Valentino Skarwan

Valentino.skarwan@gmail.com
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Valentino Skarwan (b. 1998) is an Austrian-Guatemalan multidisciplinary artist living and working between Vienna and Guatemala City. Working across sculpture, installation, and performance, their practice develops through encounters with places, materials, archives, and overlooked structures, creating spatial installations that bring together different bodies, temporalities, and forms of life.

Their work has been presented internationally in institutional and independent contexts, including Belvedere 21, Künstlerhaus, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Sala Terrena Heiligenkreuzerhof, Parallel Vienna, Sharp Projects (Copenhagen), Zeitraumexit Mannheim, Kiosko Santa Cruz, and Tanzquartier Wien.

Alongside their own artistic practice, they have collaborated as a performer in projects presented at institutions and festivals including Mumok, MoMA Warsaw, Tanzhaus Düsseldorf, SIMIAN, ImPulsTanz, WIENWOCHE, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, and Wiener Festwochen.

Skarwan is the recipient of the Kunsthalle Wien Preis (2026), the Anerkennungspreis der Stadt Wien (2026), and the Simacek Art Award (2025). They were a finalist for the Ö1 Talent Scholarship (2024) and received the runner-up award for the Queer Art Prize (2026). Recent projects include There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns (2026), Lost Encounters, They Cling (Tanzquartier Wien, 2025), and Some Foreplay, Lovers of Compost, presented at Belvedere 21 (2023) as part of Über das Neue and at Klima Biennale Wien (2024)

Education

2018-2026 Bildende Kunst/ Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien-AT

2023 TransMediale Kunst/ Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien-AT

2023 Sculpture and Space/ Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien-AT

Prices

2026 Kunsthalle Wien Preis 

2026 Anerkennungspreis des Bundeslandes Wien 

2026 Queer Art Prize (runner-up)

2025 Simacek Award 

2024 Ö1 Talents Scholarship (finalist) 

(Selected) solo EXHIBITIONS /PERFORMANCE

2025
Lost Encounters, They Cling 
Spitfestival
Tanzquartier
Vienna

2024
We All Shapeshift,
Ö1 Talentstipendium Finalist
KünstlerHaus

2024 
Picnic Crashers
Zeitraum Exit 
Mannheim

2023
Some Foreplay 
together with Andrius Mulokas
Performance Über das Neue
Belvedere 21,

2022
Todoterreno, 
with Vendula Fabianova,
Kiosko Gallery, BOL

(Selected) Group EXHIBITIONS /PERFORMANCE

2026
Echobody
by Magdalena Förster
SIMIAN/Dancehallen,CPH
Impulstanz, 8tensions,At

2026  
Fluscia 
by Daniela Georgieva 
Tanzhaus Düsseldor, DE

2024
We all Shapeshift, 
Ideal Means
NeuerKunstverein, AT

2024
Chemeric Tendencies 
by Xava Mikosch
Sterischer Herbst, AT

2024
Pudertanz 
by Doris Uhlich, 
Bad Ischl Kulturhauptstadt Europa, AT

2024
Lovers of Compost
Klima Biennale
die Feldversuche


2024
A Ray of Light 
by Mary Szydlowska
MOMA, Warsaw

2023 
Groupshow 
curated by Lisa Jäger
Sharp projects, DK

2023
Melancholic Ground  
by Doris Uhlich,
Wienerfestswochen,AT

2023
more than naked 
by Doris Uhlich, 
Opening Impulstanz, AT

2021
A Rooster Alone does not Weave the Dawn 
invited by Hugo Canoilas, 
Quinta do Quetzal, POR

2021
Gelitin, 
Tiroler Landesmuseum 
Ferdinandeum, AT


2020
Habitat, (pandemicversion)
by Doris Uhlich, 
TQW Halle E, AT
  

PUBLICATIONS

Über das Neue 2024
Belvedere 21
2024

Auf der Suche nach einem kulturellen Attraktor, 
Off Image
2023

Die Feldversuche 
2021/2024

Burgtheater
Das Medium Kunst
2021/22