SUNNY PFALZER (they/them)
Performance Artist & Guest Professor in Fine Arts
Born 1991 in Vienna, living and working in Zurich, Berlin and Ternitz
Education
2017-2018 Fine arts studies at ENPEG “la Esmeralda”, Mexico City
2012 -2018 Fine Arts studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Department of Performative Art
2010-2016 Study of History and Political Education at the University of Vienna
Performances and solo exhibitions (selection)
2025 CRIPTO SIRENAS, Goethe Institut New York, USA performance / collaborative exhibition
CRIPTO SIRENAS, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, DE performance
2024 CRIPTO SIRENAS, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, DE, collaborative exhibition
CUDDLE SLUGS, Tangente St. Pölten, AT, commissioned festival installation
RUB YOUR FACE ONTO YOUR SHOULDER, Künstlerhaus Nürnberg DE, performance
2023 SCORES FOR FAKE AUTHENTICITY, Art in the Underground, nGbK Berlin, DE, performance and billboards
SEND ME A TEXT, Cruze, Madrid, ESP, performance
I KNOW WHAT TO DO, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, DE, performance and exhibtion
I KNOW WHAT TO DO, Neun Kelche, Berlin, DE, solo exhibition
I KNOW WHAT TO DO, Tanzquartier Vienna, AT, performance
2022 I KNOW WHAT TO DO, Perrrformat, Zurich, CH performance
I KNOW WHAT TO DO, The Fairest Art Fair, The Fairest, Berlin Art Week, Berlin, DE performance
GANGS OF PERFORMATIVE ACTIVISM, Kunsthalle Baden Baden DE performance lecture
RUB YOUR FACE ONTO YOUR SHOULDER, Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Graz, AT performance & solo exhibition
RUB YOUR FACE ONTO YOUR SHOULDER, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, PT performance
2021 RUB YOUR FACE ONTO YOUR SHOULDER, Radialsystem, Berlin DE performance
2020 GANGS OF PERFORMATIVE ACTIVISM, Theater Neumarkt/Shedhalle Zurich, CH performance and lab
HOLD A GHOST, feldfünf and Montag Modus, Berlin DE performance and group exhibition
POGO TV, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, DE performance
WHEN THE BATS FLY, pIAR, Kumasi, GH performance
2019 GANGS OF PERFORMATIVE ACTIVISM, Les Urbaines/ Arsenic, Lausanne, CH performance lecture and lab
TRENZAS. DRESDEN EDT., Tanzkongress Dresden, DE performance
MODERATION/INTERVENTION, Ashley Berlin, Berlin DE performance
FROM ETHICS TO AESTHETICS, ATAR Museum, Tel Aviv, IL performance
2017 SUB ROSA, Wiener Festwochen 2017, Vienna, AT performance
2016 WIR BEFINDEN UNS nicht - Can a text be a performance?, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT performance
2015 EDIT ME AGAIN, You've seen me before, MUMOK Vienna, AT performance
EDIT ME PLEASE, Kunsthalle Wien, AT performance
2014 NO CUBRIR, Centro Gabriela Mistral (GAM), Santiago de Chile, CL performance
NO COVER, Natural History Museum Vienna, AT performance
Group exhibitions and screenings (selection)
2025 Our Voices, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, DE, group exhibition
Almost, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, AT, group exhibition
2024 Video Art at Midnight, Berlin Art Week, Gropius Bau, Berlin, DE, screening
Fort Biennale 01. In the body of language, Franzensfests, IT, group exhibition
School of Listening differently, Stadtgalerie Zwergelgarten, Summeracademy, Salzburg, AT group exhibition
2023 Monitoring, Kasseler Dokfest, Kunstverein Kassel Fridericianum, DE, group exhibition
2022 Queer Trust, Shedhalle, Zurich, CH group exhibition
Handspells - Vienna Kunsthalle Price, Kunsthalle Vienna, AT group exhibition
2021 The Fairest Teaser 02, The Fairest, Berlin, DE group exhibition
Hold Hands, Kunstverein Leipzig, DE group exhibition
2018 LAS TRENZAS, Ladrón Galería, Mexico City, MX screening
2017 Queer Encounters - Vienna Trans L.A.; CalArts University Gallery, Los Angeles, US group exhibition
2015 Destination Wien, Kunsthalle Wien, AT
Scholarships and grants (selection)
2024 BMKÖS Individual project funding
Province of Lower Austria Project funding
Berlin Senate travel stipend
2023 BMKÖS Individual project funding
Province of Lower Austria Project funding
2022 BMKÖS Individual project funding
TANZPRAXIS stipend Berlin senate
2021 DAKU Fund for the performing arts Process funding
DAKU Fund for the performing arts Research Funding
Province of Lower Austria Project Funding
Province of Lower Austria Research Grant
DIS-TANZ-SOLO Scholarship
BMKÖS individual project funding
2020 BMKÖS, Startstipendium
BMKÖS individual project funding
BKA film development grant
MA 7 City of Vienna project grant
DAKU #takecare research grant at Libken
2019 BKA, individual funding
Province of Lower Austria Project funding
2017 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna ARTSTART scholarship
Residencies
2024 SAIC Chicago, US
Yes. Contemporary, El Salvador
2023 fluent PRAXIS, Santander, ESP
TURBO Residency, Impulstanz Festival, AT
2021 TRUST Collective, Barril de Alva, PT
2020 pIAR, Kumasi, GH
2019 danseatelier, Copenhagen, DK
2017 Cráter Invertido, Mexico City, MX
Ladrón Galería, Mexico City, MX
danceWEB, Impulstanz Festival Vienna, AT
Academic career / Workshops and Teaching
2024-2025 Guest professor Fine Art ++ Mediation Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
2024 Städelschule Frankfurt
2018 + 2019 University of Applied Arts Vienna
2017 / 2018 / 2019 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Other activities
2018-2019 Studio Manager Isabel Lewis' Studio Callie's Berlin
2019 Assistant American Realness Festival, New York
Curatorial work
2025 Activist Choreographies of Care, nGbK Berlin
2024 Hold me grieving, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
2022 Hold me TV, Scherben, Berlin
2018 assistant curator of Isabel Lewis Martin-Gropius-Bau Berliner Festspiele