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Siggi Hofer
The ceramic piece „Weit und Breit kein Ende“ (2005) by Vienna-based artist Siggi Hofer, which is part of the curated section „Die vierte Wand“ by Fiona Liewehr, depicts a group of almost 50 building structures that, as a city, appear in a state of disintegration. The remaining vertical walls of each building display numerous text fragments that combined form a surrealist kind of poem that paraphrases on an existentialist as much as absurdist reading of the human condition.
„Weit und Breit kein Ende“ expands and comments on Hofer’s concurrent solo show at Vienna’s Secession, portraying the exposed remnants of a lonely wanderer on the verge of collapse. Seeking refuge, the first person narrator, as the artist himself as much as any individual or society, refers to both the individual and the societal predicament of human existence.
Biography
Born 1970 in Bruneck-Brunico, Italy
Lives and works in Vienna.
Selected solo exhibtiions
2022
STILL LIFE, Secession, Vienna (cat)
to your help, Unger und Klein, Vienna
2021
auf einem kleinen floß treib ich steuerlos, Memphis Memphis, Linz, AT
Meine Sicht ist eine Andere, Mural for Bergmeister/Wolf, Brixen, IT
2020
GIFT BASKET, VE.SCH Kunstverein, Vienna
Am 2. Freitag im April, WOP Gallery / works on paper, Vienna
2019
Flat Flat, ADA/ artistic.dynamic.association, Vienna
2018
Kunstraum, Esslingen am Neckar, DE
Reduzierte Lösung, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Pravo i Sprawiedliwosc, Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej Pastula, PL
2017
every piece of art has it´s own title, New Capital Projects, Chicago, USA
Die Verwandlung, Kunstverein Schattendorf, Austria
2016
The brave artist, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Jackhammer & The hole, Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, AT (with Bernhard Brungs)
2015
My mother sold cigarettes in the mountains, Kai Matsumiya Gallery, New York
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EXILE understands art as a collaborative, inter-generational and overarching discourse embedded in a complex web of socio-political, gender and personal histories as much as in aesthetic theory and conceptual practice. EXILE was founded in 2008 in Berlin and is located in Vienna since 2018.
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Siggi Hofer
The ceramic piece „Weit und Breit kein Ende“ (2005) by Vienna-based artist Siggi Hofer, which is part of the curated section „Die vierte Wand“ by Fiona Liewehr, depicts a group of almost 50 building structures that, as a city, appear in a state of disintegration. The remaining vertical walls of each building display numerous text fragments that combined form a surrealist kind of poem that paraphrases on an existentialist as much as absurdist reading of the human condition.
„Weit und Breit kein Ende“ expands and comments on Hofer’s concurrent solo show at Vienna’s Secession, portraying the exposed remnants of a lonely wanderer on the verge of collapse. Seeking refuge, the first person narrator, as the artist himself as much as any individual or society, refers to both the individual and the societal predicament of human existence.
Biography
Born 1970 in Bruneck-Brunico, Italy
Lives and works in Vienna.
Selected solo exhibtiions
2022
STILL LIFE, Secession, Vienna (cat)
to your help, Unger und Klein, Vienna
2021
auf einem kleinen floß treib ich steuerlos, Memphis Memphis, Linz, AT
Meine Sicht ist eine Andere, Mural for Bergmeister/Wolf, Brixen, IT
2020
GIFT BASKET, VE.SCH Kunstverein, Vienna
Am 2. Freitag im April, WOP Gallery / works on paper, Vienna
2019
Flat Flat, ADA/ artistic.dynamic.association, Vienna
2018
Kunstraum, Esslingen am Neckar, DE
Reduzierte Lösung, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Pravo i Sprawiedliwosc, Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej Pastula, PL
2017
every piece of art has it´s own title, New Capital Projects, Chicago, USA
Die Verwandlung, Kunstverein Schattendorf, Austria
2016
The brave artist, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Jackhammer & The hole, Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, AT (with Bernhard Brungs)
2015
My mother sold cigarettes in the mountains, Kai Matsumiya Gallery, New York
E X I L E
EXILE understands art as a collaborative, inter-generational and overarching discourse embedded in a complex web of socio-political, gender and personal histories as much as in aesthetic theory and conceptual practice. EXILE was founded in 2008 in Berlin and is located in Vienna since 2018.