ZIEGI BOSS

About

Ziegi Boss is a visual artist and curator based in Vienna, Austria. Originally from the United States, she has lived and worked in Vienna since 2014.

Boss’s artistic practice examines how systems designed to measure, optimize, or regulate value—including productivity tools, digital platforms, and institutional structures—shape perception, behavior, and self-understanding. Working across installation, video, performance, and data-driven processes, she treats these systems as both subject and method: inhabiting them, exaggerating them, and translating their logics into aesthetic form. Humor and absurdity operate alongside critique, making visible the often invisible pressures embedded in contemporary cultures of optimization.

Since 2022, Boss has served as co-founder and director of VCAS – Vienna Contemporary Art Space, an independent nonprofit arts organization. Through VCAS, she develops exhibitions, public programs, and international collaborations, using curatorial and organizational work as expanded sites of inquiry.

Selected Exhibitions:

X Frames per Space, Vienna Art Week 2025, VCAS and LBI Netmed, November 2025
The Gimmick!, VCAS, Vienna, Austria, March 2025
90 Seconds to Midnight, Vienna Art Week 2024, VCAS, Vienna, Austria, November 2024
We Can’t Afford (not) to be Artists, VCAS, Vienna, Austria, January 2024
Stille Post - die Antwort, part of the Vienna Art Week 2023, Vienna, Austria, November 2023
Public | Private, WEST Open Weekend ‘IN/BETWEEN: People, Spaces & Uses’, VCAS, Vienna, Austria, June 2023
Practice / Process, Artist experimental short film screening, WEST Open Weekend ‘IN/BETWEEN: People, Spaces & Uses’, VCAS, Vienna, Austria, June 2023
sound.DRAW, Live collaborative performance, Ministry of Artists in collaboration with VCAS, Vienna, Austria, April 2023
PLD Collective, Collaborative international artistic projects, curated by (Q+I), Presented through digital platforms
- “Four Week Draw - For Weak Draw”, January 2022
- “Sonik-DRAW”, September 2021
- “A Dog’s Dinner”, September 2021
- “Connection” April 2021
- “10x10x100”, October 2020
POW - Play on Words 2, Performance and video art curation by Lee Campbell, Bridge House Theatre, London, UK, December 2021