Simon Goritschnig

“Amidst instability and crisis, a longing for profound connection re-emerges, one that understands all things as interconnected and entangled, where consciousness and matter are inseparably bound in the making of reality. This search is itself ritualistic, a repeated practice of making meaning through patterns of relation and interdependence.” Cutout from the exhibition essay by @martina.menegon ~~~ Artwork: From the Series “Bionic Dreams” - Part of the show “Hyper Myths & Counter Rituals” at Artemis Gallery Vienna @artemisgallerylisbon ~~~ Curated by Manuel Mendonca @manuel_s_mendonca Photography by @simon.goritschnig ~~~ #simongoritschnig #artemisgallery #drawing #contemporarydrawing #mediaart #contemporaryart #vienna #kunst #zeichnung #frottage #graphite #ritual

I am very happy to announce, that I received the state grant for media arts by the state of Austria for 2026!! 🎉🎊 I have applied for this grant since I finished university in 2015 and I am very grateful for the jury decision. Thank you for the trust. With this I will be able to fully focus on producing my new series of prints and sculptures. Photos from the studio: ”Pollinator”, 2025 100cm x 40cm x 40cm FDM print Currently on view at @artemisgallerylisbon (Vienna) 📷 by @evo_revuelto #mediaarts #goodnews #studio #portraitphotography #artnews

We’re excited to share that Simon Goritschnig has been awarded this year’s Austrian State Scholarship for Media Art. In his project Bionic Dreams, Goritschnig explores how the value of natural resources—water, seeds, forests—might shift in a future shaped by scarcity and geopolitical tension. His work reflects on changing perceptions of ecology, freedom, and mortality in the face of the climate crisis, while engaging with rituals as carriers of collective knowledge across time. Blending intuitive image-making with influences ranging from open-source culture to artificial intelligence and nuclear semiotics, his practice navigates how meaning can be communicated across generations.

Very pleased to invite you to the group show „Layer by Layer“ at @galeriehilger . Opening 20.5. | 19:00-21:00 Galerie Ernst Hilger Dorotheergasse 5/ 1. floor 1010 Vienna, Austria Artists: Erró, Simon Goritschnig, Sabrina Shah, Rose Wylie Curated by @lorenzecker #drawing #zeichnung #frottage #graphite #mediaart

40 days of forest in fall… and you can see it breathing. I don’t know what this is going to be or where it’s going to feed into…. but I’ve built a time-lapse camera from a hacked Canon and I’m going to augment it with solar power soon. #ultralong #timelapse #forest #photography #art

During my residency at @stiftungkuenstlerdorf i produced a lot of small drawings for research on my ongoing series "Planting Rituals". I drew all of these with a little fountain pen, that I found on the window shelf of my home a couple of days before I left to Germany. It quickly became one of may favourite pens. #drawing #zeichnung #kunst #contemporarydrawing #rituals

Views from the studio. Works from the series “Bionic Dreams”, 2024 to 2025. . . . #drawing #graphite #zeichnung #3Dprinting #mediaart

For one year my installation „CAPSULES“ has been on view at @schlosslind , now that I‘ve deconstructed it, I would like to look back once more: During the Second World War, the “castle,” now known as “Schloss Lind,” served as a subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Only in its more recent past has it been adapted into a museum. This is by no means a gallery situation I am accustomed to. For this reason, I intended my installation “Capsules” to operate on three intersecting levels: “Capsules” tells a story of the countless deaths during the Second World War. It confronts us with the gaze of imaginary gods looking down upon us—judging our actions and ultimately placing our short lives into perspective. It draws inspiration from the collective subconscious of the hive mind and recreates the fantasy of cryogenic sleep used in sci-fi deep-space travel, an idea most commonly found in narratives of space colonization. #contemparyart #installation #drawing #zeichnung #kunst

Everlasting Worlds Lisbon Exhibition – 2025 The conceptual universe of Everlasting Worlds unfolds within an immersive space where new places becomes both language and surface. Through the use of wallpaper designed by Simon Goritschnig, the exhibition environment is transformed into an extension of his fictional “excavations,” enveloping the viewer in a continuous landscape of speculative traces. This grey backdrop both neutral and imbued with memory functions as an expanded archaeological field in which the works of Carola Bonfili, Simon Goritschnig, Robertina Šebjanič, and Gil Ferrão are inscribed as fragments of possible worlds. More than a setting, the space becomes a narrative agent, dissolving boundaries between artwork and context, between imagined pasts and latent futures. Here, ash is not merely residue, but a material of transformation an intermediate state where disappearance gives way to continuous reinvention. ArtemisGallery Lisbon-Vienna
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“Bionic Dreams” – Part of the show “Hyper Myths & Counter Rituals” at Artemis Gallery Vienna @artemisgallerylisbon by Simon Goritschnig @simon.goritschnig ~~~ Curated by Manuel Mendonca @manuel_s_mendonca Photography by @simon.goritschnig Essay by Martina Menegon @martina.menegon ~~~ #simongoritschnig #artemisgallery #drawing #contemporarydrawing #mediaart

What do space shuttles, Asterix and sparkling water have in common? 🤔 Interview with @parnassmagazin x @voeslauermineralwasser is out now! Thank you @esther.hladik for the talk, your trust in my work and reminding me that feeling young is all about a never ending curiousity in the world. 👉Link in profile 📸 @evo_revuelto Installation views: @artemisgallerylisbon #interview #contemporaryart #jungbleiben #parnass studiovisit

A new year has begun at Künstler*dorf, and with it, new artistic journeys. Today, we are excited to share the work of visual artist Simon Goritschnig @simon.goritschnig “I originally appliied, because a friend of mine told me about her stay and the good times she had. I am really happy that I can stay at Künstler*dorf and super excited about having some focus time. I want to continue on a series of drawings named “Bionic Dreams”. I have planned to start working in color for this, and I hope the residency will help me to figure it out. I also brought my unfinished graphic novel, that I started in 2015, I have dreams about finishing this here…” Simon was born in 1988 / Klagenfurt (Austria). Since 2008 he is living and working in Vienna. In 2015 he finished his degree in Graphics and Printmaking at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. For his diploma he has been awarded the Ernst-Beranek-Fellowship, in 2018 he received a 6-months residency fellowship in Paris by the city of Klagenfurt. At the moment he teaches as seniour lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. His work has been shown in Austria, France, UK, Sweden, Poland, Portugal and China. For the year 2026 he has been awarded the annual scholarship for media art from the state of Austria. 📷 by @evo_revuelto