CV
Julian Palacz’s conceptual works deal with the aesthetics of data and information traces left behind digitally by people. Customized software and algorithms build the basis of his process in reference to their usage in contemporary politics and society. From a critical and technological point of view, he is interested in decontextualizing analytical procedures of mass surveillance and complex digital structures to examine their artistic qualities. With his ironic and highly aestheticized works, he wants to stimulate new considerations of contemporary proceedings and the traces we leave behind both digitally and physically.
solo exhibitions
- 2019
- Les murs ont des oreilles, Sotheby's, Vienna, AT
- Secrets of Last Summer, Robert-Bosch-Campus, Renningen, DE
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- Rechenbeispiel, eSeL Rezeption, Electric Avenue, Vienna, AT
group exhibitions (selection)
- 2019
- Funambuli, Kunsthaus Weiz, Weiz, AT
- Annihilation, Vienna Fashion Festival, Q21, Vienna, AT
- Muster Erkennung, Kunstfabrik Groß Siegharts, Groß Siegharts, AT
- Re-Opening MAK Design Labor, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, AT
- NETZ & WERK, 12-14 contemporary, Vienna, AT
- Data Loam: Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft., AIL, Vienna, AT
- Games and Politics, ISELP, Brussels, BE
- 2018
- Kunstraum Steiermark 2018, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, AT
- VOLTA Art Fair, Basel, CH
- TRACE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, RS
- Encounters, SCAG Contemporary, Vienna, AT
- In die Stadt, MMKK – Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, AT
- 2017
- don’t call it off-space!, das weisse haus, Vienna, AT
- Open Codes – Leben in digitalen Welten, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, DE
- Format (*.strk) at Parallel Vienna 2017, Parallel Vienna, Vienna, AT
- ich weiß nicht – Growing Relations between Things, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, AT
- Technical Support, Galerie Zeller Van Almsick, Vienna, AT
- 2016
- Search for… Serendipity, RED Point, St. Pölten, AT
- The High Wire Act, K&K Telegrafenamt, Vienna, AT
- YAA Exhibition, 21er Haus, Vienna, AT
- Parallel Vienna, Alte Post, Vienna, AT
- before########after, Kunstraum SUPER, Vienna, AT
- Option Project, Sotheby's, Vienna, AT
- 2015
- Looking Back / Going Forward, Galerie Straihammer und Seidenschwann, Vienna, AT
- The Technological Unconscious, Gallery-In-Residence, Wien, AT
- Realise & Resist, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice, IT
- Co{de}pendent, Sigmund, Vienna, AT
- DIDING – Ein Innen, das ein Außen bleibt?, Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, AT
- 2014
- Faces & Traces, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, CN
- Sleepless Nights, Galerie Winter, Vienna, AT
- PONG!, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna, AT
- 14 x 14, Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm, DE
- 2013
- electric parade, Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach, AT
- Principium Privatum, mo.ë, Vienna, AT
- Ogliari Badessi | Palacz | Surridge, M50, Shanghai, CN
- The Rhythm of 011000010111001001110100, KunstvereinGRAZ, Regensburg, DE
- 2012
- 2011
- A Story in 10 Rooms, Der Saphir am Brillantengrund, Vienna, AT
- Die nächste Generation III, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, AT
- x-filed, flat1, Vienna, AT
- 2010
- digital_matter(s), Saranac Art Projects, Spokane, Washington, US
- VIS A VIS, artunited, Vienna, AT
- SUCHT SELBST !, 12 c Raum für Kunst, Schnifis/Feldkirch, AT
- Hyperaktive Prototypen, Künstlerhaus k/haus, Vienna, AT
- Look at me, das weisse haus & Stedefreund, Berlin, DE
festivals and screenings
- 2017
- 2016
- 2014
- 2013
- paraflows .8: Open Culture, das weisse haus, Vienna, AT
- MashUp Film Festival, Forum des Halles, Paris, FR
- Algoshorts Film Festival, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK
- 2012
- 2011
- Shift Electronic Arts Festival, Haus für elektronische Künste, Basel, CH
- SONICA, MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art, Ljubljana, SI
- Coded Cultures – City as Interface, Vienna, AT
- Ars Electronica – CyberArts, OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich, Linz, AT
- FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, SESI Gallery, São Paulo, BR
- EMERGEANDSEE Media Arts Festival – »En Détail«, Bötzow-Brauerei, Berlin, DE
- Festival Internacional Multimédia, ISMAI, Maia, PT
- Low Lives 3 – International Festival of Live Networked Performances,
- Speculum Artium, Trbovlje, SI
- 2010
appreciations
- 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
- Honorary Mention Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica, Ars Electronica, Linz, AT
- Interactive Art Prize, Festival Internacional Multimédia, Portugal, PT
- Start-Stipend for Video- and Media Art, Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, AT
contributions and publications
- 2015
- 2014
- Nevertheless #8, Atelier Olschinsky, Vienna, AT
- Schwerpunktausgabe 25 Jahre WWW, DER STANDARD, AT
- 2012
- Content Type Image, Verlag TRAUMAWIEN, AT
- Unpleasant Design, Savicic/Savic, Lausanne, CH
- 2010
- END TELL, Verlag TRAUMAWIEN, AT
lectures and workshops
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 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