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Ovidiu Anton

Ovidiu Anton (born 1982 in Timişoara, Romania) lives and works in Vienna.He studied at École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Marseille and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Anton deals with film and video, performance, drawing and sculptural objects. His works often take on a political character. In his context, the artist concentrates on seeking and highlighting the paradoxical nuances of the surrounding world. His solo exhibitions have been organized at Gallery 5020, Salzburg; Christine König Gallery, Vienna; Tobacco Cultural Centre, Ljubljana; König2 by_robbygreif, Vienna; Future Museum, Bucharest and G99 Gallery in Brno.

He participated, among others, in group exhibitions at Frappant, Hamburg; MAK Vienna; MUMOK cinema, Vienna; Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein; Jewish Museum, Hohenems; City Gallery of Ljubljana; Karst Projects, Plymouth; Galeria Labirynt, Lublin and other institutions. 

His latest project was about the US-Mexico border. He gathered information about the illegal cutting of the wall-structure from the Mexican side and transformed it into objects, drawings and videos.

Residency for Austrian artists