Kathi Hofer
“The residency program was an enormously important cultural infrastructure for me, enabling me to form a lasting connection with the city of Los Angeles and some of its cultural producers.”
Kathi Hofer works conceptually across media. She is interested in forms of everyday creativity and their specific freedoms and constraints as well as in the relationship between artistic work and socio-economics. In her installations she integrates found objects, images, stories, and practices that have strongly determined the roles and values within the environments she grew up in or moves within today. In addition to her installation-based work, she engages in immaterial practices and experimental forms of storytelling. In this context, she has initiated improvised encounters between actors from different cultural fields or backgrounds in public or semi-private space staging unannounced performances that took place in the absence of an audience. Of these ephemeral, unrehearsed actions photographic evidence remains that is open for further interpretation. Recent exhibitions include the MAK Center for Art and Architecture (Los Angeles, US), Continental Baths (London, UK), Winona (Brussels, Belgium), Tokyo Arts and Space (Tokyo, Japan), Austrian Cultural Forum (Warsaw, Poland), MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna, Austria), and mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Vienna, Austria). Her book “Grandma” Prisbrey’s Bottle Village was published by Spector Books, Leipzig (2021).
EDUCATION
2010, MFA
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Vienna, Austria
2008,
University of Vienna, Philosophy
Vienna, Austria
2004
Université Aix-Marseille, Erasmus Program Philosophy
Aix-en-Provence, France
JURY
Elke Delugan-Meissl
Christian Höller
Marko Lulic
Kimberli Meyer
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein
Phillip Van den Bossche
FINAL PROJECT
