Kristofor‘s work deals with human intervention in the landscape, a central theme of the Anthropocene. She examines how landscapes are changed, used, and designed. In addition to physical change, she also focuses on psychological and perceptual aspects. She understands landscape as a palimpsest on which new cultural and identity-forming layers are continuously inscribed. Her own personal history of migration and the associated questions of home and belonging form the starting point for her artistic exploration.
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Education
Art and Time / Photography, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria, Diploma 2024
Summer Academy, Class of Anna Jermolaewa and Olga Chernysheva, Salzburg, Austria, 2016
fotoK, Vienna, Austria, Diploma 2011
Architecture, TU Vienna, Austria, Diploma 2009
Selected solo exhibitions
2025 Steppe Scape, Foto Wien, Vienna Collectors Club, Vienna, Austria
2025 it comes like a river, Photo Cluster, Vienna, Austria
2024 waldein (into the forest), ada, Vienna, Austria
2024 Knowing where you’re going can be confusing, Kunstraum Seestadt, Vienna, Austria
2024 Kühler wird die Sonne im Dunst des Nebels (The sun becomes cooler in the haze of the fog), Turmgalerie Vilshofen, Germany
2022 people cannot see well in fog, das T/abor, Vienna, Austria
2021 Es ist schon vorgekommen, dass Flugzeuge auf dem Rücken flogen, als sie wieder aus den Wolken hervorkamen (It has happened that planes flew on their backs when emerging from the clouds), Sehsaal, Vienna, Austria
2019 Phantom. Ein Ergebnis der Apokalypse (phantom. a result of the apocalypse), Foto Wien, Sternstudio, Vienna, Austria
2019 Auf der Suche nach dem Aussen (in search of the outside), Public Domain, Vienna, Austria
2017 Parallel Vienna 2017, Vienna, Austria
2017 Take Festival, Alte Post, Vienna, Austria
Awards, Grants, Residencies
2025 Austrian Art Alumni Award, BMFWF, Austria
2025 START Grant, Mentoring Program, BMWKMS, Austria
2024 Nomad Spirit Residency, Nomadic Red Corner, Deren Soum, Mongolia
2023 Kardinal König Art Award, nomination, St. Virgil, Salzburg, Austria
Collections
Kupferstichkabinett, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
City of Vienna, Austria
various private collections
Art in Public Spaces
2026 Anomaly in Space, Art Feed, Infinity Media, Vienna, Austria
2022 Steppe. Fragment., Red Carpet Show Room Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
2022 Wienwoche, agri_culture, Vienna, Austria
2021 Auf dem Rücken fliegen (flying on the back), Red Carpet Showroom Altes Landgut, Vienna, Austria
2021 Der Wald und das Steppenkind (the forest and the child of steppe), Red Carpet Show Room Volkstheater, Vienna, Austria
2021 Der Wald und das Steppenkind (the forest and the child of steppe), Rotlicht Festival, Vienna, Austria
2018 delirious islands, Belgrad, Serbia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Touch Nature, Austrian Cultural Forum London, United Kingdom (upcoming)
2026 The Forest Song, Orangerie, Palais Auersperg, Vienna, Austria
2026 The Forest Song, Orangerie, Palais Auersperg, Vienna, Austria
2025 Touch Nature, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, North Macedonia
2025 Vertical Horizon, Kyiv Biennal, Lentos Art Museum, Linz, Austria
2025 Vertical Horizon, Kyiv Biennal, Lentos Art Museum, Linz, Austria
2025 Smart Pictures, Foto Wien, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
2025 Ephemere Landschaften (Ephemeral Landscapes), STEIN*STEIN, Krems, Austria
2025 Touch Nature, Lentos, Linz, Austria
2024 Nomad Spirit, Deren Soum, Mongolia
2024 Take two, one to send and one for you, Stadtgalerie – raumimpuls, Waidhofen/Ybbs, Austria
2024 Parcours. Diploma works 2024, Atelierhaus, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
2024 Wilderness Alliances, Motherboard Artspace, Klima Biennial, Vienna, Austria
2023 Kardinal König Award, Exhibition and award ceremony, St. Virgil, Salzburg, Austria
2023 Parallel Vienna, Kahan Art Space, Otto Wagner Areal, Vienna, Austria
2023 in den Blick nehmen (take a look), Schlossgalerie Schärding, Schärding, Austria
2023 gmunden.photo, Stadtgarten Gmunden, Gmunden, Austria
2023 Honoring the Future, InterCulture, Guangzhou, China
2022 In Translation — The Contexts of Nature, Sea World Culture & Arts Center (SWCAC), Shenzhen, China
2022 Hier kommt Kunst, drum 5162, Obertrum am See, Austria
2022 Reaktion und Aktion, Lowland, Stuttgart, Germany
2022 Reflections on Caliban and the Witch, Foto Wien, Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria
2022 Naturell, Foto Wien, Dessous, Vienna, Austria
2021 40 Jahre Fotogalerie Wien, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
2021 nebelweit, masc foundation, Rotlicht Festival, Vienna, Austria
2021 Imago Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 Parallel Vienna 2021, Vienna, Austria
2021 EcoFlirt, smolka contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2021 The Use of Landscape, Galeria Posibila, Bucharest, Romania
2021 The Use of Landscape, xhibit – Exhibitions space of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
2020 Parallel Vienna 2020, Vienna, Austria
2019 Poison Ivy, Franz Josephs Kai 3, Vienna, Austria
2019 Self-reflection on the process of art production, Foto Wien, Vienna, Austria
2019 Modemomente. FotografInnen im Fokus (Fashion Moments: Spotlight on Photographers), Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria
2019 With view to the sea, Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Odesa, Ukraine
2019 Parallel Vienna 2019, Vienna, Austria
2018 Weiß enthält alle Farben (White contains all colors), Photon Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2018 The Censored Exhibition, Photo City, Kopenhagen, Denmark
2017 Only Human, Austrian Cultural Forum London, London, United Kingdom
2017 Strudelobjekte, New Jörg, Vienna, Austria
2017 Alienation, Zigutamve Studio, Vienna, Austria