Elisa Schober
Elisa Schober creates interdisciplinary and often site-specific projects at the intersection of material research, performative installation, and socio-spatial practice. Her artistic work is process-oriented, experimental, and sensitive to context, space, and material. Often beginning with forms and structures derived from architecture and landscape, she reinterprets and transforms them.
Working with a modular, kit-like approach, Schober combines readymades and found objects, incorporating textiles, clay, and metal. She interweaves two- and three-dimensional layers, consciously employing resource-efficient methods. Her installations emerge in response to specific situations and locations, are often physically immersive, and invite interaction. In doing so, familiar systems and ways of seeing are questioned and poetically reassembled. Her works unfold in dialogue with their surroundings, respond to social and ecological issues, and open up alternative spaces for thought and action.
Together with Hannah Parth, she co-founded the interdisciplinary Kollektiv Bande in 2020, which is dedicated to active networking and critical engagement with social, ecological, and transformative processes. Operating in art, activism, and research, the collective develops interactive formats and performative narratives.
Elisa Schober (*1996 in Innsbruck) studied Fine Arts in the Drawing class with Veronika Dirnhofer, as well as Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. A preparatory program in the piano masterclass at the Tyrolean State Conservatory continues to influence her artistic practice to this day.
Artist residencies took her to Genalguacil (Spain) in 2024, and to “Medienfrische” in Bschlabs, Tyrol, in 2022 and 2023. Her work has been recognized with several awards, including the Tyrolean Work Grant (2025), the Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Scholarship (2024), and the Pfann-Ohmann Foundation Prize (2023). She has also received support from institutions such as Kunsthilfe Salzburg and through mentoring programs like Question Me & Answer (QMA) and Arts of Change in Vienna.
Her work was exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at ARCO Madrid (2025), the Vienna Climate Biennale (2024), and London Design Week (2022). Further group exhibitions have taken place at venues such as Barvinskyi Art Gallery (Vienna), Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Galerie Villa Schindler (Tyrol), Parallel Editions, Galerie Schloss Parz (Upper Austria), and Belvedere 21. In 2024, the short film installation Echo, developed collaboratively as part of a collective, was presented at the Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz.