Angelika Reitzer
Angelika Reitzer was born in 1971 in Graz, Austria. She studied German philology in Salzburg and Berlin, visited the Screenwriting and Dramaturgy Class at Filmakademie Vienna, the Screenplay Masterclass at HFF Munic (University of Television and Film) and the Friedl Kubelka School For Independent Film and is now living in Vienna as a freelance author of prose, poetry and drama, she is also screenwriting and making films.
Angelika published four novels (Obwohl es kalt ist draußen / Although it’s cold outside and Wir Erben / What we inherit et al.), one book of prose and one of poems (Inventary of a Region), worked on a series of short films with artist Antoinette Zwirchmayr (What I Remember) recently made a libretto for the musical together with composer Laura Winkler. Dear Darkness, a fiction short film by A. Zwirchmayr (script: Reitzer/Zwirchmayr) was premiering at the Austrian Film Museum in February 2022. Her next book of poems will be published in autumn 2025. Her first short essay-film sticking pigs was screened at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
Michael Goldgruber
Michael Goldgruber was born in 1965 in Austria, he lives and works in Vienna/Austria and Etmissl ( a small village in the Austrian alps).Trained as a photographer in the late 1980s, he has also studied History of Art and Philosophy at the University of Vienna and has been an extramural Student at the Universitiy of Applied Arts in Vienna.He has received some scholarships and residencies, amongst others 2012 at the Cité des Arts in Paris and 2015 at the Contretype (Centre d’Art contemporain pour la Photographie à Bruxelles) in Brussels. 2007 he was awarded with the Austrian state-scholarship for visual arts and in 2015 with an international price for art-photography – „La Quatrième Image“ – in Paris.
He has done various international solo shows between 1988 and 2017, a.o. in Vienna, Graz, Linz, Berlin, Zurich, Pula, Brussels, Paris and New York City. He has contributed in various international group shows a.o. in Vienna, Graz, Linz, Berlin, Stuttgart, Zurich, Paris, Mexico City, Santiago de Chile, Havana, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Shanghai, Bucharest, Sophia, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Zagreb, Athens, Bologna.
An Aperitif with the artists
Angelika Reitzer, Michael Goldgruber in conversation with the curator Francesca Lazzarini
An Aperitif with the Artists – Angelika Reitzer, Michael Goldgruber
Tuesday 29 April, 18:30 – MLZ Art Dep, via Roma 15, Trieste
The event featured Angelika Reitzer and Michael Goldgruber, artists in residence with AiR Trieste, in conversation with Francesca Lazzarini. The dialogue unfolded through stories, images, presentations of works, and personal anecdotes, offering the audience a convivial opportunity to explore the creative trajectories and reflections of the two artists.
Although both share Styrian origins, Reitzer and Goldgruber have developed distinct artistic practices—different in approach yet equally intense—capable of generating meaningful encounters. The discussion addressed their relationship with Trieste, ongoing research, and previously realized works, weaving together themes such as transforming rural landscapes, collective and personal memory, and the role of art in narrating environmental and climate change, as well as broader contemporary challenges.
The residency of Angelika Reitzer and Michael Goldgruber was made possible with the support of the Cultural Department of the Province of Styria.
