Florian Pumhösl

Florian Pumhösl (born 1971 in Vienna) is an Austrian artist. He uses in his works the middle of the installation, conceptual art and photography. He was one of the youngest participating artist at the documenta 12

Life

Florian Pumhösl attended from 1989 to 1991, the Computer Graphics, a vocational school for Visual Communication and Media Technology in Vienna. In parallel, he began studying at the Academy of Applied Arts, also in Vienna. He graduated in 1997 with a diploma.

Pumhösl goes into his work - starting with a visual appeal - from theoretical considerations on the conditions of culture. Here is the formal vocabulary of modernism, particularly the architecture, focus. Is typical of this technique a confrontation with political and social events, particularly in the context of the Third World. The related of him techniques range from photography to painting on glass, its form language is the sign painting of the 1920s used the colors are usually limited to black and white.

Pumhösl lives and works in Vienna.

Awards

• 2000 Otto Mauer Prize
• 2002 CENTRAL Art Prize by the Cologne Kunstverein
• 2006 City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts
• 2012 Teresa Bulgarini price

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection )

• 2012/2013: Florian Pumhösl, Kunsthaus Bregenz
• 2010: Florian Pumhösl, Art Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia, Dusseldorf
• 2008: Florian Pumhösl - program, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
• 2005: Florian Pumhösl - Animated Map, New Kunsthalle St. Gallen.
• 2004: Florian Pumhösl, Centre d' édition contemporaine, Geneva.
• 2003: Florian Pumhösl Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne. Exhibition on the occasion of the award of CENTRAL Art Prize.
• 2000: FLORIAN PUMHÖSL, Wiener Secession, Vienna.
• 1998: Florian Pumhösl - Covering the Room, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg.

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

• 2007: Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany. The installation Modernology has been shown ( triangular studio ).
• 2007: Cross - Border. Photography and video art from the MUMOK Vienna, Museum of Fine Arts Stuttgart.
• 2006: 27th Biennial of São Paulo.
• 2006: ... and so concept has never means horse, Generali Foundation, Vienna.
• 2006: Why Pictures Now, MUMOK, Vienna.
• 2005: Occupying Space - The Generali Collection shown at Witte de With, Rotterdam and at the Haus der Kunst in Munich.
• 2005: Icestorm, Kunstverein Munich.
• 2004-2005: THE GOVERNMENT - How do we want to be governed, shown under different titles in the MACBA, Barcelona, ​​after the Miami Art Central, Miami, at the Vienna Secession, Vienna, and at the Witte de With, Rotterdam. .
• 2004: formalism. Modern Art, today, Kunstverein in Hamburg.
• 2003: Adorno - The possibility of the impossible, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main.
• 2003: Individual Systems, 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice.
• 2002: Fundamentalisms of the New Order, Kunsthal Charlotte Borg, Copenhagen.
• 2002: Designs for the Real World, Generali Foundation, Vienna.
• 2002: The global complex - continental drift shown in OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz and the Grazer Kunstverein, Graz.
• 2001: Yokohama 2001 - International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.