Exhibitions
Scott Clifford Evans’
Splatterhaus!
18/2/2026—10/5/2026
"True camp was so bad it was good – and they didn’t know it."
(John Waters)
Splatterhaus! is the first institutional exhibition of Scott Clifford Evans in Austria. Evans (b. 1979, Layton, Utah, USA) has lived and worked in Vienna for over twelve years as a film director and screenwriter as well as an installation and performance artist.
Horror, trash, shock, pathos, and melodrama form the cornerstones of his cross-media and collaborative practice, which he infuses with infectious anarchism, visual gags, and destructive slapstick. Central to his work are process-based approaches and an intuitive, situation-specific mode of staging: film scenes often emerge spontaneously, and shoots are conceived as performative events. After filming the sets, equipments, props, and objects remain present as autonomous artworks, sustaining the tension between fiction and reality.
Splatterhaus! encompasses the phenomenonof Scott Clifford Evans in all its eclectic expansion and, alongside filmic-installation works such as Crawlspace and Geisterklo, presents the new installation Deathspa—a film set that will become the site of a public film shoot over the course of the exhibition.
Specially designed cinema spaces will also screen key episodes from Evans’s long-term project Murderkino, as well as the 74-minute feature film The Demoniacs.
The exhibition is accompanied by a public program including an artist talk, a live film shoot, a magazine presentation, and a film premiere.
Scott Clifford Evans (born 1979 in Layton, Utah, USA) has lived in Vienna since 2013, where he works as an artist, filmmaker, writer, and performer. Evans’ first feature film, The Demoniacs (2023), premiered in Vienna and was screened at festivals across Europe and the United States. Since 2019, he has been working on Murderkino, an ongoing trash-art horror installation and film series. Parts of the project have been presented at venues including the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and Charim Galerie in Vienna, as part of the festival curated by_vienna (2020).
Evans has participated in numerous film and exhibition projects, including collaborations with Liam Gillick and Gelatin (Stinking Dawn, 2019) and Christian Kosmas Mayer (Memory Palace, 2016). He also works regularly with Anna Jermolaewa on projects such as Singing Revolutions, Rehearsal for Swan Lake, and LENINOPAD. In 2024, he served as artistic advisor to the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
He is the author of the novella Wheels of Rage (2023), the creator of the ongoing comic series Kill, Bigfoot, Kill! (since 2023), and a contributor to Eyes of the Night (2025) with artist Markus Krottendorfer. He also edits ODDBALL Magazine, an art and literary journal of illustrated fantastic stories.
Evans has co-taught workshops on mudwrestling as an art performance with Wolfgang Gantner (Gelatin) at ImPulsTanz, Vienna, and the University of Innsbruck. He has also taught courses on filmmaking, cadavre exquis, and Geisterbahntheory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He currently teaches at the University of Art and Design Linz (Kunstuniversität Linz).
Scott Clifford Evans is represented by Galerie Charim (Vienna, AT).
(John Waters)
Splatterhaus! is the first institutional exhibition of Scott Clifford Evans in Austria. Evans (b. 1979, Layton, Utah, USA) has lived and worked in Vienna for over twelve years as a film director and screenwriter as well as an installation and performance artist.
Horror, trash, shock, pathos, and melodrama form the cornerstones of his cross-media and collaborative practice, which he infuses with infectious anarchism, visual gags, and destructive slapstick. Central to his work are process-based approaches and an intuitive, situation-specific mode of staging: film scenes often emerge spontaneously, and shoots are conceived as performative events. After filming the sets, equipments, props, and objects remain present as autonomous artworks, sustaining the tension between fiction and reality.
Splatterhaus! encompasses the phenomenonof Scott Clifford Evans in all its eclectic expansion and, alongside filmic-installation works such as Crawlspace and Geisterklo, presents the new installation Deathspa—a film set that will become the site of a public film shoot over the course of the exhibition.
Specially designed cinema spaces will also screen key episodes from Evans’s long-term project Murderkino, as well as the 74-minute feature film The Demoniacs.
The exhibition is accompanied by a public program including an artist talk, a live film shoot, a magazine presentation, and a film premiere.
Scott Clifford Evans (born 1979 in Layton, Utah, USA) has lived in Vienna since 2013, where he works as an artist, filmmaker, writer, and performer. Evans’ first feature film, The Demoniacs (2023), premiered in Vienna and was screened at festivals across Europe and the United States. Since 2019, he has been working on Murderkino, an ongoing trash-art horror installation and film series. Parts of the project have been presented at venues including the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and Charim Galerie in Vienna, as part of the festival curated by_vienna (2020).
Evans has participated in numerous film and exhibition projects, including collaborations with Liam Gillick and Gelatin (Stinking Dawn, 2019) and Christian Kosmas Mayer (Memory Palace, 2016). He also works regularly with Anna Jermolaewa on projects such as Singing Revolutions, Rehearsal for Swan Lake, and LENINOPAD. In 2024, he served as artistic advisor to the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
He is the author of the novella Wheels of Rage (2023), the creator of the ongoing comic series Kill, Bigfoot, Kill! (since 2023), and a contributor to Eyes of the Night (2025) with artist Markus Krottendorfer. He also edits ODDBALL Magazine, an art and literary journal of illustrated fantastic stories.
Evans has co-taught workshops on mudwrestling as an art performance with Wolfgang Gantner (Gelatin) at ImPulsTanz, Vienna, and the University of Innsbruck. He has also taught courses on filmmaking, cadavre exquis, and Geisterbahntheory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He currently teaches at the University of Art and Design Linz (Kunstuniversität Linz).
Scott Clifford Evans is represented by Galerie Charim (Vienna, AT).