Bio
| 7/1980 | Ohlsdorf / Gmunden / Upper Austria |
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| 11/2008 | Diploma Academy of Fine Arts Vienna |
| 2003 - 2008 | Art & Photography, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna |
| 2002 - 2003 | School for Artistic Photography Vienna |
| 2007 - 2008 | Student Assistant, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna |
| 2001 - 2009 | Photo Assistant advertising and fashion |
| 2005 - 2007 | Symposia of the Society for New Phenomenology |
| 2021 - | Bildrecht, board member |
| 2014 - | Guest teaching, lectures, workshops, talks |
| 2002 - | Color Enlarging in the photographic darkroom |
AWARDS & ATTRIBUTIONS
| 2021 | Runner-up – Bildrecht Young Artist Award / Parallel Vienna |
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| 2018 | Austrian Ministry State Scholarship for artistic photography |
| 2015 | Final 5 Shortlist, Resistance Monument Bregenz |
| 2014 | SilvrettAtelier, Artist in Residency, Bielerhöhe |
| 2013 | Talent Award for Fine Arts, Land OÖ |
| 2013 | European Design Award Gold, w/bueronardin, 21er-Haus, Belvedere Museum, Beste Plakate |
| 2013 | VII. Jeux de la Francophonie, Concours Culturel (BMEIA) |
| 2012 | BMWKMS Artist in Residency, Cité des Arts, Paris |
| 2011 | Verbund Artist in Residency, Maltatal |
| 2006 | Docuzone Austria Shortfilm Award |
Project-specific support: BMWKMS, BMEIA, Forum Culturel Autrichien, Kultur Land OÖ, IG Romanistik, Stadt Wien, Bildrecht, Arctic Paper,...
COLLECTIONS
- Belvedere Museum
- City of Vienna, Collection
- Collection Sanziany
- dieAngewandte Collection
- Francisco Carolinum, Linz
- MAK Museum, Collection
- Mairie de Bordeaux
- MdM, Salzburg
- MUMOK Museum, Library
- The Getty Special Collections
- Verbund Hydro Power, Collection
- Private (A, D, JP, CH, US,...)
PUBLICATIONS
- A Bus In The Sand, forthcoming, 2026
- Palms At Pools, forthcoming, 2026
- Palm Trees Are Noise, 2025
- REVISITED - Eclipse & Vinewood Blvd, 2023
- REVISITED - 6x6 Space Time Collages, 2022
- Otherwise you will lose your mind, 2020
- Autrement on devient fou..... (OmdU), 2014
- Foukauld - La disparition, 2012
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2025 | Palm Trees Are Noise, ada – artistic dynamic association, Vienna |
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| 2022 | Destined to Return, Bildraum Bodensee, Bregenz |
| 2015 | Legends Never Die, Bildraum 01, Vienna |
| 2014 | Autrement on devient fou, Institut Francais Vienna |
| 2013 | Se Souvenir, Ephemere Installation, Cap Ferret |
| 2010 | Werkschau, Galerie Schloss Puchheim |
| 2010 | Swim At Own Risk, Hollmann & Lhotka |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2025
- Vienna Artbook Fair #3, dieAngewandte (A)
- Vienna Digital Summer III, Artecont Gallery (A)
- Kommunikation & Haltung, Teufelsberg Berlin (D)
- 2024-2020
- Art Book Thursday, 50 Jahre mumok, Vienna (A)
- Gmunden.Photo, Gmunden (A)
- Horizon, Bildraum Studio, Vienna (A)
- Excerpts of REVISIT ZUMA, Parallel Vienna
- Re-Opening, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna (A)
- 2019
- Excerpts of REVISITED, Collection Sanziany, Palais Rasumofsky
- Vienna Artbook Fair #1, MAK Museum, Vienna (A)
- Out Of The Box, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (A)
- 2018
- A Passenger - Jahresausstellung, Salzburger Kunstverein
- REVISITED, Musée des Beaux Arts Rennes, Travelling (F)
- Mumok Artbook Day Revisited Buchpräsentation: Vienna (A)
- 2017
- Excerpts of REVISITED, Geistwert Law, Vienna (A)
- Bialstok Interphoto, Bialstok (PL)
- Circulation(s) Festival, Centquatre 104 Paris (F)
- 2016
- Neulich im Labor, publication and exhibition, Vienna (A)
- Back Home - Raimund Abraham, Schloss Bruck, Lienz (A)
- Aus der Sammlung: Landschaft, Landesgalerie Linz (A)
- Circulation(s) Festival, Eyes On, 104 Paris (F)
- 2015
- Legends Never Die, Bildraum 01, Wien (A)
- Text:Bild II, Fotogalerie Wien (A)
- Paul Busk - Look at me now, Inoperable Gallery, Vienna (A)
- Crossing Europe Filmfestival, Linz (A)
- SilvrettAtelier, Palais Lichtenstein, Feldkirch (A)
- 2014
- Markus Oberndorfer. Gregor Sailer. Grenzgänger. Loris Berlin (D)
- 2013
- Preise & Talente, OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz (A)
- Under Pressure, MdM, Salzburg (A)
- VII.Jeux de la Francophonie, Concours Culturel (BMEIA), Nizza (F)
- Hohe Dosis, Atterseehalle, Attersee (A)
- gesammelt, Galerie Tracklhaus, Salzburg (A)
- Am Ende der Sehnsucht. Fotografische Positionen zu Tod und Meer, Altonaer Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Hamburg (D)
- Cash, Cans & Candy, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna (A)
- What Would Thomas Bernhard Do?, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (A)
- Land in Sicht!, Museum of Modern Art Mönchsberg, Salzburg (A)
- The Side of Things, Photowall, MQ Vienna (A)
- Foukauld, Book-presentation, OstLicht, Vienna (A)
- Industrie, OstLicht, Gallery for Photography, Vienna (A)
TALK & TEACH
- Lecture & Panel, Academy of Fine Arts, ADP, Vienna (A), 2026
- Lecture Workshop, University Bolzano, Faculty Design & Art (IT), 2019
- Artist Talk, mumok library, Vienna (A), 2018
- Lecture, VR-Vienna, VREI, Vienna (F), 2018
- Guest Teacher, Nordic Art School, Kokkola (FIN), 2017
- Lecture, Kunst und Grenzen, w/Helene Doub, MAK, Vienna (A), 2017
- Lecture, Migrations, frontières et identités en Europe, Divadlo Archa (CZ)
- Lecture, Artistes sans frontières. Regards contemporains sur les frontières, l'identité et les migrations, Auditorium Institut Francais, Budapest (H), 2017
- Panel Discussion, Speaking about Abraham: (E.Gross, J.Handler, P.Leeb, T.Messini, M.Oberndorfer), Schloss Bruck, Lienz (A), 2016
- Lecture, Extra Fort @ Recyclart, Brussels (B), 2015
- Guest Teacher, Nordic Art School, Kokkola (FIN), 2014
- Artist Talk, Under Pressure, MdM Salzburg (A), 2014
INTERVIEW
Articles & Reviews
- Foto Wien 2025, Katalog, Steidl, Print
- Karlheinz Pichler, Zur Rückkehr bestimmt, Zeitschrift für Kultur und Gesellschaft, 2022, Print | pdf
- Sebastian Parzer, REVISITED, SRA | online
- Harry Meewisse, REVISIT OST, The Find Mag | online
- REVISIT OST, O Sotao | online
- Andreas Brüning, REVISIT OST, HHV Mag | online
- Oberndorfer, Revisiting Sunset Strip, Reflektor Magazin, 2018, Print | pdf
- Clementine Mercier, Les autres dans les yeux, Liberation, 2017, Print | jpg
- Silvie Aigner, Sammlung Sanziany, Kunstmagazin Parnass | pdf
- Wojciech Czaja, Zu Hause hinterm Vorhang, derStandard, Print | jpg
- Silvie Aigner, Parnass, Legends Never Die
- Daghild Bartels, Umbrüche & Utopien, Parnass, Print | jpg
- Erlebnis Österreich, SilvrettAtelier, ORF (Fernsehbeitrag)
- European Month Of Photography, Wien (Katalog) | jpg
- European Month Of Photography, Berlin (Katalog) | jpg
- Anne Debaumarche, Autrement..., Dépêche du Bassin (F) | pdf
- Katharina Manojlovic, Eikon #87, Rezension (D) | pdf
- Johannes Rausch, Künstlerportrait, OÖ Nachrichten 2014, (D) | pdf
- Anton Thuswaldner, Furche 49/2013, In die weite Welt hinein (D) | pdf
- Tips, Förderprämie für Ohlsdorfer Künstler (D) | pdf
- Preise & Talente 2013, Land OÖ, Direktion Kultur (D) | pdf
- Anne Debaumarche, L'Autrichien qui fait parler les blockhauses (F) | pdf
- Christoph Schaden, Photonews, Foukauld Rezension, 2013 (D) | jpg
- Eikon #81, Foukauld Rezension, 2013 (D) | jpg
- Wotruba. Leben, Werk und Wirkung (21erHaus, Brandstätter 2013)
- 21er Haus - Back to the future, Belvedere 2011
- Starwax Magazine N°23, Kalhex Interview, 2011 pdf