Janine Weger, M.A.
University Assistant
www.janineweger.net
janine.weger@kunstuni-linz.at
Janine Weger, born in 1993, is a visual artist working at the intersection of painting, installation, video, and photography. She studied in Canterbury (United Kingdom) and Vienna, where she currently lives and works. In 2025, she received the Hilde Goldschmidt Prize, and in 2027, she was selected by the Federal Ministry of Housing, Art, Culture, Media, and Sports for an artist residency in New York City. At the University of Art and Design Linz, she directs the “Visual Lab” photography studio and teaches both practical and theoretical courses there. At the same time, she is pursuing a Ph.D. on the negotiation of truth claims in digital images.
Solo Exhibitions through 2026
2026 (seeing is not knowing), Bildraum 07, as part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2026, Vienna, Austria
2026 Excusing Immoral Behavior in Favor of a Wristband, Heerz Tooya, Vishovgrad, Bulgaria
2025 A Creator of Epic Pictures, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck, Austria
2024 Windows, Pop-up Galleries, Imst, Austria
2024 Nonlinear Narrative Disorder, AAA, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
2022 pro-spettiva, Klocker Museum, Hall in Tyrol, Austria
2022 Dialogue of Structures, Galerie Nothburga, Innsbruck, Austria (duo)
2021 Why Paint, flat1, Vienna, Austria (duo)
2021 Structural Encounters (or a city retreat), CRATE Project Space, Margate, England
2019 Space to be, Platform 6020, Innsbruck, Austria
2018 movement; shift, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Everyday Scenes, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan (duo)
2019 Color.Sound.Space., Architecture Days 2019, architektur:lokal, Patsch, Austria (in collaboration with Simon Lehner)
2018 Brush (Re)actions, Die Kulturbackstube, Innsbruck, Austria
Group Exhibitions through 2026
2026 “Flatware is an Illusion,” Nizza, Berlin, Germany
2025 *I am my own muse*, Klocker Museum, Hall in Tyrol, Austria
2025 Reclaiming Nature, SteudlTENN Art Symposium, Uderns, Austria
2025 ENVY, Atlas Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2024 Do you have two AAA batteries?, Galerie Zippenfenig, Vienna, Austria
2024 (In)Visible Traces: Artistic Memories of the Cold War, DAS WEISSE HAUS and BLOCKFREI Collective, Vienna, Austria
2024 Anton Between Worlds, KUVA Art Symposium 2024, Turm 9 – Leonding City Museum, Austria
2024 yes I said yes I will Yes, Dr. Agnes Larcher Award, Absam Museum, Absam, Austria
2024 I’m Not a Sculpture, SteudlTENN Art Symposium, Uderns, Austria
2023 Material Flows: Resources, Waste, and the Afterlife of Art, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
2023 *, Parallel Vienna, Otto-Wagner-Areal, Vienna, Austria
2023 Cleave, SteudlTENN Art Symposium, Uderns, Austria (in collaboration with Gabor Stark)
2022 Mitten am Rand, Masc Foundation and Kunsttankstelle Ottakring, Vienna, Austria
2022 A Shop is a Shop is a Shop, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2021 Collaborative Painterly Performance in Two Acts, Angewandte Festival, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
2020 Convergence, Kunstpavillon/Neue Galerie Innsbruck, Austria
2019 30.5 Degrees, :galerie Mathias Mayr, Innsbruck, Austria
2019 36th Austrian Graphic Art Competition, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria
2018 Ciao Ragazzi, Camberwell College of Arts, London, England
2018 Domino, CRATE Project Space, Margate, England
2018 Weltanschauung, Copeland Gallery, London, England
2017 Optic Illusions, Folkestone Triennial, Brewery Tap Project Space, Folkestone, England
2017 Platform Graduate Award Exhibition 2017, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
2017 750 Days, Degree Show Exhibition, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, England
Awards
2025 Professor Hilde Goldschmidt Award
2019 Josef-Franz Würlinger Award
2017 Turner Contemporary Platform Graduate Award
2017 CRATE Graduate Award
2017 Shortlist: Winsor & Newton Painting Award
Grants · Residencies · Collections
2025 Residency at Organhaus, Chongqing, China
2025 Austrian Federal Ministry: Scholarship for AI in the Arts
2022 Klocker Scholarship
2021 Angewandte Merit Scholarship
2021 Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Scholarship
2021 Work Grant from the State of Tyrol
2020 Hilde-Zach Art Scholarship
2020 Collection of the Tyrolean State Museums
2020 Work Grant from the State of Tyrol
2019 Collection of the City of Innsbruck
2018 Residency at AIR 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Curatorial Projects
2024 “yes I said yes I will Yes,” Dr. Agnes Larcher Award, Absam Museum, Absam, Austria
Art in Architecture
2023 New Integration House, Caritas of the Diocese of Innsbruck, Austria
Artist Talks · Open Studios
2025 Neue Galerie, Innsbruck, Austria
2025 Organhaus, Chongqing, China
2023 Vienna Art Week 2023, Open Studios, Vienna, Austria
2022 Klocker Museum, Hall in Tyrol, Austria
Lectures
2026 Lecture Series, University of Arts Linz, Austria
2023 ./studio3 – Institute for Experimental Architecture, University of Innsbruck, Austria
