Moira Zoitl was born in Salzburg, lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the University Mozarteum, Salzburg, and received a master degree from Academy of Applied Arts Vienna, and moved to carry to complete her study at Academy of Fine Arts in Visual Communications, Berlin in 1997.

In her artistic practice Moira Zoitl mainly deals with issues like migration, city development, gender and (auto)biography. Her recent video and installative works focus on questions of re-presentations and self-empowerment of Philippine domestic workers in Hong Kong (Chat(t)er Gardens, Stories by and about Filipina Workers, 2004-2008) and the racial and gendered dimension of migrant labour in the global context (In winter it’s cold outside, 2006).

Furthermore she initiated several collaborative and curatorial projects like: Sexy Myth?, Ideas and Images of Artists, (2006 NGBK, Berlin, Forum Stadtpark Graz and Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. 2007 Overbeck-Gesellschaft Kunstverein Lübeck) and Dreams of Art Spaces Collected, Künstlerbund Berlin (with Dorothee Albrecht, Andreas Schmid, et al. Hosted by the IGBK).

Exhibitions (selection): 2Show Down, Projektraum exex, St. Gallen, Moira Zoitl und Ricarda Denzer, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, As in real life, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, work/labour* Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork Ireland, OBG Ormeau Bath Gallery and Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck, Equal and less Equal, Museum on the Seam, Israel.