Nicole Toferer (b. 2000, Linz) engages with sculpture, photography, performance, and installation in her artistic practice. She works with materials such as clay, plaster, wax, latex, silicone, and natural materials, as well as darkroom techniques and performative approaches. Her works emerge from a research-based artistic practice and are often interconnected. Drawing on feminist perspectives, Toferer examines social power structures, the history of medicine, and patriarchal and matriarchal systems. She combines historical research with body-centered and self-reflective approaches. Her installations explore materiality, the body, and care. Toferer’s works have been presented in various exhibition contexts, including at the Eikon Schauraum, the Charim Factory, as part of Foto Wien, and at the FC Carolinum. She lives and works in Vienna.
Nicole Toferer is founding member of Studio Wurlitzer - Verein für transdisziplinäre Kunst und Kultur
more information here: www.studiowurlitzer.com
Education
Kunstuniversität Linz
Bildhauerei und transmedialer Raum
2024-dato
Schule Friedl Kubela for artistic Photography
2022-2024
Studio VALIE EXPORT, Vienna
Management Assistant
2021-dato
Group Exhibitions
2026
"BestOff" Kunstuni Linz, 2026
Vitamin W, Studio Wurlitzer, 2026
Rundgang, Kunstuni Linz, 2026
„What a View“, FC Carolinum, 2026
2025
Rundgang, Kunstuni Linz, 2025
„BestOff“ Kunstuni Linz, 2025
„Archive of Uncertainties“ Vinzenz Space, Foto Wien, 2025
Eröffnungsausstellung Studio Wurlitzer, 2025
2024
“in the mountains“ Lumen, Museum for mountain photography, Bruneck, South Tyrol
“Lost and Found“, Plateau Vienna
“Chaos“, Spektrum, Aschach an der Donau
"new tribes", Kerzenfabrik, Salzburg
Performance at Möbelmuseum by Sacrebleau, Vienna
"telling traces", Charim Factory, Schule Friedl Kubelka for Artistic Photography
Straßengalerie, Salzburg, Klagenfurt, Villach
"Der wilde Mann und die tote Frau", Nicole Toferer & Paola Lesslhumer, Gastzimmer Eferding
2023
„Geste“, Schule Friedl Kubelka für Artistic Photography, Vienna
„Offen“, Burgenland
„o.T. Körper und Raum“, Schule Friedl Kubelka for Artistic Photography, Vienna
„The Lying Lens: A Selective Glossary of Image Manipulation“, EIKON Schauraum, Q21 / MuseumsQuartier Vienna
„Stip(p)visite“, Rösslstube, Dresden
27th Dresden International Summer Academy for Visual Arts, Motorenhalle, Dresden
„Kaleidoskop“, Hofgasse, Linz
„Enchanted Garden“, Vienna
Annual Exhibition Künstlergilde Eferding
2022
„Unsichtbar“, Never at Home, Vienna
Annual Exhibition Künstlergilde Eferding
Galerie gegen Sexismus, Graz
2021
„Vogue“, Boomer Gallery London
Solo Exhibitions
2022
„Gewalt gegen Frauen*“, Frauen in Bewegung, Gmunden
„Crime Scenes“, Kleine KellerGalerie, Eferding
Others
2024
Residency at Strassengalerie, Salzburg
Workshop with Peter Piller at Castello Grandegg, Eppan, South Tyrol organized by Master in Photography, Venezia
2023
Workshop with Rika Noguchi at Castello Grandegg, Eppan, South Tyrol organized by Master in Photography, Venezia
Scholar at the 27th Dresden International Summer Academy for Visual Arts, 2023 in a performance course with Svea Duwe