MICHAEL KIENZER

biography.

From 1977 to 1979, Kienzer received his training in sculpture from Josef Pillhofer at the Kunstgewerbeschule Graz in Graz. From 1979 to 1981 he was an employee of the Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Kreuzberg in Berlin. From 1987 to 1989 he worked as a set designer at the Westfälisches Landestheater in Castrop-Rauxel. Since 1984, Kienzer has participated in national and international exhibitions of installation and conceptual art.

In 2001 Kienzer received the highest Austrian art prize, the Otto Mauer-Preis . In 2005/06 he was visiting professor at the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien in Vienna.

The artist lives and works in Vienna.

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