BIO

Studies at the Free Academy Moscow, member of FOND/Graz. 2007-2010 director of Forum Stadtpark, Graz (with Carola Peschl), lives in Graz, born 1965

solo exhibitions / lectures / prizes

2023 fuck the solar system/burning down the house, exhibition, QL-Gallery, steirischer herbst, Graz, Austria
MENSCH ZELLE KOSMOS / HUMAN CELL COSMOS, Atelier-Auslandsstipendium Land Steiermark, installations in public space, Athens, Greece
Leuchtturm/Svetilnik, permanent installation in public space, 1st prize, invited competition, Neuhaus, Austria
2022 pink dust, MMKK Burgkapelle, Klagenfurt, Austria
gesture, permanent installation, Herrenhaus-Reininghaus, Graz, Austria
Architect: atelier Thomas Pucher
2021 HABITAT, permanent installation in public space, Judenburg, Austria
Cooperation with the Institute for Art in Public Space Styria
double feature, wall paintings, Graz, Austria
Curator: Steirische Kulturinitiative
2020 stellvertretend für alles, wall painting, Forum Stadtpark Graz, Austria
silver jubilee, Free Academy Moscow, Russia
2019 HABITAT, public space interventions, Plovdiv/Sophia, Bulgaria
Lecture/exhibition, FLUCA-Austrian Cultural Pavilion, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Art Award, City of Graz, Austria
Verleihung des Kunstförderungspreises der Stadt Graz 2019
Support your local religion, Maria Saal, Austria
Spatial installation, Dome of Maria Saal
2018 ARTEMISIA ANNUA, New station of Haematology, Central hospital Graz, Austria
Spatial installations. Architects: balloon
1st prize, invited competition, St. Leopold Church Puntigam, Graz, Austria, 92 windows
1st prize, KUNST AM BAU, open/anonymous competition, Institute for Radiation Therapy, Klinikum Klagenfurt, Austria, spatial installation
KEVIN PUCCINI, Kunsthalle Graz, Austria
Transcape, videoinstallation - BIX Media Facade, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, for Architektursommer 2018
2017 DIQIU 地球/EARTH, Suzhou/Shanghai, China. Public space interventions/lecture-workshop, Suzhou Art&Design Institute
Artist talk, Project -parallelinfo-, <rotor> center for contemporary art, Graz, Austria, Galerientage - a Tour of the Contemporary Visual Arts Scene
2016 1st prize, invited competition, KUNST AM BAU,
redesign Alpe Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria
1st prize, invited competition KUNST AM BAU, project 3RD FROM THE SUN,
Neue Zahnklinik, LKH - Univ. Klinikum, Graz, Austria
DIAMOND DOGS, public space interventions, London
Artist talk, Austrian Cultural Forum, London
MAMA IKEA NATO, Lecture, University for Applied Sciences, Design and Communication, FH Joanneum Graz, Austria
2015 "If you dont give the mind something to do,
the mind will give you something to do", installation. Kunsthaus Graz
ZIRKA/STAR, Mala Galleria, Mystestkyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
"You dont see things the way they are, you seem them the way you are",
space design, Kulturabteilung Land Steiermark, Graz
2014 NORMCORE, works/prints 2014, Studio Griesplatz 8, Graz
Lecture at the Rodchenko Art School, Moscow
„Design in the city“, Joanneum, Designmonat Graz
2013 „In alle Netze", 10 interventions in public space, Graz,
presentation at Forum Stadtpark, Graz
2012 Spirituelle Extravaganz”, interventions in public space, Graz
2004 "Music was my first love”, Siemens_artLab, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
2003 "Künstlerspecial”, online Siemens_artLab, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
2002 Lecture "parallelinfo”, Galerie Schnittraum, Köln
2001

"The USA is still the worlds greatest terrorist ",
<rotor> - center for contemporary art, Graz
(weblog: http://parallelinfo.mur.at, book: edition selene, Vienna)

2000 "Leibstandarte Realität", Neue Galerie, Graz
"Die wahre Geschichte des 3. Reiches", Kunstverein Wiesbaden
>parallelinfo: russland< - direct news-channel from Russia, weblog: http://parallelinfo.mur.at
1996 "Brot", Grüne Akademie, Graz
1995 MYTHOS 2ooo", billboard project, steirischer herbst 95, Graz
1994 "Reklametherapie", billboard project, 3. St.Petersburg Biennial, Russia
1993 "IQ * 50", streetposter projects 91-93, FOND, Graz

group exhibitions (selection)

2021 you are here/Universum, Kunst am Bau, 3rd price, joint work with Monique Fessl and Martin Mathy, Wolfsberg State Hospital, Austria
(I do not) feel free to do (what I want), Kharkiw (Ukraine) - Graz,
art association <rotor>, Graz, Austria
RE-KAPITULATION, billboard posters in public space,  Intro-Graz-Spection, Graz, Austria
2020 In der Schwebe / in limbo, art association <rotor>, Graz, Austria
SOLID GROUND, redesign LKH Villach, Austria
Ethnologica Carinthiae, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt, Austria
LICHT LUFT SONNE, art rental, Forum Stadpark Graz, Austria
2019 ZEMLYA/EARTH, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Kharkiv Municipal gallery
Re-design central corpus, Central Hospital Villach, Austria. Collaboration with Monique Fessl
2018 1st prize, open/anonymous competition, Re-design central corpus, Central Hospital Villach, Austria. Collaboration with Monique Fessl
2017 FETE BLANCHE, public space intervention, group exhibition "STADT UNTER"
Lendhauer/Unikum, Klagenfurt, Austria
for(for(for(you))), Matthias Jäger/Bernhard Wolf, public space intervention
Mälzerei Reininghaus, Graz, Austria
LICHT LUFT SONNE, exhibition and art rental, Forum Stadpark Graz, Austria
2016 1st prize, KUNST AM BAU, redesign Alpe Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria
group exhibition of all concepts
LICHT LUFT SONNE, exhibition and art rental, Forum Stadpark Graz, Austria
2015 AGBONA IKE RÉ IMWÉN EHKOE ÉSI, public space intervention, group exhibition:
ALLE DIE HIER SIND, SIND VON HIER, <rotor> Center for contemporary art, Graz, Austria
DIQIU 地球/EARTH, public space interventions,
within the exhibition"Desiring the real. Austria contemporary",
University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong,
Shanghai Urban Plannig Exhibition Center (SUPEC), Shanghai, China
2014 ZEMLYA/EARTH, public space interventions,
within the exhibition "Desiring the real. Austria contemporary",
NCCA - National Center for Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow, Russia
100 Jahre Künstlerhaus, Klagenfurt
2013 „fokus sammlung 04. Tiere“, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt
DaDaDa Academy, Guido Van Rats Gallerie, Vienna
2010 Stalker, "lendwalks", lendwirbel streetgallery with <rotor>, Graz
regionale 2010, Ball der Mitte, installations, Liezen
2009 "Saloon ba ba ba / 八 八 八", installation, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, in cooperation with ASAP, 奥 地 利 中 国 Austro Sino Arts Progam, Beijing.
"TextBild MMIX" ; Institut für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum in cooperation with steirischer herbst / Literaturhaus Graz
"10 Jahre rotor", <rotor> - center for contemporary art, Graz
"Jahrhundertsturm"  Künstlerhaus Graz
"Von dort nach mir", Zeichnungen/drawings,
Forum Stadtpark Verlag, Graz
2008 "FREUD/E – New painting from Austria", Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal / Basel,
Galerienhaus Stuttgart (14-1 Galerie, Galerie Merkle, Galerie Naumann)
"Facts based on fiction", Austrian Cultural Forum, Warzsaw
2007 "Graz-Moscow", Forum Stadtpark, Graz
2006 “Dings.The private collections of Hofer/Kaplan/Petrowitsch/Strobl/Thümmel/Wolf",
ESC im Labor, Graz
"Kunstasyl 06", art auction for Asyl in Not/Asylum in need, Semper Depot, Vienna
“Central - New Artists from New Europe”, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Siemens_artlab / Bratislava, Sofie, Belgrade
2005 “Graz-Moscow”, NCCA – National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
“Central - New Artists from New Europe”, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Siemens_artlab / Zagreb, Ljubljana, Bucharest, BA-Forum Vienna
2004 “Central - New Artists from New Europe”, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Siemens_artlab / Galerie Ernst Hilger Vienna, Max Gandolf Bibliothek Salzburg
2003 “Quo vadis logo?“, monochrom, Quartier 21, Museumsquartier Vienna
2001 "Coming up", Junge Szene, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt
"Kibla - Pavel Haus", Radkersburg, Festival "steirischer herbst"
1998 WochenKlausur - “ The future of labour “, social intervention,
Hochschule f. Gestaltung, Linz
1997 "Stradun Festival", Dubrovnik, Croatia
"Forum Stadtpark in Berlin", Rosenthalerstr 2, Berlin
"call", public space interventions, Graz
1995 "Komm mit mir in mein Haus/Come with me into my house", Dubner/Wolf,
Raum für Kunst::Peinlichgasse 14, Graz;
Gallery Cadutta Sassi, Munich;
Free Academy Moscow
46.4´N <>15.38´E, Pekarna, Maribor, Slovenia
1994 "Direkt Maschin", Rhizom/Wolf, Fax- public space intervention,
Moscow / Graz
"Ideologie und Kommunikation/Ideology and communication",
Snesar/Wolf, Gallery 21, St. Petersburg
"Die Kunst gehört dem Volk/Art belongs to the people",
public space intervention, Moscow
"Supermarkt", Artophobia, Werkhof, Graz
"Blattlvoll/Crammed as hell", Appartement exhibition with MC,
Morellenfeldgasse 5, Graz,
FONDsamstagabendschau/FONDsaturdaynightshow, Graz.
1993 "Ortszeit/Local time", Free Academy Moscow
1992 "Neuer Raum/New space", Dorner/Tscherteu/Wolf, Free Academy Moscow
"Petrovskij Boulevard 12", Dorner/Tscherteu/Wolf, Rhizom, Graz

publications (selection)

2021 "Works 2016 - 2021. Bernhard Wolf", Editor: Forum Stadtpark Verlag, Graz, Austria. German/English
2019 "uncurated - non commissioned interventions in the public space of Graz".
Editor: Universalmuseum Joanneum, Austria
2018 "Public Art. Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark. 2016 - 2017",  Editor: Institut für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark, Austria. German/English
2016 "Works 2013 - 2016. Bernhard Wolf", Editor: Forum Stadtpark Verlag, Graz, Austria German/English/Russian/Ukrainian
2015 "Public Art. Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark. 2012 - 2013",  Editor: Institut für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark, Austria. German/English
"Desiring the real. Austria contemporary", Editor: Federal Chancellery of Austria and Shanghai International Culture Association. English/Mandarin-Chinese
2013 "Works/Arbeiten 1993 - 2013. Bernhard Wolf",
Editor: Forum Stadtpark Verlag, Austria. German/English
"fokus sammlung 04", MMKK - Museum of Modern Art Carinthia
Editor: Christine Wetzlinger-Grundnig, MMKK. German/English
2009 "Von dort nach mir", Zeichnungen/drawings, Editor: Forum Stadtpark Verlag, Austria. German
2005 "CENTRAL - New art from New Europe"
Editors: Siemens_artLab, Gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria. English/German
2002 "Steirische Künstler Malerei/Grafik / Contemporary artists from Styria",
Editor: Klöckl, Polansek, Austria Medienservice. German
2000 "The ghosts of the consumer world “, Peter Weibel
for "Leibstandarte Realität/Leibstandarte Reality“
by B.Wolf, Neue Galerie 2000, Publisher: Joanneum Graz, Austria. German

collections

Artothek of the Federal Chancellery of Austria, County of Styria, City of Graz, Siemens Art Foundation, NCCA - National Center for Contemporary Art Moscow, Kunsthaus Graz, Neue Galerie Graz, Free Academy Moscow, Art collection Arbeiterkammer Steiermark, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, private collections
 
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