Vita
Clara Oppel
* 1967 Haßfurt, Deutschland.
lives and works freelance in Graz.
1994–2001
Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Nuremberg. Diploma with distinction, Mag.ª, sculpture, Bruno Gironcoli, master student Diet Sayler
2001–2003
Postgraduate studies in media art, HfG, Karlsruhe, with Ulay, Michael Saup
2002–2006 Artistic / scientific assistant, object sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Bruno Gironcoli, Manfred Pernice
2002–2006
Artistic / scientific assistant, object sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Bruno Gironcoli, Manfred Pernice
Scholarships
| 2021 | Residency for music and performing arts, bmkoes Vienna Artist in residence, Altes Spital Solothurn, Switzerland |
| 2020 | Artist in residence, sound lab IMA/LAMES, St. Pölten |
| 2019 | Travel scholarship of the City of Graz: Russia – Mongolia – China |
| 2016 | Working scholarship Schloss Werdenberg, Switzerland |
| 2015 | Artist in Residence, Kunsthalle Arlberg 1800 Studio awarded by the City of Graz |
| 2013 | Working scholarship for visual arts, City of Graz |
| 2012 | Studio scholarship abroad of the State of Styria: Istanbul |
| 2011 | Catalogue grant of the City of Graz, the State of Styria, BMUKK |
| 2010 | Studio scholarship of the State of Styria, Rondo Graz Scholarship of the State of Styria, Berlin |
| 2008 | Scholarship of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck |
| 2006 | Scholarship in the artists‘ village Schöppingen |
| 2003 | Working scholarship Neuenburg |
| 1999 | Scholarship for media art at the HfG, ZKM, Karlsruhe |
| 1998 | Scholarship from the Federal Ministry of Science and Transport, Vienna |
Prizes, Awards, Collections
| 2022 | Collection State of Styria |
| 2019 | Collection Federal Chancellery Art & Culture, Artothek Vienna |
| 2018 | Collection State of Styria |
| 2017 | Collection Cultural Office of the City of Graz |
| 2015 | Collection KULTUMdepot, Cultural Center at the Minorites, Graz |
| 2013 | KunstGarten, Collection Horn, Graz |
| 2001 | Award of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Vienna. Science and Culture, Vienna Artothek of the Federal Chancellery Vienna |
| 2000 | 1st prize art on building, LKH Klagenfurt |
| 1999 | Master student of Diet Sayler, Academy Prize, Nuremberg |
| 1998 | Prize of the Dannerstiftung |
| 1997 | Class prize Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg |
Ausstellungen, Exhibitions (selected)
| 2023 | sonic: in – between, Bildraum Lake Constance, Bregenz holding breath, czirp czirp – experimental and sonic arts, Wien |
| 2022 | silent sound, Kunstraum Nestroyhof, Vienna akustische Interventionen, with Lisa Hopf, Dualism of the Sea, KiG , Graz Sympoietic Symphony, Klangmanifeste Lindabrunn/Vienna |
| 2021 | Intraregionale, Klangkunstfestival Region Hannover Walk the line – walk the sound, Culture in Graz ABRISS – A. Barsuglia and the Collection of the City of Graz the sound within, Künstlerhaus S11, Solothurn |
| 2020 | In der Schwebe, Gallery rotor, steirischer Herbst Graz PARQUE DEL iSOLation, soundpicnic IMA / LAMES, St.Pölten texere – yes yes no no maybe, Gasteig München |
| 2019 | POESIS, language art, KunstTempel Cassel ZwischenTonArt, language art, KunstTempel Cassel |
| 2018 | Schönheit und Anspruch, 8 x old Brüderkirche, concert installation, Cassel Astramel, 8 x old Brüderkirche, concert installation, Cassel |
| 2017 | sounding objects, MAERZ Galerie Linz change, periscope, Salzburg Maschinen Objekte Obsessionen, Kulturpalast Anwanden, Nuremberg |
| 2016 | Häutungen, Schlossmediale Werdenberg, Switzerland |
| 2015 | High Performance, Kunsthalle Arlberg1800 breathing space, Kunstverein Marburg, Germany KlangLand 15, HeimatKlang, Kunsttempel Cassel, Germany Shifting Constellations, Kultum bei den Minoriten, Graz |
| 2014 | Connecting Sound etc., freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL, MQ Vienna Reverberation, Nachhall, Klangland 14, Kunsttempel Kassel Walk the line – walk the sound, art in public space, Kultur in Graz |
| 2013 | The distant hills are green, Academy Graz Sfumato, Culture in Graz beyond, art in public space, KunstGarten, Graz reset the space, Culture in Graz |
| 2012 | sounding – space and sound, Villa Dessauer, Kunstverein Bamberg Amber – art and technology platform Istanbul NOUS, concert installation, Museum of Percept Listening Comprehension, sound installation, paraflows_6, Vienna |
| 2011 | Simorgh, Spitäle Würzburg take your time, ESC laboratory, Graz |
| 2010 | Klangland 10, Kunsttempel, Kassel Singraum im Kessel, IMA, Institute for Media Archaeology Hainburg Talking Landscapes, Lendspiel Klagenfurt Mindspace, ESC – Laboratory, Contemporary Art Graz |
| 2009 | Sprachspiele Berlin, Academy of Arts Touch this Sound, musikprotokoll 09 steirischer Herbst, Graz „That it goes on like this is the catastrophe!“ ESC Labor, steirischer Herbst, Graz, Klangland 09, at the Kunsttempel, Kassel |
| 2008 | Exhibition Gallery Livio Nardi, Nuremberg/Rome |
| 2007 | Bad Spectacles, Kunsthaus Essen |
| 2006 | Slow Eyes, House Krakow, Nuremberg Time Islands, concert installation/performance with Susanne Kirchner, MAK Nite Vienna |
| 2004 | sound performance, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden |
| 2003 | positionen + tendenzen, Kunstbunker Nuremberg …zum Raum, Hofstätter Gallery, Vienna Slow Eyes, exhibition hall, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg |
| 2002 | Styx, HfG/ZKM, Karlsruhe passive action, active patience, performance with Ulay, HfG/ZKM Karlsruhe Klasse Sayler, gallery house Kunst im Gang, Bamberg |
| 2001 | Hicetnunc, San Vita, Italy nur, Kupferstichkabinett, Wien Klasse Sayler, Budapest, University of Fine Arts Vienna |
| 2000 | Große Kunstausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Soho in Ottakring, Vienna I spy, Gallery 97/99, London |
| 1999 | Phones, Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg |
| 1998 | umbral sonoro, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City Hearing is seeing, Goethe – Institute, Caracas, Venezuela Flüsternde Tulpen, Galerie Station 3, Vienna |
Radio work
| 2022 | Florian Neuner: Clara Oppel, Inner and Outer Spaces, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Neue Musik |
| 2018 | on air – on line – on site Hommage für Heidi Grundmann, Sfumato, Ö1 Kunstsonntag, Radio Helsinki Graz, USMA Radio San Marino und zeitversetzt auf CITR FM Vancouver |
| 2010 | Topographical Sounds, Art’s Birthday, ESC Labor Graz, Radio Helsinki, Kunstradio Ö1 |
| 2007 | Who am I?, radio play Kunstradio Ö1, ORF Vienna |
| 2006 | Floating Point, production commission for Kunstradio im Ö1, ORF Vienna |
Bibliographies, selection
| JAJA NEINNEIN VIELLEICHT, 2020 exhibition catalog 15th RischArt_Project |
| POESIS, language art, 2019, ed. Kunsttempel Kassel ISBN 978-3-95978-078-0 |
| GOTT HAT KEIN MUSEUM, NO MUSEUM HAS GOD, 2015, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh GmbH, S. 878-879 ISBN 978-3-506-78241-0 |
| true is much more, MUWA Graz, 2013, Ritter Verlag, S. 300-301 ISBN 978-3-85415-487-7 |
| paraflows.6 Listening Comprehension, 2012, edition mono/monochrom, (2 fig.) ISBN 978-3-902796-04-2 |
| Raum und Klang, ed. Clara Oppel catalog 2011 ISBN 978-3-200-02258-4 |
| Räume für die Kunst – Positionen, ed. catalog for the exhibition at the Haus der Kunst München e.v. (1 ill.), Große Kunstausstellung Munich 2000 |
| Klasse Sayler, ed. by the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, catalog for the exhibition of the Sayler class in the Barcsay Hall of the University of Fine Arts Nuremberg. Budapest 2001 (3 fig.) |
| Hicetnunc, Ressegna di Arte Contemporanea, Edizioni Biblioteca Dell Immagine, 2001 (1 ill.) positionen + tendenzen, ed. Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg Catalog for the exhibition, Kunst in Franken 2003, (1 fig.) |
