Michael Kopplstätter
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→ 2018 Panoptikum, Otto Berger, Artist Table Book
→ 2021 London Artmagazine NNC
→ 2021 Circle Arts Magazine
→ 2021 Artists of Today and Tomorrow, Artbook
→ 2021 Its Liquid Interview during Biennale Venice
→ 2021 Verdiensturkunde für künstlerische Leistung des Museum „La Pinacothèque“ Luxembourg
→ 2022 Circle Arts Magazine Doublepage
→ 2022 Thought Art Magazine Artist of the Month, 10 works
→ 2022 Bruxelles Art Vue Human Body is Art 2022
→ 2023 Contemporary Art Magazine Spotlight 34
→ 2023 Miami 2023, Art Table Book Miami Artworks 2023
→ 2024 Contemporary Art Curator Magazine - 2025 Visionaries Artists Shaping the Future
→ 2024 Art Seen - Interview
→ 2025 Future of Art Global Masterpiece Award - Review
→ 2025 Art Investment & Collectors Guide 2025 - Most Investable & Prominent Artists
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2025
→ Group exhibition D.A.S.S.28H, Dornbirn, Austria
→ The Stone of Universe, Art I Light Installation, Aclaris Group, Swiss
2024
→ MUNICH ART LAB, BENJAMIN ECK GALLERY, Group exhibition twenty5 selected Artists
→ Solo exhibition Tunnelgalerie, Lech am Arlberg, A
2023
→ Solo exhibition Tunnelgalerie, Lech am Arlberg, A
→ Miami Art Basel, Miami, USA
→ Billboard Metrostation Paris during Art Basel Paris, FR
→ Group exhibit Parallel Worlds, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
→ Global Consciousness Art Prize
→ Open Studio Exhibition, Dornbirn, A
2022
→ Miami Art Basel, Red Dot, Miami, FL, USA (upcoming in Dec.)
→ Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice during Biennale Venice, Italy (ACIT Italian German Cultural Association and It's Liquid Group)
→ La Biennale Venice, Tana Art Space, Venice, IT
→ Urbanside Gallery, Zürich, CH
→ Thomson Gallery, Zug, CH
→ NDSM LOODS, Amsterdam, NL
→ Gallery Nachtbrötchen, Roermond, NL
2021
→ Red Dot, Gallery Steiner, Miami Art Basel, Miami, FL, USA
→ Gallery Rossocinabro, Rom Art Week, Rome, Italy
→ Europe’s biggest Art Gallery by Nachtbrötchen, a project by Gallery Part 2
→ Artbox Project Swiss Art Expo Zürich, CH
→ Exclusiv Milliardärs Exhibition at AGStein Werft, Bodensee, D
→ Westergas, Amsterdam, NL
→ Borders Venice during Biennale Venice, Italy (ACIT Italian German Cultural Association and It's Liquid Group)
→ Venice International Art Venue, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
→ Solo Museum Exhibition Arche Noah Museum Contemporary Room, Hohenems, A (Bäumler Sammlung, Klimt, Cezanne, Manet, Monet, Picasso)
2020
→ Swiss Art Expo, Zürich, CH
→ Benfit Auction Ibiza Art Project Art Saves the Sea, Ursula Stross Gallery, Graz, A
2019
→ Solo exhibition Pop up Galerie Philosophikum Lech am Arlberg, A
→ Tunnelgalerie Lech am Arlberg, A
2018
→ Solo exhibition Tunnelgalerie Lech am Arlberg, A
2017
→ Solo exhibition Tunnelgalerie Lech am Arlberg, A
→ Artists for Refugees Landesmuseum Bregenz, A
2015
→ Solo exhibition Ruckburg, A
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Various Art Awards like:
→ Future of Art Global Masterpiece Award
→ The premier artist prize 2025
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Michael Kopplstätter (born 1966, Austria) is a German-Austrian self-taught artist who lives and works in Dornbirn and Schwarzenberg, Austria. After graduating from high school, he initially studied architecture in Innsbruck, which he soon gave up in favor of a stay in the USA.
His artistic career began early in New York, where he formed a close friendship with the artist Salome, co-founder of the Neue Wilde (New Wild Ones) as well hanging around with Andy Warhol. Michael Kopplstätter was infected by the spontaneous and expressive elements of the Neue Wilde at an early age.
After New York, he completed a degree in fashion in Germany and pursued an international career in the fashion and design industry, working as a designer, art director, and creative director before returning to painting.
Since then, he has exhibited internationally. In addition to solo and group exhibitions in Europe and gallery presentations, his works have been shown at exhibitions during the Venice Biennale, Art Basel Miami, Art Basel Paris, and ArtLab Munich, among others. Museum exhibitions included the Bäumler Sammlung Museum (permanent selection of Klimt, Gauguin, Cezanne, Monet, Manet, Picasso).
His works are represented in various international collections, primarily in Switzerland, Germany, the USA, and England, including the Steve Arnold Collection New York, the BVR Austria Collection, and the TimesArt Germany Collection.
Numerous publications can be found in international journals and books.
With my expressive and distinctive portrayal of the human figure, characterized by longing and alienation, I address the depths of our time. My works increasingly focus on the relationship between inner being and the body in motion. In a characteristic visual language, I depict the human body confronted with bold and subversive energy, transformation, and flow.
From atmospheric motifs that appear strange and seductive due to their spherical and consistent symbolism, to blurred androgynous and gestural forms charged with surprisingly unusual abstract passages, recurring themes are brought to the pulse of the times: the face as a mask, the individual as a mirror, the self as a shadow.
The works dissolve unpredictable boundaries between inside and outside to create a unique experience of the figure. Inside and outside of space and place, inside and outside of past time, phantom and present, as well as inside and outside of body and mind.
The artworks oscillate between primal and dynamic layers. Brushstrokes dance between careful work and sometimes not so careful—rougher, more painterly materials are used than before, rough brushstrokes transform into blurred, dreamlike canvases with an otherworldly application, similar to ghost images or misty notions of what lies beneath.
