Nathalie Koger / Biography
Nathalie Koger is an Austrian-German artist, filmmaker, and educator working internationally, with her base in Austria. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Fine Arts Münster. Koger is a founding member of the Golden Pixel Cooperative, a platform dedicated to exploring the intersections of moving images and feminism.
Through collaborative projects, Koger creates films and installations that embrace multiple perspectives. She approaches filmmaking as a social practice, incorporating the philosophy and methodologies of encounter and open dramaturgy, while seamlessly integrating the process-oriented nature of film into her work. Additionally, her practice is informed by in-situ methods from Black American culture and appropriation strategies.
Her works have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Kunsthaus Graz with GPC (AT), Kunsthalle Wien (AT), Belvedere (AT), Now Instant (Los Angeles, USA), Temporary Gallery Cologne (DE), among others. She has also participated in film festivals, such as Diagonale and Viennale (AT), the IFF Edinburg (UK), and the Novi Sad Film Festival (RS).
As a member of the Golden Pixel Cooperative, Koger has developed artistic-curatorial strategies for exhibitions and screenings and has curated programs for Shoonya (Bangalore, IND), the Limited Access Festival (Tehran, IR; in collaboration with Marlies Pöschl), and the Notgalerie (Vienna, AT). Notable curated programs include When it Starts to Glimmer, Vanishing Points, and Verknüpfte Verknüpfung (Entanglement).
In her editorial role at the Golden Pixel Cooperative, she co-edited the publications You’ll Never Work Alone: Collective Infrastructures in Moving Images and You’ll Never Watch Alone: The Screen as a Place of Work (Schlebrügge.Editor, 2022 and 2025).
Her accolades and grants include the 2025 Culture Moves Europe Grant from the European Commission, the 2024 State Scholarship for Media Art (BMKÖS, AT), the 2023 Film Scholarship (BMKÖS, AT), the 2021 Innovative Cinema Award at the Diagonale (AT) with the Golden Pixel Cooperative, the 2018 artasafoundation Grant (CH), the 2014 Annual Grant from the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg (DE), the 2013 START Scholarship for Video and Media Art (bmukk, AT), the 2012 Media Art Scholarship (bmukk, AT), and the 2010 Birgit Jürgenssen Prize.