CV
Julian Palacz, born in 1983 in Leoben, lives and works in Vienna and Mürzzuschlag. His work is dedicated to the visualization and poetic processing of data that we leave behind digitally, as well as physically, and that is automatically collected by various actors. Studies in Digital Art 2003-2010 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under Tom Fürstner, Peter Weibel and Virgil Widrich.
The solo exhibition Handle with Care at Forum Stadtpark (2021) and Les murs ont des oreilles at Sotheby's Vienna (2019) mark caesuras in his work. His work has been shown at Casino Luxembourg, Museum of Applied Arts/Vienna, the Museum of Contemporary Art/Belgrade, the ZKM | Center for Art and Media/Karlsruhe, and at Palazzo Zenobio/Venice. In addition, Julian Palacz received the Wimmelforschungs-Stipendium at Bosch Campus Renningen and Akademie Schloss Solitude, the Austrian State Scholarship for Video and Media Art and the Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency Shanghai.
exhibitions (selection)
- 2024
- Sensing Resonance, Klima Biennale, KunstHausWien, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Nora Mayr - Library of Artistic Print on Demand, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, DE
— Curated by Annette Gilbert & Andreas Bülhoff - radical⇌matter, AIL - Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Johnny Golding, Martin Reinhart, Tanja Traxler, Julia Wolf
- Sensing Resonance, Klima Biennale, KunstHausWien, Vienna, AT
- 2023
- The ugly duckling of publishing? Books on Demand, Deutsches Buch- & Schriftmuseum, Leipzig, DE
— Curated by Annette Gilbert & Andreas Bülhoff - Other Island, Bräuhausgasse 31, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Dark City / Gerhard Fresacher - Vienna's Urban Art, Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Judith Fegerl & Günther Friesinger - Land Steiermark Parallel Vienna 2023, Otto-Wagner-Areal, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Tom Biela & Martin Guevara-Kunerth - Dimensionen, Saag Fabrik, Techelsberg am Wörther See, AT
— Curated by Roman Grabner - Bodies of Identities, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg, L
— Curated by Krystyna Dul, Paul di Felice, Kevin Muhlen & Stilbé Schroeder
- The ugly duckling of publishing? Books on Demand, Deutsches Buch- & Schriftmuseum, Leipzig, DE
- 2022
- Kunstraum Steiermark 2022, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, AT
— Curated by Petra Hammer-Maier & Günther Holler-Schuster - 7X DIGITAL, OHO - Offenes Haus Oberwart, Oberwart, AT
- This Side Up (Solo), Bildraum 07, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Esther Mlenek - Land Steiermark Parallel Vienna 2022, Parallel Vienna, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Bettina Landl - Aleatoric Audio for an Infinite Sound, Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A, New York, US
— Curated by Lee Tusman
- Kunstraum Steiermark 2022, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, AT
- 2021
- 10 Years Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, AE
— Curated by Carlo Giordanetti - Back To Athens / Profiles of the Future, Isaiah Mansion, Athens, GR
— Curated by Georg Georgakopoulos, Fotini Kapiris and Christian Rupp - La Villa En Court, Villa Rochannec'h, Saint-Brieuc, FR
— Curated by Paul Wenninger - Handle With Care (Solo), Forum Stadtpark, Graz, AT
— Curated by Eva & Gerhard Pichler - Encounter #4, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Viktor Bucher
- 10 Years Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, AE
- 2020
- No Matter. What?, leeremptyblank, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Manuel Horak, Rebecca Wendeborn & Julia Wolf - Date me Digital (Screening), Quartier am Hafen, Cologne, DE
— Curated by Wilko Austermann
- No Matter. What?, leeremptyblank, Vienna, AT
- 2019
- Funambuli, Kunsthaus Weiz, Weiz, AT
— Curated by Günther Friesinger & Roswitha Weingrill - Les murs ont des oreilles (Solo), Sotheby's, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Andrea Jungmann & Doris Richter - Muster Erkennung, Kunstfabrik Groß Siegharts, Groß Siegharts, AT
— Curated by Judith Fegerl - Netz & Werk, 12-14 contemporary, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Felix Dennhardt & Raphael Haider - Data Loam: Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft., AIL, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Martin Reinhart - Secrets of Last Summer (Solo), Robert-Bosch-Campus, Renningen, DE
— Curated by Maren Geers & Thomas Drescher
- Funambuli, Kunsthaus Weiz, Weiz, AT
- 2018
- Kunstraum Steiermark 2018, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, AT
— Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster - ZONE1 Special Project (Solo), viennacontemporary, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Victoria Dejaco - TRACE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, RS
— Curated by Dejan Grba, Anna Novakov & Yvonne Senouf - Encounters, SCAG Sanatorium, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Magdalena Stöger - In die Stadt, MMKK – Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, AT
— Curated by Christine Haupt-Stummer & Andreas Krištof
- Kunstraum Steiermark 2018, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, AT
- 2017
- Open Codes – Leben in digitalen Welten, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, DE
— Curated by Peter Weibel - ich weiß nicht – Growing Relations between Things, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Janina Falkner & Marlies Wirth - Technical Support, Galerie Zeller Van Almsick, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Cornelis van Almsick - Pattern Recognition (Solo), Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw, PL
— Curated by Anna Ciabach
- Open Codes – Leben in digitalen Welten, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, DE
- 2016
- The High Wire Act, K&K Telegrafenamt, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Cornelis van Almsick - Option Project, Sotheby's, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Valentin Kenndler
- The High Wire Act, K&K Telegrafenamt, Vienna, AT
- 2015
- Artist Statement, Parallel Vienna (Solo), Alte Post, Wien, AT
— Curated by Stefan Bidner & Marina Sula - love and crypto-portraits (Solo), Medien.Kunst.Tirol, Innsbruck, AT
— Curated by Maximilian Thoman - Realise & Resist, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice, IT
— Curated by Luise Kloos - DIDING – Ein Innen, das ein Außen bleibt?, Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, AT
— Curated by Sandro Droschl
- Artist Statement, Parallel Vienna (Solo), Alte Post, Wien, AT
- 2014
- Faces & Traces, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, CN
— Curated by Carlo Giordanetti - Sleepless Nights, Galerie Winter, Vienna, AT
— Curated by Abigail Solomon Godeau - 14 x 14, Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm, DE
— Curated by Regina Hellwig-Schmid
- Faces & Traces, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, CN
- 2013
- electric parade, Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach, AT
— Curated by Herwig Steiner - Artist Script Kiddie (Solo), XinCheJian, Shanghai, CN
— Curated by Stefano Ogliari Badessi & Katie Surridge - MashUp Film Festival (Screening), Forum des Halles, Paris, FR
- electric parade, Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach, AT
- 2012
- 2011
- Shift Electronic Arts Festival (Screening), Haus für elektronische Künste, Basel, CH
- SONICA (Screening), MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art, Ljubljana, SI
- Ars Electronica – CyberArts (Screening), OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich, Linz, AT
- FILE – Electronic Language International Festival (Screening), SESI Gallery, São Paulo, BR
appreciations (selection)
- 2022
- Abroad Fellowship, New York, US
- New Technological Art Award - Finalist, Zebrastraat, Ghent, BE
- 2021
- CCA Andratx Fellowship, Mallorca, ES
- 2020
- Art Acquisition, Office of Styrian Government, AT
- Büchsenhausen Fellowship, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, AT
- Acquisition of the State Art Collection, Bundesministerium für Kunst und Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport, AT
- 2018
- WimmelResearch-Fellowship, Bosch Campus Renningen & Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, DE
- Studio Scholarship, Zagreb, HR
- 2015
- State Stipend for Video- and Media Art, Federal Chancellery, AT
- 2014
- Acquisition of the State Art Collection, Federal Chancellery, AT
- 2013
- Shanghai Residency, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, CN
- Cube Prize Nominee, Espace Saint-Sauveur, Paris, FR
- 2011
- Work Stipend, Federal Ministry of Science and Research, AT
- Interactive Art Prize, Festival Internacional Multimédia, Portugal, PT
- Start-Stipend for Video- and Media Art, Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, AT
lectures and workshops (selection)
- 2024
- 2022
- 2018
- 2017
- 2012
- Digital Literature and Media Art, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna, Vienna, AT
- 2011
- 2010
- Lecture Algorithmic Search for ‘Memory’ – Theoretical and Practical Possibilities of an Innovative Search Engine for Film Contents, NECS, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, TR