Michael Höpfner
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Michael Höpfner
born 1972 in Krems/Donau, Austria lives and works in Berlin and Vienna

selected Exhibitions
2013
Flex-Sil Reloaded, A Hommage to Roman Signer; Nina Canell, Valentin Carron, Matias Faldbakken, Isabella Girtanner, Raphael Hefti, Michael Höpfner, Norma Jeane, Peter Liechti, Josef Felix Müller, Navid Nuur, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Kilian Rüthemann, Corinne Schatz, Roman Signer und Fredrik Værslev. (curated by Giovanni Carmine), Kunsthalle St. Gallen; Above / Below Ground, Mark Dion, Amy Yoes, J. Morgan Puett, Michael Höpfner, Siena Art Institute; travelling current or movements of coiling and folding up, Judith Fegerl - Michael Höpfner, Zeitkunst Galerie Kitzbuehel; Mobilität I Reisen, Patricia Almeida, Robert F. Hammerstiel, Michael Höpfner, Klaus Mähring, Tim Sharp; DESIRING THE REAL - Austria Contemporary, MSU Zagreb; Cumuli, On Collecting Things, L40 - Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa Luxemburgplatz e. V., Berlin;
2012
after five and a half days walking the trail peters out, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna (solo); Movements of quartering and of innner exasperation more than the movements of walking, Sotheby’s, Vienna (solo); Deseando lo Real, Austria Contemporánea, MUAC, Mexico City ; Turinover (curated by Elisa Lenhart and Francesca Solero), Museo d’ Arte Orientale, Torino; Die Biografie der Bilder, Camera Austria (curated by Ruth Horak), Graz;
2011
Sense and Sensibility (curated by Hemma Schmutz), Kunstverein Salzburg, Salzburg; Alpine Desire (curated by Agnes Husslein), Austrian Culture Forum New York, New York; Like a Stranger in Moscow, Christinger de Mayo, Zurich;
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);
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, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg; Herring Under A Furcoat, Caitlin Berrigan, Martin Kohout, Michael Höpfner (curated by Carson Chan), Program, Berlin;
2008
unsettled conditions, Kunstraum Noe, Vienna (solo); Dragged Down Into Lowercase (curated by Clementine Deliss), Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern; Open Plan (curated by Bettina M. Busse), Art Athina , Athens;
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;
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);

Grants/ Awards/ Residencies
Paul Getty Siena Art Institute, Project with Mark Dion and Amy Yoes, 2013 Walking Off the Grid, Deveron Arts Center Huntly, Scotland, 2012 Movements of Quartering..., two travel grants, Ministry of Culture Austria BMUKK, 2012 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 2004 – 2012
since 1995 walking journeys in Ukraine, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Northern India, Nepal, Western China, South Korea, Senegal, Lybia, Iceland, Scotland Walking 14 days a circle of 50km, Deveron Arts Center, Scotland, December 2012 Movements of Quartering..., September 2012, hiking journey in Northern Tibet Menggu Bao, March 2012, hiking parts of the Gobi desert in Gansu Province, Western China Outpost of Progress II, Dec 2010 - Feb 2011, hiking parts of Qinghai and Gansu Province, Western China Outpost of Progress I, Dec 2008, hiking the hills around 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 crossing the southern 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 - 10 days hiking trip around Kertsch Peninsula Unsettled Conditions II, Dec 2006, three week hiking following trails on Sinai Peninsula, Egypt Unsettled Conditions I, Oct – Nov 2006, Lhasa and a three week hiking 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 hiking journey through Western Tibet and three months residency in Chengdu, Sichuan, China