Gabriela Oberkofler

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Gabriela Oberkofler (* 1975 in Bolzano ) is an Italian - German artist . Her work includes works from the fields of video , performance , photography , drawings , installations and object art .

Life

Gabriela Oberkofler attended the University of Visual Arts in Corner Brook from 1997 to 1998 and the University of Art Therapy in Nürtingen from 1998 to 2002 . From 2002 to 2009 she studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Werner Pokorny , Holger Bunk , Micha Ullman , Markus Ambach and Rainer Ganahl . In 2007 she helped found the Local to Local project group .

The main theme of Gabriela Oberkofler's works is nature and its preservation from the threat of environmental destruction.

Gabriela Oberkofler lives and works in Stuttgart.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2012: ... as if I were born and raised here (Goethe, 1829), Kunsthalle Erfurt
  • 2012: ... and now I would come back from a Greenland trip, from a whale catch ... (Goethe, 1829), Museion Bozen , Italy
  • 2012: The collective pantry, Museum Art.Plus , Donaueschingen
  • 2012: The geranium should play an important role, Kunsthalle Ravensburg / Columbus Art Foundation
  • 2013: Swallowtails, maidens in the mosaic, grave diggers, bumblebees and blowflies, ZF Art Foundation in the  Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
  • 2014: Everything back again, Saarbrücken City Gallery , Ulm Art Association
  • 2016: The night is never black, Kunsthalle Göppingen

Group exhibitions

Awards and grants

  • 2006: Academy Award for Museum for Sedimented Art, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Award of the Friends of the Stuttgart Academy eV for Museum for Sedimented Art
  • 2007: Prize for the Artists' Association of Baden-Württemberg
  • 2009: Studio grant from Kulturstiftung Rhein-Neckar-Kreis eV, Heidelberg
  • 2010: Atelier grant art 3, Ministry for Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg, Valence; Herbert Zapp Prize for Young Art, Columbus Prize for Current Art
  • 2011: Scholarship Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg , Stuttgart
  • 2012: Scholarship ZF Kunststiftung, Friedrichshafen, studio scholarship Herrenhaus Edenkoben
  • 2013: Strasbourg scholarship, CEAAC, HEAR, Ville de Strasbourg
  • 2014: Paul Flora Prize , project funding from the Karin Abt-Straubinger Foundation, Stuttgart

Publications

  • Silvia Höller (Ed.): Entreissungen. RLB Atelier Lienz, 2015.
  • Andrea Jahn (Ed.): Everything back again. Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, 2014, Folio Verlag, Vienna / Bozen 2014, ISBN 978-3-85256-653-5 .
  • Matthias Lenz (Hrsg.), Regina Michel (Hrsg.): Swallowtails, mosaic maidens, grave diggers, earth bumblebees and blowflies. ZF Kunststiftung, Gessler, Friedrichshafen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86136-179-4 .
  • Detlef Bluemler (Ed.), Lothar Romain (Ed.), Michael Hübl: Gabriela Oberkofler. 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Wagenhallen-Stories: Artist Gabriela Oberkofler - Stuttgart Journal. Retrieved January 19, 2019 (German).
  2. Kunsthalle Erfurt: wrong ways in the search for home In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . November 20, 2012. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
  3. Gabriela Oberkofler museion.it. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
  4. Affiliation and identity in the field of tension between personal and collective memory zf.com. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
  5. Everything back again at stadtgalerie.de. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
  6. Südwest Presse: Gabriela Oberkofler exhibits in the Kunsthalle Göppingen. January 28, 2016, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  7. Gabriela Oberkofler receives Paul Flora Prize. In: The Standard . June 26, 2014. Retrieved October 5, 2015.