Claudia Holzinger
Claudia Holzinger is an artist who uses photography as the central narrative for her installations. Her body serves both as a projection surface and as the projector. Through self-reflection, she addresses body politics, role concepts, fan communities, moral hygiene, and established power structures, employing costume comedy, pathos, and humor. Her works focus on absurd, awkward, and tragic-comical narratives.
Vita
Part of the artist duo SÜSSHOLZ with Sophia Süssmilch
Member of the independent collective Femxphotographers.org
Part of the artist duo HOLZINGERurbat with Lilly Urbat
Executive | Curator of the independent art space Edel Extra e.V. | Nuremberg (GER)
Education
Diploma | Academy of Fine Arts | Nuremberg (GER)
Photography | Juergen Teller | Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (GER)
Graphic Design | Prof. Oliver Kartak | University of Applied Arts Vienna (AUT)
Visual Communication (Prof. Felten | Prof. Girst | Prof. Mayfried) | Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (GER)
Photo Assistant | Silke Deidl Images | Munich (GER)
TV Editor | Constantin Entertainment GmbH | Munich (GER)
Awards
Nomination C/O Berlin Talent Award | Berlin (GER)
German Photobook Award – Silver (GER)
Nomination German Design Award (GER)
Official Selection Make Art not Fear Film Festival | Porto (PRT)
Bavarian Award for the Advancement of the Arts (GER)
Grants / Stipends / Residences
USA-Scholarship of the Free State of Bavaria (GER)
Popps Packing Studio Residency | Detroit (USA)
Grant | Stiftung Kunstfonds | Bonn (GER)
Project funding | City of Nuremberg (GER)
Project funding | City of Erlangen (GER)
Project funding | Cultural Foundation Erlangen (GER)
Bayern Innovativ Scholarship (GER)
SYLA Residency Scholarship | Florida / Lothringer 13 | Munich (GER)
Tokonoma Exhibition Scholarship | Kassel (GER)
Baldreit-Scholarship of the City of Baden-Baden (GER)
Petrohradska Collective Residency Scholarship with HOLZINGERurbat | Prague (CZE)
Studio Scholarship of the City of Nuremberg (GER)
Erasmus + Stipend
Exhibitions (Solo)
Schlepplift | 1zwei3 | Vienna (AUT)
Flat Tire | Fresh Air | strobe | Tribeca | NYC (USA)
Gletscher | Tokonoma e.V. | Kassel (GER)
Today is tomorrow‘s yesterday | Sternschuppen | Berlin (GER)
I never wanted to be a sexsymbol | school | Vienna (AUT)
Pfffft....! | Edel Extra e.V. | Nuremberg (GER)
30 - Eine Ausstellung | Edel Extra e.V. | Nuremberg (GER)
MAMA | Edel Extra e.V. | Nuremberg (GER)
Exhibitions (Duo)
KunstNacht Kempten | Kempten (GER)
Gathering of Myths and Muses with HOLZINGERurbat | Galerie Klatovy | Klenová (CZE)
GAMECHANGER with Hanna Kučera | Galerie Stephanie Kelly | Dresden (GER)
HOLZINGERurbat: Start Down | Galerie 207 | Prague (CZE)
HOLZINGERurbat: The official David Hasselhoff Fancruise | 1|2|3 Gallery | Prague (CZE)
Luther mi amor with Lara Sielmann | Edel Extra e.V. | Nuremberg (GER)
HOLZINGERurbat | Academy Gallery Nuremberg (GER)
Life is live with David Häuser | Die Weinerei | Nuremberg (GER)
Exhibitions (Group, selection)
Parallel Vienna Art Fair | Vienna (AUT)
Anti/Körper | Fotohof Salzburg (AUT)
LOVE YOURSELF FIRST with Femxphotographers.org | Museum Schloss Moyland | Bedburg-Hau (GER)
Magic Landscapes without Consequences | CIRCOLO | St. Ulrich (ITA)
als wäre ich du | Basis Projektraum | Frankfurt/Main (GER)
Archive of Southern German State Art | KREISGalerie | Nuremberg (GER)
Femxphotographers.org - Mom | I am a rich man | Kommunale Galerie Johannisthal | Berlin (GER)
Bei Langeweile öfter mal das ABC aufsagen | Galerie Krobath | Vienna (AUT)
Publications
AKADEMIE AKTUELL | 2024 Issue 1 (GER)
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin #4 (GER)
Straßenkreuzer Magazin #30 (GER)
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin #33 | #34 | #52 (GER)
C/O Vienna Magazine (AUT)
Femxphotographers Org - Mind over Matter | Hatje Cantz (GER)
Femxphotographers Org - The Body Issue | Hatje Cantz (GER)
„Ruiniert euch!“ | starfruit publications (GER)
AVISO Magazin | 02/20 (GER)
Annual Magazine #8 | Landesverband Bildender Kunst Sachsen (GER)
ISIT Magazine #002 (ITA)
GUT Magazine | Issue 5 (GBR)
MAMA Magazine | Issue 1 (GER)
VOGUE Magazine | 08/19 (GER)
PROFIFOTO Magazine | No.9 (GER)
COEVAL Magazine (USA)
PARCO Campaign (with Juergen Teller | M&M Paris) (JPN)
AISHTI Salamé Magazine (LBN)
SYSTEM Magazine | Issue 8 (GBR)
Collections
Collection of the City of Erlangen (GER)
Talks / Lectures
Artist Talk | Cross-Disciplinary Strategies | University of Applied Arts Vienna (AUT)
Artist Talk | University Mainz (GER)
Keynote 2022 | Kunst Galerie Fürth | Fürth (GER)
Artist Talk | Applied Photography | University of Applied Arts Vienna (AUT)
The Body Issue | Kultur Kiosk | Stuttgart (GER)
The Body Issue | Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (GER)
Netzwerkstecker | Politbande | Nuremberg (GER)
HOLZINGERurbat | UMPRUM | Prague (CZE)
Teaching
Univ. Assistant for Applied Photography and Time-Based Media (Prof. Maria Ziegelböck) | University of Applied Arts Vienna (AUT)
Workshops
Feminist School of Painting | Kunstpalais | Erlangen (GER)
14 vs. unknown | Survival Workshop | Berlin (GER) (funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste)
Photography workshop in collaboration with C/O Berlin (GER)
Photostories in collaboration with Bezirksjugendring Mittelfranken | Nuremberg (GER)