CONTACT

mitmagdalena@gmail.com


EDUCATION

2016 – 2017 — Tama Art University, Tokyo
2013 – 2019 — University of the Arts Berlin (Lensbased Class of Hito Steyerl)

 

AWARDS & GRANTS  

2025 — Finalist Karl Schmidt-Rotluff Stipendium
2024 — Best Film – Nova Competition, Beijing Short Film Festival (BISSF)
2024 — Critic’s Choice – Beijing Short Film Festival (BISSF)
2024 — Shortlisted, Rencontres Internationales Moving Image prize
2024 — Shortlisted, Vordemberge-Gildewart Award
2024 — Shortlisted (with Shade Théret), Ars Viva preis für Bildende Kunst
2023 — Shortlisted (with Shade Théret), Ars Viva preis für Bildende Kunst

2019 — President's Prize of the University of the Arts Berlin for Master's Students 

2022 — Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Experimental Film Funding
2022 — IDM Südtirol / Alto Adige, Short Film Funding
2022 — Film and Media Office South Tyrol, Short Film Funding
2022 — Neustart Kultur, Graduate Scholarship in Visual Arts
2022 — Project Funding Draussenstadt, District of Steglitz-Zehlendorf (for Lament.tv)
2021 — Berlin Senate, Research Scholarship in Visual Arts
2021 — NPN – Stepping Out, Project Funding (for Lament.tv)

 

PERFORMANCES

2025
upcoming:
CENTRAL MARKET 2 (in collaboration with Ana Gzirishvili) 
— Pickle Bar, Berlin 18.09.2025
L' ORNAMENTO GREVE (in collaboration with Nicola Baratto)
— Atelier Panormos Palermo (date TBA)

2024
GAIAS CORNER (with Shade Théret) — Julia Stoschek Foundation, DC Open, Düsseldorf 28.08.2024
CONFESSIONAL (with Shade Théret) — Bolzano Danza, Museion 25.07.2024

2023
RAPPORT (with Shade Théret) — Deutsche Oper Berlin, 11.11.2023
HELLCAT (with Shade Théret) — Pogo Bar, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 13.07.2023
RUDE NO. 1 (with Shade Théret) — Park Series, Kunstverein München, 20.05.2023
HELLCAT (with Shade Théret) — Rakete Festival, Tanzquartier Wien, 05.- 06.05.2023
Untitled Performance (with Shade Théret) — Concrete Arguments, Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin, 28.04.2023

2022
BESTIEN DES STILS — Lament.tv, Fu Li Lai, Berlin 24.11.2022
LAMENT.TV (ongoing web series, in collaboration (with Shade Théret) 
FINALE (with Shade Théret) — Lana Live, Italy, 14.05.2022

2021
ALL TOMORROW`S CASTINGS (with Shade Théret)  — Glasshouse, Volksbühne Berlin, 07.04.2021
FINALE
(with Shade Théret) — M.I:Glissee Berlin, 03.- 05.09.2021

MERCH. BOZZE SU UN BOTTEGAIO — Motto Berlin, 22.09.2021
LAMENT.TV (ongoing web series, in collaboration (with Shade Théret) 2021

2020
SPLENDID (with Shade Théret) — Longtang Zürich, 12.-13.09.2020
SPLENDID (with Shade Théret) — Very Berlin,19.09.2020
PINK MUSCLE — Dama, Artissima Torino 08.11.2020 (cancelled)
CHILD CORRUPTED — Strizzi, Cologne, 28.02.–28.03.2020
ADIUS — Festspiele am Plötzensee, Berlin, 29.07.2020

2019
OFFICIAL DREAMING (IL VETRO CI ALLEGA) — 3HD Festival, Berlin, 22.10.2019
PINK MUSCLE (with Astrit Ismaili) — Ipernatural, Centrale Fies, Dro, 21.07.2019
OFFICIAL DREAMING — Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, 14.07.2019
JOSIE HAAR FANCLUB — Studio Blending, Berlin, 11.05.2019
WINTERLANDSCHAFT MIT EISLÄUFER UND VOGELFALLE (with Cassie A. Joergensen) — ‘Uttran’, Stockholm, 17.02.2019

2017 and previous
BETWEEN THE WINDOW AND THE WALL (with Shade Théret) — Futura Gallery, Prague, 2017
DRIZZLE DOME — Haus der Jugend, von der Heydt Kunsthalle, Wuppertal, 2017
REALM OF THE TIMES — Performance Camping at Villa Grisebach: Advances of Sexual Healing, Berlin, 2017
SIREN MAKING OFProcessed Beings: Intersubjectivity and Authorship, Transart Triennale, Uferstudios Berlin, 2016
SIREN — Curatorial Project: a performative environment on Ernst Reuter Platz Berlin 2016

 

GROUP SHOWS / FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS

Diary/Fiction/Diary/Fiction  —  Low Realisms with Ed Atkins CSAV, 22.07.2025
Untitled Installation   —  Open House, Brücke Museum Berlin 28.-29.06.2025
Corte Frey seyen und wöllen sein, MEWO Kunsthalle 22.02.–05.10.2025
Corte — Adriatic Film Festival, 04.06.2025
Corte — Bolzano Film Festival, 04.04.2025
Corte — Screening at bologna.cc, Amsterdam, 06.12.2024
Corte — Beijing Short Film Festival (BISSF), 27.11.2024
Corte — Rencontres Internationales Paris, 22.11.2024
Corte — Rinfrazioni Openstudio di Progettoborca 25.10.2024
Corte — Premiere at Cineteca Bologna – Visioni Italiane, 16.11.2024
CONFESSIONAL (installation) — Renaissance, Museion, Bolzano, 10.03.2024
A5 (drawing)— Group exhibition, Leipzig, 29.06.2022
Hausflat (drawings)— Group exhibition, Oldenburger Straße 3, Berlin, 20.05.2022
LAMENT.TV (screening)— at Festspiele am Plötzensee, 22.–29.10.2021
All Tomorrow's Castings (with Shade Théret) —  PW Magazine at Cabaret Voltaire Zürich 07.07.2023
All Tomorrow's Castings (with Shade Théret) — Glasshouse, Volksbühne Berlin, 07.04.2021
Illustrations for no rave wagon wheel metatheatre by Ivan Cheng, 2021
PlusX — Group exhibition, Vierte Welt, Berlin, 27.04.2020
A Guest List Is a Love Letter — Group exhibition, Blake & Vargas, 2018

 

SOLO EXHIBITION
Magdalena Mitterhofer at Panek — Solo exhibition, Berlin, 20.05.2020

 

INTERPRETATION (PERFORMER)

Jan Koslowski — VENETIAN BLONDE, 2025
Nicola Baratto — DEW POINT, Le Fresnoy, 2024

Liina Magnea — PSEUDO - VIRTUE Sophiensäle, 2023
Ivan Cheng — THE CRAFT, Oct0 Marseille, 2023
Cassie Augusta Joergensen — LES GIRLS, Sophiensaele Berlin, 2023

Lukas Hofmann — INCARNATE, Centre Pompidou, 2022
Leila Hekmat — FEMALE REMEDY, Haus am Waldsee, 2022
OHT — ROMPERE IL GHIACCIO, Fondazione Feltrinelli Milano, 2022
OHT— ROMPERE IL GHIACCIO, Kunsthalle Bratislava [SK] 2022
OHT — ROMPERE IL GHIACCIO, Mart Rovereto, 2022
OHT — ROMPERE IL GHIACCIO Fondazione Merz, Torino, 2021
OHT— ROMPERE IL GHIACCIO, Short Theatre festival, Rome, 2021
Alexander Iezzi — POGO BAR, KW Berlin, 2021
Marie Stolze — ALLES RAUCHEN, Festspiele am Plötzensee, 2021
Ivan Cheng — ABSOLUTION / TOILET SIGNS [STANDARD STARE], 2021
Sanna Helena Berger — PERSONA SONATA, lament.tv Berlin, 2021
Ana Gzirishvili — CREVICE. THE NEGATIVE ALPHABET, lament.tv Berlin, 2021
Astrit Ismaili — MISS, Impulstanz Wien, 2021
OHT — ROMPERE IL GHIACCIO, MAXXI Romaeuropa festival, 2020
50 CAR CRASHES (with Aske Høier Olsen) — Den Frie Centre, Copenhagen, 2020

Astrit Ismaili — MISS, Rozenstraat, Amsterdam, 2020
Astrit Ismaili — MISS, Les Urbaines, Lausanne, 2020
Amnesia Scanner — AS GOING, 3LSN3R, music video, 2020
Young Boy Dancing Group — Tropez, Berlin, 2019
CHEAP — 1 + 1 does not equal 1 plus 1, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, 2019
Astrit Ismaili — EMO GIRL, FLAM Festival, Amsterdam, 2019
Marie Stolze — FC MARTHA, Thalia Theater, Hamburg, 2018
Jesse Darling — Untitled performance, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2017
Lukas Hofmann — DRY ME A RIVER, Ostrava, 2017
Jan Koslowski —The Performance Agency 2016
Leila Hekmat — THE FRENCH MISTAKE, Schinkel Pavillon, 2015

 

RESIDENCIES

2025 — Three-month residency, Kultur Ensemble Palermo (with Nicola Baratto)
2025 —  XXIX CSAV Artists Laboratory with Ed Atkins 'Low Realisms' 

2025 — Three-month residency, Deutsches Studienzentrum Venedig 
2021 — Short residency, Kunstverein München (with Shade Théret)
2020 — Very Offspace residency (with Shade Théret)
2019 — Live Works residency Centrale Fies (with Astrit Ismaili)

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