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donhofer. (real name Alexander Donhofer ; born November 7, 1983 in Mödling near Vienna ) is an Austrian action artist , draftsman and painter .

Life

Donhofer spent his childhood in St. Pölten . After graduating from high school in 2002, he began studying media technology at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in 2003 and then worked for various broadcasting institutions ( ORF ) and media agencies. At the same time, he completed an acting training and began in 2009 with the first public exhibitions of his works of art.

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Visual and performative elements play a role in donhofer's art. an important role, and the involvement of the audience is also important to him. He often uses the Edding style for his Pop Art works , but also works with acrylic , cardboard and tarpaulins. Thematically, his art often refers to social grievances of the 21st century, which revolve around the topics of power, decadence, money and the media. He became known to a broader public in 2012 through his three-day “Supergau” action art in the reactor room of the never-in-service nuclear power plant in Zwentendorf / Lower Austria and through the “olympia gold” exhibition in the Karlsplatz art gallery in Vienna that same year . The artist received his first international award a year earlier when he received the “Grand Diploma for drawing” in Tuzla / Bosnia-Herzegovina .

Exhibitions

  • 2009: Exhibition and action art "Continuity" (artwagram, Großriedenthal / Lower Austria )
  • 2009: Exhibition "Fremd" (kunst: werk, St. Pölten )
  • 2010: Action art "Shadows" ( Kokoschka House , Pöchlarn )
  • 2010: International art symposium "Atelier on the Danube" with its own action art "young"
  • 2011: Exhibition and action art "Authenticity" (Reitherhaus, Herzogenburg )
  • 2011: Picture exhibition "young" ( ART Innsbruck )
  • 2011: Video installation "seven seconds of shit" ( Kokoschka-Haus , Pöchlarn )
  • 2011: Exhibition and action art "steyr men are very good" ( Steyr Castle )
  • 2011: Action art "Emotion" (Lower Austrian Days of Open Studios, Grafenwörth )
  • 2012: Action art “donhofer. prints out the Internet "(ongoing project, Vienna )
  • 2012: Action art "supergau" ( Zwentendorf nuclear power plant )
  • 2012: Exhibition "kleinformatig" (art: werk, St. Pölten )
  • 2012: Exhibition and action art "olympia gold" (Kunsthalle Karlsplatz, Vienna )
  • 2012: "World Exhibition" the Mödlinger Strich "" (Art Station, Mödling )
  • 2013: Exhibition “That would Thomas Bernhard do” as part of the collective exhibition “early birds” in the Kunsthalle in the MuseumsQuartier Wien
  • 2013: Exhibition "Generalized Fundamentalism" (Atelier Frey im Rabenhof (Vienna) , Vienna )
  • 2014: Action art "We got away with it again"
  • 2014: Action art "donhofer. Lets grass grow over the Burgtheater scandal"

Awards

  • 2010: CCA award (advertising art, for the concept of "polishing up the image")
  • 2011: Grand Diploma for drawing ( Tuzla / Bosnia-Herzegovina )

Web links

Commons : Donhofer.  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Artist deals with the media . In: Courier of November 8, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Artist causes excitement . In: Courier of April 1, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b artist flew from festival site . In: Today from May 29, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b Hans Kopitz: A painter who also dances . In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten of November 21, 2011.
  5. ↑ Günter Rapp: A heart for art . In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten of September 7, 2009.
  6. ↑ Foreign works of art . In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten of October 5, 2009.
  7. ↑ Artist deals with the media . In: Courier of November 8, 2013.
  8. ↑ Action artist pasted over poster in front of the castle . Die Presse, print edition, March 15, 2014. Accessed April 18, 2014.
  9. ↑ Artist placed artificial turf in front of the entrance from kurier.at, March 28, 2014. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
  10. ^ Creativ Club Austria (Ed.): 32nd year book of Creativ Club Austria . Vienna 2010. p. 227.
  11. ↑ International Honors . In: Today from November 24, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME donhofer.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Donhofer, Alexander (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian action artist, draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling near Vienna