Current Position: Assistenzprofessor, Webster University Vienna Private University; Senior Artist, University of applied Arts Vienna Country of Origin: Austria Website: www.michael-schneider.info

Courses taught at Webster

Creative Strategies, Alternative Media, Introduction to Printmaking, Printmaking Advanced, Introduction to Drawing, Drawing Practice, Professional Practice, Vienna Projects, Introduction to Curatorial Studies, Management in the Arts and Visual Culture of Japan.

Education

• MFA, Tokyo University of the Arts 1997
• Japanese Language Diploma, Yokohama National University 1993
• Mag. art., Academy of fine Arts Vienna 1991

Background and Facts

From 1987 to 1991 I studied Graphics and Painting with an emphasis on Printmaking at the Academy of fine Arts Vienna with Prof. Maximilian Melcher. From 1993 to 1997 I lived in Japan. As recipient of the Mombugakusho scholarship, I spent one year as research student in Yokohama and Tokyo. In 1997 I graduated with an MFA from the Tokyo University of the Arts, where I studied with Prof. Tetsuya Noda.

In my art work, I enjoy to use various techniques of printmaking (art intended to be published) and draw inspiration from the Asian as well as the European tradition.

In 2005 I received the Theodor Körner Award for research on: „Polymer print and Computer Aided Printmaking“. In the same year I started to collaborate with the musicians Prof. Gunter Schneider and Barbara Romen in the development of the performance concept „Klopfzeichen“, an attempt to create a syn-aesthetic experience for musicians and printmakers. The concept has been realized with various combinations of participants in Austria and Japan.

In 2004 I had the honor to be the only European Artist in the show of the Nagoya City Art Museum „100 Years of Japanese Woodblock print“.

I have been a member of the faculty of Webster University since 2003 and spent a semester as guest professor in St. Louis in 2005.

From 1997 to 2004 I was staff writer for the „Wiener Kunsthefte“, since 2005 I am staff writer for „UM:DRUCK“, an art magazine published in Vienna specialized in Printmaking and Visual Culture. I am co-founder and co-editor of „IM:PRINT“, a peer-reviewed international academic magazine with the same focus as its sister-publication that we plan to publish in 2010 for the first time.

During my career I had to overstep the boundaries of the traditional working area of the artist and found myself working as curator, project manager, exhibition designer, critic and art theorist. I share this experience with many artists of my generation as it has become common practice in contemporary art and I am therefore convinced, that education in the field of art must reflect this trend.

Selected Solo - Exhibitions

• 2007 Gallery Shun. Nagoya
• 2006 Offizin für Druckgraphik. Vienna
• 2005 Gegen den Strich. Dengel Galerie. Reutte, Impression – Rekonstruktion. Austrian Culture Forum. Istanbul, Unentschlüsselte Tafeln & Polymerdruck. Galerie 22a. Innsbruck
• 2004 Gallery APA. Nagoya, Galerie Schloß Museum. Landeck
• 2003 Die Kleine Galerie. Vienna, Yoseido Gallery. Tokyo
• 2002 Karmeliter Kirche. Wiener Neustadt
• 2001 School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Boston
• 2000 Die Kleine Galerie, Vienna; Gallery Theodor von Hörmann. Imst/Austria
• 1999 Kupferstichkabinett Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.Curator Dr. Monika Knofler
• 1998 rekonstruktionen. Kunstpavillion. Innsbruck
• 1997 National Gallery. Istanbul, rekonstruktionen. inn-galerie. Kufstein
• 1996 National Picture Gallery. Ankara, Austrian Culture Forum. Istanbul

Selected Group - Exhibitions

• 2009 Druckort: Wien - Polymerdrucke, Verein für Original-Radierung. Munich, Further ..., Galería Políglota. Buenos Aires/Argentina, nachtwindsucher. Altern’Art CY. Tokyo, The 50th Annual Japan Print Society (JPS) Exhibition. Metropolitan Art Museum. Tokyo, Druckgraphik aus Wien. gallery CIEL. Tokyo, Printed in Vienna. National Gallery Sofia, Bulgaria
• 2008 Printmaking at the Edge, The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea, 100 Arbeiten österreichischer Grafiker der Gegenwart Maecenas Art Forum Berlin, PAPER - prints, printmaking, Ueno Town Museum, Tokyo, Further, Sawtooth Center for the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC (USA)
• 2007 Joint Research & Development II, with Teruo Isomi und Seiichiro Miida, Galerie Shun, Nagoya; Print Triennial, Falun, Sweden; Triennial Cracow - Oldenburg - Vienna, Künstlerhaus Wien
• 2006 hier und jetzt, Offizin für Druckgraphik, Vienna; buchkunst-buchgraphik-buchobjekte, Künstlerhaus, Vienna; Triennial Cracow/Poland; 17th International Triennial for Original Graphic Prints, Grenchen/Switzerland; dreifach – Xylon A-CH-D, Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz, Germany; Barockschlössl, Mistelbach; Schloss-Galerie, Landeck; Xylon Museum, Schwetzingen Germany
• 2005 dreifach – Xylon A-CH-D, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, Reutlingen, Germany; Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur; NÖ-Dokumentationszentrum f. moderne Kunst, St. Pölten
• 2004 Contemporary Austrian Printmaking, Curator Dr. Philipp Maurer, Austrian Culture Forum, Istanbul; 100 Years of Japanese Wood-block Print, Nagoya City Museum of Art, Nagoya/Japan; Xylon. Salzburg; Wiener Druck Werk, Galerie des Kulturbunds Treptow, Berlin; Druckgraphik aus Österreich, Galerie in der Lithowerkstatt, Berlin
• 2003 Art from Austria, Innsbrook Resort, Innsbrook/USA; Faculty Exhibition, Hunt Galerie/Webster University, St. Louis/USA; 16th International Triennial for Original Graphic Prints, Grenchen/Switzerland; The Print Exhibition, Gallery Shun, Nagoya/Japan; 7th International Biennial of Miniature Art, Serbia-Montenegro; 10 Jahre Galerie Schmidt, Reith i.A./Austria; EuropArt, Geneva/Switzerland

Performances

• 2009 klopfzeichen& klangschnitte  – with Seiichiro Miida, Miadera Raita, Barbara Romen  and Gunter Schneider, Tokyo University of the Arts, Music Department; klopfzeichen - klangschnitte - sprachsplitter– with Seiichiro Miida, Barbara Romen, Gunter Schneider, Rosa Pock and Peter Ahorner, Loop-Line, Tokyo; klopfzeichen - klangschnitte - sprachsplitter– with  Seiichiro Miida, Barbara Romen, Gunter Schneider, Rosa Pock and Peter Ahorner,     altern'art CY, Tokyo
• 2008; klopfzeichen & klangschnitte  – with Seiichiro Miida, Barbara Romen and Gunter Schneider. art didacta Innsbruck, klopfzeichen  – Performance with Barbara Romen and Gunter Schneider. Musikmeile Innsbruck, Kunstpavillion

Selected Recent Publications

• Schneider M., Artwork in „The 50th Memorial Japan Print Society Exhibition“ Exhibition Catalog, Tokyo (2010)
• Schneider M., Artwork, transcript of the lecture: Printmaking, the origin of contemporary visual culture;„Ueno Town Art Museum - the Archive 2008“ Exhibition Catalog, Project documentation, Tokyo, (2009)
• Schneider M., Illustration, Artmann, H.C.: nachtwindsucher - yokaze no uta. edition ps. Wien (2008/9)
• Schneider M., Artwork, Moser, Manfred & Pechriggl, Alice (Editors) Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt: Aufenthalt – Bewegung, Bewegung – Aufenthalt. Klagenfurt (2008)
• Schneider M., Das Ende der Druckgrafik – Eine Betrachtung ohne Rückblick. In: Um:Druck, Vienna, (10/2009),  p. 27
• Schneider M., If I were to give you an update on the history of the future of printmaking!. In: Grapheion, Int. Review of Contemporary Prints, Book and Paper Art, Yearbook 2008/No. 21, p. 70
• Schneider M., Der Zeit ihre Geschwindigkeit, der Geschwindigkeit ihr Medium zum Werk von Thomas Walder. In: Eikon, International Magazine for Photography and Media - Art, Volume 63 / (2008), p. 46 – 47
• Schneider M., Das Ende der Druckgrafik. Eine Betrachtung ohne Rückblick. In: Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Exlibris und Gebrauchsgrafik. Band 65/ (2007–2008), p. 96 – 98
• Schneider M., Willkommen im Holzschnitt-Universum.In: Um:Druck, (8/2008),  p. 4
• Schneider M., Maurer P., Bilder wandern: Transformative Rezeption. In: Um:Druck, (8/2008),  p. 17 – 18
• Schneider M., Über die Bedeutung des Holzschnittes für den Paradigmenwechsel der Kultur.In: Xylon 0809, Katalog zur Mitgliederausstellung (2008/09), p. 6 – 7
• Schneider M., Scribble Prints.In: Wiener Zeitung (Sonderbeilage: Die Angewandte), (6/2008), p. 16 – 17

Selected Lectures

• Tradition as a way to the Future (The practice of transformative reception and today’s copyright regulations),Lecture for the symposium „The Traditional – Today“ 2009, Ueno
• Art Museum & Tokyo University of the Arts
• Verständnis, Praxis und Wahrnehmung von Gegenwartsdruckgrafik in Tokio und Wien, Lecture for the symposium „Alltag und Freizeit in Tokyo und Wien in der Gegenwart und Zukunft“ 2009, Universität Wien/Inst. F. Ostasienwissen-schaften, Japanologie in co-operation with Meiji-University, Tokyo
• Origin and contemporary practice of Woodblockprint in Europe,  Takayama Woodcut Biennial 2008, Takayama, Gifu-Ken, Japan, &  College of Fine Arts of Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
• Printmaking, the origin of contemporary visual culture, International symposium "PAPER - prints, printmaking" 2008,  Ueno Town  Museum and Tokyo National University of the Arts, Ueno, Tokyo
• Druckgraphik - das publizierte Experiment, Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, December 2007
• Polymerprint and Computer aided Printmaking, Tokyo National University of fine Arts and Music, Printmaking Department, October 2007
• Printmaking the Published Experiment, Falun Triennalen Symposium 2007, Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden

The repetitive pattern of adoption of new techniques by printmaking artists. SGC Conference 2007, Kansas City