Crystin Moritz

Vinum Vortex, 2025 Featured at @vievinum and on view @mak_vienna on 15 May 2026. Another creation for @austrianwine A hallucinatory journey from vine to glass, moving through liquid landscapes and shifting forms. A celebration of imagination, myth, and the surreal world of wine. Thank you @instaeppi

Bacchus’ Banter, 2025 One of my creations for @austrianwine A hallucinatory journey from vine to glass, moving through liquid landscapes and shifting forms. A celebration of imagination, myth, and the surreal world of wine. Featured @vievinum in May 2026. Thank you @instaeppi

Der Pornografieparagraf Autor:in Mia Winter Künstler:in @crystinmoritz 🔗 Luder Magazin #Vol1

Das erste Pornografiegesetz – auch „Schmutz- und Schundgesetz“ genannt – wurde 1950 erlassen und stellt nach wie vor die Basis für die heutige Pornografiegesetzgebung dar. Autor:in Mia Winter Künstler:in @crystinmoritz 🔗 Luder Magazin #Vol1

Lovers, 2026 Part of the group show ‘Active Rest’ 20 February–4 April @bekforum Schleifmühlgasse 6
1040 Vienna Curated by @magmasara Artists: @rhiannon.inmansimpson @alexkasses @lyra.stoll @aknurxjs @baffibianchi_studio @crystinmoritz Installation shots @kunstdokumentationcom

Blue Hearts, 2026 Part of the ‘Lovers’ series, shown at ‘Active Rest’, @bekforum until 4 April 2026. ‘Lovers’ unfolds across still images and video, tracing the fragile threshold between closeness and constraint. Bodies move between merging and separation, testing proximity without resolution.

Crystin Moritz’s Lovers series explores intimacy, trust, and the act of holding - physically and emotionally. These works reflect on the precarious balance between connection and suffocation. The figures in Lovers appear on the verge of finding and losing themselves. Intimacy is presented as a momentary alignment rather than a stable state. Rest is found in brief instances of surrender, followed by the need for distance. By combining the visual language of analogue photography with contemporary AI processes, Crystin introduces uncertainty into perception itself. What can be trusted - the image, the tool, the feeling? The moment of intimacy here is real, but temporary. Like rest, it cannot be held indefinitely. It arrives, dissolves, and returns in another form. Join us next Friday, 6 March, 4:30pm for Crystin’s talk on AI as artistic tool: Would You Dare? Crystin Moritz @crystinmoritz is a Vienna-based visual artist working with photography, video, and artificial intelligence. After studying photography in Berlin, she assisted Axel Hoedt and Laetitia Negre in London and developed a practice initially rooted in fashion photography. Her work has since expanded into AI-generated and hybrid image-making, where analogue aesthetics meet digital processes. Through exhibitions and collaborations in Austria and internationally, Moritz explores questions of identity, perception, and visual authorship, creating unsettling and speculative image worlds that challenge established photographic conventions. Active Rest: An Exploration of Time. Curated by Sara Alavi Kia @magmasara Exhibition dates: 20 February–4 April. Public hours: Fridays, 3–7pm; Saturdays, 10am–2pm. #activerest @bekforum #aiart #photography

Active Rest: An Exploration of Time invites a shift in how time is felt. Rather than something to be spent or managed, time is experienced as cyclical, bodily, and present, something we can enter, remain within, and choose. Through installation, painting, scent, objects, and image-making, the exhibition explores rest as an active state: a fragile balance between movement and stillness, intimacy and distance, care and risk. Rest appears as a practice, one that unfolds through attention, sensation, and duration. Visitors are invited to slow the pulse of time, to feel it rather than measure it, and to rest not by stopping, but by choosing how to be present. Artists: Rhiannon Inman-Simpson, Alexander Kasses (Néomirage), Crystin Moritz, Laura Stoll, Aknur Zhussip & Zarina Belousova (in collaboration with Motsa and Steven Mark Kübler). Curated by Sara Alavi Kia. @magmasara Opening: 19 February, 7–9pm. Pyjamas welcome! Exhibition dates: 20 February–4 April. Public hours: Fridays, 3–7pm, Saturdays, 10am-2pm. #activerest @rhiannon.inmansimpson @alexkasses @neomirageofficial @crystinmoritz @lyra.stoll @aknurxjs @nour___lab @baffibianchi_studio @motsamusic @perspek.steven @bekforum Images: details of Inman-Simpson, A Slow Pulse (2023) and Pavilion of Time by Zhussip & Belousova.

✷ Artist of the Month: Crystin Moritz @crystinmoritz Photographer & AI Artist Crystin Moritz arbeitet an der Schnittstelle von analoger Fotografie und künstlicher Intelligenz. Aus der Ästhetik des analogen Films und den Möglichkeiten digitaler Bildwelten entwickelt sie Szenen, in denen Wahrnehmung, Identität und Körperlichkeit neu verhandelt werden. Was als Weiterführung ihrer analogen Praxis begann – in einer Zeit, in der Polaroid und Filmmaterial immer knapper wurden – führt heute zu hybriden Bildräumen: teils vollständig KI-generiert, teils fotografisch verwurzelt. Moritz nutzt diese Reibung, um surreale Figuren und Atmosphären entstehen zu lassen, die das Bekannte verschieben und dem Unheimlichen eine Bühne geben. ✷ Nur diesen Monat in der Dezember-Kollektion Becoming Divine → theartlookout.com (Link in Bio) #theartlookout #crystinmoritz #aiart #promptography #femaleartists #contemporaryart #collectart #vienna #emergingartist

Forest projection studies in Styria - on site video projections -

From ‚Mary’s Cherry Pie‘, 2025 “Mary’s Cherry Pie” presents a surreal narrative, weaving iconic imagery with contemporary references. The series explores the tensions between societal expectations of women and personal desire, delving into themes of identity, morality, and the complexities of human experience.

Anarcha, 2025. Anarcha Westcott was an enslaved teenager in 1840s Alabama who became pregnant and experienced severe complications during childbirth. Over the course of several years, she was subjected to at least 30 experimental gynecological surgeries without anesthesia by Dr. J. Marion Sims, later referred to as the ‘father of modern gynecology.’ These procedures were based on the belief that Black people felt less pain, a notion that shaped medical thinking for generations. The operations were performed without consent and resulted in significant physical and emotional harm. Sims conducted his experiments on several enslaved women, including the few whose names remain known: Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy. While his name became embedded in medical history, the women he operated on remained unnamed and unacknowledged for generations. This legacy continues to shape medical care today: Black patients in the US, particularly women, still receive less adequate pain treatment and face significantly higher maternal mortality, regardless of income or education. #AnarchaWestcott #MedicalRacism #UnequalCare #HistoryMatters #BlackHealthMatters #createddigitally @saultglobal @iammorethan1