Manuel Knapp

http://www.manuelknapp.com/

1997-2002 Studium an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Malerei und Grafik, Meisterklasse Gunter Damisch, Diplom, Akademiefreundepreis.2003 Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Elektroakustisches Institut,Lehrgang für Computermusik und elektroakustische Medien.
2001 Gründung der noise-experimental formation" (le) MAT", zusammen mit Arnulf Rödler.

Preise und Stipendien:
2006 Staatsstipendium für bildende Kunst 2007; 2007 Diagonale-Preis für den besten innovativen Experimentalfilm 06/07.


Lives and works in Vienna, Austria


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011
0,0,0, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna

2009
Store Front Project, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna

2008
"stroboscopic noise~", space02, Kunsthaus Graz
"stroboscopic noise~ studies", Bix Facade Kunsthaus Graz

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Drawing the Line, Caja Blanca, Mexico City

2010
Plateau - Raum für Zwei: intermittent geometry Gerold Tagwerker | Manuel Knapp, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
15th Split film festival / international festival of new film, Split, Croatia
Lebt und arbeitet in Wien III, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
25 FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
curated by_Vienna 2010, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna
Zeichnung Wien, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna
Die Opulenz der Reduktion, Topkino, Vienna
Hibari Filmfest, Loopline, Tokyo
Animafest 2010, world festival of animated film, Zagreb, Croatia
DIAGONALE 2010, Graz

2009
evento biennial, Bordeaux, France
Accrochage 09, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna
Interfering contours, with Tim Blechmann, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems/A
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
9 Jahre klingt.org, Brut Künstlerhaus, animations and videos by Billy Roisz, Dieter Kovacic, Manuel Knapp
Int. Filmfestival Rotterdam, stroboscopic noise~ by Manuel Knapp
FLEX FEST 2009: Florida, USA
VISIONARY innovative film from Austria, a sound odyssey special late night screening
63rd Edinburgh International Film Festival

2008
ABSTRACTA international exhibition of abstract cinema
ABSTRACTA Roma, Filmstudio and Casa del Cinema, Villa Borghese
ABSTRACTA Cairo
ABSTRACTA New York, Living Theatre
lossless/compression, with Luisa Kasalicky, swingr, Vienna
Les Inattendus independent cinema and video festival, Lyon, France
EXIS 2008- experimental film & video festival, Seoul, Korea2007
"noise reduction:off", with Billy Roisz/Toshimaru Nakamura and Haroon Mirza, Dreizehnzwei, Vienna
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China
EXIS

2007
Experimental Film Video Festival, Seoul, Korea
BLACK HEAT / WHITE NOISE: Gustav Deutsch / Martin Siewert, Peter Kubelka, Siegfried Fruhauf, Tina Frank, Manuel Knapp, Ernst Schmidt Jr., Michaela Grill / Billy Roisz, Kurt Kren, (n:ja) / Darius Kowalski, Günter Brus, Barbara Doser / Hofstetter Kurt
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Studio Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
International experimental film & video festival, Zurich, Switzerland
15th Curtas Vila do Conde, International Film Festival, Portugal
53. international short film days, Oberhausen - screening, Germany
12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07, Poland
Int. Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
Diagonale 2007, Diagonale-Preis, Graz
Best innovative experimental-, animations and short film 2006/2007
s1salon-s1artspace "Supervillains", Sheffield, UK

2006
"reduce to the maximum", dreizehnzwei, Vienna
diagonale 2006, Graz, Austria
Edinburgh - kill your timid notion
crossing europe filmfestival, Linz, Austria
52. international short film days, Oberhausen - screening
14. curtas vila do conde - international film festival, Portugal
EXiS2006 - Experimental Film Video Festival, Seoul, Korea
Norwich06 - international animation
Festival, Norwich, UK
Circuito OFF- Venice int. short film
Festival, Venice, Italy
Rotterdam Worm, Rotterdam, NL
11th International Festival of New Film Split, Croatia
25 FPS Festival in Zagreb, Croatia
8th International New Media Art Festival
ART + COMMUNICATION 2006: WAVES
Riga, Latvia
resfest 2006, Vienna

2005
EXiS2005 - Experimental Film Video Festival, Seoul, Korea
Animadrid Film Festival 2005, Madrid
resfest 2005, Vienna
optronics, Vienna
Gunter Damisch -Manuel Knapp - Galerie 3, Klagenfurt

2004
"synonym for blanc" , dreizehnzwei, Vienna
"Zeichner 8 - 9 Zeichner aus Österreich"
Emschertal-Museum-Herne, Germany

2003
Kurzfilmfestival, Schikaneder Kino, Vienna
"superflat", dreizehnzwei, Vienna