAF – European Digital Art Fair, V-Art, Online and Amsterdam, NL
Popfest, Karlskirche Vienna, AT
Worlds of Networks, The Wrong TV, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Cosmophonatic, Gallery Gallery, Sofia, BUL
Light Year 83: Deeper People, Scope Berlin & DUMBO New York, US
#MakeUsVisible, curated by XREnsemble and Katie Peyton, New York, US
Tricky Women, Animationfestival, Metrokino, Vienna, AUT
BAFF I - Best Austrian Animation Festival, Vienna, AUT
Crossing Europe Filmfestival, Linz, AUT
Videofest #2 by attaque(e)r le visible, Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin

2021
Collective Masquerade, Overkill Festival, Enschede, NL
(Im)Material Matter, peert to space virtual gallery, Metaverse
Tactus, 17th Athens Digital Art Festival, Greece
Digital Bodies, Artemis Gallery, Lissabon, Portugal
Digital Art Edition, medienkunstverein and Eigenheim Galerie Weimar/Berlin
Marfa Room, Synthesis Gallery Berlin and Danae.io, online
Extended Reality – Code and Materiality in Art and Culture, HTW
and Humboldt University, Berlin
Supernova, Animation Festival Denver, USA
Rencontres International, Louvre Auditorium, Paris and HKW Berlin
Diagonale – Festival des Österreichischen Films, Graz, AUT
Crossing Europe Filmfestival, Linz, AUT
Vienna Shorts, Filmfestival Vienna
Artist´s Filmfestival, The Bombfactory Art Foundation, London
Peculiar Patterns, Solo Stream, The Wrong, Online
Behind Bars – Strange New World, L'Atelier en Commun, Forcalquier, France
Windows That Whisper, Synthesis Gallery and Skyfine Food at Isla Berlin
we are already history, and we don´t know it, Fitzroy, solo, Berlin

2020
Transmediale Vorspiel, Interleaved Space III, Vierte Welt, Berlin
Digital Art goes Sony Screen, DAM Gallery, curated by Robert Seidel, Berlin
Lange Nacht der Videokunst, curated by mkv Berlin, Kunstverein Kleinmachow, Berlin
Crossing Europe, Film Festival Linz, AUT
Digital Humanities, Plan8t Air Museum of Waste, Changsha, China
Supernova, Animation Festival, Denver, USA
Visions in the Nunnery, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
Out of Touch, curated by HERVISIONS, LUX moving image, London, UK
I don´t see anything as it is now - laboratory about the image, Hilbert Raum, Berlin

2019
Transmediale Vorspiel, Interleaved Space II, Vierte Welt, Berlin
Im Schaufenster, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Fit Content To Frame, Urlaub Projects Berlin, Marocco and online
Tricky Women Animationfestival, Museumsquartier, Vienna
Diagonale – Festival des Oesterreichischen Films, Graz, AUT
Crossing Europe, Ursulinenhof and Ars Electronica Center, Linz, AUT
Digital Aesthetics, +359 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Epicentre – The Wrong Biennale, Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporania, Valencia, Spain

2018
Transmediale Vorspiel, Interleaved Space, Vierte Welt, Berlin
6x6 Video Art Screening, Blake & Vargas Projectspace, Berlin
Temporalities, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
SEHR GUT with Sophia Domagala, Centrum, Berlin
Hush Hush: Conversations With Myself, Yinka Shonibare Guest Project, London, UK
30th Filmfest Dresden, Thalia Kino Dresden, GER
Film Festival Seattle, USA
HORN – Festival for experimental film and video art, Musrara School of Arts, Jerusalem, Israel
Housing Complexities, SUPERNOVA Animation Festival, Denver, USA
Aberrations, Irrgang Galerie, curated by Robert Seidel, Berlin

2017
Chance Meeting, video art selected by DIVA Station (Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts) and Ursula Blickle Videoarchive (21er Haus Vienna), Slovenska Kinoteka, Ljubljana, SLO
Possible Futures, 12th Simultan Festival, Timisoara, Rumania
36th International Shortfilmfestival, Uppsala, Schweden
Virtuality Mortality, Ugly Duck Warehouse, London, UK
ATRIUM, Tel Aviv Artists' Studios Sadnaot HaOmanim, Israel
Athens Digital Art Festival, Athen, GR (cat)
6x6 project, Online Galerie

2016
Tenderflix 2016 – Better Living, Horse Hospital, London

The Instants Video numériques et poétiques, Friche la Belle da Mai, Marseille, Fr
V. Biennale for Young Art Moscow, Trekhgornaya Manufaktura, RUS (cat)
I Want To Be Like You, KASKL/Einer dieser Freitage, Berlin (solo)
Fraud, Fake and Fame: Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Art IT, Berlin (cat)

2015
Blockbuster Exhibitions, Friedrichstr. 1, Berlin
10 Years Fullframe, Schikaneder Kino, Vienna

2014
Crosstalk, Higgs Field Gallery, Budapest, HUN
Fullframe Festival, MUMOK Kino, Wien

2013
Tenderflix Prize 2013, Tenderpixel Gallery, London, UK
24th New Orleans Film Festival – Impakt Abroad, New Orleans, USA
Impakt Festival, Utrecht, NL
15th Festival of Different and Experimental Cinema,
Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris, FR
Berlin Art Prize 2013, Aqua Carré, Berlin (K)
Future Ruins, BAS Silo, Bergen, NOR
ARTEX, Museo Archaeologica, Teramo, IT und CSM, London, UK, screening at MAXXI, Rom, IT

2012
audio-video, Execution Room Gallery, London, UK

2011
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011, Site Gallery and S1Artspace, Sheffield, UK, und ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (K)
Ward magazine video exhibition, Shacklewell Arms, London,
Crossover (Nova – the Lowe and Partner Award for fresh creative talent), Lethaby Gallery, London
I Am Not A Poet, TotalKunst Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Degreeshow, Central St. Martins College, London