Siggi Hofer

This article deals with the artist Siggi Hofer. For the comedian see Sigi Hofer .

Siggi Hofer (* 1970 in Bruneck , South Tyrol) is an Italian- Austrian artist.

Life

From 1991 to 1993 Hofer attended Gerhard Lojen's painting master class at the HTBLVA Graz-Ortweinschule and from 1994 to 1999 the University of Applied Arts Vienna . From 2001 to 2005 he was a member of the artist group "Rain", a group of artists, architects and curators founded in Los Angeles in 2000. In 2001 he was given a teaching position at the Technical University of Vienna .

Hofer lives and works in Vienna.

Awards

• 2009 Otto Mauer Prize
• 2010 Paul Flora Prize
• 2012 Art Prize of the City of Innsbruck for Sculpture

Exhibitions

• 2005: Far and wide no end , Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
• 2005: Voglio spazio per crescere , Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna
• 2006: On the 80th floor , Strabag Art Lounge, Vienna
• 2006: I'm just a girl who says what she feels , Galerie Museum Bozen
• 2007: I forgot 1988 , Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
• 2008: 14 dead children , Neue Galerie Graz
• 2009: Holy Freedom , Kunsthalle Krems
• 2009: God is made of gold , Hospitalhof Stuttgart
• 2010: Action , Project-wall, Kunsthalle Wien
• 2010: The good seller , Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
• 2011: I Wish I Were a Stone , Temporary Gallery Cologne
• 2011: Two sky-blue eyes , Tauferer Tor Tower, Glurns, South Tyrol

Publications

• Moby Dick Filet No 132 - The Symphony. Harpoon, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902835-05-5 .
• U. Harpune, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-903348-04-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Siggi Hofer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Siggi Hofer
• Siggi Hofer at kunstaspekte.de
• Siggi Hofer at MULTImART September – November 2012 (PDF; 1.7 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gallery Meyer Kainer: Siggi Hofer ( MS Word ; 57 kB), accessed on Nov. 2, 2009
2. ↑ Some sources such as [1] cite a period 1990–1992 when attending the master school and from 1993 to 1998 when attending the University of Applied Arts.
3. ↑ Universes in Universe: 8th Havana Biennial - Pabellon Cuba , accessed on Nov. 2, 2009
4. ^ ORF : Otto Mauer Prize goes to Siggi Hofer , accessed on Nov. 2, 2009