Siggi Hofer works with drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, text, and curating as an artistic practice. He engages in the analysis of societal processes and perceived reality in his environment, aiming to develop and continuously question new approaches to thinking. Hofer's often colorful graphic language, his painted pictograms based on a grid system, as well as his painted text messages and simultaneously emerging literary texts, suggest immediate readability, especially against the backdrop of an increasingly image-heavy culture that relies more and more on the universal readability of signs, pushing poetry into a niche. Hofer has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Msgr. Otto Mauer Prize and the Schindler Fellowship in Los Angeles. In 2022, he presented a large immersive installation in the main space of the Vienna Secession titled Still Life.

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‘Boxes are stacked or torn open. Products are layered. Chosen ones softly bedded. At the very bottom is the memory and is constantly overlapped by other delicacies. The rule is to place the heavy items at the bottom and the light ones at the top so as not to overwhelm the light ones. The beautiful side is always turned upwards, because the labels are then legible and visible, the motifs literally jump out at you and shine in the most beautiful colours.‘*

*From the text gift basket written by the artist for the same-titled exhibition at Kunstverein Ve:sch 2021, where he draped and presented packages painted on MDF on transport aids for the first time.

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Siggi Hofer