Based in: Austria

Participated in: Evia International Residency

Johanna Tinzl (*1976 in Innsbruck, Austria) is a visual artist. Her practice spans a wide range of media and is rooted in a sensitive and participatory engagement with the histories of specific people, communities, places, and landscapes. She explores questions of collective memory and politically motivated processes of representation.

Tinzl has a particular interest in the performativity of historical narratives and in making visible both the global and local dimensions of ecological and technological processes. In her works, which range from fictional to documentary formats, she consistently emphasizes the polyphony of narratives, thereby challenging the hegemonic construction of history.

Tinzl’s works have been exhibited and screened internationally, most recently at the Klima Biennale Wien (2024), Muzeum umění Olomouc (2023), at the Diagonale (2023) and at the Secession in Vienna (2022).

In 2026, Johanna Tinzl has been invited to participate in The Arctic Circle Expeditionary Residency in the Arctic. In 2025, she will participate in the Turning the Tide Artist-in-Residence Program in Evia, Greece. In 2024, she was an Artist-in-Rresidence at Donumenta in Regensburg, Germany. She received a work grant of the Federal State of Tyrol (AT) in 2023 and was awarded the Austrian State Grant for Visual Arts in 2021. Her previous residencies include the SÍM Program in Reykjavík, Iceland (2019), FILTER Detroit, USA (2016) and Red Gate in Beijing, China (2015).