PROFESSION
Visual artist and cultural activist, domiciled in Central Europe, Austria: Salzburg, Linz and surroundings, Vienna.

Artistic Practise: personal modification of picture sources into model situations as spatial-painterly works of highly emotional plasticity and involving staging.

Core issues: impulses for experiences of meaning of life and happiness by personal involvement, individual modification and self-development.

 

INSTITUTIONAL EDUCATION

2000 - 1994 studies at the University Mozarteum Salzburg: in the class of painting with Dieter Kleinpeter, art and music education.

1995 - 1994 study of German philology at the University Salzburg.

In 1994 high school graduation at Gymnasium Petrinum in Linz,  Upperaustria (AT).

Born in 1975 and grown up in Linz and surroundings.

 

WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Artothek of the Federal Government Austria

Artothek Gallery Schloss Puchheim

Collection Budapest Gallery

Collection Gallery Marenzi

Collection of the Land Upper Austria

Collection of the City Salzburg

Collection of the Graphical Workshop in the Traklhaus

Collection of the Land Salzburg

Museum of Modern Art Salzburg

 

GRANTS / STIPENDS / AWARDS

2023 of the Pro Salzburg Culture Foundation (for SUPER - initiative for interim use of vacancies as cultural action area)

2020 KEP Working Grant of the Land Salzburg

2011 Promotion Prize of the Government of Upper Austria

2008 Slavi-Soucek-Stipend

2001 Merit Scholarship of the University Mozarteum

 

NOMINATIONS

2011 for the Great Art Award of the Government Land Salzburg

2009 for the Kardinal König Art Award (for periscope - initiative for art an contemporaries)

2008 for the STRABAG Art Award

2008 for the St. Leopold Peace Prize

2008 for the Guasch Coranty International Painting Prize

 

STAYS  ABROAD / RESIDENCIES

2017 Stipend of the City Salzburg: C. Rockefeller Center, Dresden (DE)

2011 Stipend of the City Salzburg: Budapest (HU)

2011 Stipend of the Land Salzburg: Berlin (DE)

2010 Paris - Montrouge (FR)

2010 Stipend of the Land Salzburg: Cité des Arts, Paris (FR)

2009 Artist in Residence, St. Virgil Salzburg

2006 S1 Artspace / Sheffield Hallam University (UK)

 

FURTHER FUNDING

2009 Publication Funding of the Federal Government, of the Land and the City of Salzburg

 

JURY ACTIVITY
2023 Art Acquisitions of the Land Salzburg
2021 Austrian Student Union Art Award of the University Mozarteum
2019 Alumni Association of the Art University Linz
Regularly as part of
    •    periscope:project:space
    •    periscope SIMULTAN in cooperation with the Land Salzburg
    •    as board member of the Salzburger Kunstverein

 

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

Founding and managing board member of
    •   SUPER - initiative for interim use of vacancies as cultural action area, since 2015

    •   batolit vienna - residency and studio:programme, 2017 - 2013

    •   periscope - initiative for art an contemporaries, since 2006

 

TEACHING POSITIONS

2014 Dresdner International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Directing a Class for Painting
2010 International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg, Co-Teaching with Sonia Abián
2008 - 2007 Lectureship at the University Mozarteum, Cooperation with Stephan Dillemuth

2010 - 2001 Teaching at different high and vocational schools

 

COMMITMENT

Board member of the Salzburger Kunstverein, since 2013