Lectures, Italy, Siena, 17 September 2013
Michael Höpfner is an Austrian visual artist, visiting artist at the Siena Art Institute for the Fall semester. He studied painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Fine Art Photography at the Glasgow School of Art. His work is based on the experience of walking journeys in desert and steppe areas between Eastern Europe and China, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Tibet and South Korea. He reflects on these landscapes, the changing nomadic societies and his own performance in installations that use black and white photography, drawings, slide projections and tent sculptures.
His most recent exhibitions include “Flex Sil – reloaded” at Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, 2013 (group show), “after five and a half days walking the trail peters out”, Galerie Hubert Winter, Wien, 2012 (solo)” and “Movements of quartering and of innner exasperation more than the movements of walking”, Sotheby’s, Wien, 2012
(solo)”. He has exhibited his work in both Europe (Austria, Switzerland, Germany, UK, France, Italy) and the US. He lives and works in Vienna and Berlin.
Picture: Michael Höpfner, Movements of quartering and of inner exasperation more than the movements of walking, Sotheby’s, Vienna, 2012
His most recent exhibitions include “Flex Sil – reloaded” at Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, 2013 (group show), “after five and a half days walking the trail peters out”, Galerie Hubert Winter, Wien, 2012 (solo)” and “Movements of quartering and of innner exasperation more than the movements of walking”, Sotheby’s, Wien, 2012
(solo)”. He has exhibited his work in both Europe (Austria, Switzerland, Germany, UK, France, Italy) and the US. He lives and works in Vienna and Berlin.
Picture: Michael Höpfner, Movements of quartering and of inner exasperation more than the movements of walking, Sotheby’s, Vienna, 2012
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