Künstler Uli Aigner

Uli Aigner


Uli Aigner was born in Austria in 1965. After completing her pottery apprenticeship with a journeyman's certificate, she studied product design under Matteo Thun at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, graduating with distinction in 1990. She then studied digital image design under Prof. Thomas Hägele at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. Since the 1990s, her work has included videos, performances, spatial installations, large-format colored pencil drawings and porcelain objects, which have been shown in renowned international museums, institutions and galleries. Her guest professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (2001-2003) formed a new focus in her work. As a result, she directed the Städtische Kunsthalle München, the Lothringer 13 Halle, from 2006 to 2010. Since 2011, Uli Aigner has been living with her family in Berlin and devoting herself to her own artistic production.

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Artworks

Vita

*1965

in Austria

1997/1998

TDI Operator training for 3D animation

1991-1993

Postgraduate studies at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (GER) | Digital Image Design

1984-1990

Studied product design with Matteo Thun | University of Applied Arts Vienna (AUT) | Diploma with distinction

1979-1982

Apprenticeship as a potter | completion of journeyman's certificate | Harro Berger manufactory | Vienna (AUT)

Prizes & scholarships

2022

Scholarship Digital Mediaton Formats | Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V. | Neustart Kultur 

2021

Grant for innovative art project | BKM | Neustart Kultur

2019

Research grant in the field of Fine Arts | Senate Department for Culture and Europe | Berlin (GER)

2018

Scholarship | Villa Waldberta | Feldafing (GER)

2002

Prof. Hilde-Goldschmidt-Award | Kitzbuehel (AUT)

2001

Promotion Award for Fine Arts of the City of Vienna (AUT)

1997–1998

Project scholarship from the curator Lioba Reddeker 

1995

Scholarship for Artistic Photography | London (GBR)

Award for Photography (AUT)

Culture Award of Lower Austria (AUT)

1994

Scholarship Zona Azul | Mexico City (MEX)

1991–1993

Scholarship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude | Stuttgart (GER)

1990

Culture Award of the State of Tyrol (AUT)

1987

Study trip USA 

Solo Shows (selection)

2023

One Million – Item 3501 + 3502 – Monumental Porcelain Vessels | permanent installation | Purple Path | Chemnitz – European Capital of Culture 2025 (GER)

2022

The Porcelain Code – One Million by Uli Aigner | Neues Museum/Museum of Prehistory and Early History | SMB – Berlin State Museums (GER)

2020

One Million – Room of Silence | permanent installation | Flughafen BER, Berlin/Brandenburg (GER)

3Räume | Video installation | KP Werani (music), Uli Aigner (installation), Michal Kosakowski (film) | Pavillon am Milchhof | Berlin (GER)

2019

One Million @ Koch.Kunst.Kultur | Erzbistum Berlin | Church ruin St. Michael | Berlin (GER)

One Million – Item 2361 – Monumental Porcelain Vessel | Belvedere Museum | Vienna (AUT)

One Million World Performance | 100 years bauhaus, the opening festival | Akademie der Künste | Berlin (GER)

2017

One Million @ AKOHO – A Kitchen of Her Own | Shari Pierce, Sebastian | Florida (USA) 

One Million | Edition Presentation | Salon für Kunstbuch, 21er Haus – Museum of Contemporary Art | Vienna (AUT)

One Million | Showcase | Walther König Buchhandlung im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art | Berlin (GER)

2014/2015

Open Shape 36 | Artbox | MQ – MuseumsQuartier Vienna (AUT)

2010

The Inquisitive Museum | Lentos Kunstmuseum | Linz (AUT)


2007

Loveship | Haydee Rovirosa Gallery | New York City (USA)

2006

ghostAkademie | Kunstverein Innsbruck (AUT)

2005

ghostAkademie | 11 video lectures & room installation | Rathausgalerie Munich (GER)

Nucleus of the State | drawings & installation | Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (AUT)


2003

bekommen with Christian Hutzinger | Halle Bernsteiner | Vienna (AUT)

2001/2002

A Visit to Freud’s... | Freud Museum | London (GBR)

2000

I like it more beautiful | Gallery Art&IDEA | New York City (USA)

1998

washing basket | curatorial space Heidi Zuckerman correct | New York City (USA)

1997

overqualified, full rotation & wood | with Linda Herritt | Gallery Art&Idea | Mexico City (MEX)

1996

Figure in Landscape | Austrian Cultural Forum London (GBR)

1995

Metanoia | MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art | Vienna (AUT)

1992

Fiktives Zimmer | Akademie Schloss Solitude | Stuttgart (GER)

1989

Sexshop Fenster | Raum Christof Bochdansky | Vienna (AUT)

Group Shows (selection)

2023

Ecstatic Media. Media Art Reconsidered | Museum der Moderne | Salzburg (AUT)

Touch Nature | Austrian Cultural Forum | New York City (USA)

Reset! / Mons, L’espai Mercart | Barcelona | Spain (ESP)

Elemental Vessels. Between Use and Contemplation: Another Narrative of Modernism | Mies van der Rohe Haus | Berlin (GER)

Touch Nature | Austrian Cultural Forum Bratislava (SLO)

Touch Nature | Austrian Cultural Forum Zagreb (CRO)


2022

Touch Nature | Ludwig Museum & Austrian Cultural Forum | Budapest (HUN)

2021

ROAR: Art and Sustainablity | Cambridge Festival Event | online exhibition

2020

Bons Baisers de Nice | Gallery Espace à vendre | Nice (FR)

Rooms with a View | Exhibition: Espai Carme Malaret | Sant Just Desvern (ESP)

Rooms with a View | Exhibition: Design without Borders | Budapest (HUN)

How color digests society | Kunstsalon im Fluc, Vienna (AUT)

Art & Function | Rathausgalerie Kunsthalle, Munich (GER)

2019

original bauhaus | Berlinische Galerie | Berlin (GER)

The Void | Museum Frieder Burda - Salon Berlin (GER)

Women Now | Austrian Cultural Forum | New York City (USA)

2017

7th Int'l Invitational Exhibition of Traditional Fine Arts | Shanghai Art Collection Museum

2015

Animal Friends | RSTR4 | Munich (GER)

Imago Mundi - Luciano Benetton Collection - Map of the New Art | Fondazione Giorgio Cini | Venice (ITA)

Vienna for Art's Sake! | Belvedere | Winterpalais, Vienna (AUT)

2011

Zeichnung & Fotografie II | Parliament Vienna (AUT)

Passwords - Cycle 8 | Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea (ESP)

2009

girlsgirlsgirls | Steinle Contemporary | Munich (GER)

Love Me Tender | MOVIMENTOS | Kunstverein Wolfsburg (GER)

2007

Vistazo | Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil | Mexico-City (MEX)

Gabriele Münter Prize | Martin-Gropius-Bau | Berlin (GER)

2006

A.C.A.D.E.M.Y | Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (NED)

ghostAkademie | The Latvian National Museum of Art | Riga (LAT)

Keimzelle des States & ghostAkademie | Art & IDEA at Art Miami (USA)

2005

Vision einer Sammlung | Museum der Moderne Salzburg (AUT)

Academie. Kunst lehren und lernen | Kunstverein Hamburg (GER)

2002

mons veneris: female geographies | Austrian Cultural Forum | London (GBR)

Never alone again | La Panaderia | Mexico-City (MEX)

buy a dream store | Apartman Projesi | Istanbul (TUR)

2000

hers | Landesmuseum Joanneum | Steirischer Herbst | Graz (AUT)

Rupertinum Fotopreis | Rupertinum | Salzburg (AUT)

The Cleaning Material Show | the Store | Istanbul (TUR)

Die Kunst der Stunde ist Widerstand | Schausfenster Kunsthalle | Wien (AUT)

there is something you should know | EVN Sammlung | Schloss Belvedere | Wien (AUT)

19 Räume | Bregenzer Kunstverein | Bregenz | Österreich (AUT)

1999

FunktionsSystemMensch | Kunstmuseum Bochum (GER)

happy pinata, suicide pinata | de Appel Arts Centre | Amsterdam (NED)

happy pinata, suicide pinata | ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art | London (GBR)

Österreichische Fotografie | Macao | China (CHN)

1998

1sincerely yours | Sofia Municipal Gallery of Art (BUL)

multi-nationals | BMoCA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art | Colorado (USA)

Das Jahrhundert der künstlerischen Freiheit | Turku Art Museum | Helsinki (FIN)

Freeze Frame | Gallery Dauyon | Miami (USA)

no budget films by no budget galleries | 57 Brooklyn | New York City (USA)

17. May 1998 | Hudson River Valley | New York City (USA)

Austrian Spotlight | Centre A. Borschette | Brüssel (BEL)

1996

A small shifting sphere of serious culture | video programm | ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art | London (GBR)

Immaginario altro | Trieste | Italien (ITA)

Freeze frame | Guadalajara | Mexico (MEX)

Lifesize | N.A.M.E. Gallery | Chicago (USA)

6th International Biennial | Kairo (EGY)

1995

Wie war Mexiko? | Museo Universitario del Chopo | Mexiko-City (MEX)

1994

Hellraiser | Montecarrasso (SUI)

1993

Das Muschelsammeln der Ebbe | Galerie Hell | Martigny (SUI)

1991

WRO | Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (POL)

Tanzleinwand | Alte Oper | Frankfurt (GER)

Milano oltre | Mailand (ITA)

1986

Triennale Mailand | Italien (ITA)

Galerie für zeitgenössisches Porzellan | New York (USA)

Publications (selection)

2023

Be Silent Touch Look Swallow – One Million by Uli Aigner (German/English) | Publisher: Michal Kosakowski | Kosakowski Books 

2022

The Porcelain Code – One Million by Uli Aigner (German/English) | Publisher: Michal Kosakowski | Kosakowski Books 

2018

Uli Aigner | Editor Gerhild Stangl, Katharina Hofmann-Sewera | Publisher Schlebrügge.Editor


2014

Gemacht! Done! – Städtische Kunsthalle München | Lothringer 13 – 2006-2010 | Uli Aigner | Revolver Publishing Berlin


2007

Gabriele Münter Preis 2007 | Exhibition catalgue | Frauenmuseum | Bonn 

Art&Idea, Works | Hatje Cantz Verlag | Germany 

2005

ghostAkademie | Editor Uli Aigner | Munich

Leerstellen auf dem gedeckten Tisch – ghostAkademie und Keimzelle des Staates | Heinz Schütz | Kunstforum International | Vol. 179, pp. 234-245 

2003

Uli Aigner 1984-2004 | Artist book and works | Publisher edition selene | Vienna

2001

Ich bin dein... | weekly newspaper Die Zeit | Nov 2001 | Germany 

1996

How was Mexico? | Catalog Zona Azul | Mexico City

Figure in Landscape | Exhibition catalog | Austrian Cultural Institute | London 

1993

1993/94 Uli Aigner, Es gibt viel zu tun! | Publisher Walther König | Cologne