Milva Stutz is an artist based in Zurich.Through video and drawing, her work examines the dynamics of interpersonal relationship: the awkwardness, intimacy, physicality and emotionality in a time characterized by digitality and technology. Her current and recent exhibitions include «If You See Me Stumble» Kunsthaus Langenthal (solo, 2024) «Apropos Hodler. Current perspectives on an icon» Kunsthaus Zurich (2024), «MONOTYPES Edition VFO» Kunsthalle Zurich (2023), «Waiting for Your Call», Kunsthalle Lucerne (solo, 2023), «Tricky Women/Tricky Realities», Bildraum07 Vienna (solo with Maja Gehrig, 2023), «The Lobster needs to get rid of its shell», a&o Kunsthalle Leipzig (2023), «TSCHÜÜSS festival», Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2022), «Gazed and Confused», Last Tango, Zurich (2022), «Werkschau» Museum Haus Konstruktiv Zurich (2021). Her filmic work has been shown at Annecy International Animated Film Festival (2022/2020), PÖFF Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn (2020), Tricky Women Festival Vienna (2022/20), Guanajuato International Film Festival Mexico (2019), DOK Leipzig (2018), among other.
@milvastutz
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Education

• 2019
  • Master of Arts in Fine Arts, Zurich University of the Arts | ZHdK, Zurich
• 2012
  • Master of Arts in Art Education, ZHdK, Zurich
• 2009
  • Bachelor of Arts in Illustration Fiction, Lucerne School of Art and Design

Solo Shows

• 2024
  • If You See Me Stumble, Kunsthaus Langenthal
• 2023
  • Waiting for Your Call, Kunsthalle Luzern, Fumetto Comicfestival, Lucerne
  • Tricky Women/Tricky Realities, with Maja Gehrig, Bildraum 07, Vienna
• 2021
  • For Real, for Real, for Real this Time, Barbara Seiler, Zurich
  • Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair, Kunstraum Luke, Zurich
• 2020
  • Good Boys, König Büro, Zurich
• 2019
  • One is too few and two is only one possibility, with Magda Drozd, LOKAL14, Zurich

Group Shows (Selection) and Screenings

• 2024
  • Apropos Holder, Kunsthaus Zürich
  • Film um 4, Ausstellungsraum Klingenthal, Basel
• 2023
  • MONOTYPES, Kunsthalle Zürich
  • Alienate Transcend, Barbara Seiler Galerie, ZH
  • The Lobster needs to get rid of its shell, a&o Kunsthalle Leipzig
• 2022
  • TSCHÜÜSS festival, Centre culturel suisse, Paris
  • Hanging Out, Live Drawing with Lika Nüssli, Documenta 15, lumbung of Publishers, Kassel
  • Gazed and Confused, Last Tango, Zurich
  • Entrepreneurship – Oder die Verheissung des brotlosen Glücks, Kunstraum Riehen, Basel
  • Le sacre du printemps, Barbara Seiler, Zurich
• 2021
  • Werkschau, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
  • 6 + 3 = 1, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich
  • It‘s a … Women‘s Women‘s Women‘s world!, Karl der Grosse, Zurich
  • Loop Transformation, Videofenster, Fachstelle Kunst und Bau und Kunstsammlung Stadt Zurich
  • Building Bodies, science+fiction Festival, Humbug, Basel
  • Identität und andere Ideen, Kino Xenix, Zurich
  • Fliessende Übergänge, Kunstverein Gera, Germany
  • AIR WASTE HEALTH WATER ENERGY SOIL, Gleis 70, Zurich
  • NO—BODY’S ROOM, Video Art Screening, The Room Projects, Paris, in collaboration with LUX
• 2020
  • All The Feels, UNI Space, Zurich
  • Längizyti – Longing for Sunshine, König Büro, Kunst 2020, Zurich
  • Paperwork, Verein Zitrone, Zurich
• 2019
  • Grosse Regionale, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil
  • Intimacy – Make Kin, Raum°Station, Zurich
  • Digital Dramatizations: Ecologies from the Future. Fold II, Center of Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
  • Diplomausstellung Master Fine Arts, ZHdK
  • March of the Feminists, Performance with Lika Nüssli, Volumes, Kunsthalle Zurich
  • Selbstverklumpungen, Kunstraum luke, Zurich

Filmfestivals (Selection)

• 2024
  • Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland

• 2022
  • Geneva international film festival, Swiss Interative Sessions, Geneva
  • Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Swiss Animation Program, Annecy, France
  • La Féte du Slip, Lausanne
  • Tricky Women/Tricky Realities, Vienna, Austria
• 2021
  • HER Docs Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
  • Fest Anča International Animation Festival, Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, Slovakia
• 2020
  • Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Off-Limit Competition, Annecy, France (online)
  • New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Int. Competition, Japan
  • PÖFF short film and animation festival, Tallinn, Estonia (online)
  • Tricky Women/Tricky Realities, Vienna, Austria (corona cancelled)
  • Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, Swiss Competition, Baden
  • Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Queer Animation program, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Schamlos! Queer-Feministisches Pornographie Festival, Bern
• 2019
  • Guanajuato International Film Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico
  • Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brasil
  • Porny Days Film Kunst Festival Zürich, Zurich
  • Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema, Paris, France
  • Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Queer Animation program, Kiev, Ukraine
  • GAZE LGBT Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland
  • Innsbruck Nature Film Festival, Innsbruck, Austria
  • FLEX FEST – Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival, Florida, USA
• 2018
  • DOK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Awards/Grants

• 2024
  • Förderbeitrag, Fachstelle Kultur, Canton Zurich
• 2022
  • Covid-Arbeitsstipendium, City of Zurich
• 2021
  • Freiraumbeitrag, Fachstelle Kultur, Canton Zurich
  • Grant, UBS Kulturstiftung, Zurich
  • Covid-Arbeitsstipendium, City of Zurich

Artist in Residence

• 2023
  • Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, Visarte Schweiz
• 2022
  • Alpenhof Bibliothek Andreas Züst, CH
• 2013/17
  • Artist in Residence, Nairs, Scuol, CH

• Collections
• • Helvetia Art Collection
  • Art Collection Canton Zurich
  • Art Collection City Zurich