hubert blanz
Biography
deutsch / english
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 SPIELWARENFABRIK, Reinthaler Gallery, Vienna (solo)
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.