born in 1980 in Innsbruck, lives and works in Vienna

Education

Painting & Graphic Art at the University for Art and Industrial Design Linz (Class of Prof. Ursula Hübner)
Video and Video Installation at the Acadamy of Fine Arts Vienna (Class of Prof. Dorit Margreiter)

Awards/Grants

WIELS Residency Programme (2018)
CCA Antrax, Artist-in-Residence (2016)
Hilde-Zach-Kunststipendium der Landeshauptstadt Innsbruck 2015
Artist in Residence Program Luxembourg, Bundeskanzleramt Kunst und Kultur, Bourglinster, LU, 2014
Kunstpreis der RLB Tirol AG 2012
Artist in Residence Program Hungary, Galerie Krinzinger, Petömihályfa, HU, 2012
Artist in Residence Urban Interventions, Stipendium der EU, Tallinn, EE, 2010
Arbeitsstipendium des Bundesministeriums für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur, 2008/09
Förderpreis für zeitgenössische Kunst des Landes Tirol, 2008

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

2019	like a hole in a room like a room in a hole, WIELS Projectspace, Brussels (BE) Hidden Rooms, Kunstraum Dornbirn (AT) ARCO Madrid, Solo Presentation with Galerie Krinzinger (ES)
2018	Bernd Oppl - Der Raum als Protagonist, Galerie Schloss Wiespach, Hallein (AT) Substanzaufnahme, Kuiper Projects, Brisbane (AU) Bernd Oppl, Galerie Krinzinger, Wien (AT)
2016	Bernd Oppl - Intermission, Galerie Krinzinger, Wien (AT) Bernd Oppl & Lotte Schreiber - Hungry Eyes, ONE NIGHT STAND Gallery, Sofia (BG) Bernd Oppl / Peter Westman, Candyland, Stockholm (SE)
2015	Bernd Oppl - keep it all inside, KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd, Linz (AT)
2014	Bernd Oppl - Drehmoment, RLB-Atelier, Lienz (AT) Inhabited Interiors, Georgia Museum of Art, Georgia (US) Antonia Breme & Bernd Oppl - Passages, Amstel 41, Amsterdam (NL)
2013	Bernd Oppl - Spatial Distortion, Galerie Krinzinger, Wien (AT) Raumflucht, artpartments, Wien (AT)
2012	constants are changing, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck (AT)
2011	Delay Room, k/haus Videogalerie, Wien (AT) Bernd Oppl, Asifakeil MQ, Wien (AT)
2010	Bernd Oppl, AQ - Artist Quarterly, Sotheby's, Wien (AT) Bernd Oppl/Liddy Scheffknecht, bb15, Linz (AT)
2009	Point of View, Kunstverein «das weisse haus», Wien (AT) In den kleinen weißen Zellen, DEMORAUM Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien (AT)

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2019	As if you could just kill time without injuring reality, Zona Mista, London (UK) Set This House In Order, Neuer Kunstverein Wien (AT) SCHÖNHEIT VOR WEISHEIT DAS WISSEN DER KUNST UND DIE KUNST DER WISSENSCHAFT, Ferdinande Innsbruck (AT)
2018	Staging Mimicry, Depo, Istanbul (TR) Faceless, Österreichisches Kulturforum, Berlin (DE) Temporäre Ornamente, Intervention im Naturhistorischen Museum Wien, Wien (AT) RLB Kunstpreis Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck (AT) Unleashing, Columbia Teachers College, New York (US) The Skin of the Eye - ACT II, Vermilion Sands, Kopenhagen (DK) Was vom Kino übrig blieb, Künstlerhaus - Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz (AT) silence matters, AIL, Wien (AT)
2017	Ausstellung zum Kardinal-König-Kunstpreis, Kunstraum St. Virgil, Salzburg (AT) IIM)PERSONAL video exhibition on Manhattan Bridge, New York (US) AIR 2016, Krinzinger Projekte, Wien (AT) The Skin of the Eye, Zona Mista, London (UK) YOU WANT TRUTH OR BEAUTY? Nexus KUNSTHALLE, Saalfelden (AT) Bauhahahaus - Bebaut Bewohnt Belustigt - afo architekturforum, Linz (AT) Privacy Settings, Stadtgalerie, Bern (CH) Interieur, Die Außenwelt der Innenwelt - Kulturstiftung Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg (DE)
2016	PROJEKT - 56. Annalen: Brdo 1976 - 2016, Istarska Sabornica, Pore? (HR) AJNHAJTCLUB, frei_raum MQ21, Wien (AT) Peripheral Influence, Kanderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon (CA) Painting Is Dead - Long Live Painting - CCA Andratx, Andratx (ES) Changing Views, Nationalzentrum für moderne Kunst, Minsk (BY) Errors of Beauty – Contemporary Austrian Art in Sofia, National Gallery, Sofia (BG) Im Dämmerschlaf, Km0, Innsbruck (AT)
2015	luce da ombra, Casa della Pesa, Bozen (IT) Adjacent Realities, Cultural Forum, London (UK) The Technological Unconscious, Kamelitermarkt 3, Wien (AT) kín?sis- Eine Studie zur Bewegung im Bild, Sonderschau VIENNAFAIR, Wien (AT) "SÜDLICH", Kunstraum haaaauch-quer, Klagenfurt (AT) Ankäufe der Stadt Innsbruck, Stadtsäle, Innsbruck (AT) Desiring the Real, Austria Contemporary - Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center, Shanghai, (CN) Micro-Macro, Musée Ziem, Martiques (FR) Desiring the Real, University Museum and Art Gallery Hong Kong (CN) Faceless, De Markten, Brüssel (BE)
2014	HOLO, Medienwerkstatt, Wien (AT) Timeless Signs, Austrian Cultural Forum, London (UK) "Klasse Kunst in 3D" - Objekt - Raum - Volumen, Landesgalerie, Linz (AT) LEXUS Hybrid Art 2014, Optika Pavilion, Moscow (RU) Höhenrausch 2014 - Bewegte Räume, OK Offenes Kulturhaus OÖ, Linz (AT) Micro Macro, dans le cadre du Printemps à Saint-Sauveur, Lille (FR) Lens Based Sculpture, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz (LI) Modellcharakter, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Wien (AT) Transposition Change, NÖ Dokumentationszentrum für Moderne Kunst, St. Pölten (AT) Micro Macro, Manège Maubeuge, Maubeuge (FR) Façadism, NEST, Den Haag (NL) Faceless, Mediamatic, Amsterdam (NL) Inattentional Blindness, Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul (TR)
2013	Extra Kino, OK Offenes Kulturhaus OÖ, Linz (AT) D.A. Fest, Akademie der Künste, Sofia (BG) Faceless, frei_raum MQ21, Wien (AT) Passion de l'art en Finistère / Collection #4, Centre d'art contemporain, Quimper (FR) Phantoms & Ghosts, Kunstverein «das weisse haus», Wien (AT) Biennale Giovani Monza 2013, Villa Reale, Monza (IT) Desiring the Real, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (HR) The Intransigent Ticket - The Artist as a Filter, CSULA Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles (US) Coming Up - Arbeiten Junger Künstlerinnen Tirol, Galerie Goldener Engl, Hall (AT) Elastic Video, Kunstraum Noe, Wien (AT)
2012	AiR Hungary 2011-2012, Krinzinger Projekte, Wien (AT) ZEIT(LOSE) ZEICHEN, k/haus, Wien (AT) Limits Line, Committee of Regions, Brüssel (BE) Wisdom of Shadow: Art in the Era of Corrupted Information, Sinopale 4, Sinop (TR) Deseando lo real. Austria Contemporá nea, MUAC, Mexico City (MX) In Growing up Amid the Historical Mysteries of Proximity, ITS-Z1, Ritopek, Belgrad (RS) Das mechanische Auge / Visionen der Medienkunst 1, Medienwerkstatt, Wien (AT) The Digital Uncanny, Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg (DE)
2011	Meet everyone at once - start an artistrunspace, 0GMS, Sofia (BG) Wiederholung I - Raum (In der Kubatur des Kabinetts), Fluc, Wien (AT) In Between, Contemporary Art Centre, CAC, Vilnius (LT) neverneverland, Künstlervereinigung MAERZ, Linz (AT) Linea al Limite, Lansherhaus, Eppan (IT) Die nächste Generation III, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg (AT) Elastic Video, TWS hongo, Tokio (JP)
2010	Sweet Anticipation, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT) The Big Wave, Art Biennal, Varna (BG) Am Rande der Balance - Paradoxien des Instabilen, galerie5020, Salzburg (AT) Look at me, Stedefreund, Berlin (DE) Austria la vista, baby, Art Foundation Athen, Athen (GR) 0 gms, Whitespace Gallery, Bangkok (TH)

Film Festivals (Selection)

2015	XWRA Festival, Ipati (GR)
2014	Clair-obscur Filmfestival, Basel (CH)
2013	cph:dox, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Copenhagen (DK) Nashville Filmfestival, Nashville (US) Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) Clair-obscur Filmfestival, Basel (CH) International Film Festival Bradford (UK) FLEX, Gainsville (US) Filmwinter, Expanded Media Festival, Stuttgart (DE) Crossing Europe Filmfestival, Linz (AT)
2012	Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (DE) Peru International Short Film Festival, Lima (PE) New York International Film Festival, New York (US) Diagonale - Festival des österreichischen Films, Graz (AT)

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