Sööt/Zeyringer
Tiina Sööt and Dorothea Zeyringer presented their first performance together in 2012, when they were both studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Since then, they have as the duo Sööt/Zeyringer devised performance pieces for exhibition spaces, stages and the public realm. At the intersection of visual art, choreography and theatre, their performances poetically and humorously tackle personally and socially relevant themes. For their most recent pieces, they did research on mothers that deviate from the norm of motherhood, analysed female rage and documented forgotten heroines of slapstick.
Sööt/Zeyringer’s work has been shown at, among other places, brut Wien, mumok, Kunsthalle Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, the Wiener Festwochen, Sophiensæle Berlin and Schwankhalle Bremen. Sööt/Zeyringer received the ImPulsTanz TURBO Research Residency and the Performing Arts Award issued by what was then the Austrian Federal Chancellor’s Office. In 2019, they were part of the FREISCHWIMMEN producing platform; in 2024, they received the ‘Förderungspreis’ Fine Arts of the City of Vienna.
TIINA SÖÖT works in Vienna, Bucharest and Tallinn. She received her master’s degree in Performative Arts at Estonian Art Academy and also studied Performative Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Besides the work of Sööt/Zeyringer she is developing a documentary performance practice together with an Estonian dramaturg Aet Kuusik, focusing on feminism, gender and sexuality. Between 2014 and 2018 she taught performance at Estonian Art Academy. In 2018 she published a photo book Heli riided together with Mai Arslan and in 2022 her debut documentary novel Minu Rumeenia – Absurdi armunud.
DOROTHEA ZEYRINGER lives and works in Vienna. She completed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and studied at the HZT Berlin. She received a danceWEB scholarship from ImPulsTanz in 2017, as well as a BKA scholarship, the ArtStart-Studio scholarship in 2018 and the foreign studio grant Paris from BMKOES in 2022. She worked as an artistic assistant for Michikazu Matsune and taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna on performance and research. Her artistic practice oscillates between visual arts, choreography and language.
Works at brut
- Invisible Collection (2025)
- Other Mother (2023)
- Connecting Views. A postcard project (2021)
- More or less (2021)
- Temporary collections (workshop, imagetanz 2021)
- Running gag (2018)
- lonely lonely (Feedback Festival 2017)
- We will figure it out (2017)