Gabriela Oberkofler
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
- 2009: beautiful. The cult of beauty in current art, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
- 2009: Flower pieces, Filseck Castle / Göppingen Art Gallery
- 2009: sowing and weeding. Folk culture in contemporary art, Städtische Galerie Ravensburg / Columbus Art Foundation
- 2010: Foreign Home, Kunsthalle Mannheim
- 2010: Sowing and weeding, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg , Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen
- 2010: Dumpling installation, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
- 2011: BHFGGHOW. Six positions from the Columbus funding for current art, Kunsthalle Ravensburg
- 2011: Carte blanche, Städtische Galerie Offenburg
- 2011: Sowing and weeding, folk culture in contemporary art, Cobra Museum Amstelveen, The Netherlands
- 2012: Off to the corner, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst
- 2012: Excellent, Museum Art.Plus , Donaueschingen
- 2012: Show. An audio tour through Baden-Württemberg, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
- 2012: Baden-Württemberg 60, State Representation Baden-Württemberg Berlin, Art Museum Singen, Gallery in Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd
- 2013: Sculpture is when ..., Kunsthalle Göppingen , Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe Ettlingen eV
- 2014: born in the dolomites, Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt and Messner Mountain Museum , Bruneck
- 2014: Room Service - From the hotel to art and artists in the hotel, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
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
- Literature by and about Gabriela Oberkofler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Gabriela Oberkofler
- Gabriela Oberkofler at the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg
- Gabriela Oberkofler at Kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wagenhallen-Stories: Artist Gabriela Oberkofler - Stuttgart Journal. Retrieved January 19, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Kunsthalle Erfurt: wrong ways in the search for home In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . November 20, 2012. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
- ↑ Gabriela Oberkofler museion.it. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
- ↑ Affiliation and identity in the field of tension between personal and collective memory zf.com. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
- ↑ Everything back again at stadtgalerie.de. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
- ↑ Südwest Presse: Gabriela Oberkofler exhibits in the Kunsthalle Göppingen. January 28, 2016, accessed January 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Gabriela Oberkofler receives Paul Flora Prize. In: The Standard . June 26, 2014. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Oberkofler, Gabriela |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-German artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bolzano |