Denise Ackerl

Dr Denise Ackerl, born 1987 in Vienna, Austria, is a performance artist with a feminist focus. She explores the crossover between the utopian and the authentic, often by playing with green screen technique. In 2021, she completed her practice-based PhD […]

Biography / Denise Ackerl

Dr Denise Ackerl, born 1987 in Vienna, Austria, is a performance artist with a feminist focus. She explores the crossover between the utopian and the authentic, often by playing with green screen technique. In 2021, she completed her practice-based PhD at the Chelsea College of Art in London (AHRC TECHNE Doctoral research award) and has presented her research internationally (New York, South Korea and Canada). In 2019 she co-organised and co-created ‘Women on the Moon’ (Lithuania), an exhibition interrogating a feminist space age and works as a lecturer across Fine Art, Performance and Gender Studies.