Florian Pumhoesl
with Martha Stutteregger
Florian Pumhösl was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1971. From 1989 to 1997, he attended the Höhere Grafische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna, and from 1989 to 1996, he studied graphic design at the University (then College) of Applied Arts in Vienna, from which he graduated with a diploma. In 2000, he was awarded the Otto Mauer Prize. In 2002, he received the CENTRAL Prize of the Cologne Art Association, and in 2006, the City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts. In 2012, he was awarded the Teresa Bulgarini Prize.
Pumhösl has participated in numerous large-scale and group exhibitions internationally, including the Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan (2001); the 50th Biennale di Venezia in Italy (2003); the 27th Bienal de São Paulo in Brazil (2006); and Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany (2007).
Solo exhibitions dedicated to his work have been presented at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2012–2013); Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2010); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2008); Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (2005); Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland (2004); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (2003); Wiener Secession, Vienna (2000); and Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (1998).
Since 2018, he has held a professorship for sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Florian Pumhösl lives and works in Munich and Vienna.
EDUCATION
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
JURY
Renée Green
Okwui Enwezor
Bart Lootsma
Peter Noever
Beat Wyss
FINAL PROJECT
