Michaela Putz

Exhibition view of Postfactual Seeds at KunstHausWien
Exhibition view Seeds. Reclaiming Roots, Sowing Futures, KunstHausWien, 2026 · Photo: Iris Ranzinger
Exhibition view, pigment prints on the blue wall
Postfactual Seeds, 2026, rendered photographs, pigment prints, exhibition view Seeds. Reclaiming Roots, Sowing Futures, KunstHausWien, Vienna, 2026 · Photo: Iris Ranzinger
3D prints on a shelf
Postfactual Seeds, 2026, 3D prints, exhibition view, KunstHausWien, 2026 · Photo: Iris Ranzinger

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Now on view
10.04.2026 – 14.02.2027

Seeds. Reclaiming Roots, Sowing Futures

KunstHausWien, Vienna

Group exhibition, part of Klima Biennale Wien 2026. Curated by Sophie Haslinger. With Ackroyd & Harvey, Maria Thereza Alves, Alexandra Baumgartner, Tue Greenfort, Kapwani Kiwanga, Dominique Koch, Jumana Manna, Christian Kosmas Mayer, Marzia Migliora, Lucia Pizzani, Michaela Putz, Cecilia Vicuña and Munem Wasif.

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Upcoming
05.11.2026

Publication launch: P.IN.E.A 002

Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Herrengasse 13, 1010 Vienna

Postfactual Seeds appears in issue 002 of P.IN.E.A, a periodical for photography and related media.

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Recently
14.10.2026

Side by Side

Raum Salmgasse, Salmgasse 6, 1030 Vienna

SICHTweisen Festival Wien. Showing the video essay Ghost of the River.

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Recently
13.10.2026

Phantom of a Garden at Stadtkino Wien

Stadtkino Wien

Screening as part of Künstlerhaus Kino Spektrum.

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Works

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  • Video still, AI reconstruction of the Baiji

    01 / 16 · 2026

    Ghost of the River

    Video essay, approx. 8 min

    Ghost of the River is a video essay about the Baiji, the Yangtze river dolphin that disappeared after an estimated 19 million years in the river.

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  • Exhibition view, KunstHausWien

    02 / 16 · 2026

    Postfactual Seeds

    AI-supported 3D modelling, pigment prints of rendered photography, 3D prints

    Seeds are archives that hold the past of a species and the possibility of its future.

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  • Hybrid Botany, composition of sewn panels

    03 / 16 · 2026

    Hybrid Botany

    Pigment prints of algorithm-assisted 3D reconstructions and textures on organic cotton with seed fragments, hand-sewn

    For Hybrid Botany, extinct plants are reconstructed three-dimensionally through an algorithm-assisted process, then modelled and given a texture.

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  • Unseen, small prints on a shelf

    04 / 16 · 2024–2025

    Unseen

    Digital manipulation on found footage, pigment prints on archival paper, mounted on alu dibond

    The Baiji is the starting point of Unseen, yet it appears in none of the images.

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  • Albedo/Skin, textile sculptures, exhibition view

    05 / 16 · 2024–2025

    Albedo/Skin

    Digital prints on faux leather, textile sculptures, inkjet prints

    These textile and sculptural works derive from digital reconstructions of the extinct river dolphin Baiji.

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  • Exhibition view Uncanny Gardens, Medienwerkstatt Wien

    06 / 16 · 2024–2025

    Phantom of a Garden

    Video work using AI-supported 3D modelling, 06:24 min, multimedia installation with wallpaper, metal and textile

    As a result of working with digital image archives of extinct plants, Phantom of a Garden imagines a future in which lost things are brought back to life in a digital realm.

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  • Exhibition view Between Light and Shadow

    07 / 16 · 2022–2024

    Collected

    Collages from C-prints (Fujicolor photo paper matte), in-situ wall collages (inkjet prints on paper), found papers from botanical collections with plant traces

    Collected is concerned with remembering, and with the instability of digital images in the face of ecological loss.

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  • Cutout #001, exhibition view 9 Artists, 9 Days

    08 / 16 · 2023

    Cutouts

    Digital photography and montage, C-prints on archival paper, mounted on alu dibond

    For Cutouts, landscapes in which extinct plants once grew were photographed directly from the screen.

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  • Exhibition view FLORA IRANICA, Yassi Foundation

    09 / 16 · 2021–2022

    Extinction Ballads

    Digital collages from found footage, fine art prints on archival paper and UV prints on vinyl

    Extinction Ballads are digital collages built from found footage of plants that have become extinct or are threatened with extinction.

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  • Hypercene, installation view

    10 / 16 · 2021–2022

    Hypercene

    Interactive installation in public space

    Hypercene was an interactive installation in public space for Mikrogalerija CPN in Belgrade, made with Mato Lagator.

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  • Screen Romance, prints on fabric, Museum Villa Rot

    11 / 16 · 2018–2020

    Screen Romance

    Photography, digital prints on fabric and UV prints on acrylic glass

    Screen Romance turns the most ordinary gesture of our time into the subject of the image: the swipe.

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  • Exhibition view Gloom of Mnemosyne, Bildraum 01

    12 / 16 · 2019

    Gloom of Mnemosyne

    Photography, pigment prints on archival paper, wallpaper, glass objects

    Human memory is full of gaps.

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  • On the Water, detail

    13 / 16 · 2018

    On the Water

    Photo sculpture, digital smudge on found footage, UV print on vinyl

    On the Water asks how we deal with the endless stream of news about human tragedies in the digital age.

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  • Narcissus’ Pond, exhibition view BETON7

    14 / 16 · 2018–2023

    Narcissus’ Pond

    Sculpture, synthetic resin and black pigments

    These objects were once liquid; now they are solid.

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  • Obscure Mirrors, installation view TIM NOLAS

    15 / 16 · 2018

    Obscure Mirrors

    Photography, UV prints on the back of acrylic glass

    Obscure Mirrors draws on the long tradition of black mirrors, whose contemporary successors are the screens of our smartphones.

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  • Installation view, Heiligenkreuzerhof

    16 / 16 · 2017

    Traces of Seemingly Insignificant Gestures

    Photograms, installation with steel tables, glass, black paint and LED

    Smartphones have changed not only how we communicate; they have also produced a whole repertoire of new gestures.

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