Theresa Reiwer is a (post)digital artist who creates multi-channel video, XR, and spatial installations that expand the tangible into the digital – and vice versa – using 3D, game engines, photogrammetry, motion capture, AI tools, and analog methods. Text is central to her practice, often developed through research as well as in collaboration with other authors and large language models. Lecture-like forms are cinematically stylized, different perspectives appear in dialogues that are voiced by fictional characters. Her work focuses on artificial intelligence, explored both as a mirror of societal paradigms and as a tool for imagining alternative futures. She received multiple awards and grants, including Lumen Prize Gold Award (UK), BBA Artist Priz (2nd winner) 2024, Mart Stam Prize 2019, Haus for Media Art Grant 2025, Hauptstadtkulturfonds 2026 and exhibited around the world, among others at Ars Electronica Linz, Chengdu Biennale, in Basel, Beijing, Einhoven, Istanbul, Madrid, Miami, Stockholm, Zurich. She was on the jury board for the AI short film competition AIsolation by Goethe-Institute China and HAU Hebbel am Ufer and regularly works as a speaker or lecturer (e.g. HTW Berlin, Uni Oldenburg).

Education

2013-2019

Fine Arts/Stage and Costume, weissensee school of art and design Berlin, Germany Scholarship, Diploma

2010

Film/Media Art, Bilgi University Istanbul (TR)

2008-2013

Film and Theatre Studies, Free University Berlin, Bachelor of Arts

Awards

2024

Lumen Prize – Gold Award (London/UK) for DECODING BIAS

BBA Artist Prize (Berlin, international award) – 2nd winner for DECODING BIAS

2019

Mart Stam Prize (Berlin) for SLOW ROOMS

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2026

INTERNET EXPLORER, interactive game essay and spatial installation, HAU – Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Berlin Art Week

2025

ON THE INTERNET NOBODY KNOWS YOU’RE A DOG (residency showing),
interactive game essay, Schauspielhaus Graz (AT)

2024

LASTING GENERATION, interactive 5-channel video and spatial installation,
HAU – Hebbel am Ufer “Spy on Me Festival – Enter AI“, Berlin

2023

DECODING BIAS, 8-channel video and spatial installation, Holzmarkt Berlin

2021

SOCIAL CAPSULE, site-symbiotic spatial video inst. & AR App, Monopol Berlin

2020

DESERT FUTURE, VR Film, Haus der Statistik, Berlin

2019

SLOW ROOMS, site-specific spatial video inst. & AR App, private flat, Berlin

Group Exhibitions / Festivals (selection)

2026

Chengdu Biennale (CN) “Pulse of Life“: DECODING BIAS (8-ch.), 2025 iteration

STRP Eindhoven (NL) “Soft, Slow and Powerful“: LASTING GENERATION

After the Algorithm Festival, Zurich (CH): DECODING BIAS (1-ch.)

Digithalia Festival #3/Schauspielhaus Graz (AT): ON THE INTERNET [...]

2025

Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid (ES) “Today is A Good Day to Discuss Digital Rights“: DECODING BIAS (8-ch.), 2025 iteration

Kassel Doc. Film Fest/Monitoring Media Art Exh. (D): LASTING GENERATION 2025 Humboldt University Berlin/psychology conference: DECODING BIAS (1 ch.)

REFRESH Festival/Zurich School of the Arts (CH): LASTING GENERATION
2025 Asia Digital Art Exh./Three Hills a. Five Gardens Mus., Beijing (CN): D. B. (8-ch.)

Republica 25, Berlin “Generation XYZ“: LASTING GENERATION (3-ch.)

Prater Digital/SOMA Art, Berlin “Thirsty Machines: AI on Tap“: L. G. (3-ch.)

2024

Beyond Basel, Miami (USA): LASTING GENERATION (1-ch. excerpt)

Next Level Festival, Dortmund (D): DECODING BIAS (8-ch.)

BBA Artist Prize – Shorlist Exhibition, Kühlhaus Berlin: D. B. (1-ch.)

Ars Electronica Export/Piksel Creative Solutions, Çubuklu Silolar, Istanbul (TR) “Re Cognition: What is real?“: DECODING BIAS (8-ch.)

KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, 48h NK/main exhibition, Berlin: NEW WAYS OF URBANITY, (3-ch. video/spatial installation)

NAOM Media Art Museum, Stockholm (SE): DECODING BIAS (8-ch.)

Digithalia Festival #1, Schauspielhaus Graz (AT): DECODING BIAS (8-ch.)

Bahidorá Festival, Mexiko: DECODING BIAS (1-ch.)

Kaserne Basel (CH): DECODING BIAS (8-ch.)

2023

Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (AT)“Who Owns The Truth?“, Animation Festival– Human and AI: DECODING BIAS (1-ch.)

Ars Electronica/DEEP SPACE: DECODING BIAS (2-ch. large scale short video)

“100 y. airport Tempelhof“/Timelab Slow Future, Berlin: D. B. (1-ch.)

Berlin Art Week/Monopol Berlin: DECODING BIAS (1-ch.)

End of Nations Festival/Monopol Berlin: DECODING BIAS (8-ch.)

2022

RAW.OST, Berlin: SOCIAL CAPSULE (XR-/spatial installation)

XR Unites/FEZ Berlin “Interagieren statt nicht berühren“: EMOTIONS ON DEMAND, (AR App)

2021

XR Unites/HU Berlin “Extended Reality – Code and Materiality in Art and Culture“: EMOTIONS ON DEMAND (AR App, spatial installation)

Gallery Parterre Berlin/Mart Stam Prize 19: EMOTIONS ON DEMAND (AR App)

Marburger Kunstverein/Mart Stam Pr. 19: EMOTIONS ON DEMAND (AR App)

Further Recognition / Grants (selection)

2026

Capital Cultural Fund (D)

Collide Residency Award – Shortlist, Arts at CERN (CH)/Nobel Pr. Museum (SE)

2025

Golden Cube Award – Finalist, Kassel Doc. Film Fest/Monitoring (D)

Circa Art Prize – Shortlist (UK)

Grant Haus for Media Art/Foundation Lower Saxony (D)

2024

Capital Cultural Fund (D)

2023

Research Grant of Fund Performing Arts (D)

Project Grant of Fund Performing Arts (D)

2022

Work and Research Grant Senate Berlin

Project Grant of Fund Performing Arts (D)

2021

Research Grant of Academy of the Arts/Neustart Kultur (D)

2020/21

Elsa-Neumann-Stipend/“NaFöG“, postgrad./1-y. promotion for artists (Berlin)

2018/19

Residency at Production Lab of AURORA - School for ARtists (EFRE-funded)