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Julian Palacz, born in 1983, lives and works in Vienna. 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. Since 2020 he teaches surveillance and privacy in visual art at the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz.
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 the 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)
- 2021
- 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
- Back To Athens / Profiles of the Future, Isaiah Mansion, Athens, GR
- 2020
- Date me Digital (Screening), Quartier am Hafen, Cologne, DE
— Curated by Wilko Austermann
- Date me Digital (Screening), Quartier am Hafen, Cologne, DE
- 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 - 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 - 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)
- 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)
- 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