Birgit Graschopf
Society’s power structures and the way these constructs affect how people relate to public and private spaces is the main focus of Birgit Graschopf’s (b. 1978) work. The images display constructs of reality with people performing commonplace activities. Scenes of our daily life are enhanced in precisely prepared photomontages through repetition and multiplication, becoming somewhat absurd images of a world of human puppets. Birgit Graschopf defines the relationship between the inside and the outside, between private and public, and the fragile balance between the individual and society by means of their permutations.
Collections
2010, Cultural Department of Vienna
2010, Austrian federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture
2009, Lower Austria state government
2008, 2007 University for applied Arts Vienna
2007, Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture
Solo Exhibitions, Performances (Selected)
2012"Space Forward", Carbon 12, Dubai, UAE
2011
"Between", Performance & space-related Installation, Momentum Gallery, Vienna
2010
"A Ship will come", Eikon Showcase, Quartier 21/Museumsquartier, Vienna
"Space Shift", Performance & space-related Installation, The White House, Vienna
2008
"Consuming Cultures", Fluc, Vienna
2006
"Cocooning", performance, Diesel Art Award, BetonSalon, Museum quarter, Vienna
2002
"Symbiotic", performance, body.and-Photo installation, Vorpal Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions, Performances (Selected)
2010
"Cycle of Contemporary Art", Stift Lilienfeld, Austria
"Attention, New Space!", FotoK, Vienna
"Cologne Off 2011", International Video art festival, Arad Art Museum, Romania
2010
"Blue Skie'd and Clear", Carbon 12, Dubai, UAE
"The Interrupted Image", Nicholas Robinsson Gallery, New York/USA
"About Traveling", Fotogalerie, Vienna
2009
"Share Your Dreams", Young Artists from the EU, Schottenstift, Vienna
"Tafelbilder", Gotischer Kasten, Eggenfelden (DE)
"Exhibition of the Art Arward Winners 2008", DOK-Center, St. Pölten/Austria
2008
"Sneak Preview", Carbon12, Dubai/UAE
"Consuming Cultures", Fluc, Vienna
"Traces", European Month of Photography 2008, Künstlerhaus Vienna
"Dialogos con Viena II", La Factoria, Universidad Arces, Santiago de Chile (Chile)
BJCEM – XIII. Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean,
Puglia (I)
"Ansichtssache", Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna
2007
"Goldfish", Uszynska Schaufenster, Vienna
"Displace", 8 Positions of Young Artists’ Photography, Fotohof Salzburg/Austria
"Essence", MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
"Tricky Women", Animated Film Festival, Top Kino, Vienna
2006
"Cocooning", Diesel New Art Award, Betónsalon, Museum Quarter, Vienna
"Sign to Utopia", Sign Gallery, Groningen, NL
"Economy Class", Ambassador, Austrian Embassy, Nairobi
2005
"Stichwort: Mysteriös", Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
2004
"Graskjöl", Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweeden
"Yoko Ono’s Birthday", Performance with John Kirkwood, Dumbo’s Art Festival
Brooklyn, NY
2002
"Symbiotic" – An Exhibition Of Body Installation, Vorpal Gallery Soho, NY
2001
"(grass + dreams)2", Soho20 Gallery, NY
Awards, Grants
2012, Residency in Tokyo by the BMUKK
2010, Photography Award, Schlierbach/Austria
2009, Vivatis Award
2009, Start Scholarship for artistic Photography by Austrian Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture
2009, Photo-Scholarship in Paris by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture
2008, Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Award, Media Art Award of Lower Austria
2006, Diesel New Art Award, Otto Prutscher Fonds Award
2004, Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Award
Education
University of applied Arts Vienna, Fine Arts, Class of Photography, Uni-Prof. Gabriele Rothemann, Diploma in June 2007
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