1969 Born in Bad Hindelang, Germany

Lives and works in Vienna

1993-99 University of Applied Arts Vienna

Grants/Awards (selection)

2017 Residency for artistic photography in Paris, Cité internationale des Arts, Federal Chancellery Austria

2012 Residency for artistic photography in London, Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture

2010 Residency for visual Arts in Chicago, Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture

2008 Residency for visual Arts in Budapest, City of Vienna

2005 Residency for artistic photography in New York, Federal Chancellery Austria

2001 State Scholarship for Artistic Photography, Federal Chancellery Austria

2000 1st prize at the 18th Römerquelle Art Competition

1999 Awarded the City of Vienna Prize (M.A.)

Exhibitions/Projects (selection)

2024 NORTH-WEST BY SOUTH-EAST II, City Gallery Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo

The Dynamics of Photography. 7 Tentative Positionings, Rupertinum, Museum der Moderne Salzburg

2023 URBAN SPACES. Der Stadtraum in Fotografien der Sammlung SpallArt, SpallArt Collection Storage, Salzburg

Pitkowitz & Partners, Photography from the SpallArt Collection, Salzburg, Law firm Pitkowitz & Partners, Vienna

Renaissance 3.0 – A Base Camp for New Alliances of Art and Science in the 21st Century, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

2022 URBAN SPACES. Der Stadtraum in Fotografien der Sammlung SpallArt, SpallArt Collection Storage, Salzburg

IN SEARCH OF RADIANT CITIES, Reinthaler Gallery, Vienna (solo)

2021 La Valeur de la vie, Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam, Reinthaler Gallery, Westergas, Amsterdam (solo)

2020 Königshofer & Blanz, viennacontemporary, Reinthaler Gallery, Marx Halle, Vienna

RBF, Reinthaler Gallery, Vienna

2019 …DER/DIE HATTE FÜR DIESE ORDNUNG KEINEN SINN., In der Kubatur des Kabinetts - der Kunstsalon im Fluc, Vienna

TWENTYFOURSEVEN, Reinthaler Gallery, Vienna (solo)

INTO THE WEB, OMA – Open Media Award, Ars Electronica Center, Linz

2018 IN DIE STADT, Carinthian Museum of Modern Art, Klagenfurt

ART BODENSEE – Fair for contemporary art, Reinthaler Gallery, Dornbirn

2017 FOTOISTANBUL, International Photography Festival, Jewish Orphanage Arts Centre, Istanbul

STADTGEFÜGE, viennacontemporary, Reinthaler Gallery, Marx Halle, Vienna (solo)

KÖRDÖLÖR - WIEDERHOLUNG II, Kunstraum haaaauch-quer, Klagenfurt

YOU WANT TRUTH OR BEAUTY? Works from the SpallArt Collection, Salzburg, Kunsthalle Nexus, Saalfelden

BIRD'S-EYE VIENNA. THE CITY AT A GLANCE, Wien Museum Karlsplatz, Vienna

2016 STILL LAPS, Art Center L'Abat-Jour, Lyon, France

AWAY – a project around residencies, former Post and Telegraph Office, Zollergasse 31, Vienna

MUSEUM UND URBANER RAUM, screening, Blick-Wechsel, Open House: 5 years 21er Haus, Blickle Kino, 21er Haus, Vienna

ART.FAIR | Fair for modern and contemporary art, Reinthaler Gallery, Cologne

FS 1 - TESTBILD FOTOGRAFIE, exhibition & auction, Austria Auction Company, Palais Breuner, Vienna

THE HOUSE OF SANTA CLAUS, Reinthaler Gallery, Vienna (solo)

OUT OF THE BOX, exhibition & special edition of the Parabol Art Magazine, Austrian Cultural Forum London

WHERE ARE WE NOW?, Exhibition Space Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna

PUBLIC TRACKS, permanent installation, main lobby, Vienna DC Tower 1, Vienna

VILLES DURABLES, permanent installation, Learning Center, Dunkirk, France

2015 FELDFORSCHUNG, Reinthaler Gallery, Vienna (solo)

VIENNAFAIR | Fair for contemporary art, Reinthaler Gallery, Reed Exhibitions, Vienna

FUTURE MEMORIES, Venice Experimental Cinema and Performance Art Festival III, Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice

TRAVESTY FOR ADVANCED PERFORMERS – within the project TRAINING, hoelb/hoeb, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig

MODERN TALKING I, Fotoforum Braunau, Braunau, Austria

DAS GLÜCK LIEGT AUF DER STRASSE – Urban Space, Municipal Museum Neuötting, Germany

2013 AIRPORT LANDSCAPE – Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA

STARTUP – Wienerberger Group Collection, Albertina, Vienna

COLLECTION ON DISPLAY V – Cartography of the Image, Museum der Moderne Salzburg

URBAN CODES, Foto-Raum, Vienna (solo)

HOMESEEKERS, Austrian Cultural Forum London (solo)

URBAN INTERFACE – Cityscapes & Cross Maping, ArchFilm Matinée, Sunday Afternoon special, Filmcasino, Vienna

2012 NO TIME. Time phenomena. Phenomena of time, G.A.S-station, Berlin

2011 UN MUNDO AUDAZ. Nuevos conceptos en la fotografia austriaca, as part of PHotoEspaña 2011, Fundación Antonio Pérez, Cuenca, Spain

PUBLIC WORKS, Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago

MUTATIONS III. Public Images - Private Views, Carré Rotondes, Luxembourg

FERTILE CITIES, Institut francais d'architecture, Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Paris

SCHÖNE NEUE WELT. New image concepts in Austrian photography, Museum der Moderne Salzburg

2010 MUTATIONS III. Public Images – Private Views, MUSA Museum auf Abruf, Vienna

RINGTURM.KUNST – Sammlung Vienna Insurance Group, Leopold Museum, Vienna

GROUP SHOW, Momentum Gallery, Vienna

PHOTOGRAPHY MEETS INDUSTRY, GD4PhotoArt competition, 2nd edition, National Art Gallery of Bologna

BRAVE NEW WORLD. New image concepts in Austrian photography, Austrian Cultural Forum London

IDENTITY II: Forming Identity, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna

NEW FRONTIERS, as part of Architekturtage 2010, Zumtobel Light Forum Vienna

BLICKWECHSEL – Österreichische Fotografie heute, WestLicht. Showplace for Photography, Vienna

Berührungsfreies Abtasten, In der Kubatur des Kabinetts - der Kunstsalon im Fluc, Vienna

NEW FRONTIERS – Experimental Tendencies in Architecture, Design Factory, Bratislava

THE ART OF SPECULATION, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg

2009 KARDINAL-KÖNIG-KUNSTPREIS, Art Room St. Virgil, Salzburg

CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY. New Positions from Austria, Carinthian Museum of Modern Art, Klagenfurt

EDITIONEN 2010, Momentum Editionen, Vienna

EVO EVO! Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna

X-PLANTATION, Momentum Gallery, Vienna (solo)

INTEGRATIVE TENDENZEN: Raumkunst.Baukunst.Filmkunst.com, Gondel Filmkunsttheater, Bremen

GOD : THE FOSSIL RECORD, NÖ Documentation Center for Modern Art, City Museum St. Pölten

SPOTLIGHT, Museum der Moderne Salzburg

2008 ZEITRAUMZEIT, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna

DIALOG MIT WIEN II / DIALOGOS CON VIENA II, Centro de Extensión LA FACTORIA, Santiago de Chile

PRIME CUTS – OUR NEXT GENERATION, ArchFilm Matinée, Sunday Afternoon special, Filmcasino, Vienna

2007 EDITIONEN 08, Momentum – Photographie/Editionen, Vienna

DIALOG, Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Urbano Contemporaneo – DUC, Valparaiso, Chile

UN SPACE, Festival for digital arts and cultures, MAK Depot of Contemporary Art Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark, Vienna

NORTH-WEST BY SOUTH-EAST, “Mala Stanica” National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje

FRESH TRIPS, Festival of contemporary art aspects, Kunstraum Innsbruck

21 POSITIONS, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York

RÄUMLICHE VISIONEN, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna

2006 Berlaymont summa artis II, Berlaymont building, Brussels

SIMULTAN, Museum der Moderne Salzburg

2005 LEVEL FIVE, O.K spectral, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz (solo)

SPACIOUSLY, Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw

A ROOM OF MY OWN, Hofmobiliendepot Imperial Furniture Collection, Vienna

AUS 9, Gallery HS Steineck, Vienna

2004 BLANZSCAPE, Lindner Gallery, Vienna (solo)

ARTE FIERA, Lindner Gallery, Bologna

2003 JUNGE WIENER KUNST, Walter Storms Gallery, Munich

CONFLICTS/RESOLUTION, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg

GEOSPACES, Project Space, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck (solo)

ARTISTS FROM GALERIE LINDNER, VIENNA, Sonja Roesch Gallery, Houston, Texas

2002 VON ANFANG AN ..., Künstlerhaus, Salzburg

WAHRSCHEINLICHKEITEN, Kunstraum Dornbirn

JUNGE KUNST, Special show, Art Bodensee, Dornbirn

CLOSE_UP, Symposium Film: Architecture, Institut for Architectural Theory, TU Vienna

JUNGE KUNST, Special Show, 14th Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main

ART POSITION – in connection with Soho in Ottakring, Ottakringer Brauerei, Vienna

SPACE OFF!, Showroom Supersaat, Vienna

TRANSCOMMUNICATION – Performance, dietheater Künstlerhaus, Vienna

METAMORPHOSEN DER WIRKLICHKEIT – VIDEOP:ART:Y, Focky 31, Vienna

JUNGE KUNST, Special show, Art Innsbruck

2001 SIEBEN, Volpinum, Collection of Contemporary Art, Vienna

18. RÖMERQUELLE KUNSTWETTBEWERB, WestLicht. Showplace for Photography, Vienna

KUNST WIEN, Lindner Gallery, MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna

MOVING OUT, MUMOK – Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig Vienna

KUNST KÖLN 2001, Lindner Gallery, Cologne

13. ART FRANKFURT, Lindner Gallery, Frankfurt a.M.

18. RÖMERQUELLE KUNSTWETTBEWERB, Gallery of the City of Wels

2000 18. RÖMERQUELLE KUNSTWETTBEWERB, Alpen-Adria-Galerie, Klagenfurt

BLANZ, GAPPMAYR, KRÜGER, VILL, Architecture-Office Mayrhofer, Innsbruck

PALMEN UND PLATINEN, Lindner Gallery, Vienna

1999 FLUCTUATEDROOM – sound projection, Rhiz Bar, Vienna

LEBENSSTROM – Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

TIME SCAN 1, Alter Markt, Salzburg

TIME SCAN 1, Museumsquartier, Vienna

ZWEITAUSENDMINUSEINS, University of Applied Arts, Vienna

1998 AUCH HEINZ UND SUSI ...Passagegalerie, Künstlerhaus, Vienna

1997 ANNÄHERUNGEN, Chamber of Commerce, Vienna

GRUPPENAUFNAHME, Hall D, Museumsquartier, Vienna

1996 FIGURENSUCHE, European Design Depot, Klagenfurt

STAGFLOOR, University of Applied Arts, Vienna (solo)

1995 X³, University of Applied Arts, Vienna

DEUTSCHE KERAMIK ‘95, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen

1994 DIE POESIE DER INSZENIERUNG, Iparmüvészeti Múzeum/Museum of applied Arts, Budapest

EXPONATE ‘93, Siegwerk-Museum im Torhaus, Siegburg

HUBERT BLANZ, Galerie Kurhaus, Hindelang (solo)

1993 POPBAROCK, Galerie Pinakotheka, Munich-Erding (solo)

RICHARD-BAMPI-PREIS, Foundation Keramion, Frechen

SALZBRAND-KERAMIK, international competition, Electoral Palace, Koblenz

EXPONATE ‘93, Keramisches Zentrum, Höhr-Grenzhausen & Kulturzentrum Stiftung Alte Molkerei Freren, Osnabrück

1990 RICHARD-BAMPI-PREIS, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen

Monographs (selection)

2022 Hubert Blanz In Search of Radiant Cities, Verlag für moderne Kunst.

2013 Urban Codes Hubert Blanz, Publication on the exhibition at Foto-Raum, Vienna.

2013 Hubert Blanz Homeseekers, Publication on the exhibition at ACF London.

2009 Hubert Blanz Slideshow, SpringerWienNewYork.

2005 Hubert Blanz Level Five, O.K. spektral Broschüre/Brochure.