In 1992 Dr. Gerhard Gantner head-up a media art gallery in Innsbruck.
In 1995 Stefan Bidner and Thomas Feuerstein founded the club medien.kunst.tirol as bureau for inter-medial communications transfer. The club’s aim was to support local artists with their productions and to present international artists in the Tyrol.
Because the club did not have a permanent presentation platform, it created a choice of locations for presentation and media for publication (catalogues, CDs and DVDs).
In 2005 the management was changed; the philosophy, strategy, and modus operandi of the club remained the same:
Under Roland Maurmair (Chairman) and Annja Krautgasser (Vice-Chairman) a CI and appropriate internet presence was implemented. In addition, medien.kunst.tirol showed presence with exhibitions and presentation outside of Tyrol for the first time.
Today, medien.kunst.tirol is run by Anna Pompermaier and Cenk Güzelis of Me AndOther Me together with Max Thoman. Building on the association’s history in media art and experimental cultural production, the current programme develops a critical discourse around contemporary media culture, technological infrastructures and their social, spatial and political implications.
The association critically examines how artificial intelligence, digital platforms, networked images, gaming cultures, extended reality and other emerging technologies shape cultural production, everyday life and collective forms of experience. Its programme approaches these questions through artistic practice, research and discourse, often situated within social and performative settings.
Through exhibitions, performances, conversations, workshops, publications and experimental media formats, medien.kunst.tirol creates contexts in which artists, researchers and audiences can engage with technological systems and their effects on culture and society. Particular attention is given to hybrid and participatory formats that bring discourse into spatial, social and performative situations.
The association’s goal is to provide a platform for critical artistic experimentation in Tyrol, to support local and international practices, and to connect regional contexts with broader contemporary debates in media art, technology and digital culture.
Member of www.innsbruckcontemporary.at
Management since 2026
| Cenk Güzeliş | – Chairman |
| Maximilian Thoman | – Vice-Chairman |
| Anna Pompermaier | – Cashier |