Exhibition Opening
March 11th, 2025, 7 pm
Opening Hours
March 12th – 20th,
Wednesday – Friday, 3 – 6 pm,
Bernd Oppl’s works – whether in the form of models, photographs, sound installations, or moving image works as projections and on displays – fundamentally deal with the uncertainty of perception in a world where the visible and audible are always material (magnetic tape, concrete, glass, the White Cube, etc.) and virtual at the same time, thus situating the world mostly in an uncanny intermediate space: present and absent, tangible and ephemeral, external and internalised, both all-encompassing and radically confined.
(Alejandro Bachmann)
Bernd Oppl studied painting and graphic arts at the Art University Linz and video and video installation at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. 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), Kunstraum Dornbirn (AUT), Lentos Art Museum in Linz (AUT), Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna (AUT), and others. 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. He recived the Hilde Goldscmied Preis 2024 and the Residency Scholarship for the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York in 2026