About
me
Astrid Rieder works as an international trans-Art artist in her studio in Salzburg.
In her artistic practice trans-Art, Astrid Rieder is interested in the dialogue between new music and abstract drawing and in overcoming traditional artistic barriers. From 1993 onwards, she gained important experience with Wolfgang Seierl (painter and composer, Vienna), Johannes Ziegler (painter, Salzburg) and the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg (Xenia Hausner, Hella Berent and Kimberly Bradley). Her theoretical knowledge was deepened in regular meetings with Eva Roscher (1998-2015) and in the music theory seminar with Christian Ofenbauer (composer and music theorist, Mozarteum Salzburg). She is on the advisory board of the Maria Anna Mozart Society and a member of IG Bildende Kunst.
Through international scholarships and in collaboration with musicians, Astrid Rieder realises trans-art performances and workshops worldwide, e.g. at the ‘Mid Atlantic trans-Art Tour 2014’, the electroacoustic festival in Seia, Portugal 2017, the NY Art Connection Gallery Long Island, the Riga Performance Festival STARPTELPA 2018, the ONE MONTH FESTIVAL SEOUL 17/18, in the Galleria Kookos in Helsinki (2018), in the Sonic Lab of Queens University Belfast (2019) or most recently at the VCCA in Virginia, USA (2024) and at the 13th {Re}HAPPENING at the Black Mountain College Campus at Lake Eden, NC, USA (2025).
In 2016, in her former studio at Künstlerhaus Salzburg, she developed the monthly performance series do trans-Art, which she has continued ever since. On the second Thursday of each month, she invites a musician to her studio to enter into a transdisciplinary dialogue with her in front of an audience. The resulting drawings have been shown in various exhibitions. Since 2010, she has been creating the radio programme ‘Atelier für neue Musik’ on Radiofabrik - Das Freie Radio Salzburg, which has been broadcast on RadioFRO since 2011. The programme features the acoustic part of the performances as well as conversations with the performance partners. ‘Atelier für neue Musik’ comprises two slots per month.
Other major projects include the ‘Atelier Concerts for New Music’, a cross-art event at which Astrid Rieder presented new music in Salzburg for 20 years and was active as an artist (1996-2016), as well as the biennial symposium SUMMIT of trans-Art, which has been held since 2020.
trans-Art
The performance art trans-Art is dedicated to the interplay between new, improvised music and large-scale abstract drawing. It is a regular exercise in the encounter between two worlds – two art forms, but also two people with their own backgrounds and perspectives. In an interactive, modulating dialogue between the arts, a joint visual and auditory composition emerges without prior consultation or rehearsal. The performance takes place in the moment. The drawing unfolds, as does the sound, in a reciprocal process in a protected space, the studio. In the process, expectations are necessarily broken – one's own, those of the other person and those of the audience – a characteristic feature of any dialogue that seeks a serious and attentive engagement with the other. In times of increasingly hardened positions, performance art can thus possibly show a different, more sustainable form of coexistence that finds common ground precisely in differences.
BIOGRAPHY
2025
trans-Art performance at Black Mountain College Campus at Lake Eden, NC, USA
on 3rd of May 2025, with composer and electronic musician Erik Spangler
2024
residency at the VCCA (USA), 1st & 2nd get together performance
2023
30 years of Art. Astrid Rieder at Künstlerhaus Salzburg: exhibition, trans-Art Workshop, book launch, trans-Art Performance
Conference volume SUMMIT of trans-Art 2022
2022
SUMMIT of trans-Art 2022 in the trans-Art Studio Salzburg
2021
Since February 2021 member of FS1
March 2021 participation Radiokolleg Ö1 with trans-Art in the series of Jobprofil Komponistin with Marie - Therese Rudolph
June 10th 2021 Austrian Music Week Salzburg in the trans-Art Studio
Conference volume SUMMIT of trans-Art 2020
2020
SUMMIT of trans-Art 2020 in the trans-Art Studio Salzburg
Since January 2019
studio in 5071 Wals, Bundesstraße 37
studio opening on 10th of January 2019 with the performance do trans-Art_31 with Judith Valerie Engel (piano), Norbert Sprave (accordion) and Alexei Grots (piano)
August 2018
participation at the exhibition Musica Femina in the Pflanzenorangerie/Schloss Schönbrunn
Since July 2016
performance series “do trans-Art” in her studio, on the 2nd Thursday on a monthly basis
Since 2011
transfer of the broadcasting at RadioFro
Since 2010
host of the radio show "Atelier für Neue Musik/trans-Art"" at the local Radiofabrik, twice a month
2010-2019
studio at the Künstlerhaus Salzburg
1998-2015
close and intensive contact with Eva Roscher (piano and improvisation)
1996-2016
Private Concert: organization and art direction at the annual "Studio concert for contemporary music"
2012
music theory seminars by Christian Ofenbauer (composer and professor at the Mozarteum Salzburg)
2000
participation in the International Summer Academy in Salzburg (Xenia Hausner, Hella Berenth and Kimberly Bradley)
Since 1993
focusing on the dialogue in art, seminars by Wolfgang Seierl (painter and composer), Johannes Ziegler (painter)
EXHIBITIONS and trans-art Performances
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2015
Astrid Rieder is currently performing on the 2nd Thursday of each month in the series “do trans-Art” in her studio at the Bundesstraße 37 in Wals-Siezenheim with different musicians. The final producs are the large-scale drawing, the recorded video and the sound recording. As a presenter Astrid Rieder is also active in the radio show „Atelier fpr neue Musik/trans-Art” which is broadcasted on the free radio station “Die Radiofabrik” and twice per month taken over by Radio FRO.
