Michael Höpfner

1995 - 1999 Painting and Graphics, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
1998 - 1999 Fine Art Photography, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow

Grants/ Awards/ Residencies
nominated for Price of the National Gallery for Young Art 2010, Berlin, 2010
ISCP New York, 6 months residency by BMUKK Austria, 2009
International Summer Academy Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, 2008
Ortung, Summer Residency Salzburg Art Council, Salzburg, 2008
Österreichischer Grafikpreis, 2007
Unsettled Conditions, travel grant, Art Council Lower Austria and BMUKK Austria, 2007
10th International Cairo Biennale, representing Austria, 2006
Lower Austria Culture Price, 2005
empty zone, travel grant, Art Council Lower Austria and BMUKK Austria, 2005
Chengdu, PRC, 6 months residency by BMUKK Austria, 2004

Projects 2002 - 2010
since 1995 walking journeys in Ukraine, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Northern India, Nepal, Western China, South Korea, Senegal, Lybia, Iceland, Scotland

Outpost of Progress II, Dec 2010 - Feb 2011, Western China

Outpost of Progress I, Dec 2008, Lhasa, Tibet.

to know what to forget, March 2008, project with students of Helwan University Cairo, walking and mapping the city of Cairo for 5 days.

Unsettled Conditions III, 2007, 12 weeks hiking journey on the Chang Tang Plateau in Northwestern Tibet.

Graue Donau / Schwarzes Meer, May 2007, Project with Transfer Institute and students of the University for Applied Arts Vienna in Odessa and Crimea Peninsula and a 10 days hiking trip around Kertsch Peninsula.

Unsettled Conditions II, Dec 2006, two week hiking trip on Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.

Unsettled Conditions I, Oct - Nov 2006, work in Lhasa and a three weeks hiking trip to the Drak Yul, Central Tibet

Steppenwölfe, Sep 2006, Project organized by Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow and MAK, Vienna, round trip with artists from Russia, Ukraine, Austria from Moscow direction south into eastern Ukraine and over to Kiew.

empty zone, July - Dec 2005, a four months travelling and hiking journey starting in Kazakhstan, later along the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan over to the Western China Taklamakan desert.

about this centre, June - Dec 2004, a three months journey through Western Tibet and three months residency in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

circumambulations, 2003, a road journey along the border of Libya and Algeria into the Central Sahara, a Project by the Transfer Institute, University for Applied Arts Vienna.

alternative trail, 2002, a three months road walking journey from Nepal into Central Tibet.


Exhibitions

2011
Sense and Sensibility, (curated by Hemma Schmutz), Kunstverein Salzburg, Salzburg
Alpine Desire, Austrian Culture Forum New York (curated by Agnes Husslein), New York
Like a Stranger in Moscow, Christinger de Mayo, Zürich
Stay Hungry, Gleisdreieck (curated by Theo Lightard and Anna Redeker), Berlin
Artist+Artist, Rhode Contemporary, Copenhagen

2010
Katarina Zdjelar - Michael Höpfner (curated by Luigi Fassi), ar/ge kunst, Bozen
Shorakapoch, Antonio Rovaldi - Michael Höpfner (curated by Davide Ferri), Magazzino 1b, Prato
Nous ne notons pas les fleurs, dit le géographe (curated by Virginie Bobin and Julia Kläring), Betonsalon, Paris
HaVE A LoOk! HAve a Look! (curated by Caterina Riva), FormContent, London
Talking to Rocks, Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin (solo)
Outpost of Progress, Galleria HIT, Bratislava (solo)
Station, Zeitkunst Galerie, Kitzbühel (solo)
Above And Beyond, Forum Stadtpark, Graz

2009
On Foot, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna (solo)
The Outpost, abc - Art Berlin Contemporary, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (solo)
Die Form der Isolation, Marc Aschenbrenner, Michael Höpfner, Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin
Distance Creates Desire, Kunstverein Salzburg, Salzburg
Herring Under A Furcoat; Caitlin Berrigan, Martin Kohout, Michael Höpfner (curated by Carson Chan), Program, Berlin
The Hole (curated by Andrea Domesle), The Grand Chelsea, New York
Open Studios, ISCP, New York
Open Space Uncurated 09 | Creative Migration - Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
Outpost, Nomad Project, Bern
Richtung Norden, Kunstverein MAERZ, Linz
MAK NITE -the future is analogue, MAK, Vienna
Mifàn, Austrian Artists in China, Anniart Gallery, 798 Gallery District, Beijing

2008
unsettled conditions, Kunstraum Noe, Vienna (solo)
An Area, a Territory, a Zone, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck (solo)
Dragged Down Into Lowercase (curated by Clementine Deliss), Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Open Plan, Art Athina (curated by Bettina M. Busse), Athens
Artists on Tour, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Österreichischer Grafikpreis 2007, Südtiroler Kulturinstitut, Bozen
Ortung, Deutschvilla Strobl, Salzburg
Raumzeitraum, 150 Jahre Künstlerhaus, Vienna

2007
Waiting for the Barbarians, Marzena Nowak - Michael Höpfner (curated by Goschka Gawlik), Galleria Piekary, Poznan
Die Fotosammlung der Neuen Galerie, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz
New Visions, Art from Private Collections, Viennafair, Vienna
Die Natur des Menschen liegt in der Bewegung, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns
walk!, Kunstraum Kreuzberg-Bethanien, Berlin
Österreichischer Grafikpreis 2007, Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck
Beziehungsweise, Sammlung Holzer, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna

2006
Die Astronauten in der Wüste: ratlos, Hamish Fulton - Michael Höpfner, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna
Maja Vukoje - Michael Höpfner, 10th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo
unbekannte zone, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz (solo)
recordings of emptiness, visual drugs Damian Christinger, Zürich (solo)
Leere Zone, Zeitkunstgalerie Ferdinand Maier, Kitzbühel (solo)
potential dialogue, RCM Gallery Nanjing, PRC - Kunstaum Noe, Vienna
genuine happiness, Galerie Kunstbüro, Vienna
transistor_transformer (curated by David Komary), dreizehnzwei, Vienna
Lower Austria Art Price, Dok, St. Poelten

2005
about this centre, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna (solo)
Die Ordnung der Natur (curated by Martin Sturm und Hans-Peter Wipplinger) MMK Passau - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Wörlen, Passau - OK Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz
Lebt und arbeitet in Wien (curated by Hanna Wróblewska, Trevor Smiths and Yuko Hasegawa) Kunsthalle, Vienna - Zachenta, Warsaw
Arrêté (curated by Ruth Horak), Kunstraum Noe, Vienna

2004
definitively provisional (curated by Cecilia Canziani and Kristine Siegel), Appendiks, Copenhagen
Sahara, Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Vienna
Der doppelte Blick, Kunstverein Bregenz, Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
animated from a distance (curated by David Komary), dreizehnzwei, Vienna

2003
zeichnen-sprechen-schreiben, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna
junge wiener kunst, Galerie Walter Storms, Munich
Walking Rhetorics, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna
aus 9, Galerie Steinek, Vienna

2002
alternative trail, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna (solo)
Mo(u)numental, Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
current settings, Kunstverein Hallein, Hallein

2001
Unfinished Valley, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems (solo)
Rolling Stones Adorned with Starlight, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna