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Domgasse 1, 3. OG, pinkspace = Büro von Gilbert Bretterbauer
Hofstetter Kurt
Born on July 16th, 1959 – concept- and media artist , composer – living and working in Vienna.
Artistic domains: concepts, sound-, light-, computer-, video-, internet- and time sculptures, media installations in public space, experimental art videos, music compositions, mathematical reflections – tilings and patterns, new materials – textiles.
Installations in exhibitions at Sharjah Art Museum, La Biennale di Venezia, CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art – Bordeaux, CAAC Museum of Contemporary Art – Sevilla, Museum of Modern Art – Moscow, Witte De With Museum – Rotterdam, MQ – Vienna, Kunsthaus Graz, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art – Karlsruhe, Future Design Institute – Tokyo, Triennale India – New Delhi, Kunsthalle Basel, MAK Museum of Contemporary|Applied Arts – Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien – Vienna, MUMOK Museum of Modern Art – Vienna etc. … .
Permanent installations in public space:
‘fACING tIME’ @ Vienna University of Technology
’N.I.C. – nature is cool’ @ crossways Langegasse-Laudongasse Vienna,
’Einen Augenbick Zeit’ @ ZKM – Karlsruhe (from 1994-2009 Vienna South station),
’Sunpendulum Time-Eyes’ @ Marshall Islands, Tokyo, Kolkata, Hong Kong, Dubai, Azores, Ensenada, New Orleans, Cairo, Granada, Bermuda, Hawaii
‘Planet of the Commuters with the 3 Time-Moons’ @ Vienna Middle railway station
Experimental-video works with Barbara Doser *aka PARALLEL MEDIA*:
– presented in more than 40 countries (e.g. La Biennale di Venezia – IT, Image Forum – JP, Avanto_Helsinki – FI, Viper_Basel – CH, Diagonale – A, Ars Electronica Festival – A, Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin – FR/DE, Int. Film Festival Rotterdam – NL, ‘file’ Sao Paulo – BR, Melbourne International Film Festival – AUS, SONAR Barcelona – E, Super Deluxe – Tokyo, Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen + Int. Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg – DE, Curtas Vila do Conde – P, Video Formes – FR, Int. Festival of Fine Arts Szolnok – HU, Int. Kansk Video Festival – RU, Sonambiente Berlin – DE, Next Five Minutes Amsterdam – NL, …)
In 2015 he was awarded a Prize of the Republic of Austria: Outstanding Artist Award ¦ Interdisciplinarity – for the project On the Event Horizon of Order – New Irrational Patterns.
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