Manuel Knapp

Biography

Artist, musician, and filmmaker. Born in 1978. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2002) and computer music and electroacoustic media at the Institute for Composition and Electroacoustics of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (2005). In 2007, he won the Diagonale prize for Best Experimental Film; in 2008 he made the festival’s trailer. He has won accolades at, and taken part in, numerous film festivals, including Ann Arbor, Lausanne, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Osnabrück, Leeds, the Viennale, Mexico City, and Gothenburg. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held in leading art spaces in Austria and Czechia. In Russia, Manuel Knapp’s work has been shown in a group exhibition in Murmansk.