1. Maia Gusberti
* 17. 03. 1971 in Berne (CH)
Lives and works in Berne, Vienna and Brussels
Currently stays as an Artist in Residence in Rotterdam
Education / Artist Biography
1986-93 Vorkurs & Graphic Design, SFGB-B, Biel-Bienne (CH)
1994 Photographer and Drawer on archeological site in Solothurn (CH)
1995-2010 Lives and works as an Artist in Vienna (AT)
1996-2002 Studies Master/Magistra in Media Arts, Univ. f. applied Arts, Vienna (AT)
Artist in Residence in Sofia/Bulgaria, Paris/France (BMUKK), Cairo/Egypt (PRO HELVETIA)
2006-2010 Lives and woks in Vienna, Cairo, Berne
2010-2016 Lives and works in Berne, Vienna, Brussels
2009-2014 Artist in residence in Rome (BMUKK), Birzeit/Palestine and Amman/Jordan (PRO HELVETIA), Brussels and Rotterdam.
2010 Main Award Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium, Berne (CH)
2010 Sitemapping BAK Development and Work Grant BAK (CH)
2011 Photography Distinction Award Art Council of the Canton of Berne (CH)
2012 Award, Werkbeitrag Fotografie Art Council of the Canton of Berne (CH)
Co-Initiator of ‘Das Lehrerzimmer, Raum für Bücher, Kunst u. Küche’ at Cultural Center PROGR in Berne (CH)
Member of RE-P.ORG, collective for visual and art concepts in Vienna & Berne (CH)
Website: www.maiagusberti.net
E-mail: m.gusberti@re-p.org
Contact: Maia Gusberti, Nydeggstalden 22, 3011 Bern
Atelier: Atelier 311, PROGR, Waisenhausplatz 30, 3011 Bern
Swiss mobile: +41 78 909 60 62 (Vienna mobile: +43 676 451 07 56)
Prizes/Awards/Grants
2011 Photo Award - Award of distinction Canton of Berne (CH)
2010 Aeschlimann Corti - Main Award - 2010, Berne/Langenthal (CH)
2010-14 City Council Bern supported Atelier PROGR Berne (CH)
2008 Sussmann Grant, Vienna (AT)
2003 Premiere Grant, Univ. f. angew. Kunst, Vienna (AT)
2002 Prix Ars Electronica, Award of distinction, Linz, Net Vision (AT)
Residencies
2016 Artist in Residence, Stichting Kaus Australis, Rotterdam (NL)
2014 Artist in Residence, bains connectives, Brussels (BE)
2014 The Oberhausen Seminar Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (DE)
2011 Artist in Residence in Amman, Jordan, Pro Helvetia & Swiss Embassy Amman (JO)
2009 Artist in Residence in Rome, Photography Stipend, BMUKK (AT)
2009 Workshop Resident, Al Mahatta, Bir Zeit/Ramallah, Palästina (PL)
2007 Artist in Residence, Cairo, Artellewa, Cairo (EG)
2006/07 Artist in Residence, Cairo, Pro Helvetia Cairo (EG)
2004 Artist in Residence, Cité des Arts Paris, Stipend Visual Arts, BMUKK (AT)
2004 Artist in Residence, Exstream Residency, Interspace, Sofia / Bulgaria (EU)
Work Grants/Project Grants
2015 Project Grant Video, City of Bern & Canton of Bern (CH)
2012 Project Grant Video, City of Bern & Canton of Bern (CH)
2012 Work Grant Photography Canton of Bern (CH)
2012 Project Grant Video, City of Bern & Canton of Bern (CH)
2010/11 Project Grant, Sitemapping BAK (CH)
2008/09 Preproduction Grant, BAK Sitemapping (CH)
2007 Project Grant, Pro Helvetia / BMUKK Video Cairo.scapes (CH/AT)
2005 Project Grant, Migros Aare + BMUKK - Video Infravoid (CH/AT)
2002 Project Grant, Logicaland, BMUKK (AT)
2002 Commission, BIG Torino (Biennale Internationale delle arte giovane) (IT)
Acquisitions
2015 Acquisition City Arts Council Biel (CH)
2013/14 Acquisition City Arts Council Biel/Bienne (CH) & City Arts Council Thun (CH)
2012/13 Acquisition City Arts Council Berne (CH)
2011 Acquisition City Arts Council Biel/Bienne (CH) & Arts Council Canton Berne (CH)
2009 Acquisition Arts Council Canton Berne (CH)
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Lokal.Int, Subtitles for an unwritten film. Biel/Bienne (CH)
2015 Décalage, Westfenster Berne (CH)
2013 Fault lines, Fotok Galerie - Vienna (AT)
2013 Video Window - Maia Gusberti/Margot Zanni, OG9 Zurich (CH)
2013 Videokunst.ch - Videokunst Progr, Berne (CH)
2013 Maia Gusberti, Atelier Tom Bläss Gallery, Berne (CH)
2013 Maia Gusberti/Nino Baumgartner Krethlow Galerie, Berne (CH)
2013 Nachbilder. Kunstmuseum Bern, FFV Stiftung f. Foto, Film u. Video, Berne (CH)
2011 Notizen/Matritzen, Galerie Beatrice Brunner, Berne (CH)
2010 A True Story, Grand Palais, Berne (CH)
2009 C.Scapes, Stadtgalerie Berne (CH)
2008 Travel.agencies, CIC Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo (EG)
2002 Logicaland, Forum Stadtpark Graz (A)
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2015 Journées photographiques de Bienne, Biel-Bienne (CH)
2015 Forum im Juni. Bärenloch. Chur (CH)

2. 2015 On Landscape, April - May 2015, Matèria Gallery, Rome (IT)
2015 Der Raum nach dem Raum, Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag (AT)
2015 Bern Baby Bern. Kunstmuseum Thun (CH)
2014 Bains Connectives, Brussels (BE)
2014 Walk a mile in my shoes, Flat1. Vienna Art Week. Vienna (AT)
2014 International Art Commons. Kunstallmend. Berne/Brussels (CH/BE)
2013/14 Annual Exhibition / Kunsthalle Bern. Kunsthalle Berne (CH)
2013/14 Cantonale Bern/Jura, Centre Pasqu’art Biel/Bienne (CH)
2013 Fotopreis Kt. Bern, Kornhausforum Berne (CH)
2013 Feu Sacré, Kunstmuseum Berne (CH)
2013 Rencontres Orient-Occident, Chateau Mercier, Sierre (CH)
2013 James Lee Byars – and other perfect beauties, Krethlow Galerie, Berne (CH)
2013 Transform, Güterstrasse 8. Berne (CH)
2012 SELECTION | 2012, Prix Photoforum, PhotoforumPasquArt, Biel/Bienne (CH)
2012 Cantonale Bern/Jura, Kunstmuseum Thun und Stadtgalerie Berne (CH)
2012 5th International Photobook Festival, Le Bal, Paris (FR)
2011/2012 Cantonale Bern/Jura, Musée jurassien des Arts, Moutier (CH)
2011/2012 Whilst closely gazing at the soup... Dampfzentrale Berne (CH) and Rawabet Theatre Cairo (EG)
2011 Connect - Kunst zwischen Medien und Wirklichkeit, Shedhalle Zurich (CH)
2011 Fotopreis 2011, PhotoforumPasquArt, Biel/Bienne (CH)
2010 Un..schärfen des Dokumentarischen, Kunstfilmtag, Düsseldorf (DE)
2010 In Zwischenräumen Visarte.galerie, Berne (CH)
2010 Swiss Art Awards 2010, Basel (CH)
2010 Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium, Kunsthaus Langenthal (CH)
2010 A l´ombre d´un doute, Frac Lorraine, Metz (FR)
2010 8-Bit, Bon acceuil, Rennes (FR)
2009/10 Welt-Bilder 3, Helmhaus Zurich (CH)
2009 Where are you, Townhouse Gallery Cairo (EG)
2009 El Mahatta Gallery & Riwaq Biennale (PL)
2008/09 Annual Exhibition, Kunsthalle Berne (CH)
2008 Shift-Festival „record, record“, Basel (CH)
2008 Cairoscape. Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
2007 Goodbye Privacy. Ars Electronica, Sunday.files, Linz (AT)
2006 The Austrian Abstracts, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
2006 Arco, Digital Transit, Madrid (ES)
2006 Postmediale Kondition, Neue Galerie, Graz (AT)
2005 BLANK. Urban Voids, Medienturm Graz (AT)
2005 Signe Quotidien - Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (FR).
2005 In the line of light - Beijing International New Media Arts (China)
2004 The Anatomy of the Now, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
2004 Free Bitflows, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna (AT)
2004 Game Commons, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (US)
2004 Kunst am Bau Installation, FRAC Lorraine, Metz (F)
2003 World, Language, Iconicity, Rex/B92 Cultural Center, Belgrad, Serbien (RS)
2003 Abstraction Now, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna (AT)
2003 The Chrono-Files, Lothringer13/halle, Munich (DE)
2002 Prix-Ars Electronica, OK Linz, (A) & Change the Map, Brucknerhaus, Linz (AT)
2002 Big Torino - The Big social Game, Biennale delle arte giovane, Torino (IT)
2001 Sonic Television Gallery, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
Film and Video Festivals (Selection) Diagonale, Festival des Österreichischen Films; Augsburg Kurzfilmwochenende; Austin Cinetexas;, Barcelona, Sonar; Denver Int. Film
Festival; Augsburg, Kurzfilmwochenende; Hongkong Microwave Int. Media Art Festival; Rotterdam Int. Filmfestival; Weimar back-up festival; Zürich, VIDEOEX; Bochumer
Videofestival; Stuttgart, Filmwinter; Helsinki Avanto Media Art Festival; Luzern VIPER; Oberhausen Int. Film und Video Festival; Winterthur Kurzfilmtage, Chicago Under-
ground Film Festival; Hamburg, Int. Kurzfilm-Festival, Regensburg Kurzfilmwoche
Publications / Bibliography / Articles (selection, more: www.maiagusberti.net)
2015 TRANSFORM, Ausstellungskatalog, Hrsg. Kanton Bern, Franz Krähenbühl
2015 Zweidimensionales Labyrinth, Alice Henkes, Bieler Tagblatt, 09/14/15
2015 Options for Walls, fp-magazine, www.fpmagazine.eu
2013 C.Scapes @ Cairobserver – Platform for Urbanism & Discourse. www.cairobserver.com
2011 Connect, Art between Media and Reality; Shedhalle Zürich. Hrsg. Anke Hoffmann & Yvonne Volkart, Verlag f. moderne Kunst Nürnberg
2011 Bernische Kunstgesellschaft BKG Jahresbericht, Portrait Maia Gusberti
2010 Atlas of Science, Katy Börner, Published by MIT Press; ISBN 978-0-262-01445-8
2010 AC Zeitung 2010; Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium, Bern. Kunstgesellschaft BKG
2010 Un..schärfen des Dokumentarischen, Katalog Kunstfilmtag Düsseldorf, Text: Susanne Fassbender
2009 Where Are You; Ausstellungskatalog Pro Helvetia Cairo; Text: Beate Engel
2009 C.Scapes, Al Masry al Youm/Egypt Independent
2009 A True Story - Franz Dodel - Grandpalais Bern
2009 Weltbilder 3; Helmhaus Zürich; Andreas Fiedler; ISBN 978-3-86984-007-9
2008 Cairoscape, Images and Imaginary of a Contemporary Mega City; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Berlin; Hrsg. Marina Sorbello/Antje Weitzel; Argobooks Berlin
2008 Travel.Agencies, CIC Cairo: Interview with Aleya Hamza
2008 Travel.Agencies, Daily News Egypt, June 26, May El Wakeel
2007 Zwischen den Welten. Bernerin mit Wiener Akzent entdeckt Kairo. Swiss Info Artikel, 27. Februar 2007
2007 Goodbye Privacy, Katalog Ars Electronica 2007, Hrsg. Gerfried Stocker und Christine Schöpf; Sunday Files. Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3-77572025-0
2007 Clickhere.ch, Magazin f. elektronische Kunst aus der Schweiz; Sonntagsarbeit: Die Sunday-files von Maia Gusberti und Nik Thönen; Tex:t Verena Kuni
2006 Postmediale Kondition, Neue Galerie Graz, Hrsg. E. Fiedler / Ch. Steinle / P. Weibel; ISBN 3-902241-14-4
2004 Abstraction Now, Katalog; Hg.: Künstlerhaus Wien, Pfaffenbichler/Droschl, Edition Camera Austria, (A)
2004 Free Bitflows, Extream collaborative Media, Ausstellungskatalog. Konrad Becker & Felix Stalder
2003 The Chrono-files, from time-based art to Database, Lothringer13/halle München; Hrsg. Margit Rosen, Christian Schoen; ISBN 3-936919-12-7
2002 Unplugged, Art as the scene of global conflicts; Katalog Ars Electronica 2002, Hrsg. Gerfried Stocker, Christine Schöpf; Hatje Cantz, ISBN 3-7757-1207-0
2002 Cyber Arts 2002; Hrsg. Ars Electronica, Logicaland: Text Christine Schöpf; Hatje Cantz, ISBN 3-7757-1208-9
2002 Dérive, Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung, Heft/02, Logicaland, Text Erik Meinharter, ISSN 1608-8131
2002 Springerin, Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, B. VIII/Heft 3: Alternative Kartografien; Text Mathias Dusini
2001 Telepolis.de - Digitaler Augenschmaus; Austrian Abstracts III - computergenerierte Bild- und Tonwerke auf der Diagonale, Graz. Text: Barbara Pichler
2000 Springerin, Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, Band VI/Heft 1: Digitaler Spielplatz; Text Petra Erdmann
2000 Ausstellungskatalog Akai-Ito, Beurschouwburg Brussels, 2000, Text Yushi Oshima
2000 Springerin, Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, Band VI/Heft 03: Flimmern im Kollektiv, Text Christian Höller