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CONNI HOLZER, born 1988 in Lustenau, Austria
lives and works in Austria
Studio address: am Boehler 28a, A-6890 Lustenau
Contact: +43 650 49 33 292 / mail@conniholzer.com / www.conniholzer.com / instagram.com/conniholzer
EDUCATION
2022-2023 Master Performing Public Space, Fontys University of applied arts, Tilburg (NL) – Master of Arts, Master Project: FEMonumental Transformances in Public Space. A transmedia performance art method to transform patriarchal monuments.
2012-2018 Holistic Art Therapy at Academy for Art Therapy Vienna, Diploma, Training in visual & expressive arts
2016 Art Degree (visual Art) as part of the Holistic Art Therapy Diploma
2008-2011 Cultural and social anthropology at University Vienna, without degree
since 2005 autonomous artistic practice (in visual and expressive arts)
2003-2005 private training in oil painting by Ernestine Van Mullen
PERFORMANCE
l – live, v – virtual
2022 bewahre /preserve live at Kaplan Bonetti, Dornbirn (A), l
2022 Kuana brengt mi om/ No One Kills Me – VOL.2 live at Von Eva’s Töchtern, Mesnerstüble Rankweil (A), l
2021 Zwischenschau: Zwischenraum – eine Reflexionsspektroskopie (inter-show: the space in between – a reflexionspectroscopy) witt Claudia Michaela Scholz live at round72, Bregenz (A), l
Befreiungsakt (Liberation Act), performance video for Es reicht vollkommen einfach da zu sein – Kunstweg am alten Rhein (A), v
2020 Bewahre – eine Performance über das Verlieren, Finden, Berühren, Sammeln und Bewahren von Würde (preserve – a performance about loosing, finding, touching, collecting and preserving of dignity) via live stream & performance video, part of the project dignity and touchability in times of distance keeping by the Max Himmelheber-Stiftung (DE), v
Failing (I grow) live at The Art of failure, Art Gallery Vienna (A), l
2019 As git mi (I exist) live at AusdrucksART, Götzis (A), l
Kuana brengt mi ôm (nobody is killing me) live at the art festival Was berührt dich? in Lauterach (A), l
Froga, loosa, reda (asking, listening, talking) live at BOTTA Lustenau & Art festival Was berührt dich? in Lauterach (A), l
Take your time live at Kreativwerksalon Bregenz & AusdrucksART (A) l
EXHIBITIONS
Painting, drawing & installation / s – solo, g – group
2022 Würde / dignity – Kaplan Bonetti Kantine, Dornbirn, s
2022 Von Eva’s Töchtern / About Eva’s daughters – curated by Nadine Moser femaleartmarket, Mesnerstüble Rankweil, g
Warum Kunst? /Why Art? – Exhibition by Ines Agostinelli, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, g
2021 Es reicht vollkommen einfach da zu sein – Kunstweg am alten Rhein (Being here is totally enough – art-path) in Lustenau (A), g
feministival (the feminist festival) at Chybulsky in Feldkirch (A), g
Philosophy unbound – Hin-/Fortbewegung, F23 Vienna (A), g
round72, installation and digital art archive, Bregenz (A), g
Shame shouldn’t be a symptom at Improper Walls, Vienna (A), g
Exhibitionspace2021, online exhibition in five virtual rooms conniholzer.com, s
2020 Die Kunst des Scheiterns / Art of failure, Art Gallery Vienna (A), g
2019 AusdrucksART in Götzis (A), g
Berührung in Farbe und Form (touchability in colour and form) at the art festival „Was berührt dich?” in Lauterach (A), s
Oil paintings at Wunderkammer (chamber of wonders) BOTTA in Lustenau (A), s
alive lines, at KreativWerkSalon, Bregenz (A), s
2018 Wachsen & Werden (growing and becomnig), art in the glasshouse at Rosenwaibel in Mäder (A), s
2016 Kunst(k)reise Artmosphäre, Academy for Art Therapy in Vienna (A), g
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Concept development, management, fundraising & curation for:
2021 art-path: Es reicht vollkommen einfach da zu sein – Kunstweg am alten Rhein in Lustenau (A)
2019 art festival Was berührt dich? in Lauterach (A)
SCHOLARSHIPS
2020 Scholarship for the performance Bewahre from the Max Himmelheber-Stiftung (DE)
MEMBERSHIPS
IG Bildende Kunst (pressure group visual arts), Austria
Founding member & headwoman of Netzwerk freier Künstlerinnen* – Verein zur Förderung und Vernetzung freier Kunstschaffender (network of free artists* – association for facilitation and networking), Austria
art therapy: member of ÖBKT – Österreichischer Berufsverband für Kunsttherapie & ACT – Austrian Association of Art and Creativity Therapy
Download: Art Portfolio
