BIRGIT GRASCHOPF

*1978 in Vienna

lives and works as a freelance artist there

 

University of Applied Arts, Fine and Media Art

Photography class with Gabriele Rothemann, Diploma 2007

 

Hogskölan for Fotografi och Film, Gothenburg, Sweden 2003-2004

 

Guest lecturer photography class applied 2007, 2013, 2016/17

 

 

 

COLLECTIONS

Albertina

Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg

Photo Museum Winterthur, Switzerland

Federal Republic of Austria

City vienna

Ursula Blickle video archive

University of Applied Arts Vienna

County of Lower Austria

private collections

 

SOLOS AND PERFORMANCES (SELECTION)

2022

A Multifacetada - The multifaceted, 3 permanent wall exposures in Brasília/Brazil, Espaço Cultural Renato Russo, Bibliotheca Demonstrativa do Brasil, Austrian Embassy Brazil

Walls, Interrupted. Vol. 2, Museum SIAM, Bangkok/Thailand

 

2021

Flechtenksmos, permanent wall exposure in the "Haus der Wildnis", Lunz am See/Lower Austria

Walls, Interrupted. Bildraum 01, Vienna

 

2020
Salon privé, Atelier Guido Kucsko on Hoher Markt, Vienna

 

2019

Exposed, Galerie Haas & Gschwandtner, Salzburg

 

2018

Performing Rooms. day and night St. Pölten exhibition bridge

The Nocturne of Alicante, Bastei 10, Marco Simonis, Vienna

Performative wall exposure as part of the exhibition Space and Photography, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Austria

 

2017

Nocturnal, ARCC-Art Gallery Statement at Parallel, Vienna

Domesticities, KÖR-20 Seconds for Art for the INFOSCREENS of Wiener Linien

 

2016

Medusa, Bogliasco Center Gallery, Bogliasco / Italy and NYC / USA

 

2015

The "Packhaus", video installation, Paradocks, Vienna

 

2014

Intervention #4, Albertina Vienna

Domesticities, Kapsch Art Screens, Kapsch Head Office Vienna

Shibari, artist intervention “Ideas need space” by the BAI, Vienna

 

2013

Particulate Matters, art at Wittmann, Wittmann showroom at Karlsplatz Vienna

Gaijin Josei, Electro Gönner, Vienna

 

2012

Space Forward, Carbon 12 Gallery, Dubai / UAE

 

2011

Between, Momentum Gallery Vienna

 

2010

"Ein Schiff wird kommen", EIKON showcase/MQ, Vienna

Space Shift, photo performance, the white house, Vienna

 

GROUP (SELECTION)

2022

Schiele Art Award, exhibition of the 30 nominations, Minoritenkloster Tulln/Lower Austria

How Soon Is Now?, Structura Gallery, Sofia/Bulgaria

Body and Nature, Rudolf Leeb Gallery, Vienna

40 years photo gallery Vienna, exhibition and artist talk

 

2021

House Of Losing Control, Vienna Art Week, Vienna

Red Light Festival, Kro Gallery, Vienna

Pure Bliss, Haas & Gschwandtner Gallery, Salzburg

 

2020

The Next Episode, Rudolf Leeb Gallery, Vienna

Stand-by, Galerie Rudolf Leeb, Vienna

Pics from the Gallery Program, Galerie Haas & Gschwandtner, Salzburg

NOW Collected #9/#10, Tresor in Kunstforum Bank Austria, Vienna

 

2019

Walls & Beyond, Oasis Gallery, Bangkok / Thailand

Mating is fierce competition. Female Paper Works. Haas & Gschwandtner Gallery, Salzburg

Instant Edition, Parallel, Vienna

Female – lives and works in Vienna, Galerie Rudolf Leeb, Vienna

 

2018

Instant Edition, Distillate, Vienna

Chambres D'Amies #3, Seliger, Vienna

Abstract and figurative, Ed Urban Collection, Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Lower Austria

Like in a fairy tale, NöART – Lower Austria Society for Art and Culture

Traveling exhibition in Horn, Hollabrunn, Groß Gerungs, Allentsteig, Kirchberg a. W., Laa an der Thaya, Ziersdorf

 

2017

Space and Photography, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Austria

Instant Edition, Parallel, Vienna

Photographs from Austria, Schlossgalerie Schärding, Upper Austria

Film Festival at the "Wasserturm", Volxkino, Vienna

 

2016

Changing Views, National Center of Modern Art, Minsk/Belarus

FS 1 – test image, Austria Auction Company, Vienna

Come Alive Art Festival, Taipei / Taiwan; Pop Hits, Palais Breuner, Vienna

Effects, Trumer Gärhallen, Obertrum

 

2015

Parallel / Apartment Draschan, Vienna

Private Public Partnership, Max Lust, Vienna

Mujeres Alcanzando La Luz, Casa Museo del Banco Nacional, Panama City

 

2014

Private View, Atelier Stefan Draschan, Vienna

Closer Encounters, Carbon 12 Gallery, Dubai/UAE

Open Art, Summer Stage, Vienna

 

2013

Drawing, drawing, Künstlerhaus Vienna

Industry, OstLicht Gallery, Vienna

 

PRIZES/SCHOLARSHIPS (SELECTION)

2019

Walls & Beyond Project, Silpakorn University, Bangkok / Thailand

 

2015

Bogliasco Foundation International Fellowship, Bogliasco/Italy

2014

State grant for artistic photography from the BKA

 

2012

Studio grant Tokyo of the BKA

 

2010

Schlierbach Abbey photography prize

 

2009

Vivatis Award

Starting grant for artistic photography

Studio grant in Paris from the Federal Criminal Police Office

 

2008

Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Prize

Recognition award for media art (artistic photography) from the state of Lower Austria

 

2006

Diesel New Art Award

Artist in Residence at Sign to Eutopia, Groningen/NL

Otto Prutscher Prize

 

PUBLICATION

Oberflächentiefe  / Surface depth - monograph

in German/English, 198 pages, hardcover

 

Essays by Elissa Nelson, Ursula Maria Probst, Andreas Spiegl, Hans-Jürgen Hauptmann, Georgia Holz

published by Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna 2016