CHRISTINE BUCHMANN is an Austrian actress and filmmaker born in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee and currently based in Vienna. She grew up in Carinthia, the southern edge of Austria, where languages, borders, and landscapes cross without announcing the fact. She later trained in Dramatic Arts at Vienna’s English Theatre Academy, in collaboration with ALRA and Rose Bruford, and graduated in 2020.

Buchmann works in the space where performance meets image. Her roles unfold not only in front of an audience but inside the frame, where gesture, gaze, and timing create their own kind of narrative. In 2024 she appeared in Anja Salomonowitz’s Sleeping With A Tiger, which premiered at the Berlinale and stars Birgit Minichmayr as the painter Maria Lassnig. Film offered Buchmann a new site for experimentation, and from there the camera remained a companion.

Her recent work turns the logic of portraiture back onto itself. Self-directed scenes range from the domestic to the public, from the caged to the liberated, with the performer and the observer occupying the same body. In this play between subject and witness, Buchmann asks what it means to watch oneself being watched and what kind of agency can emerge from that loop.

She lives and works in Vienna, where performance continues to be both vocation and inquiry.

More about Buchmann and her work may be found on her Instagram.