DESCRIPTION
Visual artist, artistic painter and cultural initiator, located in Salzburg and Vienna - Austria (Europe).
Spatial-painterly works - by referring to picture sources, reinvention of model situations with highly involving content and of emotional plasticity.
Core issues: impulses for experiences of meaning of life and happiness by personal involvement, individual modification and self-development.
DEVELOPMENT
In 2000 graduation as master of arts at the Department of Fine Arts and Design of the University Mozarteum Salzburg (AT).
In 1994 high school graduation at Gymnasium Petrinum in Linz, Upperaustria (AT).
Born in 1975 and grown up in Linz and surroundings.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Artothek of the Federal Government Austria
Artothek Gallery Schloss Puchheim
Collection Gallery Marenzi
Collection of the Land Upper Austria
Collection of the City Salzburg
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)
FUNDING
2009 Publication Funding of the Federal Government, of the Land and the City of Salzburg
TEACHING
2014 Dresdner International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Directing a Class for Painting
2010 International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg, Co-Teaching
2007/2008 University Mozarteum, Teaching post
CURATORIAL & 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, 2013 - 2017
periscope - initiative for art an contemporaries, since 2006
COMMITMENT
Board member of the Salzburger Kunstverein, since 2013