About Invisible Collection by Sööt/Zeyringer
The interactive audio performance Invisible Collection uncovers artworks by women artists that have been misattributed to men in the course of history either mistakenly, accidentally or willingly. With wit, warmth and sharp eye for injustice, Sööt/Zeyringer guide you through a collection of invisible artworks that begin to slowly take shape in the listener’s imagination. Between past and present stories, fact and fiction, Tiina Sööt and Dorothea Zeyringer raise the question of how much stealing in art is okay? They gossip about personal experiences and encourage visitors to think about ways in which we ourselves want to shape history.

Denise Palmieri is a performance artist, and her work is rooted in the visual arts. Born in 1986 in São Paulo, Brazil, she has been living and working in Austria since 2012. The expression of the body, voice, and ritual aspects is a significant part of her work. With a focus on performance, she also works as a curator for festivals.

Raffaela Bielesch, born in Vienna in 1984, lives and works in Lower Austria. Her artistic practice is cross-media with a focus on photography and performance and their correspondences. She studied Performative Art with Carola Dertnig at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Prior to that, she studied Slavic studies and art history in Vienna, Moscow and Basel; School for Artistic Photography Friedl Kubelka under the direction of Anja Manfredi.

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. www.sootzeyringer.com