{"id":14521,"date":"2016-12-14T23:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T22:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/michael-hoepfner\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:53:10","slug":"michael-hoepfner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/michael-hoepfner\/","title":{"rendered":"MICHAEL H\u00d6PFNER"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael H\u00f6pfner (Austria, 1972) grew up in a hilly Austrian landscape, near the place where, a very long time ago, the Venus of Willendorf was found along the Danube. From here arises his fascination for long excursions \u2013 in Europe, Asia and Africa \u2013 and especially for the Tibetan plateau, visited in 2002. His walks on foot are the core of his work.<\/span><\/p>\n

During his long wanderings, H\u00f6pfner photographs with an analogue Hasselblad in black and white, draws and takes notes: all materials that accompany him for weeks in his backpack. These become the subject of installations, large-scale drawings and visual narratives, in dialogue with the territory. As he himself says, \u00abIf I do not walk, I cannot see worlds: walking as a way to see, pay attention, reflect and explore the human being in nature and in time\u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n

H\u00f6pfner is a senior lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is conducting a pioneering exchange project between art schools in Ghana, Indonesia and China. His work is represented by Galleria Michela Rizzo (Venice) and Galerie Hubert Winter (Vienna).<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the most recent exhibitions: <\/span>Retracing the Footsteps of Others<\/span>, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna (2025), <\/span>Nature After Nature<\/span>, Garrison Command, Timisoara, Romania (2025), Plateau, Sternenpassage MQ, MuseumsQuartier Vienna (2025), <\/span>Walk All the Lies Away<\/span>, Galleria Posibila, Bucharest (2025), <\/span>Walking Mountains<\/span>, Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Turin (2024), The Parliament of Marmots, 9th Biennale Gherdeina, Val Gardena (2024), <\/span>Stay with Me \u2013 The Mountain as a Space of Resonance<\/span>, Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Turin (2023), <\/span>Unfinished Walks<\/span>, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice (2022), WALK!, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2022), Vienna Biennale for Change 2021, MAK \u2013 Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (2021), Sensing Nature, Galerie Heike Strelow (2021); Ti Bergamo, GAMeC, Bergamo (2020), Introduction to a Distant World, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna (2020), Durchwanderte Kreisl\u00e4ufe, Landesgalerie Nieder\u00f6sterreich, Krems (2019), Sdraiarsi, Svegliarsi, Camminare, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice (2019), Visions of Nature, Kunsthaus, Vienna (2017), Dear Michael, from Edgecombe to Qumalai, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice (2016).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Michael H\u00f6pfner (Austria, 1972) grew up in a hilly Austrian landscape, near the place where, a very long time ago, the Venus of Willendorf was found along the Danube. From here arises his fascination for long excursions \u2013 in Europe, Asia and Africa \u2013 and especially for the Tibetan plateau, visited in 2002. His walks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-artista.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14521"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18753,"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14521\/revisions\/18753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galleriamichelarizzo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}