ARTIST STATEMENT

Stefan Tiefengraber's works often deal with the destruction and modification of objects through force and at first view it seems destruction may be the main topic. On further inspection one finds, that under the physically violent surface he much more focuses on a slow process of disassembling. The act of taking things apart and deconstructing given structures, becomes a method to figure out the function and malfunction of obviously working systems.

Stefan Tiefengraber deals with these issues through different mediums, spanning from the digital and social media based work (‘User Generated Server Destruction’, ‘Senseless Tweet’) to the modification of readymade objects ( ‘Analog Delay’, ‘yesterday, today, tomorrow’) and on to performance works and experimental videos (‘WM_EX10 TCM_200DV A1.2FPP BK26’, ‘Radio 433’, ‘a to b’).

On the one hand Stefan encourages the viewer to actively participate in the creation of the artwork. On the other hand he uses video and sound to create static or very slow moving sequences, where there is time and possibility to observe the scene and to dip into the happening or not happening.

BIOGRAPHY

Solo Exhibition:

2013 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, Gallery 175, Seoul / Korea

Group Exhibitions:

2014 Prix Cube 2014, Issy-les-Moulineaux / France

2014 Update_5, New Technological Art Award 2014, Ghent / Belgium

2014 BEST OFF 2014, Linz / Austria

2014 Tadaex04, Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition, Tehran / Iran

2014 TodaysArt 2014, Den Haag / Netherlands

2014 Ars Electronica Festival 2014, Linz / Austria

2014 Out of Control, Ars Electronica Center Linz / Austria

2014 reactions and spaces, O’NewWall Space, Seoul / Korea

2014 TIME OUT .01, Ars Electronica Center Linz / Austria 

2013 Piksel Festival 2013, Bergen / Norway 

2013 BEST OFF, Linz / Austria 

2013 B-Seite Festival, Mannheim / Germany

2012 ‮*‬ط‮٩‬C (Wa-you), 犒紫 Gallery, Seoul / Korea 

2012 BEST OFF, Tabakfabrik, Linz / Austria 

2012 IN TIME, Kunstuniversität, Linz / Austria 

2012 FERNissage, Froff, Vienna / Austria

Performances:

2015 Deep Space - Ars Electronica Center, Linz / Austria 

2015 radio433 Kammerspiele, Linz / Austria 

2014 Best Off 2014, Linz / Austria 

2014 Tadaex04, Tehran / Iran

2014 reactions and spaces - O’NewWall Space, Seoul / Korea 

2014 dotolim, Seoul / Korea

Screenings:

2013 VIS - Vienna Independent Shorts, Vienna / Austria 

2013 Crossing Europe 2013, Linz / Austria 

2011 Crossing Europe 2011, Linz / Austria 

2011 BEST OFF, Moviemento, Linz / Austria

Nominations:

2014 Prix Cube 2014, Issy-les-Moulineaux / France

2014 New Technological Art Award 2014, Ghent / Belgium