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SUMMARY
Stefan Heizinger works as a visual artist, curator, founder and operator of cultural institutions. His issues are
personal involvement, individual modification and self-development as methods of cultural participation and basis for social development. In his paintings he refers to picture sources and reinvents them as model situations of highly involving content and emotional plasticity. Stefan Heizinger lives in Austria (AT), Europe.

 

DEVELOPMENT

Study stays inter alia at Cité des Arts in Paris (FR), in Berlin (DE) and at Sheffield Hallam University (UK).

In 2000 graduation with excellent success as Master of Arts at the University Mozarteum Salzburg (AT), Department of Fine Arts and Design.

In 1994 high school graduation at Gymnasium Petrinum Linz. Already before intensive occupation with visual art, music and literature. Born in 1975 in Linz, Upperaustria (AT).

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art Salzburg

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

 

STIPENDS / AWARDS

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

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 and CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

Co-founding and direction of
SUPER - Initiative for Interim Use of Vacancies as Cultural Action Area, since 2015

batolit vienna - residency and studio:programme, 2013 - 2017
periscope:project:space, since 2006

 

COMMITMENT

Board Member of the Salzburger Kunstverein, since 2013