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.
Artworks
Vita
in Austria
TDI Operator training for 3D animation
Postgraduate studies at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (GER) | Digital Image Design
Studied product design with Matteo Thun | University of Applied Arts Vienna (AUT) | Diploma with distinction
Apprenticeship as a potter | completion of journeyman's certificate | Harro Berger manufactory | Vienna (AUT)
Prizes & scholarships
Scholarship Digital Mediaton Formats | Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V. | Neustart Kultur
Grant for innovative art project | BKM | Neustart Kultur
Research grant in the field of Fine Arts | Senate Department for Culture and Europe | Berlin (GER)
Scholarship | Villa Waldberta | Feldafing (GER)
Prof. Hilde-Goldschmidt-Award | Kitzbuehel (AUT)
Promotion Award for Fine Arts of the City of Vienna (AUT)
Project scholarship from the curator Lioba Reddeker
Scholarship for Artistic Photography | London (GBR)
Award for Photography (AUT)
Culture Award of Lower Austria (AUT)
Scholarship Zona Azul | Mexico City (MEX)
Scholarship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude | Stuttgart (GER)
Culture Award of the State of Tyrol (AUT)
Study trip USA
Solo Shows (selection)
One Million – Item 3501 + 3502 – Monumental Porcelain Vessels | permanent installation | Purple Path | Chemnitz – European Capital of Culture 2025 (GER)
The Porcelain Code – One Million by Uli Aigner | Neues Museum/Museum of Prehistory and Early History | SMB – Berlin State Museums (GER)
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)
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)
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)
Open Shape 36 | Artbox | MQ – MuseumsQuartier Vienna (AUT)
The Inquisitive Museum | Lentos Kunstmuseum | Linz (AUT)
Loveship | Haydee Rovirosa Gallery | New York City (USA)
ghostAkademie | Kunstverein Innsbruck (AUT)
ghostAkademie | 11 video lectures & room installation | Rathausgalerie Munich (GER)
Nucleus of the State | drawings & installation | Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (AUT)
bekommen with Christian Hutzinger | Halle Bernsteiner | Vienna (AUT)
A Visit to Freud’s... | Freud Museum | London (GBR)
I like it more beautiful | Gallery Art&IDEA | New York City (USA)
washing basket | curatorial space Heidi Zuckerman correct | New York City (USA)
overqualified, full rotation & wood | with Linda Herritt | Gallery Art&Idea | Mexico City (MEX)
Figure in Landscape | Austrian Cultural Forum London (GBR)
Metanoia | MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art | Vienna (AUT)
Fiktives Zimmer | Akademie Schloss Solitude | Stuttgart (GER)
Sexshop Fenster | Raum Christof Bochdansky | Vienna (AUT)
Group Shows (selection)
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)
Touch Nature | Ludwig Museum & Austrian Cultural Forum | Budapest (HUN)
ROAR: Art and Sustainablity | Cambridge Festival Event | online exhibition
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)
original bauhaus | Berlinische Galerie | Berlin (GER)
The Void | Museum Frieder Burda - Salon Berlin (GER)
Women Now | Austrian Cultural Forum | New York City (USA)
7th Int'l Invitational Exhibition of Traditional Fine Arts | Shanghai Art Collection Museum
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)
Zeichnung & Fotografie II | Parliament Vienna (AUT)
Passwords - Cycle 8 | Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea (ESP)
girlsgirlsgirls | Steinle Contemporary | Munich (GER)
Love Me Tender | MOVIMENTOS | Kunstverein Wolfsburg (GER)
Vistazo | Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil | Mexico-City (MEX)
Gabriele Münter Prize | Martin-Gropius-Bau | Berlin (GER)
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)
Vision einer Sammlung | Museum der Moderne Salzburg (AUT)
Academie. Kunst lehren und lernen | Kunstverein Hamburg (GER)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Wie war Mexiko? | Museo Universitario del Chopo | Mexiko-City (MEX)
Hellraiser | Montecarrasso (SUI)
Das Muschelsammeln der Ebbe | Galerie Hell | Martigny (SUI)
WRO | Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (POL)
Tanzleinwand | Alte Oper | Frankfurt (GER)
Milano oltre | Mailand (ITA)
Triennale Mailand | Italien (ITA)
Galerie für zeitgenössisches Porzellan | New York (USA)
Publications (selection)
Be Silent Touch Look Swallow – One Million by Uli Aigner (German/English) | Publisher: Michal Kosakowski | Kosakowski Books
The Porcelain Code – One Million by Uli Aigner (German/English) | Publisher: Michal Kosakowski | Kosakowski Books
Uli Aigner | Editor Gerhild Stangl, Katharina Hofmann-Sewera | Publisher Schlebrügge.Editor
Gemacht! Done! – Städtische Kunsthalle München | Lothringer 13 – 2006-2010 | Uli Aigner | Revolver Publishing Berlin
Gabriele Münter Preis 2007 | Exhibition catalgue | Frauenmuseum | Bonn
Art&Idea, Works | Hatje Cantz Verlag | Germany
ghostAkademie | Editor Uli Aigner | Munich
Leerstellen auf dem gedeckten Tisch – ghostAkademie und Keimzelle des Staates | Heinz Schütz | Kunstforum International | Vol. 179, pp. 234-245
Uli Aigner 1984-2004 | Artist book and works | Publisher edition selene | Vienna
Ich bin dein... | weekly newspaper Die Zeit | Nov 2001 | Germany
How was Mexico? | Catalog Zona Azul | Mexico City
Figure in Landscape | Exhibition catalog | Austrian Cultural Institute | London
1993/94 Uli Aigner, Es gibt viel zu tun! | Publisher Walther König | Cologne