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<h3 class="year">1972</h3>
<p>born in Krems/ Donau, Austria; lives and works in Vienna</p>
<h3 class="year">1995-99</h3>
<p>Painting and Graphics, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna</p>
<h3 class="year">1998-99</h3>
<p>Fine Art Photography, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h2'><h2 class="category">Exhibitions</h2>
<div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2024</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.museomontagna.org/en/"><em>Walking Mountains</em></a><br>Museo della Montagna, Turin</p>
<p><em><a href="https://www.biennialassociation.org/article/biennale-gherdeina-presents-ninth-edition-the-parliament-of-marmots/"><em>The Parliament of Marmots</em></a><br></em><br>9th Edition of Biennale Gherdëina, Gröden (kuratiert von Lorenzo Giusti & Marta Papini)</p>
<p><a href="https://posibila.ro/walk-all-lies-away/"><em>Walk all the lies away</em></a><br> Galeria Posibilă, Bucharest</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2023</h3>
<p><em><a href="https://www.museomontagna.org/en/exhibition-area/temporary-exhibition/"><em>Stay With Me—The Mountain as a Space of Resonance</em></a><br></em><br>(with Magda Drozd),<em></em><br>Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Turin (curated by Andrea Lerda)</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2022</h3>
<p><em><a href="https://www.schirn.de/en/exhibitions/2022/walk/">WALK!</a></em><br>Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (curated by Fiona Hesse)</p>
<p><em><a href="https://www.galleriamichelarizzo.net/lista-mostre/?id=9572">Michael Höpfner. Unfinished Walks</a></em><br>Galeria Michela Rizzo, Venice</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2021</h3>
<p><em><a href="https://www.viennabiennale.org/en/">Vienna Biennale for Change 2021</a></em><br>Museum for Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna</p>
<p><em><a href="https://sensing-nature.org/">Sensing Nature</a></em><br>Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2020</h3>
<p><em><a href="https://www.gamec.it/en/ti-bergamo/">Ti Bergamo</a></em><br>GAMeC, Bergamo (curated by Lorenzo Giusti)</p>
<p><em>Von Ruthok bis Lhamo Latso</em><br>MQ Eikon Schauraum, Vienna</p>
<p><em>Fünf Wege zu Fuß</em><br>Fotohof, Salzburg</p>
<p><em><a href="https://www.galeriewinter.at/en/exhibitions/introduction-to-a-distant-world/">Introduction to a Distant World</a></em><br>Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2019</h3>
<p><em>Durchwanderte Kreisläufe – Michael Höpfner</em><br>Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, Krems</p>
<p><em>Sdraiarsi; Svegliarsi; Camminare;</em><br>Michael Höpfner, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice</p>
<p><em>Landscape – Albdorf, Bodnar, Höpfner, Guschlbauer, Rohrauer, Titz</em><br>Fotogalerie Wien, Galeria Posibilă Bucharest</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2017</h3>
<p><em>Alice Cattaneo – Michael Höpfner</em><br>Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna</p>
<p><em>Visions of Nature</em><br>(curated by Verena Kaspar), Kunsthaus Wien</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2016</h3>
<p><em>Dear Michael, from Edgecombe to Qumalai, Antonio Rovaldi – Michael Höpfner</em><br>(curated by Davide Ferri), Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice</p>
<p><em>Step One Two</em><br>exhibition and workshop with Michael Höpfner, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2015</h3>
<p><em>What Was Documentary Is Now Something, Else</em><br>Camera Austria, Graz</p>
<p><em>Disputed Landscape: Enacting Landscape</em><br> Kunsthaus Graz, Graz</p>
<p><em>Lie down, Get up, Walk On/Niederlegen, Aufrichten, Gehen</em><br> Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna</p>
<p><em>Hamish Fulton. Michael Höpfner, Canto di Strada</em><br>MAN Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Sardinia</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2014</h3>
<p><em>2D23D photography as sculpture sculpture as photography</em><br> OstLicht, Vienna</p>
<p><em>archives, re-assemblances and surveys</em><br>(curated by Sandra Krizic Roban and Reinhard Braun), Klovicevi dvorni Gallery, Zagreb </p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2013</h3>
<p><em>Mobilität I. Reisen</em><br> Bilder, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna</p>
<p><em>"Flex-Sil Reloaded". Eine Hommage an Roman Signer</em><br>Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2012</h3>
<p><em>after five and a half days the trail peters out</em><br> Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna</p>
<p><em>Nacht</em><br>(curated by Verena Kaspar)<em></em><br> OstLicht, Vienna</p>
<p><em>Road Directions</em><br>(curated by Elisa Lenhart and Francesca Solero), Museo d'Arte Orientale, Turin</p>
<p><em>Deseando Lo Real, </em><br>MUAC, Mexico City</p>
<p><em>DLF 1874 – The Biography of Images</em><br>(curated by Ruth Horak), Camera Austria, Graz</p>
<p><em>The Sound and the Fury</em><br>Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2011</h3>
<p><em>Alpine Desire</em><br>(curated by Agnes Husslein), Austrian Culture Forum New York, New York</p>
<p><em>Sense and Sensibility</em><br>(curated by Hemma Schmutz), Kunstverein Salzburg, Salzburg</p>
<p><em>Like a Stranger in Moscow</em><br> Christinger de Mayo, Zurich</p>
<p><em>Stay Hungry, Gleisdreieck</em><br>(curated by Theo Lightard and Anna Redeker), Berlin</p>
<p><em>Artist+Artist</em><br> Rhode Contemporary, Copenhagen</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2010</h3>
<p><em>Katarina Zdjelar – Michael Höpfner</em><br>(curated by Luigi Fassi), ar/ge kunst, Bozen/Bolzano</p>
<p><em>Shorakapoch, Antonio Rovaldi – Michael Höpfner</em><br>(curated by Davide Ferri), Magazzino 1b, Prato </p>
<p><em>Nous ne notons pas les fleurs, dit le géographe</em><br>(curated by Virginie Bobin and Julia Kläring), Betonsalon, Paris</p>
<p><em>HaVE A LoOk! HAve a Look!</em><br>(curated by Caterina Riva), FormContent, London</p>
<p><em>Talking to Rocks</em><br>Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin (solo)</p>
<p><em>Outpost of Progress</em><br>Galleria HIT, Bratislava (solo)</p>
<p><em>Station</em><br>Zeitkunst Galerie, Kitzbühel (solo)</p>
<p><em>Above And Beyond</em><br>Forum Stadtpark, Graz</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2009</h3>
<p><em>On Foot</em><br>Galerie Hubert Winter, Wien (solo)</p>
<p><em>The Outpost</em><br>abc – Art Berlin Contemporary, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (solo)</p>
<p><em>Die Form der Isolation</em><br>Marc Aschenbrenner, Michael Höpfner, Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin </p>
<p><em>Distance Creates Desire</em><br>Kunstverein Salzburg, Salzburg</p>
<p><em>Herring Under A Furcoat, Caitlin Berrigan, Martin Kohout, Michael Höpfner</em><br>(curated by Carson Chan), Program, Berlin </p>
<p><em>The Hole</em><br>(curated by Andrea Domesle), The Grand Chelsea, New York</p>
<p><em>Open Studios</em><br>ISCP, New York</p>
<p><em>Open Space Uncurated 09 | Creative Migration</em><br>Austrian Cultural Forum, New York </p>
<p><em>Outpost</em><br>Nomad Project, Bern</p>
<p><em>Richtung Norden</em><br>Kunstverein MAERZ, Linz</p>
<p><em>MAK NITE –the future is analogue</em><br>MAK, Vienna</p>
<p><em>Mifàn</em><br>Austrian Artists in China, Anniart Gallery, 798 Gallery District, Beijing</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2008</h3>
<p><em>unsettled conditions</em><br>Kunstraum Noe, Vienna (solo)</p>
<p><em>An Area, a Territory, a Zone</em><br>Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck (solo)</p>
<p><em>Dragged Down Into Lowercase</em><br>(curated by Clementine Deliss), Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern</p>
<p><em>Open Plan</em><br>Art Athina (curated by Bettina M. Busse), Athens</p>
<p><em>Artists on Tour</em><br>Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna</p>
<p><em>Österreichischer Grafikpreis 2007</em><br>Südtiroler Kulturinstitut, Bozen/Bolzano</p>
<p><em>Ortung</em><br>Deutschvilla Strobl, Salzburg</p>
<p><em>Raumzeitraum</em><br>150 Jahre Künstlerhaus, Vienna</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2007</h3>
<p><em>Waiting for the Barbarians</em><br><em>Marzena Nowak – Michael Höpfner</em><br>(curated by Goschka Gawlik), Galleria Piekary, Poznan </p>
<p><em>Die Fotosammlung der Neuen Galerie</em><br>Neue Galerie Graz, Graz</p>
<p><em>New Visions, Art from Private Collections</em><br>Viennafair, Vienna</p>
<p><em>Die Natur des Menschen liegt in der Bewegung</em><br>Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns</p>
<p><em>walk!</em><br>Kunstraum Kreuzberg-Bethanien, Berlin</p>
<p><em>Österreichischer Grafikpreis 2007</em><br>Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck</p>
<p><em>Beziehungsweise, Sammlung Holzer</em><br>Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2006</h3>
<p><em>Die Astronauten in der Wüste: ratlos, Hamish Fulton – Michael Höpfner</em><br>Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna</p>
<p><em>Maja Vukoje – Michael Höpfner</em><br>10th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo </p>
<p><em>unbekannte zone</em><br>Neue Galerie Graz, Graz (solo) </p>
<p><em>recordings of emptiness, visual drugs</em><br>Damian Christinger, Zurich (solo) </p>
<p><em>Leere Zone</em><br>Zeitkunstgalerie Ferdinand Maier, Kitzbühel (solo)</p>
<p><em>potential dialogue, </em><br>RCM Gallery Nanjing, PRC – Kunstaum Noe, Vienna</p>
<p><em>genuine happiness</em><br>Galerie Kunstbüro, Vienna </p>
<p><em>transistor_transformer</em><br>(curated by David Komary), dreizehnzwei, Vienna</p>
<p><em>Lower Austria Art Pric</em><br>e, Dok, St. Pölten</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2005</h3>
<p><em>about this centre</em><br>Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna (solo)</p>
<p><em>Die Ordnung der Natur</em><br>(curated by Martin Sturm und Hans-Peter Wipplinger), MMK Passau - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Wörlen, Passau – OK Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz</p>
<p><em>Lebt und arbeitet in Wien</em><br>(curated by Hanna Wróblewska, Trevor Smiths and Yuko Hasegawa), Kunsthalle, Vienna - Zachenta, Warsaw </p>
<p><em>Arrêté</em><br>(curated by Ruth Horak), Kunstraum Noe, Vienna </p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2004</h3>
<p><em>definitively provisional</em><br>(curated by Cecilia Canziani and Kristine Siegel), Appendiks, Copenhagen</p>
<p><em>Sahara</em><br>Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Vienna </p>
<p><em>Der doppelte Blick</em><br>Kunstverein Bregenz, Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz</p>
<p><em>animated from a distance</em><br>(curated by David Komary), dreizehnzwei, Vienna </p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2003</h3>
<p><em>zeichnen-sprechen-schreiben</em><br>Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna</p>
<p><em>junge wiener kunst</em><br>Galerie Walter Storms, Munich </p>
<p><em>Walking Rhetorics</em><br>Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna</p>
<p><em>aus 9</em><br>Galerie Steinek, Vienna</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2002</h3>
<p><em>alternative trail</em><br>Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna (solo) </p>
<p><em>Mo(u)numental</em><br>Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck</p>
<p><em>current settings</em><br>Kunstverein Hallein, Hallein </p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2001</h3>
<p><em>Unfinished Valley</em><br>Galerie Stadtpark, Krems (solo)</p>
<p><em>Rolling Stones Adorned with Starlight</em><br>Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna</p>
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</div><div class='wrap-h2'><h2 class="category">Grants/Awards/Residencies</h2>
<div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2013</h3>
<p><em>Visiting Artist Fall 2013</em><br>Siena Art Institute (founded by Paul Getty III), Siena</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2010</h3>
<p>nominated for Price of the National Gallery for Young Art 2010, Berlin</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2009</h3>
<p><em>ISCP New York</em><br>6 months residency by BMUKK Austria</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2008</h3>
<p>International Summer Academy Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern</p>
<p>Ortung, Summer Residency Salzburg Art Council, Salzburg</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2007</h3>
<p>Österreichischer Grafikpreis</p>
<p>Unsettled Conditions, travel grant, Art Council Lower Austria and BMUKK Austria</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2006</h3>
<p>10th International Cairo Biennale, representing Austria</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2005</h3>
<p>Lower Austria Culture Price</p>
<p>empty zone, travel grant, Art Council Lower Austria and BMUKK Austria</p>
</div><div class='wrap-h3'><h3 class="year">2004</h3>
<p>Chengdu, PRC, 6 months residency by BMUKK Austria</p></div></div>