Kathi HOFER

Profile

Born in Hallein, Austria in 1981. Lives and works in Vienna and Berlin. Graduated with a MA in Art and Photography from Academy of Fine Art Vienna in 2010.

Recent exhibitions:
2022 “Blood and Guts in Grad School,” Winona, Brussels
2022 “Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making,” MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
2022 “Pictures,” Gabriele Senn Gallery, Vienna
2021 “Stampede,” Horse & Pony, Berlin
2021 “Arbeiterinnen verlassen die Fabrik,” Kunstraum pro arte, Hallein

Recent Awards and Grants:
2018 “State Award for Visual Art,” Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
2016 “Artists & Architects-in-Residence-Program,” MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles/Vienna
2013 “Kardinal Koenig Art Award,” Kardinal Koenig Art Fund, Austria 

About works / performance

HOFER works conceptually across media. She is interested in forms of everyday creativity and their specific freedoms and constraints, as well as in the relation between artistic work and biography. In her installations she integrates found objects, images, stories, and practices that have strongly determined the roles and values within the environments the artist grew up in or moves within today. In addition to her installation-based work, she has recently turned to immaterial practices and experimental forms of storytelling recording voice and text around the stories and theories she collects. She has further initiated ephemeral performances in public or semi-private space that took place without an audience. These actions manifest solely in their filmed or photographed documentation.