2025
Silent Polyglot, LLS Paleis Aan ‘t water, Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp, BE

2024
Passagen zwischen Ankünften, invited by Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Vitrina, Brunnenpassage, Vienna, AT
Erntedankfest Joyeuses moissons, LLS Paleis, Antwerp, BE
Parcours d’artistes Ixelles, SAFFCA, Brussels, BE
Floating Cinema - Unknown Waters,
Cinema Galleggiante, Venice, IT
Deep Rivers Run Silent, organised by Meno Avilys, program Redux Code curated by Rupert, Vilnius, LT
Film Screening II, Kino Lumbardhi, curated by Elsamina Musiq and Xhulian Millaj, Prizren, XK
Solitude and Multitude, Ekrani i artit, Art House, Shkodra, AL 

2023
Belgium Art Contest, Botanique, Brussels, BE
Anti / Monumental, Marble stone quarry Untersberg,
Salzburg, AT
Përpara, Scanning the region, Galeria 17, curated by Ilir Bajri, Prishtina, XK 

2022
A Glittering Ruin Sucked Upwards, Gosset Site, curated by Yann Chateigné Tytelman, Brussels, BE
Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation, Statenpassage Tweede Kamer, curated by Radek Vana, The Hague, NL
Open Studios, Higher Institute of Fine Artsm Gent, BE 
Architects of Identity, the Orchid and the Wasps, NDSM Fuse, curated by Maud Oonk, Amstedam, NL 

2021
Loop Barcelona, Galerie Ron Mandosm Barcelona, ES
Visite #9 We fight back, Het Bos, curated by De Imagerie, Antwerpen, BE 
Kaleidoskop. Fragmente. Im Kino: INSIGHT (FAST FORWARD), LE STUDIO Film und Bühne, invited by CineCollective, Vienna, AT 
Open Studios, Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Gent, BE
Spacial Disruption, SIGN, Groningen, NL 
The HISK Affair, Gosset site, Brussels, BE
PUT YOUR FINGER, Galerie Emilia Filly, Usti Nad Labem, CZ
Diagonale 21’, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, AT
Inframince infra-mince infra mince, Heiligenkreuzerhof, curated by Gudrun Ratzinger und Franz Thalmair, Vienna, AT 
Open Day, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL 

2020
IFFBHLA, Bosnia-Herzegowina Looks Around, Bottrop, DE  
Started ‘20, Coronadisplay at Berlinskej Model, organised by Pavel Vančat, with Lenka Glisnikova and Oded Arad, Prag, CZ 
CHANGE, Fondation Francès, Senlis, FR
TIFF, Tirana International Film Festival, Tirana, AL 
Manifesta 13 Les Parallèles du Sud,
Marseille, FR 
Traces, Manifesta 13 Les Parallèles du Sud, Marseille, FR 
Dokufest, Prizren, XK
Kaleidoskop 2020. Fragmente. Film und Freiluft am Karlsplatz, Vienna, AT 
Distance #1, Magacin u Kraljevića Marka 4-8, invited by Alex Murray, Belgrade, SR 
Jong Talent, Artphy, Onstwedde, NL
Startpoint Prize, Arti et Amicitiae,
Amsterdam, NL 

2019
Startpoint Prize, Kovomat, Krenova 6, Brno, CZ 
Startpoint Prize, Holesovicka trznice, Hala 17, Prague, CZ 
Best of Graduate, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
As If Biting Iron, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
Kajetan, Kinkerstraat 80, invited by Kajetan Uranitsch, Amsterdam, NL
Take a Walk in the Wild Side. Fabulating Alternative Imaginaries in Art and Life, Rietveld Uncut, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL 
My Dreams Collection, M4 Gastatelier, with Maria Nolla and Johan Roelofs, Amsterdam, NL 
Schnee von Gestern, Rietveld Pavillion,
with Tim Neutel und Michael Broschmann, Amsterdam, NL 

2018
Aquarell Room, Show me tomorrow, I will go there, invited by HISK Laureates, Gent, BE 
Goodbye, Wotruba Atelier,
Rustenschacherallee 2-4, Vienna, AT 
Noisy Walls, Tourniairestraat 1/3, organised by
Michael Broschmann, Lukasz Matuszewski,
Emma Nantermoz, Johan Roleofs,
Amsterdam, NL
Titanic, Gerrit Rietveld Academie,
Amsterdam, NL 

2017
Afa Nubuke Wa, Project Lab, organised by Baerbel Muelle and Jürgen Strohmayer invited by Nubuke Foundation Ghana
Ghana, Wa, GH
Stephanie Rizaj, Cafe Else, invited by
Roland Schweizer, Vienna, AT
Grenzerfahrungen, Alte Post, curated by
Angela Stief, in the context of The Essence 17, Vienna, AT 
Ende Gelände, Westbahnstrasse 56,
organised by Conny Frischauf, Vienna, AT 
Afa Lagos Legacy, organised by Baerbel Mueller, Stefanie Theuretzbacher and Legacy 1995, Nigerian Railway Compound in Ebute-Metta, Lagos, NG 

2016
City Rules II; Lichtenberg Studios,
organised by Roman Pfeffer, Berlin, DE
How to be trained as an artist, open house,
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, AT 
Parallel Vienna, Alte Post,
invited by Tim Hartmann, Vienna, AT 
more
MUD, Alte Post, curated by Sarah Ortmeyer, in the context of The Essence 16, Vienna, AT 
Juxtapositionen, Salon für Kunstbuch im 21er Haus, organised by Franz Thalmair
Vienna, AT more

2015
EXPO 2005/Istanbul Modern, curated by E++, Istanbul, TR more
Curtainwall, open house, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, AT 
Some is Missing, Künstlerhaus, organised by David Moises, in the context of The Essence 15, with Luca Kieser, Vienna, AT 
M-Raum, Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna, AT 

2014
Austrian Fashion Auction, Vienna MQ Fashion Week, invited by Austrian Fashion Association, Vienna, AT 
Symbioza, organised by EASA European Architecture Student Association, Velico Tarnovo, BG
Sworn Virgin, PARK-Concept Store, Vienna, AT 
LastShow, Grelle Forelle, Vienna, AT
Frühlingserwachen, Best of Mode, Kammerspiele, Linz, AT 

2013
Van der Raum, Samstag Shop, Margaretenstrasse 46, Vienna, AT
Behind the Scenes, Neubaugasse 44, organised by Eva Zar, Vienna, AT
BFGU-BUNKA Fashion Show, Tokyo, JP 

2012
Rudolfsheim obersation, Reuenthalgasse, invited by Madeleine Nostitz-Rienech, in the context of Wir sind Wien Festival der Bezirke, Vienna, AT 

2011
Azubis 02 present the convention, Marx Media Vienna, organised by fabrics_interseason, curated by Jakob Lena Knebl, Salvatore Viviano, Tanja Widmann and Maria Ziegelböck,
Vienna, AT 







Public collections
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, BE
Merode, Ronse, BE
Voorlinden Museum, The Hague, NL
Wien Museum, Vienna, AT


Awards
2021
Theodor Körner Prize, AT

2019
Startpoint Prize, EU
Ron Mandos Young Blood Award, NL




Bibliography
2023
A Glittering Ruin Sucked Upward.
HISK laureates 2022. 2023

2022
HISK Edition. Commissioned by the Higher Institute of Fine Arts. Belgium, 2022

2021
Diagonale ‘21, Festival des Österreichischen Films 
Der Czernin Verlag, 2021
ISBN: 9783707607215
inframince | infra-mince | infra mince
TransArts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
De Gruyter Verlag, 2021
ISBN: 9783110724189

2020
Diagonale ‘20, Festival des Österreichischen Films
Der Czernin Verlag, 2020
ISBN: 978370760688


2019
Thoughts on Work. A Nihilistic Sadness with a Dash of Exuberance. Stephanie Rizaj, 2019


Education
2021 - 2022
HISK, Higher Institute of Fine Arts,
Gent, BE

2017 - 2019
Fine Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academie,
Amsterdam, NL

2015 - 2018
TransArts, University of Applied Arts,
Vienna, AT