Tiina Sööt and Dorothea Zeyringer presented their first performance together in 2012, when they were both studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Since then, they have as the duo Sööt/Zeyringer devised performance pieces for exhibition spaces, stages and the public realm. At the intersection of visual art, choreography and theatre, their performances poetically and humorously tackle personally and socially relevant themes. For their most recent pieces, they did research on mothers that deviate from the norm of motherhood, analysed female rage and documented forgotten heroines of slapstick.
Sööt/Zeyringer’s work has been shown at, among other places, brut Wien, mumok, Kunsthalle Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, the Wiener Festwochen, Sophiensæle Berlin and Schwankhalle Bremen. Sööt/Zeyringer received the ImPulsTanz TURBO Research Residency and the Performing Arts Award by the Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture. In 2019, they were part of the FREISCHWIMMEN producing platform; in 2024, they received the ‘Förderungspreis’ Fine Arts of the City of Vienna.