Bernd Oppl | Artist
Bernd Oppl is mentor of Pauline Debrichy.
Bernd Oppl, * in Innsbruck, studied painting and graphic art at the University of Art and Design Linz, as well as video and video installation at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He lives and works in Vienna. His works – in the form of models, photographs, sound installations, or moving image works, as projections and on displays – fundamentally address the uncertainty of perception. In a world where the visible and audible always appear both material and virtual at once, his works are often situated in an uncanny in-between space: simultaneously present and absent, tangible and ephemeral, external and internalized, all-encompassing and radically confined.
He has presented his works in solo exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Dornbirn (AUT), Georgia Museum of Art (USA), the Tyrolian State Museum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck (AUT), Wiels – Contemporary Center of Art Brussels (BLG), Kuiper Projects in Brisbane (AUS), Lentos Art Museum in Linz (AUT), Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna (AUT), and others. as well as at numerous international group exhibitions and film festivals such as the Fridericianum, Kassel (GER), Merano Arte, Merano (ITA), Greater Taipei Biennial, Taipei (TW), Mediamatic, Amsterdam (NL), Depo, Istanbul (TR), Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen (DNK), Internationalen Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, The New York Film Festival (US), The Bedford Film Festival, /UK), Künstlerhaus - Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz (AUT), Kanderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon (CA), Stadt Galerie Bern (CH), National Gallery, Sofia (BG), Musée Ziem, Martiques (FRA), De Markten, Brussels (BEL), Francisco Carolinum (AUT), University Museum and Art Gallery Hong Kong (CN), Art Museum Liechtenstein (LI), NEST, Den Haag (NL), Tokyo Wonder Site (JP), Radvila Palace Museum of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania (LTU).
Bernd Oppl received the Award for Contemporary Art of the Province of Tyrol 2008, the RLB Art-Price 2012, the Art Award of the City of Innsbruck 2015, the Residency Scholarship for WIELS in 2018 (Brussels), the Austrian State Scholarship for fine arts 2019, the Residency Scholarship 2022 for BANFF center (Canada). the Award for best experimental film work of the Film Festival Best Austrian Animation 2022. And the Hilde-Goldschmied-Preis 2024.